Yo, think first? Then Vote! Trump can`t do nothing without Congress if he even gets in there? The Establishment has other plans! So if you don`t want to waste your Vote? Might take a gander at Ted Cruz?
Not true. Not true at all.
The President has almost unilateral control of tariffs and import controls these days. And 'Treaties'? They call them 'Executive Agreements' today, bypassing the Senate if the POTUS wants to.
Perfectly legal. Happens dozens of times per year.
Look at what one of the great Presidents of our time did back in the day.
Our dollar was seriously overvalued, Foreign Countries were importing their goods here virtually unimpeded while they had all kinds of duties and tariffs on ours.
Then, President of The United States of America, Richard Milhouse Nixon, slapped an across the board 10% Tariff on ALL imports.
The rest of the world shit their pants and within weeks were at the bargaining table.
BTW, we got our Dollar lowered significantly after that. Enough so that we started to prosper again. A lot.
A POTUS has ENORMOUS power over export/import rules
And retaliation starts 0.0001 seconds later. Since we buy more from them than they do from us, that would mean the demand is greater on our side than on theirs. Prices for everything imported skyrocket immediately affected by the Tariff. That they also own our debt is not a good sign either but don't let facts stand in your way.
Our trade deficit for 2016 is almost a HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS and we are in March. Do you have ANY idea what that means? Not the googled definition, what it REALLY means?
Them owning debt doesn't mean much. What are they going to do?
Stop financing future debt for one thing.
Selling their existing notes for another.
If you think the relationship between those who owe and those who own is an equal partnership...that's equally hilarious. There is some truth to the old idiom that goes:
if someone owes you $50 bucks and can't repay you; they have a problem.
if someone owes you $50,000,000 bucks and can't repay you; you both have a problem.
But it only goes so far when you become jingoistic and start attacking their economy.
There is a burgeoning middle class in Brazil, Chile, Egypt, the middle East as they become more liberalized.... China is able to sell its goods pretty much worldwide.
I'll give you another example, the reason we have no pull with OPEC is because OPEC can sell oil worldwide and we are addicted to oil.
That you guys think there is some difference with cheap radios, knick knacks, or microwave ovens and oil::: well, I'd love to hear what it is.
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As for your reasoning that Carter, Reagan, BushI, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama not simply demanding American corporations and companies manufacture in America is that they are "assholes" is lame. I mean really. What is the difference between your reasoning for this and a 9/11 Truther's reasoning for Bush ordering the attacks or the developer blowing up his own buildings? It makes zeros sense.