The most dangerous man in the world

[ollie989898]

Ok more of your trump hatred clouding your judgement i think

Trump hatred, on the contrary I think he is comedy gold.

 

[wanton dwarf]

Tis true, he did offer a no tariff deal but it seems to have been drowned out in all the rhetoric.

At least some people know the facts but the Main Stream Media has an agenda.

Trump wants to negotiate but Liberal leaders in many countries want to dictate terms.

Merkel has met a new force in politics where ordinary people finally have their say, I think the world will change.

Heard a BBC presenter state that resistance to multiculturism was "Racist" .. Liberals have lost the plot.

 

[Roger Perry]

I agree, populism I believe its called........spreading throughout Europe for sure, folks' have had more than enough of being told whats good for them..(and what isn't)
Over regulated......over ruled.........population being told whats best for them..........the human spirit wants freedom.

 

[TelesnaAg]

Just because something is sold in large numbers does not mean it is good. Do McDonalds' sales figures tell you anything about how good their product is?

Look at the luxury car market in the US. The bulk of it is German. What does that tell you.

Zero, single line data always tells you zero...remeber that and you might do a bit better in your debating. IMO.

Ant...

 

[Honest john]

Chevrolet Cruze? Looks a nice little hatchback. 1.6 diesel engine - very good specification and fuel consumption figures which is an important issue for us Europeans with higher fuel price. I had a look at the US website and Chevrolet marketing compares it favourably to the Ford Focus in US. I assume but have not looked up that the US Ford Focus is same or similar vehicle to the European Ford Focus. I note Chevrolet started sponsoring Manchester United a few years ago with a view I assume to break more into the European market.

My take on this is The Donald would like another Mercedes factory in the USA.

 

[Honest john]

I agree, populism I believe its called........spreading throughout Europe for sure, folks' have had more than enough of being told whats good for them..(and what isn't)
Over regulated......over ruled.........population being told whats best for them..........the human spirit wants freedom.

This Populism I call Common sense Government.

Common sense parties are spreading out across Europe.

 

[Muck Spreader]

Sorry, Muck Spreader has correct me and it looks like the F series truck - apologies I thought you meant that little hatch back which to me looked a European car. Silly me. Hey ho.

I think the only reason they have high sales is due to the 25% tariff the US puts on all imported pickup trucks in an effort to protect their volume market in this type of vehicle.

 

[baabaa]

of course the tariff doesnt apply to toyotas and nissans made in the states,
like the lone star made tundra

 

[Ashtree]

Speaking of making America great again Harley-Davidson to Shift Some Production of Motorcycles Out of U.S. After EU Tariffs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...on-of-motorcycles-out-of-u-s-after-eu-tariffs

 

[TelesnaAg]

Thebtariff was imposed to stop carmakers leaving the usa and going to mexico...paying less tax and shipping everything across the border and enjoying cheap labour.

This has worked and its a good move by the usa.

Mexico has had an explosion in manufacturing jobs...never made the country better...murder rate and crime insane...

Not to mention imiingration woes.

The tariff was not about stopping competitors from overseas with competition vehicles as there arent many in that class size etc.

Some people look for a glass half empty there whole lives...

Ant...

 

[Ashtree]

Nailed ........... right there

http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/loc...der-trump-administration-s-tariffs/1261330184

 

[TelesnaAg]

Wow 60 jobs...game changer

Ant..

 

[baabaa]

what a disaster is trumps tariffs
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/21/steel-company-jsw-usa-to-add-1000-new-jobs-ceo.html

 

[Hilly]

He looks after his own like they all should, that is what they are employed too do, time the retards running this country realised this.

 

[ollie989898]

This is why punitive tariffs only serve to hurt the very country they attempt to protect.

BMW employ many hundreds of Americans (probably with American shareholders money) in factories in America. It is in BMWs own interests to source their aluminium or whatever materials or components they require from the most competitive location. If you do something as ham-fisted as slapping a tariff on a material, there is a risk of American workers being put out of business because the cost of manufacturing BMWs in their home country just jumped through no fault of their own.

President Obama put tariffs in place a long time ago on cheap imported Chinese tyres. The move prompted massive hikes in domestic tyre production and protected 2000 manufacturing jobs in that sector. Big win, right up until you count the 6000 jobs that were lost in the marketing and distribution of tyres as a result of this single unilateral government policy.

Tariffs cost the consumer money for the exact same reasons subsidies do.

 

[Ashtree]

Trump’s method is, ready, fire, .... aim...

 

[ollie989898]

He looks after his own like they all should, that is what they are employed too do, time the retards running this country realised this.

He is not 'looking after his own'. If he was interested in that, he would not advocate a national power policy based around fracking the hell out of American land and burning coal which spews garbage over millions of Americans.

Politics is very very rarely clear cut. Every decision has implications in a variety of directions. You cannot run America like a property business. Even in international diplomacy, you cannot treat your own allies, who may have stood alongside you for decades, as someone you can exploit or screw over.

 

[Roger Perry]

America had a $800 billion trade imbalance when the President came to office, he campaigned on reducing that amount. Apologizing for America was what happened under the previous administration.......not this one.
I will turn your last para around and ask........why is Britain / EU imposing a higher tariff on similar goods from America versus the other way around..?

President Trump offered a no tariff deal at a recent meeting of the G-7, there was no takeup of the offer from Britain or the EU........why could that be do you think..?

 

[uztrac]

He looks after his own like they all should, that is what they are employed too do, time the retards running this country realised this.

Oh how I wish your comments were true,we must really start caring for our own.But I see no leader that can do that currently in the major parties. We have in the past decade or two lost the plot ,overseas aid budget wasted,defence of the realm run right down,yes,I could go on. But better stop before I fill a page or three!!

 

[ollie989898]

America had a $800 billion trade imbalance when the President came to office, he campaigned on reducing that amount. Apologizing for America was what happened under the previous administration.......not this one.
I will turn your last para around and ask........why is Britain / EU imposing a higher tariff on similar goods from America versus the other way around..?

President Trump offered a no tariff deal at a recent meeting of the G-7, there was no takeup of the offer from Britain or the EU........why could that be do you think..?

The British have not imposed anything thank you: the EU is not under our control or jurisdiction. I am afraid they not politically accountable to the British electorate. The UK and USA trade extensively and perfectly well with minimal, if any, formal trade arrangements. You have made the classic mistake of lumping us in with a trading block whose decisions are made only to serve the interests of the French and Germans.

Again, you seem fixated on this 'trade imbalance' figure. It is a virtually meaningless figure. Trump seems to think that this money is 'lost' somehow. He is unable to grasp the wider concept of what the 800 billion represents. It was not 'lost'. Do you think the country as a whole, would have been 'better off' somehow, if they had merely spent there money on higher priced goods that were manufactured domestically? That results in less money in their pockets. Do you see how the knock on effects of that might become problematic?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/us/politics/trade-deficit-tariffs-economists-trump.html

Most economists do not see the trade gap as money “lost” to other countries, nor do they worry about trade deficits to a large degree. That’s because trade imbalances are affected by a host of macroeconomic factors, including the relative growth rates of countries, the value of their currencies, and their saving and investment rates. For instance, America’s trade deficit narrowed dramatically during the Great Recession, when national consumption faltered.

“If you look across countries, there’s no evidence that high tariffs reduce your trade deficit,” said Joseph E. Gagnon, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and a co-author of a 2017 book of policy recommendations on how to reduce trade imbalances.