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Brace For Astronomical Shipping Costs As China Goes Into Lockdown Mode
Zubu Brothers ^ | 8-6-2021

Posted on 08/06/2021 6:10:53 PM PDT by blam

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To: monkeyshine

Take Biden’s $1 trillion “infrastructure” package and give it as loans to manufacturers to build factories and make stuff here in the USA.


It mostly a GOP package and its $1.2 trillion, which adds $250 billion to the debt; the other package is the $5.5 trillion Democrat infrastructure package (commonly and erroneously referred to as $3.5 trillion) of which only billions are earmarked for infrastructure as most think of that. That Dem package includes 31 brand spanking new taxes, and no way to pay for the thing.

If you imagine that the US can build factories like the Chinese ones, well we can ... but we would need, on average, 100,000-200,000 employees each. Name a city that has that many spare workers - ones looking for work, will actually show up, arrive on time, and stick around more than a week or month.


21 posted on 08/07/2021 7:56:10 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: McGavin999

We will have to buy all the manufacture equipment that our CEOs and GOV sent to China. We can’t produce our own crap anymore. If all imports from China stopped today it would be panic / fires in the streets here in 3-5 days.


22 posted on 08/07/2021 1:57:17 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative?)
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To: wgmalabama

Americans are phenomenally resourceful. Look at what we produced during WWII. Overnight factories sprung up. We need to get our pharmaceuticals moved back ASAP, American entrepreneurs would be smart to start building now.


23 posted on 08/07/2021 3:27:25 PM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: blam

Yeah. Maybe we should make our own stuff again? YES WE SHOULD....


24 posted on 08/07/2021 3:35:02 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Mariner

A form of a tariff. LIKE!!!


25 posted on 08/07/2021 3:35:32 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: McGavin999
If importing goods and undercutting the US workforce is such a great thing then why don't our esteemed corporations advertise the fact the do that? Why not a "Not made in the USA" label?
26 posted on 08/07/2021 3:38:47 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: monkeyshine

Make it here. Do it now.


27 posted on 08/07/2021 3:39:30 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

If you ever made one penny off of importing form China then I hope you and yours end up impoverish beggars.


28 posted on 08/07/2021 3:41:46 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: blam; central_va

Astronomical shipping costs from China?

Good!

As far as I am concerned if there are COSCO containers in the deck we should be sinking the ships.


29 posted on 08/07/2021 3:42:47 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: blam
Is this lockdown the same as the last one? Locked out of traveling around China but free to travel the world?
30 posted on 08/07/2021 3:43:49 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: monkeyshine
this is bad news for most Americans and American businesses in the short term at least

Kicking heroin is bad news in the short term, too.

31 posted on 08/07/2021 3:44:13 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: PIF
Name a city that has that many spare workers - ones looking for work, will actually show up, arrive on time, and stick around more than a week or month.

All of them do. Pay and they will come. Imagine the economic boon to all!!!

I still believe in American ingenuity and workforce YOU DON'T.

Mass produce goods are cheap to make not matter where it is done. IT IS A MATTER OF DEGREES OF CHEAPNESS.

32 posted on 08/07/2021 3:45:01 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: wgmalabama
We can’t produce our own crap anymore.

I call BS. What static thinking.

33 posted on 08/07/2021 3:45:46 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Jim Noble

If we go hot over Taiwan the only good that will come of it is the end of trade with Red China. Nixon was an A$$.


34 posted on 08/07/2021 3:47:09 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Jim Noble
Kicking heroin is bad news in the short term, too.

I wish I had said that.

35 posted on 08/07/2021 3:49:32 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

All of them do. ... I still believe in American ingenuity and workforce YOU DON’T.

No US city has 200,000 **extra** workers. Have you been paying attention? Its hard enough for employers to find ANY one willing to work, let alone fill existing jobs.

I never said what I believe or don’t. Please stop trolling.


36 posted on 08/07/2021 4:13:08 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: McGavin999
We need to stop buying crap from China.

We'll continue to buy goods from them as long as they're cheaper than ours.

We'll also continue to blame China for our problems at the same time we beg them to sell us more.

It would be hard to find a better example of the inexorable power of (perceived) economic self interest.

37 posted on 08/07/2021 4:25:23 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: PIF

You pulled 200,000 out of your butt.


38 posted on 08/07/2021 4:36:14 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Listen you ignorant fool, if you want to sell anything and feed your family in this country you won’t do it selling only American-made goods. Don’t blame it on me, blame it on the government people have been voting for, for the last sixty years I suggest you quit using anything made outside the United States and see how long you live.

I’ve been selling for 45 years and the availability of American-made goods has dropped off the cliff. And yet somehow the need to pay my rent and feed my family hasn’t.


39 posted on 08/07/2021 4:38:06 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: semimojo
We need tariffs badly. It the job of the US government to promote US industry over foreign industry. It's one of the few purposes of a federal government to wit secure our borders which includes imported goods.

Anyone that thinks the economic ties to China have been nothing but a disaster is an idiot and fool. Make it here, do it now.

40 posted on 08/07/2021 4:40:00 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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