More tariffs paid by US consumers

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(06-11-2019, 11:35 PM)Dill Wrote: If you have been following the thread, balance of trade would be one. Unemployment another, related to their ability to retain manufacturing, even with extensive use of robots. Have you heard Trump complain of the US loss of manufacturing jobs?

The metrics of quality of life--access to food, housing, health care, security, and education, absence of pollution and crime--are not wholly "subjective," are they?

Pointing to our unemployment rate shows you're pretty much grasping at straws at this point. Why the request to follow the thread? Our economy is better than Germany's. Is someone earlier in the thread going to dispute fact with ideology such as you are now doing? I get the spoiled American taking their situation for granted, but let's not make up "we should look at.....economy" and then start talking about their society. 

I get you ideology favors the more Socialistic approach of societies such as Germany's; hell, you're probably in the majority around here. But none of that makes Germany's economy better than ours or why we should look to them for tips.