When Trump decided to run for president, he said he would use the business skills that helped him make a fortune to make America prosperous and great again.
At the same time, we must never forget the inheritance received from America's Founding Fathers – the plan for conducting business in the world: the Constitution of the United States of America, which is liberty's shield that has guaranteed American freedoms and prosperity though the best and worst of times.
Until the 1950s, the only innovations that came from China and Japan were trinkets you could find in Chinatown, and made-in-Japan’s Cracker Jack prizes found at the bottom of the box.
Now, however, investors in Japan and China hold significant shares of U.S. public debt. Together, as of December 2023, they accounted for nearly $2 trillion, or about 7 percent of DHBP.
Oy vey iz mir, what happened?
In the 1960s, I was working at Berlang Steel on Madison Avenue in New York City. We sold structural steel pipe valves and fittings to construction companies throughout the nation.
At that time, the cost of A36 structural steel primarily used in building skyscrapers was 18 cents a pound per 20 ton truck load. During this period, American steel mills like U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel cornered the domestic and foreign markets – there was no real competition.
That was the case until 1960 when a freighter arrived in Washington State from Japan with a boat load of A36 grade steel selling at 12 cents a pound per 20 ton truck load.
The Japanese were desperately in need of vast amounts of steel to rebuild their infrastructure. With our help and money, they rebuilt Nippon Steel in Japan from the ground up.
The new Japanese plants were larger, and technologically more advanced, than ours. A complete overhaul would be needed of our steel mills in Pennsylvania to keep up with the new competition, but it never happened.
Once it was given this technological edge and cheap labor, Japan was able sell steel on the international markets at lower prices than America, thus undercutting the advantages had gained in a free-market economy.
Yes, the fact ignorant American politicians failed to protect US steel mills by putting high tariffs on Japanese steel imports to offset Japan's advantage of a cheap price was the mitigating factor that shut down the US' own steel mills in the future.
At that time, I called Brown & Roots Fleur and many other major construction companies I had contacts with. They assured me they would never buy this steel from Japan – but they were wrong.
With the full range of industrial services including engineering, construction, maintenance, on-call construction, and turnaround services around the world, America could not compete with other companies who could buy cheaper steel.
The same thing happened to American cotton mills as the garment industry went to China, who was able to provide cheap labor and clothing, undercutting the American markets. At that time, there were not sufficiently high tariffs on their imports to protect our manufacturing.
The mills closed in the South because they could no longer compete with China.
A friend of mine at that time made a fortune in the garment industry selling his goods to stores all over the United States. His dresses were manufactured in America. He relied on the local cotton textile mills to finish his products because of the competition they faced from cheap labor and minimal tariffs on the imports to America.
Those selling their garments "made in America" could no longer compete with those getting their goods made and manufactured in China.
Everyone in the fashion industry and major clothing outlets had no choice but to jump aboard and have their clothes made and manufactured in China or go out of business.
Yes, China went from selling us trinkets to cornering the market on putting clothes on the back of the American people.
Just look at the American made-in-China Walmart outlet, Oy gevalt!
And then there was NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, an international agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
President Trump said we were getting the wrong end of the stick from NAFTA, after 2.4 million jobs were lost in the domestic economy.
The loss of United States manufacturing jobs was due to the building of car plants in Mexico, because it was more cost-effective. President Trump said he would put on a 25% tariff if they wanted to import those cars back to America. They complied with President Trump's use of the U.S. Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which states that the president can raise tariffs on imports that pose a threat to national security. When Biden came into office, he reversed Trump's position.
When intellectual elites, rather than the free market, are the only ones who can determine the greater good for all, a nation's incentive to generate wealth disappears and poverty follows.
I’ve had my own experience with this ideology. In 1969, I went to work and soon became a partner at Medtorn Xray systems.
We sold high-ticket items: General Electric, ADDAC, MRIs and CT-Scan machines into Canada and South America. We dismantled these machines that were being replaced by ones with more advanced technology to keep up with the competition.
We cornered the market because we had the technical skills to make sure these products were working before and after we dismantled them – then getting approval from the customer after inspection, shipped the medical equipment freight on board collecting our money before the boat left the harbor.
They bought them in Canada because their machines were twice as old as our used medical products.
They relied on American innovation to keep up with advances in technology and the quick turn-around in products it produces.
They could never keep up with the turn-around in new products and ideas because their socialist regulations caused a lack of the competition needed to produce superior products.
Instead, major companies and small companies were not only overtaxed, they needed the seal of approval from their government controlled by corrupt officials like all repressive totalitarian-controlled societies.
China, and Russia, were the same but worse. They needed our innovation. They needed our products. This is what their people were looking for. When they could not compete, they stole our intellectual properties that we hardly put any tariffs on even though they used slave labor to undercut our free market.
It all boils down to unfair tariffs from those who pay next to nothing to import their goods to America – much like mob extortion in a criminal monopoly, creating an impenetrable wall. Welcome to Cuba. Welcome to America.
Those who approve of these unfair trade practices continue to say "the sky is falling, Chicken Little." They threaten to retaliate if we impose high tariffs.
Donald Trump got it right to retaliate with extra high import taxes.
Where have all our politicians been, those who were supposed to represent us now that a champion has come to turn the bow of our ship-of-state around so the wind is at our back!
Some even want to sink this ship of prosperity and kill its captain Donald Trump.
