We never ceased to have "the ability" to do anything we like. Our economy has been outsourced by the central banksters, and now we're bitching about the consequences of it, without addressing the source.Speaker to Animals wrote:GrumpyCatFace wrote:Since you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, that's probably true. Thank god we're not ruled by the drooling mob (for the time being).Speaker to Animals wrote:You will push for anti-American policies, and when the consequences of those policies result in attack, you will just surrender.
You have no business voting.
Back in the Paleolithic, the rest of us would just kill men like you. By the middle ages, we'd just make you peasants. But now you get a vote in the destiny of nations, and you are seriously threatening the future of our country.
I have every idea what you are talking about. I think it's silly. But, regardless of who is right and wrong about the effects of tariffs, it's utterly beside the point. I can concede the point to you even though I think you are wrong, and the larger issue is more important: America should maintain it's domestic manufacturing and base materials industries. The ability to produce strategic resources and build shit -- you know, like warships and fighters -- is more important than whether or not a small urban class of hucksters and merchants can make some extra shekels by destroying the future of our nation.
How do you suppose the rest of the world "survives" on the equivalent of minimum-wage American work, when we can't even feed a family with it? That's mass inflation, happening 24/7/365, thanks to your friendly neighborhood money-printers. They manipulate the price of gold down, and buy up our stock market, to give the appearance of 'prosperity', while they rent your ass out from under you.
Tariffs and trade imbalance are merely the effects of monetary manipulation, not the cause. This was all dictated the minute we ran out of money in WWI, and created the 3rd Central Bankster Union of the USA. It's all been flowdown from that, as we slowly go bankrupt.