Well we are unhappy about US corporations doing the dutch sandwich tax shuffle and paying in effect zero taxes on their profits.
We are also unhappy about the huge protections the US has for its agriculture sector.
We went through this trauma 20-30 years ago and have more Market freedom than the USA.
and over all, we are a much happier people than the USA.
This trader is all about the USA unwilling to recognise it is only 4% of the worlds population and that China will soon (if not already) over take the USA as the biggest economy and the US can no longer throw its weight around.
The rest of the world is going to continue to trade with China.
While Trump has been ripping up trade agreements, China has been making them.
While Trump has been pissing people off, China has been talking nicely.
Chinas middle class is growing, the US is stagnant, the US could be locked out of the biggest growth market there is
China has rare earth materials the US needs, I guess China can stop selling it to the US to balance trade...
So while the USA places tariffs on things like Aluminium which will only serve to increase the prices of US exports and make the US even less competitive China has been strengthening trade ties with everyone else.
The is no rule/law or anything else that says the US must win, nor that it must be the leader . The US is only 4% of the worlds population.
You mean like the socialist funding of the military the US has , where all tax payers are forced to fund it ?
or perhaps you mean like healthcare where it costs us less money ?
But feel free to let us know how well the US does in: Education, Healthcare, Law and order, Freedom, Freedom of the press, free speech , social mobility, corruption, Racism, infant mortality , life expectancy, Bankruptcies, Drug addiction, Capitalism, democracy, etc etc etc because from where I sit, the US is NOT great, not great at all. Oh sure, you tell yourselves you are the greatest, but no one actually bothers to look, because its not a pretty picture.
Also the USA did NOT win WWII, Russia did far more, so no we would not be speaking Japanese or German.
The nice thing about my "worthless little country" is we are willing to take the best from all systems and make it work for us the voters. This is why the likes of Peter Theil have bought property here for when the US sinks into the next civil war.
Um, the world would like to respond.
NO, we have interest in this trade war. While Trump has been tearing up treaties the rest of the world has been signing them.
Going forward, China is viewed as a more important trade partner than the USA.
The USA is only4% of the worlds population and effectively stagnant, where as Asia is 60%, and in China the middle class is growing...bigly.
So in the interest of MAGA, USA first, allow us to say...USA last because we don't want to get caught in this shit storm.
And as Trump would say "No deal is better than a bad deal", so no we are not going to share your pain.
Sweden, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, there are 4 for a start.
Pick something that is what you want and there is always a country ranked higher than the USA (OK, except costs of healthcare, prison population, military spending, school shootings, oh and I will also give you money given to charity.)
The USA did NOT win WWII, the Russians actually did far more. Nuking Japan did not finish the Pacific war, it was that Russia had captured Berlin and was turning their sight onto Japan, thats what caused the surrender.
They probably meant to shift the files into the shadow profile. That way you think they are deleted and facebook can pretend they have been all the while having everything you ever put on there.
Privacy is an anathema to Facebook. The whole reason for facebook to exist is to gather as much information about everyone they can and sell that information to whom ever is willing to pay for it.
He may have lost ground in the EU, but he will be doubling down on the rest of the world, and raking as much as he can off the top personally.
Facebook will eventually die but Zuc will still be a very wealthy man.
Nope the people who buy guns for "protection" have already made the mental leap that allows them to shoot and kill another human being.
That is why these people should never be allowed guns, they are willing to kill.
EVERY gun owner is just ONE bullet away for being a killer.
The problem is these are not graduates, these will be 30-50 year olds with families.
And unlike the industrial revolution where the man went to work, and married women stayed home, married women are also working to make ends meet in the family finances. So if the husband is forced to move what happens to the wife and her job ?, especially in a significantly more competitive job market.
Ahh, the example of one. Now tell me about the millions of consumers who keep the likes of Walmart , Amazon, etc going, yeah those ones , the ones who will be paying MORE.
The cost of equipment in healthcare is a decent chunk of it, its a massive supply chain.
Likewise Universities, go looking in their science and engineering departments, hell even the library, all of them dependant at some point on a product from China.
And also you have to look at US companies, with decreased competition, they have the opportunity to raise prices/profits.
Or the design engineer/programmer/materials engineer/ etc etc etc being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
And it won't be a 50K job, it will be a minimum wage job.
