XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: pothead@snakebite.com   
      
   On 2025-12-22, NoBody  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:14:14 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.   
   > Sherman) wrote:   
   >   
   >> |   
   >> | Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump   
   >> | is handling tariffs:   
   >> |      Approve...: 36%   
   >> |      Disapprove: 64%   
   >> |   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>    --bks   
   >   
   > The poll should have required one to explain the details about tariffs   
   > and understanding about the tariffs other countries place on us.   
      
   Indeed.   
   And that is the problem with polls in general. People are ignorant to the   
   specifics and are not told the entire picture.   
   It's the same for the ACA subsidies not being extended. All they hear is the   
   dog whistle from the left "your medical costs will skyrocket". They are not   
   told   
   that the subsidies were temporary and due to the pandemic. They also are not   
   aware of the huge profits the insurance companies are making nor how the ACA   
   was doomed to collapse from day one and why it's anything but affordable.   
      
   I support *fair trade* and while I disagree with Trump's constant on/off/on   
   again   
   with tariffs, he has a point in that other countries have been taking advantage   
   of the US for a long time and it needs to stop.   
      
   The US has goods, products raw materials that other countries want to purchase   
   and they have similar that the US wants to purchase so why not work it out   
   so fair trade can satisfy both sides?   
   To me, that is the solution at least on a simple level.   
      
      
   --   
   pothead   
      
   Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views,   
   but then are shocked and offended to discover that there   
    are other views.   
      
   William F. Buckley, Jr.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)