permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Kim is building, trump is blowing smoke...

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-china-trade-war-items-2018-7

Soon after US President Donald Trump's imposed a 25% tariff on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, China's Ministry of Commerce struck back with tariffs of equal size on some US exports to China.

It said the first $34 billion would be followed up by another $16 billion once the US's second wave of tariffs goes into effect in a few weeks.

While Trump's tariffs mostly target industrial and tech goods , China is focusing heavily on agricultural products from the US — a move that is likely to not only cause pain to Trump's political supporters, but leave US farmers with fewer options to divert their crops.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/outofasia/2018/03/05/first-solar-then-steel-now-soy-chinas-move-to-buy-brazilian-soybeans-over-u-s-could-worsen-trade-tensions/#2a2c1c031607

Amidst recent U.S.-China trade tensions, experts believe that agricultural products, particularly soybeans and sorghum, are where the Chinese can hit the U.S. back the hardest. U.S. soybean distributors may have already lost their competitive edge to Brazil as the main exporter to China, a critically important buyer of the commodity.

China is the world’s largest importer of soybeans, while the U.S. has been the world's biggest producer—and exporter to China. But in January, the United States Department of Agriculture published a report showing that since September 2017, China has slowed imports of soybeans coming from the U.S. by 14%.

In 2017, U.S. soybeans only consisted of 34.4% of all China’s soybean imports, an all-time low since 2006. The shift in suppliers has led to losses in profits and excess grains in the U.S. agriculture industry.


And those costs could add up. The U.S. Commerce Budget Office estimates from 2018 to 2027, federal budget costs allocated to protect farmers from market losses will average about $7.7 billion dollars. Based on the USDA report, a decline in just 1% in the U.S. soybean market share is equal to $500 million of lost sales.

vernon

old marine Loc: America home of the brave

The secret to most all of these problems was presented and proved it would work. BUT the DEMOCRATS wanted no part of it.

When the Republicans took control of the House and Congress they passed a balanced budget amendment that forced then President Clinton o operate the government on a balanced budget. It worked and even had a surplus at the end.

Once the DEMOCRATS regained both House and Congress the amendment was removed. Then it's been spend, spend, spend. That was the ONLY balanced budget since the early 1940's.

Obama with his trillions of dollars on borrowed money caused America's credit rating of AAA to drop to AA. Costing billions more in on trust. We need to get governme spending under control.

alabuck Loc: Tennessee

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Snooky6677,

Spoken like a true Trump cultist. My wife said to tell you, woman to woman, that you have her sympathies for the total loss of your common sense, intellect and the apparent astronomical amount of credulousness you have developed.

My wife asks, a woman, just how comfortable would you be if he were to walk up and grab your “lady parts” simply because he felt he could? As a woman, how would you feel if he were to do the same to a female relative of yours? These actions aren’t “f**e news.” These actions of his have been documented and are actions he has admitted to have done.

Additionally, during the 2016 GOP debates, Trump said no one would v**e for his former rival Carly Fiorina because of her face to suggesting that women should be "punished" for having a******ns and "joking" that he'd date his daughter... you really can't make this stuff up. Back when George HW Bush was US President, Trump spoke to Esquire magazine about the media: "You know, it doesn't really matter what [they] write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass." He is currently married to 47-year old former supermodel Melania. (Will you make bets on how long he’ll stay married to her before he trades her in on a younger model, like he’s done twice before; with several affairs in between each marriage?) Then, in 1992, in an interview with New York Magazine, Trump uttered this charming phrase about women: 'You have to treat 'em like s----'.

In a 1994 interview with ABC News, Trump let rip on his perception of wifely duties. “I have days where, if I come home — and I don't want to sound too much like a chauvinist,” the President said, “but when I come home and dinner's not ready, I go through the roof.”

He was married to Marla Maples at the time. In the same interview, he compared women to buildings and added that he gets bored when they become successful: “I think that putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing,” said Trump. “Unfortunately, after they're a star, the fun is over for me. It's like a creation process. It's almost like creating a building. It's pretty sad.”

From seminal tome in Trump’s 1997: “The Art of the Comeback” on prenuptial agreements: “There are basically three types of women and reactions. One is the good woman who very much loves her future husband, solely for himself, but refuses to sign the agreement on principle. I fully understand this, but the man should take a pass anyway and find someone else.

"The other is the calculating woman who refuses to sign the prenuptial agreement because she is expecting to take advantage of the poor, unsuspecting sucker she’s got in her grasp. There is also the woman who will openly and quickly sign a prenuptial agreement in order to make a quick hit and take the money given to her.”

