So we simply let China roll us?
WE, become them? The failed, huge country which doesn’t make anything? The country which used to be a manufacturing powerhouse, but now simply imports every single thing we use, from other countries?
Including significantly, a huge trade deficit, with the largest country by population, anywhere?
How in the world, does that improve anything, for us?
That is what we need to pay attention to.
Not them. Us.
Trump needs to pay attention to American production.
No other president for the entire last generation, has done this. Trump hasn’t yet.
I’m just saying. Trump, you are on our side.
Act like it, please.
Not disagreeing with your sentiment. Just saying that we can probably pressure China on *either* trade or north korea at any one time.
Maybe I’m wrong.
but we’ve been taking it in the shorts for 20 years in trade, and it’s going to take that long just to get back to ‘even’. On the other hand, one EMP nuke from little fat ‘un could do an immense amount of economic damage and cost millions of lives.
You’ve got one person you are having a legal disagreement with; you know you’ll win the lawsuit, but it’s a process that will play out over month or years. You also have an armed crazy person in your front yard waving a gun at your front window and shooting over your house. If you can only deal with one at a time, which do you do?
I mean I desperately want to get our trade back together; but we simply can’t wipe the norks off the map without risking war, no more than the Chinese could deal militarily with Mexico no matter how much the Mexicans were threatening them, without taking the US into consideration.
So no, I’m not saying “let china roll us”, Geeze! let Trump do his job, this trade deficit with China didn’t just happen in the last year or two, it’s not going to be rectified by 2020 or 2024.
Personally, I think we need carful and subtle work to make it much more feasible for stuff to be made here; we’re talking about re-building a good chunk of the largest economy in the world...
I’m gonna trust Trump on this, for at least a few years; if he can’t get this sh!t squared away nobody can.