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JohnnyYou » 25 Jan 2025, 4:24 am » wrote: ↑

25 Jan 2025, 4:24 am

Please provide any enlightenment you may have on how tariffs and trade wars will impact people.  The enterprise I work for is global  with 100K employees.  Prior to merger we made equipment for several foreign countries. We even made wood fired ice machines for Eskimos.  

My gut tells me that anyone outside of the US will seek to have equipment built outside of the US.  90% of what goes into our equipment is foreign sourced.  Decades of bipartisan free trade agreements has moved almost all manufacturing of key components out of the US. Fixing it is going to leave a mark and the impacts of a compressed time cycle to steer correction could have adverse consequences.

What I don't get is compounding the tax/tariff with mass deportation of the people we need to build factories has the appearance of extreme challenges. That and abandoning a national education strategy that admittedly has made America extremely stupid with poor bipartisan choices has made America so effing stupid that all toothless red hats want to do is jerk of with sex dolls wearing VR headsets and bet on the Cryptopoacalypse. 

We are so stupid we elected stupid.  We are headed to a very bad place. Hopefully we can steer the boat back on a better course in 2026.  We are headed for the rocks and the boat could get split in half and sink,