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Steve Jobs Tim Cook and shipping out of America' industrial base and with it America's leadership of the Free World

05/26/2025

America's industrial strength, it's industrial base, is one of the four pillars of America's leadership of the Free World. Without it the Free World will fall apart. The other pillars are it's education and it's health care. Underfunding of education with declining enrolment of men in college and lack of factory jobs comes with loss of the industrial base for taxes, taxes avoided by Apple and other companies. All these problems are becoming clear in 2025 as DJT calls for reindustrializing the Nation.

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Trump, Apple relationship devolves with threats 

The Hill 05/26/2025

Tech’s Trump Whisperer, Tim Cook, Goes Quiet as His Influence Fades

NYTimes.com 05/26/2025

Tim Cook’s Bad Year Keeps Getting Worse

WSJ 05/24/2025

DJT US 25% auto import tariff April 2, 2025

03/30/2025

The impact of the 25% DJT US auto import tariff comes after NAFTA and USMCA Trade Treaty did little to prevent the outshoring of US jobs and manufacturing to Mexico and Canada. German and South Korean companies made about 80% to 60% of cars sold in the US in Mexico or in their home country. The outshoring was used by American and foreign companies as a way to keep American automobile wages low as American companies could threaten workers asking for higher wages with loss of jobs by outshoring the production. This happened for two decades under the elder Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. The US International Trade Commission estimates in a 2024 study that this 25% tariff would increase revenues by 5% and prices by 5% in the US for cars. Higher prices over 10% would be borne by affluent buyers of BMW's, Benz and Audis. Because US auto plants have excess capacity and operate at 60% in 2025 they could quickly increase American production without increasing prices as American manufacturers car sales increase. Hyundai plans to invest $21 billion in US plants from 2025. UAW union supports this move by DJT and trade advisers Lighthizer, Jamieson USTR, and Navarro.

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Trump says he 'couldn't care less' if car prices rise in the US

BBC News 03/30/2025

Transcript: UAW president Shawn Fain on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," March 30, 2025

03/30/2025

How Trump’s Tariffs Are Hitting Big Car Producers, in Charts

WSJ 03/27/2025

Trump Warned U.S. Automakers Not to Raise Prices in Response to Tariffs

WSJ 03/28/2025

Why cost of living is destroying the social compact in the US and Europe and upending governments in 2024-2025

02/24/2025

Used car prices are up 45% since 2019 putting used cars at average price $28000. It is not a discretionary cost, one needs a car to get to work in the US. There are cases of young people not able to pay soaring repair costs quitting work without transport. This is why there was so much discontent in 2024 after supply shocks and price gouging pushed up prices in 2024. Another factor evident in airline ticket pricing was demand and the excess income of the top 20 percent. In housing and apartment rentals supply shortages pushed up prices, demand and excess income of the top 20-30 percent pushed up prices beyond the reach of the rest, higher interest rates made it unaffordable to buy a home for most Americans.

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Why There Is No Relief Ahead for High Used-Car Prices

WSJ 02/15/2025

The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People

WSJ 02/24/2025

Income and Wealth Gaps US 2025- Top 10 percent support 50 percent of consumer spending in 2024

02/24/2025

Top 20 percent in the US have $1.2 trillion in excess income savings and increased Net Worth to $35 trillion from 2019 to 2025. Bottom 80 percent have about $300 billion in excess income savings and increased Net Worth to $14 trillion in that period.

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The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People

WSJ 02/24/2025

The week Kamala Harris became the 2024 Democratic nominee in 48 hours

07/25/2024

The two tumultuous weeks in July 2024 started with a sniper shooting at the former president, followed by the Republican Convention within days. The president's address calling for calm, Trump's 90 RNC address which rambled to veer off course. Second thoughts about Trump and Biden's age and calls by Democrats for Biden to withdraw after the faltering delivery in the debate. Biden has Covid and isolates for a few days. On July 22 around 1.45 pm Biden puts out a letter on X (Twitter) that he is withdrawing and giving his full support to Kamala. Within hours Harris has overwhelming support. The next day morning Harris has secured the delegates needed. By the 24th in 48 hours she has raised $250 million for the campaign and about 100,000 volunteers. A dizzying pace for 48 hours that riveted the attention of the American people and the world.

