Trade isn't about politics and elections. It's about numbers. In fact, it's only about numbers. How much comes in, how much goes out. There are two types of trade, goods and services. The one that matters most is how much in manufactured goods goes out versus how much comes in, resulting in either a surplus or a deficit. Last year, there was a trade deficit in manufactured goods of over $800 billion.

Here is a link that every ALIPACER and other Americans should read. It's a chart of our trade history since 1960. Trump saw this early, 35 to 40 years ago. So did I because of the work I did. Everyone in the know or in a job dealing with this would see this and ask "what in the hell is going on".

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade...ical/gands.pdf

It would do well for members of the corrupt media to read this link, and while most of them won't understand what it says, because they're airheads, they should ask someone what does this mean? And whoever they ask who knows can tell them it means, trade policy just let $800 billion of hard earned American income and wealth fly out the window, it's why we print money all the time, it's why we borrow to fund the government, it's why we don't have enough good jobs to successfully employ all our people with full time jobs with benefits, it's why most Americans don't have even $1,000 in savings and their credit card (s) if they still have one are maxed out, it's why we have 75 million Americans on Medicaid and another 12 million on SCHIP, it's why we have 60% of students in K-12 public schools on free school lunch, it's why we have 43 million people on food stamps, it's why our poverty level is still around 14%, and the vast majority of those are working age persons with at least 1 job in the household.

Our trade deals with the EU and NAFTA are two are the big culprits, certainly not the only ones, but two of the big ones that combined represent about $300 billion of that deficit in manufactured goods.

The other 6 members of the G7 thought they could corral Trump at this meeting in Quebec City and pressure and cajole him into concessions on the steel and aluminum tariffs and through Canada, on NAFTA as well. He made it as clear as anyone could, that won't work on him, it won't work on his trade team, and it won't work with the American people, and then to humorously show his level of disinterest in tariff and trade concessions, that he quipped "by the way, where is Russia, shouldn't they be here, I think they should be here" and completely collapsed their "LEGO" to get Trump.

It was so funny. I've laughed about it all day. And in just a few hours he'll be on Air Force One zooming off to Singapore to the North Korea Summit, to try to end a 70 year old war other people started and denuclearize North Korea that other people allowed to develop nuclear weapons, leaving Trudeau, Macron, May, Merkel and the rest (except for Italy, a new friend) sucking dust asking each other "what just happened, did Trump just diss us?" Yep. You were dissed. Now go home and figure out what to do with all your "refugees".

Americans must remember, that we don't need foreign trade unless it benefits US. Farmers think they need it because they produce more of certain products than they can sell in the US, instead of diversifying their farms and growing more of what they can sell in the US. Americans have always stood by our farmers, it's time our farmers stood by US.