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In reply to the discussion: 'I'm angry and scared': Trump-backing CEO whines that his proposed tariffs will 'cripple my company' [View all]IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)32. "I've got to believe he will change his mind, grant sensible exclusions"
One of the reasons for the strong Trump economy: More workers in the U.S. make products that are made from steel than make steel itself. Billions of dollars are pumped into the American economy by the unique and ingenious ways U.S. companies use steel and aluminum components like we do at Lucerne.
I wonder: Does President Trump know that his tariff on imported components threatens almost every manufacturing job in Michigan?
Does he know that my little company in my little corner of Michigan would lose 90 percent of its business overnight? Does he understand that a 25 percent tax on the components Lucerne uses would evaporate my profit margins? That it would shut us down?
I don't think he does. Because I know my president cares and I've got to believe he will change his mind, grant sensible exclusions, and help companies like Lucerne make America great again.
Hoping he'll only screw other people. My brain hurts from reading her impeccable logic.
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'I'm angry and scared': Trump-backing CEO whines that his proposed tariffs will 'cripple my company' [View all]
Soph0571
May 2018
OP
It is not bad luck, but actions have consequences. They made their bed, now sleep in it.
olegramps
May 2018
#19
Oh well his 4,000 lawsuits either against him or times that Trump sued other parties, ...
Botany
May 2018
#23
She was perfectly fine if the orange horror's policies devastated "those people",
catbyte
May 2018
#25
He will receive no sympathy from me. Elections have consequences as the right loves to remind us.
LonePirate
May 2018
#55
Read this in a loud and shrill voice: "BUT I VOOOOTED FOR HIM!!!11!" nt
JustABozoOnThisBus
May 2018
#69
"I didn't realize that voting for a clueless nitwit could help put a clueless nitwit in office!"
struggle4progress
May 2018
#75