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I think that’s a major concern with labor. I’m a fixer. Always have been, always will. Just about anything mechanical. There are going to be a ton of good jobs in blue collar industry as boomers retire. One of the reasons I sold my business is because I couldn’t find competent people to replace the skilled retirees. We would even train you for the job. But welding is dirty. Iron work is hard. I don’t want to start working early. Tradesmen I employed all made over 80k with good benefits. Most kids have been brainwashed to think blue collar jobs are bad. | |||
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If the unemployed cannot go on welfare, etc., they will get tired of being poor. Nothing gives a good work ethic such as when you are hungry and have no food. -c1steve | |||
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This is unbelievable what they have found!   Antonio Gracias Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer Antonio is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer of Valor. Antonio founded Valor in 1995. He has over 25 years of experience in private equity investing. Antonio was a Director of Tesla from 2007 to 2021. During his tenure, he served as Lead Independent Director for eight years, and helped take Tesla public. He is a Director of several Valor portfolio companies, including Space Exploration Technologies, WEKA and Zipline. He is a member of all Valor Investment Committees. Antonio is actively involved in philanthropic activities. He is a trustee of The Aspen Institute, a member of the board of visitors of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and a member of the board of visitors of the University of Chicago Law School. Additionally, he is a member of the board of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and a member of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees. In 2015, Antonio was appointed to the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship Program, chaired by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. The program was a first-of-kind collaboration among the White House, entrepreneurs, the Department of Commerce, the Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow, an Aspen Institute program designed to engage the next generation of leaders in the challenge of community spirited leadership. In 2008, Antonio received the Immigrant & Refugee Contributions Award for Entrepreneurial & Business Leadership from Changing Worlds, an educational arts non-profit organization. Prior to founding Valor, Antonio was the Founder and Managing Member of MG Capital where he acquired and acted as Chief Executive Officer for a number of manufacturing and technology related companies. At MG Capital, together with the team that is still together at Valor today, he developed the operational skills that Valor uses to help its portfolio companies achieve scale and enhance their value. Prior to MG Capital he was at Goldman Sachs. Antonio holds a joint B.S. and M.S.F.S. (Honors Degree) in International Finance and Economics from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He also studied corporate structures and economic development at Waseda University in Tokyo. Prior to completing his Masters, Antonio returned to Japan as a Nikko Securities Fellow. Antonio holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. 41 | |||
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Shameless bump. https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...930037315#2930037315 Yeah, a fuckton of sarcasm. (as if one had to question me shit slinging..) "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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I think the tariffs should have been 100% matching, but clearly, there is a reason behind PDJT's 50%. What wasn't said was that road building, electrical work, plumbers, carpenters, roofers, and IT systems were all needed for these investments to even open their doors. These are real jobs with real pay for American Families! Truly, we are about to see the Golden Age of America. I don't see a Union anywhere that could ever justify voting against this president. | |||
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| As Extraordinary as Everyone Else  |
I went looking for how our new tariffs that we are now imposing compares to what we’ve been subject to for years. It was eye opening and gives further evidence that PJST is in the right track. https://imgur.com/a/65jHpzwThis message has been edited. Last edited by: smlsig, ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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Federal funding to Maine frozen over weenie-waggers in girls' sports. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...g-for-maine-n2654922 | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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Good. Stupid bitch. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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| Three Generations of Service |
Also good. FAFO. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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It's biblical, from the New Testament traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle: For even when we were with you, this we commanded you: that if any would not work, neither should he eat. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and a third DJT term. The final line of the 12th Amendment states: But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. So in essence, a DJT third term would require not one but TWO constitutional amendments. | |||
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DJT is about to lose a lot of support. I've lost half a years pay in my brokerage account this week. I don't understand why he's doing these tariffs. He needs to schedule an address to the nation to explain his goals. Explain to me why I need to take a 15% hit to my portfolio and why I should pay more for my next car. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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You just need to pay attention more. | |||
