I get it. The figures put out by the government can be confusing. For some reason the Bureau of Labor Statistics stops counting a person as being unemployed if they haven't actively looked for work in the last 4 weeks. So there can be lots of people with no jobs, but the government agency doesn't count them in the unemployment rate! I personally think this is deliberate obfuscation by that agency. It certainly helps the fake news media to deceive people more easily.
No one has answered the question because it is unanswerable. There are no policies the left puts in place especially in their recent dive toward the left and socialist policies that will help our economy. If we look at the economy by itself, government of any form just stifles the growth. The regulations added by government (for good or bad)make it harder for businesses to profit. If you look at conservatism, by definition it is a lack of government regulations. There are still regulations, just less of them, the hard decision to make is where do we stop the slider? All the way at complete deregulation where there are no hinderance to corporations and they literally would control us by unfettered access to our labor and money or have such severe regulations where there is a complete sharing of wealth so that there is no reason for innovation or hard work to gain personal wealth.
Deals so favorable that we pay higher import tariffs, which get past to the consumer, and that the farmer are so hurt by export tariffs that Trump is looking to shell out a total of basically 27 Billion in welfare(call it a subsidy all you want, its being use to help them meet bills and put food on the table, it's welfare) for them to keep them afloat.
I disagree with some of what you are saying. Big businesses sometimes can cause issues for people with lack of freedom, but the way those big businesses do that is through REGULATIONS. Both the Rs and Ds take money from big business and both enact the regulations those businesses want. The Rs and Ds are the same because they are both taking bribes from the same people. They just talk slightly different BS. And neither group is conservative.
If you look back in history that is the way the government is supposed to support itself. Tariffs, not off the backs and sweat of it's citizens. If cheap Chinese junk is your thing, you are probably not happy with these tariffs. I always try to spend my money in America with products made in America or even more locally than that. I know it costs me more but supporting my country and neighbors is important to me. The higher the tariffs, the more domestic production will occur and the more people in America will have jobs. Sometimes we all got to take a hit for the team. Remember, that stuff is cheap because of the low wages paid to the (insert low foreign paid worker here). We can be the food producing and manufacturing center of the world again but fixing trade deficits will take a little pain.The end result will be worth it though. same with food, the foreign tariffs will go down so they can feed their citizens and American farmers will continue to provide a real big hunk of the world's food. sometimes we gotta help people along a little, no difference than food stamps for the poor except farmers have to work for their handouts.
You are right a lot of Republicans are not "conservatives", you are also right that they both take money from big businesses. Deregulation allows corporations to make their own rules, if left on their own, they will own everything. It is government regulations that keep that from happening. Not all regulations are barriers to the little guy, lots of them (ie monopoly restrictions) and make it possible for small businesses to get started. I did use some big generalizations for simplicities sake we just have to read between the lines a little. The "right" amount of regulations is what is needed.
You're going to find it very hard to learn in life with such a closed mind. no one can argue the difference in quality between American and Chinese manufacturing, at least a serious argument.
It's not about what you said it's about how you said it that will make someone not listen to you or want to agree with you. You could have phrased it better than calling it "Chinese junk".
It's definitely a go to tactic of the left. Silence the opposition by calling them racist, sexist, homophobic, whatever suits the situation.
You do realize that most of the trade talks impasse is about the Chinese stealing our intellectual property(ie reverse engineering our innovation to be made cheaply). Hard to show respect to the manufacturing center in China who produces cheap items for export by paying very low wages to its workers. No mention was made in a derogetory manner towards the Chinese people so it is hard to understand any offense taken. I think the problem is more likely the difficulty in debating from an inferior position and that is an easy way out. If people want to artificially raise their quality of life off of the sweat and labor of cheaply paid foreign workers then so be it. I would rather buy less stuff.