When he bought Miss USA , in 1997, Trump purchased the beauty pageant in 1997, and told the radio shock-jock, Howard Stern: “They asked, ‘How are you going to change the pageant?’ I said ‘I’m going to get the bathing suits to be smaller and the heels to be higher’.” He later added: "If you’re looking for a rocket scientist, don’t tune in tonight, but if you’re looking for a really beautiful woman, you should watch.” In the same Howard Stern interview, Trump also responded to a question about the Princess of Wales. “Why do people think it’s egotistical of you to say you could’ve gotten with Lady Di?” Stern asked him. “You could’ve gotten her, right? You could’ve nailed her.” “I think I could have,” Trump said.

In 1999, according to the New York Daily News, Trump said he'd promised his daughter, Ivanka, that he'd never date anyone younger than her: “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” At the time, Trump was dating 29-year-old Melania, who would become his third wife. He was 53.

In 2008, during another interview with Howard Stern, in one long conversation with Stern, Trump managed to offend just about every woman going. He said women throw themselves at him: “They’ll walk up, and they’ll flip their top, and they’ll flip their panties.” He claimed to be attracted to women who are 'a bit chunky' when Stern asked if he had ever 'reduced himself' to sleeping with a 'fat woman'. Trump added that he had 'been with women with extraordinarily bad breast jobs' and 'pancake tits'. He finished by saying that any woman who has a breast reduction is 'insane'.

In 2011, he called breastfeeding 'd********g.’ Trump was in court testifying in a deposition over a failed Florida real estate project when lawyer Elizabeth Beck asked to take a break to breastfeed her three-month old daughter. The property mogul and his team objected, so she pulled out her breast pump to prove it. In an incident that Trump "does not dispute", he walked out of the room, telling Beck she was "d********g".

In 2015, Trumpet did a u-turn on a******n. Having previously supported the pro-choice lobby, Trump changed his stance on a******n to fit in with the Republican party. In 2015, told the Des Moines Register: “In thinking about it over the years, I’ve had instances, and one instance in particular, a friend had a child who they were going to abort, and now they have it, and the child is incredible. And the man, he changed his views also because of that.”

While we’re on the topic, on March 30, 2016: Trump caused mass outage after advocating "some form of punishment" for women who have an a******n, should it be outlawed in the US. The President says he has "evolved" on the issue of a******n. He was pro-choice for years before changing his position and backing a ban. He now believes the Supreme Court ruling legalising a******n should be overturned and that individual states should be allowed to ban it. At the time, his campaign team said he believes a******n should be legal only in instances of rape, incest or when the life of the mother was at stake. "There has to be some form of punishment," Trump told MSNBC, referring to women who would seek to defy the ban. Trump reversed his position two hours later, with a statement saying that he would punish doctors who performed a******ns but not the women themselves. Well, that's alright then.

On September 30, 2016: Trumpet said 12-year-old Paris Hilton was 'attractive.' This one courtesy of another old interview with Howard Stern, with whom Trump used to play a game called "Hot or Not.” Trump: “Now, somebody who a lot of people don’t give credit to but in actuality is really beautiful is Paris Hilton. I’ve known Paris Hilton from the time she’s 12, her parents are friends of mine, and the first time I saw her she walked into the room and I said, ‘Who the hell is that?’” Stern asked Trump: “Did you wanna bang her?” Trump responded: “Well, at 12, I wasn’t interested. I’ve never been into that ... but she was beautiful.”
Later on in the interview, he admitted he'd watched her sex tape.

In a report dated, October 3, 2016, the Associated Press spoke to insiders on reality show The Apprentice USA, who claimed that former host Trump used to rate female contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about who he'd like to have sex with. Former crew members recalled that he repeatedly made lewd comments about a camerawoman - who he said had a nice rear - comparing her beauty to that of his daughter, Ivanka. Others said Trump called for female contestants to wear shorter dresses, which showed more cleavage. Producer Katherine Walker added that Trump frequently talked about women's bodies and speculated about about which female contestant would be "a tiger in bed". Another crew member, who asked not to be identified, recalled: "We were in the boardroom one time figuring out who to blame for the task, and he just stopped in the middle and pointed to someone and said, 'You'd f*** her, wouldn't you? I'd f*** her. C'mon, wouldn't you?'"

Now comes October 7, 2016, and the infamous 'p***y grabbing' video. Trump hit a new low after the emergence of a video in which he discusses "grabbing (women) by the p****" and states that “when you’re a star, they let you do it”. The 70-year-old was seen using lewd and sexually aggressive language to brag about groping and trying to have sex with women, including someone who was married, in footage obtained by the Washington Post. In the video, Trump was recorded talking about an unnamed woman to Billy Bush, who was then a host for TV entertainment show Access Hollywood. “I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it,” Trump says. “I did try and f--- her. She was married. “And I moved on her very heavily... I moved on her like a b----, but I couldn’t get there."

