Like all of us do from time to time, I was reading about the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. I know, I know: You’re all bored of me talking about the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. It’s pretty much what every liberal blog, and especially every one that deals with Washington State politics, is just obsessed with. I hear you, so just this one time, and then I’ll have to go find some other thing to write about.
Anyway, I was reading about the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and I was surprised to learn how pro-trade the Democrats were, and the Republicans weren’t, at least according to a few paragraphs in Once in a Great City, and then some Internet research.
Part of that is a strange bravado that Kennedy had with things when he said “A vital expanding economy in the free world is a strong counter to the threat of the world Communist movement. This act is, therefore, an important new weapon to advance the cause of freedom.” So sure, Democrats being cold warriors. OK. We kinda did that.
But I think part of it was an assumption that it’s pushing our values. At the time, the head of the UAW supported it. It was still an open question what post-war Europe would look like, and I think trading with us, with our then strong unions and democratic values would pass that on.
So, maybe for those of us who aren’t big on NAFTA and the WTO for labor and environmental reasons, there are lessons. Maybe we need to have those sort of protections in the trade deals. I don’t know exactly what that looks like, but if earlier liberals thought of trade as a way to improve things, we probably could too. I don’t know if that makes more sense than just rejecting them, and I don’t know what labor or environmental protections you could get 2/3 of the Senate to pass for the foreseeable future.
Anyway, how will I drag the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 into the next post is anyone’s guess.
1962 was a different world. Half of Europe was locked behind the Iron Curtain. The Berlin Wall had just gone up, Cuba had fallen into the Soviet orbit, the Bay of Pigs was a fresh memory and the missile crisis was only weeks away. 1962 was a time when the world was still digesting the recently-revealed Stalin horrors. The USSR had aggressive new leadership, and in China, Mao was slaughtering millions. In 1962, the Cold War was everything, and everyone in America was wondering who would win. No one living through that time expected the Soviet Union to collapse or the communist threat to go away in their lifetime. It was a unique period of history, and you can’t compare then with now.
Kennedy was a trailblazer. His economic and military prowess are summarily rejected by today’s DUMMOCRETIN fools and tools! JFK or his little bro RFK were not like the fools you elect to represent DUMMOCRETINS now.
This is what’s so funny about Carl. Even R senile figgered it out. Carl looks at JFK through today’s lens. Probably because that libtard edumication he receive slanted the true historical record. Defeating communism was big on everyone’s minds. Carl was to young to know of the drop and tuck drills we did in elementary school during the Cuban missile crisis.
Yes, today’s DUMMOCRETIN has no idea what Democrats were back then! Some actually had a military backbone, unlike the fools in this sadministration now.
Historically you have to look at Dean Rusk. Kennedy originally wanted that old racist J. William Fulbright, Wee Willy Clinton’s racist mentor, butt settled on Rusk! Rusk hated communism so if Dean was alive today he’d be at odds with 99% of today’s HA DUMMOCRETINS! Kissinger took the communism hatred to new levels.
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In 1962 in some parts of Europe still in recovery they were eating pigeons. In England they still spread “drippings” on their toast instead of butter. I have friends who grew up in England and Germany in that period. Pretty tough compared to us in the U.S. with our “Stingray” bikes, “Dilly Bars”, and color televisions. The first thing a friend who arrived from England bought was a 74 Dodge Charger. He hung a picture of the family Vauxhall Viva from the rear view mirror as a reminder. He said his parents saved for a decade to buy the Vauxhall. It stunk like gas, the seat springs broke, and within a month of the purchase it was in the shop for two weeks. By his 16th birthday the car was nothing but rust. He and a friend took it without permission out to an old airfield for some fun. They couldn’t get it to go over 50 mph.
I’m not so sure the U.S. enjoys the same trade advantages today as in 1962.
@2 “Kennedy was a trailblazer. His economic and military prowess are summarily rejected by today’s DUMMOCRETIN fools and tools! JFK or his little bro RFK were not like the fools you elect to represent DUMMOCRETINS now.”
