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<blockquote data-quote="W. Mark Hellinger" data-source="post: 35568" data-attributes="member: 692"><p>Re: Gibson raided</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">so... approx. 0.4 miles to the north of my chair, bags of raw unprocessed lentils are being loaded into containers and shipped to the corners of the earth (India included... I'm of the understanding)... yet... shipping some-odd pallet loads of wood from India (possibly imported to India from Indonesian) to Montana (a hundred or some miles away from me) is somehow all wrong?</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Humm...</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The gross retail sales in the US in 2010 was something like $4T... the disclosed US budget (not including state, county, and city budgets… or federal budgets that are classified) in 2010 was on the order of $3T… and about 1 in 10 US residents between the age of 18 and 65 are issued a $10K/yr allowance credit card… and I’m having a hard time hiring good full time employees because I can’t compete with unemployment payments.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Frankly, I don't see this... any of this as a scalable business model… and there’s some on-going high level discussions about what to do to fix our economy involving incentives? Like what (pray tell)? I’m just a dumb farmer who somehow ended up soldering cables for a living.... and waiting for even more-so completely dysfunctional organic, bio-degradable solder to be mandated... for those items produced in the US... nevermind the fact that I suspect they're still spraying tomatoes imported from Mexico with DDT.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I have absolutely no intentions of being political with my ravings... I'm just a business man with employees and a family to feed... and I'm trying to get my head around how all this is suppose to function on a daily basis when it seems like probably 100%+ of gross income is needed to feed the govt... and somehow we're suppose to create jobs to get this economy out of the doldrums? And the solution to all our problems is "confidence"... </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">hokey... I guess I need to get confident.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">right</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">lemme get on that... soon as I get done doing taxes again and somehow trying to fit another 120hr. workweek in that isn't quite long enough to get it all done... for 20 some-odd years... and writing another check... I'll get right on that confidence thing.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Would a smile help? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="W. Mark Hellinger, post: 35568, member: 692"] Re: Gibson raided [COLOR=#222222][FONT=Verdana]so... approx. 0.4 miles to the north of my chair, bags of raw unprocessed lentils are being loaded into containers and shipped to the corners of the earth (India included... I'm of the understanding)... yet... shipping some-odd pallet loads of wood from India (possibly imported to India from Indonesian) to Montana (a hundred or some miles away from me) is somehow all wrong? Humm... The gross retail sales in the US in 2010 was something like $4T... the disclosed US budget (not including state, county, and city budgets… or federal budgets that are classified) in 2010 was on the order of $3T… and about 1 in 10 US residents between the age of 18 and 65 are issued a $10K/yr allowance credit card… and I’m having a hard time hiring good full time employees because I can’t compete with unemployment payments. Frankly, I don't see this... any of this as a scalable business model… and there’s some on-going high level discussions about what to do to fix our economy involving incentives? Like what (pray tell)? I’m just a dumb farmer who somehow ended up soldering cables for a living.... and waiting for even more-so completely dysfunctional organic, bio-degradable solder to be mandated... for those items produced in the US... nevermind the fact that I suspect they're still spraying tomatoes imported from Mexico with DDT. I have absolutely no intentions of being political with my ravings... I'm just a business man with employees and a family to feed... and I'm trying to get my head around how all this is suppose to function on a daily basis when it seems like probably 100%+ of gross income is needed to feed the govt... and somehow we're suppose to create jobs to get this economy out of the doldrums? And the solution to all our problems is "confidence"... hokey... I guess I need to get confident. right lemme get on that... soon as I get done doing taxes again and somehow trying to fit another 120hr. workweek in that isn't quite long enough to get it all done... for 20 some-odd years... and writing another check... I'll get right on that confidence thing. Would a smile help? :)[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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