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Erik Prince

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

I think that is a very good idea.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

So what the president's doing on tariffs is right.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

It is good to incentivize production.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

And it should be a lot smaller.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

It should be massively smaller than it is today.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

It's very disappointing they haven't made the Doge cuts permanent in our legislation.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

It's disgusting.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

It speaks really badly to the Republican Party, to a huge amount of those Republicans,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

to not even cut the most egregious, stupid waste, that it speaks to the problems of the unit party and why Trump was fighting not just against the Democrats, but against most of the Republican Party, because most of the Republican Party is as bad as the Democrats.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

And so voters, when they go to their voting booth in another year and a half, they need to elect somebody that is fiscally responsible, because we have a lot of people that are not.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

But I would even disagree.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

Textile manufacturing can even come back with a certain level of automation or robotics.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

But in the 90s, when NAFTA started and you had an over-financialization, the entire private equity crowd that can buy...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

a business with a lower cost of capital because they can borrow cheap, they consolidate four or five family owned businesses, they gut the management of it, and then they outsource all the production to China because there's a free trade deal to do that.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

Yeah, those family businesses, the communities that they're in all suffer because of it, which is why a baseline tariff incentivizes people to make in America, that should be the law of the land.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

into a lot of those societies with more social credit score and more of the big government rule of the elite far away from any kind of individual rights.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

In Africa, you'll see effective economic colonization in control.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

It depends on what the U.S.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

role in the world.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

If