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airiefairie ([personal profile] airiefairie) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics2019-03-03 10:41 pm
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Shoot your other leg now, why don't you

Trump Should Stop Before He Loses Germany
Punitive tariffs on German cars would be a hostile act – and could well force a recession.

If president Trump acts on the likely conclusion of a report by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross - that German car imports are a threat to national security - he could bring the US-German relationship to a post-World War II nadir. Presumably, for Trump, that would be less of a security threat than Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs.The content of the report hasn’t yet been made public. But Trump has previously threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on foreign-made cars, and Ross’s report may offer him a justification.

A bit older of an article, but it raises the question; if a country that pays twice what we pay in salary and benefits, builds twice the number of cars, and has full health care for all, is a threat to us, then maybe YOU are the ones doing something wrong.

How Germany Builds Twice As Many Cars As The U.S. While Paying Its Workers Twice As Much
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[personal profile] dewline 2019-03-05 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
He is trying to lose Germany. That's the point of the harassment.
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[personal profile] dewline 2019-03-05 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
Everything you rightly cite as a strength, DT-45 instinctively sees as a crime against what he keeps calling "our Country" in his tweets.