Of course! I never said you didn’t or shouldn’t have the right to comment.
I’m just acknowledging how leftist and the world will embark on a campaign to bash Trump despite it being in America’s best interest to support him.
People love the status quo, even as their children drown in it.
I guess we need more feckless, milk toast politicians and statesmen to lead the way. Heaven forbid we become bold.
We did have a surplus under Clinton and were paying down the debt followed by GW Bush who squandered it away with a huge tax cut followed up by two unpaid wars.
And now Trump is wanting not only to extend his tax cuts, but to make them bigger, and this isn’t going to fix it. Trump push to use tariffs to pay for tax cuts faces opposition in Congress | Reuters
Yup. Forever wars. I hate them.
Yep. But with it must come a smaller, more efficient government with no wars and an additional income source.
As I said…it’s all no to Trump and yes to bureaucrats and politicians.
Of course congress hates it. It is ran by the people who are killing America. I am not looking for their approval as it stands today. The PEOPLE must rally behind Trump and make it known to congress that it is necessary!
I hear you, and I agree with you. Some day, I don’t know when, the house of cards will crash down.
How about this for an idea.
Turn the budget clock back to 1998, which was the year Clinton and the Republican congress not only balanced the budget, but they created a surplus.
It could happen again. But watch our media, our Congress and the world undermine our President. They will protect themselves and all of the other parasites in our country and around the world. They will all join in to ensure Trump is unsuccessful.
I can understand you feeling that way, but I don’t think the world is out to make Trump unsuccessful.
People want what’s best for themselves and success for our country, but we all have different ideas and many times disagreements on what is the best way of achieving success.
They have proved nothing but the contrary. From the Russian Collusion Hoax, to the Biden Laptop coverup, to the legal persecutions, it has all been to see him fall. Internationally, they attempt to belittle him, subvert his efforts and create a worldly sense of disqualification.
I have to say, it is a bit different this time around. He is carrying a bigger stick. You will get a few rumblings from people like Canada’s ex-Trudy, but generally they are mum. They will let the media carry the water for them.
Anyplace we buy more stuff of theirs then they buy of ours, we have huge leverage. Watch. Trump gave Mexico and Canada two weeks to consider what Trump REALLY wants which is a much higher level of cooperation on protecting the US border. This is about “Stay in Mexico” as well as cooperation on keeping the Chinese out of Mexico and Canada. May the negotiations begin…
I hear you and I don’t completely disagree, but 1. we shouldn’t be telling other countries how to do business, and IMO they’re going tell Trump/US to pound salt. 2. It’s too late to tell keep China out of Mexico.
It would have been great had something been written into the NAFTA2 trade deal Trump did, but there wasn’t.
The problem is, if we don’t buy these goods, someone else will, and also, after we enact tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and other countries, they aren’t just going to lie down and take it, they will retaliate, which will affect our exports.
Yes they will. We have taken it from them for decades. Once all the complaining is over, things will change for the better.
I wish people would stop using the one and only soy bean example to point to. We knew this was going to happen and it had to happen. We are dealing with a country that can inflict great pain on its citizens, put 12 year old girls in factories and steal our technology.
If we do not push back now, what do you propose? Just continue to let them soak us?
If you guys want to see protectionist trade policy, look no further than the EU. Germany smacks us with high tariffs on cars while we let theirs flow freely in.
Why do we stand for this? Our auto workers struggle while we support theirs. Screw that. Well, Germany’s fat calf attitude is about to change. Their auto industry is struggling now, and it will not improve unless they come to the table. For the record, their stupid green deal energy policies combined with sleeping with Russia has all but ruined that country. Both of which Trump warned Germany about.
I see it differently. I don’t think they are soaking us, because it is us who willingly buy their stuff.
What I do have a problem with is flooding the market with dirt cheap, high quality, EVs, which would hurt and possibly destroy our Auto Industry, and them steeling from us.
Spying on us and steeling personal information through things like TikTok is our own fault, but needs to be stopped.
So, let me get this straight. We are to promote this open market, free trade idea but when we get soaked by participating in “the one-way destructive trade imbalance,” it is our own fault?
So we should only buy at home, right? Would that raise prices?
Is this not also a form of protectionism? Is this not what Trump is striving for, to get people to manufacture here? To help our businesses at home have a fighting chance against cheaters such as China or the EU’s protectionism tariffs?
Well yea, nobody is forcing anyone to buy anything.
I think it would raise prices, personally I’m willing to pay extra for made in America products, but I know there are many who live paycheck to paycheck and have to watch every penny.
Yes to all your questions, but IMO putting tariffs on everything across the board that’s imported is not the right way to do it.
Up front, it will raise some desperately needed cash. You may call it higher taxes for everyone…but you do not seem to oppose higher taxes to reduce debt, so there you have it.
Once our incredible purchasing power is fully recognized, better deals that will incentivize buying at home and local production will become a reality.
Trump tells the world that if you want our business, you must produce domestically to compete. He is also putting our abundant energy up for sale.
In the meantime, all of the world will whine, complain and bash Trump. This includes our local politicians and media. But imagine if we had resolve as a country! It would be amazing.
The whole thread is flawed, how many times has Trump threatened tariffs to get xyz done? How about we see what actually does happen?
Meanwhile…
Comparing the resistance Vought would face in Washington to Noah’s biblical trials, Kennedy quipped, “You’re going to be called crazy. They also called Noah crazy. Then the rains came, and all the fact-checkers died.”
LOL 
Which will promptly be disbursed as subsidies to our industries effected by the retaliatory tariffs placed on them. Even worse, other countries decide to source from somewhere else besides us, on top of the retaliatory tariffs.
Bottom line; trump is using tariffs for mostly all the wrong reasons. But they are easier than actually having to develop real policy. Policy he knows nothing about and has no clue how to get done.
That is hilarious…as if we have had any talent in the last 20 years. You call these people experts. I call them idiots for allowing us to be here in the 1st place.
This is exactly what I meant by the constant “disqualified” theme repeated over and over by our own citizens, congress and the world. Meanwhile, these same people are literally stealing every single day from our future. Screw your experts, they are the devil. They are literally the same people that have allowed our current situation. They are all alive and influencing.
And now suddenly you want to pop-up and complain about competence?
I didn’t call anyone an expert. But everyone knows tariffs don’t work for what trump is wanting. At least not most of it. Some tariffs can be justified.
This is not true. There is no consensus here. There is the constant bloviating idiots who have set us on the current path and are threatened by a change of course.