Tell it to the now dead buggy whip makers, etc.!
Will some people feel pain, due to this, through out the world?
YES!
Has this nation been taken GREAT advantage of by other nations, especially since WW II?
HELL YES!
Should this crap been fixed long ago?
That goes without saying!
Should we just continue to ignore it all and pay through the nose, with a dwindling economy?
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Do YOU have children?
Grandchildren too, as a matter of fact.
Having a conniption will not bring back industry, nor will shutting down trade.
Fairness is a very reasonable objective, but the simple formula imposed by the Administration has nothing to do with fairness or removing unfair barriers to US trade. It is a simple equation which weighs only one thing: trade deficits.
Not all deficits are the result of cheating. In many if not most cases they are the result of cheap labor. I have a newsflash for you: American consumers do not want and are not able to pay $50 for a sweatshirt or $3000 for a PC. Just like the buggy whip manufacturers you mentioned, the low-skill milling and assembly jobs of our grandparents are dead and gone. Putting a trade moat around us will sink our economy, not fix it.