Meanwhile, in "MAGA-Land"…

@Pfuzylogic But if there are billions of Indians and Chinese who all work harder and longer the the 350 million US people, whos going to win the economic battle. It is the natural order of things that the world ranking of economies should be 1.India, 2.China 3.USA 4.Indonisia - 3 and 4 being about the qurter the size of 1 and 2. The peoples of India China and Indonesia are smart and hardworking and ambitious. The culture of entitlement in the USA will hasten its coming. Wake up and smell the coffee. King Canute realised you cannot stop the tide soming in - and that is what you are trying to do with these tariffs and bully boy tactics

@Captain “Wake up and smell the coffee” , “you can not stop the tide coming in” seemed directed at the current leader who makes off the cuff decisions. The U.S. has had a self concept of “exceptionalism” and not entitlement. India is new to economic leadership and China and Russia have very strong challenges in their economy. Under Joe Biden our country led in the economic recovery from the devastating spread of Covid.
My concern now is that we seem to be reentering the economic policies of reagan in the 80s and that drip, drip. drip of the trickle down theory. The current budget is gutting those that our poor and compensating the very rich. It didn’t work with reagan and the current leadership isn’t smart at any respectable level.

@Pfuzylogic For sure trickle down economics has proven to be worng. It is the vleocity of money in an economy that determines economic activity and growth and you only need to look at the likes of Musk and Beckham and Sunak and even Trumo to relaise that the rich will only be interested in getting richer and will never pout their money to use for the good of others. For sure Biden and Obhama before him was meaking the world great and tne Trump will only succeed in making everyone else poor but you cant fight against numbers and when India and China start to tap in on the real brain power in their countries the US will be only third best, no amount of protectionism or bullying can change that. TYhe journey to that can either be a pleasant one or one dominated by conflict misery and poverty for so many if the econmics of inequality is allowed to prevail, and other coutnries like Switzerland have a better way of avoiding that horror stroy while still allowing for reward for wealth creation. At the end of the day, we oparents have to realise that to advanteg our children over others is actually an act against freedom and equality - something hard to comprehend and even harder to accept, but its true. its obvious from logical reasoning.

@Elessar The people who would take offense to this have already blocked me because of other posts. 🤭