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Yep, we do not make anything they want but we do grow a lot of stuff they want. But so do other counties that are not threatening them.
Watch what happens to the “Trump economy” when the heathland and plain states go belly up when other countries stop buying our grains.
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We make just about everything.
Wanting trade to be somewhat equal is not threatening them.
2% of America are farmers, but you want trade policy to protect them, while ignoring the manufacturing sector.
What percent of Americans eat the food the farmers produce? Are you really that dense. wait, do not answer, no reason to the answer is obvious.
That bit at the end, where you made it personal? Shit like that is why you look like a lefty.
YOur point was about the farming communities and the hit they might take from losing Mexico as a market.
My point was to point out the more people work in manufacturing than farming, yet you support trade policy to protect farmers but to manufacturing labor.
Your response was to say that those farmers feed the rest of America.
I can only guess was that your point was that they thus deserve more consideration or are more needed?
If Mexico is so wedded to the idea that they want large trade surpluses with US or they will wage a trade war against US, then they are the problem.
I want to protect us farmers, but not at the cost of even more Americans, especially Americans who have been thrown under the bus for a long time now.
It is time to think about the RUst Belt for a change, (and manufacturing workers everywhere in US).
It is not about the number of jobs lost, clearly right now employment is not a major issue.
It is about the effect on the country when an entire industry crashes.
When a factory closes and moves to Mexico the impact on the workers is hard but there is very little ripple effect.
Think about what happened when the housing industry crashed, it sent us into the worst economic down turn since the Great Depression.
Now imagine the effect on the country if the grains market were to crash, taking many other ag related items with it.
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I live in the Rust Belt. You are wrong about the Ripple Effect not being great.
Why is Mexico having more balanced trade with US out of the question?
There is nothing wrong with having an imbalanced trade balance with a country.
Somewhere up this chain of post you stated that we do not make anything they want, and you are pretty much correct. And even with that being said, they are our 2nd largest export market. What would the effect be to lose our 2nd largest export market?
Since you think things need to be "balanced" how do we go about that? What are we going to start making here that a large market in Mexico will be able to afford and how much will it cost us to make it? What do you suggest we make here that we could send to them?
Do we bring back the factory workers and build things here? How well do you think that will go over when people start paying 20 to 30 percent more for the same item they were getting from Mexico? I think the general populous will not be all that happy, what do you think?
I am sorry you live in the rust belt and that things have been hard, but you cannot turn back time, we are not going back to the good old days of American manufacturing dominance, because nobody is willing to work for the wages it would take to compete with the rest of the world.