Imagine a world where food routinely gets shipped thousands of miles away to be processed, then shipped back to be sold right where it started. Imagine cows from Mexicobeing fed corn imported from the United States, then being exported to the United States for butchering, and the resulting meat being shipped back to Mexico, one last time, to be sold. Imagine a world in which, in most years since 2005, China has somehow managed to import more goods from itself than from the USA, one of its largest trading partners.
This may sound like the premise of some darkly comic, faintly dystopian film – albeit one geared towards policy wonks. But it’s no joke – in fact, it is the daily reality of the global economy.
The above examples are all instances of ‘re-importation’ – that is, countries shipping their own goods overseas only to ship them back again at a later stage in the production chain […]
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This is some freaky sounding shit Trump and Tucker are talking… washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
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I’ve always been mystified by the argument that HRC lost the election because she didn’t spend enough time in Wis, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Wouldn’t those visits have convinced even more voters to stay home or vote for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson?
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TRUMP SUGGESTS AMERICAN POLICE AND MILITARY MUST BEGIN EXECUTING HOMELESS AND DRUG DEALERS
Trump paints a dark picture of homelessness in cities: ‘We may intercede’
President Trump appears in a Fox News interview on Monday. (YouTube/Fox News)
By Eli Rosenberg July 1 at 10:32 PM
President Trump said Monday that he wanted to address the crisis of people on the streets, telling Fox News in an interview that his administration “may intercede” to clean up cities such as Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The president made the remarks in an interview he taped in Japan with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, after Carlson asked him about cities in Japan, which Carlson said are clean and free from graffiti and “junkies.” American cities, by comparison, have a problem with “filth,” Carlson noted.
“It’s a phenomena that started two years ago,” Trump said, drawing a connection between the beginning of this and the early days of his time in the White House. “It’s disgraceful.”
The president went on at some length, painting a dark picture of life in some American cities without giving specifics for how he would address the issue.
“Police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat,” he claimed. “We cannot ruin our cities. And you have people that work in those cities. They work in office buildings and to get into the building, they have to walk through a scene that nobody would have believed possible three years ago.”
“We have to take the people,” he said. “And we have to do something.”
Trump did not mention the word homeless during the segment, so it was difficult to glean his exact meaning or how he would address the issue. He blamed liberals and “sanctuary cities.”
“When we have leaders of the world coming in to see the president of the United States and they’re riding down a highway, they can’t be looking at that,” he said. “They can’t be looking at scenes like you see in Los Angeles and San Francisco . . . So we’re looking at it very seriously. We may intercede. We may do something to get that whole thing cleaned up.”
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