This is why I've been trying to shake the tree on Canada not being stupid about this.
If you guys ramp steel production back up, Canada is fucked there.
And we know Trump wants energy independence again, so we can't sell you oil soon enough either.
We won't be able to hold out long, and it will only hurt us doing so.
It's just stupid to do things for hashtag defiant! reasons while jobs and small towns fucking dry up here in Canada because we won't be able to sell goods to anyone above cost.
There’s still ~170k auto workers which is 300k less than the peak in the 70s. They kept some assembly plants to say “assembled in America” and the majority of the car design/ mechanics is still done in Detroit area. Comparatively it’s barely more than other states based on population so they can still claim Michigan has the most. Alabama is the fastest growing auto manufacturing state per employment growth.
AHahah that was the first thing I thought too. LIke, you guys don't even make auto parts anymore, let alone cars. Since all the components were being made in Mexico, the shipping savings were too much to ignore, anyplace other than Texas would be silly.
“Do I think tariffs are an end-all for everything? No. But I do think they’re an excellent bargaining chip, especially after watching the aftermath of NAFTA gutting us like a fish. I’ve seen us lose so many jobs,”
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Monday that the revised North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada would pour “cash and jobs” into the United States. But the deal’s importance may have less to do with the details than the signal it sends that Mr. Trump is methodically settling his multifront trade war to fight a single enemy: China.
Like that ol gta meme.
Here we go again.
But the volatility can be a hard sell for people in Michigan not already in Trump’s camp, who have a hard time seeing their Canadian neighbors as part of a hostile borderland, riddled with drug dealers and human smuggling
Nah, I just see it as the crown, ultimate suppressor of human rights.
But the volatility can be a hard sell for people in Michigan not already in Trump’s camp, who have a hard time seeing their Canadian neighbors as part of a hostile borderland, riddled with drug dealers and human smuggling
We make a lot more steel than Canada. Can't the industry negate the loss with less exportation of native steel resources? Isn't that the point, using American resources and jobs for Americans? No offense to Canada but if it's feed an American family or a Canadian one, I'm picking the American.
Canada's counterattack and central bank borrowed life support for ailing industries will debase the Canadian dollar to where the tariffs will be less noticed. I could even see some dumbfuckery where Canadian companies get subsidized employment so they can lower their prices to export markets.
Only the most absolute retards of self centered fools would think that "fixing" things would have no growing pains or shaking of entire industries as they are forced (by force) to readapt to being American companies.
This is why I've been trying to shake the tree on Canada not being stupid about this.
If you guys ramp steel production back up, Canada is fucked there.
And we know Trump wants energy independence again, so we can't sell you oil soon enough either.
We won't be able to hold out long, and it will only hurt us doing so.
It's just stupid to do things for hashtag defiant! reasons while jobs and small towns fucking dry up here in Canada because we won't be able to sell goods to anyone above cost.
What Michigan auto industry?
There’s still ~170k auto workers which is 300k less than the peak in the 70s. They kept some assembly plants to say “assembled in America” and the majority of the car design/ mechanics is still done in Detroit area. Comparatively it’s barely more than other states based on population so they can still claim Michigan has the most. Alabama is the fastest growing auto manufacturing state per employment growth.
AHahah that was the first thing I thought too. LIke, you guys don't even make auto parts anymore, let alone cars. Since all the components were being made in Mexico, the shipping savings were too much to ignore, anyplace other than Texas would be silly.
“In auto-centric Michigan, Trump’s proposed tariffs polarize a community”
Here’s the article: https://archive.ph/Hn7xF
Now I'm 100% sure the community isn't polarized.
The Michigan auto industry has decimated itself by not making cars that anyone wants to buy. Lack of steel is just an excuse.
I've yet to be convinced that there is a good reason to buy anything other than a Toyota if you want a car that will just work forever.
Oy Vei.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/us/politics/nafta-deal-trump-canada-mexico.html
Like that ol gta meme.
Here we go again.
Nah, I just see it as the crown, ultimate suppressor of human rights.
A common problem with blind people
We make a lot more steel than Canada. Can't the industry negate the loss with less exportation of native steel resources? Isn't that the point, using American resources and jobs for Americans? No offense to Canada but if it's feed an American family or a Canadian one, I'm picking the American.
Canada's counterattack and central bank borrowed life support for ailing industries will debase the Canadian dollar to where the tariffs will be less noticed. I could even see some dumbfuckery where Canadian companies get subsidized employment so they can lower their prices to export markets.
Only the most absolute retards of self centered fools would think that "fixing" things would have no growing pains or shaking of entire industries as they are forced (by force) to readapt to being American companies.
Michigan still had an auto industry?
The last time WaPo cared about the U.S steel industry was when you would have to change vacuum tubes on your household radio