I told my mortgage company that I was reducing my payment by 145%

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2. I guess we don't need those factories anymore

Republicans have been screaming for months about how these tariffs were going to save the middle class and factories were going to start opening everywhere. I guess we don't need those factories now...

It was idiotic from the get go. We actually don't want that type of manufacturing job to return. The manufacturing jobs we want back are like the ones Biden brought back, high tech and high paying. And getting those jobs back is a lot harder than just slapping tariffs on random countries, you have to help promote industries like chip making and clean energy.

The damage to the economy has been severe though, I don't think we will avoid a recession.