Comments by "Regis" (@Timbo5000) on "Fox Business" channel.

  1. Thank you for the extra manufacturing jobs that Harley Davidson will bring here. Oh and if you think EU car makers will go to America and compensate for the loss... they are already there and have been for decades. Perhaps they'll have to fire some Americans due to increased costs though, haha. You should look up what happened last time the US thought tariffs were a good idea...
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  2. +Elron It's way too early to tell the effects of Trump's policy. It might work, it might destroy the economy after all
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  3. Disgusting traitor. Go on and kiss your American masters' arses while conspiring to destroy your European brothers. Absolutely disgusting behaviour. I fully respect your decision to leave, but comments like this are downright treacherous to Europe (not the EU, the continent).
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  4. +Richard Upinya Here in the EU we manufacture specific types of steel and aluminium that the US cannot produce . So any US company that needs this specific type of steel/aluminium that we produce, will have to raise its prices and might have to fire some employees. It's not like US and EU products are identical. This is why he says his hands are tied. He HAS to buy from the only source of the types of metal he needs. And those sources are not American.
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  5. +Paolo Pinton He's clearly trolling, or he's actually this deluded
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  6. +Michael Jensen So you are preparing for a major war in which you can't rely on the EU or Canada by being hostile towards the EU and Canada. It makes no sense. There is no major war imminent, you're making redundant preparations for something that may or may not (probably not) happen in the future in exchange for short term damage to your economy and huge damage to your diplomatic relations with your closest allies. And let me tell you this; having the EU as an ally in a major war is infinitely more useful than being able to produce steel yourself. A major war without allies is an instant loss.
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  7. +Justin B You think that will save Europeans? It was US-led NATO forces that bombed Libya and created a migrant stream to Europe. It was again the USA that fuelled a civil war in Syria and caused another migrant stream to Europe. Getting rid of Merkel won't change a thing, the root cause of our migration problem is the USA and its brilliant ideas of intervening in nations that are practically at the EU border. The US government is the single biggest threat to Europe, while it ironically is supposed to be our ally. The EU must turn its back on the US
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  8. +Jeff T So? Scared of WW3 happening soon and all trade connection with your European allies will be cut off (unlikely because you and the EU have the first and second most powerful navies)? Because that's the only situation in which this kind of move actually makes sense. As long as trade with the EU is available, your war machine can run cheaper than it would on your own more expensive steel. It is only when you lose your allies that you need to create the steel/aluminium yourself. So you're either preparing for the EU to betray you, for WW3 and a cut-off of trade routes between the EU and US or it's an excuse for something else. Face the truth: it's an excuse that Trump uses because he's mad about the huge trade deficit he has with Europe
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  9. +jimmy johnson Because your tariffs hurt us too, plain and simple. Our steel industry makes very specific types of steel/aluminium that US companies can't even make (took our companies 7 years to develop the technique too) and the US is one of their most important trade partners. We don't like to see jobs disappear, even if that means more US jobs will disappear. And you can be sure more US jobs will disappear, since a hell of a lot more European products are actually made in the US than vice versa. So you are both attacking us and your own workers that we employ. We are only attacking you. In the end you will lose more. Ironically, the trade deficit means you're more susceptible to trade wars. You need our goods and you voluntarily raise the price on them. For us, we'll lose jobs in the industries that export to the US (might be able to compensate a bit with China and Russia, but we'll feel it). You will lose jobs in the industries that use the imported goods from the EU and lose jobs within the EU-owned factories in America and lose jobs from the countersanctions which are not designed to be blunt, but rather aimed at very specific industries that won't hurt us when doing badly but will cost you jobs. In the end we both lose, but you lose more. Add to that that the EU and China seem to be collaborating on this, because our policies are exactly the same: target very specific industries in red states. Don't think this is a coincidence
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  10. Follow The Grow So if news isn't positive towards Trump you instantly reject it? And you seriously don't notice the flaws in that behaviour?
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  11. They didn't betray you, you betrayed them and got a 31% tariff slapped on their products. Harley Davidson stayed in America, they were one of the most loyal and typically American companies. Even their export was made in the USA. You got a 31% tariff slapped on that, well done. And now after decades of them staying in America while others were moving away for the money, you call them traitors. Well, if even they are traitors you have no loyal companies left. First you get a steel/aluminium tariff on their imports and now you get a huge tariff on their exports. What did you expect them to do, suffer for you even though for decades they chose for more expensive American production and you just backstabbed their business model?
