Posted on 02/25/2020 8:41:06 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
I have wondered why we didn’t involve India, a democracy, instead of China and the conclusion I came to was the Clintons and their Chinese and maybe Walmart payoffs got the ball rolling. Maybe I’m wrong..don’t know.
It has been happening for a LOT longer than Obama.
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I may be wrong,but thanks to Nixon,he open relations with China, wish he had not done that though, it has its pro or con. Papa Bush Sr. who started the ball rolling by allowing the selling of our technology to China and Bush Jr., the son gave the decision to sign a proclamation granting China permanent normal trading relations with the United States. Yes even the Clintons and Jug Ears played with China. Remember they are all Globalists and they don’t gave a dam about our nation except their pockets.
Sen Hawley has started drawing attention to this, although it’ll be slow like trying to turn around a tanker, ramping up US production again.
I kept hearing about how Trump’s tariffs are so disastrous which seems very suspect to put it mildly. If you have China or any other country slapping tariffs on the Unites States when they have the trade surplus and we have the deficit, it is a rigged game. It was a good move by Trump to try to rectify this imbalance and get America more self-depedent.
Now that USMCA is in place, I’ll bet Trump helps take out the cartels in Mexico. Then Mexico starts encouraging companies to move manufacturing there.
This solves logistics problems, also solves drugs and illegals coming over the border. Also, a more prosperous Mexico means Mexicans self deport.
He would need at least three terms to undo the stupidity of past administrations, if the last one wasn’t engaged in outright sabotage.
Exactly. Well said.
Goes all the way back to the 1980’s when global outsourcing started with nearly every industry/corporation in the U.S. I worked in defense so much of that wasn’t offshored until much later. Drug manufacturing was outsourced to Puerto Rico around the same time. Cheaper. Plus, without tort reforms and yes, patent protections, it wasn’ cost effective to develop flu vaccines here. (Parents both worked in Pharma)
Back to Reagan?
“Looking at the big picture, it looks like there is a continental shift towards India in the works for the future of manufacturing in Asia...”
Numerous private equity firms have been leaving China and heading for SE Asia and India since 2011. By 2030, half the population in China will be 50-years of age and older. By that same year, half the population of India will be 30-years of age and younger. The future is India.
We need tariffs on products and not countries. Tariff’ing countries and not products perverts the purpose of a tariff. We need to bring manufacturing back to the USA, the 30 year failed experiment in globalism needs to be ended, ASAP. Tariffs would do it.
Perhaps. At least to HW Bush.
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