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[LivingTheDream]

I would suggest that you ask the Bank of England of Mr. Bessent is some bungler

This is the best comment I have read on the internet in a long time. Well done.

 

[ActionBob]

At 62 I still work 2 x 90 hour weeks at an offshore oilrig.. Growing up working from early on..then the military with officer training etc. As long as one is in good health it is perfectly possible to work hard beyond 60..

Think maybe those two things might go together

 

[Brent in Az]

What hasn't he put exemptions or holds on?

I hope his eyelids are not sore from blinking so much. I am overseas right now. I was having dinner with a couple of people that were saying the tariffs on China were going to greatly hurt the US economy. My response was wait; it will change. I never realized it was going to be so fast.

Trump could shit gold bars directly into your portfolio, and you would still be unhappy with the man.

 

[deewayne2003]

Colorado has just passed a law requiring residents to complete a state safety course and background check in order to by semi automatic firearms with detachable magazines.....

 

[Brent in Az]

I bet California or New York are on the top of that list

 

[Wheels]

Unfortunately, the world's largest economy is currently being governed by some pretty bunglers. And they are being advised by economists the world has never heard of, who want to push through a completely abstruse customs policy with completely abstruse theories. The architect of US customs policy, Peter Navarro, has never played any professional role whatsoever. Nobody knew this man. And now he is coming up with crazy customs theories.

To think that you can help American industrial workers by completely dismantling the world trading system and imposing tariffs is sheer nonsense. It doesn't work. Everyone has tried to explain that to Trump. He doesn't understand it.

I couldn't disagree with this statement more.

Bessent is by far the most intelligent and competent Treasury Secretary America has had in my lifetime. Lutnick isn't far behind in Commerce. Navarro worked with Lighthizer and negotiated tariffs in the first Trump Administration. They are making these decisions themselves. If they are talking to people, those people are ones they have worked with for decades and trust. The Paul Krugman's types that got America into this mess wouldn't be considered for a janitors position at Treasury today.

In regards to helping American industrial workers. America is still the number two manufacturer in the world. Evidently America has $5T of investments committed by companies and countries so far this quarter. It won't turn around overnight but it is a great start.

Will this all work out. I don't know but what America has been doing for the past 40 years certainly wasn't working. Trump has talked about the trade imbalance and tariffs for over 30 years. Trade was probably the number two plank in the platform that won him the election. I doubt Trump could have found a better individual than Bessent to implement his plan.

 

[ActionBob]

I bet California or New York are on the top of that list
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And I'd be surprised if the 3rd (and 4th) wasn't Minnesota and/or Illinois.

 

[ActionBob]

Gunsmithing pays absolute crap and to be truly competent requires 35 years of experience. Allow me to explain: Five years on the job and you've mastered your craft. Lets say you hop in a time machine and visit 1930 London and walk into Purdey. You'll see a master stocker, master checkerer, master engraver, master barrel mechanic, master lock maker, master action filer, master ejector builder, master blacker/browner/bluer.

To be able to competently restore a best gun today you need 8x the mastery of the original maker. You're expected to be able to do master level craftsmanship across 8-10 disciplines whereas the original maker had no such equivelant expectation.

If you can achieve that level of skill and you have a million dollars of tools, equipment, and workshop, you can charge $150 per hour for your work.

Or you can graduate high school and take a paid apprenticeship at 18 years old and by 21-24 years old you're making $150 an hour.

Becoming a professional gunsmith is a financially ruinous decision.

We just visited Rigby and the Holland and Holland factory.

I've met some of the gun smiths you may be referring to... Wouldn't let them fix a Daisy bb gun. I doubt they'd be real successful at any other job either.

However the Craftsmen we met and observed working seemed to have very high job satisfaction and many had been at pushing 40 years. Yet both shops also had many younger people with under 7 years in.

H&H has a basement full of both old school and high tech machines. But where the magic happens is mostly self made hand tools. In fact an apprentice starts by making his (or her, many women doing this work also) own tools. Even the turn screws (screwdrivers) are hand made at H&H. Then they make screws, which are all hand made. I heard zero complaints about pay.

And then there is our friend J.J.Perodeau. The gunsmith at Gordy's, etc.

 

[ActionBob]

Perhaps sooner than later AI and robotics will replace the fine gunsmiths and gunmakers that are retiring and/or have gone on to the Happy Hunting ground. Perhaps a Royal Double Rifle from Holland & Holland or the finest Hartmann & Weiss bolt action made by these methods at significantly less cost?

