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Originally posted by Bucky:
Laughing my ass.

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:

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Originally posted by Bucky:

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:

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Originally posted by Bucky:
Glad you are ok and on the mend Bob!
Why do you think we are on the front side of this deal?

One thing for sure: China was at least reckless with this and at worst intentionally infected other countries. Our country needs to cut ties with that **** h0le regardless of how much it hurts. Many were critical of Trump when he played hardball with them. I was disappointed that he didn't go far enough.

What makes you think Trump played hardball with the chinese? Domestic United States manufacturing suffered paying the tariffs on commodities/inputs from china.

You wanna play hardball you don't penalize the inputs, you penalize the outputs like purchases of chinese garbaaaage at wally world mart.

I'd imagine the chinese were laughing.

https://youtu.be/mxAD_jTFm08

Laughing my ass. We collected boatloads of money, and most consumers saw NO price increases on stuff made in China. Who took it in the ass on that? China. They had no choice. Yes we had to pay our farmers. But even farmers didn't hurt significantly. Farmers all around me. Not one says they are struggling.

If the intent is to inflict pain on the chinese in a trade war, the chinese pay the tariffs on outputs such as goods on the way to Wally World mart.

Not domestic US manufacturers inputs such as chinese steel and aluminum.

I don't know how to make this anymore easy to understand. It's common sense.

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Originally posted by SlyFox:

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Originally posted by Bucky:
Laughing my ass.

Me too. It's like ****** traded his red Chevelle for a red Nova.

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Originally posted by Bucky:

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:

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Originally posted by Bucky:
Glad you are ok and on the mend Bob!
Why do you think we are on the front side of this deal?

One thing for sure: China was at least reckless with this and at worst intentionally infected other countries. Our country needs to cut ties with that **** h0le regardless of how much it hurts. Many were critical of Trump when he played hardball with them. I was disappointed that he didn't go far enough.

What makes you think Trump played hardball with the chinese? Domestic United States manufacturing suffered paying the tariffs on commodities/inputs from china.

You wanna play hardball you don't penalize the inputs, you penalize the outputs like purchases of chinese garbaaaage at wally world mart.

I'd imagine the chinese were laughing.

https://youtu.be/mxAD_jTFm08

Laughing my ass. We collected boatloads of money, and most consumers saw NO price increases on stuff made in China. Who took it in the ass on that? China. They had no choice. Yes we had to pay our farmers. But even farmers didn't hurt significantly. Farmers all around me. Not one says they are struggling.

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:

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Originally posted by CURTIS REED:
Mike, what do you do for a living?

I'm semi retired I suppose you could say after having an automotive shop on Benjamin Rd in Tampa for 28 years. I still do engines and transmissions and I'm an electrician by trade, I do a little of that as well. And I'll sell just about anything made in western civilization. I called this back in 2003 when the first wing wong ching chong crank walked into my shop for an engine I was doing for a guy I raced with. I told everyone i came in contact with, raced with it would come to this. I wasn't to worried about though because I understood exponential growth, I built my drag racing program on it. I also put a minimum of $20 dollars a day, some days a lot more in a safe I had bolted to red iron beam above the drop sealing six sometimes seven days a week. I understand exponential growth, it's why I never raced out of town much. Good thing I did because it allowed me to not participate in the globalism which was the goal/purpose, I made it. I live pretty simple for what are now obvious reasons. I knew this was coming. My dad didn't run away from the draft, he volunteered for the Army Air corps before the Second World War, he taught me how this would all go down and about exponential growth.

Now have you got anything rational to say about the reset?

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:
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I'm often impersonated but never duplicated, so you just go right on using my words I'll take that as an indication of your admiration of them.
Unfortunately for you, they won't be providing any credibility to your argument.

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Sad times coming unless people SNAP OUT OF IT.

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Originally posted by chasracer:
I do not want to get over-dramatic about any of this but I do read it with a sense of understanding. Everyone lives their life in a different way although one can say that there are a lot of similarities. You mentioned going through life as if it were the Depression Years and that was a choice you made. Others have made other choices. Most of us are okay with out choices and depending on current circumstances will either be happy with them or question our own self about the choices we made. I think that's just part of human nature.

Currently, I think we are being manipulated - in some crazy view it appears to be a test of our reactions to the manipulation. This virus has not to this point been the killer that other viruses have been, yet you would think that the air outside right now is soaked with it when the media gets finished with their newscast. I am not discounting that people have died and will die from this virus - for each family that is a sad affair. But why bring such a huge hammer down on the entire population? What's the real intent?

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Originally posted by Freddie:
Too many of these young people who feel they are immortal and dont care about this will be the first ones to rush to the ER when they start feeling symptoms, taking a bed a respirator, or other services that would be needed for someone at higher risk. This is the only reason for the recommendations as we have seen them.