To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (388 ) 3/24/2002 11:06:30 PM From: marcos Read Replies (3) | Respond to Ok, in scanning the thread list over there i saw your login and presumed you a regular ... we are agreed on Vidrine, whom i've known since the ask god thread of five years ago, what a disgusting piece of racist filth, ehAs long that lumber does not cross our borders ' - so that's what you want? ... you do realise, don't you, that we will then not be able to use wages so derived to buy US goods and services, that such an action makes the north american trading bloc that much smaller, and destroys a longstanding alliance and history of friendship and peaceful cooperation .... longest undefended border on the planet, highest cross-border trade of any two nations, an example to the world, all gone to benefit a few greedy landowners with lobby control of your Commerzwaffeis and has been since 1865 ' - yeah we heard about that and we also heard about the slavery in all but name that followed it, we heard about your robber barons having people shot at will, we heard about the US military being used as enforcer for corporations, we heard about a lot of stuff that's happened since .... even if it was true that US slaveholding was 'over' for a century and a third, slavery is inextricably bound up with US foreign policy and with this case in particular - it is on their old slave-worked cotton land that their state and federal governments encouraged by direct payment [can we say 'subsidies' boys and girls] the planting of the pinus taeda that the twisted yeller pine lobby now wishes to be able to sell for high price by blocking our traditional and greatly superior wooddon't sell it. ' - oh don't worry, they'd need your tanks to take it ... but it's what those sleazeballs want, certainly one of their alternate goals ... anything that enriches them at a loss to the natives ... old old style here - brings us back to slavery doesn't it - it was the slavers Moses Austin and then his son Steven who made the first moves to take Tejas from its natives ... and of course a lot of that old yanqui money machine first gained momentum on either trading in slaves or working slaves on land stolen from the indigenousaccording to you, is it OK to put American lumbermen out of work but not Canadian ' - huh? .. you miss the point entirely, likely through being uninformed on the matter .... this is not what it's about, not even close - canadians have for many years supplied about a quarter to a third of the US lumber market, the US does not produce enough to satisfy domestic demand, hasn't for over a hundred years far as i know .... forest products have traditionally been one of the main trading bridges between these two nations, you realise of course that we use much of the money, along with other funds, to turn around and buy US goods and services coming north entirely tariff-free, like i say my equipment has always been made in Dubuque and my pickup was built in KC Missouri .. the trucks coming north across that border are full and constant
