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It's more that it shows the idiocy of the current government.

All those new plants will need foreign workers. Farmers need foreign workers. Big city delis need foreign workers.

But they're dead set on making the USA dangerous for foreigners.

Well... They can go suck a $10 egg.

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Von der Leyen and Trump strike EU-US deal with 15% tariff for the bloc

Anyone disappointed should just boycott everything coming from the USA, from companies owned by the USA (PE, stock market, etc).

Start with easy stuff. Like benzin/diesel for your car. Don't go to esso or jet. Then, stop drinking Coca-Cola, Pepsi, etc. or going to the McDonald's. Boycott Tesla, Ford & Co.

Cancel your Netflix and Amazon prime, and buy CDs, DVDs and blue rays.

Stop buying iPhones. Move away from Microsoft and Google as much as possible. In your private life and your companies. Go open source.

Trade wars are a problem only for the seller if there are no buyers.

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Your remember when Germany claimed that Greece doesn't work enough?

OP doesn't seem to understand how these data are compiled.

In most tourism-related jobs (e.g. restaurants), people don't count their hours.

This completely distorts the data for countries like France.

In Scandinavian countries and Germany, is common for 1 parent to work 50%. They also earn 50% (actually even less). This also distorts the data for these countries.

Finally, many of these states are about contractual hours. Not actual. If you work overtime, this is not accounted for. If you don't declare employees, is the same. And if you don't work, while being at work, i it's still counted as work.

Final word about the critics of Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece. Most of these people criticized the fact that they take long breaks and "waste time" while at work (=do chitchat).

They usually don't realize, that while Germans commonly leave work around 5pm, people in other countries stay until 6, 7 or even 8pm.

For the chitchat part, it's mainly that they don't value it.

Didn't get too offended by idiots ;-)

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No. They are paying 30% tax to the USA, for anything imported from the EU.

Not that it makes a difference, but I'm boycotting everything I can from the USA.

No more taking at Esso or Jet. No more Prince rolls. No more Coca-Cola. Cancelled Netflix.