The Trump Card...

[OntarioVanMan]

Lego A/S sells building blocks made in Mexico to the U.S. And despite the signals coming from the White House, the chief executive officer of the world’s most profitable toymaker says there’s no reason to prepare for a breakdown in trade relations because it’s unclear President Donald Trump will actually act on his threats.

“We don’t see signs that we need to do that at the moment,” Lego CEO Bali Padda told Bloomberg.

He’s not alone in treating Trump’s rhetoric with a degree of apprehension. The government of Lego’s home country, Denmark, has voiced a similar view. Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said Trump’s outbursts on Twitter can’t be seen as a substitute for any legislative process that would need to take place for real changes to occur. Samuelsen has said that behind-the-scenes diplomacy indicates the world order won’t be as radically upended as some of Trump’s pronouncements might suggest.
Padda, who took over from Jorgen Vig Knudstorp as CEO in January, says fearing the worst is just based on “speculation at the moment. We would rather wait to see what happens.”

Made-in-Mexico Lego Ignores Trump Trade Threat for Now, CEO Says

 

[OntarioVanMan]

now here is a redundant headline....almost laughable.....

White House Pledges No One `Worse Off' in Obamacare Replacement....

 

[xiggi]

just think of Dr's wages, Nurses, the WHOLE system....OVER paid board of directors on hospitals....and the the upkeep on the whole system.....MAYBE just maybe....this country has outgrown even the old system and just can not operate at the rates you once paid....something had to give and or collapse.....socialized medicine might the the only road to travel down for everyone to be covered equally and fairly....

Equal and fair sounds al sugar and spice but no where does it say we are entitled to that. Not saying it would be a bad thing but people need to get over the idea they are entitled to it.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

just think of Dr's wages, Nurses, the WHOLE system....OVER paid board of directors on hospitals....and the the upkeep on the whole system.....MAYBE just maybe....this country has outgrown even the old system and just can not operate at the rates you once paid....something had to give and or collapse.....socialized medicine might the the only road to travel down for everyone to be covered equally and fairly....

Equal and fair sounds al sugar and spice but no where does it say we are entitled to that. Not saying it would be a bad thing but people need to get over the idea they are entitled to it.

Agreed...this isn't the country for that...right?....so let the insurance companies run rough shod over the people....because healthcare is not a right and government should just stay out of it...and if you can't afford the game well tough luck....nearly every hospital has a subsidy program I've noticed for those with little coverage...maybe we should go that route?.....I've been 3 different hospitals and all have had some kind of reduction program and pay system...

 

[Grizzly]

just think of Dr's wages, Nurses, the WHOLE system....OVER paid board of directors on hospitals....and the the upkeep on the whole system.....MAYBE just maybe....this country has outgrown even the old system and just can not operate at the rates you once paid....something had to give and or collapse.....socialized medicine might the the only road to travel down for everyone to be covered equally and fairly....

Equal and fair sounds al sugar and spice but no where does it say we are entitled to that. Not saying it would be a bad thing but people need to get over the idea they are entitled to it.

Maybe it should be written somewhere that everyone is entitled to healthcare.
Greatest country on earth, right?
Trump just proposed jacking up military spending 10% ... to what end? Our priorities are all screwed up.

 

[JohnWC]

I've talked with a few people from countries with socialised medical coverage it's not as good as people are led to believe

 

[OntarioVanMan]

just think of Dr's wages, Nurses, the WHOLE system....OVER paid board of directors on hospitals....and the the upkeep on the whole system.....MAYBE just maybe....this country has outgrown even the old system and just can not operate at the rates you once paid....something had to give and or collapse.....socialized medicine might the the only road to travel down for everyone to be covered equally and fairly....

Equal and fair sounds al sugar and spice but no where does it say we are entitled to that. Not saying it would be a bad thing but people need to get over the idea they are entitled to it.

Maybe it should be written somewhere that everyone is entitled to healthcare.
Greatest country on earth, right?
Trump just proposed jacking up the military spending 10% ... to what end? Our priorities are all screwed up.

yep...the Romans raised an army to invade... not to maintain...with modern warfare technics now..I think the Joint Chiefs has been smokin too much whacky weed....they are asking silly numbers...

 

[Grizzly]

I've talked with a few people from countries with socialised medical coverage it's not as good as people are led to believe

No system is perfect. They all have imperfections. Each country also has it's own particular circumstances to deal with. I've been to Denmark & Sweden multiple times .. pretty nice. But they have small populations with super high taxes, simply not comparable.

