I'd imagine most dry goods are going to up in price. Which sucks for the hobby, but the price of entering the hobby or maintaining it has been skyrocketing for the last decade plus anyway. Look at all the FS threads of people getting out over the last few years specifically. The economy was shit already, no matter what people claim.
The dems screwed the pooch big time between Biden not really being president due to his mental decline, constant lies and nothing being transparent. A crap economy masked by printing money. Housing costs increased and we flood the gates with a bunch of undocumented individuals seeking sanctuary. We basically advertised everywhere for them to come. I believe 100% that was to bring in more Biden and then Harris votes. Then they send money all over the world to anyone, except our own tax payers and citizens in need. What about Hawaii? What about NC? Hopefully CA fairs a little better than them with everyone who got affected. But its looking like another land grab opportunity, we've all seen the Newsom interview. It's an absolute joke. Everyone focuses on tariffs but blinks an eye when it's discovered the trillions of US tax paying dollars that has been being sent all over the world for BS causes. Could that money not help us limp along as a country until we get back on our own two feet?
Heres an "If"- if that financial waste is halted and we bring industry back to US soil, paying US citizens to work those jobs and start redirecting tax paying dollars towards citizens I think the economy could turn out better, stronger and much more stable over time. The world would be cleaner, environmentally. We would have stricter emissions standards on industry on our soil. China upscales coal burning power plants to build and provide us with Green Energy equipment and its a damn joke. We can't do anything about it since we are reliant on them still. Side note, Solar is a joke IMO. Its not cost effective and an example of a mandatory waste of tax payer's dollars . Even with slave labor over in China, panels/systems are too expensive to NOT rely on government incentives/backing ( more US taxpaying dollars) to make them a financially positive option for home owners. Without big daddy gov, solar would have flopped right out the gate, and rightfully so. "Oh but evil Edison is jacking the rates up uncontrollably?!" Solar is stealing customers off a grid that the energy provided had to build, still has to maintain and service, AND supply to all the lost customers for when their Chinese crap system fails. It's all an absolute joke IMO. Similar to electric cars and their battery lifespans. Not being rebuildable. Charging mostly at night, off the grid that's mostly being provided by a coal burning facility at this point. All those wind turbines are a joke. I can never seem to find how much of CA's grid is actually powered by some of the green methods? Like a straight up percentage?
The meme above is dog shit IMO and an insult to our own. Most hands would still be up. If there is truth to that it's a result of a broken middle class, due to too low of wages, not due to people not wanting to physically work anymore. If US industry didn't need to compete with a BS country like China then wages would be better and the jobs would be more sought after. If middle class didn't need to support the unemployed and illegal, it would be even better.
I'm not a fan of China at all. Nothing race based, but their actions all point to them not being a "friend" of the US. They take our money, flourish off our business, and ignore our concerns while showing zero respect for us.
I think the tariff plan could work with time. But I do fear 4 years is not long enough to see positive changes from the plan, and the pendulum will swing back and we will be absolutely screwed at that point unfortunately. It'll be someone coming in, spending the first few years undoing everything while we all pay for it.