And those factories will require infrastructure , roads, power, sewerage, water, land, etc etc etc which will push up local prices making it even harder for the poor to live there.
It will be the likes of Boeing , John Deer, Thermo, etc etc who will loose most, the ones that bring in real profits that will get impacted first.
The USA currently has over $2 Trillion in exports. A trade war will put much of that at risk.
What Trump is actually taking about is bringing low wage/low profit jobs back to the USA and putting at risk High wage/High profit jobs.
Your food, lumber, energy is already subsidised by the tax payer and protectionist policies. Looking forward to see how you cope with increases in clothing, footwear, food , healthcare, education, etc etc etc are going to impact your everyday life because at some stage either the product or the equipment used to make the product has Chinese parts. Any increase along that supply chain eventually is paid for by the consumer.
And there are other things other countries can do, for example not allowing the USA to buy rare earth materials, that will impact every part of US life eventually.
World wide McDonalds makes about $4000 profit per employee, Apple makes about $1 Million per employee.
Trump scheme will kill of some high paying jobs to bring back some low paying jobs..
And let us know hen he starts employed US citizens at his golf clubs, gets his products made in the USA too, as well as Ivanka. And I am going out on a limb here but my guess is those products lines will somehow be exempt from tariffs.
At the end of the day the USA makes up 4% of the worlds population and 20% of the worlds GDP (and falling).
The rest of the world is simply getting on with it, making trade deals among themselves and leaving the USA out of it.
Trump may regret his words "No deal is better than a bad deal", because no country is going to want a "bad deal" with the USA, they will be happier with a fair deal with China and other countries.
The USA can be the child that picks up his ball and goes home, because the other kids on the block will simply pay a different game or find another ball.
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Well we are unhappy about US corporations doing the dutch sandwich tax shuffle and paying in effect zero taxes on their profits.
We are also unhappy about the huge protections the US has for its agriculture sector.
We went through this trauma 20-30 years ago and have more Market freedom than the USA.
and over all, we are a much happier people than the USA.
This trader is all about the USA unwilling to recognise it is only 4% of the worlds population and that China will soon (if not already) over take the USA as the biggest economy and the US can no longer throw its weight around.
Huh...who knew...oh wait https://electrek.co/2018/01/23...
The rest of the world is going to continue to trade with China.
While Trump has been ripping up trade agreements, China has been making them.
While Trump has been pissing people off, China has been talking nicely.
Chinas middle class is growing, the US is stagnant, the US could be locked out of the biggest growth market there is
China has rare earth materials the US needs, I guess China can stop selling it to the US to balance trade...
So while the USA places tariffs on things like Aluminium which will only serve to increase the prices of US exports and make the US even less competitive China has been strengthening trade ties with everyone else.
The is no rule/law or anything else that says the US must win, nor that it must be the leader . The US is only 4% of the worlds population.
http://blog.peerform.com/top-t...
"human beings -are individuals." which is most people live in cities, to take advantage of the things that communal living gives.
You mean like the socialist funding of the military the US has , where all tax payers are forced to fund it ?
or perhaps you mean like healthcare where it costs us less money ?
But feel free to let us know how well the US does in: Education, Healthcare, Law and order, Freedom, Freedom of the press, free speech , social mobility, corruption, Racism, infant mortality , life expectancy, Bankruptcies, Drug addiction, Capitalism, democracy, etc etc etc because from where I sit, the US is NOT great, not great at all. Oh sure, you tell yourselves you are the greatest, but no one actually bothers to look, because its not a pretty picture. Also the USA did NOT win WWII, Russia did far more, so no we would not be speaking Japanese or German. The nice thing about my "worthless little country" is we are willing to take the best from all systems and make it work for us the voters. This is why the likes of Peter Theil have bought property here for when the US sinks into the next civil war.
Um, the world would like to respond.
NO, we have interest in this trade war. While Trump has been tearing up treaties the rest of the world has been signing them.
Going forward, China is viewed as a more important trade partner than the USA.
The USA is only4% of the worlds population and effectively stagnant, where as Asia is 60%, and in China the middle class is growing...bigly.
So in the interest of MAGA, USA first, allow us to say...USA last because we don't want to get caught in this shit storm.
And as Trump would say "No deal is better than a bad deal", so no we are not going to share your pain.
