Frank wrote on Jan 27
th, 2025 at 1:45pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 27
th, 2025 at 12:58pm:
Frank wrote on Jan 27
th, 2025 at 12:18pm:
Hours after Trump’s announcement, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he ordered the commerce ministry to raise tariffs on US imports by 25%. “I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same,” Petro wrote in a long post on X aimed at Trump, before he announced the 25% tax on US goods.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191231/products-exported-from-colombia/ Yes, all good - except (you blind Conservative "freedom" ideolgue), Trump, who is leading the world' s most powerful nation, has no plans to assist in development of the "sh*tholes" from which the illegal refugees are fleeing.
....You 'survival of the fittest' bastard, cheering for Trump's ruinous 'America First' policies on the rest of the world.
Let them sort out their own countries.
After all THEY have made them shiteholes.
Like the French made their own dysfunctional economy, the remedy for which was "let them eat cake"....
Note: a nation's internal conditions are alway affected by external realites, something Trump is angry about, expressed as "the world has been stealing from the US for many years".
Quote:The 12 rules for life can be useful for shitehole countries trying to sort themselves out:
12 rules for life.... which MAY (as opposed to WILL) be useful in assisting development of failing economies.?
Let's look at them.....
[quote]"Stand up straight with your shoulders back."
Your error: even if ALL the individuals in a poverty and crime-ravaged country "stand up straight with their shoulders back', the macro-economy will not magically restore order and provision of essentials.
Quote:"Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping."
Good advice for the individual; but again the macro- economy won't restore itself - and eliminate poverty and crime - without the guidance of stable government management of individual enterprise which is (naturally) driven by self-interest and the exigencies of survival.
Quote:"Make friends with people who want the best for you."
The problem is people who don't want to make friends with you....
Quote:"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today."
People don't have time for comparisons, while living in the desperation of poverty ghettos.
Quote:"Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them."
Another irrelevency in crime and poverty ravaged "sh*t-holes" in which parents are likely to be forced into crime.
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"Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world."
Again your error, as to be expected from a blind 'individual freedom'/personal responsibility ideologue; MY house IS in order, and I am criticizing your (and Trump's) evil 'survival of the fittest' economics.
Quote:"Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)."
"Tell the truth – or, at least, don't lie."
"Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't."
"Be precise in your speech."
"Do not bother children when they are skateboarding."
"Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street."
Motherhood statements, ignoring the necessity for good macro-management via government assisted by effective global, prosperity-aiding institutions - not garbage like the US-ruled IMF which is more properly called the "Instant Misery Fund".
Stop crapping on the world like Trump is now doing, you blind survival of the fittest ideologue.
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