Orange_Crush
Resident windbag genius
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I see you conveniently ignored my post about how the Automotive industry is doing and the actual 2024 Financial Reportings.
EDIT: I also don't quite under stand the "leftist" argument when the entire point of MAGA and Trump is that we have lost our manufacturing and need to bring it back. That is more of a MAGA argument (that a lot of leftist agree with as well).
An opinion poll and 1 industry? That’s your comeback?
I don’t care how people feel. That’s not the question. Nor do I care if one specific industry has issues.
Is the overall economy growing? Are people better off today? The answer to both over the long run is yes. You know that too. That’s why you refuse to address reality and instead keep discussing “feelings” like a 3rd grade girl
Yep. Still sounds stupid.The lengths you guys will go to for Trump are truly amazing.
So I guess we'll be including CBS, NBC, etc, and all movie studios in the manufacturing jobs report since they "manufacture" television and film content?
The entire housing industry is also now considered "manufacturing" since houses are the end result?
Can we include hospitals as well since they "manufacture" healthcare?
What do you think “and 1 industry” means? Your entire argument is “people feel bad and one industry isn’t doing great”. That’s not sufficient reason to worsen the standard of living of the rest of the country the majority of which work outside that industry
It’s the same whiney Bernie Bro argument. That’s why there’s overlap between Trump and Bernie supporters. It’s why when you hear Tucker talk about economics he sounds like Bernie. You’re arguing against free markets and in favor of minimum wage.
ok a lot that isn’t true about the 9/5. I have 3 9/5 grievances this year so far. You drag your feet you will eventually get fired. You will get your job back eventually but it will probably be without back pay. You get Triple time for the hours you worked over 9/5 which is like $101. So I had like 11hrs of 9/5 grievances at $101. If you get that 4th week of over 9/5 the Union has a special hearing with the company and UPS isn’t allowed to work you over 9/5 hours. The reason we have 9/5 protection is so UPS will have to keep routes in and not work us 11 to 12hr days. No driver really wants to stay to 9pm or later.Amazon wasn’t a big money maker for them. Same reason fedex dropped them a few years ago. Amazon kept the bulk deliveries and packages in the cities that were cheap/convenient for their delivery and farmed out the single deliveries spread out all across the county to ups/fedex. More time consuming and expensive to deliver all the individual packages spread out.
Talked to a friend of mine at UPS. He thinks some of it is the most recent union contract UPS agreed to. There are instances where drivers can get paid 4x hourly. (Yes quadruple overtime). If you work more than 9.5 hours a day three days in a row you can file a grievance and get 4x pay for those hours over. So you get drivers that drag their feet on routes that should take around 8 hours give or take to make it last 11-12 hours. Do that 3 days in a row then file grievance for 4x hourly pay for those 6-8 hours over. 1st 8 hours is straight time. Over 40 is time and half. But hit that 9.5 3 days in a row and those go to 4x. And it’s not like UPS is creating routes that take that long. Drivers can drag it out on purpose. And if UPS tries to have someone follow them on their route to see if they’re intentionally going slow the union will just claim he’s being harassed.
So employees have an incentive to drag their feet to make incredible overtime on a bunch of Amazon packages that weren’t making UPS money to begin with.
Like you’ve suggested it likely has nothing to do with tariffs.
Automotive Industry is one of the biggest employers in most nations.
You clearly don't know what you are talking about. You don't read up on Business News, Automotive News, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, etc. You haven't worked a real job (I can tell) and are probably doing something like teaching or some profession that lives in the abstract.
Record numbers of young people (not just in the USA but even globally) are under employed, unable to find housing, etc. Granted, we have had other bad periods and recoveries (the 1970s oil crisis was bad and so was 2008 which is the one that I personal dealt with).
You might be onto something with the bolded comment. I do think Trump and MAGA have a lot more in common with the AOC/Bernie crowd that either group wants to admit.
at his level I would be shocked if he knew the daily values. He may have some understanding if they are going up or down. someone who deals with the billions isn't going to know the unit cost for a ton of cold rolled steel is $988 on a particular day.Trump knows about tariffs that you every will. He deals with manufacturing and material costs every day, I'd say he's pretty intune with imports.
