Our dynamic and very strong manufacturing was gutted by NAFTA (we can thank the globalist Bushes and Clinton) This decimated the middle class. Wall Street and the top 10% who own most of the securities have done very well. We must now take care of Main Street. What we have been doing via tax, tax and Federal gov spending with total abandonment: 35+ trillion in debt is unsustainable. So the choice is: continue what we have been doing and ultimately crash and burn or TRY and right the ship.
I started and ran a very successful IT business for 44 yrs. At two points in the first 20 yrs I nearly went out of business. I tried multiple strategies. Some worked 100%, some worked partially and some didn’t work at all and we tweaked or discarded our strategies on the fly…the point is, when an organization is failing one has to typically attack from multiple points: cut costs, get rid of redundant efforts, analyze procedures, look at/analyze employee and department/ organizational successes and failures for new pathways forwards AND it is VERY painful but in most instances if acknowledged and attacked fast enough you can succeed. Do I know that the tariffs will work? I suspect that some adjustments that address our balance of trade will. What that looks like I really don’t know. What I do know is that the Trump admin is moving rapidly and attacking multiple fronts: the cost of illegal aliens affecting both tax dollars and Safty, DOGE cut costs, cut waste, cut redundant depts and personnel, selling unused assets, eliminate as much fraud as possible etc. Regardless of the BS whining we hear from the Marxist left they are attacking the problem the right way. This is only the first 100 days!!!! The leftist MSM is already screaming failure when there has been huge progress made. The so called economists they quote are all university elites who have never run a business or had their hard earned money on the line. They engage in nothing more than mental masterbation. Some others have real problems with tariffs…fare enough. We don’t know how any of this will look in the end but I’m blown away with the fearless effort to save our nation. If we don’t try failure is inevitable. Emerson said “do the thing and you will have the power” we need action not decades more of cheap insincere rhetoric.