The only export they really can stop is raw logs that is what the US has been after from the beginning.
Unfortunately, allot of these problem come down to many years of lazy companies not diversifying their exports. It’s just too easy to stick the stuff on a US bound truck, as opposed to arranging a container shipment to parts further afield. If they had diversified export possibilities they could now say right US, we will send our goods to somewhere else. Watch their house prices soar. .
This is similar to what has happened to the ranchers. They are finally now going about slaughtering their own cattle and not going to export live animals down to the US. The US will lose jobs, but who cares.
We also do not value manufacturing in general. People talk about the booming economy in the Okanogan. But if you look what they are raving about, it’s that they are ripping up orchards and putting in condos. Oh yes that’s an economy going places. This isn't just a Canadian problem; it’s also in the US. We are living in one of the most BS economies ever. Flipping land and making "products" which are some latest fad of a financial instrument(paper with ink on it) make me laugh. People park their house next to a "messy" and "noisy" factory, and complain till it moves away. Well they are gone now, they are well out of view in China.
The US has proven to us and many other countries that agreements mean very little to them. We should rip up nafta, mainly because it gives them power over our resources. As time goes on this is going to be the Achilles heal of the US economy, they are nothing without tons of energy to grease their wheels. Business will move to countries which have the energy to sustain it.
Unfortunately, allot of these problem come down to many years of lazy companies not diversifying their exports. It’s just too easy to stick the stuff on a US bound truck, as opposed to arranging a container shipment to parts further afield. If they had diversified export possibilities they could now say right US, we will send our goods to somewhere else. Watch their house prices soar. .
This is similar to what has happened to the ranchers. They are finally now going about slaughtering their own cattle and not going to export live animals down to the US. The US will lose jobs, but who cares.
We also do not value manufacturing in general. People talk about the booming economy in the Okanogan. But if you look what they are raving about, it’s that they are ripping up orchards and putting in condos. Oh yes that’s an economy going places. This isn't just a Canadian problem; it’s also in the US. We are living in one of the most BS economies ever. Flipping land and making "products" which are some latest fad of a financial instrument(paper with ink on it) make me laugh. People park their house next to a "messy" and "noisy" factory, and complain till it moves away. Well they are gone now, they are well out of view in China.
The US has proven to us and many other countries that agreements mean very little to them. We should rip up nafta, mainly because it gives them power over our resources. As time goes on this is going to be the Achilles heal of the US economy, they are nothing without tons of energy to grease their wheels. Business will move to countries which have the energy to sustain it.
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