fear the tariffs could spark a trade war.
Not a chance in hell!
The United States was, is, and always will be a self sufficient country, we need NOTHING from other Countries, but just about every other country in the World has multiple dependencies on the US, and since they appear to Hate us anyway, F%&K them.
All this Trade bullsh&t started with Nixon when he opened up trade with CHina and then all the various Trade deals we have had all had the same goal, and it has worked pretty well, that is to Knock America down to size economically so it doesn’t make the subjects of the third world tyrannies revolt against their Masters or flee their enslavement camps .
See Iran 1976
Did you support Obama’s tariffs?
welllllll, I agree with you except when it comes to some exotic metals. Those we need. Other than those, yes we are very sufficient.
The United States was, is, and always will be a self sufficient country, we need NOTHING from other Countries...
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Rare earth metals
A variety of earth and metallic-based pigments used in all sorts of inks, dyes and other coloring processes.
Probably others, but those came to mind immediately.
We do live in an inter-connected world. Everyone fights for the same markets and those markets need fast, cheap, superior products. It is a truism that you can have any two of that triangle at one time, but not all three.
Everyone wants to dismiss cheap labor and less costly environmental concerns, but those make US products more expensive everywhere. Wages will not go down and no one wants environmental degradation for the sake of cheaper production.
We need the world as much as the world needs us. I remember when parts of the Soviet bloc didn’t trade with the US and the 3rd world received products mostly from the east. Those products were inferior, but still, that’s what they had.
We will become a much poorer nation without world trade. I have no idea what the results of these tariffs will be, but it will be interesting to watch it play out.
Business needs markets. Markets need products. Products compete.
Japan ,Taiwan , Korea ,and China have all played the same game of subsidizing their exporters and blocking US imports. I was working in Asia for 40 years off and on and saw it first hand in all those countries. They have engaged in a trade war for all that time while we were worried about defending them. In 1971 Usaid was giving machinery to Pohang Steel.