mikebike

4 minutes ago, F4UCorsair said:

Be serious, the rabid left had him impeached and charged within weeks, if not days, of Mueller kicking off.

 

You can back down now, suggesting that he probably won't be impeached, probably will finish his first term, but I remind you that many who post here said he wouldn't make it thorugh his first month, let alone a year.

I cannot diminish your fantasy. If you choose to believe an untruth then so be it.

Many my arse. Show me three members who said a month and I'll buy you a beer.

3 hours ago, FreddieRoyle said:

Aside from the praise for US/NK's budding relationship, I have a hard time with why America thinks that Kim having possibly murdered his brother on Malaysian soil is anything to do with America whatsoever. This playing world police after having destabilized so many sovereign nations is getting tiresome. 

Well look at that. Common ground. I agree 100%.

27 minutes ago, roobaa01 said:

the political lame duck merkel is responsible for the us tension with germany for she and her junta engaged firstly into anti-trump rhetoric as well as bashing. but the hopes faded soonly that president trump might resign from his offices. merkel is crouching to trump begging for mercy for merkel's damaging policy could cause mass unemployment if the usa raises car import tariffs. 

 

wbr

roobaa01

So much wrong here... Do you even know what "junta" means?

1 hour ago, mrwebb8825 said:

They also got off to an icy start when she endorsed HC during the election campaign and made disparaging remarks about then Candidate Trump, but hey, that wasn't meddling by a foreign government, now was it? 

Yes, you are quite correct. Having a personal opinion is now considered meddling in an election. How very astute of you to have ferreted this out.

29 minutes ago, mrwebb8825 said:

Again, "A little illegal" is ok but "Really illegal" isn't.  You guys crack me up with your double standards.

Considering studies have shown that at least 70% of the US population has committed a chargeable crime (often driving offenses or cheating on taxes etc...) then yes, a little illegal is considered being a rebel, an idealized "outlaw" and part of the US DNA.

1 hour ago, lannarebirth said:

Not with Canada, no. Alcoa had two hydro powered plants with favorale BPA energy rates in Washington state at one time and both were closed for some reason. I don't know why.

 

In the case of Aluminum I think virtually all of the bauxite used in its production is imported.

I believe Australia has the world's second largest bauxite reserves and THE largest mining capacity currently. So reserves and smelting capacity are well in hand for the USA. 

So what exactly is the "national security" issue regarding aluminum?

20 minutes ago, lannarebirth said:

Well, there's the perpetual war we're engaged in for one. Then there's the risk of losing those industries/jobs/technology, which really are strategically important.

 

That said, I'm not a fan of lazy tariffs. My tariff would be constructed around non renewable resource extraction taxes and differentials in environmental protections in the different manufacturing countries. If the competive advantage comes from destroying the environment I'd say that's worthy of a tariff. Probably a hefty one.

Then you really have no issue do you?

According to attrayant's graphic Canada has 70% of NA's aluminum smelting capacity, powered by hydro. USA's 30% powered mostly by coal. Unless the USA is planning to attack Canada I believe your supply chain is well protected and green.

1 minute ago, attrayant said:

 

Followed by:

 

(my emphasis)

 

These two statements appear to be at odds with each other. The first says that US aluminum will become more competitive on the global market because of tariffs, which I disagree with because overseas suppliers will suddenly have a glut and be forced to lower their prices.  Because of this lowering of global prices, other international buyers will be attracted to that cheaper aluminum and but that instead of buying from the USA.  Maybe you meant to write "the local source was not competitive on the local market and required tariffs to be competitive", which makes more sense because I don't see how tariffs help American Al become competitive on the global market.

 

The second statement brings the point back to local markets being favored because of tariffs, which I agree with. 

The first statement is a restating of the problem being addressed. Local end-users not buying from local suppliers because buying foreign product pads the local end-user's bottom line more than buying local. To make local supplier more attractive tariff legislation is applied. 

