Reply to Western Maryland

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Western Maryland "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They vote 70%+ Trump/Republican out there.  See what all that love for Republican policies has done for them?[/quote]

When I was growing up in Cumberland, it was solid Democratic.  Then the Democrats shipped all the jobs from the United States and ruined Cumberland.  Cumberland also see its taxes going to Democratic bastions like Baltimore.
The Democrats betrayed them, and they are voting for Republicans.

Here in the DMV land of milk and honey, the Democrats are popular because they provide all the social welfare benefits so that you can have low cost labor to build houses, take care of your kids, clean your houses, cut your grass, and keep you well isolated from those who do your cut work.  Of course, you want the Democrats to stay in power.  [/quote]
The Democrats didn’t ship all their jobs away. Free market capitalism did. I also grew up in a similar town. Industry left because the owners of the factory wanted cheap labor to work in their factories.[/quote]

OMG. PP is hysterical. It was called NAFTA and it was championed by Bill Clinton. I worked on his campaign, but I never did see where the positive was for the US. Maybe he thought it would make Mexico a more stable partner and reduce immigration here?[/quote]

It was negotiated under Reagan and Bush and signed under Bush. Once part of the treaty, what was Clinton supposed to do?[/quote]
+1 The greatest trick the Rs did was to pull the wool over the eyes of working class white enclaves.  Rs do a great job of blaming Dems for sh1t they did.

NAFTA is the result of capitalism.  It was the union that fought it.. you know, those groups that tend to back Dems.

I keep seeing this misinformation from white Rs.  They are super clueless, and the R leadership know this.

I do wonder how old these people are that keep speaking this misinformation.  I'm 52. My parents were blue collar workers who were impacted by their jobs moving to MX and China, during the 80s, when Rs were in power.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/north-american-free-trade-agreement.asp

[quote]The idea of a trade agreement actually goes back to Ronald Reagan's administration. While president, Reagan made good on a campaign promise to open up trade within North America by signing the Trade and Tariff Act in 1984.

[b] Four years later, Reagan and the Canadian prime minister signed the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement[/b].

[b]NAFTA was actually negotiated by Bill Clinton's predecessor, George H.W. Bush, [/b]who decided he wanted to continue talks to open up trade with the U.S. Bush originally tried to generate an agreement between the U.S. and Mexico, but President Carlos Salinas de Gortari pushed for a trilateral deal between the three countries. After talks,[b] Bush, Mulroney, and Salinas signed the deal in 1992, which went into effect two years later after Clinton was elected president[/b].[/quote][/quote]

Are your parents Republicans.  Do you have as much disdain for them as you have for others without your privilege.[/quote]
Do you have reading comprehension issues: " My parents were blue collar workers who were impacted by their jobs moving to MX and China, during the 80s, when Rs were in power."

What about that statement in quotes screams, "I'm privileged" to you?

I am stating a fact ^ up there.  This is how NAFTA started.  I recall Bush signing the deal. Oh, and I even voted for him.

I was a R back then.  I grew up in a religious, conservative household.  Oh, and I'm not white, and at one point, I think we had to go on food stamps.  I went to a no-name state university and worked my way through college; drove a beatup used car that would die on the road every time I stepped on the brakes.  I wore old, holey clothes, and ate terribly and was underweight.

What about that screams "privilege" to you?

I can state how R politicians pull the wool over people's eyes because it happened to me. I stopped being a R 20 years ago when I finally saw how pernicious they were during Bush jr administration.  I didn't really follow politics, so I just voted the way most religious people voted.  Never ever ever again.[/quote]

I do not have a reading comprehension problem.  Otherwise I would have seen where you stated that your parent were Republicans or Democrats. So the question still holds:  Are your parents Republicans?

Oh poor you.  Sorry that the D politicians who are skilled at pulling the wood over the eyes of people didn't do more for you.  Now that you are privileged do you still vote for them so that they will help people as they helped you?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics