The first layoffs from Trump's tariffs are here

[soulcougher73]

There's no satisfaction in that POV. We can't allow ourselves to see that as a good thing. We merely join the race to the bottom.

Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before you wake up? And hitting the bottom usually hurts?

 

[1prophet]

Mid-Continent had been importing steel from Mexico that American workers would then turn into nails.

After the tariff, the company was forced to hike its prices and customers fled. Orders are a mere 30 per cent of what they were a year ago, said George Skarich, the vice president of sales. He suspects many customers are now buying Chinese nails.

Tariffs today are like going cold turkey and many will not make it because,

The reality of the situation is that they were using cheap Mexican steel in order to compete with cheaper Chinese steel in the race to the bottom so Americans can enjoy their always low prices while they complain about their ever decreasing wages, benefits and standard of living,

but in true form Americans have been brainwashed by corporate America so they can't see past their nose because they are their own worst enemy not realizing that those low prices they addicted to is because some foreigner pseudo slave out there is working under conditions they consider inhumane and unjust.

I'll tell you how you can compete on a level field, just get rid of your unions, labor laws, environmental laws, safety regulations as well as that pesky minimum wage while limiting welfare to the most basic necessities and you can compete again without Trump or tariffs,

because now you will be working under similar conditions to the foreign countries and illegals that you have no problem exploiting for you cheap goods and services.

 

[Homerboy]

Tariffs today are like going cold turkey and many will not make it because,

The reality of the situation is that they were using cheap Mexican steel in order to compete with cheaper Chinese steel in the race to the bottom so Americans can enjoy their always low prices while they complain about their ever decreasing wages, benefits and standard of living,

but in true form Americans have been brainwashed by corporate America so they can't see past their nose because they are their own worst enemy not realizing that those low prices they addicted to is because some foreigner pseudo slave out there is working under conditions they consider inhumane and unjust.

I'll tell you how you can compete on a level field, just get rid of your unions, labor laws, environmental laws, safety regulations as well as that pesky minimum wage while limiting welfare to the most basic necessities and you can compete again without Trump or tariffs,

because now you will be working under similar conditions to the foreign countries and illegals that you have no problem exploiting for you cheap goods and services.

You forgot to throw in that companies need to forget the idea of record breaking profits in the 100s of million each and every year. Maybe the top of the pyramid doesn't have to make quite so much and let some of that revenue trickle down to lower levels to help level the playing field a bit and let more Americans win? (or at the very least survive)

 

[UberNeuman]

Oh, well. More time to wear their MAGA hats and tell little Timmy that the gay black lesbian Mexican cuck libs won’t let them have Jesusmas this year.

 

[mxnerd]

Trump is such an idiot that he always looks at problems and tries to solve the problems on the surface.

He never think about the ripple effects that could be caused, and the worst part is he doesn't know and doesn't care at all.

 

[UNCjigga]

Tariffs today are like going cold turkey and many will not make it because,

The reality of the situation is that they were using cheap Mexican steel in order to compete with cheaper Chinese steel in the race to the bottom so Americans can enjoy their always low prices while they complain about their ever decreasing wages, benefits and standard of living,

but in true form Americans have been brainwashed by corporate America so they can't see past their nose because they are their own worst enemy not realizing that those low prices they addicted to is because some foreigner pseudo slave out there is working under conditions they consider inhumane and unjust.

I'll tell you how you can compete on a level field, just get rid of your unions, labor laws, environmental laws, safety regulations as well as that pesky minimum wage while limiting welfare to the most basic necessities and you can compete again without Trump or tariffs,

because now you will be working under similar conditions to the foreign countries and illegals that you have no problem exploiting for you cheap goods and services.

Let's see, so far you've managed to blame:
- NAFTA
- Economics 101
- Organized labor losing vs. market forces
- Corporations
- Globalization/Free trade
- Organized labor
- EPA/Environmentalists
- OSHA
- Labor again
- Progressives and the New Deal

Zero blame for Trump or his failed, outdated protectionist policies that are directly responsible for this trade war. Got it.

 

[Jhhnn]

Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before you wake up? And hitting the bottom usually hurts?

We don't need for Trump voters to wake up. We need the 40% or so who don't vote to wake up.

 

[Victorian Gray]

This seems appropriate for world cup season.

I love how people think trade wars are painless and Easy to Win!™

GOOAAAALLLLLLLLL!!!!!!

 

[Victorian Gray]

We don't need for Trump voters to wake up. We need the 40% or so who don't vote to wake up.

Good luck with that.

 

[zinfamous]

You mean Trump took der jerbs!!!!??