Time to Stop Making the American giant Starbucks … even richer ….
The US is running up huge trade deficits that started nearly a decade ago when Trump was the 45th President of the United States. Now that Trump is back as the 47th President of the United States he is driving the US and the world economy into recession. This is how he hopes to rebalance the trade into and out of the US, by making everyone equally poor.
In the next six months or so we may see that Trump’s world economic downturn will be worse way than even what Russian President Putin did to the world economy when he invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
Many of my friends here in Vancouver and across Canada are concerned and well … I told them that Canada is a kind and compassionate country and we shall weather the nonsense of King Donald of the Trump.
I tip my hat to Mr. Chretien when he called this nonsense during his March 9th speech in Ottawa. While he was Prime Minister of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Jean Etienne Chretien took a budget left him by his predecessor that saw 32 cents on each tax dollar being spent on debt and in a few years balanced Canada’s Federal Budget, and in short order set in place a decade of surpluses for the Parliament and People of Canada. Hey … Mr. Trump, perhaps you should be listening and learning from this distinguished Canadian gentleman?
Last fall, I wrote an article for Medium about Mr. Chretien being a man of distinction. Once again, standing before the world he has not only presented his unique distinction as an elder statesman, he spoke on behalf of all Canadians in this time of Canada’s existential peril. Merci mon ami … Monsieur Chretien.
Canadians can walk the globe and not have people throw stones at us. We are known by people around the world as being kind, compassionate, wise and just. As Mr. Chretien stated we have a country that works and works well.
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I say to my many friends here in Vancouver and across Canada, if you want to tighten your belts a bit and send a clear message to the King Donald of the Trump may I suggest you stop spending $ 5 a day on your Starbuck drink … you know the Americano …
In a year that daily luxury amounts to over $ 1,000 you are shipping south to the gringos (you might look up what gringo means …)
For the same price of a single Starbucks drink … $ 5 you can get a 200 gm container of instant coffee … gasp not instant! … which incidentally is healthier for you than most of the Starbucks drinks that may come with their own artery clogging add ins.
That single container of Instant Coffee can last you a month if you are frugal. If so then in a year you can save over $ 900 by get over your craving for sweet Starbuck drinks. It doesn’t matter where the instant coffee comes from, you will still be reducing cross border trade by a pretty penny.
Oh and well you’re at it you might stop buying coffee from other big US companies like McDonalds (Head Office, Chicago, Illinois) and A& W (Head Office Lexington, Kentucky, USA).
Hey Tim Horton’s can I suggest you rename your Americano a Canadiano instead?
Let us do some math … let us say 1 of 4 Canadians buy a coffee from Starbucks, McDonalds or A & W each day. That is about $ 10 million a day, or $ 3.65 Billion dollars in a year.
Yes … that’s $ 3.65 Billion dollars in a year. Don’t you think it is time to stop making the gringo’s rich by buying Americanos … buying a Canadiano keeps your hard earned money in Canada.
Incidentally $ 3.65 Billion dollars in a year is 0.5 % of Canada US Trade!
