I'm not saying it is an optimal position, but saying that we should continue to export millions of masks that are currently manufactured when we are suffering from shortages is a much worse position. Sure, we could stay on good terms with Canada by saving their citizens instead of ours, but I doubt it is worth it.
this doesn't make sense though. You are talking about disrupting the supply chain needed to make the medical supplies, in order to have more medical supplies. It is self defeating.
Yes, work on slowly bringing back supply lines in the future, but right now, worry about keeping hospitals in America stocked up. I'm really not buying the idea that the only place to get sufficient materials are from Canada,
True, they might be able to find other sources. But there is no telling how long that would take. You will disrupt production for days, maybe weeks or months when that production is critically needed.
even, or that they will stop supplying us (their companies are also capitalists trying to turn a profit).
so you are banking on the Canadian government allowing companies to ship the raw materials to the US while the US refuses to allow any medical supplies sold back to Canada. Why would they do that? They would order those companies to redirect the supplies to a Canadian (or some other country) manufacturer who will sell masks to Canada.
Apparently there was a deal worked out to import over 100 million of its masks from China and continue to export masks to Canada. I'm fine with this development.
essentially, trump completely backed down from his threats because he got some promises that they would import masks.... which they were almost certainly doing already. It sounds like trump reacted like a child and threw a tantrum and they told him what he needed to hear to calm down so they could get back to work.
hey really haven't helped us out recently. They try to dictate how we act through the UN.
umm, that is what the UN is for. It is for people to come together and agree on a course of action. Do you disagree because they don't just automatically do whatever the US says?
They don't help fight terrorism in the Middle East, which is more their problem than ours.
why? In large part the US is creating the problems. From arming the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan, to propping up the Shah of Iran, to invading Iraq, the list goes on and on and on.
Not even helping combat predatory Chinese trade, which hurts them as well.
combating it how? The US isn't doing anything to combat it.
They don't even contribute as much to NATO as they AGREED to.
agreed, that agreement needs to be lowered. NATO doesn't need to spend that much. The US needs to spend a hell of alot less.
We have carried their burden long enough- I think we can take care of ourselves.
but "carried their burden" do mean constantly kicking hornet's nests, then insisting the rest of the world obeys, then whine and bitch when other people don't want to go to war for no reason?
These just really show the need for policies that allow us to survive alone. We are better off with allies, but we shouldn't need them.
This is stupid. The reason america is powerful, is because of it's allies. Do you think the US did it alone?
punishing successful people: you are against low taxes
Of course i am against low taxes. low taxes translates as the rich crushing everyone else. The government needs those taxes to provide services to the people. If you cut taxes, you are hurting the poor and the working class and helping the rich. You are bolstering oligarchy.
Shipping out jobs referred to high regulation and corporate taxes, which make America a more expensive business environment to operate in.
Are you advocating for turning americans into sweat shop workers? Because that is what cutting those regulations and taxes would do.
