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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (911)	1/17/2003 12:54:56 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

I was astonished when I learned here earlier about the money going to the U.S. lumber companies. But now the whole thing seems to be backfiring, with the Law of Unintended Consequences in full effect. Canadian mills getting leaner and meaner, Home Depot and the like buying lumber from overseas, and now the WTO coming down squarely against the punitive tariffs.

To: marcos who wrote (911)	1/18/2003 2:49:38 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

First, I approve of the WTO decision and hope it leads the US to rescind the tariff. But let me point out something: It is no more greedy and self-centered of the US to impose a lumber tariff than for Canadian lumberers to oppose it. We are talking profits and jobs at both ends. Tell me: Do you believe a US lumberman starving to death is less bad than the same fate for a Canadian? Yeah, being as an anti-American as you are, you probably do. That's such blatant corruption, to hand an industry lobby the right not only to stifle their competitors with punitive tariffs, but to directly enrich themselves on the proceeds .... can't imagine a circumstance where that could be other than pure corruption Bull$$$$. Assuming that dumping were going on here (a point I am hardly convinced of), the companies are the ones hurt by it. The fines can be looked at simply as recompense for the business they lost. So you believe gov't bureaucracies don't impose fines to enrich themselves? How naive are you?