Greenland's substantial subsidies from Denmark primarily support public services like police, military, prisons, courts, and environmental protection, along with publicly funded education, public health services, and pensions.
The 10000 per person comes out to 568,650,000 per year so the administration Greenlanders would be getting 31,000,000 million dollars less. Either they are dumb at math or plan to give themselves the money.
You’ve got to wonder whether this payment is in perpetuity or a one-time deal. If one-time, Greenlanders might spend it all on medical treatment during their first year in the US. No thanks, that’s no deal.
Overall, they will as a "state", get more money than from Denmark, but they would also be disconnected from the supporting welfare system, medical system, and educational system. All of which ranks much higher than the US. And they would lose rights to land, as Greenland's land is for its people atm
Won't be enough, we need crayons too... One of the things that people forget it, on Greenland, no one owns the land, it is all for the people, you have rights to use it but no ownership of it, which is why US companies are salty when they can't get big land plots in investment deals.
To be fair, it’s the Trump administration so they’ll tell you they’re giving them $10,000 but all they will get in the end is $1 of Melania’s meme coin.
Yeah idk what internal politics are like in Greenland but at least Denmark acknowledged their attempts to genocide the innuit. Good luck getting the USA to not just forcibly remove you for being insufficiently white.
Should someone tell the republicans that a 1 time payment of 10,000 is not worth giving up free health care for life and all the other benefits denmark offers.
REpublicans, cut services to elder and children in the U.S. and GIVE money to people in another country sure doesn't sound like America 1st
I didn't know he did that. The republicans so totally destroyed the IRS during his first term that none of my mail in returns were process until 2022. They cashed my tax payments within 2 weeks of me sending in my returns so I knew they got them. So I didn't get a stimulus check for 2020 /2021.
Crazy, right? We'll pay people off to supposedly make the US more secure. Once that precedent is set, they'll turn on the US in a heartbeat as soon as somebody offers them more. He thinks everyone is like him.
One time 10k maybe-payment vs free healthcare and education for life … I’m pretty sure public schools in Greenland covered grammar school math curriculum
That's not even enough to cover their annual medical costs in the corrupt US "healthcare" system. Why would they trade away the good, free healthcare they get from Denmark for our shit system - to be ruled by an orange psych ward escapee?
So Denmark gives $600m and the Trumpies think that giving them $566m instead is going to sway the issue? I also love they way that these morons think that everyone can be bought - just like they can.
Still gives tRump too much credit... the most crooked thing to do (what else would they do?) is to base advance payouts to Greenlanders on some cooked up forecast of the Danish subsidy... and, of course, render it in crypto to "avoid currency risk."
It’ll be a cold day in hell before this administration would fork over that kind of money. If there’s one thing this orange liar is good at is overpromise and never deliver
Musk did try to buy Wisconsin. So America here's my offer Half a pound of tuppeny rice, half a pound of treacle, for the whole lot. In return I promise to deliver a working democracy, public health care, improved living standards, better security, better justice and make America respectable again.
$10,000 per Greenlander nowhere meets the $600 milion from Denmark.
You know that the US relies on Canadian icebreakers to clear the ice for fuel tankers to deliver to the US airbase in Greenland. If we refuse to send our icebreakers, that airbase is screwed!
All they have to give up is stability and decent education and healthcare. All for completely untrustworthy pervert with a proven history of serial lies and theft.
Greenland gets roughly 500mil from Denmark every as a block grant. At 6 million people, that breaks down to about $83k per person that is used on various infrastructure things.
Pretty much, you're telling Greenland you're going to give them 1/8 of what Denmark does and you think that will work?
The Greenland population is predominately Inuit. Instead of $10,000 each/year, the ethnic cleansing of Greenland may require that they all be flown to El Salvador.
So they are now thinking of bribing Greenlanders into becoming US citizens?
Even if they do, I hope Greenlanders are smart enough to understand how they lives would change the instant they would really become US citizens.
