Posted on 02/03/2025 4:33:25 AM PST by MtnClimber
To Canada and Mexico regarding the tariffs: resistance is futile.
The leaders of Canada and Mexico are indignant because Trump slammed 25 percent tariffs onto their exports. In this dispute, most of the world will side with Canada and Mexico, and Trump will be viewed as mean, erratic and even racist. It is likely that Democrats will also blast Trump, but that will be a mistake -- for Democrats.
For years, the nation has talked about massive numbers of fentanyl deaths, yet there has been little or no relief. Trump is taking the only action that is likely to alleviate the problem in a significant way.
On this issue, the resistance offered by Canada and Mexico has been disgraceful. President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico put the blame entirely on the United States, and promised her own 25 percent retaliatory tariffs.
Sheinbaum arrogantly declared that Americans can solve the fentanyl problem by combating “the sale of narcotics on the streets of their main cities, which they don’t do.” In an ideal world, that might be a solution. However, our “main cities” are run by Democrat mayors and district attorneys, and they don’t care much about crime unless it can be pinned onto someone in MAGA world. To solve the illegal migrant and drug problem, we need more cooperation from Mexico, as Sheinbaum should know.
The response of Canada’s prime minister is just as inadequate. Justin Trudeau indicated that Canada will issue its own 25 percent tariffs, targeted towards certain U.S. products. He then tried to sweet-talk Americans by claiming that the border and drug problems are not very significant (“...already safe and secure”), and that Canada has implemented a major plan to remedy the minor problem. Let’s examine Trudeau’s big plan.
Trudeau claimed that Canada has “launched a $1.3 billion border
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They also raise consumer prices, and stifle sales, so, I’d rather use the tariffs to get what we want, and send them to the sunset.
This was just textbook maneuvering by the President.
Canada will do something similar, very shortly.
And, as always, I blame Canada.
100 years ago they were plowing with horses, and driving Model T’s.
What does that have to do with 2025?
The entire financial structure of the US is not the same as 100 years ago.
I’m not saying it’s better, but it’s certainly not the same.
You need to put down the bong, and stop lecturing people you don’t know.
Spending & theft is what put the US in financial trouble, not the method of revenue collection.
BS. Offshoring the USAs industrial base is the biggest threat we have. So go away. I know a globalist. I can tell you are one. MAGA - You just don’t get it.
Your unions supported onshore job loss to illegals .
You are a phony !
Ask the day nurse to up your meds.
Why do you constantly lie?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0896920520980123?download=true#:~:text=National%20labor%20unions%20in%20the,relief%20to%20some%20undocumented%20immigrants.
Again, you know nothing about me. I don’t understand why you’re such a bitter, ornery cus, I didn’t attack you personally, in any way. Obviously, something went wrong in your life, that you behave like this.
I’ll continue to support MAGA, because I do get it.
Now, you go away, and cheer up.
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