The betrayal of our working class – and Trump’s goal to reverse it
Globalists use the threat of foreign aggression to launch U.S. aggression. It has been standing operating procedure since World War II.
Globalists use twin threats of recession or depression to perpetuate a world economy they control.
The World Health Organization began planning the next global pandemic during its COVID test run.
And climate change devotees used the weather to gain dictatorial control over every aspect of how people live their lives.
So here is Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase chairman, sitting down for a Fox interview, expressing his deep concern for our shared economic future if tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump inhibit the import of goods from the very companies CEOs such as Dimon financed in China.
He claims he is hearing talk of recession from “everybody.” Definitely not everybody. No one gets near this guy unless they are billionaires, useful politicians or an adoring press corps.
But there it is. There is the threat used to maintain the status quo.
Evidence of the latter is confirmed by the first words of the Fox report: “Jamie Dimon …has his finger on the pulse of America’s financial state. …”
It would follow, therefore, that Donald Trump, a billionaire with international negotiating skills, is wrong about tariffs. That conclusion was the purpose of the interview.
Progress, to Dimon, is essentially the status quo goal of world market growth. To American workers, it means big box stores filled with things made in Asia and big U.S. capital investments in overseas manufacturing. It appears the world traders can even deploy American military power to acquire the natural resources required to manufacture things in Asia.
“Made in the USA” disappeared from all manner of goods, from clothing and shoes to appliances and furniture and cars. Anything that required cheap labor went offshore.
Confronted with these conflicts, it is worth asking, “How did America become a wealthy and powerful nation?” The people who arrived here in the first three decades of settlement, worked the land. People spread across the continent from east to west to find and to claim ownership and work the land. Families often had many children, in part to work the land. People were independent. And a better life was their reward.
And then the 20th century happened, and industry claimed the larger share of available workers, and the machines industry produced reduced the agricultural demand for labor. Early on workers and industrious people were still in demand.
Next, in the 1960s, first the major colleges and universities, with support of the local school districts, declared only college graduates would be successful people equipped to participate in the American dream. Someone had to spend at least 16 years in a formal educational setting to even apply for a worthwhile job. As a result, skilled labor, along with unskilled labor, has been steady denigrated in America for 60 years.
For the first time in decades, Americans are listening to a politician who told them American labor had been the victim of American policy, and we needed, as a nation, to recapture and reaffirm what got the United States to No. 1.
There was some skepticism, as the endorsement of the working man and woman came from a billionaire. Voters strayed in 2020, and made a really big mistake.
While Donald Trump shows up at labor union meetings and sporting events, Dimon worries about disruption of the international financial scheme that made him wealthy.
The 125% tariff on China eliminates the need to build more manufacturing plants in China. If our goods are not made in China, there is no need to AI automate the ports to eliminate American jobs. Besides, 125% has no permanence. It is a negotiating figure.
Americans have noticed. And Americans do not seem to be particularly concerned about the racial and sexist extremism being acted out in the cities by opposing political forces. More to the liking of most folks would be a plentiful job supply that attracts the homeless back into the workforce.