I think you are right about your "tough medicine" comment. I just think you're wanting to punish the wrong people. Did the Arabs, Chinese, or whomever, create our burdensome regulations, tort laws, loose morals, poor worth ethic, poor educations system, excessive tax system, expensive healthcare, ...
No, it was our own out of control government and bureaucracy under a fascist arrangement with multinationals and big business.
It's killing the golden goose, our middle class. What would better benefit all Americans and common folk even in other lands, is free trade, slashed regulations except those which ensure a "square deal" for all concerned, tort reform, deregulated healthcare, finance, education, and so forth.
If the Chinese can become the world's premier industrialized nation under semi-communism, then what the hell is our problem, why can't compete under a so-called "free" society?
I used to buy electronics all the time from mom and pop stores in China. These are wonderful, honest, hard working people, as are the mom and pops all around the world. I also bought from American suppliers. The problem isn't people of different lands trading with one another, the problem is big government, big multinationals, big healthcare, big transportation, big auto, big oil, big defense, big education, big banks, ultra rich, ..., have all joined forces against the little people of the world to enslave us and keep us dependent upon them through government regulation that favors them - not us.
It's time we focus on the real problem and start breaking these chains that shackle us. I think Trump knows this is the real problem and hopefully will work to this end by ensuring a level playing field for all, instead of just a few.
I can agree with that.....
The root cause, as you so aptly state, is our Government. We the People have, through apathy, allowed a political class and their bureaucratic henchmen to rule our very lives down to the minutest detail.
My comments contain no wish to “punish” other Nations. It is simply to deeply and irrevocably shock the average American citizen back to reality - and in the process restore our Nation. I have no ill will toward the average Chinese or Arab (or anybody else for that matter). I just want our People and our Government to focus on OUR best interest.
That’s going to require a very rude shock to the average citizen.