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Apple CEO Tim Cook Urges U.S. President to Stay in Paris Climate Pact

Can one of you trump haters tell me why this is so important? If you want to help the environment you still can? Democrats here make it out like the only way to move forward is to sign into bs treaties that do nothing more then give the appearance that they are helping. I guess now that we are out of this deal we are going to just stop caring about the environment?

Sounds like you people just want to rip trump for anything and everything.

If you don't like the actions a company makes regarding the environment then don't buy from that company?

Hopefully trump gets us out of more than just this treaty. Get us out of the UN.
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Larry-K said:
If you're so bent out of shape about the debt, you might want to go to the 1 percenters and ask for your money back, because that's where most of it went.

If you think dropping out of the world market for green energy solutions, and deregulating is going to boost jobs here, enjoy your new Coal Mining Gig.
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You have no right to take anyone else's money. If you want to pay more taxes go for it. Btw who do you think bailed out the rich in 08? When the currency tanks overnight because the rest of the world figures out we have no wealth, just paper currency, you will be bent out of shape over the debt as well. I guess there's no need to settle the debt crisis until the last second when it's too late.

Coal is the only jobs created by deregulation? Sounds like you have no idea what you are saying and you are just spewing democratic talking points.
 
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WRChris said:
You have no right to take anyone else's money. If you want to pay more taxes go for it. Btw who do you think bailed out the rich in 08?

Coal is the only jobs created by deregulation? Sounds like you have no idea what you are saying and you are just spewing democratic talking points.
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Then you would agree the government had no right to take my money as well, wouldn't you?

I and mostly middle class tax payers bailed out the rich in '08'.

Kindly remit the $2 Million in taxes I've paid over the years, and you can have your anarchy back. Doesn't sound like you're interested in civilization anyway.

Maybe you can get a job making Trump's ties, when China refuses to extend him any more credit.
 
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amegicfox said:
Elon Musk came here penniless and found AMERICA in exploiting the American taxpayers !!!!

- Tesla cars and factories are 100% subsidized by the government/taxpayer money
- Solar City solar panels and installations are 100% subsidized by the government/taxpayer money
- Space X is 100% subsidized by the government/taxpayer money

now this tool is telling Americans after he has been milking them for years and made him reach
that he will not cooperate ?

this is a guy who wants America to be on it's knees with pointless regulation and taxes
so he can keep enriching himself

he was only in if he could influence the government in doing more stupid subsidizing to his experimental companies on the back of american's taxpayers

Great riddance. Go back to South Africa and tell South Africans governments
to subsidized your profitless government sucking companies
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Um.. You have no idea what you're talking about do you? None of those are 100 percent subsidized by the government. They ALSO paid the LOAN they were given by the government back, and not only paid it BACK but also paid it back early. That doesn't fit your agenda though, does it?
 
lol @ the amount of Trump dummies defending their lead clown

extra lol @ someone bringing up the 3 million illegal votes again

SAD!
 
Morpheo said:
Except it's a little too easy to attribute the 9 trillion increase to one man. There are many other factors he did not control that contributed to it - a "couple of them" inherited from the previous administration mind you. But of course that's what the current administration want you to believe, great savior Trumpy will fix this mess dammit!
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Ahhhh the ol standby....blame Bush!!! Interestingly the prediction was that if we pulled out of the accord, the markets would crash. Anyone take a look at their stocks today?

Can anybody tell me who was the first president in our history to oversee the USA downgraded credit rating?

Who was the first president in our history to not see a 3% GDP growth in 8 years of office?

I could go on and on with these types of statistics with highest percentage of population on food stamps, lowest rate of homeownership, etc.

Obama used our economy like an irresponsible kid with a credit card. No job, behind on the bills, that's ok, I'll go buy that Corvette I've been wanting, I'll worry about how to pay for it later, I'll just blame everybody else for my irresponsibility.

There's an interesting way to clean up a debt problem. Stop spending! Pay less for the things you are spending your money on. Imagine this....what if everybody for 3 months got off the Russia BS and stopped asking for his taxes, and let him do his job. What if what he is doing worked??
 
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Looks like Timmys letter was useless. Maybe he should have given a keynote presentation instead.

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Larry-K said:
Then you would agree the government had no right to take my money as well, wouldn't you?

