The videos don't show that. The woman was not in over her head. They had people coming regularly to do various maintenance things (a landscape guy is the one who found them). Anybody so exposed can contract hanta, and go from feeling fine one day, sick the next and suddenly dead later that day or the next. It's like getting histoplasmosis except histo isn't as hard on you. All evidence shows she was taking care of things until she got sick, which likely was for 2 days. Then Gene suddenly had no caretaker.
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US Tariffs, Sigh!
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Stacey K
I like making signs
I have had mice in every house I ever owned. Either I have a mouser cat or I put poison out. This Fall I found droppings in my kitchen drawers so I knew it was time for poison. That b*tch had babies in my living room tv cabinet. I found her dead when I came home from work in my living room and the babies started to smell and then I found them a couple days later. When I see droppings I empty everything out from my kitchen and use bleach to clean. So far no Hanta virus.
In a farm house I had years ago we moved in and watched the mice go from one heat register across the living room to the other heat register. Could hear them at night in the walls. We got a barn cat a couple days later, Norman, every couple days he left me a dead mouse next to the bed. Such a great guy...he got hit by a car and is dead now.
FlyingSquirrelBrigade
New Member
Back to the tariff thing, Trump said while he was campaigning that exporters would pay the tariff not Americans (https://x.com/Acyn/status/1832508262316699871), much like he said Mexico would pay for the wall. Yesterday the press sec doubled down on this (https://x.com/Acyn/status/1899518327258763372 ). As any of the business owners here know, the importer pays the tariff so I'm curious what you make of Trump and his Press Secretary blatantly lying about something so easily disprovable.
Unfortunately he's partially right. There's a few companies I know of in Canada that make hobby CNC's... 1 is paying the 25% Tarrif for their customers... another was, but recently stopped due to all the backlash they got about it. I don't think it's sustainable in the long run for companies to pay the tariff, but... just playing devils advocate and pointing out some companies seem to believe eating a 25% Less and not losing the US customer base is the best move.
White Haus
Not a Newbie
I can't even bear to click those links and lose more braincells, but you're absolutely right to compare the tariffs with the wall, in terms of his understanding (or lack thereof) regarding how they work and who gets stuck footing the bill.
I don't have anything nice to say so I won't say more, as I don't want to offend any other members here.
Geneva Olson
Expert Storyteller
Curious what you think Trump is lying about. Trump has been in business for how many years now? He's got Trump international. He's very well versed in tariffs and how they work. He's in fact, a big fan of tariffs. From what I understand, Canada wanted to impose an energy tariff on the US of 25%. Trump said, "ok, we will impose a reciprocal tariff on Canada for goods we export to Canada". He's doing the same thing to every country we work trade with. Traditionally the tariffs imposed on us are WAY higher than the tariffs we impose on other countries. So, he's balancing it out. Our jobs have been exported over to other countries and he's trying to bring those jobs back to america. In Texas, we have the piney woods where trees are grown specifically for lumber and paper mills. We don't pay tariffs on those items that are produced here. Trump is right about this: our country has the capacity to build and grow everything we need. So, I'm really confused at what you claim that Trump is lying about.
Zoogee World
Domed Promotional Product Supplier
Not trying to argue with you, but I think what he was saying about the lying is that Trump has been saying that the Canadian companies exporting to the US will be paying and not the US importer, which in some cases, some Canadian companies are eating the cost, but not all and what is happening is that the US importer is the one that has to pay these tariffs, which then gets passed down to the consumer.
I'm interested in getting your perspective on your statement about bringing business back to the US. How exactly would that work? It's going to cost a lot of money to make the factories, then they'll have to pay the employees a lot more then the overseas ones, to me, it doesn't make financial sense to any company to do that. I'm sure there are certain instances that it might make sense if the factories already exist in the US and they'd just buy the raw material from the states instead of abroad, but that's a minority.