David Craig, on June 11th, 2018(Monday blog)
How wonderful to see Donald Trump telling the other members of the G7 that they could stick their communique where the sun doesn’t shine:
As the BBC and C4 News report this break with diplomatic convention with horror, they forget to mention that Canada applies a tariff of 270% – yes, that’s 270% – to US dairy products. Oh, didn’t you know that? Did our mainstream media, in their blitz of insults aimed at Trump, forget to tell us that the US actually has a strong case for applying tariffs to Canadian steel and aluminium?
And here are just a few recent Donald Trump tweets. Don’t you wish we had a leader like Trump in Britain? He’d soon tell the greedy, undemocratic, corrupt, Soros-paid, treacherous, Izlumophiliac EU political pygmies to take their EU superstate and shove it!
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Sorry, we cannot let our friends, or enemies, take advantage of us on Trade anymore. We must put the American worker first!
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Great to be in Singapore, excitement in the air!
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….Germany pays 1% (slowly) of GDP towards NATO, while we pay 4% of a MUCH larger GDP. Does anybody believe that makes sense? We protect Europe (which is good) at great financial loss, and then get unfairly clobbered on Trade. Change is coming!
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….And add to that the fact that the U.S. pays close to the entire cost of NATO-protecting many of these same countries that rip us off on Trade (they pay only a fraction of the cost-and laugh!). The European Union had a $151 Billion Surplus-should pay much more for Military!
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Why should I, as President of the United States, allow countries to continue to make Massive Trade Surpluses, as they have for decades, while our Farmers, Workers & Taxpayers have such a big and unfair price to pay? Not fair to the PEOPLE of America! $800 Billion Trade Deficit…
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Fair Trade is now to be called Fool Trade if it is not Reciprocal. According to a Canada release, they make almost 100 Billion Dollars in Trade with U.S. (guess they were bragging and got caught!). Minimum is 17B. Tax Dairy from us at 270%. Then Justin acts hurt when called out!
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PM Justin Trudeau of Canada acted so meek and mild during our
@G7 meetings only to give a news conference after I left saying that, “US Tariffs were kind of insulting” and he “will not be pushed around.” Very dishonest & weak. Our Tariffs are in response to his of 270% on dairy! -
Based on Justin’s false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is charging massive Tariffs to our U.S. farmers, workers and companies, I have instructed our U.S. Reps not to endorse the Communique as we look at Tariffs on automobiles flooding the U.S. Market!
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The only figure that stands out to me is the USA Trade Deficit. The same applies to the UK. What are Trump and May doing about the deficit? It exists because we are importing too much and we are not exporting to pay for the imports. Our goods are either too expensive of poor quality. If nothing is done our economy will be loaded with debt we cannot pay off and then we will really know what austerity means. Significantly, membership of the EU has done nothing to improve our trade deficit.
We rarely hear the truth about manufacturing, retail, the High St., what is actually happening! In truth, it seems we manufacture very little and what we do is, as A Thorpe says, of poor quality and expensive in comparison with what is imported. Mainly we seem to assemble stuff from components actually made elsewhere. It is shameful that I can buy an excellent DVD player for £30, made in the Far East. Why aren’t we making these things in the UK? As for retail, no wonder the High St. is suffering. House of Fraser has been no more than a pretentious white elephant for longer than I can recall. There’s one in my home town (scheduled for closure) but no one I know has darkened its doors for years. Indeed, given the cost of parking, few people who live more than walking distance from the town centre, or oldies like me who qualify for free bus transport, visit the city centre at all any longer. M & S is dying, and no wonder, since in their women’s clothing departments, the backbone of their trade for decades, they NEVER seem to have the sizes the majority of women require, and if you have the effrontery to ask why, you are told they have no control over the quantity in relation to sizes of what is delivered. UK retail, UK manufacturing, don’t deserve to survive. As for Trump, unconventional as he may be, and offensive as most of the UK press and mainstream media are determined to find him, I only wish we had a politician with his cohones to lead our beleaguered nation. Oh! I forgot! We did have a possible candidate, didn’t we, but the UK is peopled with too many libtard lefties and melting snowflakes to give him a chance. His name was Nigel Farage.
What a leader. Nobody likes him,so they say!
Ask the working class American, different story.
The man wears the Stars and Stripes across his chest.
The American economy is thriving, so this rubs off on
the rest of the world.
His strong stance against North Korea, with the help of
South Korea, have brought them to the negotiating table.
He is on talking terms with Mr. Putin.
Now take in contrast what we have leading us!
Need I say more.
I cannot understand why we are so craven in the Brexit negocaitions, the EU has more to lose than us as they export more to us than we do to them. For instance, one fifth of all German built cars are exported to the UK, around 820,000 vehicles. For a start, (doing a Trump) declare unless we get a favourable deal – amongst other measures, a 100% tariff goes on all imported German (and all EU) manufactured cars.