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To: Chip McVickar who wrote (2212)	8/29/2001 11:31:47 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12411

Hi Chip, Not to be a fussbudget here, but the Trade Rep's proposed tariff on Canadian softwood lumber is 19.3% The expected additional cost per typical $170,000 residence will amount to less than $400. Amortized over the life of a mortgage, this is a piddling amount and hardly worth all the fuss that's going on on this whackazoid Canuck thread: Subject 51596 To editorialize for a moment, I believe marcos has pretty fairly summed up the thinking in Beltropolis. FO indeed. "Fee Fi Fo Fum, Let's screw the Canuck, And have some fun!" What's fascinating to me is to consider the implications for Bush's campaign coffers from the likes of the Home Builder's Association. This move is interesting in its divisive nature, and where the calculated advantage to the Administration came down. And, oh, NAFTA? schmafta, WTO?whoa, who needs these multilateral agreements when we can just be bully boys? -Ray