(12-31-2021, 03:19 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(12-31-2021, 02:32 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

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Six of one, half dozen of the other. We were incurring greater costs because they were knowingly bilking us.

But let's be honest.  You seem like an informed individual.  Did it not concern you, that he repeatedly insisted that China, Mexico, and NATO all owed money to us, when they didn't?  To you it came across as shorthand for them rectifying their own spending, border policies, and trade relationships.  But don't you see that you're in the minority, that the majority of those who heard it, literally thought that those countries owe us money, and if that point of view is allowed to go unchallenged, the next President might literally think that they owe us money?

Trump said that we had a trade deficit with China, Mexico was costing the U.S. large expenditures capturing and processing the illegal immigrants who streamed through their country to our border, and that NATO countries were bilking the U.S. for billions of dollars by knowingly not paying their obligated share. All of those are true statements. 

You're presenting an unsupported hypothetical while also assuming to speak for what others think.

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