Posted by toddcommish on 1/27/2017 2:36:00 PM (view original):
Posted by MikeT23 on 1/27/2017 1:55:00 PM (view original):
Asia was bad back in the 80s. We may have been unaware of how bad but they were. And we should trade with them so they can get access to better music. And 8-tracks were the best. "In the heat...click...hum...whirrrr... of the moment...."
Anyway, back to Trump, there's a reason why they can make some cheap product, ship it to America, distribute it across the US and STILL make it cheaper for the consumer. Trump's idea of "America first" is no different than raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
Says the shipping magnate who profits from imports.
Well, yeah, I'm looking at it from my personal viewpoint. If exports could replace the imports that we're sure to lose when Trump starts dropping high tariffs one them, no big deal. But I'm not sure America makes anything "unique" that other countries want/need. After all, if it takes us 80k to make something that the Japanese can make for 2k, why in the hell would they want our stuff?
BTW, the weirdest thing I shipped was sand to Saudi. 8 million pounds for a golf course. We got great sand.