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Trump body slams NATO members for their aggregious irresponsibility...

...and did so to their face!!
Holy Shit.....what a damn glorious thing!
These pinhead little whiners deserved every damn word of it.
It is high time American taxpayers stop footing the entire bill for protecting their asses against THEIR enemies!!
They love to chastise America...but LOOOOVE us paying for their protection!

Damn was that awesome or what???

High time a little muscle was flexed.
The fact is we have been footing the bill since WWII and it about time that they pickup on what they owe and the back payment they owe. It could be we need to drop out of it. Russia is not going to attack Europe so why do they need NATO?
Agreed about them picking up the slack, but getting back pay is about as realistic as Mexico paying for the fucking Wall.

Disagreed on dropping out of NATO, but readily agreed on pushing for the slacker nations to put up or shut up.
 
If only it was as simple as you hater dupes believe. Our RW media is a disgrace......
LOL. Why do you think I'm a "hater dupe"? Spain has a RW media? Informative.
Maybe if Bush hadn't wrecked the Spanish economy they'd do it IMMEDIATELY, but raising their spending by 2024 as promised will do. No, they don't have a shytte RW media like we do now. Spain, Italy and Greece have weak economies and it's not surprising Latvia and Lithuania are more worried about Russia. Thanks to Obama and NO THANKS to the GOP we have the strongest economy in the world now. And the biggest military industrial complex in the world by far.
 
Good for Trump in pointing out that realistically America can no longer carry Europe on our backs. I sense he sees the limit of our power realistically and has been straightforward about it. Thought Obama saw things somewhat similarly but went about it in an half-ass fashion that caused confusion.
 
People in general. "No" is a concept I thought we all covred way back in kindergarten. If we persisted after we heard "no" then negative reenforcment would quickly follow.
There was no negative reinforcement, just assault and battery.
 
No bias at all. One just doesn't typically go to jail for a scuffle. I don't imagine you personally run around slapping folks, but I would venture a guess assuming you are a reasonable guy who roughed up a guy because twice he ignored your request to fuck off that due to the fact you had no other brushes with the law that as a Judge I could hand you six months unsupervised probation and community service with a fat fine to top it off. Now if you came in a year later or a pattern developed then your ass would sit in county until you figured it out or diddnt. Either way, they guy will get punished appropriately I'm sure.
Not with our for-profit prison system.
 
Maybe if Bush hadn't wrecked the Spanish economy they'd do it IMMEDIATELY, but raising their spending by 2024 as promised will do. No, they don't have a shytte RW media like we do now. Spain, Italy and Greece have weak economies and it's not surprising Latvia and Lithuania are more worried about Russia. Thanks to Obama and NO THANKS to the GOP we have the strongest economy in the world now. And the biggest military industrial complex in the world by far.
ROFLMAO! Seriously? It's "Bush's fault!!!"? Sorry, dude, but the Spanish are responsible for their own country and their own economic turmoil. They've been overspending for decades. If you seriously want to blame the US for Spain's economic woes, then perhaps we should move in and fix it for them! Lord knows they could use the help to pull their heads out of their own asses!

Chart Of The Day: Spanish Debt | Zero Hedge
Beleaguered Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy just broke another record. As if a plague of corruption scandals was not enough, Spain's debt-to-GDP has now reached levels not seen in over 100 years. As El Pais reports, Spanish debt levels rose at an alarming EUR 400 million per day in 2012 making for the largest annual increase in debt in the nation's history - all the while proclaiming austerity
20130217_gdp1_0.jpg


Spain Economy Watch: October 2013
With the accession to the European Monetary System and later the Euro, interest rates declined significantly for both Portugal and Spain and as a result the two increased their debt levels. According to the McKinsey report, Debt and deleveraging (see page 14), in the second quarter of 2011 Portugal and Spain had total debt of 356 and 363 (as % of GDP), respectively. The consequence of cheap and easy credit was to create a housing bubble, both in Portugal and in Spain, but while the Portuguese began to deflate in 2002, the Spanish continued to inflate until 2008. This outcome was the result of the substantial increase in Spain’s population as a result of immigration, many of them Portuguese, while the increase in immigration in Portugal was just enough to replace the ones who were leaving. This population growth allowed the housing bubble to continue for much longer in Spain, while in Portugal there were no longer enough people to buy the excess homes being built, and so prices didn't skyrocket; but the housing units were built regardless. As such, rather than a classical bubble with inflated house prices, in Portugal, it was more a case of oversupply, given that 800,000 homes were built in the last decade while the population only grew by 200,000. On the contrary, in Spain, in addition to the excess construction, prices went through the roof, with migration pressures making a substantial contribution to both. It is estimated that the immigration inflow increased house prices by about 52% and was responsible for 37% of the total construction of new housing units between 1998 and 2008. Between 2002 and the 2007-08 financial crises the growth of the Portuguese economy started to fall more in line with the growth of economies where the labor force was stagnant or declining, namely Italy and Germany, as can be seen in the chart below.
Real+GDP_EU_chart7.png
 
