Trade War?

I watched most of Felon47's self-congratulatory B.S. but finally turned it off in disgust.

Glad to read Dirk's comments about what Canadians are doing and both Sylvia and I laughed when we read a statement from Ontario Premier Doug Ford where he stated Musk's Starlink company had their $100 million contract cancelled. I hope Mexico and Canada can hold their nerve against the felon's tariffs.

I was stationed in the Canal Zone when President Carter signed two treaties with Panama. First, the Neutrality Treaty gave the U.S. military the right to defend the Panama Canal if there is ever a threat to its “neutrality.” Second, the Panama Canal Treaty stated that the Canal Zone would officially be dissolved on October 1, 1979, and that the canal itself would be turned over to Panama on December 31, 1999.

Why is Elon Musk using Air Force one as a personal taxi for his family? I thought he's supposed to be cutting fraud, waste, and abuse. In 2022, the Air Force stated that the cost to operate Air Force One is $177,843 per flight hour. Is Musk going to reimburse the taxpayers? I doubt it. Yet Newsweek and Latin Times have photos of Musk, his mother, and one of his kids stepping off Air Force One after a flight that didn't apparently didn't include Felon47. They then used Marine One to go to the White House.

I read Musk now has his sights set on social security, calling it a Ponzi scheme. So all social security recipients, CSRS retirees (Civil Service Retirement System), and FERS (Federal Employee Retirement System) need to pay close attention as he'll try to kill these benefits.

I've paid into SS my entire working years... from my first job at 14 years old until now, 60 years later. If Musk cuts out social security, he had better have a trick up his sleeve for reimbursing me and millions of others the total amount we've put in and the total amount my employers matched for me. We never expected a rich man like musk to come along and decide it wasn't in our country's best interest to continue paying me. I depend on it to pay my bills as well.

If I remember correctly, I didn't work long enough in either Canada or the US to qualify in either country alone. Fortunately, they have a social security totalization agreement, so they looked at my combined credits (thank heavens).

EDIT: Musk can drive that Tesla on Mars that he launched into space (orbit?) some years ago.

Thanks to my 20-year career in the armed forces, I have Tricare for Life. Whatever Medicare doesn't pay, Tricare does. My quad bypass cost around $600K. I didn't pay a dime of it. Tricare also picks up my medications, and I get them from the base pharmacy. Having said all that, I would still be in dire straits if SS goes away. My wife gets less than I do, but I've been paying into it since 1961, when I enlisted, until 2004 when I finally retired (at 62). Now that both of us are octogenarians, we'd both get hurt by the loss of ANY of these programs.

Bill