lindajoy wrote:
Mexico acted as they did knowing Trump would do as he said...The number of i*****l a***ns entering from our border and from Mexico by the thousands confirms there isn’t any effort to stop it, thats BS what you said and you know it.. my gosh perm how you can try to refute the mass numbers coming across-illegay and rising, not reducing.. You must take us for i***ts!!!!
China another bit of BS...keep up perm.. Naturally they talked big trade war and all that with Trump but then put it out there they want far market trade and willing to reduce car trade tariffs etc..As well as stopping their control of steele/alumium that Trump called them out about too..The only President that tackled their BS, why is that perm??
You just can not dare say a word positive of Trump...hint~ He’s succeeding in spite of you and your ilk... Three fantastic great results this week alone and all major events.. Keep your lies going tho .. You kick your own ass every time in the process....
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Chinese leader Xi Jinping promised today to open China's economy up even further for foreign investments and to lower tariffs on foreign automobiles. His speech comes in the middle of this ongoing standoff between the U.S. and China over trade. NPR's Rob Schmitz joins us live from our Shanghai bureau this morning to talk about this. Hey, Rob.
ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE: Good morning.
MARTIN: What can you tell us about the timing of this speech?
SCHMITZ: Well, obviously this comes amidst a pretty big buildup in what many people think is a trade war or a coming trade war between the U.S. and China. And a lot of people, I think, were expecting Xi Jinping to make a stand against the U.S. today. This is a really heavily hyped speech. But instead what we got was a speech that was sort of filled with poetic language about peace and harmony and coming together to solve global problems. Xi said that China would seek to reduce its trade surplus, which is, as we know, a big pet peeve of President Trump's. He also vowed China would improve its investment environment. Here's a snippet of what he said.
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/10/601072299/china-ready-to-lower-import-tariffs-and-trade-barriers-xi-saysAs for Syria once again reverted to gasing his own people because of the rebels still fighting and refusing to leave.. They have been advancing again and Assad could not stop them so he did what he does when they are losing.. Puts a bomb out there with chlorine and serain again.. Works every time too. The rebels back off, leave the area for awhile..This one was once again an opps in getting caught because he k**led 45 of his own people and injured hundreds most women and children.. Not the first time since he supposedly got rid of the chemicals and signed a treaty to it as well..You Know the rest I’m sure you have followed it..
Did you even watch the emergency meeting Russia called with the UN and hear what was said by the UK and fabulousy laid out by Nikki Haley?? You couldn’t have or you wouldn’t be
Embarrassing yourself with your comments on Syria!!!
Bo didn’t do a thing to stop Assad and Russia damn sure did nothing!! Trump inherited this mess from Bo’ and his imaginery red line in the sand garbage again.. He didn’t even enforce the inspection program as the treaty allowed, so please toot your BO BS on some of your ilk because it doesn’t work with me!!
BTW the UN denied Russia too..
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Trump Delivers a Hollow, Self-Congratulatory Speech to Farmers in Nashville
“Oh, are you happy you v**ed for me,” he assured the assembled.
TOM PHILPOTTJAN. 8, 2018 11:53 PM
Donald Trump is big with the farmers. How big? Just ask him. “Oh, are you happy you v**ed for me,” the president cooed during his speech at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 99th annual convention in Nashville on Monday. “Oh, you are so lucky I gave you that privilege.”
His preening lines (starting around 23:20 in the above video) inspired a curiously muted applause from the audience compared to the rousing cheers he elicited during other parts of the speech. The flat reception underlines Trump’s dilemma in farm country as the 2018 mid-term e******ns approach. His administration has delivered on the main promises it made to farmers during the 2016 campaign: gutting regulation and easing the burden of the estate tax. But those promises actually amount to very little in the face of a struggling farm economy beset by years of low commodity prices, labor shortages exacerbated by an immigration crackdown, and fears of imperiled export markets as Trump threatens to roll back trade deals like the North American Free Trade Act.
Take deregulation. At his Nashville speech, the president trumpeted the administration’s move, back in March, to overturn the Waters of the US rule, a clarification of the Clean Water Act mandated by a 2006 Supreme Court decision. According to Trump, crushing WOTUS, as it’s known, was a heroic act that essentially saved the family farm. “Men that were tough and strong, women that were tough and strong, they’d see me, there were tears coming down their eyes, because I gave them back their property, I gave them back their farms,” he claimed.
The crowd roared at Trump’s WOTUS victory lap, but the idea that the president delivered farms back to people is nonsense. As I showed in this post, the Waters of the US rule—like the Clean Water Act itself—exempted farming activities from its purview. The Farm Bureau itself did its best to whip farmers into a frenzy against it, even though it had little effect on them.
He told another fairy tale about what he called the “deeply unfair estate tax.” Until recently, estates valued at $5.5 million and higher were forced to pay an estate tax of 40 percent. The recent GOP tax overhaul pushed the threshold to $11 million. Before that act of largesse, farm families typically “were forced to take these farms and sell them at a fire-sale price,” he claimed. “That’s not gonna happen anymore, folks. Not gonna happen.” In reality, just 0.4 percent of US farm estates were big enough for the tax in 2016, according to the US Department of Agriculture.
Not surprisingly, Trump also congratulated farmers on the broader benefits they’ll receive from the tax overhaul, which he described as “5.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts, with most of those benefits going to working families, small businesses, and—who?—family farmers.” I won’t tackle the broader claims. As for impact in farm country, as I reported and was recently confirmed by a new paper from US Department of Agriculture economists, the great bulk of its benefits will accrue to the very largest farmers. According to the paper, the very largest farms will grab as much as 70 percent of the tax reductions, while the smallest farms will actually pay more.
Meanwhile, prices of major commodities like corn and soybeans remain mired in a multi-year slump and farm labor shortages linger. Trump’s bluster won him massive support among farmers in 2016. As the hollow nature of his gifts to them sets in, it’s hard to see how his popularity in farm country will hold out through the mid-terms. Indeed, in the iconic farm state of Iowa, at least, Trump’s appeal is on the wane, reports The Washington Post’s David Wei
Advocates for farmers and trade analysts say Mr. Trump’s protectionist approach to trade has the potential to shrink the market for food producers in the United States. The president withdrew the country from the T***s-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal with Asian nations. And he has threatened to pull the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has bolstered exports of meat, grains and other commodities.
Many of Mr. Trump’s supporters in the 2016 p**********l e******n come from farming communities. But some now question whether the president’s trade policies are contributing to an advantage for their foreign competitors in countries that are continuing to form trade pacts around the world.
Mr. Trump has promised to negotiate better one-on-one trade deals with other nations, but he has yet to demonstrate much progress toward that goal. In the speech on Monday, he again pledged to negotiate new and better trade deals, particularly with Canada and Mexico.