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9/11 Thermate experiments
Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I
"I am so %^&*^ sick of this cult of Ron Paul. The Paulites. What is with these %^&*^ people? Why are there so many of them?" YouTube rant by "TheAmazingAtheist"
"We as a country have lost faith and confidence in freedom." -- Ron Paul
"It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute." -- Ron Paul
I posted that yesterday and you commented. If your point is that Rand is vague enough each time that anyone can read into it whatever, then fine. That said his emphasis last year was on slowing things down by denying fast track approval. His emphasis this year is on Obama making "negotiating this" a priority. Well...fast track authority would make this treaty a priority for Obama. (After all, you don't get "fast track" approval from Congress and then sit on it.)
Anyway, my main point is that the idea put forward by Traditional Conservative that somehow if you are against the TPP you are "progressive" just because some progressives are against the TPP is idiotic. As someone else just pointed out, Krugman really isn't all that against the TPP. He's just shown some mild skepticism of it. So if anything, Rand is siding with Krugman.
9/11 Thermate experiments
Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I
"I am so %^&*^ sick of this cult of Ron Paul. The Paulites. What is with these %^&*^ people? Why are there so many of them?" YouTube rant by "TheAmazingAtheist"
"We as a country have lost faith and confidence in freedom." -- Ron Paul
"It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute." -- Ron Paul
Seems like you might need to check your premises. All the economic socialists are against this thing. Krugman always disguises his one-world socialist central-planning in "love of the free market".
This has to make you laugh:I am in general a free trader, but I’ll be undismayed and even a bit relieved if the T.P.P. just fades away.
"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
Actually I reread that WND article this morning and there isn't a single quote or statement from Randal on the subject of this treaty. I doubt he would approve fast track, and I disagree with the implication that making something a priority means giving it fast track authority.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/jurisdictionOne of the most fundamental questions of law is whether a given court has jurisdiction to preside over a given case.
ISDS gives international tribunals supreme "Jurisdiction" over international trade disputes; the only parties with standing before the tribunal are the complaintant corporation and the defending nation.
Without ISDS Federal, State, and Local courts retain "Jurisdiction" over international trade disputes; any party with interest has standing. Complaintant corporations can also pursue consular action.
'We endorse the idea of voluntarism; self-responsibility: Family, friends, and churches to solve problems, rather than saying that some monolithic government is going to make you take care of yourself and be a better person. It's a preposterous notion: It never worked, it never will. The government can't make you a better person; it can't make you follow good habits.' - Ron Paul 1988
Awareness is the Root of Liberation Revolution is Action upon Revelation
'Resistance and Disobedience in Economic Activity is the Most Moral Human Action Possible' - SEK3
Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.
...the familiar ritual of institutional self-absolution...
...for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment...
Seems like you need to check what I actually wrote and respond to my actual point. The particular points Krugman was making against the TPP, that it expands government imposed copyright protection to be international, is a typical libertarian talking point. That said Krugman is no more "against" the TPP than Rand (apparently) is.
9/11 Thermate experiments
Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I
"I am so %^&*^ sick of this cult of Ron Paul. The Paulites. What is with these %^&*^ people? Why are there so many of them?" YouTube rant by "TheAmazingAtheist"
"We as a country have lost faith and confidence in freedom." -- Ron Paul
"It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute." -- Ron Paul
Just for the sake of debate, anytime you have an agreement between two parties, you want to have a neutral 3rd party to sit as judge/mediator if there is a dispute over the agreement, yes? Where else should a dispute over an international agreement be judged than an international court system?
Well if you want to be snarky about it, there isn't a single quote in either article about Rand being for or against it. That hasn't stopped people like Traditional Conservative from concluding that TPP must be a good thing because Rand is "for" it and Krugman is "against" it. We already know Ron Paul is against these kinds of deals. And you read what I wrote backwards. Granting something fasttrack authority makes the negotiation a priority. I said it that way on purpose to be 100% accurate. That you saw the "implication" that wasn't obviously there is itself telling. If stating the bare facts leads to someone seeing the implications......
9/11 Thermate experiments
Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I
"I am so %^&*^ sick of this cult of Ron Paul. The Paulites. What is with these %^&*^ people? Why are there so many of them?" YouTube rant by "TheAmazingAtheist"
"We as a country have lost faith and confidence in freedom." -- Ron Paul
"It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute." -- Ron Paul
This is a "muh roads" argument taking to the absurd extreme. "Who else is going to build muh roads but the federal government?" There have been trade agreements as long as there has been trade. Agreements last as long as they are mutually beneficial to both parties. If we lowered tariffs on goods to Japan, and Japan turned around and raised them on us, we could simply turn back around and raise tariffs again.
