11-23-2016, 07:33 AM
(11-22-2016, 02:10 PM)BIAD Wrote: I too, hope he goes through with it.
But remember, he's a businessman and no door is truly closed in business.
Using Daitengu's source:
'...Trump called the pact, a deal among the US and 11 Pacific Rim nations, "a potential disaster" for the nation.
"Instead, we will negotiate fair, bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back to American shores," he said.
Earlier Monday, Japan's prime minister discounted the idea of going ahead with the TPP without American
participation, the AP reports. "TPP is meaningless without the United States," Shinzo Abe said...'
Going off the Japanese Prime Ministers quote, that sounds like a one-way street where Japan and others
get the best out of it.
So.... I suggest you're best out of it!
Now, that DOES sound an awful lot like what is said when a mark lays down his cards and leaves the poker table to head upstairs to bed, doesn't it? What's the point of continuing to play if the mark isn't there to give you all his hard-earned cash?
Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’