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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/10/2025 15:32, spike wrote:<br>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Below is what the Canada ad said, vs what Reagan actually said:</span></b></span><span
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style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424;background:#F7F7F7">Canadian ad:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“When someone says, ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,’ it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works—but only for a short time. But over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. Then the worst happens: Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p
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style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424;background:#F7F7F7">What Reagan said in 1987:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">You see, at first, when someone says, ``Let's impose tariffs on foreign imports,'' it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works -- but only for a short time. What eventually occurs is: First, homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs. They stop competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets. And then, while all this is going on, something even worse occurs. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, and less and less competition. So, soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying. Then the worst happens: Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs.<span
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I'm not sure what the problem is here. The Canadian version looks
like a fair summary of the original. How did it distort what Reagan
said?<br>
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The overall message can be summed up even more concisely: "Reagan
said back in 1987 that tariffs are bad for everybody".<br>
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Ben</pre>
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