I was having a drink with a friend of mine.

Smart guy.

Very successful guy.

And a connected guy, not to the mob, politically connected.

Invariably, our conversation turned to politics.

And I asked him, what does he make of where we're at right now?

You know, things seem to have calmed down.

Maybe we've got the right guy in charge.

What's his take?

And he leaned in a bit closer to me.

And he said, look, you and me, we've got, if we're lucky,

30 more years, 40 more years? I said, yeah. He said,

there's no doubt in my mind, we will die Americans. Our kids will be Americans. And I looked

at him funny. And sensing my skepticism, he began to explain point for point exactly how it's going to happen.

Some Canadian companies already moving their factories to the States.

Much more of a problem, he said, is the Canadian money is moving to the states.

Rich people, they can do math.

And as Trump cuts taxes and cuts capital gains, they are making a very simple business decision

to put their money, their investments, and themselves where they'll get to keep more of what they have and what they're

going to have. And he explained to me that this isn't going to stop. You know, America's just

going to keep chipping away at us. Even after Trump, they're going to keep isolating us. They're

going to lean on other countries to punish us. They're going to weaken us until there's just

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