FLASHBACK: 30 years ago, Nancy Pelosi demanded Congress confront Chinese tariffs on American goods

[AZRWinger]

^ Denial borne out of dishonesty.

Your posting history proves otherwise.

Nothing childish about disparaging those most worthy of disparaging.

Your entirely partisan based, wrongheaded assertion has already been noted.

Nothing to explain, as your assertion is false.

There were no RINO’s on the January 6th committee. Only patriots.

Your blatant lie has already been debunked.

Pelosi never said:


Pelosi did, in fact/irrefutably say, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."

You offer nothing remotely approaching intelligent discussion in a lengthy rant.

What Pelosi said irrefutably endorses passing a bill into law without knowing its content. That's exactly what regular order is designed to prevent.

 

[RaleBulgarian]

You offer nothing remotely approaching intelligent discussion in a lengthy rant.

What Pelosi said irrefutably endorses passing a bill into law without knowing its content. That's exactly what regular order is designed to prevent.

No many how many times your lies are refuted, you continue to persist.

Your orange jesus would be very proud of you.

 

[bubbabgone]

Your opinion. Something not shared by a lot of other Americans.

I should tell you that you’re trying to discuss tariffs with a person who didn’t know that countries like China bypass tariffs by using intermediary countries.
What’s worse is that he doesn’t care to learn more about the subject.
Believe me, I tried to tell him. He strictly a Huffington Post level poster.

 

[Mycroft]

I should tell you that you’re trying to discuss tariffs with a person who didn’t know that countries like China bypass tariffs by using intermediary countries.
What’s worse is that he doesn’t care to learn more about the subject.
Believe me, I tried to tell him. He strictly a Huffington Post level poster.

Yes, I know exactly who I'm talking to. But I'll still tell him...and others like him...the facts.

 

[tharock220]

Thank you for showing this because once you get into context, you realize how much of a moron Trump is.

1996: 5th year of economic expansion, low inflation and 2.5% in GDP for America. in China, there was growth, but no worthwhile foreign investment, had a debt emergency on their credit and other Asian economies were outpacing China. When Pelosi was calling for tariffs, there was a strategy to it, we were dealing from a position of strength by having a stable, growing economy

Saying the Chinese economy had no worthwhile foreign investment is dishonest. Investments were in the billions, but the country's GDP was a fraction of its current size, and there was only so much return possible.

Today: we very slowly coming out of an economic hole, still in a trade war with China, we are not in a position of strength, we have a president who has started a tariff/trade war with the world that has massively damaged our economy and there does not seem to be a strategy, the stock market is in shambles, our government is being gutted...and we trying to take on the world with a leader who does not know what he is doing save to placate his own ego.

This is not a smoking gun. There is no hypocrisy in what Pelosi did. You do not have a "gotcha moment" here.

The motivation for Nancy Pelosi's tariff proposal was the same as Trump's, American industry. At the time it was textiles. Then it became consumer electronics. Now it's machinery.

 

[Ikari]

FLASHBACK: 30 years ago, Nancy Pelosi demanded Congress confront Chinese tariffs on American goods​

An old video of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., urging Congress to retaliate against China’s tariffs against the United States is going viral for how much it sounds like President Donald Trump’s current tariff policies.

The video, recorded on the House floor in June 1996, featured the lawmaker urging her colleagues to fight against the "status quo" trade policies that had contributed to America’s trade deficit with China. She specifically called on lawmakers to address the fact that American tariffs on Chinese goods paled in comparison to Chinese tariffs on U.S. goods.

"In terms of tariffs, it’s interesting to note that the average U.S. MFN [Most Favored Nation] tariff on Chinese goods coming into the United States is two percent, whereas the average MFN tariff on U.S. goods going into China is 35 percent."

The congresswoman asked, "Is that reciprocal?" She also went on to call the U.S.-China trade relationship a "job loser."..................

FLASHBACK: 30 years ago, Nancy Pelosi demanded Congress confront Chinese tariffs on American goods

Old videos show Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., defending the use of U.S. tariffs to protect U.S. workers, while today they oppose Trump's tariffs.

www.foxnews.com

Yes, tariffs have been discussed in the past, and used as well. One could support an intelligent tariff policy without needing to endorse Trump's reckless use of tariffs in his Global Trade War.