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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.




  • 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.















  • oppy1984tomemes@lemmy.worldWell respected man
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    23 days ago

    I donated to st Jude for a while, every month I got mail multiple times a week asking for more money along with my “free gift”. Even talking into account buying supplies in bulk and using every conservative low-ball numbers I estimated I was getting around 60% of my donation back every month. I just gave up and stopped donating, and even sent them a letter telling them why I was ending my donation. I still get mail from them at least once a month and it’s been at least 15 years since I last donated.

    They are doing something extremely important, but I don’t want my donation being thrown away like that. Send me a donation envelope once a month, that’s fine even though I was making my donation online, but the almost every other day mailing that was packed with notepads and return address labels? Nope I’m not fund that. On the plus side I haven’t bought return address labels since Obama was in office, and I doubt I’ll have to buy any until Chad who just graduated from DeVry, becomes our 64th president.



  • oppy1984toLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldAbsolutely
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    24 days ago

    Having done a short tour of duty in food service myself, I can only imagine how combining that with finance would work…try not to summon any demons. Oh don’t worry I approach everything on the Internet like statics, 79% of it is made up. Also I’d just like to say, while I admire the creativity behind the mutant lemur with a crack addiction story, I know a flew when I see one.