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- mandomafioso5
"You have to admire the Chinese combination of toughness, patience and savvy. One day I hope America again will have a president with such attributes — not a sucker for flattery, not an ignorant ideologue who rips up treaties he hasn’t even read, not a made-for-television negotiator who throws his best leverage out the window — the ability to negotiate with China as the head of a trading bloc controlling 40 percent of the world’s economy — before he sits down at the table."
- I wish Obama did a better job of selling it. I read a conservative article about it years ago now that said it would be his biggest legacy.mandomafioso
- Having attended APEC 2017 myself and hearing these sentiments from the world's leaders themselves, live, I can say it's 100% true.monospaced
- er... 2016, that ismonospaced
- so stupid.... First it's pronounced "Trump", the author has poor speaking skills, and would rather Instead focus on building factories overseas in manufacturingomg
- ...instead if building lost jobs and improving unemployment here in the US.omg
- Talk about benefiting corporations and the rich.omg
- Please Obama, sell America's jobs away. That could be your biggest legacy. Look how globally bing bong you can be.omg
- The US unemployment rate has been in steady decline since 2010. From 9.9 to 4.7 to be exact. In related news, your imbecile rate has grown sharply!kona
- How could one (yourself) say Obama did nothing in 8 years yet suddenly, there's so much Obama did that needs to be undone. Your logic is nonexistent.kona
- ^LOLRamanisky2
- As are your social skills.kona
- And debate skills.kona
- And just any skills in general.kona
- comedy skills though ... on pointRamanisky2
- I love that the mantra became 'they'll take our jobs'. Having primary influence over geo-politics would have been a boon for long-term American prosperity.mandomafioso
- This is a critique of the so-called progressives as well as the head-in-the-sand populists.mandomafioso
- I never said Obama did nothing. He did get Osama bin Laden along with doubling the national debt.omg
- Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.omg
- stop it omg .... my sides are killing meRamanisky2
- Has it occurred to you omg that maybe American decline is inevitable? It's not because of trade deals but simply because it's very difficult for a nation ofyuekit
- red hat wearing Trump voters to compete with the Chinese.yuekit
- Please tell us more about what manufacturing isn't and continue your irrelevant rambling omg.monospaced
- Complaining about mfg jobs being offshored shows an ignorance of how economics & capitalism works. Also very hypocritical since we all enjoy cheap goods.dorf