A WHOLE lotta braincells went into this scribe and it is a well thought out piece of what the tariffs are going to accomplish NOT do...PDJT is LOOKING at the Accomplishment side and OOOOOH BBBBOY!!!!!
Guess there's going to be some bank accounts being drained before too long...🤣🤣
I really like how you distinguished between what they will "do" vs. what they will "accomplish"
He (PDJT I mean) has already noted and I tried to reiterate that there isn't going to be ZERO pain on our end when this all plays out.
Its just that the differences in magnitude are going to be major. Like for example, I saw eggs in the store a couple times last month. I didn't buy them, so I couldn't make my homemade quiche.
BUT! My girlfriend picked up a Whole Foods brand Bacon & Onion quiche at work for like $13 versus the $9 it would have cost to buy the dozen eggs, and I use at least half a dozen for my version...
And so all was right with the world, and now that eggs are closer to $4.99 again (I've heard) I will probably buy some good local XL brown ones for $7-8 or so, if they aren't all gone or whatever.
Now imagine that eggs are a critical product for the nation of ..err... Carneyda. Its a made up place. 😆😉
So "Carneyda" gets $700 million in sales of their eggs to the USA every year. But NOW they fight and have a reciprocal tariff slapped on their eggs that we import.
Let's say they had XL brown ones like I prefer, at a 6.50 price point. Now with the added tariffs they are $11. So what happens?
CARNEYDIAN egg sales crash by 35% in just a month, and they are looking at bringing in just $455 million in egg sales this year. A few folks love them so much they keep buying, but most Americans just switch to a lower quality, cheaper XL brown egg.
I am trying to show with this example that not even ALL eggs have seen a price hike. Even if we said that Carneyda produced ALL AVAILABLE brown eggs, we could just buy white ones, right? Even if they had the entire egg shelf the grocer might find some cheaper eggs from a producer it hadn't worked with before.
And of course you could just SKIP THE EGGS like I did. 😀
Our options are practically LIMITLESS for most normal goods. Sure, there WOULD be certain cases when a resource (like rare earth metals) has few or no substitutes - but again, how much does that hurt? Maybe you can't buy a cell phone for a while. Whoop dee.
Meanwhile their house is on fire. They are bleeding revenue and jobs like crazy. It's the difference between scraping your knee and a knee contusion LOL.
Carneyda is taking almost all of the pain whereas it's mostly an inconvenience to us.
So that's why what tariffs do in the short term will be so trivial compared to what the goal of using them will be.
I also eat the brown eggs (once a week-Sundays) and buy bacon from the local butcher and OOOOH MY...COOK IN A CAST IRON SKILLET and that is one VERY GOOD Breakfast!!!!
A WHOLE lotta braincells went into this scribe and it is a well thought out piece of what the tariffs are going to accomplish NOT do...PDJT is LOOKING at the Accomplishment side and OOOOOH BBBBOY!!!!!
Guess there's going to be some bank accounts being drained before too long...🤣🤣
I really like how you distinguished between what they will "do" vs. what they will "accomplish"
He (PDJT I mean) has already noted and I tried to reiterate that there isn't going to be ZERO pain on our end when this all plays out.
Its just that the differences in magnitude are going to be major. Like for example, I saw eggs in the store a couple times last month. I didn't buy them, so I couldn't make my homemade quiche.
BUT! My girlfriend picked up a Whole Foods brand Bacon & Onion quiche at work for like $13 versus the $9 it would have cost to buy the dozen eggs, and I use at least half a dozen for my version...
And so all was right with the world, and now that eggs are closer to $4.99 again (I've heard) I will probably buy some good local XL brown ones for $7-8 or so, if they aren't all gone or whatever.
Now imagine that eggs are a critical product for the nation of ..err... Carneyda. Its a made up place. 😆😉
So "Carneyda" gets $700 million in sales of their eggs to the USA every year. But NOW they fight and have a reciprocal tariff slapped on their eggs that we import.
Let's say they had XL brown ones like I prefer, at a 6.50 price point. Now with the added tariffs they are $11. So what happens?
CARNEYDIAN egg sales crash by 35% in just a month, and they are looking at bringing in just $455 million in egg sales this year. A few folks love them so much they keep buying, but most Americans just switch to a lower quality, cheaper XL brown egg.
I am trying to show with this example that not even ALL eggs have seen a price hike. Even if we said that Carneyda produced ALL AVAILABLE brown eggs, we could just buy white ones, right? Even if they had the entire egg shelf the grocer might find some cheaper eggs from a producer it hadn't worked with before.
And of course you could just SKIP THE EGGS like I did. 😀
Our options are practically LIMITLESS for most normal goods. Sure, there WOULD be certain cases when a resource (like rare earth metals) has few or no substitutes - but again, how much does that hurt? Maybe you can't buy a cell phone for a while. Whoop dee.
Meanwhile their house is on fire. They are bleeding revenue and jobs like crazy. It's the difference between scraping your knee and a knee contusion LOL.
Carneyda is taking almost all of the pain whereas it's mostly an inconvenience to us.
So that's why what tariffs do in the short term will be so trivial compared to what the goal of using them will be.
I also eat the brown eggs (once a week-Sundays) and buy bacon from the local butcher and OOOOH MY...COOK IN A CAST IRON SKILLET and that is one VERY GOOD Breakfast!!!!
I not only like the way you think,
I like the way you cook too! Hear hear!
Sorry my response took a while, I posted it before I finished it accidentally 😆
NOT a problem!!!!!!
Glad that there's others that like to cook the "OL FASHION WAY"!!!!!
Learned it from my Grandmother was a FULL CAJON LADY!!!!! OOOOOH MY...The Gumbo she would make was better than any restaurant around!!!!!