Tariffs: Discomfort Means It's Working
Posted by freedomforall 1 day, 5 hours ago to Government
Excerpt:
"let’s zoom out and think about what President Trump is trying to accomplish with his tariff agenda. He is essentially saying that the status quo in the United States isn’t working and large changes need to be implemented—changes that will shock the global economy—to remedy the issue.
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Billionaires (other than Trump, it seems) have a difficult time answering questions like “What happens when we run out of middle American towns to gut?” and “How has your quality of life been negatively impacted by monetary policy over the last 20 years?”
The reason they can’t answer these questions is because they don’t have any idea. Monetary policy helps them accrue more wealth and power, and they don’t live in middle America. But if you take a trip to a place like Flint, Michigan, or Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the answers to these questions become a lot clearer.
The direction the country was heading in monetarily and fiscally was simply unsustainable. Deficits too big. Debt skyrocketing against GDP. Wealth gap accelerating. Drug and alcohol addiction ravaging cities.
We were walking a path that decimated the lives and the purchasing power of the people who need it most and took American jobs away from people who needed them the most.
Worse off, it made the United States dependent on adversaries like China to simply go about our day-to-day. When global supply chains were cut off during COVID, it was obvious that our quality of life was 100% dependent on imported goods—everything from consumer electronics to clothing to the ingredients used in pharmaceuticals.
Recalibrating the country away from being dependent on adversarial nations is not a simple and inconsequential thing to do. On the contrary, it’s about as consequential of a decision as we can possibly make, alongside of trying to get our fiscal house as a nation in order.
Consequential means change. Change means discomfort. Discomfort requires courage. On a positive note, to me, it seems like the first time our government has taken more than a 10-day outlook on the future of our nation."
"let’s zoom out and think about what President Trump is trying to accomplish with his tariff agenda. He is essentially saying that the status quo in the United States isn’t working and large changes need to be implemented—changes that will shock the global economy—to remedy the issue.
...
Billionaires (other than Trump, it seems) have a difficult time answering questions like “What happens when we run out of middle American towns to gut?” and “How has your quality of life been negatively impacted by monetary policy over the last 20 years?”
The reason they can’t answer these questions is because they don’t have any idea. Monetary policy helps them accrue more wealth and power, and they don’t live in middle America. But if you take a trip to a place like Flint, Michigan, or Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the answers to these questions become a lot clearer.
The direction the country was heading in monetarily and fiscally was simply unsustainable. Deficits too big. Debt skyrocketing against GDP. Wealth gap accelerating. Drug and alcohol addiction ravaging cities.
We were walking a path that decimated the lives and the purchasing power of the people who need it most and took American jobs away from people who needed them the most.
Worse off, it made the United States dependent on adversaries like China to simply go about our day-to-day. When global supply chains were cut off during COVID, it was obvious that our quality of life was 100% dependent on imported goods—everything from consumer electronics to clothing to the ingredients used in pharmaceuticals.
Recalibrating the country away from being dependent on adversarial nations is not a simple and inconsequential thing to do. On the contrary, it’s about as consequential of a decision as we can possibly make, alongside of trying to get our fiscal house as a nation in order.
Consequential means change. Change means discomfort. Discomfort requires courage. On a positive note, to me, it seems like the first time our government has taken more than a 10-day outlook on the future of our nation."
he got elected (unlike2020, cheating was negated)
and now for some reason people that voted for him are in a panic?
i expected some RINOs to be weak, that is what they do. it also seems they are corrupt beyond redemption (me, shocked, not really, i had hoped for better from them)
The water temperature in the slavery pot has been slowly increasing for decades thanks to the banking cartel.
One can sit in the "safe" warm pot and get boiled to death or one can knock the pot off the fire and escape to freedom.
Time to make the choice: Slavery or Freedom.
several friends and i talk about the mess we in
most agree that almost none in our nation will life a finger, causing themselves to loose their life of comfort
until the food/heat stops
at that point fixing the SHTF that is going on will be that much more difficult
me, not looking forward to be the first.
i am preparing, plan to do my best to keep safe family and friends as much as possible
Their parasitism is the reason the markets (and debt financed real estate) have been irrationally over-priced for 25+ years.