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On 2025-02-04 1:13 p.m., Ed P wrote:
> On 2/4/2025 1:12 PM, Janet wrote:
>> In article <67a2354c$0$1895507
>> $882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>, esp@snet.xxx says...
>>>
>>> On 2/3/2025 9:36 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>>>> On 2025-02-03, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Stop worrying about leftist people and just ask yourself if what
>>>>> Trump's doing, makes sense.
>>>>
>>>>> And if you think it does, please explain how.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As of today, Canada and Mexico are putting 10K people on our respective
>>>> borders, and Panama is appearing to cut loose from China and allowing
>>>> our warships through the canal for free. Tariffs for the three 
>>>> countries
>>>> have been suspended for now.
>>>> DJT has been in office for nearly a month and has done more for
>>>> America, in that time, than Obama and Biden did in twelve years.
>>>
>>> HAHAHAHA  Canada and Mexico are doing for him what they have already
>>> been doing.
>>>
>>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/total-lie-fed-up-gop- 
>>> strategist-lashes-out-as-expert-scoffs-at-trump-getting-rolled/ar- 
>>> AA1ymnqn?
>>
>>
>>   Trump:
>> "The USA has major deficits with Canada, Mexico, and China
>> (and almost all countries!), owes 36 Trillion Dollars, and
>> we?re not going to be the 'Stupid Country' any longer.
>> MAKE YOUR PRODUCT IN THE USA AND THERE ARE NO TARIFFS! Why
>> should the United States lose TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN
>> SUBSIDIZING OTHER COUNTRIES, and why should these other
>> countries pay a small fraction of the cost of what USA
>> citizens pay for Drugs and Pharmaceuticals, as an example?
>> THIS WILL BE THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA!"
>>
>>     You couldn't make it up.
>>
>>
>>     Janet UK
>>
> Times have changed.  We don't have enough people to make everything we 
> want to buy. Sure, we can make more stuff here, but then we don't want 
> to pay the price for it.
> 
> I got married in 1966 and bought a 19" B&W portable TV made in the USA 
> and paid about $160 for it.  Over a week's pay at the time.  Look at 
> what I can buy today for the same real dollars price made in Asia.

I think it was the Apple CEO, after being criticised for having Apple
products made in Asia, who pointed out that the USA used to have
thousands of tool and die makers but now has only a hundred or so.