Back in the 1980s, when I was a teenager and just starting to see a world outside my home and school, a rich New York Democrat said that foreign trade was out of hand. Unfair. That other nations were stacking the deck to hurt us. That it had to be stopped. That we had to do something about it. I\u2019ve lived my entire adult life watching what some have called the sucking sound of wealth being vacuumed out of our country and sent throughout the world. Others have been more targeted and said it was being sucked out of the American middle class.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m fifty now, and I\u2019ve watched the factories and mines and refineries and power plants that fueled our economy closed, only to be reopened in other countries and the American workers now out of a job told to learn to code. I actually did learn to code, and though I don\u2019t work in that industry, I did build a good job for myself. But I\u2019ve watched President after President just not tackle that giant vacuum of wealth. But now, for the third election in a row, the American people have gone out to vote for the man who has talked about it all my adult life. Voted to tell him to do something about it.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know if it will work. But if we continue on the course we are on now, America will crumble and die. I\u2019ve watched the looting in my lifetime and I want the next generations to have a chance at something better than what the looters left behind. I don\u2019t know if we can, but we have to try. And if we\u2019re the only country in the world not using tariffs to protect our homegrown industries, then we will always lose to those who use tariffs to protect their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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