Commodity shortages

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AM64 said:
I think the first thing months ago had to do with our agricultural products and taking too much time to fill containers to ship them back - like the backlog at shipping centers was too big to worry with perishables. I'm pretty sure the translated version is exactly as you say "We're going to sell you our knockoffs, our stuff from your stolen plans, our contaminated medical and food feedstocks, you will like it, and we won't be accepting anything but money." Personally, I'd like to see a US embargo against Chinese goods and a return to self reliance.
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I keep hearing lack of "containers". Supposedly they are stockpiled somehwhere. Just 6 sides metal for pete's sake and someone with any initiative and some capital would make the lumberjacks blush. We are fed so much BS
 
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VolStrom said:
When you have a lazy ass pitiful workforce like we do now you know we're screwed.
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Perhaps I'm completely wrong, but I think there's a lot of perception problems in the US economy - particularly a disenchanted labor force. The story of the haves and haves not. I realize executive compensation in terms of absolute dollars is not a real issue, but the perception is a real issue. Likewise the investment markets built around short term profits when workers invest their lifetime for income. Industry was willing to sell out the US worker to make short term profits on Chinese built goods; industry in effect stabbed US workers in the heart and contributed to the long term unemployed. Union greed really didn't work to the best interest of the US worker either.

I'm retired, could I contribute - yes. Would I? Hell, no; corporate America got it's pound of flesh - as an engineer I was paid well, but not worth the daily crap you fight to do the job. From comments you've made I think you feel pretty much the same about your working years.
 
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AM64 said:
Perhaps I'm completely wrong, but I think there's a lot of perception problems in the US economy - particularly a disenchanted labor force. The story of the haves and haves not. I realize executive compensation in terms of absolute dollars is not a real issue, but the perception is a real issue. Likewise the investment markets built around short term profits when workers invest their lifetime for income. Industry was willing to sell out the US worker to make short term profits on Chinese built goods; industry in effect stabbed US workers in the heart and contributed to the long term unemployed. Union greed really didn't work to the best interest of the US worker either.

I'm retired, could I contribute - yes. Would I? Hell, no; corporate America got it's pound of flesh - as an engineer I was paid well, but not worth the daily crap you fight to do the job. From comments you've made I think you feel pretty much the same about your working years.
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Yep I gave a pound of flesh and worked many nights so the place could make a manager his bonus while I worked because I had a work ethic. The place is now begging for retirees to come back to work and for the most part they are getting the double barrel middle finger salute because they didn't appreciate people when they were there and now they regret ever letting us go.
 
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VolStrom said:
Yep I gave a pound of flesh and worked many nights so the place could make a manager his bonus while I worked because I had a work ethic. The place is now begging for retirees to come back to work and for the most part they are getting the double barrel middle finger salute because they didn't appreciate people when they were there and now they regret ever letting us go.
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We’re either of you RIF recipients? Would be sweet justice if they paid you to leave them a signing bonus for you to come back
 
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AM64 said:
Perhaps I'm completely wrong, but I think there's a lot of perception problems in the US economy - particularly a disenchanted labor force. The story of the haves and haves not. I realize executive compensation in terms of absolute dollars is not a real issue, but the perception is a real issue. Likewise the investment markets built around short term profits when workers invest their lifetime for income. Industry was willing to sell out the US worker to make short term profits on Chinese built goods; industry in effect stabbed US workers in the heart and contributed to the long term unemployed. Union greed really didn't work to the best interest of the US worker either.

I'm retired, could I contribute - yes. Would I? Hell, no; corporate America got it's pound of flesh - as an engineer I was paid well, but not worth the daily crap you fight to do the job. From comments you've made I think you feel pretty much the same about your working years.
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The problem is that there has been a unbalance in poorly rewarding STEM fields and over-rewarding and compensating financial and administrative fields.
 
