Neil Bush Quotes


Globalisation, and specifically our connectivity to China, has contributed to a sustained growth in the U.S. economy, has led to full employment and has benefited consumers with lower-cost, high-quality goods.


Citations

Bush, Neil. "Donald Trump's Anti-China Trade Demagoguery May Fire Up His Base, but It Does a Disservice to the Truth." South China Morning Post, 9 Aug. 2019.

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Foreign trade creates jobs and eliminates jobs. The people who lost jobs as the result of increased foreign trade are readily identified while the job beneficiaries may never know the reason. So it is a hard political sell even though most of the economic studies have showed that more jobs of more value are created by trade than lost. However, the losers are generally blue collar workers while the beneficiaries are generally white collar and knowledge workers. So there is a socioeconomic class differentiation in the trade issue.


He was opposing the view of President Donald Trump that the United States needs trade protectionism in order to preserve and grow manufacturing jobs. Flake and the majority of the Contgress maintained that protectionism at best would lose more jobs and growth possiblities than it would save, and at worst could start a trade war that throws teh United States into a recession or even a depression.


Neil Bush
Neil Bush
  • Born: January 22, 1955
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Businessman

Neil Mallon Bush is an American businessman and investor. He is the fourth of six children of former President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush (née Pierce). His five siblings are George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States; Jeb Bush, a former governor of Florida; the late Pauline Robinson Bush; Marvin Bush; and Dorothy Bush Koch. Neil Bush is currently a businessman based in Texas.