>>1240482First of all, you have to start somewhere when it comes to china import export. The trade deficit of nearly 200 billion is worrying.
Remember, many jobs got lost when China entered the WTO, more jobs got lost, when NAFTA came to place and those people (at least many of them) never got a chance on a new job again. They call this rust belt now. Entire regions lost all opportunities and jobs for the people.
Also, who says that jobs that got moved to china can never come back again. I tell you, national production is the future. Seen to the gas and energy prices and how this will develop, long distance transportation of stuff and materials will be pretty expensive.
It can't be a bad thing to have a proper national production of most of the daily use things in the country. Besides that, it brings people into jobs and makes them paying taxes instead of receiving them in form of food stamps or welfare money.
I have myself a company with 28 employees and have a national production here in Germany. I am into machine engineering and the tariffs don't play a bigger role in my case, but i know companies that need these tariffs to be upheld, because they produce plastic detail for the car industry or other branches and they would most likely be totally destroyed by the chinese and many thousand people would lose their jobs
Mate, hundreds of thousands of people in the US are homeless. When i'm in the states, i see vans and RV's all the time parking on the streets and people living in them. Especially in california, nevada and washington state.
According to the government, there are about 50 million people on food stamps. GET THESE PEOPLE INTO JOBS. Create jobs for them, get the production of things that got sourced out to china back to the US. This is the only long term stable alternative to make this society not implode in the long run.
You have to know, hungry and freezing people tend to revolt.
