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Trump losing the trade war.
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RE: Trump losing the trade war.
Let me play the devil's advocate - but to a certain point. The problem is that factories left to China where everything is now made and not just from the US but pretty much from whole Europe too. And indeed, how do you make them come back? - Certainly not by giving them tax breaks because they are already making a killing, like Nike makes pair of snickers for $2 and sells it for $100. And perhaps China should be punished in some way because they treat workers there really badly and even make kids work and they ruin the ecology for, ultimately, all of us.

Indeed, this is something that has been talked about before Trump became president but now it seems people stay quiet. I mean guys like Michael Moore made a carrier about how factories are leaving for Mexico and China - and what is he saying now?

Or maybe people don't want those jobs anymore because when they were in US there were numerous movies depicting how horrible it is to work in a factory - like "Norma Rae" (1979) comes in my mind.

Or maybe it is impossible to bring those jobs from Asia. Maybe it's not that you can perhaps only make computers and phones in Japan, China, Korea - with some parts from other parts of the world, but that people with factory wages could not live in a corporate country where venture capitalists are investing in their (worker's) housing, food, energy needs etc.

Or maybe the solution would be to socialize factories and make them part of the government and make people buy only what is made in the US.

Trump's "plan" if you can call it like that is to free corporations of taxes, remove all laws that protect the environment, lower the wages - to make US more like China, but if he wants to make it like China does he also wants children to work too? Of course none of that from his "plan" is any good for anyone, but what is the solution?
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Trump losing the trade war. - by Jehanne - May 22, 2019 at 8:50 am
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by GUBU - May 22, 2019 at 5:18 pm
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Drich - May 23, 2019 at 11:24 am
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by downbeatplumb - May 23, 2019 at 12:51 pm
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Amarok - May 23, 2019 at 10:03 pm
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Anomalocaris - May 23, 2019 at 10:52 pm
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Fake Messiah - May 24, 2019 at 3:31 am
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Jehanne - May 24, 2019 at 7:54 pm
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Fake Messiah - May 26, 2019 at 10:58 am
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Jehanne - May 26, 2019 at 11:15 am
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by GUBU - May 26, 2019 at 4:55 pm
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Jehanne - May 26, 2019 at 7:56 pm
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by chimp3 - May 23, 2019 at 6:57 pm
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 27, 2019 at 3:03 pm
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Anomalocaris - May 27, 2019 at 11:52 pm
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Jackalope - May 27, 2019 at 3:06 pm
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Mister Agenda - May 28, 2019 at 10:17 am
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Fake Messiah - May 29, 2019 at 8:33 am
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Fake Messiah - June 1, 2019 at 6:05 am
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - June 1, 2019 at 7:08 am
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by downbeatplumb - June 1, 2019 at 7:19 am
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - June 1, 2019 at 7:23 am
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Anomalocaris - June 1, 2019 at 10:17 am
RE: Trump losing the trade war. - by Fake Messiah - June 1, 2019 at 1:05 pm

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