A government — and the globalist powers pulling its strings — that illegally invites plus-or-minus 20,000,000 migrants across its borders in 3 years clearly doesn’t care about culture. Can anyone name one aspect of “American culture” that isn’t despised by the Marxist left?
B) I think the problem is greater than "are tariffs good?"... The problem is more along the lines of "What idiot decided to depend on our greatest enemy for essential goods?"
My biggest concern is Communist China, although I would add in the narco-state Mexico, and other rogue nations like Iran, etc. America should absolutely tariff the dog crap out of China. Bill Clinton’s 1990s era screw-up (or perhaps it was deliberate?) of giving China favored trading status and then allowing it into the WTO is a blunder for the ages.
By the way … I was shocked to read that there is an annual torture-fest and killing of dogs in China, as the pain inflicted upon man’s best friends is rumored to make the meat tastier to exacting Chinese diners. File this along with China’s penchant for shark fin soup, Wuhan bat soup, and the horns of endangered rhinoceros as an aphrodisiac.
But back on track now … in the 1990s Slick Willie was getting all sorts of Chinese kickbacks way back then. Remember the Johnny Chung, Charlie Trie, and John Hwang scandals? What about Clinton giving the ChiComs the Loral satellite and missile technology?
I can still vividly remember watching the Tiananman student protests in 1989 shortly after getting my active duty discharge from the Navy. I’ll never forget that brave young student who stood up to the tanks. Then the despicable ChiComs proceeded with their massacre of the student protesters, and all Poppy Bush (POTUS 41) could do is stay silent because … what?!? He once served as ambassador to China and still had friends in high places over there?
I remember my disappointment with Poppy Bush, and his globaloney talk of a “new world order” compelled me to vote for Ross Perot in 1992 … something to this day I do not regret. At least Perot campaigned on protecting America’s sovereignty, keeping American jobs here in America and not outsourcing them to corrupt Mexico, and balancing the federal budget and eliminating the then ($3 trillion?) national debt. The 1990’s $3 trlllion debt vs. today’s $33 trillion debt … life seemed so much more sublime back then.
Looking back, Ross Perot seems like a predictor of the Donald Trump MAGA movement to come some 25 years later.
I’ve said this before … China, under the jackboot of the CCP, is unworthy to have any favorable trade status with the U.S. There was once some political spin back in the 1990s that opening free trade with China would liberalize the country and make it more tolerant and democratic. This free trade with China has only enriched the dictators while fueling their military expansion and police state.
In the meantime, if anything there has been a reverse effect as America seems to resemble China more and more; more surveillance, more speech codes, more intolerance for opposing views, more hatred of our capitalist system, etc.
While the open trade has benefitted the CCP and has moved the government away from Maoism, it has become a de-facto fascist country in which its totalitarian government has embraced a corporatist type of mercantilism in which billion dollar Chinese corporations do the bidding of the CCP and the People’s Liberation Army, all synchronized and in goose-stepping lockstep reminiscent of Il Duce.
The CCP controls the media, academia, virtually all facets of civil life, even to the point where all comrade citizens are given social credit scores based on their loyalty to the Party. All of this is downright Orwellian and a stain on humanity.
I want America to engage in free trade with as many countries as possible. But the countries we freely trade with must be countries that share many of our same American values that emphasize human rights and dignity, representative constitutional democracy, and rule of law.
Sadly … America has lost most of its moral high ground as our nation more and more resembles a banana republic. Biden and his ilk have openly promoted hate speech against their political opposition (slandering MAGA as quasi-fascist) while also utilizing third world lawfare tactics to go after DJT and his supporters.
Now the Democrat Party operates as an undemocratic cabal, disregarding tens of millions of primary voters who voted for Biden, only to have a behind-the-scenes political coup and coronation at the upcoming Chicago DNC. The Democrat Party is the least democratic institution in America.
There still seems to be some free-trade conservatives and business-minded libertarians who still have a fetish for the Chinese Communists. Where do these “free-traders” stand on the ChiComs violating their agreed treaty with the British and subjugating Hong Kong to their totalitarian jackboot some 25 years early? Hong Kong was once the epitome and global symbol of free-trade capitalism. If the ChiComs are so willing to violate their agreement with the British, why the hell should America ever trust them to keep their word for anything?