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  12. You're going to be wanting to take it easy with the trade war. If the US-EU trade war gets so bad that it would be better for the EU to switch to a Eurasian alliance with Russia and China, the USA is done for. And I mean done for permanently. You could have your isolated America and an isolated America can take care of itself, but at that point your superpower days would be over. And if the Eurasian alliance would drop the dollar as reserve (which they probably would), the US economy would instantly crumble and fall apart. The one and only reason the EU is not dropping the US is this: our economy is dependent on your trade. In short, you give us heaps of money and we don't destroy the US by partnering with Russia and China. Your economy is highly dependent on the petrodollar, so be careful with your allies. If the dollar is dropped as a reserve currency by enough countries and sold en masse, it loses its value on Zimbabwan dollar levels... This is exactly what would happen in the case of a Eurasian alliance. Get ready to print some 1 trillion dollar notes if you turn on the EU. There's a reason for the trans-Atlantic alliance and the huge appeasement of EU economic interests.
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  13. The past is not now. Many countries found themselves forced to raise the retirement age. If there's age discrimination then that is a serious problem that needs to be fixed, but that doesn't change that if we want to keep our economies floating we'll need to work longer.
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  14. +theylied1776 I honestly don't care that it's just this president. It's time to say goodbye to the US and become more independent as the EU. The EU needs this. I'm just sick of this image of Europe always accepting whatever the US does. You caused a civil war in Syria that led to millions of refugees coming into the EU. No that wasn't Trump now was it? The US just started wars around the EU's borders and thought it'd be alright (how about we start a civil war in Mexico and see what happens in regard to migration?). You have complete and utter disdain for your allies, but we accepted it for so long because of that sweet trade advantage we got for it (you export 270 billion dollars worth of goods to us, we export 416 billion worth of goods to you as of 2016). Trump is giving the EU the perfect opportunity to get out of this toxic relationship. I thank Trump for that. I want the EU to start standing up to the US and distance itself from you. Trump or no Trump. You're horrible allies and always have been. I hope both America and the EU prosper, but that stupid foreign policy has to stop
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  15. The populists are also not working in Italy's interests; they make ridiculous promises so they can grab power. They do not have the money to realise their promises, they're in it for themselves
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  16. "Socialism has killed over 100 million people" just quit the propaganda. Communist Russia had socialism, Communist China has socialism, but also Western Europe has a variation of socialism and those are systematically the countries with the most quality of life on the planet. It's not that one sided.
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  17. Nice wild assumptions you have there
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  18. Yes, facts Vanster73... I'd love to see them, but here I see none
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  19. Populism is saying what the people want without being able to deliver it. Populism is the ultimate way for people to lose confidence in democracy. Not all populists are bad, but the Italian ones are horrible. They want to lower taxes, lower retirement age, introduce a minimum wage, etc. etc. It's all money that Italy does not have . It can even lead to a crisis
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  20. +Dick Morhead North Korea is different, this time China has huge leverage. So if you can get China to support you, you're going to get something done at least
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  21. Ah, so Tommy's imprisonment is the EU's doing now too? The EU is doing everything nowadays...
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  22. +Vanster73 The EU has done the most out of everyone to stop migrants from flooding Europe. It was the EU that stopped the Middle Eastern migrant stream. It is the EU that is now working on stopping the lesser African stream through Libya (the deal with the Libyan coast guard had good effect, but it isn't perfect and they still come). You know who caused the migrant stream? The US and its brilliant idea to cause a civil war in Syria, right next to EU borders. The same holds true for Libya. It was interventionalism that caused our problems and the one and only entity actually working to solve those problems is... yes, the European Union. The EU is not part of any agenda; the EU does whatever its member states decide it will do. If there is an agenda then it's the member states that adhere to it, not the EU. The EU itself is nothing, it is directed by the countries that form it. Created by and led by them. The EU is just all of our countries sitting together and voting on what to do next And the EU has no power in the UK. Even if Tommy was silenced, it was the UK government and not the EU.
