Trump will capitulate on the trade war

[Douglas Buckland + 6,308]

15 minutes ago, Rasmus Jorgensen said:

I know. Sorry about the rant. 

Rasmus, do NOT apologize for ranting! It sets a poor precedent for this site!

Can you possibly imagine the bandwidth wasted on apologies as opposed to being spent on solid, entertaining rants!😂

[Rasmus Jorgensen + 1,169]

5 minutes ago, DayTrader said:

But all I see is bad - monetarily, migration, etc.

But everything is bad rigth now. So what. That is the times. end of. 

Migration - as long as Europe is rich relative to Africa and ME people will try to come. We need a European-wide system to address this. 

[Guest]

It wasn't even 10% of a rant.

He's Mr Chilled and has no idea. He's THAT chilled.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Rasmus Jorgensen said:

We need a European-wide system to address this. 

Build a wall? ME pay for it I say 

Sorted

#DT2020

[Douglas Buckland + 6,308]

Numbnuts, you have a ‘wall’ it’s called the Mediterranean Sea! Just need to let it do it’s job!

(Political Correctness Police have been called...) 

[Rob Plant + 2,756]

4 minutes ago, DayTrader said:

Build a wall? ME pay for it I say 

Sorted

#DT2020

Is there any of those bricks left from that one in Berlin?

We could go green and recycle

[Rasmus Jorgensen + 1,169]

Just now, DayTrader said:

Build a wall?

No. I would suggest

1) fair trade with Africa

2) Use trade deals to figth in-justice and corruption in Africa. And check it.

3) European wide immigration system. So each country takes the same amount of immigrants top capita. So, EU guarantees they will take real refugees, but only refugees and Poland and other contries take their share (or they can leave if the want).

4) EU funded and run refugee camps, detention centers etc. 

We will not get there tomorrow, but I think it is achieveable. 

[Guest]

52 minutes ago, Rasmus Jorgensen said:

We will not get there tomorrow, but I think it is achieveable. 

You're wasted here. I say wall.

Doug - a sea is not an effective wall. Hence the immigrants and boats.

53 minutes ago, Rob Plant said:

We could go green and recycle

Yes, Greta will be over the moon. 

Edited October 30, 2019 by Guest

[Rob Plant + 2,756]

3 minutes ago, Rasmus Jorgensen said:

No. I would suggest

1) fair trade with Africa

2) Use trade deals to figth in-justice and corruption in Africa. And check it.

3) European wide immigration system. So each country takes the same amount of immigrants top capita. So, EU guarantees they will take real refugees, but only refugees and Poland and other contries take their share (or they can leave if the want).

4) EU funded and run refugee camps, detention centers etc. 

We will not get there tomorrow, but I think it is achieveable. 

I admire the principles but dunno how you police this

The problem is the illegal immigrants/migrants where do they go?

[Rob Plant + 2,756]

1 minute ago, DayTrader said:

Doug a sea is not an effective wall. Hence the immigrants and boats.

hahahahaha

[Rasmus Jorgensen + 1,169]

1 minute ago, Rob Plant said:

I admire the principles but dunno how you police this

The problem is the illegal immigrants/migrants where do they go?

Sent home or detention centers. EU should use trade deals to get repatriation agreements. And EU should run and fund the immigration process so no individual country gets screwed unproportionally. 

 

[Rasmus Jorgensen + 1,169]

Got to go. Got carried away and have some deadlines.

[Douglas Buckland + 6,308]

It is not if you keep saving them at sea! These people will continually board un-seaworthy vessels IF they think they will be rescued when it sinks!

[Guest]

later buddy, less ranting next time, was outrageous 

1 minute ago, Douglas Buckland said:

It is not if you keep saving them at sea!

I'm talking people that arrive, over the channel, from France, where they were safe anyway  #asylum

How are they here if not already through Europe? They got boat west and went round the whole of Spain and Portugal then north to here? There was no port at all they could stop at? Why the effort to come here? Oh ... 

We need a wall, they'll pay, then others can moan for years when the wall takes a while and it seems they don't pay.

Edited October 30, 2019 by Guest

[Jan van Eck + 7,558]

36 minutes ago, Douglas Buckland said:

Well Jan, if all the illegal immigrants looked like the first lady I humbly submit that illegal immigration would have NEVER been an issue!😂

And, look how fast she got a "permit"!!!!!

