Foolishness

So Reddit kept sharing posts from this group to my phone and I have to say, each post I see appears more and more ignorant. From tariff concerns to Elon Musk haters claiming he doesn’t understand rising costs.

Maybe that’s the premise of this group, fear mongering, but wow this is next level paranoia.

But that’s just flaming. So allow me to add some substance…

Firstly, like many of you, I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person with the ability to think critically. So, if you have an opposing view I’m happy to hear it, assuming it’s intelligently stated.

Second, I’m not a MAGA or trump fan. I believe ethic are lacking there and are an important quality in leaders.

Ok, onto the topics…

First the tariffs. I see many people talking about the tariffs as a sort of tax on goods that affect the average person. This is correct, but that’s only a small part of the story.

Tariffs are an important way to regulate international competition (e.g. protect domestic jobs). They are also a source of revenue the government can use to drive down the debt and ease inflation. Consider also the cost impact of shipping products thousands of miles… most of rural America needs manufacturing to keep a healthy economy, with so many downtrodden cities, bringing those jobs back will be huge for them.

In a broader sense, when you look at a countries health, you look at GDP. This is a measure of the products and services produced in a given country. Exports count, imports don’t. Why? Because producing things is healthy and consuming things (or importing them for sale) does not. It counts towards the manufacturing country’s GDP.

Enough on that…

Now about Elon Musk. The recent post suggests that he is unaware of rising costs because he says population decline is a problem. First, this argument doesn’t even make sense. The two things don’t correlate. He can be aware of the inflation issue and still say population decline is a problem.

Want to know the biggest threat to any government? Debt. Inflation. It’s why the country is willing to give Trump another shot, because when money gets tight people get desperate for solutions.

Elon is probably going to save this country from the out of control debt crisis in a massive way. You want cheaper day care and lower inflation? Get behind the guy.

And to say he doesn’t understand because he’s the richest man in the world, that’s a bit unfair.

Ok. I’m sure this will get banned for being confrontational so I probably just wasted 20 minutes, but hey, I just wanted to test it out to see if there are some sane, smart people in this group!