Above, the massive Trans-Pacific Trade Deal (TPP) sits on Senator Jeff Sessions desk.
This excellent report came from the Conservative Tree House.
Governor Scott Walker likes to display his rebel side (although it’s
an illusion intended to solidify Tea-Party bona fides in optics
only) by riding around on a Harley Davidson
motorcycle. After all, Harley Davidson is headquartered in
Wisconsin.
Well, for now at least.
Wisconsin
representative, now Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, also likes to tout
his form of fiscal conservatism. However, as the former Chairman of
the budgetary ways and means committee, a federal budget is also an
optical illusion (hasn’t been one since ’07).
Well, given
Paul Ryan’s full-throated endorsement and promotion for the
Trans-Pacific Trade Deal (TPP), perhaps the Wisconsin working voter would like
to see exactly what they have in mind for you. Remember, each of the
aforementioned has also endorsed Senator Ted Cruz – who, not
coincidentally, was the co-author of the Trade Promotion Authority bill
(TPA) which was the vehicle to insure TPP’s passage.
Rather
than go through all of the tentacles, and difficult to understand TPP construct,
let’s instead use that wonderful Scott Walker (Harley Davidson motorcycle)
example to show Wisconsin voters what’s really going on.
Representative Paul Ryan
and Senator Ted Cruz created the legislative vehicle for The Trans-Pacific
Trade Partnership, or TPP. The legislative vehicle for TPP is
called Trade Promotion Authority, or TPA.
Both Ryan and Cruz were
actually quite proud of TPA, until candidate Donald Trump made a campaign issue
of the trade deal. Senator Cruz now claims he doesn’t support TPP.
However, these trade
deal constructs did not happen by accident, they were built and designed for a
reason. The Wall Street connections to TPP brings the
presidential election race into the more broad agenda, and that’s where you
find a geographical relationship which immediately connects RNC head Reince Preibus.
You see, sometimes you need to step back to see the larger
picture.
The RNC/GOP were bedfellows in 2014 along with the U.S. Chamber
of Commerce and its president Tom Donohue. The U.S. CoC worked earnestly to get the
Trans-Pacific Trade Deal constructed. Donohue being the CEO in charge of
the U.S. Business interests, via the Chamber, who were doing the actual
trade deal negotiations.
The U.S. Chamber
(Donohue) also needed a legislative path. As a consequence the path
needs legislatures as bill sponsors. That’s where Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz come in to the
picture. Together in early 2015 they penned an Op-Ed which
appeared in the Wall Street Journal, and also is available HERE.
How they actually
worked in the House and Senate to get the trade vehicle, TPA, through the
legislative system is quite remarkable. FULL DETAILS HERE.
When we say “remarkable”, we
really mean it.
When
it is possible to usurp the will of the people, and simultaneously
position yourself as outside of the construct therein, such Machiavellian plausible
deniability should at
the very least be recognized as brilliant. TPA was a
brutal scheme. TPP is devastating to the U.S. But the way
Ryan/Cruz guided TPA through the House and Senate was brilliant
nonetheless.
And that is
where Wisconsinites (Preibus, Ryan, Walker) align with a unity agenda
within the deal itself. A deal constructed by the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, that entirely benefits Wall Street.
Can
you see now how the 2014 GOP roadmap gains increased
importance, and how Presidential Candidate Scott Walker became part
of the entire 2016 nomination scheme? Follow the money.
Yes, including the Ricketts
money.
Beyond the terrible legislation
is the actual TPP trade deal itself; and beyond the TPP are
the consequences to the U.S. manufacturing base and U.S. worker.
For
an example of those consequences we turn to the beloved Harley Davidson.
[ Remember the Wisconsin
Sikh Temple shooting – did you see those police at the CNN town hall
questioning Donald Trump? ]
Coincidences
are funny that way. I
digress.
The Street
motorcycles being sold in the U.S. will be manufactured in the Milwaukee-based
company’s Kansas City facility, Wandell said. The Street bikes for
international riders will be made in the company’s Bawal, India, plant that opened
in 2011.
Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG) currently assembles
motorcycles in India and Brazil to avoid tariffs, but the parts are made in
America and shipped as a kit to those countries. (link)
Harley Davidson in India?
Many die-hard hog fans were worried that Harley was going to start building
their bikes out of country. Given what happened to the auto industry can
you blame them for worrying. However, that wasn’t immediately what
was happening, because Harley Davidson USA knew their bikes lived and
died on the reputation of being “American Iron”, despite many of the
parts made over seas.
However, India has a 100+% tariff on
motorcycle imports. When combined with other import taxes and
duties it all adds up to a staggering 115% cost increase to sell a
U.S. manufactured Harley in India.
India also has a population over a billion people. A very
large market! But selling an expensive bike in a poor country with a
100+% import tariff makes the market virtually untouchable. Unless…
….“We can make (the price) more attractive in those markets by building
over there,” Blankenheim said
To
work around the problem, and simultaneously set themselves up for future market
opportunities, Harley Davidson built a plant in India.
If the Harley is built in India it can be sold in India for less
than half the price of building in the U.S. and importing it.
However,
the future
opportunities angle stems
from India not only building their own Harleys, but
also manufacturing most of the Harley’s sold on the international market
as well. Build
here and export from the U.S. and you find a big tariff at the
destination; but build in India and export from India and the tariffs are
avoided upon arrival.
