Re: Here is what crapping the bed looks like:

If Tarriffs dont work

championsof81 · 2025-04-07T14:08:32.278Z

Then why does every country we “enjoy” a trade deficit with use them?

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We have shipped our industrial and manufacturing base to Vietnam, China, Japan, Mexico, the EU, Canada, Brazil, South Korea, Taiwan, all over the world. Canada and Mexico are our biggest partners, or were. We are quite diversified in our industrial trade. As for chips, do you remember those $500 CRT color TV's that looked like furniture? Or the first cell phones? Or the first PC's? Recall the price of those?

We import $4T of goods a year, export $3T of goods, and have a GDP of $28T. We have 330 million human beings and 14% of the planet's GDP, 4% of its population, and are the world's largest consumer market. The US consumes more goods than the CONTINENTS of Africa and South America, AND the Countries of India and Russia, ALL COMBINED. To do that takes excess, outside labor. As such, we farm off the least profitable jobs overseas, which still enrich American companies through leveraging our dollar. You think Apple or Google would be the most valuable tech companies without foreign labor?

End of the day, we have more wealth, and a higher demand, than we have the domestic labor supply to exchange for those dollars. We ran into this problem way back in the 1970's, and Ronald Reagan and Congress, and investors, and financial institutions fixed the problem. We imported immigrants, illegals, and opened up trade, leveraging our wealth, currency, dollars, for foreign labor. This isolates us from the inflationary pressure our wealth would otherwise create if we keep it in our borders. That was the lesson of Carter and the 1970's.

Tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of humans on this planet who are NOT Americans, work for American companies, making products to satisfy American consumers and demand. We don't have the millions of workers to replace that industrial capacity. Many Americans don't understand how our economy works, they don't understand anything beyond their own experiences. Someone says all the jobs left, NO, they didn't leave, they were SUPPLEMENTED by foreign labor. We retain the most profitable jobs, and enjoy trillions as the fruit of FOREIGN labor. Just ask Apple, Microsoft, Google, Wal-Mart, etc.

Trump is dangerous because he thrives on the ignorant. Always has. And America has voted, from a standpoint of ignorance, for what they like to hear (dems and pubs both do this). Rhetoric NOT based on reality, but perceptions many hold. An America standing squarely in isolation, on her own two feet, IS Trump's ideal America, that of the late 1800's. That's an America that doesn't win WW1, WW2, walk on the moon, win the Cold War, or anything else. That's an America that is not exceptional, but altogether average and normal. And that America WILL be surpassed by others, in today's world. Mainly because the world knows our recipe. If we don't protect our recipe, our dominance, then someone will step up. That is crapping the bed, and that will lead to someone else taking the top consumer position, and top military, and top economy. Crapping the bed.

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Just WOW! You watch way too much FOXFAKENEWS!

TheRump doesn't know that it takes 3 years to plan, build, stock, train employees and start-up a new mfg plant.
AND, with TheRump jumping around on tariffs, companies WILL NOT invest money in new mfrg plants. (Any plants under construction are from the time of the Biden govt, you should know, even if TheRump lies about that.)

In the meantime, have you stocked-up on toilet paper.
Can you go 3 years without buying new clothes?
Meanwhile, TheRump and OldMusty are paying themselves $8 million dollars a day to fire 100,000 govt employees. Guess what, these people are not going to become the painters, roofers, landscapers and drywallers that are now too scared to go to work. Good luck getting a house built -- or a mfg plant.
And those 100,000 govt employees probably have loans for 50,000 houses, and they will default on their loans and declare bankruptcy, sinking the value of houses that TheRump, and his rich friends, will then buy for half price, as they use TheRump's new taxcut for the wealthy to become mega-rich landlords.

MAGAoids have no idea that life in the US is going to sink like an elevator with no brakes, but they will soon be crying.

If Tarriffs dont work

Why is our economy larger and wealthier than any country we deal with?

damm!!***

Why is Chinas economy expected to surpass the USs economy?

Why is our economy larger and wealthier than any country we deal with?

Here is what crapping the bed looks like: