re: Campbell's, Dollar General announce "pricing action" in response to tariffs

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Says the genius who completely shite the bed talking about the stock market. Don't make me paste it again. I'll happily fricking embarrass you every opportunity.

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You cant even put it in the actual context, Gomer.

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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.

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Never did have high paying jobs for dropouts, but we did have jobs for them. Now we don't as a result of offshoring, which resulted in trade deficits that are causing dependency, and budget and trade deficits. And will eventually destroy the US dollar.

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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?

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In other words, your message to the low-education unemployed is "learn to code", as if we have enough high skill jobs for them even if they could make that transition. Unfortunately, the day is coming, assuming you live in the US, when you'll be wishing we'd brought those jobs back home. Or, probably I guess, you'll never even understand why it all fell apart.

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You cant even put it in the actual context, Gomer.

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Every time I've pasted it you run like a bitch and disappeared. I'll happily watch you run again

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Every time I've pasted it you run like a bitch and disappeared

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No, ive said what I will say now, youre simply illiterate.

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There were no news articles from 2021 through 2024 complaining about the "dollar aisle" at DG and Family Dollar suddenly becoming "the $1.75 aisle".

Hmm.

What has changed, I wonder?

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Why did you just make that up?

Seriously, you can just google and find plenty of articles like this

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Still do. PLenty of them.

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No, we don't because we offshored jobs and industries.

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My answer to everything is "save yourself, because the govt will never do it." Are you under the delusion they will make your life better? Or do you control your destiny?

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I think we're in agreement here. The govt cause this problem by overspending, overborrowing, overly loose monetary policy, and over-regulating our economy. I don't want the govt to fix this via tariffs. And I don't want them to "fix" it via more govt programs. I want them to fix it by slashing govt spending and regulation. Undo the things that caused our industries to offshore. That's how you truly make the US economy competitive again. But, since Congress won't do that, our next option is to save the dollar by whatever means is available. You still haven't addressed that problem, which probably means you don't understand it.

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There was capacity, but they decided to buy it from overseas to save money but still be able to charge customers the same price, It drove companies to scale production lower or close. Their action of buying almost exclusively from overseas has gotten them to where we are now.

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I'm not sure what's supposed to be nefarious about that.

They bought the same aluminum cans at the best price they could get them for. American companies couldn't compete price-wise, so they didn't get the business.

Everyone knows this. It's the entire point of the tariffs—to force American consumers to overpay for items that they could get cheaper from somewhere else.

Are you implying that they had some moral obligation to overpay for aluminum cans just to "buy American?" (They didn't.)

And of course, it's not the American company's fault either. They also had no obligation to take a loss to supply the cans at the same price as the foreign competitor. It just is what it is-other economies are not as developed as ours, so stuff can be made cheaper there.

It just doesn't make any economic sense for us to manufacture many things in country now.

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No, we don't because we offshored jobs and industries.

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Fake news.

We are the number two manufacturer in the WORLD, behind China who has four times the population.

Per capita we blow them away.

Youve been lied to.

Ford did that before labor unions. Can't afford it today