On Saturday, the trade war that has already been announced by Donald Trump started: from Tuesday the US will raise 25 percent tax on all products from neighboring countries Mexico and Canada. What I understood from the comments hit it back with the same measure. The 1930s are coming back. The inflation ghost also increasingly appears threatening here.
I recently paid 3 euros 49 for a bowl of mini cucumbers, a product that I don’t even like. Paula van Roosmalen-Breekelmans just lived. She cut her offers from leaflets all her life and decided after long weighing and weighing whether she would go to the Edah or the Coop at the Velperbroekcircuit on Friday. I had to think about her when I stood behind a woman at the cash register at the Vomar in Amsterdam East who took fifteen minutes of everyone because she would have paid 30 cents too much.
It’s like I trained all my youth for this time. My mother who came home and, in the meantime the shopping bag between her feet on the doormat, shouted out loud: “Relax three times what I have paid for a piece of cheese?” My father who started to sigh fully automatically that the money did not grow on the back. “I don’t have it. I don’t have it, “he said. In retrospect, I think he didn’t even mean the balance on his bank account with that sentence, but that he was talking about his perspective at work. He would never be chef, he lived from summer vacation to Christmas package and acted that he was satisfied with that. He praised Poland, a country where they were overjoyed with our second -hand clothing.
We are not yet officially participating in the trade conflict, but the declaration of war is already ready. Just assume that we will lose it. By ‘we’ I mean Europe in the first instance, but because everything, and therefore also the selfishness, after a while I close to our polder, I close one all -input Van Nederland also not out. You don’t have to make much effort to make the idea that we are the hardest sewn by our most loyal allies, also popular here.
“We are a service and transitland,” Sister Virgini already taught in the sixth grade of the Fredericus School in Velp. We were taught that this was very smart.
And that’s how I saw it then, we traveled all over the world in search of bargains that we then resold to especially the Germans and then the rest of Europeans. That entire European Union was especially suitable for countries like ours. But you have to see that. You can also choose to protect your own export products. What do we actually make here in this service country?
Only farmers products!
We’re going to it.
Marcel van Roosmalen writes a column on Monday and Thursday.