Trump was extremely clear throughout his campaign, time and time again, that he WAS going to impose tariffs in the name of protecting American jobs.
People here on FR who voted for him should not be surprised that he’s now doing so.
America took a thirty-year test drive of laissez-faire free markets. They handed back the keys and said “No Sale”.
Exactly!
What’s so hard to figure out here. We did exactly what you said, and now we have 90 million able bodied people out of work.
We’ve basically flat-lined on new jobs since 2000. I will admit that we don’t a bit better in the last few years. It’s still very anemic.
We are at least 45 million jobs behind where we should be right now, just from normal population growth.
Something has to be done.
We are seriously F-ing up our nation. We can’t afford anything these days. Infrastructure is crumbling. We can’t fund our military adequately. We are 45 million payroll tax payments each and ever month, behind.
Trump plans on getting people off welfare and back to work.
And then the ‘me oh my’ crowd shows up, and says, we’ll be paying more for everything.
We are paying a hell of a price right now, watching our nation go down the tubes, our families ravaged, our potential decimated.
THIS HAS TO STOP!