Fu*%face Von Clownstick

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Lots of assembly happening in those plants, but what about the manufacturing of each of the actual components? I am sure they manufacture some pieces, but from what base material stock? Is all the metal actually manufactured in the US? The plastics? what percentage of their materials are actually made from materials that are produced elsewhere? Will those raw materials have the tariffs imposed? Toyota, Hyundai, VW, and others have US assembly plants, but how much actual manufacturing happens in there? Where do they get their raw materials? The modern world is so deeply interconnected, it's not so easy to tell people to just buy American.
 
Some time ago I read a clever article that followed a piece of matèrial from being a drop of resin or other raw material

It would start in a plant on one side of the US/Mexico border and then as final assembly into a daily driver car

Every time a part went over and back it was sent through customs and taxed. Very complicated.

When I hear talk of firing government bureaucrats I wonder how the skills that these Customs inspectors will be replaced

there have been well produced tv commercials for trades people. Where will blue collar and dirty t shirt workers come from?
 
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Tom Dunlap said:
Some time ago I read a clever article that followed a piece of matèrial from being a drop of resin or other raw material

It would start in a plant on one side of the US/Mexico border and then as final assembly into a daily driver car

Every time a part went over and back it was sent through customs and taxed. Very complicated.

When I hear talk of firing government bureaucrats I wonder how the skills that these Customs inspectors will be replaced

there have been well produced tv commercials for trades people. Where will blue collar and dirty t shirt workers come from?
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If it was going back and forth to Mexico, it likely was minimally taxed. Maquiladoras are Mexican industrial plants owned by foreign corporations that manufacture goods for export. They started in the 1970s with television maker RCA, and spread rapidly to other industries, with the automotive industry holding the largest share. Under Mexican laws, a foreign company can own 100% of their factory in Mexico, and don't have to pay Mexican import or export duty on imported materials or exported finished goods. Mexico benefits from job creation and taxes on payrolls. Once the finished items are exported, US customs regulations only require duty to be paid on the value added, which is basically the value of unskilled Mexican labor - a fraction of US wages. Companies benefit from the low wages and low duty, not to mention the lack of safety or environmental regulations. Maquiladoras also provided a way for other foreign companies like Toyota to import cars into the US by way of Mexico, circumventing trade barriers.
 
A friend told me about a 35-year employee of the orchard he runs getting deported, soon.
Computers caught him because of his hard-earned retirement account.


My friend told of one American crew from California and the rest of the crews being legal H2A workers.

Don't be shocked here... the Americans whined a lot and produced a noticeably less quantity of work (piece-work/ commission paid) than the migrants.

The H2A workers were bussed up from Mexico, guaranteed a minimum wage (in reality, protection from a bad crop, not lack of work ethic) and flown back after successful completion of the project/ contract. Top pickers earned about $26/ hour, pre-covid era inflation.

They use H2A for pruning, too.




Food is about to get way more expensive!

I'm going to be expanding our gardens, maybe seeing up my coop/ run, and definitely getting in on a share of my neighbor's year-old heifer/ steer in the late summer.

Thankfully, I have about an acre of sunshine.
 
Tuebor said:
Defeat Biden on inflation. Now create more inflation. And supply line issues like during Trump's covid pandemic.
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Biden's inflation was actually Donny's inflation which was caused by his grossly incompetent and dishonest handling of covid..If you look at the rest of the G10 countries you begin to understand just how well the Biden administration handled post covid inflation.

www.brookings.edu

The US recovery from COVID-19 in international comparison

The U.S. is significantly outperforming its G10 peers in the economic recovery from COVID-19, Robin Brooks and Ben Harris find.
www.brookings.edu www.brookings.edu

Deport millions of essential workers and put a massive price increase of goods coming from 3 of our largest importers? Sounds like Donny is trying to create the next great recession/depression. Putin must be loving this.....
 
Rump has a phone call with the President of Mexico. The Mexican Prez says there won’t be tariffs

Trudeau flies from Canada to Mar alago for a meeting. Reason…No felons allowed into Canada. Has there been any other consequence of rumps conviction
 
Tom Dunlap said:
Has there been any other consequence of rumps conviction
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You mean other than getting him elected?

From what I can see of people's locations participating in this thread, most seem to live in deep blue regions. My point being, outside of those areas, people may not realize how that trial was perceived by the rest of the country. People didn't see it as a criminal getting convicted of a felony, they saw it as activists using the legal system to attack their political opponents right before an election. Especially coming on the heels of that half billion dollar fine from the property overvaluation case that proceeded it.

I'm sure you'll disagree with that but living in a deep red part of the country that's what I hear people saying. IMO, the election was about inflation first and illegal immigration primarily (for the Republican side) but those court cases, what people felt were unfair debate moderators, etc. were fuel on the fire to get voters motivated to go to the polls.
 
Fair enough

Funny you mentioned him being a Democrat, that was the knock on him from a lot of Republicans at the very beginning of his presidential aspirations. You know, before he became a Nazi and what not :D
 
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