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I'm clearly talking about the ones that are. This trade war with China kicked off the rise in prices of common goods. Then Covid struck, of which American companies chose to exploit. Today, "Made in America" and "Made in China" is robbing the American consumer equally. China has laughed at us the entire time. And, yes, it is proper to blame Trump and Biden for this current unhinged capitalist mess. Biden at least tried to pair his tariffs with a sense of job creation in America within the new renewable energy market (of which China was cornering), but that compensation was too close together. The perfect combo would have been if Trump embraced the need to develop a renewables energy market in America, and later Biden applied the tariffs to push that growing American market to Americans (and beyond.)
But your "simple fix" is to arrest the billionaires who write the laws, order private businesses to hire Americans who don't want the job, and then hope that bankruptcies for small businesses don't increase as small business owners prove incapable of paying American salaries in a capitalist system run amuck (Florida showed this last year). In the meantime:
We need to recognize that America's economy and business needs compliment the need for immigration. But we are too busy either whining about how brown people are "spoiling the blood" or how every "tired, poor, or huddled mass" is America's personal responsibility. They have turned this into an ideological issue or a crusade. This has been a mess ever since NAFTA proved to have consequences, when George W. Bush begged his Republicans to pass him legislation to reform immigration back before 2007. They refused. Thus, Bush and Obama relied on Executive Orders to create a sense of control and management. Trump trashed their EOs, then issued his own EOs that targeted legal immigration more than they did illegal immigration. Biden, by his third year, had issued more EOs than Trump did in four! And finally, with proper legislation this year, of which even the Border Control could get behind, Republicans scuttled it. They continue to rely on the border mess as an ideological talking point. Their wealthy Big Business donors know that this is BS, but they encourage the rhetoric, because it translates to votes, which translates to empowering Republicans, who turn around and give them ever more obscene tax cuts. America be damned. So there is no way this can get fixed "almost over night" with so many people refusing to actually look at the exponentially-growing issue.
This too is an issue that so many people refuse to actually look at. This also compromises their delusions of Party, which chose long ago to stop representing them. The GOP and FOX News has successfully shaped the constituency to allow right-wing agendas. It is supposed to be the other way around. The People are supposed to shape the Party. Well, now their creation (MAGA) does. But let's see what has happened:
1) Reagan created mass debt by way of spending and tax cutting. He handed off the resulting 1% and debt to George H.W. Bush. Republicans rejected Bush when he began to address that debt with taxes. Enter Bill Clinton to fix that debt.
2) George W. Bush, after inheriting a surplus, cut taxes while starting two separate wars. He handed off mass debt and a Great Recession to Barrack Obama.
3) Trump inherited a growing economy, only to flip the tax code upside down. After purposefully mismanaging Covid, he handed off another economic Republican-made disaster with an extra $9.7T in debt to Joe Biden.
And here we are today, with MAGA pretending that they aren't responsible for this debt because those were different Republicans, but still pushing the GOP lie that all of this debt is because of social "spending." Not gross spending on two wars, mind you. But spending on social programs that tax payers pay for. Not the tax cuts that created a 1% within the 1%, but the social "spending" as if the New Deal did not exist when Bush inherited a balanced budget or before Reagan created the 1%.
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