Someone needs to stand up for America.
For over the entire last GENERATION (more than that, actually) everyone has been sold out.
All politicians. Republican, and democrat. All business people.
Everyone.
Now. You are in charge. And FINALLY we have a chance, to stand up for America once again.
Mr. President.
Be that person.
First they invade with immigrants, then with manufactured goods.
Next thing you know you’re a shithole country.
Before they buy Chinese, companies must prove that they can’t buy US produced goods.
Jobs gained in manufacturing in China = Middle class Jobs lost in USA in manufacturing.
It is NOT complicated. Trump is the first POTUS since I was naturalized US citizen in 1970.
Trump was just on the phone to Xi last night, telling him that the trade deficit was unsustainable:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3623144/posts
Most of the increase in 2017 is simply due to increased American demand - the upturn in the American economy, including a good Christmas shopping season.
Turning around a structural trade deficit like we have with China, is a multi-year effort. The biggest things that we can do, are to make our own businesses more competitive (tax cuts, de-regulation, energy costs), but there is plenty of cheating by China which has to be stopped as well.
This must be why China made noise about “downgrading” our credit from AAA- to BBB+ ...