Yes, and all the while, as this is going on, the "little people" such as myself are wandering through their grocery stores, reading can labels and the signboards in the produce department and avoiding anything grown or processed in the U.S.A. I buy only Canadian-grown hydroponic lettuce in winter -- hell, most of the imported U.S. lettuce and other produce contains rocket fuel (perchlorates) anyhow. Don't need that.
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Don't need many things from the U.S. these days. Most foodstuffs can be bought from other places. Last night, I bought a pound of absolutely fabulous snow peas imported from Guatemala for $1.49 a pound -- and some primo asparagus from Peru for $2.99 a pound. And then, we're doing so much hydroponic growing of red peppers, tomatoes, english seedless cucumbers, lettuce, fresh herbs, etc... in huge greenhouse complexes in areas like Leamington, Ontario, that we're soon not going to need to bother with U.S. produce at all. Someone down the road from me just put up 4 acres of tomato and cuke greenhouses 2 years ago and it's going like gangbusters and they're prepping the site for another 2-3 acres now. Up here, we almost never see U.S. grown avocadoes anymore -- hell, we can buy Mexican grown ones for .99 to 1.29 each all winter -- a friend in Pennsylvania complained that he was paying twice that for avocadoes last winter -- and that was in U.S. bucks to boot.
Anyhow, the point is, maybe people like me aren't going to make as big a dent as..say.. taxing the hell out of our lumber going into the U.S., but don't kid yourself, there are plenty of "me's" out there cruising the grocery store aisles and saying "No way, José" to anything that says "made in the U.S.A." -- and not having to "do without" because there are plenty of other countries stepping up to the plate these days.
Btw, not at all directed at you, Snowshoe, but you probably realize where I'm coming from on all of this. (o:
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