1. It is a government policy choice to let foreign competition fuck our industrial heartland. It will be a goverment policy choice to reverse that.
2. Why should a tariff paid by the American consumers be a matter of concern for them?
3. From that right wing rag, NPR. The Forces Driving Middle-Aged White People's 'Deaths Of Despair'
"In 2015, when researchers Anne Case and Angus Deaton discovered that death rates had been rising dramatically since 1999 among middle-aged white Americans, they weren't sure why people were dying younger, reversing decades of longer life expectancy.
Now the husband-and-wife economists say they have a better understanding of what's causing these "deaths of despair" by suicide, drugs and alcohol.
In a follow-up to their groundbreaking 2015 work, they say that a lack of steady, well-paying jobs for whites without college degrees has caused pain, distress and social dysfunction to build up over time. The mortality rate for that group, ages 45 to 54, increased by a half percent each year from 1999 to 2013.
But whites with college degrees haven't suffered the same lack of economic opportunity and haven't seen the same loss of life expectancy. The study was published Thursday in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity."
"Anne Case: These deaths of despair have been accompanied by reduced labor force participation, reduced marriage rates, increases in reports of poor health and poor mental health. So we are beginning to thread a story in that it's possible that [the trend is] consistent with the labor market collapsing for people with less than a college degree. In turn, those people are being less able to form stable marriages, and in turn that has effects on the kind of economic and social supports that people need in order to thrive."
1. Over dramatic much?
2. I am sure our grain farmers will not need to ask that question soon, they will be living it.
3. So, uneducated white people are too lazy to do something to better themselves and choose to kill themselves. Seems like Darwin was right.
7 years ago my wife and were facing some of those same pressures, deep in debt and not much in the way of prospects after getting out of the Corps. So we did something about it, since that time I went from "some college" to a Masters degree and my wife started and completed Nursing school and is now an RN. We are now basically debt free and making more than 4 times what we were 7 years ago as a family.
1. YOur use of ridicule as a dodge is noted. My point stands. I support the one trade policy, you suppor the other. YOu are the one pretending it is more than that.
2. Another dodge. The real answer is that they care because they want to make Trade Surpluses. You couldn't say that because you want to pretend that our massive Trade DEFICITS are not something that needs fixing.
3. You asked me to support my claim that this country has been harmed by our trade partners. I provided it, and now you've moved the goal posts to, while they should do something about it. That's another dodge.
Three strikes and you are out.
THis is where you admit that you have lost the debate and we move on to discussing "what next".