On October 13, 2016: we learned about Trumpet Leering at a 10-year-old girl. From an unearthed tape of Trump from a 1992 appearance on TV show Entertainment Tonight, showed the billionaire watching a group of young girls going up the escalator in Trump Tower. "I am going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?" he is heard saying of one of them. He was 46 at the time.

There are very few times when Democrats and Republicans agree on anything, but this outburst was criticised from both sides of the political spectrum. The President launched a crude Twitter attack on the brains, looks and temperament of female TV personality Mika Brzezinski, who hosts the popular "Morning Joe" program on MSNBC with Joe Scarborough. Trump accused Mika of bleeding profusely from a bad facelift while she and her husband Joe were attending the New Years Eve festivities at Trumpet’s Mar-a-Lago resort, in Florida. She hasn’t had a facelift, let alone be bleeding. First Lady Melania, who has vowed to fight cyberbullying while her husband is President, gave his tweets a pass. "As the first lady has stated publicly in the past, when her husband gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder," her communications director, Stephanie Grisham, said in a statement.

There are many more examples of Trumpet’s misogynistic attitude I could include, but, I hope you get the drift of just how he treats and feels about women. Since, in your post, you initially identified yourself as a female, and, while you, as a woman, think he’s doing a great job, how can you justify your approval of what you perceive as his doing a “good job?” Almost all of what he claims as economic achievements are simply carry-overs from the Obama administration. He’s managed to suck-up to Russia’s Putin, commenting he trusts Putin’s word over our own intelligence community. Trumpet has managed to insult our allies (EU and NATO) and praise our enemies (North Korea, Russia). He’s insulted war heros and the families of our soldiers who were k**led in action. He’s praised r****ts and white supremists. He’s gotten “tax reform” passed that only helps-out the top 10%. He’s all but destroyed a very popular healthcare program (Obamacare), causing premiums to rise, forced many rural hospitals to close, and MILLIONS of people to lose their access to healthcare. He’s admitted to intentionally lying to the Canadian Prime Minister about trade issues. He’s declared our 1st Amendment-protected free press as “enemies of the people.”

As I said in my OP, his rolling-back of Obama’s environmental protections are very short-sighted. All he’s doing is allowing the pollution to get much worse and force our kid’s and grandkids have to deal with cleaning it up. It’ll cost them much more money than it would cost us to have maintained the regulations. All of this to make good on his campaign promises of un-doing Obama-era regulations that Trumpet has deemed “job k**lers.” If one were to actually watch the economy, one would see that the regulations actually created more jobs than it took away. That’s a net positive. Now, you’ve got a president that’s actually destroying jobs; unless the jobs are minimum wage jobs, mostly in the service industry.

But, if you still want to believe everything (lies) the Trumpetlodytes want to tell you, thats on you. At some point, you’ll become disenchanted with Trump breaking his promises or claiming he never made them. Oh yes, how about his promise NOT to reduce Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid? Now, you have the GOPTP-led Congress looking for ways to cover the added cost to the deficit caused by their big tax reform by trimming BILLIONS from the 3 aforementioned social programs.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

Starving people making toys and we are responsible. I wonder if God cries.

Nickolai

And wages are not rising We are still waiting for our tax break and Our living expense id up $1,000 so far this year and when the trade war gets under way in earnest it will be much worse

Nickolai

Yes but the reactionaries want to believe their messiah did it all by his self. But they live in a dream world with no grip on reality

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

TDS.......You need help fast!!!!

Nickolai

The increase in jobs is taking place mostly in liberal areas and Blue states pay more to the feds than they get back the red states take out more than they pay in. With out the blue states the red ones would be screwed there would be no one to support them

Nickolai

No you have a Russian lover in the White house

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Yeah we dealt with Muslim lover for 8 yrs, you can deal with Russian lover for 6.5 yrs.....We survived,so will you....

Nickolai

Brazil and Argentina could use the extra business. California Wineries will take a hit the Chinese love California wines but all they have to do is quit drinking it

Nickolai

No no It was FGW Bush that cut taxes twice and started two wars and Republican deregulation assite by Bill Clinton the brought o nthe 2008 financial crises that caused millions to loose their homes savings, jobs, and pensions.

Nickolai

He will not last a first term he just confessed to a crime and obstruction when he admitted the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower was not about
Russian adoptions as per the lie he dictated for Trump Jr to tell Congress but it was to get dirt on Clinton. Several crimes were committed. Accepting something of value for his campaign from a foreign power and obstruction as well as Perjury by Trump Jr.

LAURAK

Respectfully disagree with your position on a government shutdown. CONGRESS must do their job and stop irresponsible and detrimental political games. Safety and Welfare of all Americans requires funding of Border Security including Border Wall and a return to fiscal responsibility and Balanced Budget!