THE RECEPTION WAS FIT FOR A KING . . . WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
Is China All Of A Sudden A Better Country, which Promotes Freedoms of Speech, Assembly, Association, Religion and all the Other Freedoms we Take for Granted in North America?
Of What Difference Does a Red Carpet, Military Parade, Marching Band, Jumping Children & Staged Handshakes Make to Change a Thugocracy of More than a Billion People Held Under the Sword of Damocles?
Is China Less Of A Global Threat Today Than It Was Yesterday?
THEY ALL LIE . . . FROM THE ECONOMY TO THE WAR:
Let Me Make This Clear . . . A Few Days Ago, I Came Upon A Report That Said America’s Current Deficit Will Soon Surpass 2-Trillion Dollars.
I Wanted To Write About This Calamity, because if True, Everything We’ve Been Hearing About the Greatness of the American Economy, Along with the Global Economy is Bogus.
How Can Our Countries Brag To Be Doing So Great When We Have To Borrow To Eat.
Canadians Like Anne, Myself & Just About All Our Conservative Canadian Friends . . . Know that our Economy is in the Tank, No Matter How Much Canada’s Liberal Government Tries to Hide the Truth Through all Manner of Political Double-Speak.
But As Hard As The Government Tries, it Cannot Hide the Prices we are Paying for Everything from Basic Food to Gasoline for our Cars.
As Far As Our National Canadian Debt Goes . . . We Will Never Know The Truth.
America Is Looking At A Debt That Will Soon Surpass 40-Trillion Dollars, which is both Unrepayable & Unsustainable. I Wrote More than Once that Tariffs are a Direct Tax on the People who are Doing the Tariffing, And Not To The Countries Being Tariffed.
For This, I Was Accused Of Being Anti-Trump & Anti-American, Both Accusations Being Untrue.
People Read Galganov.Com Because I Don’t Couch The Truth . . . I Don’t Pretend that Something is Good When it is Not, and if I Happen to Lose Readers because People Either Don’t Want to Hear the Truth, or Don’t Want to Know the Truth, That’s On Them – Not On Me.
Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Already Collected Tariffs Has to be Returned to the Importers by the American Government (Treasury). But Who Is Going To Return The Surplus Cost Through Tariffs To The Consumers? . . . Not the Importer. Not the Wholesaler. Not the Distributor. And Certainly Not The Retailer.
Once Again . . . The Consumer Gets Ripped-Off.
I Just Think How The Scales Have Been Tipped Away From The Real Generators Of Wealth . . . The Working Stiff Making a Living Wage, and the Once Heralded Middle Class who Now Has to be Earning Enough – Just To Get-By.
In The Meantime . . . No Tax On Tips. No Tax On Overtime. No Tax On Social Security, and the Biggest Overall Tax Reduction Spanning the Class Spectrum in American History, All of which I Support for America – But Who Is Going To Pay For It All?
WAR ISN’T FREE . . .
The Iran War is Costing America Many Tens of Billions of Dollars. But How Many Tens Of Billions Of Dollars? I Don’t Know, because the Amount Changes from Report to Report, Depending on who is Issuing the Report, Not That I Am Against The War Against The Ayatollahs & IRGC Of Iran, which Should Have Been Fought Generations Ago.
THERE ARE MANY REASONS NOT TO TRUST THE NEW YORK TIMES:
The New York Times Just Recently Published Several Disturbing Reports . . . Not that I Necessarily Believe Everything the New York Times Publishes – But One Report that Said America’s Weapons Stockpile is Dwindling Faster than it Can be Replaced is Disturbing, and the Destruction Done to Iran’s Nuclear Program & Missile Defense System, Is Nothing Like We’ve Been Told, Which Is Equally Disturbing.
These Stories Were Corroborated By The Israeli Media – Not that I Should Fully Trust them Either . . . But Who Should We Trust, since Trump Keeps Giving Deadlines, Threats & Information that the War Against Iran Has Already Been Won . . . When In Truth, Iran Keeps Goading America To Fight?
WHO CARES WHAT CANADA THINKS?
The Above Words Were Echoed By Several Taking Heads On Fox News & By America’s Ambassador (Pete Hoekstra) To Canada.
Let Me Preface The Following With My Opinion On Canada’s Liberal Government . . . Justin Trudeau, Canada’s Previous Prime Minister (9-Years) and Canada’s Current Prime Minister Mark Carney (First Year) . . . Were & Continue to be a Blight on Canada, and to a Great Degree, Deserve Derision for Part of our Existing Malaise with America. But It Takes Two To Tango.
Two Days Ago, There Was A Story On Canada’s CTV News, Featuring Canadian Tourism in Myrtle Beach, which Caught My Eye, since that Directly Includes Anne & Myself, because we Have Spent the Last Three Winters at an RV Resort in Myrtle Beach.
Anne & I Love South Carolina, with Myrtle Beach Being at the Top of the Reasons Why we Keep Going Back, Hopefully – Including This Coming Winter.
