Maybe this is gut check time?

"Regardless how this turns out, let this be a lesson to this country which will never be forgotten. It sucks to be 'owned' by another country. It sucks to have just about everything we need, made in a faraway land run by a dictator. And it sucks that country unleashed a killer virus all over the world and was never held accountable." 

Here we are. In a real honest to goodness trade war. With the world? Nope - just China. Most other civilized countries (except Canada) are lining up to negotiate new deals which make sense to everyone. But China? No way, Jose! They think they have the upper hand with us. As the saying goes, they may THINK they have the upper hand with us, but they really DON'T.

Walking around the common American household, it is dang near impossible to find much in the house which is not made in China. And why is that? Over the years, globalists like Obama, Kerry, and Biden have abdicated much of our national manufacturing prowess to the red menace from the east. Why in the world would we do that? To have cheap crap. That might be part of it. To reshape our country into being more of "thinkers" rather than "doers". That might be another reason - even though our education test scores look terrible. Or - China "owns" some of our leadership. Really? Might have to put Hunter under oath (or the Big Guy) to get to the truth on that one.

Some Wall Street economist was flipping out yesterday. "This trade war with our biggest trading partner is going to kill the average American family! It will cost almost $5,000 more a year per family." That statement says so much. It is illustrative of just how far the needle is in our arms. China has us by the short hairs right now, and they know it. They buy very little from us, steal our patents, and we are stuck buying their goods made by slave labor in China. How did we get to this point? By selfish interests. Putting America last instead of first. Now for Trump to fix it, there is going to some pain as the needle is pulled out of our arms.

What is going in in Washington right now? Negotiations - pure and simple. This will be the largest and greatest worldwide trade negotiation - ever. Is China going to be involved? Not right now. Maybe never. If China can't read the tea leaves (so to speak), they could be on the outside looking in. Meanwhile, the beat goes on with the other nations.

Regardless how this turns out, let this be a lesson to this country which will never be forgotten. It sucks to be "owned" by another country. It sucks to have just about everything we need, made in a faraway land run by a dictator. And it sucks this country (China) unleashed a killer virus all over the world and was never held accountable. 

The saying always goes, the people are good, it is just their leadership we can't stand. My response to that is simple - Chinese people, it is up to you to fix your leaders. We can't. All we can do is punish your entire country with this trade war. And that is regrettable so many innocent civilians in China must bear the pain of what their leaders caused.