My insurance has increased as the property value has increased. I could choose to be under insured but that defeats the purpose. Tax rates haven't increased. Tax assessed will increase along with value. New assessments (for me) happen this year and next.There is another story there, insurance and property taxes have played a key in driving up rates.
USA insurance industry is out of control and a big reason we can't be globally competitive. Granted, tort reform might help that a little.
at his level I would be shocked if he knew the daily values. He may have some understanding if they are going up or down. someone who deals with the billions isn't going to know the unit cost for a ton of cold rolled steel is $988 on a particular day.
but really as long as the numbers are balanced, cost paid vs cost charged, at his level he isn't going to care about the specifics. and he has people who deal with that balancing for him.
My insurance has increased as the property value has increased. I could choose to be under insured but that defeats the purpose. Tax rates haven't increased. Tax assessed will increase along with value. New assessments (for me) happen this year and next.
My insurance has increased as the property value has increased. I could choose to be under insured but that defeats the purpose. Tax rates haven't increased. Tax assessed will increase along with value. New assessments (for me) happen this year and next.
Genuinely, I'd love to see what you charged for rent on a prop in 2019 versus what you charge now and, if it's okay with you, the insurance rates/tax rates in those same timelines.
I know several landlords and the stories vary wildly.
Landlords need to get what they can get now that it's been established the .gov can force you to let people live in your property for free
Squatter laws vary from state to state and most have been around long before the market spiked 5 years ago.
That story doesn't cut it.
That sounds similar to a gripe I've heard before from him. Something about UPS started firing the mx guys (this was 3-4 years back) at some of their buildings and replacing them with a 1-800 number. Previously if they had an overhead door at their building that was broke their mx mgr guy would call a vendor to repair it if it's not something they could fix. But he would oversee the process and make sure someone came out and it was fixed. He knew who he was calling. Now someone (could be anyone) calls a 1-800 number and those people set up a vendor. And since UPS fired the person who was responsible for that oversight sometimes 2-3 different people may call the 1-800 number and 3 different vendors are set up for the same door.UPS’ CEO IMO is a big problem, from what I understand she’s the big driver of their partnership with CBRE and that has cost them big time. Facility maintenance costs have gone through the roof yet she keeps doubling down with them.
The point still stands. If the .gov can force you to provide free housing then you need to build reserves, the banks sure weren't allowing loans to go unpaid. A year+ is a long time to go without collecting rent on several units.
My first house was 11%. And THAT was a good deal at the time.The low interest rates in the early 80s really helped. My parents financed a couple in the 14-16% range.
Rates 10 years ago were in the 3-4% range (finishing the last payment on our 2.8% this year!) but did rise sharply after 2020. What happened?
I'll bet that sounded good in your head.The lengths you guys will go to for Trump are truly amazing.
So I guess we'll be including CBS, NBC, etc, and all movie studios in the manufacturing jobs report since they "manufacture" television and film content?
The entire housing industry is also now considered "manufacturing" since houses are the end result?
Can we include hospitals as well since they "manufacture" healthcare?
That sounds similar to a gripe I've heard before from him. Something about UPS started firing the mx guys (this was 3-4 years back) at some of their buildings and replacing them with a 1-800 number. Previously if they had an overhead door at their building that was broke their mx mgr guy would call a vendor to repair it if it's not something they could fix. But he would oversee the process and make sure someone came out and it was fixed. He knew who he was calling. Now someone (could be anyone) calls a 1-800 number and those people set up a vendor. And since UPS fired the person who was responsible for that oversight sometimes 2-3 different people may call the 1-800 number and 3 different vendors are set up for the same door.
So what ends up happening is: Does anyone show up to fix it? Maybe. Does it take 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks? Yes and longer. Have multiple vendors been paid over a 2 month span and the door is still broke? Yes.
My insurance has increased as the property value has increased. I could choose to be under insured but that defeats the purpose. Tax rates haven't increased. Tax assessed will increase along with value. New assessments (for me) happen this year and next.