Who do you think has been carrying the burden?

I’ll hang up and listen…

You want to know who has been living beyond their means? Most of the rest of the world and they have done it on the backs of the tax paying Americans. The American government has lived beyond their means and they have done it on the backs of the tax paying Americans.

Unknown. Grifters (political benefactors) are manipulating the market as a slight off hand effort for numerous benefits: TDS, DOGE diversion, financial, and political gains. Do not underestimate their ability, nor willingness, to sacrifice the many for the few…

Amac gets it...

https://amac.us/newsline/economy/elites-hate-trumps-tariffs-because-they-work/

VDH gets it too...

https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1908329277033979993

I will give my personal account of tariffs and ramifications of tariffs in the real world. I worked for a company that was part of several mergers. Early on one such was the merger between a production facility and distribution facility. I was from the production side but inherited duties on both. The distribution side had been importing for years trying to do so duty free because of Ag related products but there are strict stipulation to do so and simply put the i’s were not dotted and t’s were not crossed. This resulted in hundreds of entries being “suspended” rather that fully liquidated meaning the duty free requests were basically put on hold. Kind of a dark cloud hanging over the business since the duties would have been north of $500k. Finally there was a new US Customs director for DFW who did not like this unresolved issue. Between him, our import broker, our VP, corporate attorney, and myself we had a meeting and came to a resolution. Our attorney drafted a document confirming end use of our products that had to be presented for each import and the new DFW direction liquidated all entries at zero duty. It was a happy day. All sounds great right? Now the not so fun part begins. We are able to import duty free…BUT we supply other regions around the world. In this case we supplied S. America and also had a factory in Brazil. We sent products to Brazil and they paid substantial duty so what happens when the corporate accountants figure all this out. They shut down the part of the manufacturing side that injection molded the product and added a state of the art capital investment to the Brazil plant then had us import from Brazil…lower wages in Brazil plus no import duty in the US it was a win win for the company but the the employee’s jobs that were lost never came back. My job changed from a production manager to logistics manager. This is how it works in the real world folks and unfortunately I can actually list other examples.

Listen to what Bill Ackman says, he is a smart one. He called the covid market crash months before anyone else and got paid nicely.

He has managed to brainwash at least 4 people on this thread
I have never seen such worship to a dude, that could care less about them

I think one of the biggest problems is people don’t quite understand how all of this ties together. And I’ll put myself in that basket. I get bits and parts but I knew there was a bigger picture that myself and the average Joe doesn’t completely grasp.



Having my morning coffee on my back patio enjoying the rain - boom! I think this is the best explanation I’ve read.



Fox News Opinion Article

Such a stupid statement on every level.

you’re funny Butch….you make me laugh. I’ve never seen someone so remotely clueless.

Brain washed in what way?

And I do not worship him. There is a lot I do not like about him, but he is the best we got.

Who does Butch worship? Karl Marx? Hillary? The Senile One?

He’s a case study….told me he voted for Trump. I think he yanking our chain. He worships at the liberal alter…..he thinks Clinton, Obama and Biden cared about him.

This is a really good interview if you have not seen it, CNN, not Fox giving bias questions to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.. Note in there were Wal Mart is making China lower their price to offset the tariff, it is what I mentioned in my earlier post. Again we are playing hardball now. And Wal-mart is a good example of American companies playing hardball too.

You quote Clayton Williams rape comments
Boy
That’s hilarious