Posted on 04/29/2005 11:23:58 PM PDT by goldstategop
Don't forget the hog issue, which was just won as well. American unfairly posting a duty on each weanling about $5 a piglet.
The thing about stumpage, is Americans complained that it wasn't enough! Imagine that. The argument was Canadians didn't have as much cost as americans who had to pay higher fees for access to private lands. Of course it was rediculous, but Bush needed the democrats in the senate at the time, so he went along with it.
Same thing for cattle, same thing for hogs. It's pure protectionism, a violation of the NAFTA agreement.
We Americans are being fooled into thinking we don't have any cattle with BSE. it occurs naturally in every herd, one in every thousand. We should be finding at least 300 cows a year, but we don't. The Japs test every single cow, and find about 100 a year in their own herds, as do the brits, Europeons.
As mentioned, the Canadians just won the hog tarrif issue.
There is a reason that the hog barns are all in Canada, because all the enviromentalists down here prevent them from being built here. We can't keep up with our own demand. But producers here cry, because they can't make a good product.
Canadian producers are able to lower their feed costs because feed is cheaper in Canada, it's not inflated and subsidized like it is here. We put tarrif on Canadian feed, so it isn't available here for our producers. It' an endless vicious circle. TARRIFS don't work!
Well there's another reason why I surf here, I didn't here about the hog issue.
Thanks for the info.
You know the big casualty in this is that with FTAA and CAFTA on life support there is a very real possibility that a South American trading block could emerge under ALBA including all of South America, Central America and the Caribean including Cuba in order to protect a bunch of subsidized pig farmers, canola growers and Montana beef ranchers.
In other words a Latino EU. Think about it.
That's a high price to pay.
During the re-coronation of Chimpus Khan (beloved defender of the realm), they reeeeally went Coo-Coo for Cocoa Puffs. At times I felt I was living in a giant outdoor DUmmieland. Declare a basic self-evident truth at the dinner table (like, say, the sole reason we can afford universal health care is because we rely on the USA to defend the 'effen country) and you would be blamed for "spoiling the evening".
We once had a proud past during Confederation, the opening of the West and the Great War, but somehow in the last 50 years, we lost our identity. Against this ennui we see the USA, a nation that knows exactly what it is, can defend itself AS AN IDEA and doesn't care what you think. But what turns many of my countrymen into real mental cases is the vague feeling that Christian faith underpins it all. It actually has a place in public discourse in America
But Canada is not your adversary (nor is France or Germany or any mere geopolitical entity) Your eternal and implacable foe is the creeping "dictatorship of relativism," that Benedict XVI, with angelic intelligence foresaw.
The nonsensical drumbeat of prounoucements by this gaggle of secular humanists is not going to go away - they're hellbent on "educating" you. Like Michael, Hillary, Whoopy or Chirac, these "world citizens" are the apostate mutations of a free society. Their one absolute in life is a craven fear and hatred of ANY reminder of their creatureliness.
For them, truth is an emotional position statement on a cool T-shirt determined by a majority vote. It gives them community and allows them to project their internal desolation onto evil America.
Help them! They need compassionate correction.
Nope, it was Cretien. Martin just landed in the pile of pig poop that Cretien created. Of course he didn't help himself much, but then again he is a liberal.
Isnt government control lovely? Nice. BTW. The timber companys have cut off the Canadian suppliers from this area. Why? Becuase if they didnt we would'nt supply them. So they had a choice. Either quit buying Canadian roundwood on the Canadian dollar or face a complete shutdown from this side.
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