In reference to Donald Trump and his China tarriff
I hope. Was always totally unfair usps charges 20 bucks to ship a small item to China but subsidizes China shipping the same item to the US for 3 bucks and some change. Unfair trade needs to be stopped.
I agree we have a terrible deficit with China, which in some ways will never be completely "righted" b/c we have labor laws here and a (general) higher standard of living that requires a much higher minimum wage to even squeak by. They have a giant population forced to work for peanuts, crammed into a tiny country shoulder to shoulder... a standard of living unthinkable in the US, and not one we, or any democracy would want to model itself after. Complicating this is that our own economy is tight relevant to our own standard, and working people have to save money where they can to get by. Add corporate greed to that, where most of the goods are now manufactured in China (including Donald Trump's tie line for one), and you now have a hard time finding anything at Sears, Wal-Mart, Target or even higher end stores that was not manufactured in China. Putting us deeper in debt to them.
IMHO Trump's 'solution' to raise tariffs is a way to appear he's doing something when he's doing nothing at all that actually helps the American consumer or the problem. For the last 20 years or more we have grown into a county not Of The People and By The People, but Of the Corporations and By The Corporations... meaning the top few percent. Corporations need to do right by this country and make their goods here, pay union wages so people can buy a house and raise a family, and more people will have more jobs and make more money... to buy American made products that cost more, but are of higher quality and put our money back into this country... instead of funneling it out to China so Corps can become richer, and China more powerful. A mod or tank or other vape gear is small potatoes as is this tariff. The change we need goes way beyond this. Trump represents those who want to keep the rich rich, at the expense of the rest of us, and every action he's taken proves this while he panders to the working man, saying the opposite. He is a carnival barker. What we need is a leader.
-- off soap box