Erik Prince
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I think that is a very good idea.
So what the president's doing on tariffs is right.
It is good to incentivize production.
And it should be a lot smaller.
It should be massively smaller than it is today.
It's very disappointing they haven't made the Doge cuts permanent in our legislation.
It's disgusting.
It speaks really badly to the Republican Party, to a huge amount of those Republicans,
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.
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.
But I would even disagree.
Textile manufacturing can even come back with a certain level of automation or robotics.
But in the 90s, when NAFTA started and you had an over-financialization, the entire private equity crowd that can buy...
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.
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.
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.
In Africa, you'll see effective economic colonization in control.
It depends on what the U.S.
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