"Avoid Dooming"
Hard not to doom but I'm seeing small business of America being pushed to the absolute brink.
Even the ones that have made it through this economic attack on America so far, the US is about to be hit by insane inflation and, coupled with an already insane cost of shipping (both international freight and domestic), things are looking dire.
Small business America is about to be finally killed off. International freight has quadrupled while domestic freight has more than doubled. Companies are giving reports that truly look like foreign markets are hedging to move away from the dollar. China recalls shipping containers so fast that US companies are being kept from using them and containers are being shipped back to Asia empty to expedite their export process.
I am telling you right now, America can not take another 6 months of this. We don't have the manufacturing infrastructure to help pull the country through and we are too dependent upon China/Asia.
If all of the small businesses go, it is just one more step towards their goal of government dependence (though we have accelerated towards a dissolution of that government and an overt Chinese replacement).
How does this fit in other than waking people up through misery?
Ban all non essentials from China, I.e. furniture, clothing, etc.
You do understand that we are past that, right?
Idiotic policies and politicians subsidized China and other foreign interests via direct or indirect management of our economy and allowed a huge swath of our manufacturing to die here. This has occurred over the past 40+ years.
Inflation would cause it to come back but, the real question is, is that even a possibility with our dependence on the supply chain from imports and the lack of infrastructure here?