America can get back to work, and quickly, if we simply enforce a trade balance between the US and the rest of the world.
If you are like me, and you listen to what is being said and being debated by our government leaders, you would think that we were in Russia in 1925. All anybody can talk about is what the government can do to stimulate job growth. Do they think we're going to start opening collectives and simply assigning people to work in them? Or wait! We can all become bridge builders. But no! The answer is to cut taxes; then the "job creators" will stop hiding in their 6000 sq ft homes and go start new businesses, to make products that…. No one will buy.
I wrote already this year that we need to send in the lorries – that's Churhill speak for trucks – to pay our chinese debt back with goods. Ok, we need some ships too, but no problem since they are already sailing back to China empty after unloading at our ports. Problem is, we can't really force China to buy our… what was it again I said they should buy from us? We can't force another country to buy our products. And the truth is, they probably don't want them.
What we can do is to send their goods away. That's right. We are a sovereign nation. We control our borders (sort of); we control our ports; and we have the power to pass laws to regulate (oh, such bad word…) how goods can move in and out. Funny thing about regulation; if a terrorist wants to come into our country and blow up Time Square; well, we have no qualms about making laws and regulations to stop that. But if another country wants to send enough goods at low price into our country that it cripples our economy, well in that case we have to wail and gnash our teeth about inhibiting free trade, and excessive government regulation. But I digress…
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