Posted on 03/01/2018 3:43:22 PM PST by Ennis85
So they admit there is a vibrant ag economy...then why do we still pay farmers not to farm??
“Just 9 percent of exported goods are foods, feeds and beverages ($131 billion). The big three are soybeans ($24 billion), meat and poultry ($17 billion) and corn ($11 billion). Food exports are falling since many countries don’t like U.S. food processing standards. That was a major block to the Obama administration’s successful negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.”
Btw, this whole tariff crap was pushed hard by Peter Navarro, who now has direct access to Trump since Porter is gone. Navarro is a staunch Dem (run for Congress multiple times as a Dem) and Lib who pushes protectionist policies. This is a shitty idea and hopefully it is rescinded. Repubs are absolutely right to push back.
The GOPE crony capitalist, free traders are having melt downs because Trump is demanding a fair trading field. Their “free trading “ policies have been anything but for the USA. How dare an American president demand equal treatment from other countries in trade policy.
In reality these “free traders” will almost all be found to have some $ to lose out of their bank accounts or those of their good friends in other countries, of course at the continued expense of more Americans losing their jobs but both parties consider that just the cost of doing business and jeopardizing national security, not a problem for the elites.
China destroyed the U.S. electronics industry .And China is now trying to destroy the U.S. steel and aluminum industries.
Go Trump!
A country needs an electronics industry in order to survive
. Why would anyone that lives in the USA want China to continue the destruction of America?Why ? Why?
The media has brainwashed all to welcome the destruction of America.
The US imports about 27% of the steel we use.
Of the total imported finished steel, 2.2% comes from China. They must be terrified about what these tariffs will do.
Meanwhile everyone here gets to pay more to US steel companies.
No problem. I do that all the time.
1 city in China makes 90% of the world’s electronics. The USA is totally dependent on China for electronics manufacturing technology. A country can’t survive without a large thriving electronics industry.Agree? The USA is running on debt mostly owned by China. China destroyed the U.S. electronics industry. Where is your smart phone made?
China is doing the same to steel and well on their way as China makes 50% of the world’s steel and 10x more than the USA(as my graphics showed).
Electronics is technology and in most products.
Tariffs can certainly be detrimental to American jobs. They slow and reduce growth in the economy for starters. Americans might start paying a lot
more for steel.
You couldn’t be more wrong.
>>Tariffs can certainly be detrimental to American jobs.
Take a look at the recent tariffs put on Canadian lumber. Prices went from $350 per 1000 board feet last summer to over $500 now. But US manufactures have not increased production, so lumber shortages are occurring across the country and homebuilders are being affected.
if we all have to pay a little more, so be it.
International companies can always move their plants here.
>>>if we all have to pay a little more, so be it. International companies can always move their plants here.
Or the domestic companies that use steel and aluminum can move to Mexico and not face the tariffs.
Why do you keep rabbiting on at me about things that are completely non-responsive to anything I posted?
“All China has to do to win a “war” with the U.S. is stop all exports to the U.S....“
...if their own people don’t take down their own government first. 500 million unemployed hungry people are hard to ignore. It’s sort of economic Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
“Or the domestic companies that use steel and aluminum can move to Mexico and not face the tariffs.”
Can somebody flash the “Well, bye Felicia.” graphic?
You hit the nail on the head!
What part of we have a huge trade deficit do u not understand?
It’s been that way for way too long.
>>>What part of we have a huge trade deficit do u not understand?
Ok. In 2017, we imported $132B in crude oil and $29B in steel. If you are concerned about the trade deficit, why not go after the biggest target?
I’m with you but you are probably wasting your time trying to educate these protectionist and isolationist fools.
Two or three of them are big time union members.
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