America's trade deficit increased by 34% in January

@BizSuitStacy I work as a receptionist in a small hospital so of course I pay taxes however I am willing for my taxes to be higher to give the poor the same quality healthcare as the rich which is how it should be! 😇😇😇 Nobody should be treated better medically just because they have no money and tax paid healthcare is free at point of use which is more compassionate to the poor and this is coming from someone with a good paying job and good healthcare insurance however I also understand not everyone is as fortunate as I am and lots of poverty is awful so I think the poor should get the same quality healthcare as the rich! 😇😇😇

@Heartlander The drugs trade is probably the most perfectly globalised commerce that exists (if you exclude small scale cannabis farming). Much of the current demand stems from poor health and lukewarm regulation. Lack of economic opportunity may also drive drug use, but I doubt many people would view dealing as a viable alternative to a legitimate job.

@MommyLucy tRUMP is all about lowering the quality and increasing the costs of health care for all Americans.

Remember how he ran on “Repeal & Replace”Obamacare in his first misadministration? He said he would replace it with his “beautiful plan.” And as we all found out, there was NO PLAN yet alone a “beautiful plan.” So he called on the completely unprepared Republicans to quickly come up with a plan. That’s when tRUMP made his stupid remark “Who knew health insurance could be so complicated?” The sheer ignorance and incompetence of the man! What they came up with was so terrible EVEN tRUMP said to vote against it! Beautiful example of MAGA IGNORANCE & INCOMPETENCE!

Now, second time around, it’s NO BETTER.

tRUMP & Muskrat are cutting MediCare, MediCaid, have Willy Nilly fired thousands of VA health care employees with no rhythm or reason, and now an internal VA memo has leaked (and incompetent tRUMP CHEERLEADER DOUG COLLINS has confirmed) that by the end of September the VA intends to fire 80,000 health care workers. How did they arrive at this ridiculous number? Some fool just pulled it out of their nether regions.

This amounts to cutting 15% of the VA work force. And with the long overdue PACT ACT brought by the Biden administration the work of the VA is steadily increasing. They targeted VA employment levels at the end of 2019–before President Biden wisely increased the manning levels, thus greatly improving access to care, reducing waiting times, increasing specialty care, and assuring excellence for ALL VETERANS.

Shameful that tRUMP actively courted veterans to vote for him with his vicious LIES in the form of false campaign promises which he had absolutely NO INTENTION OF KEEPING! Quite the opposite, in fact.

The appointment of RFK, Jr as health secretary is a disaster for our health care system. The expanding measles epidemic in Texas is just the tip of the iceberg.

Shame on these Republican Senators approving all these incompetent tRUMP appointees.

@SunshineGirl When Trump won in 2016, the stock market went down initially because everyone expected Hillary to win. All the liberals screamed, "See!? See!? Trump is going to cause a depression." Or did you conveniently forget that. Never happened either.

The market tanked under Biden for a bit. We even had two consecutive quarters of negative GDP. The WH tried to change the definition of a recession.

We had mass inflation under Biden, and the left tried to tell us it was under control when prices wouod stay flat for a month, and then ignore any inflationary pressure the following month.

Trump knows exactly what he's doing. He applied tariffs to China in his first term. No one batted an eye. Suddenly he wins his 2nd term, and the globalists know they're finished, so tariffs are evil...eventhough every country in the world has used them.
And you are hanging on daily economic changes...any little market disruption, and it's the 2016 narrative all over again.

You're the one who thinks she's some sort of economics expert. Tariffs have been utilized since before the industrial revolution. Every country uses them. Oh...but they're bad when the orange man does it.

You can't even hide your hypocrisy.

In the meantime, your communist prime minister can't decide what to do about Ukraine, but the Nazi will happily jail anyone posting a meme complaining about Muslim gang rapes. Your own house is a total pile of shit, so I guess you need to point fingers elsewhere.

@BizSuitStacy I believe in free trade, as this promotes prosperity and peaceful cooperation between nations. I oppose protectionist tariffs in any form, irrespective of who levies them. It is a tragic waste of economic potential and political goodwill.

I am well aware of history. The repeal of the Corn Laws in Britain in 1846 (tariffs on imported foods and cereal grains) brought an end to 32 years of artificially inflated food prices that benefited farmers at the expense of the rest of the population. By opening up markets we alleviated famine in Ireland, transferred wealth from the richest 10% of the population to the poorest 90% (I understand this point may be distressing to conservatives), and paved the way for 60 years of unprecedented prosperity.

@TexChik Well dare I say, Canada was not a terribly good market to target in order to redress the trade imbalance.

Trump signed the same trade agreement with Mecico and Canada that he is now decrying as creating "unfair" conditions 🤔 And the fact that he has issued exemptions from his own punitive tariffs on about half of all imports from Mexico and a third from Canada, suggests that he has been bought and bribed.

@SunshineGirl Well I guess you will just have to complain to your congressman, won't you?

@SunshineGirl

@wildbill83 So nobody’s buying fentanyl story?

@wildbill83 Exactly

@wildbill83 I oppose all protectionist tariffs. They restrict the free movement of goods, interfere in enterprise, and the cost is invariably borne by workers and consumers rather than the politicians who think they know best.

@NewWorldToronto Regardless diminish the risks over the all continents

@NewWorldToronto Hmmm. ... Sounds like a move that you will one day regret.

One attribute about the US that everyone seems to forget is how fast it can turn itself around, how lemons can be used to make lemonade.

For now though, thanks for the help in driving the price down. Rember, it's buy low and sell high.

@anythingoes477 The deficit will only fall if US exports remain at current levels . . good luck with that!

@specman Actually it takes around 10 years to recover or make profit again. Same all over the world.

@specman nice try. He can’t use that tire old excuse anymore. Everything that happens now, is entirely on Trump.

@ninalanyon No one will gain from this chaos, I fear.