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Tariffs and ammo prices?
- By LRRPF52
- The Bear Pit
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I have yet to meet anyone in-person who understands why America is exceptional. No college professors from esteemed universities, no senior US military officers, no politicians, but only a tiny few private think tank or private intelligence firms.
The most egregious void in basic knowledge among the “educated elite” is the lack of a fundamental understanding of US geography, transportation infrastructure, climate, farmland, and freedom of maneuver regionally. We have no regional threat nations on our borders.
These “educated elites” don’t know that:
The US has the largest arable farmland in the world, with unusually-long growing and harvest seasons because we live in a temperate zone.
A vast connected river network that facilitates movement of people, materials, and goods that acted as the framework from which we built THE WORLD’s most vast Railroad network, without even a close peer.
That acted as the framework for the most connected and high mileage highway network in the world, which was built as we expanded our airport and airfield inventory to over 14,000 locations.
We have the 3rd-largest population in the world, with some of the least population density of any populated nation. We’re 180th in the world ranking for population density. You can’t even find us on the list without CTRL F.
From this choice piece of real estate above all others, we built the biggest economy in the world already by no later than 1890, and have never looked in the rearview mirror since.
We went on to invent heavier-than-air, powered flight. Mass-production of automobiles. Expansion of telegraph services and mass communication. We were called upon by Europe in 2 World Wars to come bail them out. We conquered the largest historic naval power in the pacific, then made them our allies.
Post-WWII, we provided the security for the free trade of goods around the world without even asking for duties to help subsidize the unmatched Navy that secured those routes.
We were already the largest economy and industrial base before the turn of the last century, so naturally, the nations of the world sought to export their goods to the US, where they could get more value than from any of their neighbors. This elevated the wealth of all nations that exported their goods to the US.
In the latter years of the Cold War and post-Cold War, these countries had already figured out how to grease the wheels of the corrupt politicians in DC, who were largely put into office by organized crime families during Prohibition in the 1920s. Lobbying was the name of the game, and sell-out traitors within our Congress and the political parties knew they could become personally-enriched for a few pieces of silver, while passing the financial burdens onto the taxpayers.
That included shipping a lot of our mid and high-level skill manufacturing jobs to Asia, where labor costs were extremely cheap due to overpopulation. Asia has been in population decline now, due to many factors, with China’s One Child policy being the largest component of that.
These countries that took advantage of our generosity had the gaul to then charge us tariffs all these years as a nice “thank you stupid Amewican”, while their labor costs increased.
Somebody needed to address that, and it was never going to be any of the corrupt Congressmen and traditional executive path to the Presidency sell-outs from both political parties.
