03-05-2025, 04:02 AM
(03-04-2025, 04:00 PM)bravado Wrote:(03-04-2025, 03:33 PM)Kodra24 Wrote: I could go on and on but it is refreshing to see a US president actually care for its own people and do what he feels is in the best interest of their country
Best case scenario: A MAGA AI bot wrote this slop for you
Worst case scenario: You should say this out loud to a laid off Michigan auto worker in the next few days, they might have other thoughts about their best interest
Trade can be win-win. "Onshoring" comes with costs. We'll see if the American people are willing to pay those costs, because they've been pretty god damn price-sensitive in the past. I know this might seem like a hand-wave distraction, but there is more to quality of life and success than GDP growth. Canada and Europe has never led the US in that category, and yet here we are in the present day. The stock market becomes more detached from real life every day surviving and competing quite well on happiness. Focus on the dollars at your own risk and hope and pray that some day a billionaire doesn't just file you into a "fraud" category and cut your services off.
It's easy to destroy. It's really hard to build. You forget that too easily. Elon and his ilk have never known it in the first place.
I thought that mercantilism and autarky died in North Korean prison camps. No country can provide everything it needs on its own. The US will learn this lesson, yet again, and the people who aren't responsible for it will suffer the most. As usual.
Well, there's this
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-t...025-03-03/