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It's hard to do that when American products cross the borders multiple times before ending up on the shelves. Also America doesn't make consumer goods anymore. I try to buy American when I can (they tend to hold up better, seriously my parents are still using the same bed sheets that were (Union) made in South Carolina back in the 1970s. But it's near impossible. Companies keep closing American factories and forcing the consumer to not buy American. And for larger purchases foreign companies either own American name plates or the quality is horrific trash (talking about cars here).
The point of the tariffs is to make it cheaper to do it all in the US. Onshoring will then occur. Also to fuck over Canada that uses the US as a budget shortfall machine.
 
So really I think the whole current administration is doing everything in their power to bring all americas lost industry back. Problem is, in today’s world that isn’t something that I think can be done, and even if so definitely not over a single presidential term. And while we’re doing that it leaves the country vulnerable to a knife between the ribs. Also because of that I fully expect the current administration to fully uncap H1B visas as an incentive to bring industry back to the US, even if it fucks over the average American.
 
I will blame Pajeets moving to US and the bay area. Perhaps without the added indians, the bay would be able to keep up with effluent discharge. It's just common sense.
As a case on government overreach? This is an absolute win.

As a case on environmentalism? SF is and will always be fucked. I’m sure all the homeless people shit in the Bay doesn’t help those water quality tests. There’s just too many people producing too much pollution in that area. Environmentally, the SF Bay will never recover. It’d be an environmental net benefit if the city was nuked by the Russians. The radiation from its neon glow will cause less damage to the landscape than the countless homeless people and pajeets.
 
It's hard to do that when American products cross the borders multiple times before ending up on the shelves. Also America doesn't make consumer goods anymore. I try to buy American when I can (they tend to hold up better, seriously my parents are still using the same bed sheets that were (Union) made in South Carolina back in the 1970s. But it's near impossible. Companies keep closing American factories and forcing the consumer to not buy American. And for larger purchases foreign companies either own American name plates or the quality is horrific trash (talking about cars here).
I miss American made goods that didn't cross boarders 100 times and use slave labor. Some one should invent a new type of economic system that favors these local goods over imported ones.
 
Quoted this because it needs to be repeated. How did we end up with so many people who don't understand simple things or have a scintilla of intellectual curiosity or forward thinking to take a breath and go, oh, wow, this might be a good thing. It's just oh no, not my coffee/funkos/doritos costing more!

It also bears repeating that the economy has been in a recession since 2020 and the numbers have been fudged to the gods so Biden didn't look bad. Everyone wants prices to go down and immigration slowed and criminals cast out and housing to be affordable again and the job market to get better and for kids to stop being indoctrinated and for our money to stop being thrown away and for DEI to go away...but every attempt at making that happen is met with, "No, don't do it that way! I don't like when it's done that way!"

Not saying Trump et.al. shouldn't be criticized (they should when need be) but at least be informed about what they're doing and apply it to more than five minutes into the future.
Although Trump has successfully managed to make any downturn from the cooked books being corrected "expected and temporary pain while things are improving"
 
It's so funny watching boomers completely sperg out going "it's the end of the world my stonk portfolio is only worth 2.8 million instead of three million! Aren't you youngsters outraged? Don't you want to go to war with the fed on our behalf?"

Uh no? Don't call it a grave ect ect.
>line goes up
>life gets worse

explain yourselves ahteists.
 
Regarding tariffs,

Rebuilding industrial manufacturing in the United States will take the entirety of Trump's Presidency and he will be lucky if we can get to around 90% of where we once were. The issue is the towns where manufacturing occured are now dead and will require a significant amount of investment to jump start. One could move to metro areas but that raises prices as land / labor is more expensive.

I hope Trump knows what he is doing.
 
I miss American made goods that didn't cross boarders 100 times and use slave labor. Some one should invent a new type of economic system that favors these local goods over imported ones.
It's been amusing watching liberals clamor for this literal slave labor when they chirped about buying local for over a decade.
 
The point of the tariffs is to make it cheaper to do it all in the US. Onshoring will then occur. Also to fuck over Canada that uses the US as a budget shortfall machine.
I hope so. My belief is that we're in this mess because all our systems use to be set up for people who worked in companies/unions that provided benefits (health insurance, school assistance etc) so when you had to use the government for assistance it was because you were completely fucked in some way, completely unhelpable or needed that small boost to get a job or fill the gap. But with the loss of Unions/companies the government has been having to do more and more.
 
The issue is the towns where manufacturing occured are now dead and will require a significant amount of investment to jump start. One could move to metro areas but that raises prices as land / labor is more expensive.

I hope Trump knows what he is doing.
Really depends on the type of manufacturing and what you're building, around places I know they can go from empty field to working factory in less than a year.

And if they're hiring, and people want work, they'll move. The real issue is ensuring you'll have a market when your product hits.
 
It's so funny watching boomers completely sperg out going "it's the end of the world my stonk portfolio is only worth 2.8 million instead of three million! Aren't you youngsters outraged? Don't you want to go to war with the fed on our behalf?"

Uh no? Don't call it a grave ect ect.
I'm licking my chops hoping it crashes harder, I don't have to sell for 35 years and buying at a discount seems pretty damn nice to me.
 
What are they gonna do, sanction the United States?
That’s a good way to make your economy crap the bed. Cutting yourself off from 300 million materialistic people.
If we cut ourselves off from trade with the entire world we would suffer but most other countries would just die instantly. China is dead if we stop buying their shit same with Canada, Mexico and whoever the fuck else.

Canada can either kneel and be able to continue their decline for a few more decades before pajeets overrun their entire govt or they can get into a trade war and die much quicker. Mexico is unironically in a better spot because their people are used to being poor in most cases with shitty conditions while Canadians are spoiled libtards.

Regarding tariffs,

Rebuilding industrial manufacturing in the United States will take the entirety of Trump's Presidency and he will be lucky if we can get to around 90% of where we once were. The issue is the towns where manufacturing occured are now dead and will require a significant amount of investment to jump start. One could move to metro areas but that raises prices as land / labor is more expensive.

I hope Trump knows what he is doing.
Pretty simple if people don't want to be tariffed then enforce your borders and don't tariff us.
 
Is there only one treatment plant for that whole metro area? If so, the that's classic California mismanagement. Billions for homeless, nothing for water treatment.
The case cited there were two wastewater treatment plants, but my maps show there are three. Oceanside Treatment Plant, Southeast Treatment Plant, and North Point Weather Facility.

Usually these things can handle massive amounts of flow, like 80 MGD (million gallons per day) but that still probably can’t account for how much human shit exists in these cities. Unchecked human population growth will destroy these environments, and it’s what they wanted. They voted for it.
 
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