Sweden, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, there are 4 for a start. Pick something that is what you want and there is always a country ranked higher than the USA (OK, except costs of healthcare, prison population, military spending, school shootings, oh and I will also give you money given to charity.) The USA did NOT win WWII, the Russians actually did far more. Nuking Japan did not finish the Pacific war, it was that Russia had captured Berlin and was turning their sight onto Japan, thats what caused the surrender.
Is MS now owned by China, because that seems to be one of the complaints Trump has with China, US firms being forced to handover Stuff for free.
I am lucky I live in a better country.
Its says something about the people and the culture in the USA when THAT is a real concern.
I feel sorry for you.
They probably meant to shift the files into the shadow profile. That way you think they are deleted and facebook can pretend they have been all the while having everything you ever put on there.
We are very very sorry (for being caught.... again and again and again)
Privacy is an anathema to Facebook. The whole reason for facebook to exist is to gather as much information about everyone they can and sell that information to whom ever is willing to pay for it.
He may have lost ground in the EU, but he will be doubling down on the rest of the world, and raking as much as he can off the top personally.
Facebook will eventually die but Zuc will still be a very wealthy man.
Nope the people who buy guns for "protection" have already made the mental leap that allows them to shoot and kill another human being.
That is why these people should never be allowed guns, they are willing to kill.
EVERY gun owner is just ONE bullet away for being a killer.
I have seen no reason not to believe this
The problem is these are not graduates, these will be 30-50 year olds with families.
And unlike the industrial revolution where the man went to work, and married women stayed home, married women are also working to make ends meet in the family finances. So if the husband is forced to move what happens to the wife and her job ?, especially in a significantly more competitive job market.
Just look at Kim Dotcom.
The Brits could turn Zuck into a sitcom "The rise and fall of Mark Zuckerberg ", call him something like Reginald Perrin perhaps...
And brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in exports, employs thousands of people, etc.
Ahh, the example of one. Now tell me about the millions of consumers who keep the likes of Walmart , Amazon, etc going, yeah those ones , the ones who will be paying MORE.
The cost of equipment in healthcare is a decent chunk of it, its a massive supply chain.
Likewise Universities, go looking in their science and engineering departments, hell even the library, all of them dependant at some point on a product from China.
And also you have to look at US companies, with decreased competition, they have the opportunity to raise prices/profits.
Or the design engineer/programmer/materials engineer/ etc etc etc being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
.
And it won't be a 50K job, it will be a minimum wage job.
And those factories will require infrastructure , roads, power, sewerage, water, land, etc etc etc which will push up local prices making it even harder for the poor to live there.
It will be the likes of Boeing , John Deer, Thermo, etc etc who will loose most, the ones that bring in real profits that will get impacted first
The USA currently has over $2 Trillion in exports. A trade war will put much of that at risk.
What Trump is actually taking about is bringing low wage/low profit jobs back to the USA and putting at risk High wage/High profit jobs.
Your food, lumber, energy is already subsidised by the tax payer and protectionist policies. Looking forward to see how you cope with increases in clothing, footwear, food , healthcare, education, etc etc etc are going to impact your everyday life because at some stage either the product or the equipment used to make the product has Chinese parts. Any increase along that supply chain eventually is paid for by the consumer.
And there are other things other countries can do, for example not allowing the USA to buy rare earth materials, that will impact every part of US life eventually.
World wide McDonalds makes about $4000 profit per employee, Apple makes about $1 Million per employee.
.
Trump scheme will kill of some high paying jobs to bring back some low paying jobs..
And let us know hen he starts employed US citizens at his golf clubs, gets his products made in the USA too, as well as Ivanka. And I am going out on a limb here but my guess is those products lines will somehow be exempt from tariffs
Yep, sales taxes that get applied to all manufacturers. Tarrifs will only apply to US ones.
At the end of the day the USA makes up 4% of the worlds population and 20% of the worlds GDP (and falling).
The rest of the world is simply getting on with it, making trade deals among themselves and leaving the USA out of it.
Trump may regret his words "No deal is better than a bad deal", because no country is going to want a "bad deal" with the USA, they will be happier with a fair deal with China and other countries.
The USA can be the child that picks up his ball and goes home, because the other kids on the block will simply pay a different game or find another ball.