"Zero fo Zero?" On just industrial goods?
So, what, we continued getting screwed on the other market goods? Or is this something that's negotiable for the other market sectors as well?
I have a sneaking suspicion that [they]'re throwing up his out there for Congress to grab hold of b cause the world knows Cingr as only likes the low hanging, easy fruit to pick.
Since Trump 2.0 has been touting it's a "transparent" Admin, I'd like to see him start going directly to The People on ALL things before any "deals" are made. In today's age, coming to US directly and allowing US to vote on this stuff would be 100% better than continuing to let Congress/Senate swamp creatures make decisions like these.
"You should be furious."
I don't know about the rest of you, but I passed th furious stage a long, long time ago. At this point, all I do is laugh about all of it because if I don't do that, my mind goes to a seriously dark place. And for someone like me, with certain skills the govt gave me, it's not a good mind space to be in.
What's funny is that they're the same people who were protesting against "The Man" in the 60's and 70's, now they're protesting for "The Man." And they're the same people who quietly went to the corporate world, benefitted greatly and profited from the boom of the 80's and 90's, and are likely the last generation to see the fruits of their labors pay dividends during retirement.
I don't know how many Boomers I know that retired fairly wealthy, but it's a lot. They live in communities here in FL like The Villages, Margaritaville, and just about every Toll Brothers built community in this state. They're moving here in droves, helping to drive up the cost of our suburban sleeper communities, while the rest of us are fighting the higher tax rates, clogged up roads, and sky high rent and mortgage prices.
The worst part of it all is that they have no shame about it, either.
Yes, and have been doing so since the UN was created. By some estimates, close to 500 Million people died in the 20th Century due to war, disease, famine, and revolutionary conquest. Yet, we're told to believe that the overall global population increased by almost 3 Billion people just since 1976 (the year I was born).
The current population estimates are part of the reason why I think we're now seeing reports of a severely steep population decrease coming our way over the next 10-20 yrs. It isn't so much that the mRNA vaxxes have damaged hundreds of millions of immune systems or that the younger generations aren't having as many children as the previous generations did, although that's part of it, it's that US aid money that goes to third-world and developing nations is largely reliant on how that country "officially" reports it's population numbers to the UN. If you read the reports, all the numbers are estimates, even for the first-world nation population reporting, and it's only gotten worse with the globally forced migration patterns we're currently seeing.
I'd be surprised if we have 8 Billion on this planet. Hell, I'd be surprised if we have 7.5 Billion. And since there's no current way to accurately count the global population, we're forced to take the estimates at face value.
I agree. We've proven time and again how we can easily and quickly ramp up manufacturing processes that takes other countries, including China, decades to accomplish. The ONLY reason why China has seen such a steep increase in its own manufacturing over the last 30 or so years was due to NAFTA and TPP being signed by two of the most left leaning Presidents we've ever had. With the right POTUS, someone like Trump, we can undo the damage in less than half the time it took China to develop that capacity. All it takes are people like Trump, Musk, O'Leary, etc to have the balls to do it.
I once crushed a flu-like bug the night we got to Pearl Harbor with a six pack of Killian's Red and bottle of Ny-Quil. Went to bed drunk with a stuffed up head and a 102° temp. Woke up the next day around Noon feeling right as rain.
When I was stationed at NAS North Island back in 1995, we would regularly go to Tijuana on the weekends and have to see this happening every time. What's worse is that you'd see illegals swimming thru it just to attempt a border crossing.
I like this one most of all.