Posted on 12/08/2018 5:10:28 PM PST by cba123
True, but I'd rather have our manufacturers using their capital to best serve their customers and investors rather than stockpiling inventory to fend off the government's actions.
All this tariff talk is really slowing down trade. /s
Whoever it is is doing a fine job of tanking the market.
I shouldn’t think it would go on forever though.
I live near the Port of Baton Rouge, a bulk loading port for Ocean ships. In the last two months there has been an explosion of activity at this port. Most times now there are 4 or 5 ships at the docks or waiting in midstream. Usually there is only one ship in port. Could these be ships trying to beat the tariffs by loading up ahead of time? Could it be that Longbeach, CA is experiencing importers trying to get ahead of the tariffs?
I think the market'a struggles are caused by investors who had bet against Trump- bet that things would continue as they had with China.
Now they're having to take losses to readjust their positions.
Their last chance was that Dems would take the Senate. Now there's no hope for them. Things will change.
I never left the US but I did vote for Trump just like you and was simply ecstatic when he won but I only hoped he might get some help and give us some free air again. That he might slow the onslaught and populate the Supreme Court favorably.
I’m sure Trump does not like excuses any more than you or I do. Excuses are one of the four things I hate most, the other three being liars, cheats and thieves.
Trump is not a dictator, sometimes I wish he were, he has had the entire government complex, the swamp, arrayed against him fighting him tooth and nail. Unfortunately the poor man is an amateur wehn it comes to politics and the evils of the swamp. Even though he is a fast learner the swamp is killing him but he is bearing up like a champion and a man of courage. I am sure some days he does not think he has a friend in the world or a single loyal employee in the White House. They are still hammering away at him and will be worse now.
In all likelihood the Republic that has been is doomed. Trump, like Reagan, only buys us time before that happens. One man can’t reverse decades of rot from within with maggots feeding on the corpse while the flies are still laying eggs. The agenda started at least as long ago as Johnson is mission accomplished. We are at best a 47% to 47% nation. Our generation is soon leaving the scene and the replacement one is not part of our 47%. I am approaching the point of, “Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die” point. I think this point of view is only pragmatic. The can has been kicked too far down the road too many times.
God bless the USA and all that is left of her.
I just wish he would go back to the things he said, when he was running.
Those are the things which matter.
Do them, Mr. President. We voted for you, because of those things.
Do them. Please.
Build the wall. Bring back American manufacturing.
Just those two. Those are why I voted for you.
That is it. Why are those two, the two which are not being done?
Now that is a positive spin. I appreciate it, it is logical but you really had to work hard to make the pieces fit :).
I’m still betting on Trump. It beats the alternative.
Fair enough, but it’s not a stretch at all.
Trump’s enemy isn’t as much China as it is the elite Americans who are invested there.
Americans have more money because of Trump and the good economy. Thus we are able to buy more products. This is a big ship and it takes time to turn it around. Trump is on the right path.
Good info. Good post.
No offense, but you really come across as an immature malcontent when you post this nonsense. Do some research on what has been going on here in the U.S. manufacturing sector over the last year and a half. Employers here can’t even find enough workers to fill many of these manufacturing jobs.
You come across as someone involved with Chinese importers, frankly.
See. How about you discuss the topic of America’s huge problem here.
Not me. Thanks very much.
2. What exactly is America's "huge problem here?"
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