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Did Elvis say something important? I must have missed it.
Barack Obama, who threatened during the presidential campaign to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement unless he could renegotiate it, may delay trying to rework the accord as he focuses on the U.S. economic crisis.
SHOCKING! You mean our statist, pro-protectionism President wants to "renegotiate" existing trade agreements, say it ain't so Joe..... I wonder what he'll do if the Mexicans and Canadians tell him to go bugger off?
canada sucks! canada rules!
i stole a canadian, hit her over the head with my caveman club...american made dammmit.....married her and now she is american but thinks she owns me, she doesn't, i'm american and i rule
but when i go to canada, she reverts to this weird accent and gets all polite and shit. says hi to everyone, never litters and gets all snuggley in that cold ass weather. fuck those clean streets and good chocolate up there. who needs canada....
i love canada, their women are HOT.
Barack Obama, who threatened during the presidential campaign to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement unless he could renegotiate it, may delay trying to rework the accord as he focuses on the U.S. economic crisis.
SHOCKING! You mean our statist, pro-protectionism President wants to "renegotiate" existing trade agreements, say it ain't so Joe..... I wonder what he'll do if the Mexicans and Canadians tell him to go bugger off?
A little behind the times are we? Those statements were made by candidate Obama back in February 2008.
I didn't say that. Yea, but you were thinking it so
Since it's obvious you're a blindly partisan collectivist I realize it's too much to ask for you to be able to handle anything as intellectually complex as telling one poster from another poster but now that you've succeeded in making yourself look like a complete fool, care to go for the utter & complete blue ribbon? or would rather slink back off into left wing utopia and lick your wounds?
I wish I could but since I don't belong to a political party the gub'ment denied my blindly partisan mental disability benefits, I'm glad you and sealy got yours thoughInteresting that you must not consider yourself blindly partisan.
Actually If you'll learn to ummm...read, I was accussing him of being unable to perform the complex intellectual task of telling one poster from another, the blindly partisan collectivist portion went to the reason as to why this was so, ... I know, comprehension is overrated ....I'm always amused by that allegation from one who does exactly the same thing he is accusing another of. There must be a word for that. Hmmm.... oh yeah, HYPOCRITE!!
Vote "present"?
Like I said boys, there may not be anything Obama can do about this problem.
But we know for sure that there is nothing the GOP would do about this problem.
One would but can't, the other won't. Maybe if the one who can't had more support???
But you support the one that won't.
So you must be pro NAFTA and anti American workers/middle class.
Checkmate.
Sealy...I'm on your side, I am a protectionist. More jobs for more American is a good thing for America...there is no downside. If China decides their going to stop sending us wobbly-headed plastic dolls, I think we'll live. If Canada stops importing steel, we'll forge more in Erie Pennsylvania.
NAFTA is nothing more than selling out America.
But...to say President Obama CAN'T renegotiate or abandon NAFTA, with a DEM controlled house and senate because he needs SUPPORT is ludicrous.
President Obama could and would abandon NAFTA if he had half the backbone George Bush did. President Bush did what he believed was right, and to hell with support.
Obama is a spineless waffler who is more concerned about being popular than doing what he believes is right. He's the President of the United States for crap sake, if he can't do it, who can.
WHISTLER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canadian municipal leaders threatened to retaliate against the "Buy America" movement in the United States on Saturday, warning trade restrictions will hurt both countries' economies.
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities endorsed a controversial proposal to support communities that refuse to buy products from countries that put trade restrictions on products and services from Canada.
The measure is a response to a provision in the U.S. economic stimulus package passed by Congress in February that says public works projects should use iron, steel and other goods made in the United States.
The United States is Canada's largest trading partner, and Canadians have complained the restrictions will bar their companies from billions of dollars in business that they have previously had access to.
"This U.S. protectionist policy is hurting Canadian firms, costing Canadian jobs and damaging Canadian efforts to grow our economy in the midst of a worldwide recession," said Sherbrooke, Quebec, Mayor Jean Perrault, also president of the federation that represents cities and towns across Canada.
The municipal officials meeting at the federation's convention in Whistler, British Columbia, endorsed the measure despite complaints by Canadian trade officials.
Trade Minister Stockwell Day told the group on Friday that Ottawa was actively negotiating with Washington to get the "Buy American" restrictions removed.
The measure's supporters agreed to modify it slightly by suspending implementation for 120 days, in order to give Canadian trade officials and U.S. critics of the "Buy America" rules more time to work on the issue.
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Canadians angered over Buy American rule | Reuters
The people of Canadia can kiss my balls.
It's a non-issue brought about (again) by a bunch of whiners--this time a small group of Canadians. We buy enough oil from Canada to balance out our trade with them. What else do they sell that we want anyway? Canadian beer?
I know a lot of people who like Canadian whiskey, although I frankly think it's crap.
Say what? do you have a credible source for such numbers or did you just yank them outta your rear end?If it means an immediate flood of another 100,000 unemployed people all suddenly collecting unemployment benefits and needing "welfare," we pay for it at the other end anyway.
I love the old "you people" phrase, it's a big red signal flare announcing "everything that follows is utter nonsense".You people
and yep, that flare was accurate again ...... please go back and point to where I blamed the workers, the unions or even management. I said inefficient producers, if you can read with comprehension at all you'll note that statement does not assign blame.are blaming the workers for the mistakes of management when you allege "rewarding inefficient producers." And puleeze don't blame it all on unions. They don't sign those contracts without the signature of management as well.
