That goofy dork looking guy Nick from Tree Stuff can shove it.

Basswood said:
I disagree. The biggest hurdle we face is salaries have not kept up with the cost of living in most places. Why should anyone get motivated if they face minimal investment from employers?
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I think that the cost of living has gone up with the standard of living.

Once upon a time there was one phone mounted to the wall, a long cord of lucky, and a thing known as a 'busy signal'.

Air conditioning in cars. Windows that roll themselves down so you no longer have to hold the control switch for 2.5 seconds. Parking cameras.

Goose down parkas.

Ring doorbells.

Amazon Prime Now! (Ronny Cheung)
 
any one here shop for a well made quality production felling axe, made in the USA? I think council tool is the only company making them these days outside of boutique blacksmith shops where you can easily spend $500-1000 for a functional wall hanger.
We gutted our manufacturing capabilities in a mad rush for globalization. We closed our saw mills and foreign countries bought them as scrap prices, we shifted our production forests to higher rotation, mechanized harvest and engineered wood products.
The shear cost to bring any of that back is astronomical at this time, we have to build the machines to make the machines to train a non existent work force to make the thing..
we shot our collective selves in the foot, and now we are trying to take a step backwards to shoot our self in the other foot.
 
southsoundtree said:
I think that the cost of living has gone up with the standard of living.

Once upon a time there was one phone mounted to the wall, a long cord of lucky, and a thing known as a 'busy signal'.

Air conditioning in cars. Windows that roll themselves down so you no longer have to hold the control switch for 2.5 seconds. Parking cameras.

Goose down parkas.

Ring doorbells.

Amazon Prime Now! (Ronny Cheung)
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Except now if you want a landline, that can often cost more than a cellphone because too few people use the system.

My air conditioned car is 27 years old and still does all the car things, inculding roll it's own windows down. No big advancements there.

Goose down has been around even longer.

Ring doorbells are debatably just novelties.

Amazon is killing local businesses, and now is regularly not the best place to get the best deal if you want quality items not made in China.

Try again?

The standard of living is better for some, but not better for A LOT of people.
 
RyanCafferky said:
Hope you enjoy the inevitable back order email that comes AFTER your purchase. You are thinking you will see something in days and alas it was a trick to get your money for something they knew they didn’t have in stock and might not have for weeks! Enjoy!
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After I made that post I went on and browsed and browsed some more... couldn’t find a darn thing I want or need
 
vietnam offered to completely eliminate their tariffs on american goods and was rebuffed:
The proposal had been extended by Vietnam's Deputy prime minister Bui Thanh Son and was a move aimed at postponing the 46% tariff imposed by Trump on Vietnam as the country charges a 90% tariff on US imports, reported Newsweek.
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Son tried to propose various measures to lower to tariff rates imposed on the country on Sunday. A report on the government's official information channel mentioned that, "Vietnam is ready to negotiate to bring the import tariff rate to 0% for US goods, increase procurement of US products that are strong and in demand by Vietnam, and at the same time create more favorable conditions for US enterprises to do business and invest in Vietnam," quoted Newsweek.
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but that wasnt good enough:
White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said Monday that an offer by Vietnam to eliminate tariffs on U.S. imports would not be enough for the administration to lift its new levies announced last week.

"Let's take Vietnam. When they come to us and say 'we'll go to zero tariffs,' that means nothing to us because it's the nontariff cheating that matters," Navarro said on CNBC's "Squawk Box."
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vOv
WH aide Stephen Miran outlines 5 potential responses foreign nations can undertake in response to problems he says are caused by US dollar dominance:

1. Foreign countries can accept tariffs w/o retaliation, giving US revenue;

2. They can stop unfair/harmful trading practices and buying more from US;

3. Boost defense spending/procurement from US;

4. Invest & install factories in the US;

5. They can write checks to US treasury
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so i guess thats the intended trade solution for vietnam? whenever us citizens buy goods from vietnam, vietnam cuts a check to the us government for the same amount, leaving america with the goods and the money and vietnam with.. nothing?? or vietnam can buy f-35 fighter jets???
 
bobs yeruncle said:
vietnam offered to completely eliminate their tariffs on american goods and was rebuffed:


but that wasnt good enough:

vOv

so i guess thats the intended trade solution for vietnam? whenever us citizens buy goods from vietnam, vietnam cuts a check to the us government for the same amount, leaving america with the goods and the money and vietnam with.. nothing?? or vietnam can buy f-35 fighter jets???
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It’s not about reality. It’s a sales tax that doesn’t require congress and most Americans are too dumb to realize that.
 
evo said:
It’s not about reality. It’s a sales tax that doesn’t require congress and most Americans are too dumb to realize that.
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There is legislation in. The pipeline that is aimed at putting
More control over national economic decisions in Congress

The vote on this legislation will give voters a clear understanding which legislators are working for the populace or for their Masters
 
Last go round on the Trump trade wars/crises I seem to recall the farmers getting hammered and then "saved" by government bailout. Is there any solid analysis quantifying the $pain/"bumps in the road" from last time? I'd wager any positive is eaten up trying to recoup the so called necessary pain at the beginning.

Trimp ought to find the guy who negotiated the current "horrible ripping off" CAUSME or USCAME NAFTA or whoever gets top billing for the order of the spelling - and royally tear him a new one!! ; )

(I used to pull that with junior workers "Find the guy who fucked this up and go give him shit".)
 
Matias said:
I don't know where you live, but around here, I have worked for 5 different companies in the last 8 months and almost everone around me was younger than me, and seemed quite motivated, and I am only 38. Believe what you want, but that hasn't been the reality that I have seen with my eyes. I see the same at most businesses I go to around here too.
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I see it everywhere in all trades, and I've only got 20 yrs on you.
 
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