Yes.
Better to start now than never and one victory will insure more of them.
Change is difficult, but necessary and the uphill battle will be great and worthwhile.

Perhaps the initial results of his novel approach will bring such amazingly positive results that the American public will wake up and understand that Washington is (was) the problem and consequently vote for the party of REAL progress.

I hope so.

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." ___ Lao Tzu

Now that we know, how to execute the traitors (without be executed for the attempts.) 👍 for above comments.

"If I were a Trump advisor, I would tell him to "right our own ship" by getting rid of government as much as possible, deport violent illegals, and review and renew the education system." I would advise the same and he'd likely just nod as he and his administration are already working on these things. The battle timeline actually has less than 2 years as losing congress at the midterms would end the efforts and begin another flurry of impeachments and lawsuits gumming up the works. The tariff gambit just launched has to show gains by then as well, but these things can be very slow as it will take longer than that to build (rebuild) the expected infrastructure.

We now know that the DeepState tricks Presidents into "getting what the DS wants". This is a perfect example. But once there. we know what they did!

There is also the intended effect of increasing savings when individuals conquer the addiction to buying every trinket advertised
and instead decide to save for future needs. That saving provides capital to finance domestic production.

Perhaps because those countries produce enough of their own goods and don't particularly value US goods ?
Thats just my guess.

We'll see how this goes.

If I were a Trump advisor, I would tell him to "right our own ship" by getting rid of government as much as possible, deport violent illegals, and review and renew the education system.

Thats enough of a battle for 4 years. Remember, if he does enough to injure the American public, he will have destroyed any hope of Vance being elected in 2028.

I think all of us here understand who pays the tariff and where the tariff money goes. What's at stake here is the tariff effect on international trade and domestic production. Tariffs are not just a treasury filler, they are a check ball in the pipeline flow of international goods and wealth transfer. Too long foreign countries have put in place check balls blocking the flow of our goods to their country and no such check ball was in place on our side blocking their goods. Wealth flowed in one direction, out of the US, and with it went production and jobs. We are discovering about how long that can last and it needs to be fixed. Trump has made it abundantly clear US tariffs are meant to be temporary depending on the decisions of the foreign country's leadership regarding their "check ball". Free trade, in theory, is a good thing but country's placing tariffs on US goods and the US not reciprocating is not free trade.

The main point of the EPA may have been a good idea, but when it turned out to be crack for the busy body control freaks it all went to hell. The perfect example of bloated all powerful bureaucracy gone really bad.

The recent ripples in "The Dow", IMHO, is the banking/WallSt cartel having a fit over Trump changing the rules of the game they set up for themselves. The cartel will recover on Main Streets money as usual.

I see we are on the same page on a lot of this.

The EPA was established by Richard Nixon (?!) to deal with some very large environmental problems during the 1970s .

The problem with this is:
Once a "governmet organization" (an oxymoron, to be sure...) is established, it's job becomes to sustain itself by spending all of it's budget so that it gets next year's budget increase.

There isn't an "end-game" to solving problems. The game eventually evolves into creating problems in order solve the problems that THEY CREATED !

Nothing good can ever come from that.

America is "getting screwed" because we are the prostitute.

Henry Kissinger was correct when he stated that the overall inconsistent foreign policy of the United States would be our demise.

We are sometimes the peacemakers and sometimes the creators of wars (depending upon who is in charge and what that particular President decides is important).

I love this country but the politicians since WWII have been spreading this country's "legs" mighty wide.

If I were other nations, I would certainly take a "wait-and-see" attitude toward this new administration.

Hopefully, these "tarriff wars" will end in many thoughtful free-trade agreements.

For now, I'll take a "wait-and-see" attitude.

'If tariffs are SO BAD of an idea. Why is it EVERY country charges US Tariffs?'

They do not ask or charge us to pay them a tax or duty for a purchase, but rather ask their purchasers of US goods to pay a tax to their treasury, just as a US tariff on a foreign good asks the purchaser to pay a duty or tax to the US treasury, i.e.,to remove the tariff from the economy and send it to the US government.

Rand was very clear about discussions, to define your terms.In discussions on tariffs, e.g., each side uses a different definition of tariff, one is favorable to standard of living and one that in long run reduces the standard of living by reducing purchasing power.

Sounds like there should be a tariff against everything the EPA does to harm American businesses.
The EPA is arguably a worse enemy than any foreign power.
But speaking of plundering honest people, the banking/WallSt cartel is even worse.

IMHO he IS seeing globally as in America is getting screwed on a worldwide basis. Trade barriers on American goods, NATO, and the UN just to name a few. How did America get stuck dealing with the Houthies (sp?) rather than the EU? Taiwan and Japan want our carrier groups off their shores, but make it damn hard to sell a Ford in Taipei or Tokyo. China wants to sell anything in the US, but try to buy a Harley in Beijing for a reasonable price. It's about time America got leadership with enough moxie to extend a middle finger salute to the world.

