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0.2% lower. How does that negate the effect on GDP of all those imports? As for the forecast, It's name say it all It's a forecast, not a fact.. Remember during the Biden administration how it was predicted over and over again that a recession was on the way?

Most of the cost in smelting aluminum has to do with the cost of electricity. Not labor. That's why it's so much cheaper for Canada to make aluminum than it is in the US,

That negative figure is due to the fact that imports were increased to beat the tariff deadlines. Imports are subtracted against total GDP. Trump rules!!!

You're claiming that Chinese manufacturing is a source of weakness for China? Next you'll be tellling us that its ongoing real estate disaster is a source of strength. Too funny.

Always a bad idea to indulge wishful thinking about your enemies. And make no mistake about it, China is the enemy and it's gunning for us. Foolish to expend our military resources on interminable mideast conflicts.

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You don't think that the US debt is a problem? You think national bankruptcy is a good way to go? Better sharpen your math skills, buddy!

I was bred, born, and raised in New Jersey like Frank Sinatra and Lou Costello. And who the f#ck are you to tell people where they come from?

No way. That's just because the violence didn't take place in the wealthy nations. Instead wars were fought by proxy. And they still are. The Cold War wasn't so cold outside of America, Europe and a few other places.

And the reason America had to fight World War 2 was because it helped France, the UK and other allies to win World War 1. Those allies imposed a brutal peace on Germany which led to the resentment that fostered World War 2.

More like a 60 year period? So for the past 60 years America has been bad for world peace but that doesn't count? Ancient history is more relevant? America needs to disentangle itself now.

What's America's total debt?

You sure about that. America put the Shah of Iran in power instead of the legitimately elected party. South and Central America wracked by bloodshed and military rule thanks to the USA. The Vietnam War and the Iraq war made the world safer somehow?

My source? How is he my source? I don't care about the internal politics of Israel. And neither should President Trump.

Stop trolling. I was providing a specific figure to back up what I wrote.

" The US military aid to Israel provides a guaranteed revenue stream for U.S. defense contractors, without which the US defense industry would not be able to maintain its output capability or skilled workforce. " Whether this is true or not, and it's dubious that it's true given the size of the US military budget, by your description it's a subsidy. Israel has a big incentive to sell it's advanced weaponry to America. That incentive is called money.

As CallumWK pointed out, it's a mutual defense treaty. Not a mutual offense treaty. Individual countries that are members of NATO were free to send their troops to Afghanistan. But they weren't there as NATO troops.

Why are they our enemies? I don't think that they are are enemies any more than they are our friends. Why does it matter to you how the European governments spend their money? They are plenty wealthy enough to take care of themselves if they want to. Why should the US be subsidizing them at all? Or do you believe that there is a threat from Russia, a threat that could hurt the USA? And that we need to assist the Europeans to persuade them?

17 billion dollars in military aid in 2024.

I don't give 2 sh*ts about Israel one way or another any more than I care about France or Chile or Morocco or Bhutan. I'm for America First. Israel isn't part of the USA On the one hand you say it's not a subsidy and then you say it's a subsidy to US companies. It's a subsidy to both Israel and US companies.

The only good thing that might come from this is if the Israelis go ahead and prosecute Netanyahu. Maybe then Trump will stop spending American taxpayer dollars to subsidize that country.

Donald Trump has called for an immediate end to Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial, or for the Israeli prime minister to be pardoned. The US president pledged to save his counterpart from the case, one both leaders have called a political witch-hunt. The trial has been ongoing since 2020, with Mr Netanyahu's cross-examination beginning earlier this month. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-26/donald-trump-calls-for-netanyahu-s-corruption-trial-to-be-cancel/105466198 Why is President Trump doing this? Why does he give 2 sh*ts about Benjamin Netanyahu's fate? More straying from America First. Very disappointing.

I read that this spoiled socialist Muslim boy's mother is Mira Nair. She's apparently a famous director. One of her movies is supposedly titled Kama Sutra.

The unsettling symbol quietly creeping onto US state and city flags... as fears mount over what it may represent Dozens of cities and states have adopted – or are considering – new flag designs featuring the unfamiliar eight-point star, a symbol critics claim is more common in Islam than in US history. Although the geometric symbol has roots in various cultures and religions around the world, it has rarely appeared in American flag iconography, which has long favored the traditional five-point star, popularized in Betsy Ross's design of Old Glory. 'It's like this prominent symbol of Islam is suddenly flying all over the nation,' Jacqueline Toboroff, a conservative writer and author in Manhattan who ran unsuccessfully for New York City Council in 2021, told the Daily Mail. https://archive.ph/pE0QB#selection-1083.0-1097.38 I hope President Trump and A.G. Bondi get to the bottom of this. It doesn't look good.

Why should Trump care about what NATO? Why is the US even still in NATO? Or do you think Russia is a threat to the USA?