These guys want us to keep financing China as they surpass us. Just act fat, dumb and happy as we get rolled by other countries that put tariffs on us but we, with our “principles” refuse to do the same to them because.....we are stupid and get led around by the nose by greedy men who have their manufacturing plants overseas.
“These guys want us to keep financing China as they surpass us. Just act fat, dumb and happy as we get rolled by other countries that put tariffs on us but we, with our “principles” refuse to do the same to them because.....”
China, Germany, Japan...most other industrial countries are Mercantilists. And they are emulating the most successful Mercantilists in history...the USA of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The fact that we continue to allow traitors in the Republican party to shame us over “Free Trade” is the true shame.
Free Trade has never existed in the history of man. Nation-States have always, and will always use trade as a tool of advantage. From accepting goods at less than real value (beads for Manhattan, $1 for a barrel of oil) to currency manipulation, MERCANTILISM is the natural state of man.
Those who pretend it doesn’t exist because Adam Smith wrote about a theoretical “better way”, seek to lead the rest of us to our destruction. Worse, there are those who KNOW the end result of “unilateral free trade” but are happy to skim off the top of the largest transfer of capital stock in the history of man.
Those are the ones we must hunt and hang.
It is fortuitous indeed that America is awakening. Especially conservatives. We historically have been cowed into believing this lie about Free Trade.
We are now free to examine the result, and to hold accountable its advocates.
I didn’t hear our President saying anything about specifically targeted tariffs. Also, why aren’t any links to this very important issue posted at Breaking News? What will this do to the price of rifles and shotguns?