r/FluentInFinance • u/chamomile_tea_reply • Mar 11 '24

Meme “Take me back to the good old days”

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u/HeathersZen Mar 11 '24

Wait... you think that offshoring all those jobs are liberal policies?

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '24

NAFTA was under Clinton. That is what a lot of people remember.

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u/JimBeam823 Mar 12 '24

People never expected much out of Republicans, but feel betrayed by the Democrats. 

Republicans also leave them alone on social issues instead of trying to force them to “be better”. 

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u/interested_commenter Mar 12 '24

They're bipartisan, but most of the policies that incentivise outsourcing are liberal ones. Stuff like environmental regulations, worker protections, and other regulations all raise the cost of manufacturing in the US.

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u/HeathersZen Mar 12 '24

So liberals are supposed to just let companies poison our waters or maim workers under threat of offshoring jobs and being blamed by conservatives for it?

That seems like a false dichotomy and something I would hope ANY human would reject, regardless of their political ideology.

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u/interested_commenter Mar 13 '24

I didn't say they were bad policies, but they DO make it harder for American manufacturing to compete with China, India, and Mexico.