It's the Speculators Stupid ...

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Excessive Speculation Is Causing High Pump Prices ...

Opening Every Oil Field the U.S. has will Only Reduce Gas Prices "3 Cents". The Price of Oil is Based on World Demand & Supply !!!
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It's the Speculators Stupid ...
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What Speculators Do ?
Speculators bet on the price a commodity such as OIL will reach by a future date, through instruments called derivatives. Speculators trade on rumour, NOT fact ... 
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A Derivative's value is based on the value on whether a barrel of oil will increase or decrease in price.
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Betting on the price outcome with only a single futures contract, a speculator has no effect on a market.  
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A speculator with the vast capital resources to purchase a sizeable number of futures derivatives at one price can actually sway the market. 
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Excessive Speculation ...
A speculator by purchasing vast amount of futures at higher than the current market price will cause oil producers to horde oil ... Due to the decreased amount of oil currently available on the market ...  In the hopes they'll be able to sell it later on at the future price. This drives prices up in reality -- both future and present prices  ....
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Oil companies that both produce oil and own or buy derivatives can drive prices up and make even more money ...
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CFTC Was Setup to Protect Consumers Against Gultons ...
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, CFTC, is the federal agency that regulates commodity futures and option trading in the United States ...
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CFTC lacks the funding  and power to Regulate or Control Excessive Speculation ...
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Obama is right we do have plenty of Oil ...
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The problem is NOT Speculators ...
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Excessive Speculation in other words GREED ...
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The Solution ...
Congress must fund and implement the recently passed Wall Street Reform Legislation that prevents Excessive Speculation and Manipulation of Oil Prices. The new regulations close loopholes, improve oversight and increase transparency in the oil markets.
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OBAMA Needs to LEAD Our Nation ... And ... LEAN on Congress to Fund and Implement the New Regulations on Wall St that STOP Excessive Speculation and the Price Gouging ...
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Is Obama Afraid to Offend His Big Wall St Campaign Contributors ???
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The GOP Congress always wants more De-Regulation and is failing to Fund or Implement the New Wall St Regulations that Stop Excessive Speculation ... Obama needs to LEAD and LEAN on Congress ... GOP Why NO Wall St Regulations ? Politically Motivated ?  
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Do High Gas Prices Make GOP Candidates Look More Appealing ?
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GOP History of Deregulation
1920s GOP Congress GOP Presidents - Little to NO Regulation of Stocks on Wall Street ...
Market Crash 1929 ...
2001-2007 - GOP Congress GOP President - Little to NO Regulation of Wall Street Mortgage Derivatives. ...
Market Crash 2008 ...
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2012 Congress is all about Re-Election and Money NOT Being Patriotic Americans and looking after their fellow Americans ...
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The Suck Zones ....
* Speculator Oil Dollars ...
One Day "The Sound of Silence" when OPEC & Speculators have sucked every Last OIL Dollar out of the U.S. ...
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* CHINA Retail Sales Dollars ...
One Day "The Sound of Silence" when China has sucked every Last RETAIL Sales Dollar out of the U.S. ...
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China's Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous ... Their Motto “When You've Got It, Flaunt It” …

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China Today 2012 ... 
- GDP Sales of $10.2 Trillion Dollars ... 
- All most 85% of the $10 Trillion is US Sales Dollars - Exports to US ...
- FYI - China Almost 100% DEBT FREE ... 
and has GOOD CREDIT RATING NOT like the USA ...
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PLUS ...
- 780 Million People are Working Daily in China ...
- China's Unemployment Rate is at 3.5% ...
- Growth rate of around 10% a yr ...
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China now has more billionaires than any other country except for the U.S. ...
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China's Super Rich differ from their Western Counterparts …
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China's Super Rich Spend Their Money on …
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Extravagant, Wasteful Lifestyles, Gorging Themselves on the Best Food, Designer Jewelry, Designer Clothes, Vacations at the World’s Best Resorts, High End Luxury Super Cars, Purchase of Lavish Luxury Estates, Mistresses !
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Unlike shrinking U.S. Middle Class … China’s has a Growing Middle Class Now Estimated to be around 150 million in China’s Middle Class ….
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China is world’s second largest consumer market for luxury goods, behind only Japan (after passing the U.S. in 2009)...
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China is expected to be the world’s largest luxury good market for the next decade.
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Luxury goods sales in China are expected to rise 25% annually over five years (2011-2016) …
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Prosperous Chinese are less shy about flaunting their wealth than people in other countries. On the contrary, many believe they must show off to be taken seriously.
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China has 960,000 millionaires with personal assets of over 1.5 million in US Dollars, growing at an annual rate of 20 percent … …
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China’s rich list includes 60,000 super-rich with assets of 100 million in US Dollars, and their numbers keep growing …
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The wealthy don’t want bus tours they are looking for the Best, VIP treatment when they travel or vacation and are very knowledgeable about the history and manufacturing of luxury brands. 
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Over half of the world’s top 20 richest self-made women are Chinese, including the top three richest.

