We are fucked because you Red State conservatives voted in a con-man fascist!!!Correll, I too would be willing to have less, but one of the ways we have managed to keep the peace during that awful recession and crawl back to solvency is to allow people without a lot of pennies the privilege of buying a new pair of boots or a snowsuit for the baby and let's not forget ramen noodles! Some people--actually more people than you realize--would be screaming bloody murder because they would be shut out of the market entirely. My dad grew up a poor farm kid during the Depression and as the baby of the family he wore all his brothers' hand me downs and they got a handknit scarf and pair of mittens every Christmas and that was all. This nation isn't willing to go back there. Not without bloodshed, imo.WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE DOLLAR STORE?The economic war with China will begin soon when Trump and Congress slap import duties on them to make up for their exploitation of American markets and to keep out their cheap inferior goods.
Whether a naval and air war follows is yet to be seen.
Seriously, you have no idea what that will do to OUR economy. $100 sneakers? Because they're made in America? Oh, boy.
No, seriously what will happen to our economy?
What if we have significantly less cheap shit? That's a price I'm willing to pay
OR, maybe there are nations that would be willing to make cheap shit for US, while taking steps to make sure that the trade is TWO WAY and mutually beneficial.
If this nation has come to the point where people will fight in the streets before giving their fellow Americans an even break at the cost of NOT having cheap shoes?
Then we are completely fucked anyways.