You posited that the tariffs were to put the economy on war footing, and your response evades

Evades what? You called BS, I answered. Not my fault that actual government sources are saying this. You just don't want to hear it.

Putting the economy on a war footing isn't being done and those are empty words.

It implies a lot, were one equipped to think it through. Alas.

I'm glad you know how to quote Wikipedia without attribution. That shows us you can at least type a couple of things into da Google and <CTRL-C> and <CTRL-V> your way to writing posts. Awesome.

Question for you.
What percentage of America's GPD did manufacturing represent in the late 1930's vs. now? I'll give you part of the answer: right now manufacturing is ~10% of our total GDP.

You're constantly braying on about the South China Sea and Chinese aggression. How do you propose to confront them if we have to buy everything from them?

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