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But China experts say there is a dark side ...
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Unlike the U.S. a Christian based society, a large portion of the wealth in China is the result of corruption or other illicit behavior …
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International Luxury shopping away from China is one way to launder this money …
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Who & What Created this Monster …
U.S. Fortune 1000 Companies ...
- Put Their Bottom Line Ahead of Loyalty to the U.S. ... 
- U.S. Corporations Refused to maintain a loyal relationship with America and remain Patriotic ... Corporations showed NO moral conscience ...
- U.S. Corporations Invested in China instead of the U.S. ...

- Corporate externalities. In other words, while it did increase corporate profits ... 

Trade with China had a negative effect on the U.S. standard of living, U.S. society, and destroyed the U.S. Mid-Class as a whole through the loss of our manufacturing base.

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And ...
One Communist is One Communist to Many ...
Lacking in Virtue ...  
Republican Presidents Nixon and Reagan ...
- Signed Major Life Changing Trade Agreements between the U.S. and China during the 70s & 80s ..  
- These Trade Agreements approved the Massive Transfer and Sale of our Best Technology to China ... 
- To date the GOP still does NOT have the Moral Fiber to admit this occurred.
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Perry, Palin, Cain, Newt, Romney, Santorum, Huntsman ... Reagan Republicans All ...
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All Said ...
“It was against their beliefs” to Bailout General Motors, Ford, Chrysler or any U.S. companies."
The GOP wanted GM to go bankrupt...
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Yet ...
The GOP is for signing Trade Agreements with China  ...
A country that ...
Does 12 million abortions a year to control their population …
China has 1000s of Sweat Shops with 16 to 18 hrs work days with no breaks ...
Uses Child Labor ...
Total Disregard for Work Place Safety ...
Total Disregard for Human Rights ...
No Freedom of Speech ...
Worlds #1 Intelligence Cyber Spy ...
One of the World's Biggest Polluters  of the Environment ... 
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One For The Gipper ...

"The Gipper" - THE USS RONALD REAGAN

The Gipper - Reagan's Movie Role

A Reagan Republican ...
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I have heard this time after time from Tea Party and Republicans saying ...  They are a "Reagan Republican" ...  So I started an investigation into the meaning of "Reagan Republican", critically questioning WHAT did it mean ... patriot, capitalist or other ...  Turns out it was other ...
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Do we really want a GOP candidate that says ... He/She is a “Reagan Republican” …
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What is a REAGAN REPUBLICAN ? You are not going to like what I found ... .
Reagan's supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics", advocated reducing tax rates to spur economic growth, controlling the money supply to reduce inflation, deregulation of the economy, and reducing government spending. None of the aforementioned or the connotations of "Reaganomics" in his speeches really happened as advertised …  
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Mr. Conservative - Reagan  lead the way for the devastating destruction of manufacturing in the U.S. ...
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Let’s start with what the "Deregulation of the economy" really meant to Reagan …
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Reagan deregulated the transfer of U.S. technology to China, a communist country … via several Sino-US Trade Agreements starting in 1984 i.e metallurgy, telecommunications, electronics, aviation products, advanced equipment for making advanced integrated circuits, scientific instruments, high-tech products, military technology, and space technology.
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What occurred was … “The largest transfer and sale of technology the world has ever seen.” …
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Reagan rejected “protectionism” all policies of that protected our industries endangered American US Industries, such as .. textile, apparel, steel, auto.  Reagan said it went against his conservative principals.  We no longer have major textile, apparel and steel industries in the U.S.. .

NAFTA Created Under REAGAN in 1986!
Signed Into Law Under BUSH SR in 1992!
NAFTA KILLED the American Middle Class!
#NAFTAKILLEDAmerica

NAFTA Forced 80,000 US Manufacturing Companies to CLOSE!
NAFTA KILLED The American Middle Class!
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2014 SECRET Hush Hush NEGOTIATIONS TPP!

