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Mutineer

Well-Known Member
The disruption of global supply chains will further weaken the US economy as companies cannot get the raw materials and/or parts to manufacture whatever it is they make, sell, or inventory.

Remember my earlier example of Winnebago? If you can't get your Chinese/Mexican/Indian produced parts for the RV, it cannot be completed and/or sold.

Nobody but survivalists will be buying them now anyways, but maybe you see my point. And there aren't US sources for these parts any more because production is all off-shore

So this may be enough motivation to move mining/manufacturing back to the U.S. And there will be a blue-collar, middle class renaissance.

Sounds like a neo-liberal's nightmare.
 

Poop Head

Judge me.
None of the major couriers are going to shut down. The transportation of goods (national and international) is "Numero Uno" in a "Natural Emergency".

Just study the strike in "97"..two weeks of our inactivity was affecting the national economy and destroying the capabilities of the other couriers, we are a lot bigger now.

Forget about layoffs, all people on board. These projected testing kits and toilet paper, etc have to be transported by somebody, Santa and the elfs only works in December...

"Work Smarter not Harder" and protect yourselves, it is really up to each individual, and any victim rights entitlements has been temporary suspended. We are all in this together...
Thatd be sweet, if my route wasn't cut for Monday. I'm not holding my breath, though..
 

Old Man Jingles

Rat out of a cage
how do you crop a print screen on windows 10 quickly and paste it here?
I use the snipping tool in 'snag-it' myself by
Snag-it.PNG
.

Google 'capture and crop screenshot'
and select a tool that it compatible with your browser.
I use Chrome and Google has an add-in tool called
Screenshot and Screen Recorder
Offered by: https://droplr.com

That's old school.

In updated Windows 10:
WindowsKey+Shift+S
The suggestion by DIDO looks to do the same thing.
 
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rickyb

Well-Known Member
jeremy scahill
@jeremyscahill

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9h
“But how will we pay for it?” was always a fool’s question. Just look at the Wall Street bailout. The scorn heaped on those demanding an urgent change in our priorities with questions of money and budgets should be etched in history as a collective badge of shame.
 

MrFedEx

Engorged Member
So this may be enough motivation to move mining/manufacturing back to the U.S. And there will be a blue-collar, middle class renaissance.

Sounds like a neo-liberal's nightmare.

Sure, except it takes both time and money to build up the industry we sent away. You're pretty clueless, pal. You don't snap your fingers, build a new plant, and invest millions to build whatever it was that went to India or China.

Yep. Nike shoes are going to be made here again, in 2 years after they build the plant. They'll cost $300 per pair. Do you really think US manufacturing will return? That ship has sailed.
 

MrFedEx

Engorged Member
Stacy Herbert Retweeted

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof

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Mar 13
A hospital in Seattle area has sent out a note to staff, shared with me, suspending elective surgery and warning that "our local COVID-19 trajectory is likely to be similar to that of Northern Italy." The hospital is down to a four-day supply of gloves.


Must be Fake News. Problem is, it's real news. I hope the usual suspects start to pay attention. They won't.
 
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