American Thinker:
By Andrea Widburg
Yesterday, Trump made good on his promise to punish the nations responsible for bringing fentanyl to America: China, which provides the raw ingredients, and Canada and Mexico, which provide factories to make the fentanyl and open borders to transport it. Canada instantly announced that it was going to war against America, but a scathing report by Elizabeth Nickson, a Canadian journalist, says that this is posturing because Canada is a failed state with nowhere to go but down.
Trump is unique in that he does not use tariffs to benefit specific industries (often, industries that have been profitable for a president and his party). Instead, Trump uses tariffs to benefit America at large. For him, tariffs are a negotiating tool that is predicated on the fact that America is the single largest consumer nation in the world.
According to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, in 2022, America imported $562.9 billion in goods from China while exporting only $195.5 billion, for a trade deficit of $367.4 billion. When it comes to Mexico, in 2022, we had a $131.1 billion trade deficit, and in that same year, we had a $53.5 billion trade deficit with Canada. more here
Canada makes a ton of U.S. car parts. In fact I go so far to say it is their manufacturing base. It’s country welfare doled out with your tax dollars. And now they plan on charging us more for our car parts? Bring that shit back here.
Defense parts are another one. More Country Welfare. Bring it back. Employ Americans.
how come we never hear about fentanyl labs in the USA?
Are Molson’s and Labatt’s going to be more expensive? Oh, dang.
*gag*
Here’s how stupid American car manufacturers are. Canada and Mexico supply more car parts on your American made car than the United States does. The message from DJT is pretty clear to me. Bring that shit back.
Here’s some good data from the CATO Institute but they miss the point bigly.
https://www.cato.org/blog/seven-charts-show-how-us-tariffs-would-harm-american-auto-industry
@Andrea Widburg:
I cannot be more enthusiastic about recommending Nickson. She is an outstanding journalist/analyst with eye-opening experience and background. Her Substack, Welcome to Absurdistan is free but more than worth the voluntary subscription fee.
The report Widburg mentions is Canada Is A Failed State and Mark Carney is BlackRock’s Bankruptcy Trustee, and begins:
Canada is tough as hell to get into, but they’re upset cuz we don’t want illegals and drugs to cross our border? Trump is not being an unreasonable here, they are.
Praytell why I’m wrong?
“Canada is tough as hell to get into”
I was under the impression they let militant muzzies in all day long. Un Vetted.
There’s a shit load of purple hear women in Canada that are about to learn a hard lesson.