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Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:13 am to SlowFlowPro
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It's as if, you can't read.
He only reads what he wants to read. Earlier in the year he was promoting some professor who studied the effects of de-industrialization as his justification for tariffs.
Turns out, the professor was anti-tariff.
These are idealogues; they are not rational people.
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:14 am to Ingeniero
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In your scenario, would it be fair for the city to put a 90% tax on the next door business so it costs more to eat there
You tell me how you would feel when you lost your business because I was using ingredients and labor that you couldn’t. You’re applying ideals to people who aren’t playing by the rules. And you’re hurting yourself and the whole neighborhood because you’re letting it continue. But hey cheap “food”!
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:17 am to Summer of Jimbo
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You tell me how you would feel when you lost your business because I was using ingredients and labor that you couldn’t.
If someone wants cheaper ingredients, they get what they paid for
Right?
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:19 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Weird, the US unemployment rate is sub 5 which is considered "full employment."
Full employment means we have enough jobs for people seeking employment. It does not mean that we have enough jobs to balance our budgets, or reduce govt dependency. US labor force participation rate has dropped by 5% since the late 90's. That's the same time frame that our trade deficits exploded higher.
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:20 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Because of our wealth and purchasing power
Nah, debt is not wealth and increasing the supply of dollars is not wealth. It's inflation.
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:21 am to wdhalgren
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Full employment means we have enough jobs for people seeking employment.
We pretty much do. Some will just be underemployed.
Technology has eliminated the need for skilled assembly line work.
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:26 am to RogerTheShrubber
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If someone wants cheaper ingredients, they get what they paid for
Do you buy dirt cheap prescription medication and supplements made in China or India? Why not? What if your kids wanted to? “Sorry honey I just watched you frick up for the past 10 years and now you’ve got what you paid for”
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:27 am to Summer of Jimbo
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Do you buy dirt cheap prescription medication
Sometimes, if they work.
In your situation, the next door business is clearly selling an inferior product, so I will win.
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:30 am to RogerTheShrubber
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the next door business is clearly selling an inferior product
Nope. How much stuff do we buy today that’s junk? Why do we buy it? Because it’s cheap and there is no alternative that costs the same. Not sure why you’re defending a foreign enemy’s right to protection inside our own country, but that’s your whole argument.
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:30 am to Summer of Jimbo
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the next door business is clearly selling an inferior product
Nope.
You just claimed they were.
So now we use the same ingredients?
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:33 am to Ingeniero
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“There is not enough capacity available in the United States or supply available in the United States. If it was available, we would buy it locally,”
If any of you baws have an extra $250 million apparently we could use some steel mills
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:34 am to RogerTheShrubber
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We pretty much do. Some will just be underemployed.
Technology has eliminated the need for skilled assembly line work.
The problem is that we have structural unemployment as a result of offshoring industries. Millions of people who've given up on finding a job, and those people don't show up in the unemployment number you cited, but they show up in the workforce participation rate I cited. They live off their savings or, in most cases, off of govt transfer payments and services. In many cases they have no work ethic because they've never held a job. We have to reduce our trade deficits and bring jobs back home in order to reverse that process, not to mention to save the US dollar.
This post was edited on 9/5/25 at 11:35 am
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:35 am to Harry Caray
What about waxed paper board containers like the kind chicken broth comes? Milk type container.?
This post was edited on 9/5/25 at 11:36 am
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:36 am to wdhalgren
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The problem is that we have structural unemployment as a result of offshoring industries.
That pretty much happened decades ago. We rebounded with the high tech sector and medical fields.
In this economy, those who are unwilling or unable to have an average education and have no skills will struggle, yes. We no longer have high paying jobs for HS dropouts.
That world isnt changing back to your pollyanna "Graduate high school and get a career!" times. Instead of hampering progress, how about you invest in people and their training/education instead?
This post was edited on 9/5/25 at 11:37 am
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:37 am to JimEverett
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We import around 5% of the pork consumed in the U.S. - maybe slightly more, say 5.5%. A wholesale tariff on pork imports wouldn't have that much of an impact for the end consumer. Certainly nothing like a 10%-30% wholesale price increase.
Pork prices went up due to the new law in California
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:38 am to RogerTheShrubber
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You just claimed they were. So now we use the same ingredients?
Nah I said terrible quality food with questionable ingredients, I never said taste. You don’t know what they’re putting in there because it isn’t regulated like yours is. But it’s easy and cheap so they’re winning right? And you’re winning in your tent under the overpass .
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:39 am to Summer of Jimbo
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Nah I said terrible quality food with questionable ingredients
Then there is really no competition. I win.
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:42 am to RogerTheShrubber
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I win.
Okay. Congrats I guess for winning while you lose your business. Now I see why our economy is this fricked.
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:44 am to Summer of Jimbo
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Okay. Congrats I guess for winning while you lose your business.
If I am selling high quality food, and he's selling shite food, who is going out of business?
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