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 19:01:11 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-03-12 18:49, Mitchell Holman wrote:
> 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 outdated and needs to be amended?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 because it's outdated and needs to be amended.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?
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