The world laughs at Trumps Only America First statement

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  1. Cdnpoli

    Cdnpoli Banned

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    It's not cold.
    http://weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html

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    The rest of the world is on board with saving the world from global warming. We need US too.
     
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    The US met the Kyoto targets, and we didn't even sign the treaty. Did Canada?
     
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    Everything said here is true.

    Everything said here is half true.

    As economies develop, it is only natural that the industrial sector becomes a smaller portion of overall GDP. There is nothing that Trump can do that will bring these manufacturing jobs back (though, I don't hurt for him to try).

    What you don't explain, however, is that the service sector is heavily reliant on trade, as more than 20 million workers in their economy owe their jobs to the U.S. exporting sector. Trump can improve the lifestlyles of families, not by bringing manufacturing jobs back, but by improving the balance of trade and the U.S. current account that would essentially make American exports more competitive.

    All Trump needs to do is impliment policies that would encourage the U.S. to be a net exportor rather than a net importer, effectively increasing employment and the value of U.S. currency.
     
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    Cdnpoli Banned

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    Do you really think the fight ends there?
     
  5. Lil Mike

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    Did Canada meet the Kyoto targets?
     
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    And now, globalism moves those middle-class union jobs jobs overseas because of global competition in the labor market.
    So, when you factory closes, blame Truman.
     
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    When the US finds it in its interests to do so, it will.
    Your opinion has no bearing on US economic or foreign policy.
     
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    The office of President of the United States, for one.

    Other than that, just his own gold plated jet, huge towers in places all over the world, and eleventy billion dollars.
     
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    Intimidation?! Pft! It is called leverage and sovereignty. They dont have a choice in what we decide to do.
     
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    When the going gets tough, you gonna call the French? Go back in your hole.
     
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    He didn't win the election either.
     
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    America needs to be global. Not only for foreign relations, but for trade. Either way you twist it, America eventually is going to be left behind by fellow industrialized countries that welcome globalism.
     
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    You'll do what you're told, you silly, barking little doge.

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    :roflol: This is what leftist birtherism looks like.
     
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    It's very doubtful that the Trump crowd will ever figure out what the word actually means?
     
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    I will agree with you on one thing and that us the Trump Turds speech was the worst innaugeralnspeech I gave ever heard. We will be great because we are great and we do not need the Trump Turd to make us great!
     
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    What Trump actually said was:

    "We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

    We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example"

    - President Donald J. Trump 1/20/17


    So, what is it you're whining about?
     
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    Absolutely nothing. Leftists need to get used to it because there is no option not to.
     
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    I would ask for proof that the world is laughing but seeing as how you always run when asked for evidence I don't think I'll bother running you out of your own thread.
     
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    the united states has no duty to save you people from yourselves. for a good part of the last century we've been trying to do just that and look at what it's gotten us. europe has wasted our time and resources, insisting we pay for their defense as they slipped further and further into a socialistic malaise. as the eu founders in a sea of its own refuse, it still seems to think we owe them our allegiance and protection. latin america is awash in poverty and corruption, despite the flood of billions in aid. china, emboldened by the european acceptance of protectionist economic policies and decades of militaristic abuse of even its own people, has once again begun to expand and threaten the peace of its asian neighbors. radical islam, once again with the aid of a complicit europe, has almost totally enveloped the middle-east and threatens to overwhelm both africa and a complacent europe. outliers like canada continue to ride the coattails of the big dogs and have the audacity to claim that their benefactors owe them still more. and here you are, making the asinine claim that the u.s. is turning its back on the world just because we need the time to put our own house in order.
     
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    If you abandon the world fighting climate change the world will abandon you.
     
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    The MiddleClass was expanded due to the fact that US government had the GI Bill after WWII and that gave our returning WWII and Korean War vets the opportunity to get an education and qualify for middleclass jobs.
     
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    Didn't he win the "big hands" award. Heard there were quiet a few women who "gave" it to him. Guess you could say he won it "hands down".
     
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    America First???

    That was the slogan of the anti-Semitic right in America prior to WWII

    Was he sending a signal to his KKK friends?
     

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