Quote:
Originally Posted by Robbie
********** I think you can add Pres. Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, and Obama to the pic of Bush 2.
And then add in every slimeball Senator and Congressman who have turned our country into a huge funnel for money to the military industrial complex and worldwide wars with huge debt. 
I personally don't think that ANY of these "business as usual" politicians are what we need. Republican and Democrat politicians in power have held hands for 50 years to fuck this country up.
I think we should REALLY "clean house".
Their ideas on both sides of the aisle are the same exact ones that we keep trading back and forth every 8 years or so. And they never work. |
Agree for many countries in the West. The problem is how to fix it and stay in power.
US debt is 71.8%, according to the CIA World Factbook, or 104.5%, according to the IMF
UK debt is 90.6% of GDP. Both pulled from Google so might need adjusting.
To halve them over 10% years requires we pay more taxes. Or everyone lives on less. Which damages spending which has a knock on effect Or we import less and export more. Which means few can fill their homes or wardrobes with un-needed stuff.
Quote:
"However, the general view is that while it had negative results, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff was not one of the main causes of the Great Depression because foreign trade was only a small sector of the U.S. economy."
Also the world was much different in 1930.
In 2015 the world needs us far more than we need them. That is what Trump has been saying in his speeches.
He's not wanting to isolate us. He's saying that his team of negotiators have the experience and skill to play all of OUR cards in trade deal negotiations instead of making bad deal after bad deal as the amateurs in Washington D.C. have been doing for decades.
|
Spot on.
The West has a huge card to play with the Third world. But as much as you sell, or we will block goods. Now look around you and find a "Made in......" label. Half or more of them will disappear or cost more, because they were made in the US by someone on a Western wage. Is consumerist Western Culture ready for that?
A phrase I heard a long time ago. "If you desire changes, one must first change."