How does this help the U.S.
manufacturing of Harley Davidson? How does this help jobs here in the
U.S.? How does this help the U.S. factory worker?
It doesn’t.
But the corporate side (Wall
Street / NYSE “HOG”) books of Harley Davidson look great.
See how that works?
In
essence, Harley USA will build Harley’s for the
USA (disclaimer: “for now”), and Harley in India will build for most the
rest of the world. They are still in the working-out-the-kinks-process part of the global plan,
but it is a plan being executed.
So you might ask if India, with
a billion citizen market, charges a 100% tariff on U.S. manufactured
product, well, what’s the tariff the USA charges to import a
motorcycle here from say, Japan?
Well, that would be 2.4%.
Yes, a measly 2.4%
America will remove a tariff levied on Japanese motorcycles with engine
displacements of over 700cc under the recently announced Trans-Pacific
Partnership trade pact (TPP), which includes Australia and covers 40 percent of
the global economy.
The 2.4 percent duty will be
eliminated five years after the multilateral trade deal takes effect, which
should, in theory, reduce the price of motorcycles in the over 700cc space in
America, placing the imported fare on the same level playing field as
home-grown marques like Harley-Davidson, Indian and Victory. Those marques
mainly focus on bikes with engine capacities of more than 700cc.
America currently imposes no
tariff on imported motorbikes with engines of 700cc or lower (link)
Are you seeing the problem yet?
If the U.S. export of a Harley
Davidson incurs an import tariff at the destination (say China
30%, or Vietnam 40%), but the same tariff does not apply when the import
arrives from India, what nation do you think will be manufacturing the
Harley Davidson motorcycles which appear in China?
Meanwhile, the U.S. unilaterally disarms in the import tariff battle,
and drops all import tariffs on the foreign motorcycles which will directly
compete with those very same remaining Harley Davidson motorcycles which ARE made
in the U.S.A.
Do you remember the Wisconsin
Radio Host Charlie Sykes interview of Donald Trump when Sykes climbed atop
his high horse and so “righteously” told Trump that Wisconsin is an
Import-Export state, and tariffs hurt their economy? etc. etc. etc.
How does that Sykes gibberish
look against this example now?
We are only using Harley
Davidson as a representative example based on geography (Wisconsin). This
horrific Trade Deal applies nationwide in all areas of manufacturing,
import and export.
Scott Walker will be fine, he’ll probably end up on Wall Street.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will be fine, he’ll lock in a multi-million
lobbying contract. Reince Preibus will be fine, he’s already got a
rolodex filled with Global Bankers and High Financiers.
It’s the ordinary middle-class
Wisconsin cheese-head voter who will be impacted.
Are they foolish enough to be
co-dependents to their own financial demise?
I
guess we’ll find out….
Wisconsin
Values ?
Reference Notes –
If you want to compare trade tariffs, examples as shared, on these
motorcycles imports and exports you can go HERE to
the duty calculator and select engines > 970cc (the first three
duty comparison checks are free – after that the website charges for use).
Next time you are in a grocery store, pick up a package of Nabisco Fig
Newtons, look at the small wording next to the ingredients and you will see
“made in mexico”. It’s the same poor trade deals that are creating the
same outcomes.
¹/Also, Hat
Tip to “SEVENTHNDR“ for
sourcing.
Just a Reminder, this is an
insurgency. – The modern enemy of Wall
Street is Main Street vulgarians. The current enemy of the RNC/GOPe is not
Democrats, it’s Grassroots Conservatives; Common Sense Conservatives; more
vulgarians.
The Republican Party, and the
Republican media apparatus, view us as their enemy. We are the enemy they need
to protect themselves from:
In
2014, the RNC approved selection rules that govern how each state’s delegates
are portioned out from the primaries. Under one of the changes, states holding
their primaries between March 1 and March 14 will have their delegates doled
out proportionately with election results, a change that will likely
stymie a movement candidate.
States that have primaries on or
after March 15 will be winner-take-all states.
That’s important because another
RNC rule change requires that a candidate must win a majority of delegates in
eight or more states before his or her name may be presented for nomination at
the 2016 Republican National Convention.
With 18 GOP presidential candidates,
for now, it will be that much harder for any candidate to win a majority in any
state, let alone eight. (Article July 2015)
Now, ask yourself,
why would the RNC want to “stymie
a movement candidate“? Who exactly does that benefit? Obviously,
the “non-movement” candidate, ie “the turtle“.
Isn’t the entire
reason for campaigning in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina etc. to make a movement/momentum?
In addition Rule #40 changed in 2014 from previously five needed
state wins, to a newer threshold of eight (8):
Officially,
it’s Rule 40 in the RNC handbook and it states that any candidate for president
“shall demonstrate the support of a majority of the delegates from each of
eight (8) or more states” before their name is presented for nomination at the
national convention. (article March 2014)
Again, ask yourself who
does this benefit? A candidate can win seven states outright, and still not
have their name presented for nomination?
These rules were made/affirmed in 2014 – Who or
what exactly was the GOP concerned about blocking in 2016 that would
necessitate such rules? When combined with other rule changes you can clearly
identify a consolidation of power within the RNC apparatus intentionally
constructed to stop the candidate of the GRASSROOTS from achieving victory.
