America First - As A Guiding Principle

[Tom_Ch]

@e7alr

Our policies should promote industrial expansion in the US. Expansion means jobs for workers and jobs are a win-win. And means manufacturing, not just assembly. US, rather than foreign, manufacturing reduces trade deficits. That keeps capital circulating in the US, in the hands of US citizens, promoting our GDP.

No disagreement from me.

[johnwk2]

@WuWei

America First - As A Guiding Principle. What does that mean? What does it look like in practice?

Should “America First” be the guiding principle for policy?

Why or why not?

The very reason for creating and granting power to a central government is declared in our very Constitution:,“. . . to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States…”

I would say that indicates an America first directive.

JWK

[tnt]

@zantax

My grandfather was a coal miner, he couldn’t afford shoes for his kids and died of black lung at 62.

https://www.comparably.com/salaries/salaries-for-coal-miner

[Striker840]

@tnt

@zantax

My grandfather was a coal miner, he couldn’t afford shoes for his kids and died of black lung at 62.

https://www.comparably.com/salaries/salaries-for-coal-miner

Wow, trying to use today’s wages to tell Zantax he is wrong??

[tnt]

@Striker840

Wow, trying to use today’s wages to tell Zantax he is wrong??

No. Pointing out that the discussion we are having is about todays workers, not two generations ago.

[NJBob]

@WuWei

@NJBob

@WuWei

@NJBob

What’s the difference between “America First” and isolationism? Doesn’t America Firstism require we disengage from the rest of the world?

America First, not only.

What does that mean?

Exactly what it says.

It doesn’t say anything.

[TheRedComet]

58,000 isn’t that great for the amount of work and eventual health issues that come with comes with mining.

You can make a lot more money than that at an inland oil rig. It’s still dangerous, but it’s not coal mining, which is a guaranteed way to get all sort of nasty lung issues.

[wiley8425]

Unskilled is a huge canard anyway. Even a burger flipper has to be trained how to flip burgers when it’s their job. I’m not sure how anyone can say an opening that requires years of experience is unskilled with a straight face. If a job was unskilled, any idiot could walk in off the street and do it. Without any sort of training at all.

Manufacturing has procedures that have to be followed. People who don’t follow procedures don’t keep their jobs. They also cost the company time and money. If companies paid people halfway decent they might actually retain employees which is a hell of a lot cheaper than having to train new ones every couple of months after somebody quits to go work somewhere else for more money. Those employees might also give a crap about their work if they weren’t preoccupied with wondering if their next measly paycheck is going to be enough to cover their next meal or keep a roof over their head. But priorities.

[WuWei]

It says everything.

[zantax]

No worries, robots will replace most of them soon anyway.

[wiley8425]

Sure they will. Any day now. Gotta keep the dream alive.

[WuWei]

Interesting take

Trump's MAGA is marching down a trail blazed by the Tea Party

[Rurudyne]

Recently I posted that not being the world’s Gladys Kravitz is not being “isolationist”.

[DMK]

@WuWei

Any other examples of good America First policies?

Merit based immigration. If a person doesn’t have a skill or cannot use the skill to support a family then coming to this country should be denied.

[DMK]

Cheap products from China isn’t putting America first. An American made I Phone should cost just as much as one from China by means of tariff so the paying field is equal.

We should not be supporting China at all.

[WuWei]

Well, well…

America First: Meet the 'anti-Squad' Republicans hoping to take the midterm...

Unfortunately they chose “anti”, already off on the wrong foot. Maybe they can get right.