JHZR2
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Precisely. That’s what I’ve been trying harder to do. No interest in financing spy balloons at the expense of domestic jobs.
Shipping containers piling up at Chinese ports
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As long as the USD is the global reserve currency, manufacturing domestically will not make sense. It is far easier to print money and buy real goods with a piece of green paper than actually work hard on creating these real goods.
Are we ready and willing to produce value? I don't think so.
That's already happening. A recent project farm video was testing windshield wipers. Only one pair was from China, the Bosch oddly enough as they were German made i guess until recently. Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines as usa made popped up.
The purpose of raising interest rates is to tamper down business, throw people out of work and create more inventory.
This results in less inflation.
This results in less inflation.
About a week ago I was involved in a conversation with someone who works at the Port of Tacoma which is a very busy port. He said that operations have been slow. The A guys are getting their hours but the B guys are being told to stay home.
Roads still seem busy.
Since St Pat's day, I've been to Gaveston, TX and Chicago, IL and the roads to both were very busy. Lots of trucks on the roads to and from both destinations from STL.
The illegals swarming our nation.
Time for someone to check out the rail lines that run parallel to the Missouri River in Montana and count the flatcars sitting on the sidings. Slower shipping equals idled flatcars.
When I see a warm blooded US born citizen willing to do that job and actually have a work ethic , I'll be 80 most likely or dead.
People don't want to work or want to $30 an hour to do a unskilled labor job. I see it everyday in my industry.
I think the problem is that $30 per hour is not a lot of money anymore. Not even close.
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Yeah like @AutoMechanic and his bunch..
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I wonder if the amount one is paid is even relevant. One can live at a standard well above 90 percent of the world as a non working adult. What is the incentive to work? Who is educating our youth?
We have a duty to be productive and responsible citizens. I hear a lot on news, yet I can't recall ever hearing that message from anyone in the US, except Bill Bennett. But I doubt what Mr Bennett said made it on any major news network, or to public school teachers.
Young people haven't been taught the 'value of work,' says Ronald Reagan's education secretary
Bill Bennett told Fox Business that he was "very concerned" about the younger generation's attitudes towards work and employment.
www.businessinsider.com
Sure it is, 50k a year after taxes isn't horrible. They still start off graduate nurses at that rate in my area. Is it a great salary for NYC or LA maybe not but living costs aren't the same everywhere.
This. I don't blame people for taking easier jobs for more or equivalent money.
If and hopefully that is a BIG if...I wonder if the amount one is paid is even relevant. One can live at a standard well above 90 percent of the world as a non working adult. What is the incentive to work? Who is educating our youth?
We have a duty to be productive and responsible citizens. I hear a lot on news, yet I can't recall ever hearing that message from anyone in the US, except Bill Bennett. But I doubt what Mr Bennett said made it on any major news network, or to public school teachers.
Young people haven't been taught the 'value of work,' says Ronald Reagan's education secretary
Bill Bennett told Fox Business that he was "very concerned" about the younger generation's attitudes towards work and employment.
Universal Basic Income if that ever passes that's a nail in the coffin really.
It is if you are unskilled.
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