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  23. +Eryk Pyc Hmm, a white ethno-state on stolen land. You Americans are truly adorable. The entire point of an ethno-state is to keep an ethnicity and its traditions intact. You have no ethnicity, nor do you have any culture to speak of. An ethno-state makes no sense for Americans. You can't even have an ethno-state because you're not an ethnicity. You're a bunch of migrants from Europe (for a large part rejects) who have lost all contact with their culture
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  24. +Vlad the Inhaler "You're just jealous" is the standard response of Americans. You're just salty and you know it's true. Ethno-states are meant to preserve an ethnicity and its culture/traditions. America can never be an ethno-state. Well, unless it's a native American ethno-state. You are by nature a mixed country, a melting pot of cultures. Even if you turn the US into a fully white country, it's a melting pot of white cultures. That and it's a melting pot of white ethnicities. Slavs differ from Germanic peoples, who differ from the Anglo-Saxons, who differ from other European ethnicities. We are pretty much all mixed even in Europe, but here you can still see clear differences between ethnicities. The typical Slavic facial features can be distinguished from typical Germanic facial features, for example. We differ from one another clearly. In America you're just white. You can change it from a melting pot of brown, black and white to a melting pot of just white but it will always be a melting pot of cultures and no ethno-state. It's not a bad thing that you can't be, but I'm just saying the idea of an ethno-state in the US is ridiculous
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  25. +Lord Beerus I truly feel sorry for the greedy individualistic country you live in. Not only should everyone help their countrymen out, but investing in students is a good idea both from an economic standpoint and a future tax income standpoint. A student always is worth it in the end. Sorry that Americans won't see this
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  26. +Lord Beerus The system is rotten to the core, unfortunately. Donor money is the only way parties can fund their massive campaigns so the corporations are king. I mean, Hillary had a one billion dollar campaign... How can any independent party beat that without any money? It's a system that heavily benefits the parties that take donor money and it's a shame for the American citizens. Here in the Netherlands we have around 15 parties in parliament as of now and not once in history has one party ever had a majority by itself. Right now we have so many parties to choose from and such different political views that the current government is made up of a coalition of 4 parties! And they have a narrow majority of only one seat. You need a system in which each party gets about the same amount of attention in the media and nobody can gain an advantage by accepting heaps of money. Money should not be a factor in politics, it should be sound ideas that earn you votes. The two established parties are essentially kept in power artificially by companies' funding giving them an unfair advantage.
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  27. +Timothy Plato You say he's deluded and then you say tariffs are the reason German cars are more expensive in Europe than the US... The answer is we heavily tax cars due to environmental considerations, among other factors. Unless we import parts from the US to build cars here (don't think we do), tariffs are completely irrelevant to the price of European cars in Europe.
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  28. Can't wait to make a curb meme on this
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  29. +Robert Kubrick You didn't fight oil wars for Europe, you fought oil wars to keep the EU away from Russia and its oil supplies . We in the EU need oil from outside. The most logical partner in this is Russia. They're the closest to us and a fellow European nation. The problem is... an alliance between the EU and Russia/China means the end of the US as a superpower. Why? Because your economy runs on the petrodollar. You need the world to be dependent on the dollar as reserve currency, therefore you need large parts of the world to trade in dollars. China doesn't trade in dollars, Russia doesn't trade oil in dollars either. If the EU were to join them and switch to euro or something else to trade in dollars, the petrodollar is dead and dollar reserves might be sold en masse. For the dollar, this means hyperinflation and for the US economy, this means death. You need to keep the EU away from Russia and China if you want ot survive. And you need to wage oil wars when oil countries want to stop selling oil for dollars only (Saddam Hussein was switching to the euro - invaded. Libya wanted to switch to gold-backed oil trade - bombed and leader killed. Iran has switched to the euro for oil trade - hostilities but not yet any violence. Coincidence that all of these had just dropped the petrodollar before being attacked? Nah). The petrodollar is what is keeping the US economy alive, so you do everything you can to prevent its demise. This means two things: the EU must not ally itself with Russia or China and any big oil producer must only trade oil in dollars or die. If one of these two objectives fails, the US can get ready to print 1 trillion dollar notes in the style of Zimbabwan dollars.
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  30. +Diane Merwin Aha, so Europe is going to win the trade war.... ?
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  31. Traitors siding with foreigners over Europeans. Leaving is your right and it's fine, but siding with the imperialist US against Europe is a disgrace
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  32. Question is, will they come back or will the raised price only damage other steel companies further?
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