Monday, January 30, 2017

Tariffs for Dummies

Greetings good citizen, talk about taking the 'long way home', assumption A.) regarding Trump's 'tariff strategy' is that levying the tariff affords the DOMESTIC MANUFACTURER the tariff is attached to a 'competitive advantage'.

What happens when there ISN'T A DOMESTIC EQUIVALENT?

THE TARIFF HITS YOU!


So instead of 'bringing jobs home' all tariffs do [in the absence of domestically produced products] is DRIVE UP THE PRICE!

Is this not the retailer's dream? Higher prices and a government to blame them on?

How sad is it that the One Percent thinks we're STUPID? Worse, they also KNOW there is nothing we can do about it now! We have to live with this one until we get another chance to try again four years from now. [Assuming we aren't invaded and occupied in the meantime for the 'safety' of the rest of the world...still a very real probability.]

Um, 'The Rich' AREN'T like you and me...and that statement is news to no one. Hell, even the rich know they are 'different' [how f'n pathetic is it that the think/believe they're 'superior'?] Nope, but it is that 'air of superiority' that feeds/drives something the average person doesn't have to contend with, the 'expectation' that whatever they come up with is, because it came from them, is, by necessity 'superior'.

Again, NOBODY should be 'shocked' that a man raised 'away' from the world you and I wake up in everyday would stumble when he attempts to deal with problems we regularly take in stride.

REGULAR 'politicians' don't go there. They say stuff in their stump speeches but most of it is meaningless drivel. They may talk about the nation's problems but intuitively KNOW better than to try and solve them. Those 'problems' exist for a reason and there are very powerful people behind those reasons!

So it is we have one side [commerce] of the 'true' political divide finally meeting the other, [criminal] side.

No irony should be lost that one side COULDN'T EXIST WITHOUT THE OTHER. [Although, admittedly, crime doesn't always consist of the pursuit of wealth, it is often only the by-product of a much darker passion.

Yes, good citizen, remove all 'wealth' from society and there will still be 'criminals', those who will take what you have simply because they can.

Worse, they'll justify this by calling it the 'Law of the Jungle', survival of the fittest when the taker is usually handicapped when it comes to being 'useful'.

You see, being 'useful' doesn't apply to THEM! They are 'superior' to the rabble they regularly prey upon. [How ironic this is the type that gravitates towards The Law?]

Ever wonder why the law today is more about penalty and payment than it is about Justice?

For profit prisons only add an exclamation point to my outrage!

Yet I find myself in the minority.

Backtracking slightly [everything is related, just some more than others] we have the 'job' of being president, part of which is actual. Try and actually 'do' the job you were elected to do and win yourself a nice [televised even] State Funeral or sit back, relax and let your 'betters' [the ones who financed your campaign] drive the bus, letting the chips fall where they may.

The JOB is NOT that 'complicated' [although the founders did the best they could with the tight timeline they had to work with, updating all the while as they rammed 'ratification' through the States, often in 'midnight sessions' because the public would revolt if they knew what the founders were up to!

Rope burns...something scoundrels are always wary of. If nothing else they feared hanging due to their own 'sloppiness' most of all!

Shouldn't the 'President' and by extension, the President's party [this time all 3 branches at under conservo-whacko, er, Republican control so theoretically there should be no limits on what the Republicants can achieve!]

Oh, wait a minute! We have a 'deeply divided' Republicant party. Half of them are 'traditionalists' and the other half are Tea-tards!

Shoot, what does this mean when it comes to 'making Murika Great Again?'

Better luck next time?

If nothing else we will be 'entertained' by the antics of the latest 'clown' elected to be the 'leader of the 'free world'.

I keep hearing about this place and I'd love to know where it is although by now I'm thinking this 'free world' is like money, it's actually 'a thing of the mind'.

Chances are most of us couldn't afford to live there so it's sort of a moot point.

I know they are fond of calling THIS the Land of the Free but that's not right, nothing here is 'free'...nothing is safe, nothing is sacred...probably better to call it the land of nothing...[because that's what most of us got!]

I know most of you have a low tolerance for 'boo-hoo'...which leads us to the next inevitable question...what's it like living in a house with no mirrors?

Thank you for letting me inside your head,

Gegner



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