Three (More) Reasons Lindsey Graham Should Oppose “Fast Track”
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‘Fast Track’? That’s what he said to me after putting a bag over his head,and pulling out the K-Y
Again Fitsnews shows his true sentiment by siding with the liberal Democrats against the conservative Republicans like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Tim Scott. (Mention of Tim Scott is suspiciously absent from this article.)
The votes in the House and Senate have been predominantly party line votes.
Every single point that Fits makes is wrong. But the most egregious error is that South Carolina will be harmed.
1.South Carolina is a completely different state now that when NAFTA was passed. We were dependent on low wage, tarriff protected, outdated, low skilled, domestic market industries.
Now the vast majority of our industries are higher wage, foreign tariff restricted, modern, high skilled, export market driven industries. Thank god for NAFTA for forcing SC to make that long term beneficial transition. Since 1999, South Carolina’s exports have increased by over 2000%.
2. South Carolina has one of the best ports in the nation. One of the easiest to upgrade to the new Panamax standard and the most room for expansion. We also have the last undeveloped natural ports in the nation on the north Shore of the the Savannah river.
3. The opposition to free trade is almost totally focused on the corny capitalist private sector unions effort to protect themselves from competition. They care nothing about South Carolina. Throughout the last hundred years, the unions have pressured unionized companies not to create jobs in South Carolina and when they have, they have done their best (sometimes successfully) to see that they fail.
Nikki Haley KILLED point #2 when she took Georgia bribe money to allow Port of Savannah tailings to be dumped in that “natural port” area, thus eliminating them. In fact, it was the lawyers for the Savannah Port Authority who made the “campaign donation” to her.
What bribe? I don’t recall any conviction. The new port would cost 2 billion. Upgrading Savannah is 500 million. When Savannah reaches capacity, the South Carolina side will be developed. That is decades away.
#3 is simply a lie. As to the decline in unions, corporations have been allowed to become large enough to control government policies, and they have put substantial money into killing workers’ rights.
The fact is, freer trade has taken away the unions monopoly on labor, which is great for the consumer both in price and innovation.
#1 is not true. In fact, SC never really recovered from NAFTA.
China does not meet the TPP standards.
And China is not a member of TPP.