I and mostly middle class tax payers bailed out the rich in '08'.

Kindly remit the $2 Million in taxes I've paid over the years, and you can have your anarchy back. Doesn't sound like you're interested in civilization anyway.

Maybe you can get a job making Trump's ties, when China refuses to extend him any more credit.
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Wow, condescending much?

Yes I think the government has no right to our income. That includes you, obviously.

You think all these problems started with trump? Nope, they go way way back.

Why would we need credit from the Chinese? Do we spend way more than we make? Do we live beyond our means as a nation? If we can't afford to live without credit then we are living wrong and you are just prolonging the suffering by getting money elsewhere.

And your personal attacks on me make no sense at all. Why do you think I would be in charge of trumps ties? What makes you think I want anarchy? Because the income tax is ludicrous?
 
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macduke said:
You know what really harms the economy? When our planet is so screwed up that we no longer care about money and are just trying to survive.
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The reality is that the USA isn't really a major contributor to the alleged human involvement in global warming, countries like China are far worse, but even they are trying to improve.

And yes, global temperatures may be rising, but really there is A LOT of room for debate as to how much is caused by us humans and how much is cyclic in nature. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't strive to treat our planet better, we absolutely should. But trying to say we need to limit to a certain temperature rise is not the best way to go about it and I would imagine that is why Trump is considering pulling out of it. Instead we should focus on all of the other economic and environmental benefits of switching to renewable energy and what we can do to reduce or eliminate our use of fossil fuels because there will be a point where we WILL run out of them, as they are nonrenewable.
 
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WRChris said:
Why would we need credit from the Chinese? Do we spend way more than we make? Do we live beyond our means as a nation? If we can't afford to live without credit then we are living wrong and you are just prolonging the suffering by getting money elsewhere.
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I don't, but your financially and morally bankrupt demagogue buddy does.

Sounds like you've adopted a Sharia Law Approach to credit, probably a tough sell in "Pence" country, but good luck.
 
Larry-K said:
I don't, but your financially and morally bankrupt demagogue buddy does.

Sounds like you've adopted a Sharia Law Approach to credit, probably a tough sell in "Pence" country, but good luck.
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Credit is not a good thing unless you have the ability to pay it back, which as a country, we don't.

Sharia Law, ffs how does that apply to anything I just said?

Thanks for the bid good luck, I live debt free, personal debt that is. I was born into debt by being a citizen of the USA.
 
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Morpheo said:
Except it's a little too easy to attribute the 9 trillion increase to one man. There are many other factors he did not control that contributed to it - a "couple of them" inherited from the previous administration mind you. But of course that's what the current administration want you to believe, great savior Trumpy will fix this mess dammit!
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The national debt grew at a faster pace under GWB, and Obama had to deal with a worldwide financial meltdown! His economic achievements are pretty remarkable actually. We're still living in the economic rebound that happened under Obama's watch.

How do you end the rebound? Cut taxes to the rich while spending trillions on the military and "walls". That's a good start.
 
DougFNJ said:
I want you to be honest with me. Had that been Trump on that hot mic, would the media and liberal not completely exploded?

It's great that your reserve your judgement, I wish more would.

As far as NY, did you grow up under Koch when he completely stalled any growth and progress in NYC, crime was highest, Times Square was most certainly where you would never want to be, businesses left in droves, and it was only getting worse. Trump pissed off a lot of people while he was doing it, but he upgraded a lot of neighborhoods.
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I lived in NYC since the crack 80s. It was not DT who saved NYC. He benefited from NYC's restoration while discrimination against lower income families in his real estates. He was sued and settled. In Trump the US elected a person who has NEVER served the public. NEVER.
 
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unobtainium said:
The national debt grew at a faster pace under GWB, and Obama had to deal with a worldwide financial meltdown! His economic achievements are pretty remarkable actually. We're still living in the economic rebound that happened under Obama's watch.

How do you end the rebound? Cut taxes to the rich while spending trillions on the military and "walls". That's a good start.
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The national debt absolutely grew at a faster PACE under bush. What was the national debt when bush left office and what was the national debt when Obama left office? The rebound you are talking about is more of a bubble, IMO.

Both are equally responsible for what they did.

