Politics

[Big_Easy]

Yeah ...because the "Get Trump" rhetoric is such a productive use of time and taxpayer money.

You didn't seem to mind when Republicans wasted Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars investigating Hillary Clinton for nonsense reasons?

 

[PARA45]

Hillary Clinton "What difference, at this point, does it make?"

 

[rookhawk]

What has been proven to create healthy societies is the WASP model of:

— delayed gratification
— longer time horizons
— education (including self-), intellectual diligence
— hard work
— saving money
— entrepreneurship
— faith
— family

The model works even for non-Whites, but when it's abandoned not even being White will prevent decline.

I'd argue that many of these virtues most commonly manifest in Asian-Americans, probably accounting to their #1 wealthiest demographic in America. Ashkanazi-Jewish Americans I think are #3, also obsessive with several of the items on the checklist.

 

[Tanks]

Your leaving out the “labor contractors” and if you think that $37.50 per hour you pay translates into them making $37.50hr then you are in denial; also as far as black labor being excluded.

How many black laborers speak Spanish? which is often required of US citizens to work with illegals, just like having a drivers license so the US citizen who speaks Spanish can be incharge of driving the illegals around with no licenses.

Actually, all of the contractors I mentioned own their own business and work alongside their helpers. The lady and her helper that I pay $37.50 is basically just themselves, the lady's son and another. All US citizens. She has been cleaning a neighbor's house for 15 years. I hired her after my own cleaning lady retired after working for me for 30+ years.

Yes, farm, construction workers etc. that work for a contracting company are different. I am not involved with those so not sure how many are temporary visa workers and how many might be illegal.

 

[WAB]

This happened in the Oklahoma governors Republican primary race as well.

Drummond- moderate Republican, really more old line Democrat with name recognition.

Mazzei- conservative Republican that can’t communicate and stumbles over his words.

Keating- Conservative Republican, articulate, self made oilman, energetic in his 40’s.

Trump endorses Mazzei.

Without Trumps endorsement Keating is in the runoff with Drummond and easily wins.

Now we have a coin flip between two marginal candidates. Oklahoma could have done much better.

I totally agree with you, his ego knows no bounds and he has had a negative effect on more than one election for the republicans. I find it interesting that many admit his impact on these elections but mock Canadians when they point out his negative impact on their election.

 

[WAB]

As I tried to point out, there are a host of reasons for the collapse of the black family structure in this country.

If we use 1960 as a baseline, 20-22% of black children lived in single-parent households. Over the next two decades between 1960 and 1980 single parentage rose to nearly 50% by 1980. The numbers peaked over the next two decades rising to just over 55% in the mid-1990's. It has gone down in recent years but remains plateaued at roughly 47-50%. Hardly a triumph in the restoration of a stable family environments for half of this country's black children.

It is political gamesmanship to point to a single factor driving this persistent pattern. Most serious students of the issue point to proud economic changes broad economic changes, urban manufacturing declines, changes in welfare policy design, and shifting social norms in the black community (and more broadly) regarding marriage. And yes, drug related sentencing also played a role - as did an explosion of inner city crime that corresponded to the crack epidemic leading to those more draconian sentencing guidelines.

Nothing is simple and nothing is the exclusive "fault" of either political party or administration. No matter where bias leads our finger pointing, fatherless households remain a significant persistent, now sixty years and counting, problem within the black community that has improved only marginally. So long as conditions encourage the George Floyd's of the inner city to be the role models and heroes of black youth, little is likely to change.

A contributing factor in the South was the collapse of manufacturing, particularly in industries with a large blue collar workforce. The textile industry would be at the top of the list, a casualty of NAFTA. Although Bill Clinton eventually signed the legislation to implement this, HW signed the original trade pact. The D’s and R’s own this one equally. I’m no isolationist, but NAFTA was a terrible agreement for the US.

