All of these affected moochers have had and still have the ability to reduce their predatory anti-USA tariffs to zero immediately and ask the USA to do so also. I expect many eventually will.
Reunion?? As in Led Zeppelin?
Freaking Amazing.
I’m a little surprised we didn’t hit Venezuela 1:!.
I suppose he had to include everyone to be fair but some of these I have to question...
Christmas Island Pop 2,000 and no exports.
Cook Islands Pop 15,000 and almost zero resources or exports.
Marshall Islands (a U.S. trust Territory) Pop 42,000 and have few natural resources, and their imports far exceed exports.
???
This Newsweek article helped me a little in trying to understand this very large worldwide issue that I had never paid attention to.
It hit me this week as I was seeking a roofer to repair several roofs I want to have fixed/replaced so my children are not stuck with problems left to me by my parents when they died. I was seeking estimates on raised ridge sheet metal roofing which can last for 75 years, versus membrane or shingle roofing with 20 or 25 years life. Roofer told me he will have to see how all this tarrif business shakes out as he has 3 different suppliers and does not know what countries supplies their metal.
Killing the New World Order (Great Reset) ?LOL
https://www.c-span.org/clip/house-proceeding/user-clip-nancy-pelosi/4733003
At least she was nearly 30 years ago.
Just educated a fellow down at the local store about this.
Guy was bitching about how these tariffs were gonna cost us this an that.
I gave him, and everybody there an education.
I always buy a refill coffee. One dollar. I had put the refill up on the counter.
“Here is how it works buddy.”
Told the cashier. “Gimme 40 cents.”
“That is the tariff.” “He has to pay me 40 cents to sell me a refill coffee for 1 dollar.”
“So..we are paying them bastards to purchase our manufsctured goods.”
“How’s that supposed to work in a real world buddy?”
“I go to your repair shop to get something, and from now on, you pay me 40% before i buy it from you.”
When i left..and that was just a half hour ago, the whole place was pissed at the foriegn countries doing this.
Most of them said to not sell them shit and not buy anything from them.
I also put it to them....”And to top it all off, YOU AND I are paying to defend these leeches.” “How’d do you like that?”
Out the door i went.
This is the right move - long overdue - in the theory of the “evolution of cooperation.” The best long term win-win strategy is to cooperate until the other side “defects” and then you defect. When the other side starts to cooperate you immediately return to cooperation.
We are only about 50 years late in starting this. The other strategy - you try to buy cooperation just leads to the global protection racket of which the citizens of the US are now the victim.
Most of the “reciprocal” tariffs are about 1/2 what they charge us, but the HBM (Has Been Media) tries to push this as Trump being incredibly mean because the premise of all of their stories is “Let’s hate Trump”.
Nothing reciprocal about it, so we change it to compassionate reciprocal
trade. Sad to see this administration adopt the secret naming tactics so often used in DC to hide the truth of what they are doing.