Many of these “free-traders” make that Bolshevik adage (perhaps it was Lenin, or one of his minions) that goes “capitalists will sell us the rope that we will use to hang them” seem very prescient.
Meanwhile, China’s belligerence towards Taiwan demands more than just political bromides and platitudes. America should be doing a 21st century version of the Berlin Airlift to keep these communists (in name only now, because they are actually fascist) in check.
Let’s pull a Reagan Cold War move and let’s work with Taiwan to put U.S. based nuclear cruise missiles on the island, kinda like what Ronaldus Magnus did in Western Europe in the 80s. WTH … while we’re at it let’s work with the Japanese to do the same thing too, so we can box in China as well as scare the crap out of that porky little NorK rocket boy on the upper half of the Korean Peninsula. But all of this takes real leadership, strong political will, and a political spine coupled with nerves of steel. These qualities are non-existent on the left and in the DNC universe.
Any nation that bears America ill will does not deserve the honor of free and open trade with America, and I am including Mexico in this category of bad actors too. Let’s have more free trade with our trusted Allies, with Israel, with Taiwan, with The Philippines, and with countries that are making great strides in political and economic reform bending towards more freedom, like Argentina.
Let the totalitarians wallow and stew in the fetid political sewage that their Big Brother policies create; let’s curse the totalitarians to hell.
Purely correct, Glenn. Culture. Also, Perot was right about this: "If you don't make anything your country is worth nothing."(paraphrased).
Please note that steel and aluminum prices eventually decreased after Trump's first-point-of-sale tariffs in Asia...
You are going to pay the cost one way or another, note that China shut down severely for almost two years and the cost of our everything is up 30%. Also note that our government class(Chevron case) regulated us so much that our weak corporate class off-shored everything for their bonus money.
Milton Friedman was of the mind that if a particular country was subsidizing some particular good to be predatory, then a good policy would be to buy all of that good you could to punish that country. Difficult to implement as policy in a largely free-market economy as ours, but would be delicious if it was possible.
A Nation may be Free and independent if it can feed it's self and defend itself and provide the means to do both. We forgot that in the 90s and cut the throats of our Blue Collar Middle class.
I will forever remember that economists know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
A government — and the globalist powers pulling its strings — that illegally invites plus-or-minus 20,000,000 migrants across its borders in 3 years clearly doesn’t care about culture. Can anyone name one aspect of “American culture” that isn’t despised by the Marxist left?
A) I agree with all you have said.
B) I think the problem is greater than "are tariffs good?"... The problem is more along the lines of "What idiot decided to depend on our greatest enemy for essential goods?"
My biggest concern is Communist China, although I would add in the narco-state Mexico, and other rogue nations like Iran, etc. America should absolutely tariff the dog crap out of China. Bill Clinton’s 1990s era screw-up (or perhaps it was deliberate?) of giving China favored trading status and then allowing it into the WTO is a blunder for the ages.
By the way … I was shocked to read that there is an annual torture-fest and killing of dogs in China, as the pain inflicted upon man’s best friends is rumored to make the meat tastier to exacting Chinese diners. File this along with China’s penchant for shark fin soup, Wuhan bat soup, and the horns of endangered rhinoceros as an aphrodisiac.
But back on track now … in the 1990s Slick Willie was getting all sorts of Chinese kickbacks way back then. Remember the Johnny Chung, Charlie Trie, and John Hwang scandals? What about Clinton giving the ChiComs the Loral satellite and missile technology?
I can still vividly remember watching the Tiananman student protests in 1989 shortly after getting my active duty discharge from the Navy. I’ll never forget that brave young student who stood up to the tanks. Then the despicable ChiComs proceeded with their massacre of the student protesters, and all Poppy Bush (POTUS 41) could do is stay silent because … what?!? He once served as ambassador to China and still had friends in high places over there?
I remember my disappointment with Poppy Bush, and his globaloney talk of a “new world order” compelled me to vote for Ross Perot in 1992 … something to this day I do not regret. At least Perot campaigned on protecting America’s sovereignty, keeping American jobs here in America and not outsourcing them to corrupt Mexico, and balancing the federal budget and eliminating the then ($3 trillion?) national debt. The 1990’s $3 trlllion debt vs. today’s $33 trillion debt … life seemed so much more sublime back then.
Looking back, Ross Perot seems like a predictor of the Donald Trump MAGA movement to come some 25 years later.