 

[Red Leg]

A contributing factor in the South was the collapse of manufacturing, particularly in industries with a large blue collar workforce. The textile industry would be at the top of the list, a casualty of NAFTA. Although Bill Clinton eventually signed the legislation to implement this, HW signed the original trade pact. The D’s and R’s own this one equally. I’m no isolationist, but NAFTA was a terrible agreement for the US.

Affected those northern manufacturing jobs just as badly, perhaps worse, for which many blacks families had moved North. Detroit, Flint, Cleveland, Dayton, Chicago, and Milwaukee to name the more prominent.

 

[WAB]

Affected those northern manufacturing jobs just as badly, perhaps worse, for which many blacks families had moved North. Detroit, Flint, Cleveland, Dayton, Chicago, and Milwaukee to name the more prominent.

I’ll never understand the political desire to drive manufacturing offshore. I completely support letting markets work and allowing production to go where it is most efficient. However, this is way beyond that. It created artificial barriers to continued domestic manufacturing. This is exactly what the Kyoto Protocol did. It was sold as an environmental play when in fact it wasn’t. It created incentives for firms to move production from developed nations with good environmental performance to developing nations with abysmal environmental performance. There is no way the people pushing it were unaware that globally it would increase the environmental impact of production. IMO this gives you a glimpse into what the far left is really trying to accomplish.

 

[Tanks]

It created incentives for firms to move production from developed nations with good environmental performance to developing nations with abysmal environmental performance. There is no way the people pushing it were unaware that globally it would increase the environmental impact of production. IMO this gives you a glimpse into what the far left is really trying to accomplish.

CA did that and is doing that in regard to oil industry. They drove refineries to shutdown and now buying refined products from South Korea etc. and of course because of Iran war South Koreans are not getting enough oil to refine.

I think they are figuring if there is enough pain at the pump people will embrace EVs even though the electric grid can't support it.

My company monitors pumping stations for a few municipalities. My employees have been getting power outage alarms on a regular basis all summer long.

 

[Big_Easy]

I think they are figuring if there is enough pain at the pump people will embrace EVs even though the electric grid can't support it.

Depends on where you're at, some grids can handle it. Some can't. CA is adding batteries and solar very quickly, in 5-7 years it'll be an entirely different grid than it is today.

 

[Brent in Az]

The radical faction of the DSA is claiming that AOC is too moderate to run for President.

 

[Scott CWO]

Not quite. They can replace that missing Hormuz oil with their stockpiles for at least another year, possibly longer. Plus, more than 50% of new vehicle sales in China are now EVs, at the current pace it'll be almost 100% in 5 years. That, combined with more Russian oil and a slightly decreasing population will cause them to simply need less oil. If they convert their entire light duty vehicle fleet to all electric, they can continue on without any of that missing Hormuz oil.

How China eased pressure on oil markets by halting purchases and relying on reserves

Beijing’s vast stockpiles and reduced crude imports have helped absorb a supply shock that might otherwise have sent global prices soaring

www.middleeasteye.net

Do you not understand that stockpiles exist for a reason? They will be challenged to rebuild them.

 

[rigbymauser]

I’ll never understand the political desire to drive manufacturing offshore. I completely support letting markets work and allowing production to go where it is most efficient. However, this is way beyond that. It created artificial barriers to continued domestic manufacturing. This is exactly what the Kyoto Protocol did. It was sold as an environmental play when in fact it wasn’t. It created incentives for firms to move production from developed nations with good environmental performance to developing nations with abysmal environmental performance. There is no way the people pushing it were unaware that globally it would increase the environmental impact of production. IMO this gives you a glimpse into what the far left is really trying to accomplish.

The system(whatever left or right) makes it so hard to run a business with rules and regulations that if one were to to do it by the book it would become so expensive nobody would buy their product. What we see overhere is restrictive enviromental laws ,book keeping laws etc pushes farmers(and other businesses out to countries that gives a shit about pollution anyway which we again import into our country at higher price. Overhere we don`t see it as a left or right issue. We see it as academical clergy decissionmakers who has lost touch with the world outside the office. The clergies think they can solve practical matters through spreadsheets and fine graphs.