The CTV Report Made Public A Poll Of Canadian Tourism, Specifically at Myrtle Beach, Based upon the Number of Unique Canadian Phone Pings, which were Broadcast from Myrtle Beach to Measure Canadian Tourism. The Alarming Statistics Showed A 60% Loss Of Canadian Tourism Compared To Previous Years.
This Wasn’t Much Of A Surprise To Anne & Myself, Since we Clearly Noticed a Huge Lack of Canadian License Plates at the RV Park, and at Shopping Centers that Have Always Been Popular with Canadians.
What Became More Than Just Anecdotal, were the Many Times South Carolinians who Spotted our Canadian License Plate at the RV Park and at Shopping Areas, Voluntarily Approached us, To Give Us Their Thanks For Choosing To Vacation In America.
Two Days Ago . . . Anne, The Boys & I Crossed The Border At Massena New York To Do Some Shopping. This was the First Time we Went Across the Border since we Returned from America in the First Week of April.
There Were Four Open Custom’s Booths Going Into America . . . We Were The Only Car Crossing.
We Had all our Superfluous Papers Prepared & Ready to Show the American Custom’s Officer at the Booth, which were Never a Requirement for Canadians before Trump Became President for his Second Term, which Are Not Impossible to Fill-Out, But Are Nonetheless A Pain In The Ass.
As We Chatted With The US Custom’s Officer, He Asked for None of the Newly Imposed Crap, and was More Interested in Speaking About Comparative Pricing Between Canada & America. It Was Like The Good Old Days. But in this Case, We Weren’t in a Rush, and He Had No-One Else to Interview.
Things Are Going To Get Better . . . Maybe Not In The Near Future, but our Encounter with the American Border Guard Gave Anne & Myself Pause to Look Forward to Better Times, Certainly once Both Sides Figure-Out, That It Will Be We The People, and Not the Politicians Who Will Bring us all Back to our Senses.
If You Think You Are The Only One Thinking We’re Going Through Tough Times . . . Think Again. And if you Wonder Whether we will Ever Recover . . . I am Convinced that we Will. We are Much Too Good a People to be Doomed by Bad Politics.
There Will Be Better Days Ahead!
Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov
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In the book 1984 there were three main powers and at any one time 2 were gathered against the third. Russia, China a USA. Looks like the book had many accurate projections. I didn’t like the end and it seems were are getting closer to totalitarian governments.
Better days in Canada will only begin after Carnage Carney is somehow ousted from his throne. Notice his private meeting with Obama, Podesta, Soros! They are scheming to discredit Trump. This cannot be good for Canada!
I can’t profer opinion on what the future recovery to our national economy will look like.But what I can say is that it goes a lot deeper than what you have laid out. My fear lies with Canada’s true leadership, the bosses over in Switzerland sitting in the boardroom of the WEF that gave Trudeau and now give Carney their New World Order game plan. Add Bill Gates and the Soros family and voila, we have our answer. We are being replaced by low calibre immigrants. Canada is Ground Zero for the NWO
Here in Montreal, most people French & English get along very well. And yes, our Montreal Canadiens playing against Buffalo in Round 2 of the NHL Hockey Playoffs have brought so many of us TOGETHER. Trouble is, the Ethno-Centric French Politicians who lead the Province are DICISIVE and consider English citizens (“Anglophones”) the Enemy of their “Reich”. Imagine a Premier of Quebec (Francois Legault) publicly complaining: “There Is Too Much English Spoken In Montreal”. / No backlash?
I have faith that DJT has an overwhelming understanding of the world’s economy and is acting in his/our/your/the world’s best interests- to contain the “one world” movement and the commie/socialist/autocrat forces that threaten to send everyone back to the dark ages–just like I believe that GOD has a plan for man in this world! Call me crazy if you want….I’m old enough to believe in miracles and in a leader who WILL NOT be frustrated and quit.
For all the good things Donald Trump has done, he has also done tremendous harm – especially where relationships with other countries. I’m happy for much, especially where Jewish and Israel matters are concerned, that Trump has done. But… Illogical tariffs, Greenland, CANADA, stopping Israel from finishing off Hamas and Hezbollah, and maybe best (worst) of all, negotiating for a deal with nihilistic Iranian terrorists – WHY? So much good and so much narcism-driven stupidity.
I agree 100% with Don Bos, above. Those meeting s cannot be good for Canada nor the USA. The damage “O” has done cannot be measured . . . and the absolute rot he planted continues as we deteriorate. And the media keeps driving it.
I look at the source. If a media outlet is notorious for a certain stand, regardless of the situation, and their reports support that same agenda, then I verify further before believing. It is difficult in today’s world. I have my sources that seem to take a reasonable stand, so I will start with them. I also transpose logic and reason into the story and see if it fits, or it just sounds like hogwash. Howard, for instance, does intensive research. So I consider his opinion when he writes.
I read the Epoch Times and Juno News. In the search for truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, they are the best, the absolute best.