Except from Denmark Greenlanders now that what is agreed will be forthcoming with Turnip he will not pay up.
Turnip does not understand the people of Greenland want independence not a Dictator from a foreign power, money cannot buy everything.
WAIT! I thought they didn't like welfare? Who's gonna pay all this bribe money? And again, he's buying votes. Anything is for sale with this man. He'd sell Ivana's plot if the price is right.
That works out to over $568M a year in payments to Greenland. Guess ELON better find some more savings if we gonna make that work. Maybe try cutting the President out of government. We'll save that much and more just on what he costs us to go golfing.
A friend who is an actuary told me recently that to qualify for Medicaid in AZ, a family of 4 would have to make less than $32K a year or be disabled. More than 1/3rd of Arizonans receive Medicaid.
2/2 who thinks poor ppl getting services are scamming the govt is insane bc i was POOR and I couldn’t qualify. How much be poorer do you need to be to get … food…
The real welfare queens are the business subsidies and fat contracts by the ones who buy our politicians
When I had 2 kids while in grad school I made $14.5k/yr and I didn’t qualify for any services. I worked odd jobs, went hungry so the kids were fed, slept on my sofa for yrs bc 1br was more than half my monthly pay. No car.
I tutored, house sat, whatever odd jobs to pay the bills.
Anyone 1/2
And here is what they will get for their 10k:
'The environmental risks associated with extensive industrial mining in Greenland are substantial, encompassing pollution, and radioactive contamination. Such mining activities would have serious and lasting environmental consequences.'
$10,000 bribe to be exploited, then taxed, then abandoned. Good luck trying to convince Greenland.
Trump must think they were educated in the US education system to believe that would work!
Really? Icelanders, please take a moment to Google tP's track record at keeping his word, even if it's in a signed contract. There is no deal he cannot try to wiggle out of. Don't fall for the Con.
Greenland will become much more attractive as the planet warms, both for protecting trade routes in the newly opened arctic transit and the land when the ice melts. Trump and Co know that.
So much for America first.... Where's our universal healthcare? The stupidity is astounding. And why would they trust someone who lies and breaks his own agreements on a daily basis?????
They're going to offer $10,000 per citizen to Greenlanders, and all we Canadians got is this lousy trade war?
Some petty and vindictive higher power needs to bless us all so that they live stream the offers and we can watch every single Greenlander tell them to fuck off using various local terms.
Oh right. If that was to become reality(...) you know Trumpie and Muskie and MAGA would find some way to get that money back and continue to insult Greenland.
Trump would make Greenland look like his America. Natives go to reservations and be ignored while white men make all of the laws that will only apply to Greenlanders, not the lawmakers. All while ripping apart the country for minerals and oil with NO environmental protections, keeping all profits.
Yeah, til they take the deal and then three months later he wants to renegotiate, put new restrictions and qualifiers in. Trump is the least trustworthy person on the planet, anyone dealing with him is an idiot if they believe he’ll hold up his end of the deal.
Any promise from this administration is about as trustworthy as a lion asking you to jump into it's enclosure. Once they're in, they won't continue the payments
So, if he can't buy Greenland, he'll by the Greenlanders... by giving them money that they are already receiving in another form and to no additional benefit? He sure makes it easy to remember that Art of the Deal was ghostwritten.
I'm sure Greenlanders will be absolutely THRILLED to give up their excellent socialized health care and civil libraries in exchange for $10k and American insurance policies! 🤪
When I think of it, it's not THAT high when you consider most American voters vote with their emotion (or plain party loyalty) than on a candidate's record, effectiveness, honesty or intelligence.
2/2 the gf of one, to say she was raped by dad, etc. the number of lies they’ve admitted to, the way they were caught trying to get folks to lie to cops, ppl forget that tho it’s still available online.
Sorry to be off topic but to me it signals that we still as a ppl eat what we are fed.
