Posted by moy23 on 3/10/2018 7:30:00 AM (view original):
From Bush 1 to present, our Country has lost more than 55,000 factories, 6,000,000 manufacturing jobs and accumulated Trade Deficits of more than 12 Trillion Dollars. Last year we had a Trade Deficit of almost 800 Billion Dollars. Bad Policies & Leadership. Must WIN again! #MAGA

China has been asked to develop a plan for the year of a One Billion Dollar reduction in their massive Trade Deficit with the United States. Our relationship with China has been a very good one, and we look forward to seeing what ideas they come back with. We must act soon!

The U.S. is acting swiftly on Intellectual Property theft. We cannot allow this to happen as it has for many years!

Looking forward to 3:30 P.M. meeting today at the White House. We have to protect & build our Steel and Aluminum Industries while at the same time showing great flexibility and cooperation toward those that are real friends and treat us fairly on both trade and the military.

Spoke to PM @TurnbullMalcolm of Australia. He is committed to having a very fair and reciprocal military and trade relationship. Working very quickly on a security agreement so we don’t have to impose steel or aluminum tariffs on our ally, the great nation of Australia!




-Trump unfiltered. No media bias.




I suppose BL is going to tell me how dumb Trump is because he's renegotiating bad trade deals, and those ridiculously bad tariffs he put on steel, aluminum, and solar panels really aren't demonstrating that Trump is a man of his word when going to the negotiating table.

Posted by tangplay on 3/10/2018 12:33:00 PM (view original):

Posted by moy23 on 3/10/2018 7:30:00 AM (view original):
From Bush 1 to present, our Country has lost more than 55,000 factories, 6,000,000 manufacturing jobs and accumulated Trade Deficits of more than 12 Trillion Dollars. Last year we had a Trade Deficit of almost 800 Billion Dollars. Bad Policies & Leadership. Must WIN again! #MAGA

China has been asked to develop a plan for the year of a One Billion Dollar reduction in their massive Trade Deficit with the United States. Our relationship with China has been a very good one, and we look forward to seeing what ideas they come back with. We must act soon!

The U.S. is acting swiftly on Intellectual Property theft. We cannot allow this to happen as it has for many years!

Looking forward to 3:30 P.M. meeting today at the White House. We have to protect & build our Steel and Aluminum Industries while at the same time showing great flexibility and cooperation toward those that are real friends and treat us fairly on both trade and the military.

Spoke to PM @TurnbullMalcolm of Australia. He is committed to having a very fair and reciprocal military and trade relationship. Working very quickly on a security agreement so we don’t have to impose steel or aluminum tariffs on our ally, the great nation of Australia!




-Trump unfiltered. No media bias.




I suppose BL is going to tell me how dumb Trump is because he's renegotiating bad trade deals, and those ridiculously bad tariffs he put on steel, aluminum, and solar panels really aren't demonstrating that Trump is a man of his word when going to the negotiating table.

so what if trump says a lie, and the media corrects it. is that bias?

Posted by RCBracco on 3/10/2018 2:15:00 PM (view original):
And if the tariff starts a trade war that we lose then it will be Obama's fault, right moy?

Jews or members of other ethnic groups may be the people who meddled in the 2016 American presidential election, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggests in a new NBC News interview.

"Maybe they're not even Russians," Putin told NBC News' Megyn Kellyin an extensive interview airing Saturday.

"Maybe they're Ukrainians, Tatars, Jews, just with Russian citizenship. Even that needs to be checked. Maybe they have dual citizenship," he said. "Or maybe a green card. Maybe it was the Americans who paid them for this work. How do you know? I don't know."

Putin made the comments while telling Kelly he "couldn't care less" that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation had resulted in indictments against 13 Russian citizens and three companies in connection with interfering with the election, as they were not under the direction of the Kremlin.

"Why have you decided the Russian authorities, myself included, gave anybody permission to do this?" Putin asked Kelly.

Further, he said of the people indicted, it does not matter if they are Russians.

"So what if they're Russians?" Putin said of the suspects, who were indicted in February. "There are 146 million Russians. So what? ... I don't care. I couldn't care less ...

Posted by bronxcheer on 3/10/2018 3:28:00 PM (view original):

Jews or members of other ethnic groups may be the people who meddled in the 2016 American presidential election, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggests in a new NBC News interview.

"Maybe they're not even Russians," Putin told NBC News' Megyn Kellyin an extensive interview airing Saturday.

"Maybe they're Ukrainians, Tatars, Jews, just with Russian citizenship. Even that needs to be checked. Maybe they have dual citizenship," he said. "Or maybe a green card. Maybe it was the Americans who paid them for this work. How do you know? I don't know."

Putin made the comments while telling Kelly he "couldn't care less" that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation had resulted in indictments against 13 Russian citizens and three companies in connection with interfering with the election, as they were not under the direction of the Kremlin.

"Why have you decided the Russian authorities, myself included, gave anybody permission to do this?" Putin asked Kelly.

Further, he said of the people indicted, it does not matter if they are Russians.

