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18 months to save the world
American Thinker ^ | 9 Apr, 2025 | Eric Utter

Posted on 04/09/2025 10:21:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Debt, illegals, outsourcing -- the United States is heading for a catastrophic fall. Trump understands this.

Middle-class America is rapidly going the way of the dinosaur and the dodo bird.

And California, where mansions and homeless people abound, is the template Democrats want to bring to America as a whole.

Because it suits their needs. Big money donors and poor people in crisis who think they need ‘compassionate’ Democrats’ help.

The ‘American Dream’ was that any normal person who worked hard and saved could have a house and a relatively comfortable — and meaningful — life, expecting to live better and longer than their parents did. That dream has turned into a pipe dream for many.

Why? Political leaders from both parties have presided over the extinction of manufacturing in the United States.

We have let millions of jobs go overseas, and, with them, the hopes of millions of Americans. We don’t make anything anymore. Worse, we rely on China for vital products like our drugs and pharmaceuticals. We even rely on a few friends and a couple of enemies for some of our military hardware and software.

This is beyond reckless, beyond dereliction of duty. It is an existential and insane threat to our existence. “Made in America” used to be a mark of excellence and a badge of honor. Now we have service industries, consultants, and gender studies experts.

Our debt situation and trade deficits are just as big a threat. No nation has ever been $37 trillion worse than broke. No nation has long survived a 125% debt-to-GDP ratio, which is where the U.S. is at now. If nothing changes, that ratio could go to 200% in the near future as an interest bomb explodes.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: bigmoney; debt; economy; interest; manufacturing; middleclass; nomoney; oligarchs; poverty; tariffs

1 posted on 04/09/2025 10:21:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Let me state this very clearly: if Trump’s policies are allowed to proceed, they will work, that is 100.0% certain … if Americans are willing to bite the bullet for the short term.
2 posted on 04/09/2025 10:21:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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It’s more like 15 months. If he hasn’t “done” all he needs to do by Memorial Day in 2026, it is not getting done.


3 posted on 04/09/2025 10:26:07 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt
It’s more like 15 months. If he hasn’t “done” all he needs to do by Memorial Day in 2026, it is not getting done.

Yes. That is why he is acting fast and hard right now. The left has left him no other option except to accept national collapse.

4 posted on 04/09/2025 10:33:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Heavy Tariffs suspended, but a 125 percent Tariff for the chi coms. And they deserve everything they are going to get for killing 1 million Americans with a bioweapon.


5 posted on 04/09/2025 10:39:47 AM PDT by cowboyusa
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Are you sure it was the Chinese who unleashed the virus? I’m not sure they developed it or spread it. I believe the culprits are closer to us than China.


6 posted on 04/09/2025 10:44:03 AM PDT by ladyjane
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I would double the tariff if Communist China threatens Taiwan again even in the slightest bit.


7 posted on 04/09/2025 10:44:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: ladyjane

globlists and the chi coms did it.


8 posted on 04/09/2025 10:47:23 AM PDT by cowboyusa
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<>Why? Political leaders from both parties have presided over the extinction of manufacturing in the United States.<>

And if Kamala had won, our Uniparty grifting Congress would have been fine with the status quo and demise of these United States.

We do not hate Congress enough.


9 posted on 04/09/2025 11:57:54 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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We do not hate Congress enough.

That is true. Unfortunately the hate should go to both parties (excluding possibly a few) and little done for retribution for the harm done.

10 posted on 04/09/2025 12:29:04 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


11 posted on 04/09/2025 4:36:24 PM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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