Posted on 04/05/2025 10:43:07 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Me too. Classless move on Musk’s part. If he has an issue with Navarro or tariffs, and he clearly does, don’t vomit it up in public and reveal dissension in the ranks. Pathetic.
“production of the famous T-34 tank was moved 2,000 km from Kharkov to the Stalin-Ural railcar factory at Niznhy Tagil, Sverdlovsk, under the leadership of its designer, Alexander Morizov. This involved moving 30,000 workers and dependents, and 10,000 machine tools. They were all boxed up and moved east.”
“Workers re-assembling a steel works at Chelyabinsk were given just 75 days to restart production. This involved laying railway tracks, re-assembling 18 machine shops and connecting compressed air supplies. Starting with frozen ground, working round the clock, and living in tents, the workers achieved the task in 56 days.”
“Chelyabinsk became home to the world’s largest tank factory.”
“In addition to the removal and re-assembly of the factories, the Soviets also built 3,500 factories from scratch from 1942 to 1946, which equates to 750 a year.”
https://www.left-horizons.com/2021/10/08/eighty-years-ago-evacuation-of-soviet-war-factories/
I hope everyone can see that democrats, the MSM, RINOs, and anti Trumpers are very busy trying to make it look as though the admin is in disarray.
And you, Miami Rebel, post this kind of crap whenever it pops up somewhere.
I can only guess where your loyalty lies.
Amnesty
Lebanon and the lack of a forceful response to the Marine barrack bombing.
"Especially if", huh? Fat chance of that.
If you disprove that for months on end Elon Musk’s every utterance has been greeted with waves of adulation on FR, I’ll never post again.
If you find my own opinions repulsive, I get it. But if you deem those of one of the towering avatars of MAGA to be suddenly unworthy of sharing, that’s on you.
I bet this incident or quote is taken out of context somewhere.
‘ I bet this incident or quote is taken out of context somewhere.’
You’d lose that bet.
I do not question the need to innovate.
Subsidizing businesses - in any way - does not lead to innovation and invokes a financial excuse to not innovate, for if competition gets even greater the political interest will be to just subsidize you more.
Purely reciporocal tariffs would be fine, but many of the reently announced tariffs are not really reciprocal and in some cases, on comparison of tariffs, are not really about tariffs, but merely an attempt tp punish trade deficits alone. In some cases some trade deficits we have are not to our disadvantage at all, and provide materials we are in short supply of that greatly aid our domestic producers, and come from countries whose meager economies have no need for our expensive goods. Yet, we want to punish them for buying less from us than we can sell to them, even though in some circumstances the exchange serves us well.
It’s not about “globalism”, it’s about tariffs done right versus done wrong.
“Right” would be the 10% across the board tariff plus additional levies to counter past abusive trade practices. Oh wait, that is exactly what the GOAT POTUS is doing!!
“Right” would be the 10% across the board tariff plus additional levies to counter past abusive trade practices. Oh wait, that is exactly what the GOAT POTUS is doing!!”
No, it is not.
They are taking the inaccurate position that a “trade deficit” - any trade deficit, no matter how small the country (tiny in some cases) is the result of tariffs and or non-tariff barriers, and adding a factor drawn just from a “trade deficit” added on top of any tariff. In some cases the other country is not imposing greater tariffs on us, but has a trade deficit - we want more of their stuff compared to what of ours they want - and that’s all. In some cases it is not tariffs or non tariff barriers at all that has produced a trade deficit, but merely what each side has considered a fair exchange of only what each wants from the other.
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