Subject: Re: I Told You Rich Kid - We Don't NEED Your Lumber
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
From: % <pursent100@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:41:48 -0700
Alan wrote:
> 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 outdated and needs to be amended?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 because it's outdated and needs to be amended.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?'
the generating station is in canada ,
you don't have to use it if you don't want ,
you can get it someplace else