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Mrkelly » 09 Apr 2025, 5:06 pm » wrote: ↑

09 Apr 2025, 5:06 pm

You left out agriculture I left out agriculture for a reason.  It has the lowest profit margin per land/resource ratio.  Plus, it is already subsidized. Agriculture is stable, but it is not going to be the future of American Greatness.

So why do you support tRump so **** much? I like a lot of what Trump is trying to accomplish.  But, I will be critical of Trump and his policies when I think he makes missteps or even mistakes. Here's the deal - I am ok with Trump and his team taking certain risks.  I am even ok with "we tried, but didn't succeed" on rare occasion. However, what I absolutely demand is deep thought-through strategy and I'm not ok with seat-of-your-pants governance.  I will criticize this ad hoc garbage governance as I see it.  Sometimes however, I may be wrong. Something that looks like seat-of-your-pants governance may actually be a well thought through strategy.  Eventually, I'll figure this out, but while its unfolding I may not be able to recognize which it is. 

that’s why I always say this country is ****

Your view is way too simplistic. This country is not "****". We were getting "****" under Biden and Obama's policies, and eventually, that could have destroyed this country.  It takes a serious series of mistakes to "****" up a country like the United States. Here's some food for thought on your topic of a country being "****":

• Look at Iran and the blunders its made.  Heavy investments in Hamas, Hezbolah and Yemen Houthis, all up in smoke, exposing Iran's weak underbelly to Israel, Saudi Arabia and the US. But, its still there and hasn't been defeated.
• Look at Russia's blunder in warring with Ukraine.  Russia lost any status as a "world leader" as a result and its economy is about as bad as it was in the last days of the USSR.
• Look at the United States leading up to the Civil War.  The US administrations made huge blunders regarding slavery and its handling of the South.  Still, the South wasn't nearly as strong as it thought it was, and while we nearly lost our Republic over this, the country survived.  Survived, albeit much different from the one it was prior to the Civil War.

China is not as strong as world leaders think.  I don't necessarily think its a house of cards either.  Cornering China and making it bend to another country's wishes is like trying to catch a slimy eel with your bare hands. China still has tricks up its sleeve that I question whether the Trump Administration has thought about and planned for. 

We'll see how this plays out - whatever happens, it will be deserve its own bound volume in the Chronicles of American History. And, it will be the most read volume of all times.