Speculation and supply and demand govern the price of goods. None of this is a Wall Street invention. It happens every day in every market in the world – even in the bazaars and the streets of the Middle East. This is where people haggle over the price produced by supply and demand.
In other words, speculation, perception, and availability are what drive the price of goods.
The sober fact remains: It is America’s free market system that brings about the competition necessary to produce superior products, resulting in a higher standard of living for all people, not only for the rich.
In its history, America has taken the bold step to develop the individual as the key building block to develop a thriving civilization freed from the chains of oppression that bound its ancestors to the most ruthless contenders of power since the beginning of recorded history.
Thus, protecting America's country's free market system under God's Domain.
On June 14, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed a bill to insert the phrase “under God” into the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.
From then on, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – under God and free from the constraints of tyranny – was every American's sacred trust, and duty.
The push to add “under God” to the pledge gained momentum following World War II, in the midst of the Cold War, in order to protect America and the world from being subverted by Communist influences, a period when U.S. politicians were keen to assert the superiority of U.S. capitalism over Soviet communism.
Seventy years later, we find this faith-based nation at its own Valley Forge, facing a powerful enemy who believes its wisdom and power are greater than God’s, that its norms and culture surpass the moral and righteous teachings of the Bible, that they have in fact surpassed God in importance. The result is a corrupt, immoral, hate-filled elected and shadow government in Washington and throughout America. And that, my friends, is the very essence of un-American tyranny.
The battle for the soul of this great nation is happening before our eyes – it is a war! Every day is a fight to reclaim independence – there is a revolution on American soil. The Democrats long ago declared war on God and his Rule of Law as embodied in America's founding documents. Donald Trump has taken the lead to foil their plans and restore America's founding purpose and noble cause by Making America Great Again.
This confirms the importance of defending the Constitution of the United States of America, Liberty's Shield, that secures its citizens prosperity and freedom from those who would deny them happiness and essential independence.
A line from which there would likely be no return was about to be crossed in the last national election.
Never before in US history havd people who agree with the communists gained such broad and deep control of the American government, as Stephen Miller stated in May 2024.
God forbid if they had gotten reelected – the markets would have crashed. Were Americans expected to just sit back and watch everything they fought for, for more than 234 years, be dishonored, desecrated, and defiled?
America was about to be swallowed whole by a political behemoth – freedoms being usurped from within. In reality, this is the greatest threat that has ever happened to the free world.
World events that will shape the eternal face of humanity are even now underway.
The lifelines of liberty are still being severed. The high ground (Reagan’s Beacon on the Hill) that secures the boundaries that separate reason from irrationality, democracy from tyranny, and free-market economies from globally-controlled collectives, were breached by Biden not long after he took office.
This is an era that demands total sobriety – a time when fingers must always be on the pulse of an anomaly that deeply assailed us, without missing a single beat, lest in the face of global uncertainty and unrest there is abandonment of the open-market of free ideas to seek protection in a global enterprise that mandates we accept agreements from the extortionist communist criminal enterprise in power in exchange for financial security and peace.
Doing so would be an ideological road map doomed to certain failure in every generation to come in America.
Why did we insist that Kamala had no plan when she was running for President? She did not care what was happening at the borders. Critics were right about one thing. She really did not care.
This is what I wrote in 2020 on this matter that is pinned on my Facebook page:
The real reason there are open borders, and its root cause, is that Biden made his decision (with Kamala) about what is happening at the borders two years ago when he said "racism" in America is systemic. In another words, it is an incurable cancer.
That is why he said "build back better," and of course, you can't build back anything unless you tear it down first.
In other words, Americans do not deserve to enjoy the benefits of their wealth, because America is a racist capitalist criminal enterprise.
On November 5, an election was scheduled that would permanently change the balance of power in the world.
In 2020,our Commander-in-chief greeted Red China with a free pass to distribute their death to America mandate as cartels brought and distributed their fentanyl across America border, causing 300,000 deaths and a unchecked slave trade.
Between 2020 and 2024, 15 million illegal immigrants crossed our borders, were caught unvetted and released, receiving free food, free housing, and a free education in Biden's fully woke public schools.
What never made sense was why did they keep insisting Kamala was appointed to make sure the borders were secure, when together with Joe Biden, she opened the borders to bring America to her knees. Their whole party is responsible for this act of treachery and treason that is why Americans must make sure their influence in every facet of our society must now be eliminated.
Some would say George Soros funded Biden's two-tiered justice system, and they are right, but it was also Farrakhan / Sharpton / and Obama-Biden; they are the culprits who created it, and they were the ones who as a generation of cultural thugs were offered a "no-bail get out of jail" free pass to attack America over and over again where none who were attacked had any right of recourse.
Harris’ vote total – approximately 74.3 million – indicates almost half of America supports her agenda.
What can we expect from them? Will they reconstitute their claim that Trump is a felon who declared war on the Constitution when they shredded it. You bet they will.
I just celebrated Thanksgiving, and I am going to sit back and enjoy the America I fought for for over 40 years under the leadership of Donald Trump and other American Patriots. So after my my turkey dinner, my sports, and a cold beer, I am back in the land of the brave and the home of the free. Victory was ours. We are never not going back to a progressive-woke-cum Communist takeover. God bless you, President Trump, and God bless the troops who secured the freedoms Americans have today.