It is a frustrating discussion but our country faces some real hazards and so many people do not know the facts...and any conversation helps expose the facts...Cause we sure are not going to get the truth from politicians and slanted news reports.
I think that is the point - we gladly allow the exploitation of people and environment outside the US but then allow the imports of those goods saying screw you to the American worker they displaced due to enaction of laws designed to protect US workers. Those are meaningless if there are no longer any US workers left.
Look on YouTube, it's called the BYD Shark. Buyers in Texas have snuck them in. Works like a train
After WW2 and during the early Cold War, the US was the world's manufacturing and technology powerhouse. We needed (or wanted) to extend our influence to every corner of the world and I believe that these tariffs were tolerated to economically benefit countries that helped us out with military bases, intelligence, etc.
It's not a screw you American workers, but it is survival. We all go to Walmart, Amazon, etc to buy the Chinese made cheaper products. To survive you have to compete by pursing lower labor costs, or let China win.
For real. It's on Comedy Central. Love Jon Stewart so much.
The vast majority of the Economists have written article after article that the following is TRUE!
What matters is this. The US stock market is worth $32 trillion. And investors have lost more than $5 trillion since Trump took office, primarily because of all of the saber rattling over tariffs. You may think that tariffs are a good thing, just like Trump thinks they are a good thing, but the investors and economists do not.
When the stock market tanks, consumers stop spending, and the GDP goes down.
We are on the cusp of an economic recession. My bet is that Trump backs down on all these new tariffs before we end up in a new ‘Great Depression.’
yea ! Everything going to cost more . party is over .Why are so many people rooting against America and Americans in favor of other countries and criminals?
According to the congressional budget office, the 2025 deficit will be $1.6 trillion, compared to $1.7 trillion in 2024.
DOGE is doing essentially nothing to solve the deficit crisis. The largest expenditure is social security and Medicare at $1.46 trillion and $882 billion, respectively. And you can’t cut that. That is a multi-generational social contract that the government has made with the American public: You pay us payroll taxes while you’re working and we give you a pension and healthcare when you retire. And American workers paid $1.71 trillion in payroll taxes last year. We pay more in than what we are getting back out! Next up is the military at $874 billion. And no one is going to cut that. Then there’s the interest on the debt at $882 billion. We can’t cut that without going into debt default, which would cause an economic depression worse than the Great Depression.
What else is DOGE going to cut? Veterans affairs at $325 billion? That’s another political 3rd rail that has to be avoided.
When you start cutting education, $268 billion, science and research, $145 billion, food stamps, $95 billion, housing assistance, $67 billion or the FDA, $6.9 billion, there’s not enough spending in those areas for the cuts to make any real difference in the deficit.
The solution to the crisis includes these budget cuts, plus repealing the 2016 tax cuts for corporations and the ultra wealthy.
We need to start being fiscally responsible. We are not currently doing that, even in 2025.
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Ignorance.........and stupidity.
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