PRE-1776: BRITISH GOVERNMENT, KNOWING THAT MANUFACTURING IS THE SOURCE OF WEALTH AND POWER, FORBIDS AMERICAN CREATION OF FACTORIES.. ALL MANUFACTURED GOODS MUST COME FROM GREAT BRITAIN..
1789: ON HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE, PRESIDENT WASHINGTON SIGNS A BILL FOR A SMALL TARIFF ON BRITISH GOODS.. THIS CAUSES THEM TO BE A BIT MORE EXPENSIVE SO THAT SOME AMERICANS WILL INVEST IN AND BUY FROM AMERICAN FACTORIES INSTEAD..
1807: ANGERED AT BRITAIN'S HARRASSMENT OF AMERICAN SHIPS DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WAR, PRESIDENT JEFFERSON BANS ALL GOODS FROM BRITISH SHIPS.. THIS GIVES AMERICAN INDUSTRY A MONOPOLY AND INVESTORS POUR MONEY INTO THEM SO THEY RAPIDLY GROW AND MULTIPLY.. JEFFERSON CALLS IT AN "EMBARGO" BUT IT IS ACTUALLY AN "INFINITE TARIFF".. LATER, JEFFERSON CAN ONLY REDUCE IT A BIT AS A RETURN TO A PRE-1807 SITUATION WOULD CAUSE THE NEW INDUSTRIAL BASE TO COLLAPSE, STARTING A DEPRESSION..
1807-1942: THROUGHOUT THIS PERIOD NORTH AND SOUTH ARGUE OVER WHETHER THE TARIFF WALL SHOULD GO UP OR DOWN.. WHEN IT GOES UP IT GIVES THE NORTH MORE OF A MONOPOLY OVER THE SOUTH.. WHEN IT GOES DOWN THE SOUTH CAN PLAY THE NORTH AND ENGLAND AGAINST EACH OTHER TO GET LOWER PRICES.. THE TARIFF WALL IS ALWAYS HIGH BUT ITS HEIGHT JUST VARIES.. IT NEVER GOES AWAY.. (NOTE: THE SOUTH WAS TOO HOT FOR FACTORIES IN PRE-AIR CONDITIONING DAYS)
DECEMBER 1941: AMERICA JOINS THE WAR.. AS ALL THAT MATTERS IS TO GET AS MUCH RAW MATERIALS TO AMERICA AND AS MUCH FINISHED PRODUCTS TO THE WAR, THE TARIFFS ARE "TEMPORARILY" DROPPED.. CONSUMER GOODS ARE NOT BEING MADE ANYWAY..
1945: THE WAR ENDS.. BUT INSTEAD OF PUTTING THE TARIFF WALL BACK UP, IT IS DELIBERATELY LEFT DOWN.. BECAUSE ALL THE OTHER INDUSTIAL NATIONS ARE RUINED, AND TO KEEP THEM FROM GOING COMMUNIST, AMERICA LETS ALL THOSE RUINED COUNTRIES SELL TO AMERICA WITHOUT ANY TARIFFS ADDED AS AMERICA IS NOW HOLDING MOST OF THE WORLDS WEALTH AND NONE OF THE OTHER NATIONS ARE ANYWHERE NEAR AN INDUSTRIAL THREAT TO AMERICAN WORKERS..
1945-1968: THE NEW BABY BOOM GENERATION IS BORN AND GROWS UP, KNOWING NOTHING OF TARIFFS AS AMERICA WAS SO FAR AHEAD OF THE RUINED NATIONS THAT WE HAD NOT ANY REASON TO USE THEM.. BUT DURING THOSE YEARS THE OTHER INDUSTRIAL NATIONS SLOWLY HEALED..
LATE 1968: THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME I SAW ARTICLES IN THE NEWS THAT GERMANY AND JAPAN WERE CATCHING UP TO THE UNITED STATES.. AT THIS POINT WE SHOULD HAVE STARTED BRINGING BACK THE TARIFF WALL AND LET THE OTHER INDUSTRIAL NATIONS SELL TO EACH OTHER..
1969: THE TONIGHT SHOW, WITH JOHNNY CARSON,. CARSON CONSTANTLY MAKES JOKES ABOUT TARIFFS AS IF THEY WERE SOME SORT OF ARCHAIC THINGS OF THE PAST.
AUGUST 1971: RUNAWAY INFLATION IN THE UNITED STATES! FIRST TIME I EVER SAW THAT.. FOREIGNERS BUYING UP AMERICAN GOLD AT $35 AN OUNCE.. NIXON SHOULD HAVE IMMEDIATELY PUT BACK THE TARIFF WALL.. BUT HE TOOK THE DOLLAR OFF THE GOLD STANDARD.. KEEPING GOLD AT $35 AN OUNCE KEPT THE GOVERNMENT FROM INFLATING (IF THEY HAD, SAY, INFLATED THE MONEY BY 10% GOLD WOULD ALSO HAVE GONE UP IN PRICE BY 10% AND THEY HAD TO KEEP IT AT $35 SO THEY COULD NOT)
OCTOBER 1973: AMERICA TAKES ISRAELS SIDE IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR.. ARABS THEN CUT OFF AMERICAS OIL SUPPLY AND IT BREAKS THE BACK OF OUR INDUSTRIAL BASE.. EVER SINCE THEN MANUFACTURERS HAVE BEEN MOVING THEIR COMPANIES OUT OF AMERICA AND TO THIRD WORLD PLACES.. FIRST, FOR THE SLAVE LABOR AS THE TARIFF WALL WAS NOT PUT BACK, SECOND, BECAUSE THE ARABS WOULD KEEP CUTTING THE OIL OFF DUE TO OUR ALLIANCE WITH ISRAEL BUT ARABS DID NOT HATE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES..
NOW: THE ONLY,ONLY,ONLY REASON THAT WE ARE LOSING ALL THE GOOD PAYING JOBS IS THAT THE TARIFF WALL IS GONE.. IF IT WAS PUT BACK TODAY, THINGS WOULD START SOARING AGAIN TOMMOROW.. AS THEY DID WHEN THEY WERE FIRST PUT UP IN 1807.. BUT ALL THESE MONIED PEOPLE IN CONGRESS PASS THEIR MONEY FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION AND HAVE IT ALL INVESTED IN COUNTRIES THAT COMPETE WITH THE UNITED STATES SO THEY WANT FOREIGNERS TO WIN AND AMERICANS TO LOSE AS IT MAKES THEIR OWN FAMILIES RICHER.. THEY ARE ECONOMIC TRAITORS.. PLEASE PASS THIS WEBPAGE ON!!!!! NOTE: THE DAY I AM TYPING THIS GOLD IS AT $613 AN OUNCE. THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT GOLD IS GETTING PRICIER. IT MEANS THE DOLLAR BILL IS WORTH LESS AND IS LESS STABLE AND LESS TRUSTED. THE DOLLAR IS NOW 35/613 WHAT IT WAS WHEN AMERICA WAS ACTUALLY WEALTHY. THIS FRACTION IS NOW ABOUT 95% OF WHAT HAPPENED TO ROMAN MONEY AT ITS COLLAPSE.