05-31-2019, 01:22 PM
(05-27-2019, 08:43 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(05-27-2019, 06:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(05-27-2019, 10:16 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(05-27-2019, 09:53 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(05-26-2019, 11:42 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote: Maybe Trump is the regeneracy. I predict this new order will be about making America great and focusing on our own country rather than expansionism, big wars, free trade, or globalism.
That is how Trump fooled the people, saying he was for this focus on our country. But he has hired warmongers as his top advisors, like John Bolton, and is supporting a deadly proxy war against Iran in Yemen, is threatening Iran, is supporting Israel's genocide against Palestinians, was threatening North Korea, is carrying out a sanction campaign that is hurting the people of Venezuela, is expanding our military so we can win so many more wars that we'll get tired of winning, and carried out the war on the IS in a more deadly way. And focusing on our country by weakening our alliances only allows anti-American powers to gain more influence in the world, rather than just stopping the expansion of our world role. This does not help our economy either.
As far as focusing on our own country is concerned, yes he has started debilitating trade wars not only against China, but against nations that are on our level like in Europe, against which no trade wars are needed. And his focus on our country is only about letting big polluters destroy our water, our lands and our national monuments, and giving huge tax breaks to the oligarchy, which has resulted in no benefits to most taxpayers. This continuation of Reaganomics on steroids is not responsible for any economic benefit for our country, but only to the same global corporations he supposedly doesn't want to expand.
I think we shouldn't go to war with these countries. I disagree with him there and think he's acting dangerous though. We don't need all these wars for no reason. Sadly both the Republicans and Democrats are war mongers right now. I do want some tariffs and hard migration limits though. We can't compete with slave labor wages in the third world without sinking ourselves. It's impossible. I think tariffs are one of the only ways to save working class from globalism. Cheap products can be made here through automation with some people in the factories and more expensive products can be made here through different means.
I don't disagree; sensible tariffs should be applied on countries to which our companies send our jobs overseas for cheap labor and cheap regulations. But migrants are often scapegoats for low wages. Most only compete for the low wage jobs, are not paid fairly, and add to the economy through being customers and eventually businessmen and women and good workers. However Trump's migration policy is worrisome. He wants a merit system, which means he wants migrants to be people who would compete with those who get high salaries and wages.
I think restricted migration as in much fewer numbers. I do think the merit based system is dangerous because it's only to breakdown the wages of the middle class. The migrants are not at fault the elites are.
It seems that under Obama migration over the Mexican border had been reduced to a trickle. Now ironically with Trump's tough-guy approach, migration is exploding. It seems that the president's approach can't control climate change and droughts, nor gangs of thugs enforcing turf wars, nor corrupt tyrannical governments that the USA helped to install which attack the people. And as you say his approach will reduce opportunities for people here. And the destruction of education which he and his alligator Betsy DeVoss sponsor will not help prepare American workers for the higher-paying jobs.