(01-01-2018, 07:02 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(01-01-2018, 04:21 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote: Everyone knows this is how it’s always been but we’ll probably hear about how this hurts children in Pakistan instead.

Actually, given how many American companies outsource work to Pakistan for cheap labor, and how boned those companies would be if Trump did something stupid like cut off trade with them or tell them to go do horrible things to themselves, we should be hearing about Trump sabotaging the economy to get his rocks off.

Pakistan is our 57th largest trading partner, and we have a $1.3B deficit with them. America dominates their economy, but they hardly contribute anything at all to ours.

Anything we'd lose, another country would be happy to pick up. Meanwhile, they'd see a huge loss if Americans stopped buying from them. 

So, how is stopping trade (which he hasn't done) with a country that we're in deficit to a bad thing when they offer little-to-nothing?

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