[Mariner]

The Economics of President Trump is to stop the largest peaceful transfer of capital stock (wealth) in the history of mankind.

The facilitators of that transfer are getting filthy rich by merely skimming off the top.

And all of the capital stock resides in the US and Western Europe...and it’s moving to China and the rest of the 3rd world.

10’s of trillions of dollars.

[Garth Tater]

The Economics of President Trump is to stop the largest peaceful transfer of capital stock (wealth) in the history of mankind.

Yep. It's cheaper to manufacture in third world hellholes than here because they don't care what poisons are thrown into the environment and they don't care what maltreatment their citizens suffer. Every environmental and labor regulation our manufacturers have to operate under gives third world hell holes like China a cost advantage that we can't compete with. But we could have. We could have imposed environmental and labor tariffs on imports to bring imported goods up to the price they would have been if they had been manufactured by workers instead of slaves and if the environment had been respected. But our politicians and our labor leaders sold us out and our manufacturers had no choice (if they wanted to survive) but to offshore their production. Free trade only works between free peoples. If we are going to trade with communists and dictators we need to protect our industries and workers at the border with tariffs.