We are so worried about the Russians rigging the election but no one cares that the 2 party dicatatorship in this country is responsible for the mess(es) we have been getting ourselves in.
 
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WRChris said:
Credit is not a good thing unless you have the ability to pay it back, which as a country, we don't.

Sharia Law, ffs how does that apply to anything I just said?

Thanks for the bid good luck, I live debt free, personal debt that is. I was born into debt by being a citizen of the USA.
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Boo Hoo, You can always go to a more fiscally responsible nation if it offends you so much.

You might ask the wealthy to pay back all the money they stole from Payroll Taxes before you go, that's a fair chunk of your debt.

Just give me back my share of the pointless Iraq War(s) and Wall Street bailout, and I'll be happy.
 
Larry-K said:
Boo Hoo, You can always go to a more fiscally responsible nation if it offends you so much.

You might ask the wealthy to pay back all the money they stole from Payroll Taxes before you go, that's a fair chunk of your debt.

Just give me back my share of the pointless Iraq War(s) and Wall Street bailout, and I'll be happy.
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So I'm the bad guy for wanting my country to be self sufficient?

Why are you so hell bent on stealing from the wealthy? Even if they "stole" it from you, you are no better by stealing it back. Move forward, everything we have paid in is gone and not coming back. All we can do is fix the problems we have so we are not pushing them off on the next generations, unlike what has been happening.

The bandaids have to be ripped off and it will be hard but if we don't do it nothing will change.
 
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2010mini said:
I lived in NYC since the crack 80s. It was not DT who saved NYC. He benefited from NYC's restoration while discrimination against lower income families in his real estates. He was sued and settled. In Trump the US elected a person who has NEVER served the public. NEVER.
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And, he's carrying on that proud tradition, as did his father, to this day.
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WRChris said:
So I'm the bad guy for wanting my country to be self sufficient?

Why are you so hell bent on stealing from the wealthy? Even if they "stole" it from you, you are no better by stealing it back. Move forward, everything we have paid in is gone and not coming back. All we can do is fix the problems we have so we are not pushing them off on the next generations, unlike what has been happening.

The bandaids have to be ripped off and it will be hard but if we don't do it nothing will change.
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So it's okay if the wealthy steal from the poor and not pay taxes, yet you're complaining you got stuck with the bill?

Clearly, you neither understand the "Deficit" or the "Debt".

Every generation passes it's problems on, just wait and see what climate change does to the next one, they'll have more to complain about than some paper accounting issues.
 
unobtainium said:
The national debt grew at a faster pace under GWB, and Obama had to deal with a worldwide financial meltdown! His economic achievements are pretty remarkable actually. We're still living in the economic rebound that happened under Obama's watch.

How do you end the rebound? Cut taxes to the rich while spending trillions on the military and "walls". That's a good start.
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World wide financial meltdown? Holy hyperbole Bauman!!!
 
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WRChris said:
Can one of you trump haters tell me why this is so important? If you want to help the environment you still can? Democrats here make it out like the only way to move forward is to sign into bs treaties that do nothing more then give the appearance that they are helping. I guess now that we are out of this deal we are going to just stop caring about the environment?
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Yeah man ! Why make laws in the first place! If we want peoples not to kill each others, why make bs laws and not just ask peoples to stop killing each other ! I mean, if they kill peoples they won't have friends and the friendship market will talk !

FREEDOM !

(and before you ask : YES climate changes will kill peoples)
 
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/V\acpower said:
Yeah man ! Why make laws in the first place! If we want peoples not to kill each others, why make bs laws and not just ask peoples to stop killing each other ! I mean, if they kill peoples they won't have friends and the friendship market will talk !

FREEDOM !

(and before you ask : YES climate changes will kill peoples)
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That's not freedom, that's insanity.
 
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iReality85 said:
Trump won a majority of that states, and the vast majority of counties. It doesn't matter how many more people voted for Hillary. There is no such thing as a popular election for President in this country.

I always find it quite peculiar how liberals espouse diversity, yet they believe that residents from a small minority of populous states and counties across the nation should control the outcome of elections, or for that matter are representative of America as a whole.

Also, all the burning, rioting, 1st Amendment silencing and foul-mouthed antics of Antifa and P*ssy Hats aren't aspiring examples of left wing activism.
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Liberal Jihadists is what they are.
 
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