Well I pulled two of the eggs worth .75 cents each out of my two dozen hoard and put them on the boil as I toasted a couple of Ciabatta rolls this morning.While the eggs were finishing their boil I smeared the rolls with the last of my pre tariff avocados , added a tomato slice and when done sat down to a rich guys home made breakfast that damn near cost what it would have at Panera bread a couple of years ago. Then I perused the internet for the availability of German made .22 calibre ammo that my German made rifle likes so much.
Why German ammo you may well ask, why not buy American? Well it’s simple. Those who are even mildly serious about accuracy will be using .22 caliber ammo sourced from either Germany or Great Britain due to superior quality, hence greater accuracy. Competitors on both sides of the pond will be using the European stuff as in all truthfulness …. American made .22 ammo is junk. So I believe it should be easy to understand how in this particular case there might be a trade imbalance. In simple terms using simple logic… we want their stuff more than they want ours and fairness be damned. To be true I wasn’t surprised to find that all German made ammo has been sold out by every ammo seller that I’m aware of as of yesterday’s tariff scare and that’s OK as I’m more than amply stocked with my favorite German and British ammo. But if it was available it seems it might just make for a a sounder financial investment than the stock market purchase you made two months ago.
Now using the excuse of illegal border crossings and drug smuggling to put tariffs on Canada is a bit of a stretch in my mind as I’m more than certain that most of that is going on at our southern border. Even if this does lead to fewer cases of people and drug smuggling on the Canadian border we’ll now have to deal with smuggled maple syrup and hockey pucks. Mexico may prove a different story but fair is fair. Drugs do come across that border for no other reason than Americas insatiable appetite for them and for sure many a life is ruined because of it. Mexico has a different problem in that it appears to have an insatiable appetite for guns smuggled across the border from the United States and I’m here to tell you that a .223 round through the skull is just as detrimental to one’s health as a fentanyl overdose . Would we not consider this fair and free trade ? ….
just musing that all of this can only mean one thing . Tariffs are gonna cost me …
