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ConservativeWave » 8 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

8 minutes ago

Canada and the EU have been USING the United States for YEARS... USING our Markets to become rich, and USING our military to NOT adequately fund their own defense, while more and more moving toward a Marxist Socialist style of BUREAUCRATIC government... What Trump is doing is ENCOURAGING them BOTH (Canada and the EU) to TREAT America like a partner, and NOT like a sugar daddy... AND, I think he is (& we are) being successful. 

WHY?  Because he was RIGHT.. he blew the whistle on the EU NOT meeting their 2% NATO defense responsibility in 2019... THEN, MOST of NATO was ACTUALLY HAPPY he did, and that he STOPPED the Russian Nat-Gas pipeline into Germany... after Russia invaded Ukraine....  AND CHINA?  China's economy is IMPLODING... they made all sorts of concessions to Trump recently (to open the Chinese markets, to accept tariffs, and to equalize trade)... in order to lift the 175% American tariffs (which is currently in a 90 day trial period)... and even so, a BASE U.S. tariff is STILL in place on China, and WILL remain. 

Donald Trump is making ALL the right moves... to STOP the Marxist Socialist Democrat Party in America, to STOP Russian & Chinese efforts to rule the world in their TRACKS, AND, to make our "Friends" understand, that USING America as a sugar daddy for THEIR Totalitarian Bureaucratic GOALS... is NOT FRIENDLY... AND, he's doing it ALL simply by flexing America's economic Muscle !

It's PRETTY damned AMAZING when you think about it !!!

So we have 2 Million Dollars of refrigeration equipment parked in the lot in trade war limbo.  Canada went broke on the project and we are unpaid.

It's a green project, to convert waste to methanol launched in 2020.  Somehow I think some of the money our Canadian customer squandered was green new deal Money from Joe.

I registered to vote in the Republican Primary in admiration of Governor Larry Hogan's committment to fiscal responsibility.  I voted for him for a rare victorious Republican Governor as a Democrat. 4 years later I decided the Republican Primary in Maryland was far more interesting and influential than the Democratic Pick One of One Choice Ballot.

I won't disagree that trade imbalances exist.  But this cold turkey approach is going to kill the patient.