Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk' To : AARON THOMAS From : Rob Mccart Date : Sat Mar 22 2025 02:17:00 AT>I'm convinced that everything Trump does is a good thing. I keep hearing all >se warnings about him, but nothing he does ever seems to hurt. You do realize that your stock market has lost about $4 Trillion since the threat of Tariffs started.. ? That is money out of the pockets of anyone who has investments in the market and companies are terrified to spend money on expansion since they are worried they may be in a situation where they will be losing money for years. RM> It is already costing your small businesses Billions of dollars. RM> Canadians have already cut vacations and shopping trips down there RM> by 500,000 fewer than normal for this time of year. How much money RM> would half a million tourists spend there in a month and what is RM> that doing to hotels and restaurants and retailers? AT>These numbers sound like they are highly manipulatable. It could all be based > a survey that was taken on 10 Canadians from the streets of Vancouver. That info came strictly from counting the drop in the number of cars crossing the border and plane passengers heading to the USA compared to this same time last year. And there have been Thousands of people who have cancelled trips to the USA even when it cost them thousands of dollars to walk away from a scheduled vacation in the USA. Travel agencies say that trips they usually arrange have dropped by over 40%. There are American businesses near the border who say they are looking at bankruptcy due to the drop in Canadian day trippers they rely on to survive, which is just sad. It seems that the only way to get back at Trump is to cause enough grief there that he can't continue to ignore the harm his policies are doing. RM> It's not the American people's fault and we know that but RM> to fight back we can really only do the small stuff that hurts RM> the ordinary people down there. Thousands of American products RM> have been removed from the store shelves here and a lot of people RM> refuse to buy the ones that are still left. AT>I don't understand why they would act that way. I don't think anyone here >is refusing to buy Canadian stuff. We are looking at this as an threatened economic attack that will cost us over a million jobs and raise the prices on much that we buy when we are already fighting inflation moving prices up faster than wages have been moving. AT>I know for a fact that I'm buying Canadian electric > every month. Some people get way too stirred-up from things they've seen or >rd on TV. All the "problems" with Trump's tariffs are still just predictions > far as I can see.) And Trump plans to put a 10% tariff on electricity and oil so you can count on your power bills and gasoline bills going up fairly soon unless he backs off. And those are HIS tariffs.. If they go through, there's a good chance we will add another 25% Tariff on the electricity going down there. We have already added tariffs to over $30 Billion of products we sell down there in retaliation to the few traiffs Trump has already started going, and there's another $95 Billion or so of prducts we will be adding more tariffs to if he adds more. A 25% tariff on $125 Billion in products is close to $100 in extra cost for every person in your country, so $300 or $500 for many families, and that's just from our response. Trumps tariffs will add more than that on top of it as well. Today he said he has decided to temporarily give the big auto makers down there a break on tariffs, likely because they were freaking out because the cost of cars there was about to go up roughly $6,000 for regular type cars and as much as $20,000 on more expensive vehicles. And again, this was just from HIS tariffs. We would probably add more on top of that to fight back. --- * SLMR Rob * Love is a grave mental disease. -Plato * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) .