I’m not willing to let people die when our own government has let China steal our industries.
But government needs to reverse course and restore the import tariffs, because everyone not working is not sustainable. Our people needs jobs, and our country needs industries that it can count on in times of war.
Once long ago, I recall a science-fiction story abut how almost all the citizenry was living in “leisure”, their guaranteed income assured by dividends being distributed from stock holdings in profitable and expanding industries. Most of these people were much like the “trust-fund babies” that today populate a lot of the beaches and spas in sunny climes, but their numbers were vastly multiplied.
The underlying thrust of the story, though, was not conspicuous consumption by all these “leisure” people, but by a designated program in which a good deal of the product of all these prosperous industries was diverted to another whole industry, whose purpose was to DESTROY all the excess production, thus keeping up both the “demand” and eliminating the “inventory”. The system was in danger of imminent collapse when it was revealed this enforced “consumption” was the single factor that was supporting all the economy.