We should not engage in rewarding inefficient producers no matter what caused them to be inefficient in the first place as doing so damages the long term health of the economy. Rewarding inefficient producers ties up scarce resources (like for example labor) that would be better off being freed to be utilized by efficient producers, It's like handing over gasoline to an arsonist.
So we should reward uncompetitive, ineffecient producers with taxpayer dollars just because they happen to be domestic producers?
If it means an immediate flood of another 100,000 unemployed people all suddenly collecting unemployment benefits and needing "welfare," we pay for it at the other end anyway. You people are blaming the workers for the mistakes of management when you allege "rewarding inefficient producers." And puleeze don't blame it all on unions. They don't sign those contracts without the signature of management as well.
I think he meant the corps as a whole. I blame GM for not listening to the consumer.
Don't sweat it elvis, that's just a tactic weaker minds take when they cannot defeat your arguements with reason or logic, they try to change the subject and make it personal. I'm guessing the next thing he'll wanna know is your religion so he can attempt to attack that instead of actually addressing the content of your posts.
Did Elvis say something important? I must have missed it.
I guess I'll have to agree with Willow that you're a fucking bitch.
Did Elvis say something important? I must have missed it.
I guess I'll have to agree with Willow that you're a fucking bitch.
She's been attacking me with her crude insults since I joined this board. I can get down and dirty too. Where people like Willow are concerned, I wear the bitch badge with pride.
It's a non-issue brought about (again) by a bunch of whiners--this time a small group of Canadians. We buy enough oil from Canada to balance out our trade with them. What else do they sell that we want anyway? Canadian beer?
I know a lot of people who like Canadian whiskey, although I frankly think it's crap.
Canadian whiskey is like Kentucky Burbon with a bite. A "pro" can tell the difference. My husband only drank Crown Royal for years until he drank too much of it, lost his job, then would drink anything.
Did Elvis say something important? I must have missed it.
As soon as you post something other than off topic nonsense in this thread, I'll provide you with the answer to your question, after all I enjoy helping the less than fully literate with their reading.
Hmmm.. maybe you should check the topic of thread and the poster before you simply "respond"?Say what? do you have a credible source for such numbers or did you just yank them outta your rear end?If it means an immediate flood of another 100,000 unemployed people all suddenly collecting unemployment benefits and needing "welfare," we pay for it at the other end anyway.
I love the old "you people" phrase, it's a big red signal flare announcing "everything that follows is utter nonsense".
and yep, that flare was accurate again ...... please go back and point to where I blamed the workers, the unions or even management. I said inefficient producers, if you can read with comprehension at all you'll note that statement does not assign blame.are blaming the workers for the mistakes of management when you allege "rewarding inefficient producers." And puleeze don't blame it all on unions. They don't sign those contracts without the signature of management as well.
We should not engage in rewarding inefficient producers no matter what caused them to be inefficient in the first place as doing so damages the long term health of the economy. Rewarding inefficient producers ties up scarce resources (like for example labor) that would be better off being freed to be utilized by efficient producers, It's like handing over gasoline to an arsonist.
I thought whomever I posted that for was talking about the auto industry. Maybe I was wrong. However, GM simply dies by Chapter 11, 80,000 direct factory workers would immediately be laid off, and another 20,000+ in supporting businesses also would be laid off. Those are certainly NOT unreal projections I pulled out of my ass, but ones that are discussed every single day if you're paying attention.
So I guess that makes it okay to just keep robotically repeating it?The "you people" phrase originated with none other than Rush Limbaugh, years ago. Imagine that...
did you get used it when a majority of independents and republicans supported Bush?Stand for liberty wrote to you: that is just a tactic weaker minds take when they cannot defeat your arguements with reason or logic, they try to change the subject and make it personal. I'm guessing the next thing he'll wanna know is your religion so he can attempt to attack that instead of actually addressing the content of your posts.
And then you go and post this reply to me?
POT, MEET KETTLE!!!
it was in response to you defending Obama for EXACTLY the same thing Bush would say regarding NAFTA. So which way are you facing today? Let me see if I can find out where Obama is so you can face EXACTLY that direction when you get on your knees.
You people had better just get used to the fact that Democrats and Independents to a large degree continue to support Barack Obama, so nothing you can say in your most clever rhetoric will change that until we can see that his proposed policies ARE failing (not "projected to fail" or "hoped to fail" as is YOUR desire), and couple that with some person on YOUR "side" of all these serious issues who has a better proposition. You don't have one, for any of it.
I wish I could but since I don't belong to a political party the gub'ment denied my blindly partisan mental disability benefits, I'm glad you and sealy got yours thoughInteresting that you must not consider yourself blindly partisan.
Actually If you'll learn to ummm...read, I was accussing him of being unable to perform the complex intellectual task of telling one poster from another, the blindly partisan collectivist portion went to the reason as to why this was so, ... I know, comprehension is overrated ....I'm always amused by that allegation from one who does exactly the same thing he is accusing another of. There must be a word for that. Hmmm.... oh yeah, HYPOCRITE!!
I know a lot of people who like Canadian whiskey, although I frankly think it's crap.
Canadian whiskey is like Kentucky Burbon with a bite. A "pro" can tell the difference. My husband only drank Crown Royal for years until he drank too much of it, lost his job, then would drink anything.
I'm a pro.
Canadian whisky is BLENDED whisky.
Bourbon is corn liquor.
Big, BIG diff.