"So what if they're Russians?" Putin said of the suspects, who were indicted in February. "There are 146 million Russians. So what? ... I don't care. I couldn't care less ...

RUSH: Automobiles, things made with steel, aluminum are gonna get more expensive, and Trump is now basically taking away their tax cut by imposing this tariff. Why would Trump do this? Well, indeed, why would he do that? And that’s where the experts and the brainiacs stop asking and just conclude that Trump’s an idiot. He’s a doofus. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. And that’s where they make their mistake. Why would Trump want to tax imports when those taxes could very well be passed on to consumers?

Well, let me ask a question. And it’s a generic question, and the answer has its flaws, but I’m gonna ask it anyway. What does it matter what things cost if you don’t have a job? Now, I know there’s a caveat to that because we have so many unemployment benefits that you could say that the cost of things does matter even when you don’t have a job, but for the moment indulge me. What does it matter what things cost if you don’t have a job?

With Trump, there are millions more people working than when he was inaugurated. With Trump, there are new jobs being created every month. With Trump, there are jobs in the manufacturing sector and other areas that Obama told us would never come back. Well, they’re coming back. And people are getting these jobs. People who were unemployed are getting these jobs. People who didn’t have any money are now earning money and, in addition, those people are paying less in taxes.

RUSH: So if more people are getting work, if more people are getting jobs, and the jobs are decent pay and the taxation is lower, then on balance, what is the nominal cost increase in steel and aluminum products really matter in that scenario? Wilbur Ross, the secretary of commerce, “Willllllburrrr” is out there saying, “Hey, you know what? It’s incidental. It’s 125 bucks to the average price of a new car.” Very impolitic thing to say. You would never advise some billionaire to go out there and say, “Hey, Wilbur go out there and tell ’em it’s not a big deal, it’s just 125 bucks per car, they’ll never even see it.”

The media will make mincemeat. But “Willllllburrrr” went out there and did it. Now, $125 added to a $25,000, 20,000, 18,000 car is peanuts, particularly when you amortize it into a monthly payment. It may be a nickel a month additional. So in the real world it is insignificant. It’s not gonna stop you from buying the car, but politically with Wilbur out there saying, “Hey, it’s not gonna matter that much, it’s just 125 bucks.” But even that didn’t stop Trump from doing all of this.

Now, do you remember the jobs that were lost during the Obama administration, and do you remember where those jobs were? Well, let me give you a hint. We lost a lot of coal jobs, because Barack Obama targeted the coal industry. He was very honest about it when he ran in 2008. He said he was gonna put the coal business out of business. He was gonna make it prohibitively expensive to be in the coal business to the point that you wouldn’t be in the coal business.

And the coal business suffered greatly, and people that mine for coal lost their jobs, ancillary jobs related, lost their jobs. Where are those jobs? Where are these mining jobs that Obama waved good-bye to? They happen to be in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia. There’s a lot of voters in those states that the Democrats threw away ’cause the Democrats who care about people didn’t care about the people who worked in coal because their grand leader, Barack Obama, said we’re gonna put coal out of business ’cause it’s filthy, and I’d rather have windmills and solar panels and all that.

RUSH: Okay. So these coal jobs that we got, we worked out an export deal with the ChiComs so coal, there’s a lot of jobs in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia that Obama had wiped out. Trump gets them back. There’s a lot of key voters there. These are swing states. Democrats have nothing with the people in these states. The Democrats, with Barack Obama, presided over the end of the coal industry and everybody that works in it knows it.

Now Trump is bringing back steel jobs, slapping tariffs on imported steel to prop up domestic steel. Do you know what one of the purposes of coal is? You need coal to fire the steel mills. Major steel mills — Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Delaware, I mean, Colorado, if you look at where the steel industry is being revitalized by Trump, even despite the tariffs, and where the coal industry is being brought back by Trump, you’re looking at a whole lot of states the Democrat Party used to think they owned until the 2016 election.

Aluminum jobs are growing. Where are those jobs? Well, I’ll just tell you. Aluminum jobs are in Ohio, Indiana, South Carolina, Texas, Kentucky, West Virginia, again, Michigan, Missouri, Washington, New York. Where are these jobs that Trump is bringing back? Where are they? They are in states that have traditionally been blue. Trump is simply continuing to back up, buttress, support the people who voted for him, as he told them he was gonna do before the election and he is continuing to do it afterwards. If you look at it this way, it’s not such a stupid thing.

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RUSH: The tariffs, the tariffs that Trump has announced yesterday. Exactly as I said, they’re negotiable from country to country. They were aimed, and Mexico and Canada were exempted in exchange for new negotiations on NAFTA. Trump had some steelworkers in the White House yesterday. I watched it. I said, “This would never happen…

“I can’t imagine this happening with any other president. She’s been showed up, and they looked like steelworkers. They looked like Steelers fans. They looked like who they are,” and the United Steelworkers international president Leo Gerard was there. He was among them. He said, “Trump was able to see the steelworker agenda, what [Trump] did is what we’ve been fighting for for more than 30 years. … [W]hat makes me sad is we’ve been trying to get Democrats to this for more than 30 years.”