Posted on 03/20/2016 2:57:17 PM PDT by central_va
The United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial" nation on the globe. All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them, but the pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely amazing. It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution.
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Really? They merely were the only US revenue source from 1850-1913
Cruz has the answer which is mostly ignored. Smaller and less intrusive government would do wonders in restoring America’s can do culture.
Trump talking about a trillion dollar trade deficit when it's only about half that doesn't surprise me at all.
Let me know how that works.
No, businesses are all-in when it comes to profit. Regulations are killing manufacturing jobs quicker than most realize.
Sure.
I’d love to have a ‘66 tri-power Corvette to drive on sunny Sunday afternoons, but the average American car from say 1970-1985 was lucky to go 6-7 years without major failures or rusting out.
It is what America wanted. Cars that had style and power and the average Joe could fix almost any problem themselves. You could get a fully loaded 1968 muscle car for around $20,000 in current dollars.
The Tariff
We reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff to extend needed protection to our productive industries. We believe in protection as a national policy, with due and equal regard to all sections and to all classes. It is only by adherence to such a policy that the well being of the consumers can be safeguarded that there can be assured to American agriculture, to American labor and to American manufacturers a return to perpetrate American standards of life. A protective tariff is designed to support the high American economic level of life for the average family and to prevent a lowering to the levels of economic life prevailing in other lands.
Until they had a chance to buy Toyotas and Hondas.
The competition made American cars much, much better.
but they still don’t measure up
Boring you mean.
You obviously do not know what modern manufacturing is.
High tech, automation, robotics. This requires engineers and skilled technicians, not people hitting a piece of steel with a hammer. These are the high paying jobs we want, not part time, low paying retail and hospitality jobs.
All the more reason for tariffs to keep them here. Good argument.
I think we had Panama for 100 years if I remember correctly. I’d say damn good.
Then it'll be interesting to watch President Trump use that tactic on world trade.
It will indeed. Course, the British used it for 100 years with darn good success too. It’s called “opening markets.”
Trump does have a streak of colonialism in him but I don't think it's going to work these days.
British didn’t colonize China. It’s called opening markets.
We did it to Japan with Commodore Perry, or do you not know American history at all?
Via a couple of Opium Wars, seizing territory, stationing troops in Chinese cities and ships on Chinese rivers. It'll be interesting to see Trump do that.
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