[Guest]

Yep, Trump wasn't demanding a wall back then 

[Jan van Eck + 7,558]

Just now, DayTrader said:

Yep, Trump wasn't demanding a wall back then 

I think he was building them in Queens  (a borough of New York City) back then.......[around some project, to keep the "undesirables" out]

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, Jan van Eck said:

(a borough of New York City)

My US geography is not that bad mate. I've seen enough gangster films to know this.

It's Americans' world geography you wanna work on though.

And their spelling.

#butchered

Edited October 30, 2019 by Guest

[Douglas Buckland + 6,308]

10 minutes ago, Rasmus Jorgensen said:

No. I would suggest

1) fair trade with Africa

2) Use trade deals to figth in-justice and corruption in Africa. And check it.

3) European wide immigration system. So each country takes the same amount of immigrants top capita. So, EU guarantees they will take real refugees, but only refugees and Poland and other contries take their share (or they can leave if the want).

4) EU funded and run refugee camps, detention centers etc. 

We will not get there tomorrow, but I think it is achieveable. 

Rasmus, before I get started, for the record, I am a Yank with no ‘skin in the game’.

1. Fair trade with Africa: How do you even create fair trade when many of the governments are incredibly corrupt? Think about how much foreign aid has been pumped into Africa in say the past 70 years, and then take a look at what it has accomplished -nothing!

I was having lunch with an older Angolan gentleman a few years back and he brought up a good point. He said, ‘How can we be poor? We have three growing seasons a year, timber, minerals, oil and diamonds and we are forever poor!’

2. How are you possibly going to set up ANY trade deals with corrupt governments and fight corruption? If you do not play by their rules, you will never get a trade deal, let alone a single contract, in ‘that’ country! They’ll simply hold out until a less scrupulous entity makes an offer. Take a hard look at what happened in Angola, Sudan and other places when the Western companies moved out or hesitated to do business. China moved in and simply said they would not interfere with the corrupt governments of those nations.

3. European immigration: Why is it assumed that Europe is required to take ANY immigrants? This assumption just opens the floodgates! Are you going to take each and every economic immigrant or asylum seeker on the planet? Asylum seekers, by convention, should seek asylum at the first safe haven - is that Europe? Are you going to take everyone that comes from a country with a lower standard of living than yours? How will you pay for that? What about ‘your own people’ who have paid into the system their whole lives and had a reasonable expectation that THEY would be taken care of in their old age?

4. EU funded refugee camps and detention centers for people of North Africa, Africa and the Middle East? Does that make sense to you? Why aren’t these people seeking refuge in countries even remotely similar to the countries they left?Perhaps they are not really political refugees and are simply headed your way to take advantage of the free social programs, which are not free by any means.

[Douglas Buckland + 6,308]

13 minutes ago, Jan van Eck said:

And, look how fast she got a "permit"!!!!!

How much time would it have taken you to issue her a permit....🤔😂

[Jan van Eck + 7,558]

2 minutes ago, DayTrader said:

My US geography is not that bad mate. I've seen enough gangster films to know this.

It's Americans' world geography you wanna work on though.

So, try this 15-second movie clip......     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq0Nbr_WY1s

(He was talking about Trump's old stomping grounds!)

[Jan van Eck + 7,558]

1 minute ago, Douglas Buckland said:

How much time would it have taken you to issue her a permit....🤔😂

Who cares about some Permit?  Just run off with her!  

[Guest]

I wonder why we don't get more women here. It's weird. 

Anyway, agreed. 

[Tomasz + 1,608]

If you do not like African emigration to Europe, you had to not overthrow Gaddafi because as he predicted Libya has become a gateway to Europe for half of Africa. Gaddafi was what he was but kept the borders closed and now this is the main route for people to France and Italy.

It was also necessary not to launch the Arab Spring and invade Iraq and Syria.

The US is located across the Great Ocean and the cost of all these interventions is borne by Western Europe. 

Edited October 30, 2019 by Tomasz

[Guest]

There it is.

Your fault Doug.

Duh.

Edited October 30, 2019 by Guest