Posted on 04/05/2016 6:06:04 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Japan is not being abandoned.
Negotiations are now open
What does Japan bring to the deal table?
You’re right about trade needing much more thought/discussion.
Our trade imbalance can’t be solved easily. One problem for the US is we have a high standard of living and yet we must now compete with hard-working low-standard-of-living people in the rest of the world.
Something has to give and unfortunately, we’re outnumbered and outworked by more desperate people in the world to the point where Trump’s seat of the pants trade-barrier ideas won’t work. What’ll have to give is the US standard of living (e.g. wages) will have to drop. So many Americans are spoiled. Unless we work smarter and continually invent new productivity tools in the fight against cheap labor, we’re sunk.
And how much would that be?
The irony, given the tone of this thread, is that the majority of the ships in that picture are Japanese.
At least not until Trump is elected president.
One thing that's causing us trouble with trade is our high debt. To pay for our debt, we must continually borrow money from China, Japan and elsewhere.
So rather than spend their money on hard goods and services, the Chinese and Japanese spend the dollars they earn from trade, not on employing Americans in industry, but to pay for our growing debt.
This is one of the economy killers that Obama and Bush brought us. The deeper we sink in national debt, the tougher it is to get other countries to buy our goods and services. It's a vicious circle.
One other thing that's crucial is getting rid of harmful regulations. I believe most grown needs to occur in small to medium sized businesses -- essentially Main Street not Wall Street. But if the structure of our economy is unfriendly to entrepreneurs, we can't grow the jobs we need. It's another reason I love voting for Trump -- he's an entrepreneur par excellence who know what regulations are doing the most harm.
So what are the trade/economy subjects we need to discuss? I track markets for software in the telecom industry, so certainly the long range effect on low wage IT workers is a subject I plan to start a vanity on.
Please do the same, AlanGreenSpam. Ping me, and let's get the discussion going. I'm sick of commenting on the daily Trump hit pieces from National Review and the rest :- )
| It is true? I've been out of the Navy for 30 years so I haven't kept track of what the latest US ships look like. Are the frigates and destroyers in the foreground US or Japanese ships |
Well said!
All the ships on the left hand side are Japanese. You can tell by the shade of grey, different from the three amphibs on the right hand, and the pattern on the helo deck, as well as the overall design.
You’re kidding, right?
Toyota, Lexus, Nissan, Infiniti, Mazda, Suzuki, Kawasaki, Sony, the list goes on and on. Plenty of “not super luxury.”
Those that hope Trump will be an ass are deluded
I'm just wondering if he will do what he says he will.
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