Maybe if Bush hadn't wrecked the Spanish economy they'd do it IMMEDIATELY, but raising their spending by 2024 as promised will do. No, they don't have a shytte RW media like we do now. Spain, Italy and Greece have weak economies and it's not surprising Latvia and Lithuania are more worried about Russia. Thanks to Obama and NO THANKS to the GOP we have the strongest economy in the world now. And the biggest military industrial complex in the world by far.
ROFLMAO! Seriously? It's "Bush's fault!!!"? Sorry, dude, but the Spanish are responsible for their own country and their own economic turmoil. They've been overspending for decades. If you seriously want to blame the US for Spain's economic woes, then perhaps we should move in and fix it for them! Lord knows they could use the help to pull their heads out of their own asses!

Chart Of The Day: Spanish Debt | Zero Hedge
Beleaguered Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy just broke another record. As if a plague of corruption scandals was not enough, Spain's debt-to-GDP has now reached levels not seen in over 100 years. As El Pais reports, Spanish debt levels rose at an alarming EUR 400 million per day in 2012 making for the largest annual increase in debt in the nation's history - all the while proclaiming austerity
20130217_gdp1_0.jpg


Spain Economy Watch: October 2013
With the accession to the European Monetary System and later the Euro, interest rates declined significantly for both Portugal and Spain and as a result the two increased their debt levels. According to the McKinsey report, Debt and deleveraging (see page 14), in the second quarter of 2011 Portugal and Spain had total debt of 356 and 363 (as % of GDP), respectively. The consequence of cheap and easy credit was to create a housing bubble, both in Portugal and in Spain, but while the Portuguese began to deflate in 2002, the Spanish continued to inflate until 2008. This outcome was the result of the substantial increase in Spain’s population as a result of immigration, many of them Portuguese, while the increase in immigration in Portugal was just enough to replace the ones who were leaving. This population growth allowed the housing bubble to continue for much longer in Spain, while in Portugal there were no longer enough people to buy the excess homes being built, and so prices didn't skyrocket; but the housing units were built regardless. As such, rather than a classical bubble with inflated house prices, in Portugal, it was more a case of oversupply, given that 800,000 homes were built in the last decade while the population only grew by 200,000. On the contrary, in Spain, in addition to the excess construction, prices went through the roof, with migration pressures making a substantial contribution to both. It is estimated that the immigration inflow increased house prices by about 52% and was responsible for 37% of the total construction of new housing units between 1998 and 2008. Between 2002 and the 2007-08 financial crises the growth of the Portuguese economy started to fall more in line with the growth of economies where the labor force was stagnant or declining, namely Italy and Germany, as can be seen in the chart below.
Real+GDP_EU_chart7.png
Booosh, the GOP, and Wall St wrecked the whole world in 2008- Try reality. Countries that had enough money to bail out financial institutions and victims recovered, others not so much. It cost so much, nationalist chaos came too, not like the 30's but not so great either. See Brexit, Putin, Trump...Thank god for Obama and modern democratic socialism. RW BS, not so much.
 
No bias at all. One just doesn't typically go to jail for a scuffle. I don't imagine you personally run around slapping folks, but I would venture a guess assuming you are a reasonable guy who roughed up a guy because twice he ignored your request to fuck off that due to the fact you had no other brushes with the law that as a Judge I could hand you six months unsupervised probation and community service with a fat fine to top it off. Now if you came in a year later or a pattern developed then your ass would sit in county until you figured it out or diddnt. Either way, they guy will get punished appropriately I'm sure.
Not with our for-profit prison system.


I can see what you mean there. I see both sides of that issue. Look forward to a thread on it.
 
People in general. "No" is a concept I thought we all covred way back in kindergarten. If we persisted after we heard "no" then negative reenforcment would quickly follow.
There was no negative reinforcement, just assault and battery.


