Buy American Hire American

Buy American Hire American

Siddhi B Ranjitkar

A newly inaugurated President Donald Trump in his inaugural speech said, “Buy American Hire American”. It might sound nice to some ears but it might take America back to the 19^th century when Americans did everything for themselves. In the 21^st century, the world has been doing everything for the Americans for their lavish life style. Trump wants to stop it, and rewind the clock back to the earlier century. Trump did not care about it but his voters obviously did not know it. Donald wants to undo whatever has been done during the last half century.

The today’s American life style has been possible because the people elsewhere in the world particularly developing countries have been working hard to feed and cloth the Americans nicely at the lowest possible prices. If anybody goes to Mall in other words super markets s/he will find the clothing made in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Laos, Nepal, India, China and name any country s/he will find the products of that country.

Once, Donald Trump stops the products coming to America then the cheap products at Malls will disappear. As Donald said, “Buy American,” Americans would have the products only made in America. First question: will it be possible? Will Americans immediately build factories in months or even years to produce the products the world has been supplying them? The answer is certainly not then Americans will find the empty Malls if Donald is as serious as his words.

Donald said that he would build a wall on the southern border of America to stop the southern people sneaking into the north and serving the Americans at the cheapest possible prices. Those guys from south smartly clean up the backyards and lawns of American houses during fall, and keep them tidy during summer. Once, Donald stopped them coming to America means Americans have to do everything the aliens have been doing fro them at cheap prices.

Once foreign cheap goods and foreign cheap laborers are not coming to America means Americans need to subsist on what they produce then Donald’s “Buy American Hire American” comes true but at what prices Americans need to think over.

Today, Americans have sufficient time to do other things when the world has been producing everything for them, and the aliens have been doing everything for their comfortable lives. How much time Americans will have to do other things when they have to do everything to produce the clothing and the services they have been receiving at the lowest possible prices from abroad and the aliens.

All the research and development activities will come to an end when Americans need to produce everything they need, as Donald wants and his voters want, too. They simply don’t have time to do those research work when they need to sew their clothing and they need to produce other products today other countries have been producing for them.

For example, whether producing cars and airplanes of which major nuts and bolts are produced elsewhere in the world, will be possible in America stopping the imports of those parts is the question Donald does not care about whereas his supporters don’t even understand it.

Donald scrapped the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). It is fine if Donald and his supporters want to keep Americans within the four boundaries of the country. Once Americans don’t buy the products of other countries they will not have enough money to buy the American products, too. Will America be great again once the world does not buy its products? Donald’s supporters need to know it.

Today, every country in the world has been producing the wealth for the Americans to enjoy. Will Americans be able to create so much of wealth the world population has created for them to enjoy? Shutting the door to other countries, Donald and his supporters want to end the prosperity of the Americans the world population has brought to them, and take the American people back to earlier centuries.

The American companies working elsewhere in the world on producing the so cheap goods for the Americans have to either stop their work or they have to be naturalized in the country where they work. Consequently, they will produce the goods and services for countries other than America if Donald becomes as good as what he says, “Buy American Hire American”.

Actually, Donald has been shying away from the world leadership. He wants to end what the American administration has been doing since the end of the Second World War. America has led the world solely after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Today, Donald has been caught in the snare Russian President Vladimir Putin has set.

Donald is a simple businessman. He owns the real estate, and probably earns plenty but not known how much, yet, as he refuses to disclose his tax. How could such a man running only a small business in comparison to the American State administration run the administration that has the worldwide influence?

Donald has proved that he is not a world-class leader; so he cannot lead the world. It is natural that he wants to retreat from the world trade, in fact, he has been already retreating scrapping the TPP. American Administration won’t have influence on the pacific countries once Donald takes away America from the TPP. He wants to withdraw from the NATO leaving the Europeans on their own means America will not have any influence on the European countries, too.

Donald does not believe in the climate change. So, he is for defaulting the Paris Treaty on climate change. China has already declared that no matter what Donald says or does concerning the climate change, China will lead the environment protection.

Thus, China is taking one step ahead to lead the world on protecting the environment, and to take the leadership of the world, Donald is vacating. While Donald torn off the TPP opening the way for China to write the trade rules President Obama had been so much concerned with. China has been opening the Silk Road across the Europe and Asia to dominate the inland trade whereas Donald going back to American mainland.

Taking a look at the bunch of the people Donald has put in his administration, it gives the impression that America is ready for the trade war with China but recently, President of China Xi Jinping at Davos in Switzerland said that none would win the trade war. Obviously, China is not for going head-on collision on the trade with America and any country for that matter. Xi is far ahead of Donald in understanding the world trade scene.

Retreating from the world arena, Donald has been paving the way for the countries such as China, India, Brazil, Russia and the Middle East Countries to play the major role in the world trade, economy, business and even politics. China has been already poised to take over the climate-change leadership, and then of course the leadership of the world economy while Donald squeezes America from the world businesses.

Donald does not need any law or rules to run his administration; he uses his twitter to do everything he likes particularly to return the attacks on his critics using insulting harsh words, and denying every facts only to make his words look like the facts and the truths no matter whether those words proved to be wrong by the fact checks.

Laying his left hand on the bible his spouse held for him, and raising his right hand, Donald took the oath of office on January 20, 2017. His once-a-model spouse became the first lady of the United States of America. If we were to believe in the American newspapers she had violated the US immigration law and worked in the US without having the proper authorization.

Protestors took to the streets in the major US cities and elsewhere in the world while Trump took the oath of office. More than half the American voters are against Donald Trump to be the president. So, they have protested against Donald taking the oath of office indicating many Americans know that Donald is leading America to its doom. Not only Americans but also people elsewhere in the world also know it. So, they also have protested against Donald taking the oath of office.

After taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump delivered an inaugural speech that had been mainly lifted from his campaign speeches. He said that he would make America great again but his activities had been just the opposite. Obviously, Donald does not even understand what the American greatness is. His approach to close all the doors to the outside world would neither make America great nor Americans prosperous but lead them to the total backwardness if not to the poverty. Donald is to undo everything his predecessors have done so far.

Make America Great Again Mr. Donald Trump.

January 24, 2017