re: Whirlpool,supporter of early tariffs on appliances, say steel tariffs are hurting them bad

No one gives a frick that you don't like Trump. Some of us are a little more pragmatic than "free market or bust." Not everyone is a shrubber? living in bumfrick Alaska because they have poor people skills and love isolation. You people are the type that bask in ridiculing the real people who have lost jobs to overseas companies because unfree trade practices from other countries that treat their citizens like disposable garbage and socialist utopias that we subsidize while they make it impossible to export our goods to because high tariffs.


Trump is using what he can work with to better the plight of the average American. He got Congress to pass tax cuts and his administration has been hacking away at business killing regulations. That said, he doesn't have much he can unilaterally do. You know that but conveniently choose to ignore it. Trump has tariffs to negotiate with and hes going to use them to get better, freer trade deals. If he was truly a tariff guy, he wouldn't have offered zero-tariff deals.

I don't like tariffs, but I also don't like that we get fist fricked on trade. I think manufacturers should survive via ingenuity and efficiency but at the same time, its not right that our government allows such an uneven playing field to exist. I don't think tariffs are the answer, but im pragmatic enough to know that tariffs are a powerful negotiating tool.