I’ve said this before … China, under the jackboot of the CCP, is unworthy to have any favorable trade status with the U.S. There was once some political spin back in the 1990s that opening free trade with China would liberalize the country and make it more tolerant and democratic. This free trade with China has only enriched the dictators while fueling their military expansion and police state.
In the meantime, if anything there has been a reverse effect as America seems to resemble China more and more; more surveillance, more speech codes, more intolerance for opposing views, more hatred of our capitalist system, etc.
While the open trade has benefitted the CCP and has moved the government away from Maoism, it has become a de-facto fascist country in which its totalitarian government has embraced a corporatist type of mercantilism in which billion dollar Chinese corporations do the bidding of the CCP and the People’s Liberation Army, all synchronized and in goose-stepping lockstep reminiscent of Il Duce.
The CCP controls the media, academia, virtually all facets of civil life, even to the point where all comrade citizens are given social credit scores based on their loyalty to the Party. All of this is downright Orwellian and a stain on humanity.
I want America to engage in free trade with as many countries as possible. But the countries we freely trade with must be countries that share many of our same American values that emphasize human rights and dignity, representative constitutional democracy, and rule of law.
Sadly … America has lost most of its moral high ground as our nation more and more resembles a banana republic. Biden and his ilk have openly promoted hate speech against their political opposition (slandering MAGA as quasi-fascist) while also utilizing third world lawfare tactics to go after DJT and his supporters.
Now the Democrat Party operates as an undemocratic cabal, disregarding tens of millions of primary voters who voted for Biden, only to have a behind-the-scenes political coup and coronation at the upcoming Chicago DNC. The Democrat Party is the least democratic institution in America.
There still seems to be some free-trade conservatives and business-minded libertarians who still have a fetish for the Chinese Communists. Where do these “free-traders” stand on the ChiComs violating their agreed treaty with the British and subjugating Hong Kong to their totalitarian jackboot some 25 years early? Hong Kong was once the epitome and global symbol of free-trade capitalism. If the ChiComs are so willing to violate their agreement with the British, why the hell should America ever trust them to keep their word for anything?
Many of these “free-traders” make that Bolshevik adage (perhaps it was Lenin, or one of his minions) that goes “capitalists will sell us the rope that we will use to hang them” seem very prescient.
Meanwhile, China’s belligerence towards Taiwan demands more than just political bromides and platitudes. America should be doing a 21st century version of the Berlin Airlift to keep these communists (in name only now, because they are actually fascist) in check.
Let’s pull a Reagan Cold War move and let’s work with Taiwan to put U.S. based nuclear cruise missiles on the island, kinda like what Ronaldus Magnus did in Western Europe in the 80s. WTH … while we’re at it let’s work with the Japanese to do the same thing too, so we can box in China as well as scare the crap out of that porky little NorK rocket boy on the upper half of the Korean Peninsula. But all of this takes real leadership, strong political will, and a political spine coupled with nerves of steel. These qualities are non-existent on the left and in the DNC universe.
Any nation that bears America ill will does not deserve the honor of free and open trade with America, and I am including Mexico in this category of bad actors too. Let’s have more free trade with our trusted Allies, with Israel, with Taiwan, with The Philippines, and with countries that are making great strides in political and economic reform bending towards more freedom, like Argentina.
Let the totalitarians wallow and stew in the fetid political sewage that their Big Brother policies create; let’s curse the totalitarians to hell.
Purely correct, Glenn. Culture. Also, Perot was right about this: "If you don't make anything your country is worth nothing."(paraphrased).
Please note that steel and aluminum prices eventually decreased after Trump's first-point-of-sale tariffs in Asia...
You are going to pay the cost one way or another, note that China shut down severely for almost two years and the cost of our everything is up 30%. Also note that our government class(Chevron case) regulated us so much that our weak corporate class off-shored everything for their bonus money.
Thankfully Chevron was just overturned.
Milton Friedman was of the mind that if a particular country was subsidizing some particular good to be predatory, then a good policy would be to buy all of that good you could to punish that country. Difficult to implement as policy in a largely free-market economy as ours, but would be delicious if it was possible.
A Nation may be Free and independent if it can feed it's self and defend itself and provide the means to do both. We forgot that in the 90s and cut the throats of our Blue Collar Middle class.
Also take into account that while goods may be more expensive, taxes may be lower.