[stratos]

Just read this and immediately thought of this thread.

"State Rep. Poncho Nevárez, D-Eagle Pass, was caught on camera dropping an envelope containing cocaine at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in September, according to an arrest warrant issued Thursday."

[DrCaleb]

stratos stratos:

So the constant price increase in the mid 2000's was not do to tariff's. Didn't I just say that.

You wrote "(since) 2008". Harper, in 2006, made a deal to hold them steady for a few years, but they've been increasing ever since.

eg:

Trump's lumber tariffs make home ownership too expensive for more than a million Americans

[stratos]

I find it odd that you are saying this along with the article you posted. From 2008-2016 Trump was NOT the president. Yet clearly you are saying that the Tariffs over the same time frame is the reason why house prices are increasing.

Blaming the past situation on a presidency that was not around.

[DrCaleb]

What I actually wrote was "a thickening border is not good for an economy".

[llama66]

"Thickening" heh..

[DrCaleb]

llama66 llama66:

"Thickening" heh..

Stop that, you'll go blind.

$1:

Since September 11, 2001, the Canada–US border has "thickened," threatening the viability of the fully integrated NAFTA business model. The problem is that "for Americans the border is a security issue; for Canadians it is a vital business artery that has become clogged."56 The Conference Board of Canada observes that document processing and other procedural delays at border crossings mean that "just-in-time" manufacturing (of supply chain inputs) is in danger of being replaced by much more costly and inefficient warehouses on either side of the border "just-in-case."57 Because the US market is so much larger than the Canadian market, these concerns weigh against the establishment in Canada of business activity to serve the North American market.

https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cprp-gepm ... 00064.html

So creating more barriers for trade through our countries does not strengthen them.

Are CBP officials stepping up inspections on things coming from Puerto Rico, the largest importer of Coke to the mainland? No but a few canucks who eat to many Doritos are a threat! Open their mail!

[BartSimpson]

Robair Robair:

By that logic we need to dismantle every package going to and from Alaska in case it contains a restricted firearm.

Canada does just about this with Point Roberts.

The CBSA has for a few years been all hot and horny about people leaving Point Roberts with untaxed (in Canada) cigarettes and I've heard many stories of single packs of cigarettes being seized and then several more of people having cartons of cigarettes seized.

This includes parcels being transported by the US Mail.

[Robair]

Good grief. Maybe we should just trade you one island for Point Roberts.

[fifeboy]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The CBSA has for a few years been all hot and horny .

Jeez Bart, I've known several CBSA guys and none of them would have been thought of as 'hot' and certainly not 'horny.'

[Martin15]

Robair Robair:

Good grief. Maybe we should just trade you one island for Point Roberts.

Give them Campobello.