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Trump made an interesting point about our GDP and NATO

Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:15 am
Posted by Homesick Tiger
Greenbrier, AR
Member since Nov 2006
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Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:15 am
Of course in his presser this morning he said it was time for everyone to pay their fair share. However, he brought up the point of with our economy rising and our GDP getting better, that means we will be paying even more into NATO.

I hadn't thought about that. I got the feeling he was insinuating that "what are we going to get in return for even more money that we are paying in?"

That makes sense. Say our GDP is heads above other countries. Seems to me we will even be a bigger contributor yet we will be getting the same results as we have been getting. NATO is using the U.S. as the banker to finance their country's defenses. That doesn't set really well with me.

We need to remember, this is not the government's money that we are sending over there to keep NATO's balloon inflated - it is your hard-earned tax money going to them.

Maybe it's time to rework this "formula" of fairness concerning contributions to NATO.

Posted by Bard
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Member since Oct 2008
51809 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:18 am to
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Say our GDP is heads above other countries.


It is (2017).

Posted by Magician2
Member since Oct 2015
14553 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:19 am to
He can easily turn off the valve...

We shouldn’t be obligated to put in more. We need to just contribute our 2%.
This post was edited on 7/12/18 at 7:20 am
Posted by MrCarton
Paradise Valley, MT
Member since Dec 2009
20231 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:37 am to
Instead of wanting other Euro countries to pay more on defense, he should be talking about cutting our spending in half.
Posted by gthog61
Irving, TX
Member since Nov 2009
71001 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:57 am to
SO the same leftists who constantly bitch about the defense budget are now bitching because Trump is applying pressure to NATO to pay up?

so we don't have to pay as much in the future?

got it
Posted by TBoy
Kalamazoo
Member since Dec 2007
23822 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 9:27 am to
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that means we will be paying even more into NATO.


No matter how many times Trump says it, or you say it, we don’t pay that money “into NATO.” The ignorance of Trump’s fantasy and his followers’ blind repetition is staggering.
Posted by Swoopin
Member since Jun 2011
22031 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:24 am to
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NATO is using the U.S. as the banker to finance their country's defenses


Bankers get paid back. We're their parents
Posted by Lsuhack1
Member since Feb 2018
866 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:55 am to
This has huge implications for America, with all the spending on defense and defense contractors everywhere making the NATO allies raise their defense spending almost definitely means more money into us businesses as they win contracts.
He is single handedly decreasing the trade deficit by forcing Europe’s hand.
This post was edited on 7/12/18 at 10:59 am
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
90878 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 11:31 am to
We spend almost 5% currently. We could just allow the percentage to decrease without spending less money, or increasing spending
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