When politicians throw around the phrase, “free-trade”, do you understand what it means? Most Americans mistake the phrase “free-trade” for phrases we commonly associate with positive American values. Does, “Free-Trade” mean equal opportunity for Americans and an open market? The answer is yes and no.
Yes, if your name is Xi Jinping, and you are the ruler of China. No, if you are an American who is unemployed, underemployed, self employed and (or) involved with selling, buying, or trading which is pretty much every resident of the United States. When you buy a pound of fish at the market, you are making your purchase under the Free Trade Agreement. When you buy toilet paper, you are making your purchase under The Free Trade Agreement. When you sell your jacket on Ebay, you are in the thick of the impact of The Free Trade Agreement. How come no one bought your jacket? It’s a perfectly good jacket, it’s in style, free from stains and you priced it to sell. Here’s why…
1) The Trans-Pacific Partnership
2) US-CHINA trade
3) FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Why should this affect you or your vote in election 2016? Donald Trump is against free trade. Hillary Clinton helped to enact it. It affects you personally, regardless if you pay taxes or are exempt from paying taxes. It is a major topic that affects every single American from age 1 month to 100 years.
You work hard for your money 40 hours a week. At the end of each week and average of 33% of your hard earned money is take out of your paycheck in the form of taxes. The purpose of tax collection is to provide our government with the financial means to do things like repair and maintain the roads, bridges, lighting fixtures and guardrails you encounter to and from work.
Another portion of your money is supposed to be placed in trust and given back to you in the form of health insurance, dental care, and retirement income aka social security. When you pay taxes that money you worked so hard for is NOT set aside for you, your retirement or any other purpose it was intended to be collected i.e safe bridges, safe roads, to pay the labor union workers who repair the bridges, roads and maintain the lawn between the median.
Unfortunately, this is not how your hard earned money is being spent.
Over $85 Trillion of YOUR personal money is being sent directly to Xi Jinping, the ruler of China. On top of YOUR personal money being sent to Xi Jinping, the ruler of China, he has negotiated special interest deals:
1) “Free shipping from China”. American shoppers don’t seem to understand that shipping is NOT free. How much money in gas does it take to fill an airplane? A Tanker? A big rig? A car? How much is the annual salary of a postal employee? A customs agent?
The American government is paying Xi Jinping, the ruler of China $85 trillion which came out of yours, mine and our paychecks to provide free services and services that are so discounted that it’s priced below what it actually costs to provide.
a) American business based in China and Chinese manufacturers are able to ship a product to my next door neighbor for $2.80 while it will cost you, me and us $12.95 to ship the same product to our family located one town away from us. This is why on shopping sites like eBay, American family based businesses are not being shown to you in search results. Many of those families are now on food stamps and welfare along with the Walmart employee our general public loves to degrade for not fitting the media defined definition of success. Most of those families are headed by college educated who are permanently unemployed because their position was eliminated as a result of The Trans-Pacific Partnership AKA US-CHINA trade.
b) It is no secret to American politicians and special interests groups that Xi Jinping is using the billions of free United States Dollars that’s being handed to him on the backs of the once middle-class, now poverty-class, to spend $32 billion on new infrastructure and infrastructure improvements in China. Here in America, since our government no longer has that $32 billion, we drive over an unmaintained bridges in and throw money in a toll booth that is in place for the purpose of employing Americans to work the toll booths, fix the gaping potholes that punch your stomach when you drove over it, to fix the bridges that have not been maintained in 15+ years and have a 50-50 chance at failing and collapsing while you and your family are on your way to grandma’s house.
c) Xi Jinping, the ruler of China, is using the money The United States, Inc. is giving him for “free-trade” to employ hackers to hack things like VA hospital data banks to steal my fingerprints, social security number, financial information, and employment history from the United States office of Personnel Management, to employ hackers to steal proprietary information and technology like that of Devens’, Massachusetts-based AMSC turbine software or Jobs’ Apple operating systems, and to gain access to OUR POWER GRIDS, and to manipulate our economy by devaluing the true value of the Yuan along with the countless documented criminal behavior as seen in news reports over the last 10+ years.
In the United States we do not have employment opportunities in the manufacturing industry. Everything in the world in made in China including most “American made” products. In a balanced free trade agreement, there would be equal opportunity for Americans to work in the manufacturing industry, unfortunately, due to our current “free trade agreement” this will never happen. The US government has paid China billions of dollars for free business set ups, free manufacturing plants, free manufacturing equipment, and free warehousing. The warehouses given to China are located in both countries. China also moves their products for free to America via cargo ship and cargo plane on the back of your weekly paycheck. I know of no American business who has been given this same opportunity. Had the opportunity been given to us, we would have jobs, safe products that are not filled with toxins, and a true free trade with financial opportunities flourishing around us.
There is also the manipulation of the Yuan, which is the Chinese currency. China is the worlds leading exporter (a pound of fish) of goods and products. China does not buy a pound of fish from America because America does not produce a pound of fish. When a country is selling more stuff to the world than it is buying (a trade surplus) the price of its currency is supposed to go up. The Chinese currency is actually stronger than the American dollar. American law makers are fully aware of this but because so many American politicians and CEO’s have business interests (example: Apple computers are built in Chinese manufacturing plants at a cheaper SHORT TERM cost than it would be in America.) located in China. Therefore, factories in other countries close, people in other countries lose their jobs and the wealth of nations shifts to the currency-manipulating country.
Currently China is claiming that 1 Dollar is equal to 15 cents. The truth is 1 dollar is more like $2.05. This means that YOUR paycheck is $400. A Chinese equivalent to your paycheck would actually be $820.00 – this is why politicians, corporations and special interest groups are pushing “free trade”, because they are doubling and tripling their dollars while main street America is less than 1 days pay away from homelessness. The American public is being scammed. Hillary Clinton(D) is one of the responsible parties. Donald Trump(R) and Bernie Sanders(D) are attempting to get rid of this agreement so that Americans may live in financial prosperity once again.
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