Are you buying American?

@Steve42 And if those jobs were coming back i would agree with you. But they wont. America is no longer lined up to be that kind of manufacturing economy now. At best it is an assembler of higher tech items. And the way industry is organised the infrastructure like roads, rail and power frids wont cope..😷

@Steve42 And it appears the only man to even make an attempt at leveling the playing field is the "buffoon" you don't like. He campaigned on it and now, he's actually doing what he promised. Strange isn't it? 🙄

@carpediem #FAFO

@swirlie They never paid ythe 2% of gdp they agreed to pay when NATO ws started.

@Steve42
You're right. It's more like 2.1% that each NATO member country has been spending annually, not 2%. Besides all that, it was the USA who wanted it this way, not the NATO countries involved. The US wanted full control of Europe's security to prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons which each country was otherwise planning on having, but instead the US agreed to look after security with a 2% GDP contribution from each member country. Europe never came to the US begging for security, it was the USA who came crawling to the EU.

@swirlie Well we don't want it any more. If they were not going to do it, they should not have signed the document saying they would.

@Steve42 Exactly.....since WW2, the USA has let the other countries rebuild itself with all of their tariffs and there hasn't been a president yet that stood up to anyone and said enough is enough. You made your money and built a great Europe......now lets even out the score and make the tariffs the same. THAT'S ALL IT IS..... as time goes on, the tariffs will adjust and prices will come down.
Just let our new president run the country like a business..that's what we need to get out of this massive debt we're in

@swirlie So you obviously believe Bureaucrats are better at running a country, right?

People that have not even run a lemonade stand, you believe can run the biggest economy
in the world. That sounds a little insane to me.

@DogMan
You should be directing your response to @Midlifefemale, not me because it was HER response I was responding to. It was @Midlifefemale who believes that Bureaucrats are better at running country like a business, not me.

@swirlie It doesnt matter. Nations should never be run as businesses anyway. nations are all about their people and progress. Not pillage and profit..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman
I agree 100%! It is actually impossible to run a country like a business even if you tried because a business must be transactional for it's growth, whereas a country can only be evolutionary for it's own growth.

@swirlie And a nation invests in itself for a sustained future. (As do good businesses, which there are few of in America)😷

@whowasthatmaskedman
The USA doesn't invest in itself. It hasn't done so since the end of the Industrial Revolution.

@swirlie And there is the weakness in modern Capitalism.. There is a little story out there about the Ford Motor Company currently. They have a reputation in America as the recall kings..So much so that its hurting the bottom line "more than it should" and the CEO is threatening to take more account of this when calculating management bonuses in future.. Said quickly that doesnt sound so awful.. But say it a couple of times and two points pop up. First, the longstanding policy of having actuaries go through the cost of legal liability when determining if a recall should be undertaken, or will it be cheaper to pay out on the damages for injuries or death? And the second is that taking enough care to produce a product that isnt going to need as recall really should be a focus of management in the first place..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman The bureaucrats are the ones pillaging and profiting from our
current system. Don't you think that a monetary conservative system with checks and
balances works better? Have you seen the 100's of billions that the U.S. just throws
out the window? They purposely waste money. Then turn around and raise taxes and
fees on everything, because they wasted so much.

@DogMan Isnt it funny how we can totally agree on the facts of the cae, yet come to totally opposite conclusions. While bureacrats can cause inefficiencies, it is politicans and elected officials who decide policy, accept lobbying and campaign contributions in exchange for voting with the "right" people..😷