The point is that people don't want to buy US. They want to buy what is cheapest. The one that is most convenient for them.
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It’s interesting to me that such similar products are so much more expensive if US made. He’s talking about a factor of between four and ten times as expensive for (to take him at his word) equivalent devices. That’s far more than would be explained away by hourly rates, health and safety standards or anything else like that. Are these US companies profitable? Do we know? I don’t know anything about these types of machines but I do know a little about industrial production lines. My gut reaction is that the US companies are either absolutely taking the piss or horrendously inefficient/incompetent.
250 full time employees cost a farmer in Yakima - $1,000,000 a month
So sub $1k a week per employee.
4k based on a 30 day average month comes out at $933ish per week.
4k based on a 30 day average month comes out at $933ish per week.
both would be my bet
Sure. And water is wet.
The issue I see is that the messaging is that tariffs are somehow punitive for the country of origin and meant to incentivize purchasing USA made products. The reality is that the US government is taxing the citizens of the US who purchase the products (and not being transparent about it), and the price structure is such that the tariffs don’t incentivize the purchase of USA made alternatives. At “best” the tariffs will raise the floor pricing of the cheapest goods to keep some buyers from buying anything at all. I suppose the “hope” is that the lost sales because of the higher floor will somehow economically harm foreign manufacturers.
"They are trying to remake our system of government, not our laws."
None of them were very good.
All professional sports are dumb. Hockey is dumber than the rest by an order of magnitude.
A fired national park ranger lost his dream job. He says the public is losing more
Brian Gibbs was an environmental educator at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa. His job was among those nixed by the Trump administration as it pushes to shrink federal spending.
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Such a fucking travesty.
I'm a mechanical engineer for a small startup construction equipment company and I have no idea how the Chinese equipment is so cheap. I have also seen those ~ $4000 mini skids on FB marketplace around here. Between shipping and existing import taxes and the Chinese companies making some profit, that means they are building those machines for ~ $1000-1500. You could barely buy the steel and other raw materials needed to make that in the US for $1000. Plus the cost of fabrication, assembly, etc. It might be possible to build and sell a cheap US equivalent for ~$10k from a small company with minimal overhead in a low cost area. But in China materials are dirt cheap (and not always up to the same standards as in the US), labor is dirt cheap, maybe the government is supplying funding just to ensure they undercut the USA.
I agree the US equipment companies charging $40k for a mini skid that costs $15k from China seems out of hand, but often the pricing is determined by what the market will pay as much as what it costs to build things. All of those companies seem to be profitable as they keep expanding their equipment lines so there has not yet been any incentive to lower prices. I know from my company our biggest expense is the engineering department and it's a slow road to profitability.
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Are we great again yet?A fired national park ranger lost his dream job. He says the public is losing more
Brian Gibbs was an environmental educator at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa. His job was among those nixed by the Trump administration as it pushes to shrink federal spending.
Such a fucking travesty.
Dude should be pulling hisself up by his bootstraps. I hear there are a number of strawberry-picking jobs in Watsonville available.A fired national park ranger lost his dream job. He says the public is losing more
Brian Gibbs was an environmental educator at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa. His job was among those nixed by the Trump administration as it pushes to shrink federal spending.
Such a fucking travesty.
I dealt with a major chinese truck manufacturer a few years ago.
They complained our margins (30-40%) were far too large. These were the usual margins for american/european truck parts.
I suspect margins across the entire supply chain in the US are much higher than in China.
Yeah, they also fired 3400 Forest Service employees. What could possibly go wrong ?A fired national park ranger lost his dream job. He says the public is losing more
Brian Gibbs was an environmental educator at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa. His job was among those nixed by the Trump administration as it pushes to shrink federal spending.
Such a fucking travesty.
Forest Service Fires 3400 People
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/13/forest-services-fires-3400-employees-00204213 Public safety employees at USFS are exempt from the firing. While firefighter jobs appear to be unaffected, other roles that support wildfire prevention are being cut. Employees who work on road and trail...
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I’ve Seen Enough: Donald Trump is the Antichrist
It’s time to admit the Christians were right all along.
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FixedDude should be pulling hisself up by hisbootstrapsAR15. I hear there are a number of strawberry-picking jobs in Watsonville available.
i'd rather work
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Yes, GOP congresswoman introduced bill to make Trump's birthday a federal holiday
Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney's bill would make June 14 a joint federal holiday, marking Flag Day and President Donald Trump's birthday.
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1/4 of americans want a president to be above laws and judicial orders. 1/2 voted for Trump.i'd rather work
Yes, GOP congresswoman introduced bill to make Trump's birthday a federal holiday
Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney's bill would make June 14 a joint federal holiday, marking Flag Day and President Donald Trump's birthday.
What happens if a democracy decides they want to go back to monarchy?
It's certainly going to be amusing to see the party of "Constitutional originalism" defending the shift.
don’t forget to account for the 90 million who didn’t vote.
So Trump has cancelled remote work for federal employees and yet he's still working from Mar Lago. 
talk about a rug pull, damn.
talk about a rug pull, damn.
Aboot Elon?Fuck Putin and fuck Trump.
Lock him up or send him back?
By the end of today, NASA’s workforce will be about 10 percent smaller
A dark and painful day at a space agency that brings so much light and joy to the world.
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I'm glad my dad isn't alive to see what's happening at the National Park Service, because it would have killed him.By the end of today, NASA’s workforce will be about 10 percent smaller
A dark and painful day at a space agency that brings so much light and joy to the world.
It’s actually a little less that 1/4 voted for the shit head. We barely have 50% turn out. Pretty fucking pathetic.