When your options are Vice President Kamala Harris, who was endorsed by Dick Cheney, architect of the Iraq War, and President Donald Trump, who has brought together a spectacular coalition of anti-war advocates crossing the entire political spectrum, it is abundantly clear who anti-war advocates should support.
Tariffs are one of the potent tools a President can use. to create FAIR as opposed to FREE Trade.. There is no reason we should have exported our jobs to other countries (mostly since the smartest minds in the room thought it would be a good idea to open China "so they will become more like us" when, in reality the greed of corporations and Wall Street saw they could make bigger profits that way, American workers be damned). Tariffs can force the issue about offshoring and can help bring jobs back home. The policy of "tit for tat" on tariffs is something to examine as well, as when France wanted to put high tariffs on American imports and we (Trump and Navarro if my memory serves) countered with we will put high tariffs on French wines and cheeses.
The other thing that has gone along with the importation of cheap goods from China in particular, is the shoddy manufacture and planned obsolescence. I still have things like a waffle maker, coffee percolator, and a toaster that works fine from my parents that they bought in 1947 when they were 1st married. The only reason I abandoned a TV I bought in1974 was the change to digital broadcast. Those American made products were built to last. Not that technological progress isn't worthwhile, but do the landfills need to be so over burdened by stuff broken too early and all the packaging detritus?
When you have an imbalance of trade you give foreign countries the power to buy up the family silver. Companies, farmlands, natural resources, politicians, all become someone else's assets.
Japan has been a trading partner that has imposed tariffs on American goods and with our stances of not imposing tariffs, they now own most all our steel producing companies. They dumped cheap steel on us for years that we could not compete with.
Tariffs are one of the potent tools a President can use. to create FAIR as opposed to FREE Trade.. There is no reason we should have exported our jobs to other countries (mostly since the smartest minds in the room thought it would be a good idea to open China "so they will become more like us" when, in reality the greed of corporations and Wall Street saw they could make bigger profits that way, American workers be damned). Tariffs can force the issue about offshoring and can help bring jobs back home. The policy of "tit for tat" on tariffs is something to examine as well, as when France wanted to put high tariffs on American imports and we (Trump and Navarro if my memory serves) countered with we will put high tariffs on French wines and cheeses.
The other thing that has gone along with the importation of cheap goods from China in particular, is the shoddy manufacture and planned obsolescence. I still have things like a waffle maker, coffee percolator, and a toaster that works fine from my parents that they bought in 1947 when they were 1st married. The only reason I abandoned a TV I bought in1974 was the change to digital broadcast. Those American made products were built to last. Not that technological progress isn't worthwhile, but do the landfills need to be so over burdened by stuff broken too early and all the packaging detritus?
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When you have an imbalance of trade you give foreign countries the power to buy up the family silver. Companies, farmlands, natural resources, politicians, all become someone else's assets.
Japan has been a trading partner that has imposed tariffs on American goods and with our stances of not imposing tariffs, they now own most all our steel producing companies. They dumped cheap steel on us for years that we could not compete with.
Peter, the following analysis is a good example of what many layperson supporters of President Trump's economic and trade platform think is going to occur after President Trump returns to the Oval Office in January: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/04/by-request-maganomics-cliffnotes/
Looked like Polish MEP EU Dominik Tarczynski was standing in the crowd at Trump's Rally tonight. Your thoughts?