9/11 Thermate experiments
Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I
"I am so %^&*^ sick of this cult of Ron Paul. The Paulites. What is with these %^&*^ people? Why are there so many of them?" YouTube rant by "TheAmazingAtheist"
"We as a country have lost faith and confidence in freedom." -- Ron Paul
"It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute." -- Ron Paul
I'm still trying to determine this. Obviously, the case could be made that sovereignty would be circumvented, but I'm not sure of the extent. I've been reading on this lately and I'm having a hard time finding out the truth outside of the liberal think tanks and Keynesian economists that are pushing an agenda. If the authority is to oversee the managing of imposing tariffs (which seems to be the only authority I can find), then that is a function of the ensuring compliance to the treaty. I don't see how this extends into other realms (although, I see where some people are making that claim.) The IAEA is a third party arbiter in relation to nuclear treaties - I think you could make the same case that we have surrendered our sovereignty to that body.
Understandably, I could be wrong on this because things are still in negotiations and the details are not public, but I think there may be some demagoguery going on.
"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
No attempt to be snarky, I just happened to reread the article this morning and was shocked to find that it was completely misleading as it used Randal in the headline but absolutely zero content or positions from the Senator himself. I think we call all safely assume that Randal is for free trade in principle, just as his father is.
The question remains and hasn't been defined anywhere that I have seen whether he thinks managed trade agreements such as the TPP are worth it. This whole thread and article as usual jump to conclusions as to his position where as you said he is "vague".
Based on Randals past history, I think the WND article is probably correct in that he will want to force the agreement to go through the house and senate and be open for debate and amendments and require a 2/3 vote for approval. And I suspect he will have some amendments that will attempt to rectify many of the national sovereignty issues his father objected to. As to how he will vote IF those suspected amendments are rejected, I don't think is clear.
My main problem is people always seem to jump to conclusions as to the Senator's motives and positions and many here seem to default to the worst.
Poor analogy aside, this would be a multi-faceted agreement among many parties. You may not recognize a tariff is being imposed until an importer or exporter brings the issue up. There are all kinds of de facto tariffs that impede trade. Without an arbiter to decide if a tariff provision has been violated, the entire agreement would be null as soon as one party made a claim of a breach. "You violated the terms, the deal is off" Which would create many trickle down effects to all of the other parties of the agreement. So why have an agreement at all if there wasn't a body to remedy it.
Listen, I'm a free trader. I'd like every country in the world to promise to allow open trade with every other country. But that's not reality. There are still too many people who believe protectionism is a good thing.
I'm open to learn more about the implications of the TPP. I feel like I may still be missing some things.
"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
Are we talking from a libertarian standpoint, a U.S. legal standpoint, or an international standpoint? From a U.S. legal standpoint, we all recognize that the gubmint (the guys with the guns) are the "sovereigns". So there's always the possibility of one person who feels the other side has breached the contract to go to the guys with the guns to get them to enforce it. Agreeing ahead of time to a third party mediator simply means relinquishing the right to appeal to a higher authority. In the case of international trade, where both parties are sovereign, what right to appeal to a higher authority is one country giving up in order to go to a third party mediator?
The way things have worked up until this point is that such cases are herd in each countries respective courts. Sure the court could be biased, but courts have an incentive not to be biased against foreign corporations less the overall trade regime breaks down. So it behooves the U.S. government to only strike trade deals with trustworthy partners. But shouldn't that be what we do anyway?
