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Sensible regulations, yes. Sadly USMCA if filled with a ton a special interest carve outs that require a ton of paperwork and cause delays. That means more staff at every level, shipper, carrier, broker, customs, to handle that extra load which means everyone in that chain has to hire more people and pass that cost on to the consumer.

The USMCA doesn't do anything for unions, sovereignty of nations, or anything like that. Oh sure there's language that supports all that, but good luck getting anyone to actually enforce any of it. It's all "should" not "will" or "must". NAFTA, while not perfect by any means, was at least stronger on those points. Not by much, it every little bit helps.

I'm glad you can see the light on this issue, I live and work in a very conservative area and anytime I try to bring the business advantage argument up with the people around me they just fall back on "commie socialism" and "death panels" and then shut down on me. At this point I'm convinced even their God king trump couldn't convince them it's actually the better option....not that he would but you get what I'm saying.

Yeah I looked at this and was like, that's like comparing apples and bowling balls.

More red tape, more paperwork, limits on sourcing of materials, increased documentation of sourcing for each piece of a product, and unlike NAFTA the USMCA isn't permanent and has to be renegotiated from time to time so that introduces tons of uncertainty into the whole industry.

The only good thing that the USMCA did was mandate wage levels for workers in companies exporting to other member countries. But that could have just been added to NAFTA after some negotiations rather than tearing up the agreement and creating this terrible replacement.

As someone who works in international freight, USMCA is far worse than NAFTA.

I can't say for certain that he's a Russian agent, but it is concerning how many things he does coincide with what a Russian agent would do.

You're thinking long term strategy, YT is owned by Alphabet, a publicly traded company, they are only able to think in quarters. All that matters is short term gains for investors, and besides once the short term gains run out the investors will just dump the stock and move on to extracting what they can from the next company.

Human euthanasia should be legalized and normalized, both medically assisted suicide and euthanasia when the person is suffering but unable to make decisions for themselves. If it's an act of mercy to euthanize a pet who is suffering, then we should be able to have the same compassion for our fellow humans.

This. They just said AF1 is not as safe and secure as we've been told. Even if it's not true and it's actually more secure than we're led to believe, his cowardice just put doubt in the minds of everyone, including the quickly growing list of enemies. And that doubt puts the aircraft and everyone on board in danger going forward.

Remember kids, be kind rewind!

I know I got it, but I think it was the doctor who gave it to me, I have a fear of needles.