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    JUST TO KEEP THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE

    ---I don't want to suggest that trump lies---but when he tells you that the Chinese are paying the tariffs---he is lying.

    From July 2018 to July of this year tariffs have totaled $63 billion---all paid by you and me.

    Make no mistake---the Chinese problem needs fixed----but any suggestion that it will not be costly--to you and me is simply trump chit.

    Added in edit: The above is taken from this morning's WSJ. The article went on to say that these tariffs, if continued, could total $100 billion by year end. I am not sure that we had a viable alternative---we had already given away the farm when we awarded China "permanent favored nation status" in 2001.
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    If I had cause to choose whom is more reliable and trustworthy, I'd pick the Wall Street Journal over Trump.

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    As an aside---I was in China in 2001 when they were awarded "permanent favored nation status", you might have thought they just won the world cup and all the gold medals at the Olympics at the same time. In a sense they did---and in this country it went unnoticed by the vast majority. Few had any idea of what the long term implications of that would be.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    I think the Administration looks at this as short term pain for long term gain. Remains to be seen if it is successful. Either way he will own it.
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    Like the shootings he will be blamed, lets hope his dealing is still good and we all win.
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    You are correct, sir, we had very little choice. Suck it up.
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    I'm not arguing the need to suck "it" up----but there is no need to suck up the trump chit kool-aid.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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