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With Speech to Teachers, Harris Waded into a Fiery Education Debate

NYTimes.com 07/25/2024

Kamala Harris: A woman of firsts – DW – 07/23/2024

dw.com 07/25/2024

‘Capable’ Harris and Biden’s legacy: key takeaways from the president’s address

The Guardian 07/25/2024

Biden Says He Will ‘Pass the Torch’ to Harris in Oval Office Address After Ending Campaign

WSJ 07/24/2024

Opinion | Kamala Harris Confounds the Republicans

WSJ 07/24/2024

President Biden Addresses the Nation

YouTube 07/25/2024

China and the World Face a Double Blow from decades of housing construction enabled hyper growth- creating problems of climate change for the World and a slump in growth in 2023

10/16/2023

Decades of growth at 12-14% have left China and the World worse off. As Greg Ip pointed out in WSJ America could not cope with this hyper growth in a country many times the size of Japan after absorbing the growth of Japan in the sixties. The result was the closing down of factories and ever increasing imports from China until America had transferred its manufacturing prowess to China. This led to the societal breakdown in the US with communities dependent on factories across the US feeling the brunt. The other effects were an unprecedented in scale use of coal and fossil fuels to fuel hyper growth rates in China that created the problems of World Climate Change by 2023 and contamination of water, land and air inside China. By 2030 China will be aging rapidly similar to Japan today and the slowing economy in 2024 onwards could mean China will be stuck in the Middle Income category. All this poses lessons for America, for Europe, India and the World on what kind of growth is healthy and what kind is not, what is sustainable growth and what is not,what works well for the planet and what does not.

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China Bet It All on Real Estate. Now Its Economy Is Paying the Price.

NYTimes.com 10/16/2023

An Even Bigger Housing Crisis Threatens China’s Economy

WSJ 09/18/2023

Is China’s Economic Predicament as Bad as Japan’s? It Could Be Worse

WSJ 09/19/2023

China’s Economy Remains Shaky After Challenging Summer

WSJ 10/13/2023

A parting of ways with Mr. Trump- first Attorney General Michael Barr, then VP Mike Pence, now Jt Chiefs chairman Milley

09/30/2023

Three of the most senior members of the Trump administration part ways with Mr. Trump. Their loyalty they say is to the Constitution of the United States of America not to any individual. Milley says not to kings or queens, not to tribes or factions, not to tyrants or "wannabe dictators," but to the idea of America enshrined in the words of the framers of the Constitution "We the People..."

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Pence Delivers Strong Rebuke to Trump in Campaign Announcement

NYTimes.com 06/07/2023

Opinion | General Milley and the ‘Wannabe Dictator’

WSJ 09/29/2023

Mike Pence: History will never forget Trump’s disgrace

The Times 03/13/2023

From Right-Hand Man to Critical Witness: Pence at Heart of Trump Prosecution

NYTimes.com 08/02/2023

Opinion | Bill Barr’s Warning on Trump

WSJ 05/07/2023

Watch: Barr Says Trump Was ‘Detached From Reality’ on 2020 Election Claims

WSJ 06/15/2022

America has forgotten it is American workers who built America

09/28/2023

Entry level tier wages for auto workers at $17 an hour in 2022 as the UAW union goes on strike in 2023. At $34,000 a year entry level young auto workers make less than the $35,000- 40,000 a year for families set as the Federal Poverty Level by the Department of HHS. Lincoln and TR-FDR would see this as outrageous as American workers built American factories and America since the Industrial Revolution. America has forgotten its workers and worker's families, worker's children. Two thirds of children with the vast majority from the workers families not able to pass ACT reading comprehension at the 4th grade, and 50 % of retired people having zero savings. Not the America of Lincoln or TR-FDR.

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Trump’s pitch for autoworker votes in car heartland is short on autoworkers

The Guardian 09/28/2023

Biden Joins Autoworkers on Picket Line in Michigan

NYTimes.com 09/27/2023

Biden Joins UAW Picket Line Ahead of Trump Visit, Opening 2024 Election Fight

WSJ 09/26/2023

Five Clues to Where the UAW Strike Is Headed Next

WSJ 09/23/2023

Battle Over Electric Vehicles Is Central to Auto Strike

NYTimes.com 09/17/2023

Whatever the UAW Strike Outcome, Elon Musk Has Already Won

WSJ 09/16/2023


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