No evidence of Holland and Holland going that way. They have some reasonably high teck machines run by very talented and skilled operators. Yet the final work on a Royal and including boring some of ybe holes in the action is still done by hand. It boggles the mind how they cut a perfect hole into that block of steel with a chisel, hammer, and a file. Heck they still have a drill run by a foot treddle

We heard a story of the Berretta people wanting to know how such precision holes could be cut so perfectly every time. The Craftsman shrugged his shoulders, grabbed an unfinished action and drilled that hole by eyeballing it and tossed it to the executive

Fascinating people in that shop

 

[ActionBob]

I should add that i have a new understanding of why a Holland and Holland Royal costs almost a quarter million USD

 

[BJH65]

I should add that i have a new understanding of why a Holland and Holland Royal costs almost a quarter million USD

Yes you do and congratulations!!

 

[Brent in Az]

And I'd be surprised if the 3rd (and 4th) wasn't Minnesota and/or Illinois.

I wouldn't doubt that in the least

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Anyone else in Canada having issues getting your voter card? They were supposed to be out by the eleventh and I didn’t receive mine or fathers same story with all of my neighbours. Called 45 minutes on hold to get told to call back Monday.

 

[Brent in Az]

Trump indicates that the U.S will boycott the November G20 summit in South Africa over farm murders and expropriation

 

[Brent in Az]

Psycho Wisconsin teen kills parents for finances and autonomy, over a Trump assassination plot, and to overthrow the U.S government

 

[mdwest]

Trump indicates that the U.S will boycott the November G20 summit in South Africa over farm murders and expropriation

Having attended a couple of G20’s (Great Epoch City China 2005, and Melbourne Australia in 2006), I strongly support this decision..

The G20, much like meetings at the UN, isn’t much more than a shit show where nations of lessor influence finger point and bitch publicly.. and then do back door deals with the larger economy countries in private.. all while the World Bank, IMF, and UN pander for attention and support…

Nothing happens there that the US can’t accomplish otherwise…

 

[barryk]

We just visited Rigby and the Holland and Holland factory.

I've met some of the gun smiths you may be referring to... Wouldn't let them fix a Daisy bb gun. I doubt they'd be real successful at any other job either.

However the Craftsmen we met and observed working seemed to have very high job satisfaction and many had been at pushing 40 years. Yet both shops also had many younger people with under 7 years in.

H&H has a basement full of both old school and high tech machines. But where the magic happens is mostly self made hand tools. In fact an apprentice starts by making his (or her, many women doing this work also) own tools. Even the turn screws (screwdrivers) are hand made at H&H. Then they make screws, which are all hand made. I heard zero complaints about pay.

And then there is our friend J.J.Perodeau. The gunsmith at Gordy's, etc.

Very cool.....would like to visit one of those some day.

 

[Sideshow]

?Anyone else in Canada having issues getting your voter card? They were supposed to be out by the eleventh and I didn’t receive mine or fathers same story with all of my neighbours. Called 45 minutes on hold to get told to call back Monday.

Ohoo they played that trick in NZ when we kicked out Jacindas Labour Party the old drag the heel on voter’s registration trick….feel your pain on how that goes! Trudo and her were great mates wonder if they have the same play book?

 

[SaintPanzer]

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You are correct, but I can honestly say, I wasn't worrying about it when I was typing and will have forgotten about it again an hour from now. I would offer if such distinctions are that important to those members of the Departments of the Navy and Air Force they probably should not have taken the ARMY rank structure. At least the navy has its own structure and it is pretty clear the service of a CDR vs a LTC. Of course, on invitations and thank you notes we would write out the whole rank.

Those distinctions are important, because they show respect. It's not an army rank structure at all. Some of it is due to "jointness" being forced on them. Others are a very old tradition.

Colonel comes from a leader of a column.

Lieutenant is "in lieu of", as has been noted.

Other examples will occur to you.

Others have mentioned the differences between pay-grades and ranks. Again, Jointness forced.

Oh, and you will note those are Officer ranks. The Army has no Lance Corporal, Gunnery Sergeant, Master Gunnery Sergeant, etc. But my experience has always been others had the respect to learn Army equivalents, but that respect was rarely reciprocated.

True story: In Afghanistan, an Army Colonel was giving a lecture re: respecting Afghan culture, and that not everyone has the same background and decisions.

Same Colonel, later the same day, addressed a Navy Lieutenant Commander as "Major". When the LCDR said "sir, I'm in the Navy, I'm not a Major, the response was: "I don't have the time or inclination to worry about such things.

So the guy who was lecturing about respecting other cultures couldn't even allow for another American making a different decision.

It's all about showing respect.

 

[rigbymauser]

I should add that i have a new understanding of why a Holland and Holland Royal costs almost a quarter million USD

I have an old H&H .500ex I want rebarreled with all engraving, regulating etc. The finest gunsmith in Ferlach, Austria wanted €12000. H&H wanted almost 3x that much. The gunsmiths in London don’t make more than gunsmith in Ferlach. As I understand HH have gone bust a few times. Wonder why?…..