Trump tells NATO to Ante up & fix priorities

[heydaralon]

Americans don't need your Maple syrup but they do need jobs.

They do need our maple syrup, because 10 million American jobs are directly reliant on trade with Canada, but keep on humping that Unicorn, baby, weeeee!

The goobers want a trade war with their best customers, whatevs, they'll be living under a bridge, no Unicorn in sight, their Canadian counterparts will be getting free money from the socialists to sit around watching hockey, enjoy the bridge, bumpkins, get yourself a tent and some sleeping bags now.

I'm not against free trade with countries that have comparable living standards with us.

[Martin Hash]

And 20 million lost.

When in doubt, blame the Foreign Devils for everything, invoke the Unicorn of populist mythology, who knew? The goobers of Dumbassville USA never change.

There's only 17 million jobs in all of Canada, but somehow we "stole" 20 million from the Americans, yeah, that makes sense

Hey, the Foreign Devils can buy as much of our shit as they want. Go team Foreign Devils.

p.s. Canada is the U.S. without Republicans, I'm pretty sure no jobs are escaping up there.

[Smitty-48]

Americans don't need your Maple syrup but they do need jobs.

They do need our maple syrup, because 10 million American jobs are directly reliant on trade with Canada, but keep on humping that Unicorn, baby, weeeee!

The goobers want a trade war with their best customers, whatevs, they'll be living under a bridge, no Unicorn in sight, their Canadian counterparts will be getting free money from the socialists to sit around watching hockey, enjoy the bridge, bumpkins, get yourself a tent and some sleeping bags now.

I'm not against free trade with countries that have comparable living standards with us.

I don't even care, protectionism only harms the people it is ostensibly supposed to "protect", American protectionism won't harm me, it's Canadian portectionism that harms me, I'm perfectly willing to drop all protectionist barriers even as the Americans throw them up, because only the Americans would be harmed, protectionism protects entrenched interest politically connected firms, it has nothing to do with the markets and industries that those firms play in, if those uncompetative firms go under due to a lack of a servile government propping them up, that's a good thing, would create more jobs overall, not less.

[Martin Hash]

Smitty don't need a job. Fuck those guys.

[heydaralon]

Smitty don't need a job. Fuck those guys.

Don't worry once we cut that NATO funding, his ass will be in a Latvian breadline begging for that article 5.

[Smitty-48]

I want all uncompetitive entrenched interest Canadian firms to face the markets unprotected, either to be rid of them, or to force them to be efficient, I have zero interest in propping them up, and in preventing competitors from being able to enter the market, the government is preventing job creation rather than enabling it, but of course, that's never going to happen, because all the goobers here believe in the same Unicorns that the goobers in America do, and are being taken to the cleaners by the same coporate/union shills here too.

The goobers equate; loss of a politically connected firm with the loss of the underlying activity which creates the jobs; not the case.

Big uncompetative entrenched interest firm; worst job creators of them all pound for pound, lean and mean competitive firms, best job creators of them all, which one does protectionism protect and which one does it prevent?

[Martin Hash]

There's a kind of Trade Restriction that nobody ever talks about, and only because I travel a lot & have lived overseas in a number of places, that I even know:
Foreigners; Germans, French, Asians, will NOT buy American products; it's unfashionable, and American goods are even considered inferior. American carmakers have really suffered from this. Ask any foreigner, and they'll say American cars are shit. Same with electronics. Definitely with food items. Because socialist nations are not used to a Market system, and overcharge for everything, the value found in American-made goods is dismissed as shoddiness. I'm okay with that, fuck them, but just because foreigners don't have explicit Trade Barriers, don't minimize the implicit barriers.

[heydaralon]

I want all uncompetitive entrenched interest Canadian firms to face the markets unprotected, either to be rid of them, or to force them to be efficient, I have zero interest in propping them up, and in preventing competitors from being able to enter the market, the government is preventing job creation rather than enabling it, but of course, that's never going to happen, because all the goobers here believe in the same Unicorns that the goobers in America do, and are being taken to the cleaners by the same coporate/union shills here too.

The goobers equate; loss of a politically connected firm with the loss of the underlying activity which creates the jobs; not the case.

What happens when firms in other countries that are politically connected use their influence in a country that does not protect its industries from market forces? It seems like your free trade scenario would only work if every country and firm plays by the same rules. Don't know, not an economist, just spitballing here.

[Smitty-48]

Nobody buys more American stuff than Canadians, I actually boycott entrenched interest Canadian firms which I despise in favour of a Buy American policy wherever possible, I wish I could buy more American and less Canadian, entenched interest supply managed Canadian firms; to the lampposts with them, fetch the rope.

[Smitty-48]

I want all uncompetitive entrenched interest Canadian firms to face the markets unprotected, either to be rid of them, or to force them to be efficient, I have zero interest in propping them up, and in preventing competitors from being able to enter the market, the government is preventing job creation rather than enabling it, but of course, that's never going to happen, because all the goobers here believe in the same Unicorns that the goobers in America do, and are being taken to the cleaners by the same coporate/union shills here too.

The goobers equate; loss of a politically connected firm with the loss of the underlying activity which creates the jobs; not the case.

What happens when firms in other countries that are politically connected use their influence in a country that does not protect its industries from market forces? It seems like your free trade scenario would only work if every country and firm plays by the same rules. Don't know, not an economist, just spitballing here.

Their firms become increasingly less competitive generating increasingly less jobs, until eventually they collapse when the dam breaks and the market forces wash over them inevitably in a torrent of creative destruction.

I welcome American firms, I love it if they are subsidized too; direct wealth transfer straight from you to me.