Posted on 02/18/2015 2:53:11 PM PST by Biggirl
Why isn’t the President forcing the Port workers on the West Coast to get back to work? or bring in New workers to replace them enough is enough.
During the Bush years Arturo Sarukhan assistant to Mexicorruption's Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda said that it is lobbying in Washington for incremental steps. "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time," he said.
I recall quotes from Castaneda expressing the same notion.
5 letter word:
U-N-I-O-N-S
(Plugs Biden reference...)
Long term, most of today’s manufacturers use Just In Time ordering for raw materials. Manufacturers in the USA will respond by learning to keep raw materials on hand in stock, to not be at the mercy of the dock unions.
That will, in the short term, make purchasing look better...for about 18-24 months...just as Obama leaves office.
That is only a shot in the arm to the economy. Without a conservative approach to economics as a whole, it will end up being a shot in the nuts to the economy.
Storage causes spoilage/theft. That will increase the production costs without added benefits. This will cause buyers to seek cheaper products made out of country.
That will cause factories to close, and stores to close, because without manufacturing, they will have less to sell.
Did you see That James Howard Baker is on Jeb Bush’s foreign advisory team?
Mark, Obummer knows how to slip things “through the back door”, and he only pausesmlong enough to remove the stick from his back door to let more slip in.
You are right.
The same Jim Baker that stopped Ronald Reagan from cancelling the Department of Education?
It is currently 35 degrees in Anchorage, Alaska
with a forecast low tonight of 24.
He was Reagan’s chief of staff at first if I remember correctly.
Things are already slowing down; what’s in inventory is being depleted and many replacements are on those ships and trucks, and unavailable to resupply anyone. It will get noticeable very soon.
Headed home now but,yes
I hear they haven’t had much winter snow up there, either. Here, we’re at 14-15” so far; pretty meager compared to previous years.
Are “cop killer” bullets and “armor piercing” bullets the same thing then?
What Mark is talking about is exactly why we cannot EVER COMPROMISE WITH LIBTARDS!
You agree to what is reasonable, and they adjust the agreement to get what we never would agree to. Libtards are evil. They lie, and justify the lie by what they perceive as the good done by their lies.
According to Wikipedia, cop killer bullets are brass shot coated in teflon. Because of movies, people believe the teflon coating makes them armor piercing, but according to the manufacturer, the teflon kept a bullet from ricocheting off doors and window glass, because the teflon sticks to the glossy surface instead, of reflecting off. Because of the teflon stickiness, kevlar actually is more effective in stopping a cop killer bullet.
Armor piercing bullets are actually steel core and shaped to a point. The point pushes a concentrated force into whatever solid object it hits.
By the way, the best bullet for most effective killing, in my opinion, is the hollow point the bullet hits skin, and smashes, and often breaking into pieces, making a shredded wound. An armor piercing round will more likely go right through, making a less shredded wound.
Now, the AR15 bullet looks armor piercing, but really, the bullet tumbles through the air, like a shuriken. When it hits a person, it enters one place, ricochets around and comes out somewhere else, leaving an internal trail of shredded meat and shattered bones.
I could go on-and-on about “Just In Time”.
A theory, implemented with varying degrees of success,
that was developed, not by “manufacturers”,
but by “assembly plants” to control inventory.
(your definitions and terminology may vary)
If I am a car assembly plant, and I build 100 cars a day, then
I demand that my tire manufacturer supply me with 400 tires per day,
I demand that my engine manufacturer supply me with 100 engines per day,
my radio, seat, steering wheel, windshield, brake light,
etc., etc., manufacturers all get the same demand.
This is so my assembly line is
(1) assured of an on-going reliable supply of parts, and
(2) not required to have a gigantic warehouse full of parts, and
(3) not required to have $millions$ tied up in parts inventory.
So the shift in inventory went from the assembly line down to the
supplier.
I used to work for an automotive supplier to Ford.
If you want to remain a supplier you had better not
ever-ever-ever-ever let them run out of parts.
So we had a big warehouse with $millions$ tied up in inventory ready to ship.
And, if Ford changed the design, your inventory could be worthless, at worst, or cost a lot to retro fit, and you accepted it, because if you complained, they would find a new supplier.
But inventory at the assembly plant is not good in a world of constantly changing technology.
I just wish, if car manufacturers found a product that worked perfectly, they would stick with it, instead of changing for the sake of change.
Later all!
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