John Kass has an exceptional piece here about the Wall Street vs. Main Street crowds and what we owe our children.
And what do we as Americans owe the children of America?
We owe them a chance at success, not a guaranteed outcome, but a chance at winning. A chance at a good paying job, a chance to buy a home and someday retire with dignity. The same chance our fathers gave us. We were all given the same thing. Opportunity. Not a guarantee. But a chance.
The issue at hand is the export of our manufacturing power. The political and financial elite sold America to China, offshored our ability to build things, and left men and women willing to do a hard day’s work to struggle to live in a part-time economy that sold them stuff we used to make here.
Donald Trump is trying to change that and the people who profited from the offshoring are freaking out.
They’re all complaining and whining and crying about Trump now.
But where were they when the Republican and Democrat establishments sold our nation out to China, and shipped all those good middle class American jobs overseas? They turned their backs on the American people and now they’re afraid it will cost them money.
You will know them by their response. Panicked. Partisan. And Wall Street is their ADHD baby; It reacts poorly to their distress, real or play-acted. The Tariff “war” is a long game that has nothing at all to do with tariffs, not the way the elites are painting them. The smartest people who are wrong about just everything else, advertised by their stenographers int he media who don’t just want Trump to fail, they want America to fail – as long as they keep their jobs and their wealth.
The real oligarchs are the bartenders who become millionaires after getting elected to Congress and the people who made Main Street unwalkable—poop, needles, homeless camps, vermin, drugs, and crime.
The homeless crisis is a manufacturing crisis, while workforce housing is just a euphemism for someplace to put the people America abandoned for easy money in Southeast Asia.
When the elites say jobs Americans won’t do, they mean jobs they won’t do. Jobs they sent away, but Trump wants to bring them back. He knows that most Americans like hard work; for most, a decent job supporting a family is all they need or want.
In the first two months he has already yoked trillions in new investment in manufacturing and production on our shores. And he’ll keep working till we’re all working, or at least, those of us who want to work, building things. Supporting economies that only trhive when America works. Building a domestic supply chain not beholden to the whims of foreign interests.
“The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO,” Mr. Trump posted. “Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!),” the president wrote on Truth Social half an hour before Wall Street opened for trading.
“Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!”
It won’t hurt as much as COVID-19, and if we get to the other side, they won’t be able to use another COVID-19 (real or imagined—not that we’re falling for that again) to beat us up like they did last time.
And that is what they are terrified of. Elites, especially progressive ones, don’t want you standing on two feet without their permission or support. And they sure as hell don’t want your children thinking they can.
