No doubt about it, Canada is at war and lives and livelihoods are in great danger.
Most people know the Great Depression started in 1929 with the stock market crash. However, many will not know why the world economy collapsed for 10 lost years. In 1930 US President Herbert Hoover passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act raising already very high tariffs another 20 per cent to 40 pe rcent on incoming goods. The Act was signed into law by president Hoover on June 17, 1930. Countries responded with their own tariffs. Trade and the world economy collapsed. Homeless encampments became known as Hoovervilles.
Many ask why is Trump imposing tariffs?
No mystery here, with great chaos comes great opportunities for the uber wealthy.
Canadian author Naomi Klein’s 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism describes the situation perfectly, how power profits from disaster.
There are some very disturbing similarities between Hitler’s rise to power as a dictator and Trump’s rise to power. Hitler came to power and stayed in power because of the support of wealthy industrialists. The Nazis paid very well. Companies that made gigantic fortunes from the Nazis and the effects of that accumulation of wealth can still be seen today. Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Siemens and Audi to name just a few of the many companies that did business with the Nazi government.
Billionaires, and their corporations greatly contributed to Trump’s first term as president and he paid them off with a trillion dollars in tax cuts. They clearly financed Trump’s second term and Trump has promised more of the same, tax cuts for billionaires.
Our leader’s war planning needs to seriously consider the very real possibility that the deliberate world chaos created by Trump is to profit his billionaire friends. This planning needs to be done in cooperation with other world leaders to take them on directly.
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