After WWII, there were uneven tariffs and trade practices all over the world with the USA, but we were wealthy enough that it suited our global needs to have prosperity in other countries as well as our own.
Little did we realize how that would be used against us, to greater and greater effect, culminating with the CCP which is, and has been for the last 45 years, waging economic warfare against us, hollowing out our industries using exactly and with full intent the same scenario that VDH described in their cheap communist-subidized steel they sell to Canada to undercut US steel production and put them out of business.
Trump correctly, in his second term, realizes two things: we MUST rebuild our industrial base, because we cannot cut spending and increase taxation to get out of our $40 trillion in debt.
Our only hope is to grow our way out of it. And to re-shore our industrial base, that requires ending that largesse we demonstrated post WWII as a cost of doing business, especially since those we helped took full advantage of our country to fight against us, weaken us, and core out our industrial base.
And after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West did not check course, either.
Red China was a menace, then, but America maintained policies that supported it. NATO is now a world-wide menace, but we gleefully welcome Sweden - as gleefully as they welcome muslim rapists.
| "Trump correctly, in his second term, realizes two things: we MUST rebuild our industrial base, because we cannot cut spending and increase taxation to get out of our $40 trillion in debt. Our only hope is to grow our way out of it. And to re-shore our industrial base, that requires ending that largesse we demonstrated post WWII as a cost of doing business, especially since those we helped took full advantage of our country to fight against us, weaken us, and core out our industrial base." * * * Super analysis there, rlmorel. Thanks. |