[TheRealThing]

Most existing trade agreements are the result of US good will, born in the post WW2 spirit of helping the countries of the world rebuild following WW2. And that includes the odious and festering thug ring we like to call the United Nations, and NAFTA, and more recently FAFSA BTW. Call me hard hearted but I'd say we've more than fulfilled any moral call to help our enemies rebuild. And MR Trump's America first policy wasn't implemented one moment too soon. America was on her knees when he was elected and I guarantee Obama et-al were very clear eyed in their ability to see that, as well as cheering their heads off about it. At any rate, it was high time to end the world welfare which the middle class of the US was asked to pay for BTW.

Comparably, the middle class of this land serves the same sort of vital role and are as important to the function of America's well being, as the great oceans to the earth serve to the health and well being of the entire planet. America IS the middle class, but foolhardy Democrat giveaways (which have discouraged the spirit of self sufficiency and besmirched the soul of the middle class) along with Obama's wealth redistribution schemes had managed to nearly vaporize the middle class. The hard earned savings of working folk that once drew interest in bank accounts has now been spent. And as I have mentioned vast numbers of middle class home owners had to refi, (that is borrow on their equities), which are unfortunately are now held by home mortgage companies. There went the kid's inheritance. But things were much worse than that. I believe owing to Trump's victory in 2016, pension funds, annuities, 401k's and other forms of retirement income plans were literally snatched out of the jaws of bankruptcy, brought back from the dead thanks to the resurgent US Stock Market. Trump did that, not Obama.

But tariffs have been in place on US made goods for decades, while we on the other had have looked the other way and encouraged the import of goods which were and are nearly tariff free. And those countries have gotten so used to the trade welfare we've provided for 70 years, their leaders most of whom were born long after the hard lessons of WW2 were learned, consider the one way trade imbalances their just due. THEY are the ones who've developed an addiction to the free lunch, not the US. No, we've just served the free lunch for perpetuity. US citizens born into the above described bondage, are evidently too brainwashed to figure that out.

If there is to be a trade war I say bring it. But these hand wringing modern day economists who are so worried about starting a trade war, ought to wake up or otherwise open their eyes and see the one they were born into.