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Trump Slams EU Over $5 Billion Fine on Google (reuters.com)
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized the European Union and said the bloc was taking advantage of the United States, pointing to the record $5 billion fine European antitrust regulators imposed on Google. From a report: European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is scheduled to meet with Trump at the White House next Wednesday to discuss trade and other issues. "I told you so! The European Union just slapped a Five Billion Dollar fine on one of our great companies, Google. They truly have taken advantage of the U.S., but not for long!" Trump said in a post on Twitter .
All the left-wing Friends of Google (tm) don't know who to root for. What will prevail? Trump Derangement or Google Fanboism?
As opposed to Apple where you don't even have the option of installing an SD card?
8GB is nothing. Buy a phone with more internal memory and use your SD card for pictures and other media storage.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
"In other words the EU can probably hurt Trump far more than he can hurt the EU, but attacking his base and other politicians that support him"
You obviously are not part of the base. I am. And there's nothing they can do to "attack the base" that is going to work short of somehow getting him to NOT put America first, and start cooperating with the globalists to F the USA and move jobs out of the country again, put everyone back on welfare that was before, etc. Not going to happen. Donald doesn't care, he's got all the money he needs so they cannot bribe him. And he will continue to attempt to bring jobs back from outside the country, advocate for US companies that are getting raped by Mafia-like organizations like the EU, and so forth. This $5B is simple a "protection racket", just like the mob. We're tired of it, Trump is tired of it, and he will use his considerable influence to see that it doesn't happen.
If you would bother to learn what you're talking about instead of just repeating incorrect political talking points, you'd seem much more intelligent.
Tariffs are only a fraction of the issue. If you're not a moron, you also look at the amount spent subsidizing the product in each country, and you look at the total of both goods and services exchanged between the two countries, and weight those including the tariffs. That's actually fair accounting, and not cherry-picking a number to prove your point.
If one country can make one product cheaper, it doesn't make sense to try to have balanced trade with them. It's in our best interest to buy that product or service at a lower dollar amount, and spend the resources we'd have normally spent making it on something we can do more efficiently. Making everything cost more and run less efficiently just to get a trade deficit number which will make Trump feel like a winner is stupid. This is why pretty much every serious economist is against what Trump is doing.
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