Originally posted by Torque
Socialist, subsidizing domestic lumber producers by restricting legitimate competition in the marketplace. That runs sorta contrary to the interests of consumers and the national economy.
BS Torque, Canada keeps crying about a "level playing field" but Canadian timber companies don't have to jump through the hoops American timber companies have to jump through to harvest timber. Sheeesh, my parents own harvestable timber and it'll cost twenty grand (in American dollars, not that cheap Canadian monopoly looking crap that's worthless) for the proper permits (a harvest plan) to harvest LESS than ten acres. Those sanctions on your timber products are designed to level the playing field, not circumvent it.
As far as your attitude that the lumber industry is expendable at the advancement of "consumer interests," isn't that what Taiwan said about the ship bulding industry, Japan said about the steel industry, Indonesia said about the textile industry, and on and on and on? What will be left for my children to do? What will be left for America?
We have long been the fat sow allowing other Nations to nurse at our teats, but we have wars to fight and we're getting skinny now so we can no longer afford to allow ANY other Nation, even Canada, to take advantage of our generosity and good nature.
Let go of America's teat, Torque, and find your own marketplace. Sell your cheap bellybutton wood in Europe.