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Wireless1 said:
We’re either of you RIF recipients? Would be sweet justice if they paid you to leave them a signing bonus for you to come back
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I wish. I asked for it but the management decided that the technical people were too valuable to let go because they knew it would have been a mass exodus. Not long after they froze the pension plan and people like me that had no reason to stay left by the hundreds. Now they're working the few left into the ground and trying to hire a bunch of replacements for 50 cents on the dollar what they were paying people. As the old saying goes they were penny wise and pound foolish.
 
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VolStrom said:
I wish. I asked for it but the management decided that the technical people were too valuable to let go because they knew it would have been a mass exodus. Not long after they froze the pension plan and people like me that had no reason to stay left by the hundreds. Now they're working the few left into the ground and trying to hire a bunch of replacements for 50 cents on the dollar what they were paying people. As the old saying goes they were penny wise and pound foolish.
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The first term I heard for the people who went through companies slashing and burning was "efficiency expert", and that was in the 60's. Since Robert McNamara was busy screwing Ford in the 50's, you know it was happening earlier. A number of assembly lines might still be operating if companies stocked what they needed and didn't depend on quick logistical response, but they can say they don't have "profits" tied up in inventory ... except for the nearly finished cars and trucks waiting for a $1 display driver.

I read a quip in a book today about government bureaucracies and elected officials - the people who spend their lives there see them as "political tourists". That term probably applies as well to the top levels in many corporations, too. I used to believe in corporate execs holding stock in the company, but no longer because there's too much compensation to be made in short term profitability that tears the heart out of companies in the long run.
 
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Carl Pickens said:
Build all those electric cars for California….. so they can sit in the driveway
Severe Drought Could Threaten Power Supply in West for Years to Come
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California is a disaster of its own making. Blame climate change all you want, the fact of the matter is the state is primarily semi arid and they've tried to irrigate the entire thing at the expense of many adjacent states. It takes a gallon of water to make one almond, nearly three quarts for a single pistachio. What the economic cost of diverting that much water for nuts? It's over developed into areas that cannot sustain life without intervention to get water there. I don't see why the government doesn't buy land like it did after the big floods on the MS as a buffer to these towns being burned down every few years.
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
California is a disaster of its own making. Blame climate change all you want, the fact of the matter is the state is primarily semi arid and they've tried to irrigate the entire thing at the expense of many adjacent states. It takes a gallon of water to make one almond, nearly three quarts for a single pistachio. What the economic cost of diverting that much water for nuts? It's over developed into areas that cannot sustain life without intervention to get water there. I don't see why the government doesn't buy land like it did after the big floods on the MS as a buffer to these towns being burned down every few years.
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I love almonds so shut your whore mouth.
 
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05_never_again said:
Energy independence was actually achieved under Obama. He had nothing to do with it, but it was achieved while he was president.
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This is true, but he was miffed about it because it was the North Dakota oil boom that precipitated it. I seem to recall he lamented that he had no control over drilling leases on private property in North Dakota. He did restrict federal drilling leases where he could.
 
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Paper Supply Is Thinning Due To Delta Variant

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The pandemic has encroached on supplies of paper used for writing and printing.

Toilet tissue isn’t the only kind of paper that’s increasingly hard to find as the Delta variant has pushed some people to stock their shelves.

Businesses and consumers are being told to wait weeks or longer to get what they’ve ordered from printers — or to limit their use of copy machines — because there’s not enough of other kinds of paper, sources tell The Post. And as the holiday season approaches, book sellers fear a runaway best seller could be out of stock if there’s not enough paper to keep up with demand.

Like most commodities, paper became harder to purchase this summer with the rise of the Delta variant around the world, limiting labor at paper mills and shipping ports just when the economy was opening up again and demand was soaring.

But labor issues aren’t the only reason for the shrinking paper supply: The pandemic accelerated an existing decline in paper production as more manufacturers pivot to making higher-margin packaging materials, like cardboard boxes used in e-commerce, Argus Research analyst David Coleman told The Post.

International Paper Co. of Memphis, for example, recently divested most of its paper division, bought two box plants in Spain and took a controlling interest in a US-based corrugated packaging company.

Paper supply is thinning due to Delta variant
 
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