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Canadians boycott the US     China vs US in Trade

I didn't know whether the topic belonged in the News forum or Politics but I chose Politics because it seemed more appropriate.  Many are giving Trump a rough go because of his standing up to China, Canada and Germany among others due to the vast Trade differences we have with them.  NAFTA was certainly damaging to American jobs especially many here in Alabama and the south.  Trump, today, is being lambasted and criticized for starting a Trade War but there has been a Trade War, that we have been losing, for a long time running.  

I suggest and submit that what Trump is doing was inevitable and needed to happen at some point because Politicians have brought us to this point where America had to make some move or just relinquish economic control over to China and become subservient to other Nations with respect to Trade.  China has over the years been allowed to gobble up most all the Trading advantages and the US has been put in a position where either this happened now, as it is happening, or it would never be able to happen.  We (the US) have allowed our Nation to be taken advantage of by almost all other nations and it was headed toward a point in time where the US could never challenge other nations because we would be so weakened and in a position that economically we could not ever make such a challenge. What Trump is doing is actually long overdue and should have been done long ago by the Bush Administration.  China and it's huge trade advantage began under Bill Clinton and I fault both Democrats and Republican parties/politicians for allowing this to happen.  

Now it's going to be painful for a lot of people and areas of trade in an attempt to right the ship, so to say, and to equalize things out if that is even possible today.   Many are not in favor of what Trump is doing but if Trump didn't do it now then I don't believe anyone could have done it at a point later in time due to the ever-building discrepancy in trade differentials between our nation and others.  Time will reveal who is or was correct, as time usually does, but I, for one, do not fault Trump in his attempt to make things more equal for America.

Be as the Bereans ( Acts 17:11 )

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both democrat and republican congress don't care,, they just want to live high in DC on our tax money.

As far as allies,,, what have they done for us?  we give billions to other countries, the trade agreements are unfair and lean to helping other countries.   Trade war or not, I am thankful we have a president standing up for us, to bad congress doesn't.

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