This typically happens after one Aries not respect a few polite requests to go ask the "other guy."
 
Maybe if Bush hadn't wrecked the Spanish economy they'd do it IMMEDIATELY, but raising their spending by 2024 as promised will do. No, they don't have a shytte RW media like we do now. Spain, Italy and Greece have weak economies and it's not surprising Latvia and Lithuania are more worried about Russia. Thanks to Obama and NO THANKS to the GOP we have the strongest economy in the world now. And the biggest military industrial complex in the world by far.
ROFLMAO! Seriously? It's "Bush's fault!!!"? Sorry, dude, but the Spanish are responsible for their own country and their own economic turmoil. They've been overspending for decades. If you seriously want to blame the US for Spain's economic woes, then perhaps we should move in and fix it for them! Lord knows they could use the help to pull their heads out of their own asses!

Chart Of The Day: Spanish Debt | Zero Hedge
Beleaguered Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy just broke another record. As if a plague of corruption scandals was not enough, Spain's debt-to-GDP has now reached levels not seen in over 100 years. As El Pais reports, Spanish debt levels rose at an alarming EUR 400 million per day in 2012 making for the largest annual increase in debt in the nation's history - all the while proclaiming austerity
20130217_gdp1_0.jpg


Spain Economy Watch: October 2013
With the accession to the European Monetary System and later the Euro, interest rates declined significantly for both Portugal and Spain and as a result the two increased their debt levels. According to the McKinsey report, Debt and deleveraging (see page 14), in the second quarter of 2011 Portugal and Spain had total debt of 356 and 363 (as % of GDP), respectively. The consequence of cheap and easy credit was to create a housing bubble, both in Portugal and in Spain, but while the Portuguese began to deflate in 2002, the Spanish continued to inflate until 2008. This outcome was the result of the substantial increase in Spain’s population as a result of immigration, many of them Portuguese, while the increase in immigration in Portugal was just enough to replace the ones who were leaving. This population growth allowed the housing bubble to continue for much longer in Spain, while in Portugal there were no longer enough people to buy the excess homes being built, and so prices didn't skyrocket; but the housing units were built regardless. As such, rather than a classical bubble with inflated house prices, in Portugal, it was more a case of oversupply, given that 800,000 homes were built in the last decade while the population only grew by 200,000. On the contrary, in Spain, in addition to the excess construction, prices went through the roof, with migration pressures making a substantial contribution to both. It is estimated that the immigration inflow increased house prices by about 52% and was responsible for 37% of the total construction of new housing units between 1998 and 2008. Between 2002 and the 2007-08 financial crises the growth of the Portuguese economy started to fall more in line with the growth of economies where the labor force was stagnant or declining, namely Italy and Germany, as can be seen in the chart below.
Real+GDP_EU_chart7.png
Booosh, the GOP, and Wall St wrecked the whole world in 2008- Try reality. Countries that had enough money to bail out financial institutions and victims recovered, others not so much. It cost so much, nationalist chaos came too, not like the 30's but not so great either. See Brexit, Putin, Trump...Thank god for Obama and modern democratic socialism. RW BS, not so much.


Yeah. That 'Bama guy REALLY left his mark. Should be all gone by year three of Trumps second term.
 
Booosh, the GOP, and Wall St wrecked the whole world in 2008- Try reality. Countries that had enough money to bail out financial institutions and victims recovered, others not so much. It cost so much, nationalist chaos came too, not like the 30's but not so great either. See Brexit, Putin, Trump...Thank god for Obama and modern democratic socialism. RW BS, not so much.
Awesome, but typical of Euro Socialists. Same old tired anti-capitalist, anti-American bullshit.

Meanwhile, Spain's economy is still in the shitter.

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Critics, mainly from the left but also from parts of academia, argue that the country’s recovery is not just incomplete but that the price of austerity and reform was too high. The unemployment rate may have fallen sharply, but at 18.6 per cent it remains far above the pre-crisis level and almost double the eurozone average. Ms Oltra is one of many who bemoans the creation of a new class of “working poor” in Spain. Inequality has increased dramatically and public finances continue to bear the scars of the crisis: Spanish government debt is 100 per cent of GDP, up from 40 per cent before the crisis. The lost decade, and debt accumulated along the way, will weigh heavily on Valencia as well. Almost a quarter of the government’s annual €4bn budget is used to service the region’s vast debt pile. “We are paying for a lot of broken plates,” says Vicent Soler, the regional budget minister since 2015.
 

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