Could it be that we have a deficit because:
We, in our early support for trade unions, unions that were formed, founded and justified out of abusive business owners, national and international corporations, that were paying too little and endangering peoples lives, allowed the unions, once they grew powerful enough to control elections, to raise wages and drive over regulation, to the point nearly all of our manufacturing has moved off shore? How can you have a trade balance, if you have nothing to trade?
LIke so many thing, union were a very good thing, then the wrong people got control of them and use them to abuse rather than benefit, as they were originally intended.
How can you have anything to trade if our wages, for the last 30 year, are 5 to 10 time higher than our competitions?
How can you build manufacturing facilities and maintain current ones, when we're regulated on nose picking, taking a leak, smoking a cigarette, birth control, drinking a Pepsi, calling a woman a lady, heating with natural gas, driving a truck with a cracked windshield, digging a hole in a gopher's back yard, putting up a 50 foot flag pole, speaking English, hiring the best person for the job, and I understand from my son, who make silly little signs for women to hang in their living rooms, out of plywood and paint, a thousand more hoops he has jump through to stay in compliance?
Who....................in the entire world, can afford, or would want to "buy American", based on the "wise and intellectual politicians, professors, media reporters" business plan we've been living under for the last 30 years? None, I mean none of these types could develop, manufacture, or market a bottle of drinking water to a desperate, choking of thirst millionaire.
We'll never solve our deficit problem until we have something to sell somebody? Simple as that. And we can snarl and snap and piss and moan about it and global warming, and the price of tea in China, until the cows come home and nothing is going to change, except the size of the deficit. Or........... we can use some common sense and start lifting some regulations, and no..............I don't want to go back to $2 and hour for labor or filthy air and toxic rivers and lakes. There is a huge difference between $75 dollars an hour for factor work and $2 an hour for factor work. Same with the difference in filthy air and zero pollution.
Common sense must become the norm again. But will it? I thought Trump would loose, so what do I know. Maybe he'll surprise me again, I sure as heck hope so. I got hope again, I guess there are some that don't. Well, we've traded places I guess, sorry they feel that way but I feel better, for the time being.
DC