 

[davekc]

I don't subscribed to the healthcare is a right. It has never been a right. It was just fine until government for in to it. Much like other things they do. Creating another entitlement did nothing but redistribute some wealth and some votes. Which was the actual intent. Never was designed to fix the system.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

I've talked with a few people from countries with socialised medical coverage it's not as good as people are led to believe

it's not so bad.....long emergency room waits for someone who goes with the sniffles...my 70 yr old mother got knee replacement no problems when she needed them and didn't wait for years...
you guys are used to INSTANT service thats the problem not priority based service...big difference...you expect the medical world to bow to your needs...because well you pay for that

 

[davekc]

I've talked with a few people from countries with socialised medical coverage it's not as good as people are led to believe

No system is perfect. They all have imperfections. Each country also has it's own particular circumstances to deal with. I've been to Denmark & Sweden multiple times .. pretty nice. But they have small populations with super high taxes, simply not comparable.

Most other countries don't have half of their population supporting the other half. Add in supporting illegals and refugees, easy to see why what we have is a train wreck.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

In Ontario Corporations pay a health tax based on the amount of payroll..higher the payroll higher the % like 1.8 to 3.1 just examples....but in the end WE the people pay as it is figured into everything we purchase and do...you Americans cow tow too much to big corporations.....the same ones here are the same up there and they pay and they make profits..they adjust.....I bet you guys didn' t know every Ontario worker gets 4% vacation pay added into pay check..its a labour law..the 4% works out to roughly the 2 weeks holiday time paid.... you Americans are still living in the dark ages on some issues...LOL

 

[OntarioVanMan]

I've talked with a few people from countries with socialised medical coverage it's not as good as people are led to believe

No system is perfect. They all have imperfections. Each country also has it's own particular circumstances to deal with. I've been to Denmark & Sweden multiple times .. pretty nice. But they have small populations with super high taxes, simply not comparable.

Most other countries don't have half of their population supporting the other half. Add in supporting illegals and refugees, easy to see why what we have is a train wreck.

thats why the Merit based immigration is the better way to go..instead of just showing up at the door....if you haven't a skill that would help the country...you don't get in..simple

 

[Turtle]

The top lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee have asked the Justice Department to turn over... by Monday... any evidence showing Trump Tower was wiretapped during the 2016 presidential race.

One has to wonder why they haven't made the same public drama queen demand for evidence of collusion or coordination between Russia and the Trump camp on the election hacks.

On a side note, Putin's spokesman told CNN that the Russian Ambassador met "several times" with Clinton advisers and campaign staff during the election. "Far more than with Trump advisers, because like you, we thought she would win." LOL

"But there were no meetings about elections - electoral process ... So if you look at it with intention to demonize Russia, you would probably say that, yes, he was trying to interfere in Hillary's activities. But it would be nonsense, because this is not true," Peskov said.

He also added that it's routine for diplomatic officials to meet with presidential campaign advisers and staff before an election, to get a gauge of their thinking and about how things might change. They do that with most major countries, and so do we. Yawn.

Peskov suggested that the Kremlin leader found Clinton hostile toward Russia, while Trump was at least open to thawing U.S.-Russian relations.

"The candidate Hillary Clinton was quite negative about our country in her attitude and in her program, declaring Russia being nearly the main evil in the world and the main threat for the United States," Peskov said.

"And to the contrary, the other candidate, Donald Trump, was saying that, 'Yes, we disagree with the Russians ... in lots of issues, but we have to talk to them in order to try to find some understanding.' Whom would you like better? The one who says that Russia is evil or the one who says that, 'Yes, we disagree, but let's talk to understand and to try to find some points of agreement?'" he asked.

 

[muttly]

In other breaking news: Trump payed his taxes in 2005, plus Rachel Maddow steps on a rake.

Op-Ed: Donald Trump just got a nice victory, thanks, of all people, to Rachel Maddow

 

[Turtle]

Rachael got shredded on her own Twitter feed.
My favorite is, "I've seen bigger scoops at Baskin Robbins." LOL

By the time she got around to sharing Trump's tax return, it had already been supplied by the White House and published on The Daily Beast.

 

[Turtle]

Just an FYI... The legal definition of "wiretapping" is the legal interception of monitoring of telephone and Internet conversations by a third party.

The left (and the Press) want to keep this to the 1930s so as to constrain Trump's comments to only mean that of Obama ordering the physically attaching of a listening device to a physical telephone landline wire so they can claim "Gotcha! You lied!"

Children. Every one of then.

 

[davekc]

Trump said today we will have the information of what he was talking about in two weeks. I think there is something here. I think it will all be cloaked in the pursuit of Russians. lol Or, so they will say.

 

[muttly]

Trump's Wiretap Claims Are Bogus. But He's Still Onto Something.

 

[JohnWC]

If he was doing a hotel deal and the Russians were investors we should know unlike Hillarys charity dealings that got covered up till later