While this new US administration is an unmitigated disaster for everyone I will be looking forwards to goods from America being as cheap for me as I remember from 15 years ago when I could go online and basically buy whatever I wanted form the states for half what it cost here.

The US economy was better under Trump honestly. At least for middle and lower classes. Our bills and more specifically groceries were about a third of the cost they are now.

I’m looking forward to focusing on the US and less on “playing nice”.

But that's entirely dependant on the exchange. Things cost significantly less in the states and always have but right now our Canadian dollar is horrible. It's like 65 cents to the dollar.

Same with the euro. 15 years Argo you were getting 1.35 to 1.4 USD per euro but now it's like 1.04. You're gonna get wrecked on the exchange rate.

This post was edited by SBD on Jan 21 2025 11:36pm

NUH_UH!<(sarcasm)

Covid happened,
so trump started strong then it declined (due to covid)
Biden started weak (due to covid) and ended stronger (due to no covid)

You'll find people pushing biden's admin in the green up 50-75% while ignoring the covid factor.

lol anyone see the pastor service thing? that trump/vance atended?

This post was edited by TiStuff on Jan 22 2025 01:27am

Gas prices already going down and its been 2 days.

This post was edited by Dmitriy on Jan 22 2025 01:28am

ya. but its got to have a good back story. some one was sloppy or ? perfect thread though for this topic
sometimes i find something and need to find a place to put it. this one was easy

This post was edited by TiStuff on Jan 22 2025 01:37am

Where did Biden end strong though would be my question. Gas in my area is $1 more per gallon than it was trumps last year as president in my area. Grocery bill is tripled. Energy cost is up. The price of household goods is up.

I have this discussion daily it seems and maybe it’s just me. Maybe I live in some weird dimension separate from everyone but nothing I spend money on regularly in my life is cheaper now than it was for me Trump’s last year in office at least where I live.

That Exchange rate seems dependent on whether or not Trumps pressure on other first world countries is to get them on board with enacting the same tariffs against 'Developing Nations' with vast trade surpluses.
Tariffs in the current economic order might be a complete wash otherwise, where all that is really accomplished is shuffling the deck with trade between Europe, Canada, ect.. but China still comes out on top from doing absolutely nothing.