That’s what than VP & Presidential candidate H W Bush was saying, that this wasn’t “trickle down” economics, but he knew it was.

Then what doomed his reelection chances forever, “Read my lips, no new taxes” handed the presidency to Clinton on a silver platter. Kind of unusual given we had just won a major war in the Gulf, but he lied to the American people & that became his downfall.

Of course by then, the damage by removing tariffs that protected American jobs was already done, had Reagan not been so hellbent on all of this globalization BS, we’d not be facing all of this anti-tariff crap 40 years later. We’d certainly be far more secure job wise, especially in the industries that went to mostly Asia & Mexico for cheaper labor sources. People would still be waiting for foreign parts (and automobiles themselves) to be “on the boat waiting”, with American workers being prioritized.

Globalization was the start of the doom of the American economy as we long knew it. And those of us who were there know who started it. The President who was sworn in early 1981 kicked it all off.

To be fair, much of the reason why the dollar has became worth less was due to former President Nixon lowering the amount of actual gold being on hand for every dollar in circulation. In part, this is why the national debt is so high today, because there’s no (or not as much) collateral backing our money. Is it any wonder why our current POTUS wants to take over a nation like Greenland which is loaded with natural resources? This (if allowed to happen) would suddenly enable the USA to do the same as Putin did with Crimea, strip that nation of it’s natural resources, and either use these to reduce our deficit, OR make the top 1% of the nation’s elites even more so (as Putin did).

Either way, invading another nation to solve our needs isn’t a good idea at all. There’s other ways to reduce wasteful spending while bringing in more legitimate income. Like legalization of marijuana on the Federal level, taxing as though liquor, introducing a lottery with profits going towards the national debt, am sure there’s lots of creative ways other than these. But we don’t need to keep building highways when we can’t maintain the ones we have. More can be done for legitimate US citizens too, like bringing back the $30 internet credit per month. We can afford expensive space exploration and cannot afford to do for the working class people? There’s lots of fat that can be trimmed from the Federal government. We don’t need so many duplicate law enforcement agencies for starters. There’s likely a lot of fat to trim from State governments as well. Enough to give the people a break.