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See? Trump isn't even President yet and he's working miracles for America. He's even helping the Canadians!
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See? Trump isn't even President yet and he's working miracles for America. He's even helping the Canadians!
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Yes, and in the world of positive spin, he's helping animals too. Not even the chicken wants to cross the rd. Trump has vowed to shoot the deer (any deer) that cross the rd. He takes aim and gets it wrong every now and then. 7200 deer, but 8 opossums, 6 raccoons, and a platypus have been misidentified. The chickens were contemplating crossing, but between all that and the near misses with the 3 cows and some naked chick on a donkey with a buzzard, they figured it might not be the best time to cross.
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Might need to make the wall twice as high to keep them illegals from thinking about sneaking into Canada too.
A misfire, yes, but it does continue to show that Trump isn't intimidated by corporate lobbying etc. He looks like he doesn't mind using the presidency to bully companies to keep palnts in the US and to try to save US jobs (or create them) that way. Perhaps he'll even reward companies for bringing their business to your country. You can spin this how you want depending on your politics, but it DOES look like Trump is trying to push for the American worker and economy and won't be the spineles sell-out that Hillary would have been.
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Trump got something wrong. It must be a weekday.
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And even if Trump was wrong he was still right.
Because the Canadian workers belong to the CAW which achieves good middle class wages very close to the US UAW. Helping the CAW helps the UAW to continue to keep good middle class wages for the US workers.
Not moving to Mexico would be a win for the Canadians AND a win for the US middle class.
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And Canadians are more important than Mexicans because _________?
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They're white.
Canada is actually quite a bit more racially and culturally diverse than the USA and Mexico. So why don't we have as much racially charged rhetoric up here as is found down in the USA? Multi-culturalism actually manages to work here. Why here and not in the US?
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Domestic vs. imported birdcrap is on the agenda for March; stay tuned.
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Free speech yo. The US differs from most other democratic societies in the restrictions (Or lack there of) in what people are allowed to say or express publicly. Also correct me if I am wrong, but Canada doesn't have the same intimate history with slavery as the US does, right?
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Its got nothing whatsoever to do with race or skin color or nationality.
Please read what I wrote again and try to use your brain.
The CAW (Canadian auto workers) are able to keep their wages higher because they are an organized union. And if you are living in the US middle class that's a good thing. Its a good thing because a company has absolutely no incentive (other than nationalized healthcare) to relocate manufacturing there. And if a firm does relocate there, it puts no downward pressure on US wage levels. Its also a good thing for the middle class because like the UAW, the CAW causes other non union jobs to increase wage levels. The CAW is what the middle class of Canada and the middle class of the US both need.
That is in stark contrast with Mexico. Those workers are horribly abused and the political structure of Mexico allows that to happen. And when those workers are abused by the oligarchy, so is the middle class of the US.
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Dude, Trump is an idiot. He totally fucked this up. I can't believe you actually went there with agreeing with a satirical op.
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The Repugs in Congress have a hard on to dismantle the ACA (ObamaCare) quickly. The real show will start in 13 days. Will Trump veto a bill containing an ACA repeal with no replacement in hand? Or will it be like that Wall, that Trump now says Mexico will pay us back for later? The Repugs have few ideas, and far less agreement on a 'replacement' for the ACA. So in most probability, at least 10 million Americans will again be w/o health insurance within a year. This is probably the first most probable reality of the new administration.
If Trump shows himself to be ineffectual on trade issues, his corporate attack tweets will shortly lose their sting. A bill can tweet, but a tweet is not a bill. He has a giant wall to try and fund; a massive corporate tax rework to flesh out; a fake infrastructure plan to flesh out; a VA to ramp up spending on; a bloated military to try and shovel more money at; and trade deals to re-negotiate and then get thru Congress; and ISIS, North Korea, and future terrorist attacks to tweet about. If nothing else this should be an interesting show....
This "helping the American economy" thing so far looks like it will almost exclusively help those with money. And I say this as one who is invested in the markets. I will survive just fine under Trump, it is those others that concern me. We will know more by this summer on just what might happen regarding trade deals and infrastructure plans. Right now it is only smoke and mirrors...
Indeed, it should be interesting to watch and we still don't know how it will go. Will he be shrub bush the second ( a puppet) or will he wind up being a thorn in his own side's side? Or a little of both? So far we have at least seen they can't control his words. His actions? Yet unclear. With Hillary we'd have known for sure a long time ago who is pulling her strings.