Tariff wars do happen. What's new. It isn't an argument. You're trying to say that because a random shell takes out one abrams while it's still the best tank platform on the planet, we should scrap the tank and stand our guys in the field with rpgs and hope for the best. That is where your logic takes us. Trade wars happen when people go too far. And nobody is ruling out trade with other nations. Amazingly we grew to an immensly prosperous nation over hundreds of years because of tariffs. So where you think you're taking us here isn't tracking.
You use the example of the automakers and admit "heavy" tariffs. Equitable tariffs should have been enough; but, someone got greedy.. I think that was the example of Hawley-Smoot, was it not. And even your side is failing to learn from it in getting greedy but not caring about the outcome of that, save that you'll get yours before it hits the fan.
And 12 percent. Try saying it right.. Nineteen MILLION people. Nineteen million people are irrelevant to you and undeserving of consideration, their jobs, their rights, etc.
Nineteen million that are unemployed based on current figures who haven't fallen off the unemployment roles and gotten lost in the shuffle - no longer to count. We had better numbers than that before ya'll started throwing Americans out on the street in a bad economy during wartime - not because you couldn't afford to pay them; but, because you wanted more money. There are some people that lost their jobs due to the burst of the tech bubble as it's called - we ain't talkin about them. We're talking about the people you guys hamstrung during wartime for more profit. That's history, It'll only get worse in the textbooks.
What was that rant awhile back where you said I put words in YOUR mouth?
We are 12% above the average employment figures as averaged by the BLS for the last 40 years. Yet you tell me that all is lost because of Reagan's Free Markets these last 20 or so years
Seems to me if your theory is correct we should be way up in unemployment, yet all evidence is to the contrary.
Would you care to explain why or am I misconsturing your assertion.