Trans-Pacific Partnership TPP Trade Deal NO DEAL for AMERICA!
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No Public Debate & No News Coverage! .
Secret Talks Republican Congress, Lobbyists, World Powers and Obama ...
Americans NOT ALLOWED ....
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OVER 50% of WORKING Americans NOW Make LESS Than $10/HR!
46.5 Million Americans NOW POOR! #DEADBeatBOEHNER says NO MONEY for YOU!
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The Right Wing's Biggest Hidden Embarrassment & Secret!
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In 1981 Reagan Cut Income Tax Rates for 1%ers in 1/2 … From 90% to 50%!
. THE RESULT! NOT Enough Tax Revenue! Was NO MONEY to Pay OUR BILLS! Thus the beginning of Huge Deficits ...
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Reagan Lied About Supply Side Economics Creating the Economic Boom of the 80s! 
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Borrowed money created the Economic Boom during the Reagan years NOT tax cuts … 
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Plus in the end, Reagan had to raise taxes  several times ...
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But WORSE YET! Reagan Was a BORROW and SPEND President!
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Reagan borrowed and spent ONE Trillion from the US Treasury OUR MONEY.  This CREATED More NATIONAL DEBT.  

Reagan also BORROWED FOREIGN MONEY As Well!
Borrowed ONE Trillion from JAPAN and another ONE Trillion from the Kingdom of SAUDI ARABIA. PUMPED this foreign money into OUR ECONOMY!  and Called it TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS and said REDUCED TAXES that Created America's Economic Growth.  All a guise that reducing taxes spurred economic grow.
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Again CREATING More NATIONAL DEBT! 
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Reagan Spent more than all the US Presidents up to 1981 when he took office …
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Plus This ...
Transfer of Technologically
Reagan dramatically increased technologically transfer to China. Increased the volume and sophistication of advanced technologically and goods developed in the U.S. available for licensing and export to communist China.
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Reagan endorsed all free trade. Free trade meaning it is a policy by which the US government does not discriminate against imports or interfere with exports by applying tariffs (to imports) or subsidies (to exports).
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In order make an effective manufacturing workforce in China that could produce US products for sale in the U.S. we had to provide/sell China our state of the art manufacturing technology.  
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In other words in order to access 25 cent an hour labor that could work 14 to 18 hours a day under horrific working conditions not fit for a dog, with no environmental regulations, we had to get China the top tools to produce ASAP ...
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One Last Thing …

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What Nixon and Reagan made China into a Manufacturing King …
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Not only “King of the World in Manufacturing” but “China is "The World’s Most Polluting Country" ...” China emits 6,018 million tons of greenhouse gases each year ... If manufacturing had stayed in the U.S. we could have prevented this ...
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Republicans should NOT have as a standard-bearer for their party someone - Reagan, who signed multiple Trade Agreements with a Communist Country i.e. China ... A country that performs 12-18 MILLION abortions (depending on source) each year to Control Their Population ... China King of the World of Abortions ...

China's the World's #1 CYBER SPY ...

Using Technology U.S. Government & U.S. Companies Sold China ...
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U.S. law enforcement officials have identified China as the most active foreign power involved in illegal acquisition of American technology.

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(Communist) China is currently involved in a widespread campaign to acquire U.S. military technology and classified information. To fulfill its long-term military development goals, the Chinese Military uses a variety of methods to obtain U.S. technology; including espionage, the exploitation of commercial entities, and a network of scientific, academic, and business contacts. The China uses a vast network of agents and contacts to collect pieces of information that are collated and put together by the Chinese Military.

