Posted on 07/07/2018 4:24:08 AM PDT by GonzoII
France? I have heard that before. It is remarkable isn’t it that a Texas sized country in the midst of Europe is relatively blessed with resources save for at least OIL. Do they also have iron, bauxite and other essential minerals? I have not looked. I have never heard of them being a power house of coal either. In the food department they seem to be OK.
Last week, I read of a 72-year old guy....marginal amount of real income via social security, and some relative was willing to sponsor him for the truck-drivers course, and he’s got a company lined up for the job as soon as he finishes. He hadn’t worked in seven years. Don’t know his salary but you have to figure at least $40k a year for long-haul work. Even if he just works another five years....he’ll build onto social security, and have some kind of 401k deal on the side if he’s smart.
For any dad who has some idiot son in the house and still not working at age 24....dad needs to drag that kid out and force him into the Trump-world. There’s jobs everywhere you look. There’s been nothing like this since the 1950s.
You shave on Saturday? That is dedication.
If someone can be President at 72 I suppose someone can drive a truck. It is a tough way to go but beats sitting at home on short rations. Just glad that I don’t have to do something like that so far.
Always follow the money. My wife asked what information we can trust now? Not much. Information almost always has an agenda.
If you would avoid a conflict of interest don’t have one. Mass media has a built in conflict of interest from their sponsors to begin with. They always have. Politicians don’t want to have to deal with problems of working on short rations so they have high taxes, this benefits them in many ways.
Many are catching on that there isn’t normally enough important or valid news to provide good material for a 24 / 7 news feed. It is why we are bombarded with bull spit. Wall to wall coverage was an irregular thing 50 years ago and for special events we became tired of it having heard the spiel more than a few times already.
We have too much of the wrong kinds of news.
Pure vanity, it’s the grey around the chin that provides motivation.
As with most end products; the cost of the materials is very small. Most of the cost is labor and overhead. And for larger dollar products that are bought on time; it amounts to a couple of dollars a month to cover the tariff. This has been way over hyped.
Every job I have ever been on, the real costs walked on two legs.
Alternative sources and import substitution are the normal responses to price increases due to higher tariffs. Increased employment and higher wages are usually required, which are in turn supported by the price increases to middle users and consumers, which price increases tend to exceed those justified by the tariff alone.
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And the most expensive in terms of their compensation and the mistakes they made are the legs wearing suits.
It appears to me that there are a lot of lazy, incompetent executives right now who have obtained profits because of a weak labor market and/or vicious labor arbitrage through imports and outsourcing. Now that we are slowly reacquiring a real economy, they will have to actually learn how to run their companies successfully by improving productivity when they are not receiving direct or indirect subsidies through bad immigration policies and a "free" trade regime. Or they will be sacked after running their companies into the ground.
“There’s jobs everywhere you look. There’s been nothing like this since the 1950s.”
There is a construction company near me that builds bridges and overpasses.
For the last year they have been begging for laborers and CDL drivers.
Their CDL drivers are making around $60,000 annually and home most weekends.
One of my sons works for a company building conveyor systems. In the last year they have landed two jobs that are the largest in the company’s history.
They are begging for laborers to train upwards.
Everywhere I go I see help wanted signs.
If you can’t land a decent paying job you aren’t trying.
Maybe the reality of tariffs is happening.
If US tariffs are bad for the US economy, why is no one discussing why country X’s current and retaliatory tariffs are bad for X’s economy?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3669470/posts?page=5#5
Thanks to: kosciusko51 for this anti tariff shredding reality!
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