From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Re: I Told You Rich Kid - We Don't NEED Your Lumber
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:36:17 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-03-12 11:14, -hh wrote:
> On 3/8/25 21:30, AlleyCat wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 18:12:53 -0800, Alan says...
>>
>>>
>>> On 2025-03-08 18:03, AlleyCat wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 11:55:25 -0800, Alan says...
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2025-03-07 21:31, AlleyCat wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> President Trump: "What we're doing is freeing up our forests from
>>>>>> the environmental nonsense that they put on them, where you can't
>>>>>> cut down a tree."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Canada has been ripping us off for years on tariffs for lumber!"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://x.com/i/status/1898058946339897426
>>>>
>>>>> Quick question:
>>>>>
>>>>> Who negotiated and signed the current trade deal between the US,
>>>>> Canada
>>>>> and Mexico?
>>>>
>>>> Quick question:
>>>> Who kept, for 4 years, the negotiated and signed current trade deal
>>>> between
>>>> the US, Canada and Mexico, which will no longer BE current, because
>>>> it is
>>>> outdated and needs to be amended?
>>>>
>>>> Time to sign a different one.
>>>>
>>>> I told you... We Don't NEED Your Lumber, rich boy.
>>
>>> Who was it who negotiated it?
>>
>> But, was it really?
>>> Hint: it's the same guy who's now claiming it was a terrible deal.
>>
>> It is... because it's outdated and needs to be amended.
>
> Funny how that's not what what he signed said. As signed, the USMCA was
> for a 14 year term (renewable), which would be through December 2033.
>
> And while some changes can of course be negotiated prior to that, the
> basic structure necessitates that they only be minor ones, because the
> business investment needs are based on time horizons of easily a decade
> if not longer. Case in point, one would want the USMCA to be renewed at
> least once (eg, 28 years) for having adequate ramp for applying
> depreciation IAW GAAP in one's corporate business planning.
And Trump just tweeted... ...sorry, he just "truthed":
'Why would our Country allow another Country to supply us with
electricity, even for a small area? Who made these decisions, and why?'