For decades we've ignored the fact that Americans make fewer and fewer things at the cost of good paying permenent jobs and erosion of the Middle Class. We've ignored manipulation of our currency by the Chinese and shrugged off the fact that most of the world looks to the USA as their piggy banks and useful idiots. And the risk to our national security has reached critical levels as there are so many critical opponents that we depend on other countries for and could be withheld at any time, especially in time of war.On April 2nd, President Donald J. Trump did something no other modern president has had the spine to do. He declared “Liberation Day” and slapped sweeping tariffs on the very nations that have been gutting the American economy for decades. A 10 percent universal tariff across all imports. Targeted, punitive tariffs up to 34 percent on bad actors like China. And guess what? We should be furious—not at Trump—but at the spineless presidents before him who let things get this bad in the first place.
Let’s be clear: these tariffs didn’t start a trade war. They responded to one.
For decades, our so-called allies and trading partners have been gleefully waging economic warfare on the United States, with the full permission — no, the encouragement — of prior administrations. China flooded our markets with cheap steel, violating trade norms and collapsing American mills. The European Union protected its own industries while slapping barriers on ours. Japan, Taiwan, and others enjoyed one-sided access to our consumers while shielding their own markets with layers of red tape and tariffs.
BJ -
Our economy, our country has cancer.
Previous remedies from the experts were sugar pills and sleep.
We have now been prescribed chemo
Chemo is not pleasant.
It is very effective.
Turning that around involves some pain that we are experiencing, but our children and grandchildren will benefit enormously because Donald J. Trump finally had the cajones to stop kicking that can down the road and do something about it.
