A document circulated within the White House in September claimed that the demise of the American manufacturing industry has led to an uptick in abortions, divorce, infertility and opioid abuse without offering any evidence, according to a Tuesday report in the Washington Post.
The document about a weakened manufacturing sector in the U.S. was prepared by Peter Navarro (pictured above), the director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, according to the report. It asserted that a declining manufacturing sector has led to job loss and factory closures, but also included claims of socioeconomic impacts that the Post reported were “presented without any data or information to back up the assertions.”
One unnamed administration official told the Post that the document was distributed to White House staff, while a different administration official said that Cabinet leaders saw the document.
The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that large trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have hurt American manufacturing. Navarro has encouraged Trump to pull out of multilateral trade deals in favor of bilateral agreements.
Read the Washington Post’s full report here.
Facts? Data? Truth? Why let them stand in the way?
There is all kinds of disturbing things a normal person could say about this report, but something that is fact based is that abortions are at their lowest rates since Roe v Wade. That kind of knocks this report as being totally unhinged.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/17/509734620/u-s-abortion-rate-falls-to-lowest-level-since-roe-v-wade
Well, “facts” would have to come from “universities” and "“social scientists” and “researchers” and we know how biased they are. Besides, it’s easier to listen to the voices in one’s head to get supporting information! Better yet, just pull then out of your ass!
It was probably a click bait item on Brietbart, that got cleansed - er - discussed on Fox and Friends - and made it’s way to Navarro’s ear who put it out as a statement/rationale - with zero research.
These folks can’t even master google - let alone the massive research at their fingertips in the entire Executive branch of our government.
A classic “post hoc, ergo propter hoc” logical fallacy.
This is one of the far right’s favorite logical fallacies—but they use them all, because without them they have nothing to offer.