Moving Their Cheese

In 1998, Spencer Johnson published “Who Moved My Cheese”. This “best-seller” describes the irritation people feel when “others” are meddling with their lives.

Trump is busy moving everybody’s cheese in his quest to restore the US economy and restore the “rule of law”. To us, he is correcting errors that have occurred over the past few decades, but to the Chinese, the EU, the global corporations and the socialists, he is moving their cheese.

Obama tried to move our cheese and we didn’t like it, so we elected Trump to put our cheese back where it belongs. 

Trump lowered the US Corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% to give manufacturers a break and encourage companies to return manufacturing to the US.

I can’t believe the stupidity of our Congressional and Corporate leaders who orchestrated a series of catastrophic moves aimed at destroying the US economy.

They ignored the corporate tax reductions all other countries made from the 1980s to the 2000s. They announced the “Information Age” in 1993, but the information wasn’t good. We were about to off-shore all of our manufacturing jobs because US companies allowed manufacturing wages to become unsustainable. They doubled and tripled legal and illegal immigration in the 1990s to 2000s and produced an oversupply of unskilled labor. They signed on to UN Agenda 21 aimed at a 500% increase in our electric bills and allowed the EPA to shut down the entire US economy. They all voted for the PPT to end US sovereignty by establishing international courts. They continued to pass Education bills to dumb down the population. The allowed the socialist US media to control the narrative.

Trump is currently imposing tariffs on China and the EU to get them to lower their tariffs against US goods. This also affects global supply chains and upsets US global companies.  He is also reducing US global welfare payments and refusing to participate in nonsense. He is moving their cheese.

Trump is also confronting China for stealing intellectual property and needs to get US companies to stop giving it away. This will require a reversal of corporate direction as they abandon their partnerships with China and return all critical high tech manufacturing back to the US in order to stop the intellectual property theft. The stupidity these companies have shown in giving away their intellectual property is stunning.

The US has typically exported “old technology” and that works fine. Foreign competitors can reverse engineer these products, but they never catch up to our new designs.

The US needs their high tech companies to recognize that their “access” to China’s consumers is a pipe-dream and isn’t worth giving away the store.

Success for US companies requires that they exercise wisdom. The poster child for throwing away your industry is the US auto industry. They ignored the need for designing cars to get better mileage while gasoline prices rose from 20 cents/gallon to $1.00 per gallon.  Now most of the cars on the road in the US are Japanese and South Korean.

The US auto industry based its business plan on power and status and they lost because they ignored the oil price trend. I can’t believe their CEOs and Boards missed this.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader