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Not sure to me trade deficit is the right measure. Look at the tariffs. For example some nations produce goods of better quality and lower cost and if the playing field is level they will have a trade surplus. Assuming they are respecting human rights and international pollution standards then they earned their surplus. As an example one reason USA might have a trade surplus with other nation is our ability to produce FOOD at a lower cost and in quantity. And at one point Japan was producing much better cars to USA and earned their sales jump.

You may be right. The future is unknown. On the flip side if products can be made with much less human labor then their cost will be equally less costly and more widely available. It might usher in a period of wealth and prosperity for all. I mean if the cost of a new Mercedes matches the cost of a skateboard we all have a Merc. Somehow I suspect we will see a middle of the road between the bleak everyone has the standard of living of a Lao rice farmer and everyone has a Merc.

IMO all any nation should be looking for is fair trade. If one accepts products in an industry with no tariffs then it should go both ways. I have no idea if this is the goal.

It isn't me to believe. It is the massive quantity of evidence available on this very resource. 😃

Yes those industries are DOA. But not innovation as the issue. Production costs are too high in comparison to the sweat shops in Asia. The cost to manufacture a Nike shoe in Massachusetts is massively higher than in Shanghai or Vietnam. Reality is some day this might not be true. When robotics truly remove the unskilled labor force from the equation or when standard of living costs are on par.

All media should always be questioning all presidents. The real issue today is media (all US media) then chooses how to spin their answers via editing or non presentation of answers they didn't want.

Note this is the same method employed by Biden. The problem is congress has abdicated some of it's constitutional role to presidents going back to Reagan and Clinton. Heck I don't think the senate very presented Biden with a budget which I believe is a role they are mandated to fulfill. So Trump is hardly doing this in a vacuum.

I would disagree that lack of innovation or invention is the problem. IMO the problem is labor costs and excessive red tape. The cost to build a factory is much higher with the amount of permits needed and inspections etc. Then building costs are high with labor to build being much higher than that in 3rd world countries. After that your run rate is very high with unionized labor costs being double or triple that in China or India etc. Really is tough to open a new business in some places the the amount of hurdles placed in front of business. Now SOME of them are for good reason and I don't want the USA to allow open sewers and spewing chemicals into the ecosystem. But there needs to be a better balance than what we have now.

I love history revision. I lived the evolution of data networking as a systems engineer in the 80s-90s. From TDM, circuit switching, X.25, Frame Relay to ATM and TCP/IP. Arpanet was the first experiment in true packet switching and was way ahead of the curve migrating away from circuit switching. But if someone wants to believe a single person outside of Silicon Valley was "the inventor of the internet" I'll just shrug my shoulders. Belief can be comforting.

How is my post in bad faith? You inferred the "evil Trump" would have protestors shot down. It never happened and won't happen. You clearly have a world view that is one of projecting hate and violence on the right and especially Trump. Same as the one that projects Trump won't step down. And yes message boards did the same thing to GW Bush back in his era projecting "fascist" and would not leave office. Denial that this happened is funny. Back then it was BDS (Bush derangement syndrome). And I have no doubt if another republican wins the presidency in 2028 he will be compared to Hitler and called a fascist. The playbook remains the same as the players change. This isn't a personal attack. This is attacking what you post on this forum. If you wish to clarify that you don't think Trump would have protestors shot down feel free.

And protestors shot down was....... yeah none. Your imagined machine gunning of protestors never happened and the takeovers never happened. Get help. The fascists are on the left not the right. People who are brainwashed as you are can protest no penalty. Stay off the roads and don't commit violence and all is well.

Did happen. Many far left people were crying about how GW Bush would not leave office. Just because you didn't know about it or don't remember doesn't mean it didn't happen. Just like now. You are proposing fear Trump won't leave office. People like you (far left) worried Bush would not hand power over to the next president. And 10 years from now you can disavow anyone ever said it about Trump when the discussion is of some other guy (Vance maybe) not leaving after 8 years. It gets tiresome. Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

Some of you are giving way too much credit to a single guy for inventing the internet. My bet is most of you haven't a clue how inter computer networking actually communicates. I mean it's OK. Most of us don't know how electricity flows to lights and other devices. We just use it. And if it makes you feel good that a guy born in England defined some of the specs feel good. Trust me that the real work to invent, test and build the protocols occurred in the USA in the 60s and 70s by Arpanet and universities like Stanford and others. Betting most of you wouldn't understand the difference between a defined guaranteed bandwidth network and packet switching ala X25 or current IP protocols. I installed X25 switching and worked with the engineers that defined ATM switching which currently carries the higher speed data for the internet. I designed the first private ATM network ever implemented (Intel) and many other private cell switching (private cell architecture) networks. One guy from Switzerland or England is just a small part of the big picture. But hey, feel free to think it was invented by one guy.

I remember idiot far lefties predicting the same exact think about GW Bush. When will they learn and reach out to reality.

I am curious what impeachable offenses he has already committed. I mean I get it you hate him and would put a knife in his back if you could, but what has he actually done that is impeachable? I am also unaware of massive street actions occurring today. And come on, kill many protestors? You need help. This isn't Tienanmen Square.

A computer like Turings was stand alone. The internet is a system for networking computers. I have a little experience in it as my career was in networking in Silicon Valley for companies that had a hand in the development of various protocols that the internet functions on today. My last company was bought out by Cisco Systems who some might have heard of. This is not to belittle Turing. He was a genius and ahead of his time. But he had nothing to do with the internet. At least not to my knowledge. Never know. I could be unaware of some development on paper he did that led to something in the internet today.

OK wanna expand on that? This should be good.

Weird prediction. I recall predictions Obama would be assassinated. Or Biden would step down. Trump will serve until 2028 unless he suffers a medical emergency or dies. No one is getting ousted just because one side doesn't like his policies.

Holy <deleted>. I never realized Southland which is 7/11 in the USA had a parent company in Japan.

So will 7/11 get canceled in Thailand? 🤣

Maybe because some people are in a wait and see mode. I look out further than a one day event or "perhaps everything gets more expensive". The markets have a tendency to react wildly at uncertainty. If the market continues to sink and prices rise and it appears the world won't come to a reasonable agreement about tariffs in a few months THEN I will criticize Trump. The problem with the left is it wants to critique before knowing the outcome.

Need to differentiate between the people of Iran and the psychotic regime controlling them in Iran. I think most of the people of Iran would choose a return of the Shah if it meant getting rid of the nutty suicidal mullahs.

"""“The American dream is not ‘let them eat flat screens,’” he said, arguing that it is instead about having good jobs that are not lost to foreign competition and wages that are high enough to afford homes.""" Is this wrong? Is the dream to have the latest iPhone and hip clothes and wonder if you will be able to educate your children? Or is job stability and earning enough to own a home more important?

I was a lot more frightened when Kamala was VP.