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U.S. HISTORY of TRADE with CHINA …
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Trade With China …
Between 1960 & 1970 the U.S. consistently produced a trade surplus each year ...
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The US trade profile after 1971 ...
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Beginning in 1971 and ever since, the US has yielded a trade deficit, nonstop except in 1973 and 1975, and beginning in 1984 and throughout the Reagan years, and for the first time in history of the U.S. the trade deficit climbed to over $100 billion ...
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The Nixon Years (69 –74)
After communists took power in China in 1949, successive American presidents had refused to recognize the new Communist Chinese government ... 
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Prior to Nixon it was against Federal Law to communicate, travel or trade with Communist China.
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Prior to Nixon, China was considered (by U.S. standards) an archaic agriculture based society ... 
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In 1971, Nixon led the U.S. government in officially recognizing the Communist Chinese government and became the first American president to visit China the next year. The next U.S. President to travel to Communist China was Reagan in 1984 ...  
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In 1972, during Nixon’s visit to China, Nixon and Premier Zhou Enlai signed the Shanghai Communique which emphasized that it would be in the interests of the people of both countries to develop economic relations. The two sides agreed to facilitate the development of bilateral trade.  Thus ending a long period of isolation and confrontation.  The economy and trade doors were now open.   In 1972, American business attended the Chinese Export Trade Fair in China and we were off the races, however the first year of trade 1972, only resulted in $12 million dollar in trade volume.
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The Ford (74–77) & Carter Years (77– 81)
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Ford was too busy restoring the country after Watergate … nothing major was accomplished Chinese-U.S. trade
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However during the Carter years trade with China had reached $2.4 billion by 1979 …
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Carter toward the end of his administration in July 1979, Carter signed a Trade Agreement with China that gave China Most Favored Nation trading status when trading with the U.S.  MFN Status.  Countries achieving most favored nation status are given specific trade advantages such as reduced tariffs on imported goods.  A country grants this clause to another nation if it is interested in increasing trade with that country.
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Reagan Years (81 –89)
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China was the first Communist country Reagan ever visited.  in 1984, Reagan arrives in China for a diplomatic meeting with Chinese President Li Xiannian. Reagan's trip was highlighted by his administration's desire to improve diplomacy with China in light of the growing economic relationship between the two nations. Other topics of discussion between the two leaders over the course of the six-day trip included the development of commercial nuclear power in China
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During Reagan’s first 4 years Reagan had a policy of protecting endanger industries such as ... textiles, apparel, steel, auto … Once re-elected and after his trip to China, Reagan swiftly abandon this position saying was more consistent with the conservative ideology and growing trade with China ...
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In November, 1983, the Reagan Administration publicly announced new regulations for the transfer of technology to China. The new regulations were designed "to reflect a more liberal import-export control policy" by raising dramatically the volume and sophistication of technologically advanced goods developed in the United States available for licensing and export to China. 
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To facilitate the policy the Administration transferred China to the country group under the Export Administration Regulations 3 which includes the NATO countries and other friendly non-aligned nations...
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The immediate effect of this categorization appears to be that the "fast and furious" export of more goods and technology to China.  The new regulations  made it possible for routine approved technology transfer rather than subject to the old policy of case-by-case review. 
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In January 1984 Reagan signed the Sino-US Agreement with China’s Premier Zhao Ziyang which approved the sale, transfer, and trade of US high-tech and  industrial technology.
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In May 1984 Sino-US Committee on Commerce and Trade signed an agreement.  Resulting in future technology transfers to China of metallurgy, telecommunications, electronics, aviation products, advanced equipment for making advanced integrated circuits, scientific instruments, and high-tech products, and space exploration.
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Reagan pushed for all out free trade not only with China but worldwide as part of the conservative philosophy ….
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By the end of Reagan's first 4 years more than 100 Fortune 500 US companies had manufacturing facilities in China ...
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China Today 2012 ... 
- GDP Sales of $10.2 Trillion Dollars ... 
- All most 85% of the $10 Trillion is US Sales Dollars ...
- FYI - China Almost 100% DEBT FREE ... 
and has GOOD CREDIT RATING NOT like the USA ...
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PLUS ...
- 780 Million People are Working Daily in China ...
- China's Unemployment Rate is at 3.5% ...
- Growth rate of around 10% a yr ...
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Conclusion - TBNT - Thanks But No Thanks on being a Reagan Republican ...  Republicans are known for their flag waving and singing of patriotic songs ... Next time you see Republicans waving a flag, count the number of stars on the flag these guys are waving.  Make sure it has 50 NOT one ...
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The Velocity of Money - Part 2 ...

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FAST MONEY - RETAIL  ...

INTELLIGENT MONEY - COLLEGE GRADS

Why it is Important to Slow the Velocity of Money …

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Fast Money Retail has consumed our economy lives and country … And that of future generations...

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U.S.'s GDP in 1965 - 60 percent was from Manufacturing less than 12% from Retail … U.S.s GDP 2012 is 50+ percent Retail and 12% Manufacturing ….

