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Perhaps you'd care to get your facts before you buy into Washington rhetoric then, you grown-up… How big is US-EU trade at the moment? In absolute and relative
by HSO 12y ago
Perhaps you'd care to get your facts before you buy into Washington rhetoric then, you grown-up… How big is US-EU trade at the moment? In absolute and relative terms (ie compared to other links)? And how high exactly are the tariff barriers at the moment? And what is the TTIP actually about?
So what exactly does opposition to TTIP in particular and trade negotiations w/o public dialogue or debate in general have to do with mercantilism or Irish nationalism?!
Also, you might also think that after most of the trade barriers have already been removed, what remains probably does so for a reason. European people just do not want GMO food, for example. Many polls in different countries always reach the same conclusion. It doesn't matter if some trade official in the pocket of Monsanto thinks it's okay. Europe is the last bastion of freedom and liberalism since Bush wrecked America's soul. It should isolate and defend itself vigorously from the US, at least until the US remembers what it once stood for in the world.
- anigbrowl 12y agoYou seem to be arguing with statements I haven't made, by alleging that I don't have my facts straight and then demanding random statistics. I am not going to play word games with you.
- HSO 12y agoUS-EU trade is not the issue, it is already huge and it will grow without TTIP. Read what the TTIP is actually about. Implying that being against TTIP, virulently or not, is equivalent or even comparable to being nationalist or mercantilist is beyond the pale. No word games necessary, just read before you talk. PS: And btw, why would anyone have an interest in making the US more like the EU? Who cares about what the US does to itself? I just don't want the US meddling and diluting laws and ways of life here.
- anigbrowl 12y agoI have read about it. I just don't agree with your interpretation of it.