I explained the exports are gold and silver which are mostly price increases and financing. Net export growth was negative in Q3 when you back out gold and precious metals. The guy making something lost his job because he is not exporting any more than last year - manufacturing jobs contracted last year. STUFF WE MAKE did not go up. Only investing metals went up. It made up 96% of the export increase in the last release in Q3 for October.
Trump and his circle rely on people not reading or taking time to understand what the numbers tell you. Increasing exports has nothing to do with stuff we made. Its a rush to buy gold and silver which happens in volatile times.
Gold and silver havent risen like this since '79-80 recession... closest to it was 09-11 recession.
So, with gold and sliver ignored, how much did exports decrease?
Bad change isnt good. You seem to give Trump credit for disrupting. Tearing things down is easy. Building is hard. That is why Trump hasnt built any healthcare options to replace obamacare. Its why Trump never finished an "infrastructure week". Trump has dismantled a lot. He has built, improved, or replaced nothing. He hasnt even built a wall, his election cornerstone. Shit. Look at the East Wing.... he tore it down and has no plan approved and has people quitting from the disruption and a
judge is pausing the construction.
Again, you failed to address my point. YOu are blaming Trump for a status qou that goes back to the 70s. That is not correct thinking.
Also, you are fighting to keep the status quo, at teh same time as citing the bad numbers as problems to hit Trump with. That makes no sense.
Bringing jobs back, rising wages, not letting places like China, **** up over, these seem like GOOD changes.
What do you want to do, to fix the bad status qou, that you tried to smear Trump with?
Price increases from COVID took an entire year. Prices are edging up but many companies are hoping for a SCOTUS miracle and have made as many adjustments as they can. Why do you think hiring and business investment has plummeted? Companies are cutting corners to stave off price increases as long as they can. It wont be much longer in my opinion unless SCOTUS kills the tariffs.I
So, if inflation remains under control, for say, another quarter, would you be open to the possiblity that you are wrong then?
Again. Its easier to tear down than to build or improve. As an example... one of many.. i give you the
destruction of food safety and a specific example was increasing slaughterhouse line speeds while decreasing government inspections. Absolutely crazy.
Flip side of that, is if it is so important, then the overreach was a bad idea. It invited backlash. Next time as we rebuild, try to remember to NOT do that.
All you are saying is that you are OK giving farmers billions of dollars due to who they vote for even though Trump's policies destroy their markets. 2025 was a record trade deficit in agriculture. There is an excuse for everything. $30B for farmers to rectify a Trump made issue is ok but $30B in healthcare subsidies for the working class and poor was too much? The hypocrisy.
Yes, I am ok with protecting American farmers from a counter attack from our trading partners....
NOt sure why you think that is NOT ok.
You are basically trying to blame the democrats for the republicans making the deficit WORSE. That is a republican choice. ...
I explained my reasoning. Nothing in your post addressed my point of democratic demonization of republicans on the issue of budgets. So, that's you not being serious about this.
And yes, I blame dems for this. You are in charge on this one. You won. YOu get to run it out, till it blows up. YOur call.
Meh. The Fed, courts, law enforcement, intelligence agencies—those systems only work when people believe they follow rules, not factions.
If you turn them into political battlegrounds, you don’t punish your opponents… you damage the credibility of the whole country and raise the cost of doing business for everyone.
That’s not “politics.” That’s institutional erosion. And it always ends with weaker stability, weaker confidence, and worse outcomes for regular people.
Correct. And no one, who is not a fool, believes at this point, that they follow rules and are not factions.
Your side never considers the obvious results of your actions. Often I ask libs, what they plan to do,, when the obvious consequences arrive. EVERY time the dem fails to understand teh question.
This is what maga gets dead wrong. There is no future for manufacturing in the US. No one wants those jobs. They are hard work and pay shit. The profit sucks too. Most of our economy is service not goods.
And look at the biggest American companies: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta.. They aren’t “factory empires.” They’re built on services, software, platforms, and networks.
Trying to rebuild the economy around 1950s industry is like Trump trying to bring back coal—it’s horse-and-buggy thinking in a world that moved on.
And the reality check? We’ve lost domestic manufacturing jobs in 2025—not gained them.
There you are defending the status quo again, even after you have used the status qou to attack Trump because it is so shitty.
Giving up on working class jobs, is not an answer. It is just telling working class people that you don't care about them.
You can choose to NOT care about them. But to do that and then attack them for NOT supporting you politically, is kind of a jerk move.
MAGA is trying to serve the interests of the American worker. YOu are being very critical. I have not heard any ideas from you on how to serve the interests of the American worker.