This is downright hilarious, coming from a Republican, considering what the GOP has turned into. Not that it was all that great in Nixon’s day. But today’s Republicans seem hell-bent on proving it’s possible to be worse than Nixon.
Any guesses as to why wingnuts are obsessed with thoughts of gays shoving things down their throats and making them eat it?
“Kim Davis: Gays tried to shove SCOTUS ruling ‘down my throat and make me eat it for my dinner’”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/0.....my-dinner/
Why is the truth hilarious R senile?
We are talking about JFK. Seems you like to deposit squid ink with Nixon!
Sux to deliver squid ink so early in the day R senile!
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Uber Knows When Your iPhone Battery Is Dying And You’re Getting Desperate
“…he revealed that Uber knows when the battery on your phone is low and that Uber knows you’re willing to pay more for a ride when your battery is running out.
“And we absolutely don’t use that to kind of, like, push you a higher surge price,” Chen quickly added.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....3b512a0130
@2 “Some actually had a military backbone,* unlike the fools in GW’s sadministration.”
Fixed.
* Me, for example.
@5 well she can move to Texas and drink my piss (and more) too, since they are running out of water and turning to spending money on treating sewage for drinking water. I know this isn’t a new thing – but not sure anyone here likes the idea of drinking treated sewage. Ever jerk off into a toilet?
Keep fucking fracking and you get to drink my piss to you Bible thumpers.
Besides the Bay of Pigs invasion, I can’t think of any other Kennedy military successes. The threat of nuclear Armageddon doesn’t count as a military victory.
Free trade, when it is free trade, does create growth. The problem is our government became so corrupted by special interest greed that it no longer spread the growth but kept it all at the top.
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More deflective squid ink eh R senile? The topic was JFK and once again your ASS was handed to you courtesy of PuddyFACTS!
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SHOTS FIRED AT WHITE HOUSE; POLICE AND AMBULANCES ON SCENE; WHITE HOUSE ON LOCKDOWN.
A man brandishing a gun was shot by Secret Service agents after refusing commands to drop the gun. The gunman is described as a white male, and was transported to a hospital in critical condition.
President Obama was at Andrews Air Force Base at the time, and was not in danger.
@ 13, 14, 15
Those of us without internet access to traditional news sources greatly appreciate the service you provide, RR.
Those of us with internet access wonder why you think the world benefits from your parroting.
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Lee Rosenberg @Lee_Rosenberg
This is an absurd abuse of statistics. It’s because it has a huge mall, but few residents. https://twitter.com/ChrisDaniels5/status/733806084377305088 …
Not unlike Hillary talking about the higher incidence of gun deaths in NYC due to weapons sourced from Vermont.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/04/12/hillary-clintons-claim-that-the-highest-per-capita-number-of-crime-guns-in-new-york-come-from-vermont/
Goldy @GoldyHA
Also, if she’s going to shower fully dressed, what’s the problem? https://twitter.com/BrettHamil/status/733801765443751936 …
Well for one thing, there’s no partition cut-out for the Glory Hole.
Did someone mention absurd abuses of statistics?
We fixed Hillary Clinton’s terrible Venn diagram on gun control
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/20/we-fixed-hillary-clintons-terrible-venn-diagram-on-gun-control/
Finally, a Venn diagram Better can understand.
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Nick Hanauer @NickHanauer
Understatement of the year. https://twitter.com/fukuyamafrancis/status/733663069839101952 …
Hey Nick:
How come you – and those you pay to amplify your ideology – seem to care so much about job losses due to international trade expansion, yet so little about job losses that will accompany minimum wage increases?
Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut
I look forward to Andreas explanation exactly how I was discredited. Should be interesting
Bill Cosby’s behavior eventually caught up with him. And a lot more people pay attention to Bill Clinton than to Bill Cosby.
