Trump says US will institute tariffs on steel and aluminum imports next week

[volfanhill]

I don't mean to highjack the thread, but being in ATL you'll appreciate this.

I was coming home from Clearwater Saturday a week ago... I got off on 685? To hit the 285 loop.... it's only two lanes at this point and traffic is moving at 65-75.... for a minute anyways..then I notice a little red Toyota in the fast lane going around 50.... the fast lane is stacking up and swerving around it and etc..... I've been on the road for hours in all the damn beach traffic and not happy to see this.... I finally get up beside the Toyota and look over wondering who is the dumb **** blocking the fast lane like this in ATL?.... well it was this 30ish black chick and she was in her own little world digging in her nose as if she was digging for gold.... I'm talking middle knuckle deep...my anger went to humor immediately and I began telling my girls .... look! Look!.... we all had s great laugh.... I just wish we'd have videoed it... it was that gruesome

lol that’s aweome

 

[volfanhill]

They probably have satellite offices in Tennessee

They are everywhere

 

[Vol0725]

Why are you plagiarizing other's thoughts? Word for word. Damn son. I'm sure you just left the quotes off, right? Right? Gonna have to start calling you "Melanie".



Wilbur Ross Vindicated by Campbell Soup Disaster | Breitbart

iPhone page load error on VN freezing, didn’t C&P link. Have rebooted phone half dozen times to finally type response.

Nonetheless, it’s an excellent piece on the facts.

 

[Carl Pickens]

They are everywhere

Health or P&C?

 

[BowlBrother85]

I had a interesting conversation with a friend of mine today. He is a CFO of one of the largest insurance companies in the country. I would guess makes more in a month then I do in a year. He is very anti trump. But he had an interesting theory on this. He thinks Trump, and his advisors, are pushing this tarrif nonsense to keep the fed from raising interest rates too quickly. His theory is that Trump, and his advisors, see significant economic growth behind his sails and this would slow the fed down on jnterest rate growth. The long term goal being to capture maximum growth during his re-election. Meaning back off the stupid right as the heat of his re-election kicks off. Slow growth slightly for now by trade war. A couple years that’s settled and boom. I don’t know if I buy it but again this guy isn’t dumb and isn’t a Trump fan.

That is interesting but it's also probably giving Trump more credit than he deserves. Nothing we have seen so far from Trump shows that kind of forethought. Everything is ideological. Black and white, fair or unfair, right or wrong.

 

[volfanhill]

Oh yeah. I forget who did what sometimes on the forum. My wife was down there last week and bought porch furniture in Mexico Beach. She called and said that she was in the car, on her way to Mexico City to look at furniture, and I told her that she should have flown.

Lol

 

[Carl Pickens]

That is interesting but it's also probably giving Trump more credit than he deserves. Nothing we have seen so far from Trump shows that kind of forethought. Everything is ideological. Black and white, fair or unfair, right or wrong.

Keep underestimating him

 

[volfanhill]

That is interesting but it's also probably giving Trump more credit than he deserves. Nothing we have seen so far from Trump shows that kind of forethought. Everything is ideological. Black and white, fair or unfair, right or wrong.

Like I told LG:

Even if you think he is the most vile human on earth. Even if you think he made his money through shady practices. Even if you think he conspired to steal the election. How does a dumb person do any of that? He is not dumb.

 

[volfanhill]

Health or P&C?

Health

 

[Vol_Doc]

Job loss? Yeah, go back decades and look at the effects of terrible trade deals and lost jobs (and wage suppression)

How do you propose we get other countries to come to the table? And the tough question...how do you get them to take swift action for fair and reciprocal trade?

Oh, I don't know, negotiate with them? A lot of that swift action of which you speak has been retaliatory tariffs rather than concessions. Trump's opening was threats and attacks. When did he ever try and engage any trade partners in negotiation? As I said before, he's set the US against the world with his tactics. They are making deals without us. We're not going to transform into a manufacturing juggernaut because Trump wants us to.

 

[TennTom]

iPhone page load error on VN freezing, didn’t C&P link. Have rebooted phone half dozen times to finally type response.

Nonetheless, it’s an excellent piece on the facts.

Yeah, OK. That kept your quotations keys from working?

 

[BowlBrother85]

Keep underestimating him

Per The Washington Times (a conservative outlet), Trump added $1 trillion to the national debt in his first 14 months in office. It stands at $21 trillion now per the Congressional Budget Office. That doesn't sound like a man who exercises much forethought to me.

 

[Obsessed]

Per The Washington Times (a conservative outlet), Trump added $1 trillion to the national debt in his first 14 months in office. It stands at $21 trillion now per the Congressional Budget Office. That doesn't sound like a man who exercises much forethought to me.

Let me know when he doubles it.

 

[volfanhill]

Let me know when he doubles it.

That’s a bingo

 

[Vol0725]

Yeah, OK. That kept your quotations keys from working?

VN Webpage reload, iPhone keypad froze, lost link, typed this 3 times. Move on.

 

[BowlBrother85]

Let me know when he doubles it.

Do you remember when he said that the debt would be completely eliminated during his presidency? No?

 

[Vol_Doc]

Let me know when he doubles it.

To be fair should be when he adds another 9 trillion to match Obama's 10. Can't hold him to 20 trillion in comparison.

 

[BowlBrother85]

To be fair should be when he adds another 9 trillion to match Obama's 10. Can't hold him to 20 trillion in comparison.

Well, if you really wanted to be fair, you would also point out that Obama inherited the Wall Street bailout from George W. Bush.

 

[Vol_Doc]

Well, if you really wanted to be fair, you would also point out that Obama inherited the Wall Street bailout from George W. Bush.

Lots of potential qualifiers, yes. I think at least making the amounts equal is a minimum for fair comparison.

 

[DancingOutlaw]

Well, if you really wanted to be fair, you would also point out that Obama inherited the Wall Street bailout from George W. Bush.

Lol TARP was less than $500B.

 

[BowlBrother85]

Lol TARP was less than $500B.

There was also the recession. LOL

 

[T-TownVol]

Are you a mfgs rep? I've got a good friend that installs and refinishes gym floors. It's amazing how busy he stays

We do entire gymnasium packages.....GC builds the shell, we turn it into a gym. Also do operable partitions for convention centers and stadium/auditorium seating.....had the largest month of sales in our 30 year history last month....times are GOOD!!

 

[NorthDallas40]

There was also the recession. LOL

He also had 8 years and is the only President not to see a year of 3% annual GDP. LOL.

 

[TennTom]

This doesn't seem to be working out like the stable genius thought.

The Mid-Continent Nail Corporation in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, said this week that it had recently laid off 60 of its 500 workers because of the hefty 25 percent tariff that the administration has slapped on steel imports from Mexico and Canada.

Mid-Continent, described as the largest nail manufacturer in the United States, had been importing Mexican steel to turn into nails state-side. The company, which was started in 1987 by two local brothers, said sales plummeted by 50 percent in just two weeks after it raised prices to cope with the elevated steel costs.

Largest U.S. Nail Manufacturer Could Soon Be Out Of Business Because Of Trump Tariffs | HuffPost

 

[T-TownVol]

This doesn't seem to be working out like the stable genius thought.








Largest U.S. Nail Manufacturer Could Soon Be Out Of Business Because Of Trump Tariffs | HuffPost

Good Grief Guys........this is the third time that this story about this nail company has been posted in this thread.....is this all ya got????

Use American steel.....produce a nail that actually has some strength.....people pay a little more.....problem solved.......