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 14:10:54 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-03-12 13:56, pothead wrote:
> On 2025-03-12, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> 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 outdated and needs to be amended?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 because it's outdated and needs to be amended.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?'
>
> Trump is correct.
> Unless absolutely necessary.
> When the US depends upon other countries for needed goods then it gives
> up all control.
>
> What do you think is going to happen to the myriad of products, say prescription
> drugs for example, if the USA gets in a war with China?
Trump negotiated and ratified the current trade deal with Canada (and
Mexico) which includes the terms under which the Canada and the US trade
in electricity.
Furthermore, he is only abrogating the terms of that deal by declaring
an "economic emergency"...
...and the US congress has had to declare that days are not really days
anymore so that that declaration can go on without end.