If these idiots who are protesting would even do their research on how tariffs work, they would get an education and not protest when we're giving these countries a deal compared to what they've imposed on us when we bring in their cheap shit they've ridden a sweet deal on for years.
If these idiots who are protesting would even do their research on how tariffs work, they would get an education and not protest when we're giving these countries a deal compared to what they've imposed on us when we bring in their cheap shit they've ridden a sweet deal on for years.
America was built on tariffs. But we lost our way in the 70's and a large part of that was the power of the dollar. Since then wealth has concentrated towards Wall Street and normal America has been hollowed out--gorging ourselves on cheap Chinese trinkets.
Worse still, running trade deficits hollows out American geopolitical potential, while China is gaining. The current trends lead in only one direction, towards American decline and Chinese ascendency. So the US either changes now voluntarily or changes later after an economic/military defeat to China. The choice is ours.
I can go one better Kevin and tell you it was the unions who ruined the rust belt and all of the steel industry and manufacturing industry when workers got too comfortable with being scammed by the company and the union who never worked for them in the first place. I'm not living in Texas because the union pushed my family out of the area, I'm living here because a corporation moved us here from Ohio who was known as Shell who now has zero presence here other than the gas station and a smaller corporate office in Katy TX because the previous two administrations have tried to kill Houston's oil economy to where big pharma is the new Shell oil company here who has reaped people of their health by sticking a huge Pfizer facility five minutes from my house and guess who won't be hurt by tariffs, but will be hurt by their own evil hands? Big pharma who is closing drug stores left and right because the heat is on them from you and I who said no to begin with!
If these idiots who are protesting would even do their research on how tariffs work, they would get an education and not protest when we're giving these countries a deal compared to what they've imposed on us when we bring in their cheap shit they've ridden a sweet deal on for years.
America was built on tariffs. But we lost our way in the 70's and a large part of that was the power of the dollar. Since then wealth has concentrated towards Wall Street and normal America has been hollowed out--gorging ourselves on cheap Chinese trinkets.
Worse still, running trade deficits hollows out American geopolitical potential, while China is gaining. The current trends lead in only one direction, towards American decline and Chinese ascendency. So the US either changes now voluntarily or changes later after an economic/military defeat to China. The choice is ours.
I can go one better Kevin and tell you it was the unions who ruined the rust belt and all of the steel industry and manufacturing industry when workers got too comfortable with being scammed by the company and the union who never worked for them in the first place. I'm not living in Texas because the union pushed my family out of the area, I'm living here because a corporation moved us here from Ohio who was known as Shell who now has zero presence here other than the gas station and a smaller corporate office in Katy TX because the previous two administrations have tried to kill Houston's oil economy to where big pharma is the new Shell oil company here who has reaped people of their health by sticking a huge Pfizer facility five minutes from my house and guess who won't be hurt by tariffs, but will be hurt by their own evil hands? Big pharma who is closing drug stores left and right because the heat is on them from you and I who said no to begin with!