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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
negotiate, like adults
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I think on something like it's kind of hard to really negotiate in a lot of ways. What would be considered a win? 15 % instead of 25%? How does Canada deal with a force that is designed to completely alter American life?
For Americans, America First, MAGA, rebuilding America and making sure that the little guy who has been screwed over for generations, the goal is tariffs and rebuilding the American economy and people.
America will tariff countries like Canada, China, Mexico in order to onboard millions more jobs of high quality nature back to America. Jobs that pay very well with no post secondary education and allow people to move up the class chain. Hard work should allow economic mobility upward, currently that is not the case.
Trump's tariffs are suppose to result in your job and mine effectively being moved to America if we are involved in the sectors being targeted by Trump.
The goal is for America to produce a lot more domestically speaking and export that outwards. You and I are suppose to be able to go to Wal-Mart soon and effectively buy Made in America goods at a fair price. We are suppose to be able to buy an iPhone and Apple products that are made in America for a similar cost. The MAGA people are sick of the elites and are suppose to be laser focused on the little guy. There is not suppose to be an obsession with executive compensation and stock market valuation, those days are over as of Day #1 if you follow the doctrine of MAGA and America first.
Now a lot of people both right and left and even a lot of Trump supporters argue the above but that is the goal. The goal is to uplift tens of millions of low and middle income people from the depth of despair to a better economic future. China is obsessed with taking people from the rice fields and making them middle class. America has been obsessed with keeping tens of millions in poverty and beholden to slave living conditions. If Trump doesn't do the above, then what was the point of 14+ years of noise about it if it doesn't happen? For the same nonsense just with someone else?
We got a lot of competing priorities and it won't be pretty.