On 3/3/2018 at 8:28 PM, IAMHERE said:

Wonder what the poll question was? I'd bet more than 11 percent are in favor of American soldiers dying when needed to  protect their nation from Russia and are confident Trump will oblige. 

Putin just put the fear of God into Merkel with his Nuclear speech.

The question was: "Do you have confidence in the US president to do the right thing regarding world affairs?"

On 3/3/2018 at 5:14 PM, FreddieRoyle said:

Merkel is a lame duck, her star is waning.

Yes, correct again. That freaking lame duck couldn't even form a new government on Monday.

Oh wait a minute...

3 minutes ago, attrayant said:

How do tariffs affect the global price of aluminum, aside from creating an oversupply (because of the tariffs, we're not buying from overseas suppliers now) and driving down the global price of the commodity?

Obviously tariffs would make local sourcing more attractive regardless of the global price.

5 minutes ago, attrayant said:

 

Why weren't you using that local source of aluminum in the first place rather than importing it?

In this analogy the assumption would be that the local source was not competitive on the global market and required tariffs to be competitive.

10 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

Henry left the building a long time ago...

Granted, Ford were the only US automaker to not need bailing out a few years ago. Mass production, yeah ok i'll give you that one. Cutting edge technology, I don't think so.

Have you ever sat in, or driven a Chinese car?

Amusing to see you move the goalposts. Your original statement was a simple one. Now you require caveats.

8 minutes ago, riclag said:

Nothing new about what the rest of the world thinks,that America is the greatest threat.Been that way for many years

So you DID KNOW "why someone would laugh at that". Was your earlier post just self gratification?

2 hours ago, PhonThong said:

That is the most stupid thing a person could come up with. A rapist is a rapist regardless whether armed or not. Rape is a crime of violence no matter how you put it. 

Rape is a crime of POWER not violence.

3 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

The only real mass production car industry success stories in the world are German and Japanese.

Really? That would be a surprise to one Henry Ford.

Also a real surprise to the Chinese auto industry which is (as of 2016) pumping out as many cars as the USA, Japan and Germany COMBINED.

Where do y'all get these ideas?

Just now, mikebike said:

Ooops

1 hour ago, timendres said:

Good news. Teachers should teach.

Unless they are part of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program, or are members of the U.S. military (How'd that work out at Fort Hood?) or former police officers.

But if you are a janitor lock and load baby!!

1 minute ago, riclag said:

We still are a defender of freedom and democracy with less attention to globalism and more to Americanism.But I must admit many people hate Americans for interfering with their lack of freedom and democracy during WWll !!!!

Nice deflection... ya shoulda been a winger for Gretzky.

Very few outside the USA itself see it as a defender of freedom and democracy. Quite the opposite in fact. Most of the ROTW see the USA as the world's greatest threat.

The USA's sluggish response in WWII was appreciated but are ya gonna dine out on that forever? We have seen what y'all have been up to post WWII... #kingsofregimechange #screwyourdemocracyifwedontlikeit

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

I don't like doing this, but perhaps "trump's" bizarre acting out about North Korea has brought them to the table. The jury is still out on that depending on results. 

Before 45's "bizarre acting out about North Korea" there really was no consensus that Kim needed to be brought to a table.

Were his closest neighbors clamoring for something to be done BEFORE 45 opened his gob?

They'd be in the best position to know.

7 minutes ago, riclag said:

You do realize that's only your opinion "AND they are 45's base" !

Yes I do... as your post was "only opinion"... I thought that was what TV was for... expressing opinions.

56 minutes ago, riclag said:

Does the world see America struggling politically ? Why would someone laugh at that? We are a country divided politically like never before,left and right liberal and conservative ideas. Sure some laugh but I suspect they have laughed before and will in the future.

Well if you are that unaware I will help y'all out...

The ROTW sees the USA struggling... politically, culturally, educationally, racially, health-care wise, generally, PERIOD.

See, its funny because the good ol' USA has been touting itself as the global defender of freedom/democracy since WWII, which has never been true, but now is hilarious.

(Hint: when you advertise yourself as the world police do not elect a criminal as your own chief of police.)