9/11 Thermate experiments
Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I
"I am so %^&*^ sick of this cult of Ron Paul. The Paulites. What is with these %^&*^ people? Why are there so many of them?" YouTube rant by "TheAmazingAtheist"
"We as a country have lost faith and confidence in freedom." -- Ron Paul
"It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute." -- Ron Paul
9/11 Thermate experiments
Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I
"I am so %^&*^ sick of this cult of Ron Paul. The Paulites. What is with these %^&*^ people? Why are there so many of them?" YouTube rant by "TheAmazingAtheist"
"We as a country have lost faith and confidence in freedom." -- Ron Paul
"It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute." -- Ron Paul
"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
9/11 Thermate experiments
Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I
"I am so %^&*^ sick of this cult of Ron Paul. The Paulites. What is with these %^&*^ people? Why are there so many of them?" YouTube rant by "TheAmazingAtheist"
"We as a country have lost faith and confidence in freedom." -- Ron Paul
"It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute." -- Ron Paul
'We endorse the idea of voluntarism; self-responsibility: Family, friends, and churches to solve problems, rather than saying that some monolithic government is going to make you take care of yourself and be a better person. It's a preposterous notion: It never worked, it never will. The government can't make you a better person; it can't make you follow good habits.' - Ron Paul 1988
Awareness is the Root of Liberation Revolution is Action upon Revelation
'Resistance and Disobedience in Economic Activity is the Most Moral Human Action Possible' - SEK3
Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.
...the familiar ritual of institutional self-absolution...
...for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment...
Wow! I know "correlation does not equal causation" but I would be interested in seeing the amount of internal taxes and regulations in the U.S. superimposed on this graph. I'm betting a negative correlation. (The lower the tariffs the higher the internal taxes and regulations.) And look at the dramatic drop in tariffs under Woodrow Wilson? We get the IRS, the Federal Reserve, the "League of Nations" and super low tariffs all under the same globalist president. Hmmmmm......
9/11 Thermate experiments
Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I
"I am so %^&*^ sick of this cult of Ron Paul. The Paulites. What is with these %^&*^ people? Why are there so many of them?" YouTube rant by "TheAmazingAtheist"
"We as a country have lost faith and confidence in freedom." -- Ron Paul
"It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute." -- Ron Paul
Someone had brought up the question of in-fighting among the elite in a pm recently and I thought that this was one of the most profound realizations that I've read relative to what we are seeing here when questioning why one particular high profile person opposes the thing as opposed to another. There is a tremendous amount of in-fighting among the elites at the moment as well as between neocon "thinkers" who reside in both political parties. That's important to acknowledge. I, for one, have shared a great deal of specific instances of this here on the boards and they've went mostly under the radar because it's something that we don't always place into perspective with particular issues where we kind of maintain a cookie cutter type debate with regard to them. Will try to dig some of them up.
Last edited by Natural Citizen; 11-11-2014 at 11:53 AM.
I have no issue with multi party deals.
My issue is jurisdiction.
Traditionally, a foreign corporation doing business in the US has two avenues to complain about violations of trade agreements:
1) Local, State, or Federal US courts (just like domestic companies)
2) Additionally, the foreign corporation could, in their home jurisdiction, petition for consular action or lobby for retaliatory economic action to be initiated against the US.
All of these new, supposed "free trade" deals open up a new door which overrides all previous "traditional" dispute settlement channels:
Supranational Investor-State Dispute Settlement
Last edited by presence; 11-11-2014 at 12:04 PM.
'We endorse the idea of voluntarism; self-responsibility: Family, friends, and churches to solve problems, rather than saying that some monolithic government is going to make you take care of yourself and be a better person. It's a preposterous notion: It never worked, it never will. The government can't make you a better person; it can't make you follow good habits.' - Ron Paul 1988
Awareness is the Root of Liberation Revolution is Action upon Revelation
'Resistance and Disobedience in Economic Activity is the Most Moral Human Action Possible' - SEK3
Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.
...the familiar ritual of institutional self-absolution...
...for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment...
Cato discussion:
http://www.cato.org/multimedia/event...s-trade-agenda
Just some additional context.
"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
Trade deals between sovereign nations shoud be "symbolic", "in good faith", "offering friendship and peace"; not "binding" under "international law".
I have no problem with multilateral deals.
Similarly but off topic... plural marriage does just fine in Utah without authoritarian oversight.
Last edited by presence; 11-11-2014 at 12:09 PM.
'We endorse the idea of voluntarism; self-responsibility: Family, friends, and churches to solve problems, rather than saying that some monolithic government is going to make you take care of yourself and be a better person. It's a preposterous notion: It never worked, it never will. The government can't make you a better person; it can't make you follow good habits.' - Ron Paul 1988
Awareness is the Root of Liberation Revolution is Action upon Revelation
'Resistance and Disobedience in Economic Activity is the Most Moral Human Action Possible' - SEK3
Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.
...the familiar ritual of institutional self-absolution...
...for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment...
"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
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