Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
by Phyllis SchlaflyEmail | Archive
The businesses that support and lobby for so-called free trade are
always trying to wrap themselves in Ronald Reagan. But that’s false
because Reagan would not have allowed America to be cheated coming and
going by foreign countries.
Of course, Reagan was for international trade, but he did not see it
or use it as a steppingstone to global governance, accepting cheating by
foreign countries, rules set by panels of countries that hate and envy
us, or any vision of globalism. Reagan looked upon foreign trade as a
component of American economic and military superiority and as a vehicle
to bring down the Soviet Union, otherwise known as the “evil empire.”
Reagan stood for the United States maintaining a strong industrial
base not only because that translates into good jobs for Americans and
an expansion of the middle class. Reagan came from the generation who
understood that America’s World War II victory was based on our
tremendous manufacturing industry that overnight turned from producing
automobiles into military weapons and tractors into tanks.
Reagan signed a Buy America policy for federal highway and transit
projects. No way would he have approved building a Keystone XL oil
pipeline with steel pipe imported from a Russian-owned mill or a San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge assembled from steel sections made in
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