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It isn't just off-shore where the bottleneck arises. I have a friend who just traveled to Kansas. He said he saw thousands of ocean freight containers parked there, sitting in big cross-terminal yards, wherever they could find room, some on trailers, many just stacked without trailer under them. No trucks moving in or out of the area. Of course, we don't know if they are full or empty, but if they sit in Kansas they sure can't go back overseas to pick up more freight. I've heard that the yards along the west coast look the same. Few trucks to go east with cargo, and empty west-bound containers stuck because the ships cannot unload full ones and pick up empties. Biden can announce that LA is going on 24-hour service to alieviate the problem all he wants, sounds good to people who don't know the real situation, but they were already going 24-hours as much as possible. That isn't the problem. The whole intermodal shipping system is in a cluster &*#. Trucking is like a lot of other businesses in the US right now, can't find enough people to hire. In trucking's case, much of it has to do with retirements of older guys who don't want to mess around with computerized log books (that Obama and Biden pushed on the industry for "safety", but the result has been guys are being forced to go "out-of-service" too much and lose drive-time wages and hours, so they quit or retire).
In direct answer to your question, I have not ordered anything in the past couple years. I've gone to an all-cash transaction regiment on my hobbies! Meaning, my retirement pension has gotten too thin! (because of all the inflation started by Obama, not reversed by Trump, and now booster-rocketed with no embarrassment by Biden)
Biden will say anything we want to hear. We need to find out who is giving him orders and get those greedy, power hungry numbskull(s) off their throne(s).
My kid moves Rock Salt, he is NE supplier, he can't get product and what he can get is tripled in price. So what does that mean for us? Your local taxes will go through the roof if we get a bad winter as the cost to maintain the roads will eat up the budget and then some. And yes he is passing the cost on to the consumer. Elections have consequences remember that. I know a lot of people living paycheck to paycheck and they can't make it any longer. We just lost a business over the weekend, DBI https://www.standardspeaker.com/news/business/dbi-closes-more-than-1-500-lose-jobs/article_d9cb6756-3984-56da-80d8-79cf5bad13ef.html, they told their employees Friday at 4:30 they were closing their doors, 1500 plus people out of work just like that. "Let's go Brandon."
Have you been to a grocery store lately? I do a lot of the cooking in our house so yes I have and it scares the **** out of me. How about filling up your cars or heating your house? Nuff said or I'll need my meds.
Outsourcing our manufacturing base and sacrificing it on the alter of "cheap" consumer products, is now coming home to roost. "Global economy" is a crock of BS. The only way a country's economy thrives is to make as much domestically as possible and keep the money circulating within that domestic economy. Instead, for the past 30 or so years, we've been doing nothing but subsidizing the growth of Chinese economy at the expense of our economy and citizens. And look where that's gotten us. Greed is NOT good.
+1. LOL! I agree completely with you again Ted. It's been 30 years since since President G. Bush (the 1st) pushed Congress to pass NAFTA. Wal-Mart couldn't get over to China fast enough. And everyone else followed along. I 'NEVER' trusted dealing with a communist country from the very first. And now that the 'progressives' have spent the past year subsidizing the unemployment checks to get folks to stay home -AND- then telling companies to 'fire' employees who won't get the vaccine .... the supply-chain is in one hell of a mess. No wonder a lot of truck drivers are taking early retirement. Trump was in the process of re-doing NAFTA .. he wasn't finished. Guess he was on the right track after all with 'America First'.
riginally posted by kosh2258[/i]
Outsourcing our manufacturing base and sacrificing it on the alter of "cheap" consumer products, is now coming home to roost. "Global economy" is a crock of BS. The only way a country's economy thrives is to make as much domestically as possible and keep the money circulating within that domestic economy. Instead, for the past 30 or so years, we've been doing nothing but subsidizing the growth of Chinese economy at the expense of our economy and citizens. And look where that's gotten us. Greed is NOT good. [/quote]
+1. LOL! I agree completely with you again Ted. It's been 30 years since since President G. Bush (the 1st) pushed Congress to pass NAFTA. Wal-Mart couldn't get over to China fast enough. And everyone else followed along. I 'NEVER' trusted dealing with a communist country from the very first. And now that the 'progressives' have spent the past year subsidizing the unemployment checks to get folks to stay home -AND- then telling companies to 'fire' employees who won't get the vaccine .... the supply-chain is in one hell of a mess. No wonder a lot of truck drivers are taking early retirement. Trump was in the process of re-doing NAFTA .. he wasn't finished. Guess he was on the right track after all with 'America First'.
riginally posted by kosh2258[/i]
Outsourcing our manufacturing base and sacrificing it on the alter of "cheap" consumer products, is now coming home to roost. "Global economy" is a crock of BS. The only way a country's economy thrives is to make as much domestically as possible and keep the money circulating within that domestic economy. Instead, for the past 30 or so years, we've been doing nothing but subsidizing the growth of Chinese economy at the expense of our economy and citizens. And look where that's gotten us. Greed is NOT good. [/quote]
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