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'This Could Really Kill American Innovation': What the Trade War Means for Makers
Yeah let's demand the Government fix the the problem! There used to be a furniture industry in California, but environmental regulation pushed it out of the state and then out of the country. So, it's all better now, right? Because the places where you can have things made reliably and inexpensively have the same standards and regulation as we have, right? Mexico and China have a different atmosphere than California. The pollutants generated on the other side of the planet run into different oceans, right?
Despicable - absolutely despicable. "Makers' March on Washington" maybe? Maybe (try) to appeal to the fact that Trump is (supposedly) a *builder*?
Never mind the evidence that he - allegedly - stiffed contractors in the past, and never really *built* anything at all - he's just paid (or not..) other people to do it. And that he *is* one of those people who does "have an extra $25,000 just laying around (couch change for him..)