[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #511 The president has trade war-powers

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 15:23 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 01-06-2018 om 15:18:21 Canada has treated our Agricultural business and Farmers very poorly for a very long period of time. Highly restrictive on Trade! They must open their markets and take down their trade barriers! They report a really high surplus on trade with us. Do Timber & Lumber in U.S.? reageer retweet

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Basically, the USTR is counting the same goods twice. For example, a Chinese washing machine that passes through the port of Vancouver on its way to the United States is being counted in both the U.S. trade deficit with China and in the U.S. goods deficit with Canada.

The volume of pass-through goods being added to real Canadian exports in the USTR's math is about US$75 billion. That's roughly equal to the entire GDP of Kenya.

The last round of NAFTA talks that ended last week in Montreal provided Canada with more evidence that Lighthizer and the Trump administration don't feel bound by the rules of good-faith negotiations.

Lighthizer couched his statement last week in words more diplomatic than those he used at his meeting with his U.S. and Canadian counterparts in October.

But once again, jaws dropped in the room when Lighthizer began to criticize what he claimed was Canada's enormous surplus in goods with the United States.

"Using Canadian statistics," he said, "Canada has an over $87 billion U.S.-dollar surplus with the United States. To put this in perspective, that figure is equal to approximately 5.7 per cent of Canada's GDP.

"Now, I ask Canadians, because we're in Canada, is it not fair for us to wonder whether this imbalance could in part be caused by the rules of NAFTA? Would Canada not ask this same question if the situation were reversed?"

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 15:51 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Weer een leugen, Canada heeft een klein surplus wat goederen betreft, een deficit als je diensten meetelt. Maar de U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer haalde in februari misleidende cijfers aan tijdens de NAFTA onderhandelingen:

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/po(...)it-numbers-1.4524824
Ze kunnen onmogelijk zo onwetend zijn, dat is een opzettelijke leugen.

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 15:51 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Weer een leugen, Canada heeft een klein surplus wat goederen betreft, een deficit als je diensten meetelt. Maar de U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer haalde in februari misleidende cijfers aan tijdens de NAFTA onderhandelingen:

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/po(...)it-numbers-1.4524824
Ze kunnen onmogelijk zo onwetend zijn, dat is een opzettelijke leugen.

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 16:00 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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We hebben het wel over de man die nadat het hem 5 keer was uitgelegd nog niet begreep waarom Duitsland niet gewoon op eigen houtje een handelsakkoord kom sluiten met de VS, hè.

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 15:50 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Produkten waarmee Canada de VS terugpakt.

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 16:20 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Bijzonder bureaucratisch toch altijd, dat soort schedules. 'Other fruit purées other than banana purées', 'candles and the likes not including those for birthdays'. Maar goed, 16,6 miljard dus. Harde bewoordingen ook van de Canadese minister van defensie.

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 16:20 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Bijzonder bureaucratisch toch altijd, dat soort schedules. 'Other fruit purées other than banana purées', 'candles and the likes not including those for birthdays'. Maar goed, 16,6 miljard dus. Harde bewoordingen ook van de Canadese minister van defensie.

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Donald Trump is deliberately forcing millions of Americans into financial ruin, cruelly depriving them of food and other basic protections while lavishing vast riches on the super-wealthy, the United Nations monitor on poverty has warned.

Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur who acts as a watchdog on extreme poverty around the world, has issued a withering critique of the state of America today. Trump is steering the country towards a “dramatic change of direction” that is rewarding the rich while punishing the poor by blocking access even to the most meager necessities.

“This is a systematic attack on America’s welfare program that is undermining the social safety net for those who can’t cope on their own. Once you start removing any sense of government commitment, you quickly move into cruelty,” Alston told the Guardian.

Millions of Americans already struggling to make ends meet faced “ruination”, he warned. “If food stamps and access to Medicaid are removed, and housing subsidies cut, then the effect on people living on the margins will be drastic.”

Asked to define “ruination”, he said: “Severe deprivation of food and almost no access to healthcare”.

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The economy is good. Stock market is up. Lot of jobs. Best unemployment we’ve had in many, many decades, actually. And we’re going to Dallas. We’re going to Houston. And we’re going to have a little fun today.

https://www.whitehouse.go(...)rce-one-departure-2/

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Trump meets with families affected by Texas shooting

HOUSTON (AP) — Seeking to comfort grieving families and shaken survivors, President Donald Trump spent more than an hour privately Thursday with some of those impacted by a Texas mass school shooting that killed 10 and wounded more than a dozen on May 18.

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Rhonda Hart, whose 14-year-old daughter, Kimberly Vaughan, was killed at the school, told The Associated Press that Trump repeatedly used the word ‘wacky’ to describe the shooter and the trench coat he wore. She said she told Trump, “Maybe if everyone had access to mental health care, we wouldn’t be in the situation.”

Hart, an Army veteran, said she also suggested employing veterans as sentinels in schools. She said Trump responded, “And arm them?” She replied, “No,” but said Trump “kept mentioning” arming classroom teachers. “It was like talking to a toddler,” Hart said.

Bron: AP

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 16:25 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 19:26 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Rasmussen heeft een enorme bias, maar volgens mij weet je dat zelf ook wel.
Peilingen voor 2020 lijken me nogal zinloos op het moment.

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 19:26 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Rasmussen heeft een enorme bias, maar volgens mij weet je dat zelf ook wel.
Peilingen voor 2020 lijken me nogal zinloos op het moment.

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 19:38 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Extreem zinloos. Je weet nog niet eens wie de kandidaten zijn.

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 07:04 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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De Koch Brothers zijn dus getriggerde socialistische libtards.

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Sarah_Boxer twitterde op vrijdag 01-06-2018 om 20:42:02 "You people will have to travel because you'll be in Singapore June 12," @realDonaldTrump tells press after mtg with NK leader reageer retweet

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Illegal border crossings remained high in May despite Trump’s crackdown

The number of migrants attempting to cross illegally into the United States remained high in May, according to administration officials and Border Patrol agents, an early indication that “zero tolerance” measures separating parents from their children and President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops have not had an immediate deterrent effect.

The Department of Homeland Security is expected to publish its closely watched monthly arrest totals in coming days, and Trump administration officials are bracing for a new eruption from the president. He has treated the statistics as a gauge for the success of his hard-line immigration policies, and when border arrests fell to historic lows in the months after his inauguration last year, Trump touted the decrease as a personal triumph.

Since then, migration trends have reversed. In March and again in April, border arrests exceeded 50,000, the highest monthly totals of Trump’s presidency, sending him into fits of rage, aides say. Trump unloaded on DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during a Cabinet meeting May 9, scorching her for nearly 30 minutes over the spike in illegal crossings while demanding she “close” the border.

Bron: WaPo

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 16:25 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2018 21:40 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:

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Heerlijk dat bij Ophra niemand not sure is