Don't really know much about this guy--Treasury Secretary Bessent-- but he gets it.
...Bessent also directly responded to former Vice President Mike Pence, who attacked him after his New York Economic Club speech where he said cheap goods are not the American dream. Pence is notoriously against using tariffs to achieve American economic objectives.
“I took some flak last week at the Economic Club [of New York] where I said cheap goods are not the American dream,” Bessent said. “Mike Pence came out and said ‘Secretary Bessent doesn’t know what he’s talking about.’ I would tell the former vice president that ‘let them eat flat screens is not an economic policy.’ People want to have good jobs, they want to own a home, they want to have dignity, they want to enjoy work, they want their communities to be sound, and we want affordability but bringing in a bunch of baubles and trinkets to satisfy people who are displaced isn’t the American dream.”...
*BOOM*!!
Pence is the Perfect Pubbie Twit, still muttering to himself that he should be President.
He won't be.
1 comment:
I loved Bessent's comments. He's right on target. For too long we've pretended that filling your cart up with bunch of cheap stuff made by Chinese slaves is a high standard of living and the American dream.
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