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President Trump doesn't have the power to implement these tariffs and he's making a massive mistake with them...

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So you are saying that we had to tank our economy,hurt our closest economic neighbors, while we are in a delicate inflation situation, just cause it was gonna get bad someday?

I know you don't agree with this move. You know it's dumb, I know you do.

You also know it has nothing to do with Fentanyl or it wouldn't be about Canada.

I can't help but think this is one of those situations where Trump just wants to bully weaker people. It is his business philosophy and is pretty much the only tool in his startegic toolbox.

It also feels like a pretty bad idea strategically when we know he was elected primarily to fix the economy, and this move, at a minimum is going to hurt Americans in the short term.

I just don't get the strategy.
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I would just say that the people asked Trump, or really Biden too, stop the flow of fentanyl. Thats what the people wanted and asked Trump about on the campaign trail. He is trying to listen to and respond to their concerns.

We are also asking democrats, and Trump, to clean up San Franciso. I hope he sends in the feds to San Fran. It's a disgrace that one of our cities has fallen to drug addicts.

These drugs don't just affect the user. It's not just weed, or cocaine or whatever other casual drug you want to compare it to. It's destroyed a whole city and killed hundreds of thousands.
Then you need to add Salt Lake City to the mix. Back in September I was in San Francisco and Salt Lake City in back to back weeks and there were just as many homeless and filth in Salt Lake City. In all reality, just about every large city should be included based on my many travels. I get that San Francisco has become the poster child for urban blight but they have lots and lots of company.
 
Then you need to add Salt Lake City to the mix. Back in September I was in San Francisco and Salt Lake City in back to back weeks and there were just as many homeless and filth in Salt Lake City. In all reality, just about every large city should be included based on my many travels. I get that San Francisco has become the poster child for urban blight but they have lots and lots of company.
There are quite a few homeless encampments here in Atlanta too.
 
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Then you need to add Salt Lake City to the mix. Back in September I was in San Francisco and Salt Lake City in back to back weeks and there were just as many homeless and filth in Salt Lake City. In all reality, just about every large city should be included based on my many travels. I get that San Francisco has become the poster child for urban blight but they have lots and lots of company.
I 100% agree.

Denver is disgusting. Im sure there are others. I was just listing ones i had personal experience with. I personally witnessed the zombie's in San Fran and the shitting on the streets. There are wholes swaths of the city that normal people can't visit because the homeless have blocked the sidewalks and left their needles and feces everywhere. It's a real place in a prominent American city. Disgusting that it's allowed to happen and that our voters think thats ok or somehow humane.

But yes, it's a huge disappointment that our citizens have settled for what we are currently witnessing. It doesn't have to be that way.
 
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Finland's approach to combatting homelessness is an interesting case study.


Interesting. My wife has done a lot of work with children from poverty including homelessness. It very much aligns with a lot of what she has experienced.

She took a class on poverty and how it impacts decision making and priorities. It really helped me to understand the befuddling decisions making that we see. ie, "You have all these past due bills, but you used your tax refund for a new cell phone and shoes"?

It makes a little more sense when you come from an experience where you always have past due bills, but this is the one chance to own a new pair of Jordans. There is no concept of ever not being out of debt or poor. Generational Poverty is extremely complex and really hard to fix.
 
Some things may go up while others will go down while more high quality jobs are added increasing the spending power of American citizens.
What are the odds that you'd support a policy that says, "Pay the government more in taxes so they can subsidize X industry you don't work in?" That's what a tariff is in effect. It doesn't make things cheaper. It's not going to increase real wages; employers have to pay more for everything too.

There is no universe where things get cheaper as supply goes down.
 
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