agreed. personally I think middle class Americans enjoy a standard of living that is too high. Americans shouldn’t have two cars and a home full of furniture. Most Americans shouldn’t be able to have a cell phone. A cell phone should really be a purview of the rich.
I wish Trump could fix the job loss and manufacturing dependency brought about by decades of heartless corporate greed. I think a lot of companies promising him big things will drag their feet till 2028.
The job loss and manufacturing dependency was largely caused by the poor deal that Clinton made over 20 plus years ago with China. Please be patient as Trump is reversing this. Let's let this play out.
Trump is going to directly participate in the trade negotiations with the Japanese trade negotiators (without the Japan prime minister) today. Yeh, Mr. Trump be in a "forward leaning" posture today. Not something you would ever see with Sleepy Joe. "As my father always used to say, Joey, a job is more than a paycheck." Yeh, okay Joe. Nappy, nappy time.
He's a huge joke in way over his head. Amazing really some of you more ignorant fks still believe in him. The US is getting absolutely wrecked in this trade war bs. Your posts are going to age about as well as the extreme permabears on here from 2009-2013. That is, not very well. Better to shut up and see what happens. Economics just isn't something you understand.
'His word is worthless': Ex-GOP insider warns UK on cutting trade deal with Trump https://www.rawstory.com/trump-uk-trade-deal/ David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, is warning the government of the United Kingdom against taking the olive branch being extended by Vice President J.D. Vance to forge a trade pact. Writing on X, Frum says that cozying up to the United States at a time when President Donald Trump is launching trade wars against nearly every country on Earth would be geopolitical folly for the United Kingdom. "In his first term, Donald Trump duped UK politicians into choosing the hardest possible Brexit by dangling the lure of a US-UK trade agreement," Frum began. "It never came to pass. Today, in an interview with a credulous journalist, VP Vance dangled the lure once more. Will it work again?" Frum then outlined why the U.K. should not see the U.S. under Trump as an ally but rather as a predator. "To the extent that Trump / Vance have a strategic vision for the US-UK relationship, it is not to strengthen the UK," he argued. "The vision is to weaken Europe by severing UK from the continent. Trump-Vance true 'special relationship' is with Russia." Frum concluded by urging the U.K. to forge closer ties with its nearest geographical neighbors rather than its longtime ally on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. "A savvy UK government would prioritize EU ties, not talks with Trump," he wrote. "His word is worthless, his intentions are malign, his method is chaos, and his preferred partner is Putin. There is no time to waste building strategic autonomy for EU+UK. Trump talks will only waste time."