Trump should wage a war on waste instead of battling the world over trade

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Trump should wage a war on waste instead of battling the world over trade

"President Donald Trump is fighting the wrong fight in his ongoing trade war with the rest of the world. That’s because it’s premised on the old-school notion of the linear economy in which someone in another country, such as China, digs up raw materials and sends them to a factory, where they get turned into the finished product and shipped to the U.S. In exchange, money leaves the U.S. economy and flows to the countries where the product was made – creating the trade deficit Trump despises."

"And here’s the important bit. Americans use the product for a while, throw it away, and it ends up in a dump. And then we buy another import."

"The long-term effect? Our money goes to a foreign economy, and Americans end up with piles of garbage. Then we pay a foreign economy one more time to take the garbage off our hands. China is one country that used to take a lot of our garbage, but India, Pakistan and Nigeria are also big in this business."

"A circular economy, by contrast, starts with the finished product, which can then be recycled domestically and reused, often at a fraction of the cost of manufacturing them new elsewhere. This keeps the money at home, which produces more domestic jobs and wealth. "

September 18, 2018 Morning

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Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Next Tuesday is More Night then Day 🌌. Mostly cloudy with a few breaks of sun and 68 degrees in North Syracuse. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 68 degrees. The skies will clear around 10 am. Kind of a damp out but with some sun, and it’s expected to get increasingly sunny but humid as the day progresses today. The solar panel is rapidly pulling the battery up to charging range, it dropped a bit last night as I left the laptop charger plugged in inadvertently.

We aren’t getting the rain they expect in Albany. Kind of a bit tired as I didn’t sleep all that well last. Should be a good day though. Maybe though a lot of clouds.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 79 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 70 at 12pm. Kind of humid though for the second half of September. Light west wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. It was humid. The high last year was 84 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1891.

The sun will set at 7:08 pm with dusk around 7:36 pm, which is one minute and 49 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies and 73 degrees. The dew point will be 66 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 20 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy ☁, with a low of 59 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 67 at 6pm. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph. In 2017, we had partly cloudy skies. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 59 degrees. The record low of 32 occurred back in 1959.

As previously noted, next Tuesday is More Night then Day 🌌 when the sun will be setting at 6:55 pm with dusk at 7:23 pm. On that day in 2017, we had shallow fog, patches of fog, mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 91 and 64 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 68 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 2017.