I believe there were only 400 million dollars, will double check, but it was not 1 billion.
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US Tariffs, Sigh!
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Geneva Olson
Expert Storyteller
my mama used to tell me I would argue with a fence post. Apparently you would too.
RachelKelly
Just your bright haired sign designer.
I think something that might be effecting this is a lot of people don't want to trust a kid with machinery anymore either. Many teenagers doing odd jobs like this wouldn't have a general contractors license, business license, insurance etc. They would have to rely on the homeowner's insurance if they hurt themselves on the property. Then it becomes a legal hassle for homeowner, their insurance rates go up, and heaven forbid Jimmy's momma sues the homeowner.
Yea if they are employed by a general contractor that's a bit better of a situation and at least workman's comp would cover any liability.
Agricultural jobs are definitely something that rural kids still do a lot of. You grow up lower class or just barely middle class, and you learn to budget, try to stretch a dolar, finding free furnature that just needed a scratch filled, a new finish, and resell it at a garage sale. As they get older and stay in that field they get technical skills that do adapt to other things. Operating a tractor and a backhoe then can translate to road construction equipment and other machinery operator jobs in mines, sign shops, building contractors, site prep contractors, etc. Budgeting and money management translates to bookkeeping, PO and WO tracking. The furnature refinishing turns into carpantry skills and building your own furnature. I dabled in photography, art and design early in highschool and just kept at it.
As far as schooling goes, yea I totally got my money's worth just going to a community college for graphic design. They had pre-press and press operation classes where we actually interacted with a plate Ryobi duplexer and the single color Heidelberg. I was a shoe in for a work study position in that same print shop! Only came out of school with a $3,000 loan, because I needed a beefy computer and I bought Adobe CS6 outright at that time, I still keep that license active incase I ever need to downgrade from CC. I took as many free scholarships and work positions I could, including the Residence Assistant job that paid for boarding, meals and a nice little $75 stipend each month.
There are smarter kids out there that will get what they to done with as little debt as possible, without their parents help, mostly because some parent just can't help and are too busy with their own problems. Hire the low income unmedicated ADHD kid, they are wicked smart and will figure out how to operate and complete anything you throw at them, just expect a lot of weird conversations and too much youtube or ticktok time, as long as they don't self medicate with illegal drugs, they'll be good workers.
JamesLam
New Member
Many if not most of us Canucks get fired up over US politics. I mean we can only talk about the weather for so long. It also makes sense as we are so entrenched in US events whether through business, family, relationships, Canadian & International politics, etc.
And it's hard not to be engrossed in US affairs. Even the major Canadian networks fawned over Fauci and paid very little attention to Canadian medical 'experts' when tossing around Covid 'facts'.
No we don't vote at the ballot box, I would say it's more like armchair politics.
Gino
Premium Subscriber
That's fine and dandy, but there's nothing you can do in any way, shape or form to help. So, when I say stay out of it, it's only when someone TELLS us what we should do. Suggest things, invite us to discuss or consider something. Speak of things which you can site your source of how it worked...... just don't be TELLING us what to do
Stacey K
I like making signs
Interesting you say that about Fauci. The US has been a leader in the medical arena for decades so I can see how the rest of the world would go along with what we say. Too bad more countries didn't stand up against the jab.
My son has aortic stenosis and my other son a murmur. I'm so glad we didn't make them get the jab considering all the side effects with young men and myocarditis. Could have been a death sentence. And now hyper-tension has been added to that. Best decision we ever made. Both ended up getting Covid and came out just fine. Fauci is a reckless criminal.
Gene@mpls
New Member
I am reading a book about a young South Tyrolean lad just getting to the army age during Hitler's rise to power. They were German speaking peoples and desperately wanted to join the Greater Germany as Hitler had given the area to Italy after Austria was broken up after the Great war. It is amazingly like a lot that is happening in the US now. I am too old to have much to fear [Vietnam era] but I hope for my chillen and grandchillen and greatgranddaughter that this country can weather the storm that is in process. This is serious business people. People no longer think much about what is good for the country [people]. I have studied the second war all of my adult life and the suffering was incredible. I trust I will be back to dust before the next great war as I am doubtful it will be survivable.
dypinc
New Member
Thank God we beat the cheat in the last election and that finally the, corruption, kickbacks and war mongering is being exposed, and deporting the criminal illegals. The question is and our great hope is will the commie/fascists/nazis give up and go away now that they have really been exposed or will they think they are backed into a corner and really start the violence that some are threatening. If they try that they might not get too far being that we Americans are the most heavily armed civilians in the world. Thank God and our founders for the 2nd amendment that miraculously we still have.
