So it turns out that the free world becoming prosperous and peaceful for 80 years under American leadership and protection at no cost to them was just an introductory rate.
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Michael McKee
CEA Chair Steve Miran suggests the world owes the US for providing its military and the dollar as "public goods." They can pay tariffs without complaint or "simply write checks" to the US Treasury. www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...
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Well, Youtube video clips from mafia movies. You cannot convince me he could sit still and focus on a movie screen for two hours.
I feel like it should be an option.
Time to find an open source replacement.
Trump & Co. need to do some remedial Dale Carnegie Coursework.
We. Do.
I’m asking seriously…
The world’s most important and richest nation just says “fuck-it. You all owe us something. Everyone and including the American middle class too. Now pay up”!
Seems so arbitrary, meaningless and self defeating. A collective psychosis.
And the US happens to also be responsible for dragging Europe and Canada into its misbegotten wars.
Holy shit it’s like the worlds suddenly went dark and there really are zombies out there.
Vietnam War
Iraq War
Chile 1973
Argentina 1976
Haiti 1991
Afghanistan 2001
Venezuela 2002
Palestine
…
The US would STILL be in deficit.
THEY DON’T PAY OUR TARIFFS WE DO
THEY DON’T PAY OUR TARIFFS WE DO
THEY DON’T PAY OUR TARIFFS WE DO
THEY DON’T PAY OUR TARIFFS WE DO
THEY DON’T PAY OUR TARIFFS WE DO
Is it a surprise since the same fascists call the shots in the American government and private sectors
Are they following this book as a guide?
And there was most certainly a MASSIVE cost.
At the expense of the non-free world that your government loves to bomb the shit out of. Get your gun-ho cunty military out of my country.
Or are they all clumsy, crying children demanding their cookie?
“FREE?”
Betsey Stevenson, former economic adviser to Pres Obama and economics professor at University of Michigan along with UM faculty colleague Justin Wolfers predict Trump/Heritage FDN tariffs will cost every American household close to $4,000. Unconscionable racist nationalism.
This isn’t how America does clawback for international loans.
This is how you fuck the global economy.
Tariffs are stupid. Tax the rich for once.
this is not stupidity it's just bad faith
He seems to have gotten cause and effect reversed.
"The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon
It's called being part of a GLOBAL COMMUNITY.
American is not World Police, no matter how much they want to be. You don't automatically have the moral high ground, you're not the World's good guys, that's just Hollywood talking!
We only do the "right thing" once every other option has been exhausted.
And it truly is exhausting.
How much of a fucking lunatic do you have to be to actually say this shit out loud, let alone put it out from The White House.
"the power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it" -- Frank Herbert
Shame.
Already, other countries are forming new alliances and will continue to do so. Trump will be left holding an empty bag with no friends. So much winning.