(01-24-2018, 09:46 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: Why don't we just blockade all the world's major shipping routes? We have, what, 9 aircraft carrier groups? Which, by the way, is more than the rest of the world combined.

Let's get some bang out of that buck!

(I'm kidding, people)

I know you're kidding, but we don't need to blockade shipping routes because we're the ones who keep them open. If we wanted worldwide shipping to descend into chaos, it would be accomplished by simply putting our naval forces into stand down.

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(01-24-2018, 05:33 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote:

(01-24-2018, 05:14 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:  Whether or not the tax cut will bring companies back to the US, at least our tax rate will no longer be driving them away in the future.

China-India-Mexico = No


Other Countries = Perhaps

As noted above, we can't compete with the extremely low hourly wages currently being paid for the high output jobs being done in China, India, and Mexico.

Not to mention the absolute dearth of environmental and safety regulations. We play by the rules, they don't.

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