RE: Sure it does when you are running $850B / year trade deficits. /sarcasm
so? They get paper money, we get the goods.
And where do these countries put their money when push comes to shove? In US Treasuries. So, the money flows back to us anyway.
RE: When you buy a foreign made product you are hiring foreigners ( some of the Communist slaves ) to work for you over Americans.
A) And Americans can do many other kinds of work, it’s not as if we do not make toys, clothes or shoes, our workers are therefore idled.
B) When the workers in these third world countries have jobs, are employed, and have the money to spend, what do they use these money for? FOOD, CLOTHING, HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATION PRODUCTS. Many of these are BOUGHT from the United States.
The trade deals we have with many of these countries give huge advantages to our agricultural workers who export wheat, soy, corn, etc. to them. What happens to these exports when the workers in these countries do not have the money to buy them?
RE: Industry is the heart of the economy and it always will be. To be a Patriot you have to be a Nationalist and Nationalists love tariffs just like our founding fathers did. Protective tariffs are the best way to restore America’s industry.
Being a Nationalist DOES NOT MEAN that you demand every single business to make their products here. Are you going to pass a law saying — “if you are an American company, it will be illegal to manufacture anything overseas” (like we are doing making illegal any exports to North Korea and Iran ).
How are you going to implement this? All you will ensure is would be entrepreneurs register their businesses overseas.
NATIONALISM for me means this — You create the business conditions that make it attractive to manufacture and make things here in the United States. Light regulation, reasonable environmental rules, low taxes, competitive laws.
You do that and businesses will naturally want to flock to the United States.
But COERCING American companies and would be entrepreneurs to MAKE things here even when they don’t find it cost effective is NOT Nationalism. It is in fact opposite of Freedom and Liberty.
If it were up to me you globalist would all be .....
$850B is 3.8% of GDP. Nice you Free Traitors™ are willing to throw away 3.8% of GDP so we can get the cheapest products from slave nations.
Don't pee down our backs and tell us it's raining.