State of Connecticut has a 1 billion dollar budget deficit. And everyone blames the Democratic controlled legislature and Dem. Mayor.
Oklahoma has a 1.5 billion budget deficit. Who knew!?
@18. Didn’t read the article…..but I guess if she’s thirsty for my piss because there is no more drinking water left, thanks to fucking fracking, then she’s going to stick her mouth up to that glory hole.
in thoroughly unsurprising science, States with higher gun ownership rates have higher rates of gunshot suicide.
Hawaii, with the lowest gun ownership rate has the lowest suicide by gunshot per capita while Wyoming with the highest gun ownership rate has the highest suicide by gunshot per capita.
Gotta have that gun to keep your family safe.
So, maybe for those of us who aren’t big on NAFTA and the WTO for labor and environmental reasons, there are lessons.
That’s nothing. Wait until you see the lesson plan for Obamacare.
“Wait until you see the lesson plan for Obamacare.”
Yeah, lesson learned. Adopting a right-wing Heritage Foundation plan and putting some lipstick on it was a bad idea. We’ll try single-payer next time.
And what’s your beef, doctor? Under ACA you still get to pocket more than $500K/year by under-paying your staff and sending images to a radiologist in India to do your work for you.
“seem to care so much about job losses due to international trade expansion, yet so little about job losses that will accompany minimum wage increases?”
Your whines about minimum wage make far more sense. You’re the champion of lost minimum wage jobs, provided the minimum wage isn’t one the employee can live on. Heaven forbid that your lowest-level staff and the janitorial crew which cleans your clinic every night should ever make a living wage for it’d put a small dent in your accumulation of wealth.
If your going to discuss this though one has to discuss Keynesian economics which was the dominant economic theory of 1962 and was not seriously challenged until the oil shock. Of course there was that little event called WWII and it was believed policies restricting trade greatly contributed to the Great Depression and then WWII. Though one looking at trade before WWII would note strange trading partners. Did US trade policy directly provoke the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Hong Kong and an Alaskan island more or less simultaneously?
So please please disucss Keyneisan economics with any discussion of the 1962 Trade Agreement.
@5 Could be Kim likes gay porn? Dim you following the bible in some parts and not others? Remember to follow your man however many steps behind him. And can you be a county clerk if your following the bible? Ruth was a lot of things, but not ever county clerk.
@10 Vietnam, Tunisisian Revolt, Colombian Civil War, Lebanese Revolution, Rwanda Civil War, Tibet War, Guatamalan Rebellion, Angolan War, Eritrean War, Nepal War, Niger Civil War, Syrian Revolt, Yeman War, Algerian Revolt, Cameroon Rebellion, Guinea-Bissau War, Mozambique War, Sino;Indian, ect. Ok keptthe US out of most of this shit or at least on the sidelines and prevented our interests from dragging us in. Not a bad record.
@12 So your position on the Rwandan Civil War or the Algerian stuff is? Under your neo Cons theory we should have been busting heads in both of those places with our French and British allies. We were able to say no fucking way. Time for your colonies to be free. Or you think colonialism is Africa was a good thing? That Africa would be a better place today with the western allies fully in charge. An argument could be made. Still subjecting Africa to foreign rule would be wrong. Isn’t that the position your church supports. And do you all take things to the extreme you all do in Russia where according to your religion you can’t vote or run for office. Where your such a threat to Putin your sect runs the risk of being ruled a non religion?
@17 Still a gun dealer or two are whistling all the way to the bank due to Tukwilla’s 15 minutes of infamy.
@17 So no one the list staying in Tukwilla at ohh three in the morning?
@14 A Secret Service Agent had a bad day, and well someone else had a worse day.
@18 Ain’t no Hot Lips Hollihan.
@24 So those states with lower suicide rates by gunshot have higher percentages of suicide by other means? Or at least higher levels of attempts?
Yes in case of emergency suicide one should keep a Glock around with one in the chamber. Pretty high success rate.