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<blockquote data-quote="Cattle Rack Rancher" data-source="post: 48495" data-attributes="member: 245"><p>cattle_gal</p><p></p><p>If free trade is such a bad thing for the US, why does the government keep signing free trade agreements with so many countries. I think that it is kind of odd that you think you are hard done by. The American culture has spread itself all over the world. How do you think the Mom and Pop operations felt when Canada got Wal-Mart. You can buy a Coke or go to McDonalds in almost any place in the world and you complain about imports. As far as the lumber industry goes, our lumber is cheap because we have so much of it. A big chunk of the land in Canada is not suitable for doing anything other than growing trees. Its funny that you think you should be the most cost efficient produce of everything. It will be rough going the next while as the world economy aligns itself. As far as your comment on the other economies dragging down the US, Do you not believe that everybody in the world has the right to work hard and succeed? Isn't that the basis of freedom and the American dream that the US was built on? As far as free trade goes, if you decide to implement tariffs, even false tariffs to imports, other countries will set up retaliatory tariffs. This will lose the US jobs even faster as retaliatory tariffs will make US goods more expensive on the international market, decreasing your exports while US tariffs will make imported goods more expensive. This will lead to higher expenses and higher unemployment and decrease your standard of living. Right now in the States, consumers can buy gas and oil cheaper than consumers can in Canada and we produce it for you. Same with natural gas and hydro electricity. Basically, if I understand you correctly, you seem to think that everyone in the world should accept US made products and US chains in their countries but you don't want to accept anything from them that you don't want and anything you do want, you want it cheap. Am I wrong?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cattle Rack Rancher, post: 48495, member: 245"] cattle_gal If free trade is such a bad thing for the US, why does the government keep signing free trade agreements with so many countries. I think that it is kind of odd that you think you are hard done by. The American culture has spread itself all over the world. How do you think the Mom and Pop operations felt when Canada got Wal-Mart. You can buy a Coke or go to McDonalds in almost any place in the world and you complain about imports. As far as the lumber industry goes, our lumber is cheap because we have so much of it. A big chunk of the land in Canada is not suitable for doing anything other than growing trees. Its funny that you think you should be the most cost efficient produce of everything. It will be rough going the next while as the world economy aligns itself. As far as your comment on the other economies dragging down the US, Do you not believe that everybody in the world has the right to work hard and succeed? Isn't that the basis of freedom and the American dream that the US was built on? As far as free trade goes, if you decide to implement tariffs, even false tariffs to imports, other countries will set up retaliatory tariffs. This will lose the US jobs even faster as retaliatory tariffs will make US goods more expensive on the international market, decreasing your exports while US tariffs will make imported goods more expensive. This will lead to higher expenses and higher unemployment and decrease your standard of living. Right now in the States, consumers can buy gas and oil cheaper than consumers can in Canada and we produce it for you. Same with natural gas and hydro electricity. Basically, if I understand you correctly, you seem to think that everyone in the world should accept US made products and US chains in their countries but you don't want to accept anything from them that you don't want and anything you do want, you want it cheap. Am I wrong? [/QUOTE]
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