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Jack Sotallaro's avatar

Great article, thanks.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Europe never paid their war debt from WWI, never paid the Lend-Lease bill, and have taken advantage of the Marshall Plan for the last 80 years. The Marshall Plan should have been cancelled 60 years ago.

So our "allies" all over the world have take advantage of the fact that the US is fat, dumb, and rich. Well, we're not rich anymore, and it's time everyone paid their fair share.

I could care less if Europe has jobs or food. Their choice has been to be parasites, and it's time the USA took some penicillin in the form of the Trump tariffs and got rid of the rot.

Sometimes the best thing you can do for someone with a problem is let them figure it our themselves. If the Europeans don't want families, and substitute immigrants for natural born citizens, that's their problem. They can solve it or live with the result.

America needs to take care of America first and foremost. We need to stop the liberal progressive BS and get back to being a constitutional republic. That means not only remembering what the enumerated powers are, but enforcing them. We have plenty of work to do here at home too.

How many of us are up for the fight?

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John Vezmar's avatar

You nailed it. The European Union is committing national suicide. The Marshall Plan turned the U.S. into the world’s sugar daddy. President Trump is the only American leader courageous enough to tackle this costly trade deficit America faces annually. American made exports are heavily tariffed, even barred from entering some countries to protect their domestically manufactured products.

When America responded with tariffs decades ago to protect Ford, General Motors and Chrysler/Dodge, we saw the start of onshoring Japanese auto production from Toyota, Honda and Nissan, etc.

It’s somewhat confounding that America’s media “economists” think it’s acceptable to tariff American made exports while supporting foreign made products freely pouring into the US with few if any tariffs.

Fears of China’s retaliatory tariffs are overblown hype. China and President Xi Jinping need the US far more than we need them.

China has an aging population, a serious debt problem caused by a housing market bubble that’s set to burst. When it pops, it will inflict heavy financial losses on millions of Chinese who invested their life savings in apartment buildings that are so poorly constructed they’re not habitable. Then add China’s $2 per hour labor rate, which lured American companies to their shores 30 years ago. This improved China’s standard of living for millions but it hasn’t created a domestic consumer market anywhere near as rich as America’s.

If President Xi doesn’t soon solidify a trade deal with President Trump, China’s financially strapped workforce may well threaten his political future.

President Trump’s tariff leveling policy will balance our annual global trade deficit, which reached a staggering $1.2 Trillion in 2024.

Returning American manufacturers means fewer national security concerns that currently have the U.S. relying on foreign sourcing for critical national defense materials. There may be bumps in the road ahead as America’s manufacturing plants come back to life, but it’s a short-term sacrifice that will insure a stronger and safer American future.

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In This Dimension's avatar

China is going to be really interesting over the next few decades. Many demographers think their population will halve by 2060. Their Total Fertility Rate in 2024 was 1.55, placing them at 193 out of 227 countries listed by the CIA World Factbook. Replacement is 2.1... They are aging so quickly that soon they'll have no one working to pay the welfare costs of the oldsters... Bummer... and no consumers for the products and services they manufacture...

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