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Re: President Trump Didn't Sign G7's Leftist Agenda - Smart Move  

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Wed, 13 Jun 18 8:59 AM | 48 view(s)
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The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of August 2015) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948.

...the Marshall Plan was not intended to be a perpetual handout, but Europe believes it is.




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President Trump Didn't Sign G7's Leftist Agenda - Smart Move
By: Beldin in POPE 5
Wed, 13 Jun 18 2:17 AM 		Msg. 02250 of 62138

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/president-trump-g7s/

... The G7 leaders get angry at Trump because he believes that current trade deals, while good on some levels, actually are unfair to the U.S. Whether you agree or not, it's certainly a debatable point, particularly with regard to trade with China.

But what did Trump say at his press conference as he left the fruitless G7 confab to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un?

"You want a tariff-free (trade system), you want no barriers, and you want no subsidies because you have some cases where countries are subsidizing industries, and that's not fair," Trump said, elaborating his own ideas about trade, developed, he said, from his time at the Wharton School of Finance. "So you go tariff-free, you go barrier-free, you go subsidy-free."

Sounds pretty free trade to us. The fact that he questions current trade deals doesn't signal a hatred of free trade. It does show a disdain for deals that pretend to be free trade but are really government managed trade. Often to the U.S.' detriment. ...

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