Posted on 09/06/2021 12:38:01 PM PDT by blam
Samsung settles on Taylor, Texas as site for new chip plant
At the manufacturer I work for, a componet that cost 17 cents pre covid now cost $32.00. That id when we can find it.
I try to work my older stuff when I have money to buy stuff and sometimes on hold for powder coating.
At times I wished I wasn’t so much like Adrian Monk in terms of liking clean metal surfaces.
If Trump were in office, I would farm out K5 to a shop and feel reasonably confident that I would have a long term job and there would be a functional economy. For now, ala Johnny Cash, one piece at a time.
Same with the Jeeps.
I need to get a spare module for my Willys jeep.
The old distributor was essentially junk. I converted to the electronic version. A real difference.
maybe I shouldn't loose lip this but anyone who cares would already know, and who will believe me anyway)
You’ve just written the sad truth. I consider myself blessed to have managed to be be born between WWII and the fall of America.
Ha Ha , yeah, my polaris 600 doesnt miss having a carb and points either
“True. But older cars have a mechanical distributor ignition system with points. They will take an EMP licking and keep on ticking …”
I remember setting them well! But where will your gasoline come from? The tanker delivery trucks will be toast.
My thought on EMPs: Our enemies are dependent on us buying stuff from them. An EMP attack would make that impossible. Worldwide very deep depression would be the result. Just like nukes, it’s a mutual suicide move.
After an EMP hit, we’d be back in the 1800s, and millions would die within 6-8mos..
Global Foundries also has major US production in Malta NY and has expanded some recently. It can be done, even in a politically rotten place like NYS.
“assuming the U.S. government can bend the semiconductor market to better meet its will.”
HAHAHAHAHA. Because Chomo Joe has just been so wildly successful creating a great business climate. He did wonders for the oil industry and the XL pipeline. I’m sure he will be just as helpful creating an environment where companies will want to invest billions of dollars to start making chips in the USA. OH YEAH. AND allow the mining of the resources AND allow the energy required to produce chips. AND free to hire the best and brightest instead of the most “diverse” group. AND to minimize federal labor regulations... AND...............
But for possible investment opportunities too.
Like ?
We can thank our globalist traitor pigs for this.
Thanks. I didn’t know it was that dirty to make them.
Sounds like a national security issue that should override enviro-BS to me, but, I’m obviously out of step with this New Age.
My graphics card died. Really bad timing
Nearly all drugs and medical supplies, rare earth elements, steel, building supplies, clothing and shoes, chemicals, the stuff of modern life, come through China. Books are printed in China.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the British wanted us to be raw materials producers consuming finished products. That meant poverty and dependence.
We are Eloi who like a pretty place with no icky factories and pollution. We are Jacob trading away our birthright.
We are closing down power plants and mandating electric cars. We will take twenty years to build a power plant or factory with all the impact statements, lawsuits, affected groups input, environmental studies, lawsuits in series, minority set asides.
The free traitors on our side had a lot to do with that. It was the GOP that signed the free trades deals that sent our manufacturing, our technology, our money, and our sovereignty to the communists.
Sadly, many capitalism loving, communist hating Freepers supported them. I was even called stupid by one for choosing to pay more for American made products.
Now what do we have? We're borrowing money from China to buy Chinese made goods. Money that could have gone into our infrastructure, military, and space program is funding China's instead.
And who are the geniuses who thought we could send our technology over there and the communists wouldn't steal it?
Our side is every bit at fault as the left. In fact, we're even more at fault because we knew what communism is and should have known better, but we dived in anyway.
>>The world’s top two leading chip companies are Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics. These two Asian firms, combined, control more than 70 percent of the semiconductor manufacturing market.<<
We have the dumbest damn leaders on the planet that they would endanger Americas national security this way. Allowing so much sensitive technology to flow out of our country all the sake of $$$corporate profits$$$.
>>97% of our antibiotics come from China.<<
Along with thousands of other life saving drugs and ingredients used in Rx formulations.
I’ve believe it for decades, this is not your daddy’s capitalism and free markets. This is a perverted sort of globalism designed to weaken over many years the United States.
These leftist, globalist would sell their mama for $$$.
Ah yes, I should have included RINOs in my list of scoundrels and traitors.
If supporting the free trade deals with the communists is the determining factor in whether a Republican is a RINO, that doesn’t leave us with much left.
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