Johnny Best
Active Member
Gene@mpis: see you have #2 Summa T750s,(I have #1) where do you buy the blades for those cutters?
Gene@mpls
New Member
Really do not know- I sold the biz to a great employee 5 years ago and the property a couple years after that. I have a corner of one of the building for my lasers and printers and various tools and have finally retired. I looked in a drawer where that kind of things are kept and saw no OEM parts- looks like Amazonian.
Johnny Best
Active Member
“President Musk” a CNN, MSNBC watcher.
dypinc
New Member
It's quiet insane to watch people who robbed us blind, trying to justify being upset at us for catching them.
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Gino
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Is this thing STILL going on ??
Earlier I mentioned how a waitress told us everything was made fresh....... the other night some friends of ours took us out for a bite to eat at a local restaurant. They're known for good food and desserts, so I was good with the choice. After talking to the waitress at this place, she said, all of our soups and desserts are homemade. As usual, I spoke up and said, Really ?? Home made ?? Yes. Who's home are they made at or are they made at various homes ?? She said, well, they're all made here in the back. Oh..... I see, so the workers live here at night or based upon the shift they're working ?? Noooo........... I started to ask another question and my friend said stop the shit or we won't get served at all. I told her I was just kidding and she laughed. Then I said, besides, if they were made in someone's kitchen, they'd never pass the health inspectors codes or regulations.
Earlier I mentioned how a waitress told us everything was made fresh....... the other night some friends of ours took us out for a bite to eat at a local restaurant. They're known for good food and desserts, so I was good with the choice. After talking to the waitress at this place, she said, all of our soups and desserts are homemade. As usual, I spoke up and said, Really ?? Home made ?? Yes. Who's home are they made at or are they made at various homes ?? She said, well, they're all made here in the back. Oh..... I see, so the workers live here at night or based upon the shift they're working ?? Noooo........... I started to ask another question and my friend said stop the shit or we won't get served at all. I told her I was just kidding and she laughed. Then I said, besides, if they were made in someone's kitchen, they'd never pass the health inspectors codes or regulations.
Stacey K
I like making signs
Texas_Signmaker
Very Active Signmaker
60k is a lot when you think about it's YOUR taxes that paid for such stupid stuff. B
MNT_Printhead
Working among the Corporate Lizard People
especially when it is educating people and they don't take to the smart.
Stacey K
I like making signs
All the Musk haters out there - have you gone to the DOGE site yet and scrolled through the savings? First of all, the site is not fancy, it's obvious none of us created it LOL
This is what you will find...
Take the second one, Annual Subscription to Politico.
- total contracted value, $255,863
- total saved, $60,373
(scroll down to see the PROOF)
Click on the link button and it brings you to the FPDS-NG - I assume that's the government accounting system.
This is what you will find...
Take the second one, Annual Subscription to Politico.
- total contracted value, $255,863
- total saved, $60,373
(scroll down to see the PROOF)
Click on the link button and it brings you to the FPDS-NG - I assume that's the government accounting system.
productionMike
Head babysitter, nappy changer and bottle washer!
Its called right of conquest G...
The Mexican Empire lost to the US plain and simple. The Gadsden purchase was a fair and square deal, so give back what?
If Mexico wasn't a Narco-Terrorist state corrupted by lead and or silver... maybe things could be better.
Same with Guantanamo, it was won after the US beat the Spanish and freed Cuba.
Open up a history book and educate yourself before making claims on "giving back what was once yours" - its a cultural Marxist canard
The truth of the matter is that the corrupt Ukrainian dictatorship has been selling off over half of the donated military equipment to the Cartels in Mexico.
I wonder what's going to happen when Trumps goes after the Cartels. They seem to to be arming up for a show down... see what happens, this story is yet to unfold!
Stacey K
I like making signs
Then you have Real Estate. Take the first one.
Department of State, leasing in Miami a 3,076 sq ft office.
- contracted lease $112,278
- savings $7,383
- lease ends 2/28/25 and not renewing
Check it out, it's fun and it's both parties, it's not just Democrats.
Department of State, leasing in Miami a 3,076 sq ft office.
- contracted lease $112,278
- savings $7,383
- lease ends 2/28/25 and not renewing
Check it out, it's fun and it's both parties, it's not just Democrats.