It seems like every time another Republican House member gets hit with domestic abuse, child abuse, or sexual harassment allegations Mike Johnson starts yelling that Democrats are communists.
@UncleMaui1983@LDShotTakes@UncleMaui1983 I’ve followed you for quite some time because I love your positive attitude. It is clear to me that you live your Christian values out loud and publicly. I hope you and your wife get to foster kids so you can teach them to love and forgive people like @LDShotTakes
The country is 100% behind the president on fixing a global system of tariffs that has disadvantaged the country. But, business is a confidence game and confidence depends on trust.
President @realDonaldTrump has elevated the tariff issue to the most important geopolitical issue in the world, and he has gotten everyone’s attention. So far, so good.
And yes, other nations have taken advantage of the U.S. by protecting their home industries at the expense of millions of our jobs and economic growth in our country.
But, by placing massive and disproportionate tariffs on our friends and our enemies alike and thereby launching a global economic war against the whole world at once, we are in the process of destroying confidence in our country as a trading partner, as a place to do business, and as a market to invest capital.
The president has an opportunity to call a 90-day time out, negotiate and resolve unfair asymmetric tariff deals, and induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country.
If, on the other hand, on April 9th we launch economic nuclear war on every country in the world, business investment will grind to a halt, consumers will close their wallets and pocket books, and we will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that will take years and potentially decades to rehabilitate.
What CEO and what board of directors will be comfortable making large,
long-term, economic commitments in our country in the middle of an economic nuclear war?
I don’t know of one who will do so.
When markets crash, new investment stops, consumers stop spending money, and businesses have no choice but to curtail investment and fire workers.
And it is not just the big companies that will suffer. Small and medium size businesses and entrepreneurs will experience much greater pain. Almost no business can pass through an overnight massive increase in costs to their customers. And that’s true even if they have no debt, and, unfortunately, there is a massive amount of leverage in the system.
Business is a confidence game. The president is losing the confidence of business leaders around the globe. The consequences for our country and the millions of our citizens who have supported the president — in particular low-income consumers who are already under a huge amount of economic stress — are going to be severely negative. This is not what we voted for.
The President has an opportunity on Monday to call a time out and have the time to execute on fixing an unfair tariff system.
Alternatively, we are heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down.
May cooler heads prevail.
Q Mormons. Devout LDS. Publicly denouncing church leadership and wondering if tithing donations are being used to support trafficking. Take a bow, Glenn Beck. Stellar job, Sean Reyes. Truly impressive work, Tim. You infected rank-and-file Mormons with Q and your virus is winning.
@gummibear737@RealJamesWoods Can confirm. I used to be an urban bicyclist. Was relatively safe. Phones are the new problem. I’ve watched people pass me staring at their phones. Then I ride by the crash they caused. I put my bike in my truck and drive it to a bike trail now.