It’s not so unexpected. I read an article about the Menendez brothers and I notice since the Netflix special (I didn’t watch) social media is full of sympathy for them.
But when the actual trial was ongoing it was obvious at least one was a narcissist and a sociopath.
They admitted offering $ to
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I know that, but you said 23% of American CITIZENS voted. I was going by the fact that not even close to all eligible US citizens bother to vote (but they love to complain about the government).
That sounds like an outright bribe to get Greenlanders to change their opinion on that possibility. I would suggest they all look pretty damned closely at how people who are already subject to this regime are getting treated, and consider if it really would be worth it.
It’s the Musk approach to get what you want; give people money to change their views. May it be buying Greenlander’s opinion about having US take their country, or may it be elections in the US. This has to be called out and stopped!
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I said I wasn’t going to get pissed today (meh I made it to 12:30 🤣)
REpublicans, cut services to elder and children in the U.S. and GIVE money to people in another country sure doesn't sound like America 1st
Pot? Kettle? Hard to tell
Taking a pathetic bribe from Vance get them nothing .
So that's $560 million as opposed to $600 million currently
Who could turn down a deal like that 🤪
That's not even enough to cover their annual medical costs in the corrupt US "healthcare" system. Why would they trade away the good, free healthcare they get from Denmark for our shit system - to be ruled by an orange psych ward escapee?
What we really need is $10,000 per American as payment for the hassle of living under Trump.
You know that the US relies on Canadian icebreakers to clear the ice for fuel tankers to deliver to the US airbase in Greenland. If we refuse to send our icebreakers, that airbase is screwed!
Pretty much, you're telling Greenland you're going to give them 1/8 of what Denmark does and you think that will work?
US is 7.25/hr that’s 15k/yr.
Total scam
Looks like the Tech stuff won’t be made in America.
He promised a Golden Age of America!
now it’s looks like
“The Bronze Age of America“🇺🇸
Administration people are distracting him now with talk of buying Greenland, knowing damned well it will never happen.
He's like a baby looking at jangling keys.
US lost all credibility.
He is owned by Russia. This treasonous man is on a vengeance tour and it was so obvious to so many of us but here we are.
Four years of this 💩.
I will be wearing these kinds of shirts everyday until this nightmare ends 👇
https://libtees.dashery.com
Even if they do, I hope Greenlanders are smart enough to understand how they lives would change the instant they would really become US citizens.
So greenlanders will still be worse off
Turnip does not understand the people of Greenland want independence not a Dictator from a foreign power, money cannot buy everything.
And they’ve got universal healthcare
Trump is a joke 😂
The real welfare queens are the business subsidies and fat contracts by the ones who buy our politicians
I tutored, house sat, whatever odd jobs to pay the bills.
Anyone 1/2
'The environmental risks associated with extensive industrial mining in Greenland are substantial, encompassing pollution, and radioactive contamination. Such mining activities would have serious and lasting environmental consequences.'
Trump must think they were educated in the US education system to believe that would work!
The irony: They deny climate change.
Some petty and vindictive higher power needs to bless us all so that they live stream the offers and we can watch every single Greenlander tell them to fuck off using various local terms.
Greenland gets $600,000,000 a year that covers universal health care, child care, education and infrastructure.
Trump is offering $565,830,000 per year for NONE OF THAT!
Who in their right mind would ever want our healthcare and education system?
Really wish we had a way to edit posts…
That tracks.
Because I think that 23% is of the total population.
21% of the total population are too young to vote.
This is our problem.
Sorry to be off topic but to me it signals that we still as a ppl eat what we are fed.
But when the actual trial was ongoing it was obvious at least one was a narcissist and a sociopath.
They admitted offering $ to
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Usually, roughly about 50% of people who CAN vote actually do.
US: high cost healthcare and $7.25/hr min wage = $15k/yr.
Greenlanders would lose $30k/yr!!! Even with the $10k bc that they’d need to pay for their healthcare. If they were lucky that’s all it would be.
Trump doing boy math😂