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Maybe I'm really dumb and can't understand. Break it down for me like I'm an idiot. I just look and see I lost $40k today with no articulated solid goal for these tariffs. For people who trepidly support Trump, fucking with their money will get them to turn on him. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| As Extraordinary as Everyone Else |
Jesse it’s a classic case of short term pain for long term gains. Once these other countries realize that they can’t lock out our businesses for selling their products in their country they will capitulate. If you look at the link I posted earlier this morning you’ll see how much other countries charge our companies to sell in their countries. Many of the tariffs that trump is imposing is only half of what they are doing to us. Hope this helps. ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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Here Are The Three Goals That Trump Wants To Achieve Through His Global Trade War Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, He hopes to strengthen the US’ supply chain sovereignty, renegotiate its ties with all countries with a view towards getting them to distance themselves from China, and shape the emerging world order. Trump’s decision to tariff the entire world to varying extents as revenge for their tariffs against the US has shaken the global economy to its core. Instead of restoring free and fair trade like he claims to want, which would give American companies an advantage, he might inadvertently accelerate regionalization trends and the subsequent division of the world into a collection of trade blocs. Even in that scenario, however, he could still advance the three unstated goals that are responsible for this policy. The first is to strengthen the US’ supply chain sovereignty so as to eliminate the leverage that other countries have over it. This might not be pursued solely for the sake of it, but perhaps also as contingency planning, thus hinting at concerns about a major war. The two most likely adversaries are China and Iran, and a hot conflict with either would throw the global economy into turmoil. Trump might therefore want to prioritize reshoring in order for the US to preemptively minimize the consequences. The second goal builds upon the first and relates to the US prompting every country to renegotiate their bilateral ties, during which time the US could offer to reduce tariffs in exchange for certain concessions. These could take the form of distancing themselves from China to a degree and gradually replacing it with the US with their top trade partner. Other incentives could also be dangled such as technology-sharing and military deals. The purpose would be to weaken China by chipping away its foreign trade. And finally, the last goal is to shape the emerging world order, to which end the US had to speed up the end of the present one by shaking the global economy to its core like Trump just did. Obtaining supply chain sovereignty and replacing China as the top trade partner for as many countries as possible would give the US’ leverage over a sizeable portion of the world. While it’s premature to speculate the ways in which the US could exploit this, it’ll almost certainly be in the context of its systemic rivalry with China. Even if Trump’s global trade war unintentionally turbocharges regionalization trends and the subsequent division of the world into a collection of trade blocs instead of serving as the unprecedented power play that he expects, the US could still take advantage of this to implement its “Fortress America” policy. This refers to the US restoring its unipolar hegemony over the Western Hemisphere, which would make it strategically autarkic if it receives preferential access to these countries’ resources and markets. In that event, the US would survive and could even thrive even if it’s pushed out of the Eastern Hemisphere upon losing the major war that it might be planning or if the consequences thereof make that part of the world too dysfunctional for the US to manage, which could lead to the US returning to its 1920s-like isolationism. To be clear, the US is unlikely to voluntarily abandon the Eastern Hemisphere, but it would still make sense to plan for that possibility just in case circumstances compel it to do so. All in all, Trump’s global trade war is an epochal event that’ll leave a lasting impact on International Relations regardless of its outcome, but it’s too early to say for sure exactly what’ll come from it. The only thing that can be said with any certainty is that Trump has a grand plan in mind even if he doesn’t ultimately achieve any of his goals, the three most likely of which were touched upon in this analysis. In any case, the old era of globalization is now over, but it remains to be seen what’ll replace it and when. https://www.zerohedge.com/geop...his-global-trade-war "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
Tariffs raise the cost of imported goods to the point those imported goods are as equally costly as domestic manufactured goods. This hopefully spurs redevelopment of the domestic manufacturing sector, as one way to beat the tariff on imported items is to make those items domestically. That, in turn, should spur domestic consumption, helping rebalance the trade deficit. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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No it won’t, this is exactly the reason they voted for him. Sure there’s going to be some pain at first but the long term reward will be worth it. Other countries have been robbing us blind. | |||
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He’s doing what he said he was going to do more so than any politician in my lifetime. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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