The bad news is ... Retail has produced arrogant high school grads that think they are better than professionals with a college degree …

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Manufacturing produces high-end long term jobs requiring established codes of practices and codes of ethics. People proud to be working in their chosen professions.  Professionals that have studied for years and spent large amounts of money to learn their professions in college …

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College produces professionals, quality people that have taken the time, to learn to explore their profession, and broaden their interests, pursue their goals, develop networks, plan, create, and define themselves. College teaches students to think, develop their minds … to come up with solutions to complex problems, and improve the world around them by using logic roll models they have learned about.

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That is NOT what most Retail Jobs are about …

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Expectations are low for the vast majority of people that work in Retail ... Show up for work on time, stock, and customer service.  Not a true professional, as we know professionals such as teachers, engineers, accountants, etc …

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Retail mainly teaches to be friendly and ask customers if they need help. ...  Stock merchandise, customer service, finds products, stocks Merchandise, items brought back or returned and the back-stocked items on shelves. Develop their street smarts to be able to communicate with follow street smart workers, walk in customers off the street and encourage them to purchase their employers products or service.  

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Retail Qualifications High School educated fast talker, think on their feet because they will be standing on them for 8 -12 plus hours a day. Of course there is a career path in this just above minimum wage. Trained in learning how to develop a predator mentality that can feed on/off customers to make sales.  Ability to zero in and capture the sale.  

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No entrance exams for Retail or exams of any complex nature.  Simple add subtract and multiple at best. The ability to endure impolite customers deal with people who are a little rough around the edges, like themselves.

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The Short term performance of Retail creates a high pressure, high stress environment to make a Fast Buck. Resulting a FAST paced economic world made up of FAST Retail and Wall Street MONEY, encouraging more fraud, deception, and theft as people and companies are under more and more pressure to make profits, achieve goals, and succeed. Resulting in more fraud and theft in American business every year ...

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Manufacturing generates high end jobs requiring college graduates/people with ethics, standards, and obligations ... People with chosen Professions …

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College graduates know there are expectations to be met of them in society. Accounting, Engineering, Teachers, PreMed, Business, Management, etc in fact most disciplines in college have obligations to the public, their clients, employers and the professional. Many professions learned in college have established codes of practice and codes of ethics to guide members and inform the public at large.

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College Grads ... Maintain a code of ethics, which they pledge to uphold. Depending on their specializations, college grads may also be governed by specific statute, whistleblowing, product liability laws, and often the principles of business ethics.

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Retails ethics ... Make the sale ...

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What Caused This Catastrophic Change …

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The catastrophic change in America from the World’s Leading Manufacturing based economy to the World’s Leading Retail Consumer based economy started in the 1970s and 1980s with the signatures of two US Presidents.

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We took America's Best Idea the National Parks which was started 1872 with Yellowstone and turned it into a catastrophe. Millions visited the National Parks over the years and became more aware of man's effect on nature and the environment.

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During the 1960s interest and awareness peaked in concerns about population growth, and pollution, (air, water, the environment), causing preservationists, conservationists, and the general public to pressure Congress to fix the problems.

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The GOPs One-Two Punch That Knocked Out "Made in the USA" ...

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Punch 1 - President Nixon in 1970 signed into law the creation EPA and OSHA there by putting the breaks on American manufacturing.  Well intentioned as these agencies were they turned into monsters that attacked and destroyed heavy industry and manufacturing in America with laws & regulations that could not be met.  The Nixon Two Step.  Step Two - Nixon opened the door to Communist China and cheap labor.

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Punch 2 - President Reagan faced with a bad Recession in 1980, needed to get the US Economy going, midway through his first 4 years, Reagan signed the First Hi-Tech Trade Agreement with Communist China. The agreement not only allowed Cheap products to be made in and imported from Communist China, but sale of telecommunications, electronics, and high end computer technology to China. 

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With NO EPA in China US Companies could pollute to their hearts content, under Made in China label. The Reagan Two Step.  Step Two - Reagan while claiming tax cuts he put in place for the wealthy stimulated the U.S. economy (they did but minimal), Reagan borrowed 2 trillion dollars, and pumped the 2 trillion into the U.S. economy in the form of Military build up.  

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The U.S. economy boomed …  American's now had money to spend on Chinese products.

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Well the rest is history … With the China Door “wide open” more and more manufacturing firms left America … and "Made In America" became as hard to find as a Unicorn ...

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China is the world’s most polluting country ... China emits 6,018 million tonnes of greenhouse gases each year ... Thank You GOP ...

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