Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk' To : AARON THOMAS From : Rob Mccart Date : Wed Mar 12 2025 01:53:00 RM> I think if there were a huge savings drilling your own oil the companies RM> would have gone back to doing that long ago. It's smart to not use up all RM> your own reserves if you can manage it though. Once it runs out elsewhere RM> you have your own available to use and to sell at inflated prices due to RM> the shortages. But I'm not sure you have as much oil as you wish you did. AT>That does sound smart when considering the fact that the world has a limited > supply. However, even if Canada gave us an excellent price, uninterrupted, I >afraid of what can happen to the price when (for example) the USA starts comp >ning about a lack of border enforcement. It seems some things like that are more an excuse than a reason. I can see the USA complaining about illegal immigrants coming in from, or through, Mexico, but there's a LOT more of it there than through Canada, and things like drugs, I'd be willing to bet more drugs are moving from the USA into Canada than in the other direction. Both things are bad of course but that should have made a good case for having a united service working together policing the border rather than putting tariffs on everything we sell the USA. RM> When Trump was making election speeches I don't recall him mentioning RM> 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian Imports. AT>He wasn't that specific, but I found (for example and article from PBS from S >27, 2024 (well before Election Day) that quotes him like this: AT>"Former President Donald Trump has proposed a 60% tariff on goods from China > a 20% tariff on everything else the United States imports." Some of it was expected, like Canada put a 100% tariff on cheap electric cars coming in from China. We are fighting new tariffs from China now as a result of that but, in that case, it was a specific item that was going to be a big problem. And countries like China are always a problem. If sales start to drop off, they keep the factories making goods and then their government subsidizes them so that they can sell stuff in foreign countries far cheaper than they can be made there, even ignoring what workers are paid. It saves them paying to support people not working, which avoids creating a 'class' of people who get used to living off of the government dollar without having to work, which can happen and can actually become generational where families haven't really had a job in generations. AT>I'm confident that Pierre Poilievre will be able to help us resolve >these issues. I'm not sure who would be best in Canada.. A new Liberal leader was voted in to replace Trudeau and the news that Trudeau was resigning had already reduced Poilievre's lead in the polls from 20% to 1%, and that was before the new Liberal leader Mark Carney was chosen with 86% of the vote and financial backing that was 10 times what the other potential candidates were getting, so he is super popular and that may gain the Liberals even more ground. That said though, Carney has never been elected to a post in his life. He's not a politician, he is a Banker on a huge scale and I fear that if he is let loose in charge of the country he will do marvelous things to make the country successful, but cut support to care for the poor and older people because that's too expensive to be 'pracitcal'. Bottom Line above all else? Maybe.. RM> No, I think too many people on both sides of the border are mad about RM> this and I can't see what he's doing being good for ordinary people, RM> although your super rich probably love him.. AT>I can't speak for the super rich, but I have yet to hear any Trump supporters >scinding their endorsement of President Trump. I like Canada, and I have a fe >riends from Ontario, but I love President Trump. I literally pray for him eve >single day. We'll all have to see what happens and then take another look to see how we feel about it a year or two from now. --- * SLMR Rob * Got into the gene pool when the lifeguard wasn't watching * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) .