Because you are coerced, you must participate with no choice. All of government is an affront to liberty. It’s just how much of the necessary evil are we willing to put up with before we start throwing tea into the harbor.
I put what other countries are doing in bold.
Never said we have to subsidize.
We can block their exports coming in, make trade agreements they open up to our imports, etc
Forget the rah rah part of the article. Read the differences between the 2 factions of the GOP.
How is US steel supposed to be competitive with global steel if we don’t subsidize like apparently everyone else?
You think other countries are just going to stand by while their exports to the US are cut while simultaneously increasing their US imports at a higher cost?
Yes you would have been screwd pre Obama care… Same thing happened to me I jacked shoulder in Jujitsu then low and behold after surgery which was cleared by Ortho they decided not to kick in… Leaving me with a 30K bill and I could not get treatment except out of pocket becuase its pre exisrting… So I rehabbed slow…Since Obama care my costs went from $500 per month for family of 5 to $200 per month family of 5…Best of all its coverage that actually covers stuff… Also stuff like kids shots check ups whats considered preventative is no longer out of poclet… I would say the website is dog shit and the system is jacked but its 20x better than what we used to have which was A) Dont get sick B) Dont get hurt Accidents and sickness happen so people bitching about lifestyle are morons… You could get hurt walking or slip on ice just playing sports for fun falls into the pursuit of hapiness if you ask me… oh yea I guess I should mention had a unrealted injury post Obama care guess what?? Yea 100% coverd just paid my detuctable on 2nd shoulder surgery…which was also sports related
The buyer (which in world trade includes governments) calls the tune, not the seller.
They need us more than we need them.
I basically see it this way:
The US can return to isolationism, we can contract our economy by forcing US global companies to become national companies, increase prices, increase cost of living, but also put more American’s to work. Or, we can become more competitive globally.
Personally, I prefer the latter and my guess is, so do you. The question and where I think the disagreement lies is how. How do you become more competitive in the global steel industry without subsidizing US steel with tax dollars? I don’t see how you can. Maybe we should? We do with agriculture. Why not steel? I’m not sure what that would cost in tax revenue per year or how much higher tax rates would need to be, but we’ll just figure that out down the road.
I’m just having a real tough time figuring out where we’re going to get the $1 Trillion for infrastructure, an additional $500B/year for defense, $40B for the wall, etc… While cutting taxes and leaving entitlements untouched. And, of course, you’ve already touched on the elephant in the room. Debt. National debt. Individual debt. Student loans ($1T+ I believe), credit card, mortgage, etc…
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This is too funny. WaPo is worried Trump will outlast the media. One of the reasons he dropped that bombshell on Saturday morning is its supposed to be a quiet day for the media to rest.
OK This is my last post on this today.
First our economic competitors haven’t had to engage in a trade war, since we surrendered the consumer goods (and increasingly the industrial goods) market without firing a shot.
The second thing is the trade deficit does have an effect on current account deficit in increasing national debt, and the elimination of both expertise and facility to compete in whole industries.
Look at the pipeline situation. Say there was no existing inventory to refute Trump promise - could we actually find sufficient quantities or even worse - are there even facilities/skilled workforce to produce at any price? Here we have a specific example of needing x tons of tube, creating x amount of labor hours, and we’re out of luck. Forget this pipeline, what about the next and the next?
I’ve read your next post while writing this and agree it’s probably the ‘how we going to do it’.
I know people with less money want and need cheaper items. Studies show even ‘rich’ slum on purchases that they don’t deem important - Lexus at Walmart. But we are like a job shop that is selling off our equipment, not replacing it, and then buying vacations and big screens. Every piece sold off, is 1 or more jobs we will never have the ability to perform.
I have a spending solution - for every $ on infrastructure/defense, 2 $ must be cut from existing budget.
LOL but actually kinda serious.
Am I alone in thinking a HUGE problem with our budget is the stupidly high defense spending? I still can’t fathom why Trump would want to spend more other than to appeal to his base for retardbrowniepoints.
That said, I think defense spending could probably be reduced.
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The one thing I don’t think I’ve even heard mentioned in the last couple years is the amount of waste in the military. We hear the reports about the lack of necessary equipment in some branches, and I am not denying that. But I have a really hard time imagining that there aren’t many opportunities to increase efficiency. I don’t see how just throwing more money at it solves the problem.
It was a wordplay on the asinine regulation statement.
Not that we don’t have a ton too many regulations but… LMAO come on Trump.
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Oh, there’s waste. I have no idea the extent, but I know it’s there and could be found.
Then you have this:
The state of the F/A-18s in the Corps is, ah, bad to say the least.
I do think we could consolidate in some areas, but overlap is also a good thing too. So, it’s complex like most things, lol.
I’ve never been a fan of looking at what other countries do as a guide to determine what we should do. Yes, we spend a lot more than other nations. To me, the real question is why do we spend 4x as much as the next highest spender and is that a good enough reason to do so.
Defense does need to be reined in (F-35, Ford class carriers anyone?).
But entitlements are the elephant in this room.
Mathematical instruments of economic dirge.
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Not sure if you’re affiliated in any way with the military, but I am prior military and have a lot of close friends who still serve - they post fairly often on facebook articles that report military waste.
anecdotally, waste in the military happens fairly regularly … in probably some of the most hilariously absurd ways (you know, if you ignore the whole wasting tax payer money thing)
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