I’m beginning to think that Pat Buchanan may be on to something. It might well behoove the United States to put up a wall, quit importing and exporting, and just take care of ourselves. Employ Americans to produce whatever we need, keep our currency to ourselves, and tell the rest of the world to go to Hell. We are one of the few countries who could do that. China is another.
Yes, we will be a little poorer, no more amazingly cheap, stylish stuff at Target, Walmart, and the Old Time Pottery Barn. We’ll have to drill our own oil, and burn coal to make electricity, and drive Chevys, but we’ll get by, and everyone will have a job.
It’s going to be rough. This is a world-changer, like WW II and the collapse of the Soviet Union. I don’t believe anything the pundits or politicians say. I believe George Soros and Rupert Murdoch.