A classic Freeper post. A rarity around here where we mostly feast on one liners that start off with LOL or the like.
And I cannot dispute your facts. You’ve obviously read a lot and thought deeply about issues related to trade and unemployment the latter of which currently stands at something like 95,000,000 living, breathing American souls.
But all of those 95,000,0000 jobs didn’t go to China. Some. Many. But not all.
Where did they go and how many will we get back by reducing trade or, as they say, achieving better balanced trade? I’m guessing quite a few. Maybe. Maybe we will get back all of the manufacturing jobs we have lost to China and automation in the last 30 years or so. But that is a long way from 95,000,000 jobs. And it is highly unlikely.
You can argue for the job multiplying effect of increased manufacturing employment and that would certainly happen. If Trump’s policies improve manufacturing employment we will see employment rise in other sectors. But I don’t expect to see huge gains in manufacturing employment in the next 4 years. I hope to see it but I don’t expect it. A million or two perhaps. That would be huge. But it’s not 95,000,000.
OTOH, I do expect significant economic growth and large gains in overall employment since I anticipate Trump success in improving the tax and regulation environment in our country. For me that is still much more important than the trade issue.
Give it some time. We should all look back in a couple of years and see how it went. I’m hopeful, actually confident things will be much better.
I am confident it will look better too.
As for that 95 million figure, I have been leery of it. I think there are retirees and possibly even other groups that don’t belong in it.
If we could get 45 million more people working in eight years, that would be good enough. It would facilitate paying down the debt and taking care of things that are overdue to be taken care of.
I also think we need to look long and hard at welfare. Get rid of most of it and the Black neighborhoods will actually improve in short order.
They will be forced into doing what the rest of us do. We work. We pair up and create a home. We support our families.
It takes two incomes. No more of this nanny state stuff.