 

[Foxi]

Trump is strangling China’s oil supply and economy through his actions with Venezuela and Iran. A by-product is that it also may keep China from taking Taiwan.

I think you’re being a little too optimistic about that.
Due to crises and structural changes, China’s oil imports are on the decline. Russia, the main supplier, is still in the picture and remains China’s most important partner in the oil business. Moreover, Russia has immense oil and gas reserves.
Siberia alone has a land area significantly larger than that of the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska.
China is building massive oil production facilities off the coast of Angola and Brazil—if they haven’t already done so.
Measured by their foresight, we in the West are all falling short.

Foxi

 

[Scott CWO]

I think you’re being a little too optimistic about that.
Due to crises and structural changes, China’s oil imports are on the decline. Russia, the main supplier, is still in the picture and remains China’s most important partner in the oil business. Moreover, Russia has immense oil and gas reserves.
Siberia alone has a land area significantly larger than that of the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska.
China is building massive oil production facilities off the coast of Angola and Brazil—if they haven’t already done so.
Measured by their foresight, we in the West are all falling short.

Foxi

Since the Ukraine war, the sanctions put in place have extremely limited Russia’s ability to maintain their oil field equipment and infrastructure. Things are falling apart and the outside maintenance contractors are gone. It is a crisis in Russia right now and on top of that, Ukraine is striking oil infrastructure on a weekly basis. Reserves are great but if you can’t drill them and keep them running, what good are they? I have a client who’s company laser cuts steel at an industrial level - 700,000 pounds per day. He tells me about the Russian oil field crisis.

Yes, China is building off the coast. They have to because they are not getting as much as they need from other countries anymore.

 

[Foxi]

Since the Ukraine war, the sanctions put in place have extremely limited Russia’s ability to maintain their oil field equipment and infrastructure. Things are falling apart and the outside maintenance contractors are gone. It is a crisis in Russia right now and on top of that, Ukraine is striking oil infrastructure on a weekly basis. Reserves are great but if you can’t drill them and keep them running, what good are they? I have a client who’s company laser cuts steel at an industrial level - 700,000 pounds per day. He tells me about the Russian oil field crisis.

Yes, China is building off the coast. They have to because they are not getting as much as they need from other countries anymore.

Yes, we're constantly hearing about the crises in Russia.
But who among us is actually there on the ground?
I trust the media and the statements from those in power about as little as—presumably—you do.
Carpe diem
Foxi

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Venezuela abandoning the bolivar and adopting the U.S. dollar would be the biggest currency switch since the advent of the euro, Hanke says

"Taming inflation is the key to restoring stability in Venezuela, and all the other progress flows from that."

finance.yahoo.com

 

[Boyd Brooks]

Venezuela abandoning the bolivar and adopting the U.S. dollar would be the biggest currency switch since the advent of the euro, Hanke says

"Taming inflation is the key to restoring stability in Venezuela, and all the other progress flows from that."

finance.yahoo.com

At least someone gets it, not like Carnage Carney, Davos Dope, WEF whatever. Can’t get a trade deal with our brothers, what an incompetent POS, I couldn’t even listen to him yesterday, as I’da puked for sure.
Please feel free to tariff the shit of of Depends and incontinence products, so maybe the old Liberals will vote the right way the next time.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Why is the Border Patrol detaining immigrant truckers in Arizona? | Exclusive

The Trump administration says it is cracking down on immigrant truck drivers who pose safety risks. Critics call it an attack on asylum-seekers.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Brian]

PM Carney Speaks to Media After Suspension of Canada-U.S. Trade Talks

Prime Minister Mark Carney holds a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa after Canada and the United States failed to reach a trade agreement before a late Friday deadline and Canada said it was suspending negotiations. The prime minister has indicated that his government intends to...

www.cpac.ca