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Is it appropriate for the President of the United States to issue orders to private companies?

Salvador

Salvador

RF's Swedenborgian
Revoltingest said:
I've been buying some Japanese products lately.
For landscaping, they're the best in the world IMO.
As someone recently derisively quipped...
I'm a capitalist, not a patriot.
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Asian carp bow fishing is the closest thing I've ever done to buying any Asian product. ....:D

 
Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
columbus said:
Because they're capitalists, not patriots.
It's more profitable to manufacture in China, Mexico, Indonesia, and such. Because American consumers will still buy.

It won't stop them from complaining about those darned Mexicans stealing our jobs, though.
Tom
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Yes that's true, they are indeed capitalist. And yes even I admit that's predictable. Capitalist only goals are profit.

Yet at the same time , the very people that allowed them to go over did nothing whatsoever themselves, happily flipping on the green light salivating at the prospect of a globalized homogenized economy because they themselves are not Patriots as much as those companies are. Seems like all the eggs are conveniently in one basket on this one. Like some diabolical Rube Goldberg machine.
 
C

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
Revoltingest said:
She could easily pass for one.
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She was the closest thing to a Reaganite running in 2016. She was the true conservative of the top 4 choices.
Tom
ETA
Sanders was the socialist enema
Cruz was the christianist enema
Trump was the satanist enema

Kasich was another conservative. But Clinton was the main conservative.
 
Milton Platt

Milton Platt

Well-Known Member
fantome profane said:
Is it appropriate for the President of the United States to issue orders to private companies?

I particularly want to hear from our conservative and libertarian members on this. Would it bother you if a U.S. President started giving orders to private companies regarding how they do business, who they do business with etc? Is it ok for the government to take control of the means of production through a President decree?
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Well, it makes him look silly. He can't dictate what companies do and not do, unless it is through regulation and laws. He can't issue edicts like a king or dictator and have them enforced. I'm not a Trump fan, but I suspect he was not using the word "order" in that sense, Trump has historically had trouble with proper use of the English language.
 
sooda

sooda

Veteran Member
Salvador said:
Our POTUS does have the means of getting private businesses to comply with his orders.

1. Further tariff hikes can be imposed on imports from China. 2. The start date of previously announced tariffs could be switched to an earlier date. 3. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act can be invoked in order to compel companies to either leave China or face being left out of federal procurement deals.
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Trump doesn't know anything about the economy.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
fantome profane said:
Source?
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You could ask for a source for post #34 too.
Both claims have complexities which I've yet to see addressed on RF.
Consider the likelihood that bankruptcies attributed to Trump personally
are actually just projects he initiated, but are LLC or corporate partnerships.
Such ventures could go bankrupt without causing him any personally
significant financial loss.
A better measure of financial success would be to consider his change in
net worth over the years. Has anyone done this? Until then, we don't know.
 
fantome profane

fantome profane

Anti-Woke = Anti-Justice
Premium Member
Revoltingest said:
A better measure of financial success would be to consider his change in
net worth over the years. Has anyone done this? Until then, we don't know.
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People have certainly tried. We do know that in the 80’s when Trump became famous for his financial success he was actually deeply in debt and losing money at a staggering rate.

Currently Trump is doing everything in his power to prevent exposure of his personal and business financial records. If this matters to you, you will be glad that he is likely to lose that fight.



Btw, I highly recommend reading the book “Trumped” by Jack O’Donnell.

https://www.amazon.com/Trumped-Insi...d=1566651737&s=gateway&sprefix=Trumped&sr=8-1

It is written by a top executive of one of Tump’s bankrupted casinos. This is someone who worked closely with Trump and knows how he does business. It is a fascinating and informative read.
 
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