Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Re: I Told You Rich Kid - We Don't NEED Your Lumber
From: Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com>
Organization: ViperNews - www.vipernews.com
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 01:49:19 +0000
pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
news:vqssdu$2q1jr$2@dont-email.me:
> 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 outdated and needs to be amended?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 because it's outdated and needs to be amended.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.
Why does Trump "depend on other countries"
for the swag that HE markets?
Are Americans not good enough for him?