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(4,858 posts)...but Dolt45 was up to the task...
pwb
(11,272 posts)Good Trumpy.
erronis
(15,260 posts)Maybe he (putine) thinks that he is in a winning position vis-a-vis the rest of the world.
Ohiogal
(32,000 posts)If you're talking about the GOP Enablers, good luck with that.
Only way to return to common sense is to vote out the Deplorables this fall.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)others do. This needs to happen more often.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)I love ice hockey and Molson's Ale.
catrose
(5,066 posts)erronis
(15,260 posts)Now, can we get those red parts to pay for the wall?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)yonder
(9,666 posts)We would become the Alabama/Georgia/Florida y'all would need. y'all
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)Not only that, but Queen Elizabeth told the US that she would welcome our coming back to England with open arms right after tRump was elected president. How sad is it that this almost looks preferable to what is happening in our country. It is so hard having a Disgusting pResident. Please, let's remove him ASAP. Get out the vote!!!
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Smh.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)understand how they just blew up our Economy. It takes 3-5 years to retrofit a outdated Mill and put the raw material infrastructure in place, By then,we are in a major Depression.
DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,923 posts)Canada isn't exactly in a position to fight this for long. Nearly 3/4 of their trade is with us. They are running a budget deficit, and their economy is showing signs of a real estate bubble getting ready to burst. Further, unless things have changed, they are already dealing with a trade issue with India over agricultural and food products.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)It is all about supply chains. We are many times more at risk than Canada. I can remember when our Trade with Canada was subject to a all kinds of tariff's. And Canada just said,okay,we will trade with the Europeans and the Australians. This is one of the reason's fro NAFTA was the open Canada to US Goods.
Remember the Eighties and early Nineties. If you lived in Minnesota,Wisconsin,or Michigan and you wanted to buy a new Ford or Chevy Wagon or Pick up. You wanted a Canadian Built rig because of their higher National Product Standards. Who wants another US made Rust Bucket.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)How we get from I guess steel tariffs to depression? (I'm not doubting you, just want to understand it better.)
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)by a former Economic's Guru. Tariffs would pull down GDP by 1% at a minimum. We are only do a 2% GDP growth at present and a 1% down drift as well as the increase in Interest Rates,which is already bake into the cake, will cause a negative growth problem.
First will be price increases which pull disposable income down,which is happening as we speak with the Gas Prices and the increase Freight Sure Charges are doing at this time.
As you are aware,we are a Consumable Economy and these forces will drive our Nation into a major downturn. This story about Benz today will cause a major ripple effect.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Very helpful.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Most of us had a taste of this Kudlow Tariff garbage with Bush and Cheney. It only lasted a few months,but it tip our economy towards recession and complete recession when part two of that stunt kicked in with the Banks going unregulated.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)WA-03 Democrat
(3,050 posts)Putins servant job is destroying our standing and leadership in the world. Only in this regard is Dump excelling. The damage is compiling.
Vote Democrat in 2018 like your life depends on it because it does.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)Trudeau is being kind there.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)So a base of 60 million misinformed nationalists is now dictating sophisticated economic strategy?
When we free fall into our demise, will this all be "Obama's" fault?
I could just vomit.
dajoki
(10,678 posts)its 60 million, is it? That can't be correct, I figured about 25%-28% at most.
malthaussen
(17,195 posts)I, too, "have to believe" that "common sense will prevail." Because the alternative is too dismal to contemplate.
-- Mal
Maine-i-acs
(1,499 posts)I left a couple gates open in Western Maine. Please invade. We'd like to become a province.
KPN
(15,646 posts)Hard to believe I am applauding a foreign leader who just dragged our government through the mud. Who woulda thought?
You Americans must remember that it is not your legitimate government. 🤮🤮🤮
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Trudeau for trump, maybe we throw in a couple of nhl players.
DFW
(54,386 posts)But one look at our governor, Senators, and Louie Gohmert, and we'd land at the top of the reject pile in no time flat.
knightmaar
(748 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,292 posts)They would be welcomed as liberators. They could at least take Washington, Oregon and California. I would welcome that.
Cha
(297,240 posts)Canada!