Trump FA'd during his first term. He found out, and yet he survived. Paybacks are going to be hell for those thought they could FA with him. Rather than politically and judicially pursue their enemies like Obama and Biden, Trump exposes his enemies to the harsh economic realities of exposure to what is normally behind the political curtain.

Thank you

Clinton screwed us in the '90's by making China a "Most Favored Trading Nation", legally on par with the UK, Japan, Germany & France. American companies were enticed to buy from China instead of the US, and now they were legally required to treat the Chinese exporters fairly.
High school education, as you say, took a college prep route. Even in the '70's, kids who went to Vocational School were looked down upon. Even before that, the government had outlawed most child labor, finally destroying the apprentice system which worked well for thousands of years, so now we have kids who can fre Willy and save the whales, but can't run a drill press.
As far as Trump's tariffs, though, when many say they won't work, why are they working so well for all these other countries?

Good point, teri-amborn, but it began long before the '90s. The one and only letter I ever wrote a congressman was in the early '70s addressing the trade problems with Japan and their tariffs on our goods. The response was a so-what-I-didn't-even-read-your-note form letter and that was the end of that. The rest is history. Move up to 1986 and I was on a research project at a steel mill outside of Pittsburgh, Pa. in an effort to improve the quality of plated coil stock. One of the lunch meetings was held on one of the upper floors in a building overlooking the point where the Ohio, Allegheny, and Monongahela rivers converged. I was standing by the window taking in the sight when a steel mill VP came up next to me and pointed out two bridges crossing the rivers. The older bridge on the left was made with American steel and the newer one on the right was made with Japanese steel. He explained since the government had to go with the lowest bidder, how could scrap metal be shipped to Japan from say-Wisconsin, turned into bridge steel, and shipped back to Pittsburgh cheaper than an American mill virtually down the road? He warned me not to think "American unions" because that is a BS answer. He said the reason is Japan currently subsidizes the hell out of their mills and while America taxes the hell out of its mills. He also said Japanese tariffs and regulations against American steel and steel products are such that US Steel couldn't sell a rivet in Tokyo. There were no such barriers against Japanese steel coming to America. Yeah, this crap has been going on a long time.

Side story to the big story: In 1986 I was installing research equipment on a plating line in a steel mill not far from Pittsburgh and always got chatty with the folks doing the work. I was told one of the operators (let's call him Charlie) that retired a few years back had a legendary encounter. The management of the mill was bringing a delegation of Japanese steel manufacturers through on a tour (industrial spy mission, actually) and when they got to Charlie's station on the plating line he was asked to explain what he was doing and how the line worked. Charlie just huffed and turned his back rather rudely so the manager in charge asked him why he was being rude. Charlie, red faced and furrowed brow, answered in hearing range of the Japanese, "I didn't tell those yellow bastards anything on Bhutan and I'm not telling them anything now!". They quickly moved on.

So, I agree. But lets be clear here.
The Banksters LOOTED every country, and they used the USA PoW (Proof of Weapons) as their backing, and EXPORTED the INFLATION they were guaranteed to generate.

And any country that didn't play their game. Well, we'd call them commies, and LIBERATE them. And then REBUILD THEM with taxpayer money. And claim "Hero Status".

I realize now. We were a great ideal that was stolen around 1913 when a small group usurped control of the money, and then of our country!

Now we have to suffer along side of them, to shake the disease.

Aided, of course, by the EPA through the Deep State. The EPA shut down every industry, in the order that the big investors were ready to off-shore. I don't have proof other than how we don't seem to miss a beat while we are being dismantled.!

The mathematical method used to calculate a country's so called tariff value in the administration's chart may be questioned, but all it points out is the final value is called by the wrong name. Perhaps instead of calling it a tariff value, plunder value may be a bit more accurate because it includes other barriers and currency manipulation in the mix and if Trump needs to impose a tariff to offset another country's plunder value, then so be it. On a case by case basis it may be found the plunder value is a bit high or not high enough, but that's what negotiations and deals are made of. You have to start somewhere.

"If tariffs are SO BAD of an idea. Why is it EVERY country charges US Tariffs? And where is their suffering?" - and so there it is!

Nice post, Captain Kirk.

The problem with manufacturing arose in the 1990s when President Clinton sold our manufacturing base to China.

In the decades that followed, the USA lost early training for manufacturing jobs by eliminating industrial arts from high school curriculum.

In addition, the people who truly work (baby-boomers) are retiring in droves.

Unfortunately, President Trump's policy decisions aren't based in reality and reason. They won't work.

The key to making big decisions is to think things through thoroughly.

See your actions and words through the lens of the other person and then decide whether or not to act.

I hope that President Trump can put aside his agenda and see his moves more globally.

It's never a good idea to create enemies, if avoidable.

"It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the man who starts its use. No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part III, Ch. 7.
It seems to me that President Trump is retaliating. One may argue that he could possibly do a better job but at least (as I see it) he is struggling to get there. I haven't seen his like since Ronald Regan.