Trump Administration Accomplishments

BrntOrngStmpeDe said:
The Canadian leaders and Australian leaders are telling Trump to F-off. If a few more of our preferred partners get in that boat, Trumps leverage against our actual bad partners will go way down.
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Taking a piss on Canada amd Australia just as they were about to elect conservative, America-friendly governments is massively stupid.
 
Horn6721 said:
Imagine that. Ontario Premier announced he is suspending the 25% tariff on electricity sent to USA.
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It wasn't a tariff. Tariffs are imposed on imports, not exports, and they're imposed at the national level. He was charging a surcharge on exports. He suspend it when Lutnick agreed to trade talks.

Basically, "I'm imposing this surcharge until you tell us what the hell you want."
 
horninchicago said:
The way you and every other sycophant Dem never criticize anything any Dem does or says makes this truly a joke.
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Thanks for recognizing an intentional joke. My joke after Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance was " Now I realize that The Emperor's New Clothes is a very important book." Recently I praised Trump's leadership/results at the border.
 
For the record I don't think downsizing is bad. I think firing mission-critical employees and making people "return" to a non-existent office is bad.
 
BrntOrngStmpeDe said:
I don't think markets appreciate the haphazard way they are doing this, nor do I think they appreciate the "let's fight everyone all at once" approach.

The Canadian leaders and Australian leaders are telling Trump to F-off. If a few more of our preferred partners get in that boat, Trumps leverage against our actual bad partners will go way down.
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It is not haphazard. Trump knows what he is doing and no one should be surprised or scared.

The Canadians and Australians will cave. The Canadians because their economy is shot and they depend on the US to import wheat and oil. The Australians, because they are almost as broke as the Canadians, plus they finally have forged their way into our intelligence network and an alliance that will see them eventually having nuclear submarines.

Everyone must remember Trump has been in the office for six weeks and even he cannot correct the absolutely horrible economy that was left when SloJoe and his helpers were kicked out of Washington.
 
Crockett said:
For the record I don't think downsizing is bad. I think firing mission-critical employees and making people "return" to a non-existent office is bad.
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Yes, and firing probationary employees just because it's easier. It's clear-cutting a forest. Mistakes are being made; the arrogance is over the top and they didn't have to do it like this.
 
bystander said:
Yes, and firing probationary employees just because it's easier. It's clear-cutting a forest. Mistakes are being made; the arrogance is over the top and they didn't have to do it like this.
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No different than at a private sector company. When mistakes are made, that’s a boon to other companies looking to hire top employees. Same here.
 
This shocked me. Trump said "Prime Minister Trudeau is being so indignant, bringing up the relationship that the U.S. and Canada had over the many years and all sorts of other things...but he doesn’t bring up the fact that they charge us up to 300% on dairy — hurting our Farmers, killing our Agriculture!"
I thought that can't be right. But here
checkyourfact.com

FACT CHECK: Does Canada Charge A 270% Tariff On US Dairy?

'Our Tariffs are in response to his of 270% on dairy'
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"Trump is right that Canada imposes very high tariffs on dairy products that limit U.S. participation in the Canadian market, though the exact percentages vary depending on the product and when it is imported.

Canada heavily regulates its dairy industry with a supply management system that impacts production and sets target prices for dairy products. As a part of that system, it uses set tariff rate quotas (TRQ) for imports. Dairy products imported before a quota on a product is met are subject low tariffs or no tariffs, while products imported after the quota are subject to tariffs ranging from 201.5 percent to 313.5 percent.

“As a whole, the 270 percent figure though represents a strong ballpark for the various exorbitant tariff rates that limit US dairy access to the Canadian market,” Shawna Morris, trade policy vice president at the U.S. Dairy Export Council, told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an email."
 
Horn6721 said:
Canada heavily regulates its dairy industry with a supply management system that impacts production and sets target prices for dairy products. As a part of that system, it uses set tariff rate quotas (TRQ) for imports. Dairy products imported before a quota on a product is met are subject low tariffs or no tariffs, while products imported after the quota are subject to tariffs ranging from 201.5 percent to 313.5 percent.
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If I were designing a system, this is probably how I would do it. I don't know why Canada deems their dairy industry so critical, but I would suggest a very similar system for some of our most critical supply chains. (aircraft manufacturing, computer chips, Telcom, and a few others.) I would not try to freeze out 100% of the foreign players, but I would try to hold enough domestic production that we would not have to go without if there is a conflict or epidemic that impacts the world the way Covid did.
 
mchammer said:
No different than at a private sector company. When mistakes are made, that’s a boon to other companies looking to hire top employees. Same here.
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It isn't really the same because there are no other providers for what the government typically provides. I can't just choose to go to someone else for VA medical care the way I can choose to go buy a different flavor of soda if Coke lays off too many people. Same for SSI, etc. The government is a single source provider for many of these services.

Just saw an article today where Dallas Children's Hospital is refusing to accept CHAMPVA insurance now. So if we ruin VA Hospitals and they aren't accepting Veterans insurance, where does the Veteran go?

This is the problem with DJT's approach. They don't have better solutions, they just know that they don't like what is currently in place.

The approach so far seems like "let's break the system and make them figure out how to remake later. Maybe it will be better and more efficient."

It is a thousand times easier to break something than to build something. Right now, it just seems like this admin is doing the breaking part. Not the "making more effective and efficient" part.

The vast majority of people in this country want government to be more efficient. However, I see no signs from this administration that they are actually doing that part of it.
 
Monahorns said:
Natural rights apply to all person in the US not just citizens. If you are against free speech then you are against natural rights and the Bill of RIghts. It used to be that the liberals censored speech they didn't like. Now it is the conservatives.

Do Non-Citizens Have Constitutional Rights? The Founding Fathers Thought So. | Mises Institute
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Yes, they have constitutional rights, but those don't override the nation's power to decide which non-citizens are allowed to be in the country. The United States can also admit a person into the country on the condition that he or she does not do certain things, such as advocate on behalf of international terror organizations.

And lets cut the dramatics. He's not being held for criminal prosecution. He's getting deported and justly so. They can send his a$$ back to Gaza or whatever 7th century Islamic dump he came from.
 
Mr. Deez said:
Yes, they have constitutional rights, but those don't override the nation's power to decide which non-citizens are allowed to be in the country. The United States can also admit a person into the country on the condition that he or she does not do certain things, such as advocate on behalf of international terror organizations.

And lets cut the dramatics. He's not being held for criminal prosecution. He's getting deported and justly so. They can send his a$$ back to Gaza or whatever 7th century Islamic dump he came from.
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For speech, right? And speech against a foreign government, not the US? The point remains that all persons in the US have freedom of speech covered by the Bill of Rights. It is important to remember that the 1st amendment covers speech that is offensive or heinous to some. Conservatives rightly made a big deal of leftists shutting down speech on college campuses that failed their woke filter. Same principle applies here.

You point out something important though. If he is being held temporarily for deportation that is one thing. If he is being held indefinitely to be charged for something then that is another. I'm not the author is correct on that statement.
 
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