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I agree. Restaurants and large catering events are a different story. Get back to me after you have educated yourself on how blood and bone fertilizer is manufactured,

Where the hell do you think organic garbage goes? You are doubling down on ignorance.

You are talking heresy, the right-wingers will be frothing at the mouth. IMO taxing the rich, with assets they can take loans against, simply won't work. A revenue tax of 1-2% would pay off the national debt quite rapidly.

Where do you think the remains of a ribeye steak go? The most common way of spreading the prions causing mad cow disease is when blood and bone meal fertilizer is either consumed directly by cattle, or spread on pasture. Farmers use fertilizer, right? Prions are not bacteria or viruses. They are abnormal proteins highly resistant to normal sterilization procedures, including cooking. More so if ordered rare. Your post merely demonstrates your ignorance

The wombat of ASEAN?

The national debt is caused by America printing more money than it makes by selling goods and services. Plus interest on the debt, of course. Sensible countries tailor their products to the market. America tries to sell gas-guzzling behemoths to countries that have narrow roads and expensive fuel. It assumes everyone else wants to do what America does.

Australia does not have rabies. It does not have foot and mouth disease. It does not have bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The US has 2 out of 3. US beef is not safe because it is feedlot crap. Australian beef is safe because it is free range, behind biosecurity barriers. The latest undesirable import from America is fire ants. Australia does not tariff any US goods. Its biosecurity laws are strict for good reason. The US has a 2:1 positive trade balance in its favor. What the US has done to Australia has probably ensured the right-wing opposition is going to get wiped out in the forthcoming election. Hopefully, the current government will tell Trump to <deleted> himself.

How crazy is it to hit Australia with a 10% tariff, when goods from the USA enter Australia tariff-free? With a positive trade balance for America. How crazy is it to think America can be re-industrialized with a snap of the fingers? Trump's background has taught him to try to cheat everyone else. So what happens when, instead of refinancing US debt, creditors call it in?

Australia has zero tariffs on American goods. The USA has a positive trade balance with Australia. Trump tariff 10%. Please explain why we should not treat America as an unfriendly trading partner, and reciprocate with tariffs of our own.

Apparently some Immigration officials in Laos have come up with a new income stream. USD 40 to enter Laos. You get the visa stamp, but no entry stamp. When it comes time to leave Laos, you have no entry stamp. Fine USD 100. Has anyone heard of this? Sounds like a good way to kill tourism.

Since when? Australians have always pronounced the "T". But then, we are not as lazy as Americans, who can't even spell the word ALUMINIUM correctly.

Nice to know one of your faculties is left. Rationality is a ship that sailed years ago.

It's difficult to soar like an eagle when turkeys are posting.

Unfortunately, there are posters on here with the attention span of a goldfish, and about as many brain cells.

Trump increased the national debt by $7.8 trillion in his first term. The pigsh!t you are posting has no wings to fly with. Most countries are pivoting away from America as an unreliable trading partner. The delegates are not going to negotiate anything that disadvantages their countries.

So I am enjoined to keep my beliefs to myself, and you can post yours on this forum any time you want to? When you can explain why I should believe in an entity that no-one can see, feel or hear, with no evidence to support that belief, I might think otherwise. Which entity do you believe in? Odin, Zeus, Yahweh, God, or Allah? Each claims to be the best. There are so many versions.

People don't drink swimming pool water.

I really feel sorry for Americans. Either they are trapped in a country where living costs are going up, higher unemployment, a broken health system and heading for recession/depression. Or they have lost all rational faculties, and think a felon and sexual predator in the White House will actually make America great again.

40% of tractors in America are the Kubota brand.

As I am not knowingly buying anything made in America, I don't care. The US has no idea of the backlash it is getting. Starbucks, MacDonald's, KFC, Ford, GM all have better quality and cost alternatives. Tesla sales have fallen off a cliff.

I don't hate the USA. I despise Americans who were so dumb they elected a felon and economic illiterate as their President. I feel sorry for the Americans who still have sense and integrity. The Smoot Hawley tariffs of 1930 were a key factor in exacerbating the Great Depression. Obviously you and the orange idiot are incapable of learning from history.

If you are American, you are losing already. Unless you are rich, which I very much doubt. Go ahead, stick your head in the sand. Or go pound it.

Lame excuse for being wrong.

No, you are wasting my time with your ignorance of basic thermodynamics.

For a long time, America has been regarded as a safe haven for investment capital, doing business, stable currency etc. In a couple of months, Trump has destroyed that. Economics has the human factor of trust. Who do you think trusts America now?