Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted March 13, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted March 13, 2020 Once this thing is under control this country needs to get it’s shit together and decouple from China 100%. https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-deny-americans-coronavirus-drugs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodtick Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 The only thing we need China for is cheap labor, no epa,and no osha. They have nothing else to bring to the table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f7ben Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Just now, Woodtick said: The only thing we need China for is cheap labor, no epa,and no osha. They have nothing else to bring to the table. So the only thing we need China for is fucking over American workers? Kill yourself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted March 13, 2020 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted March 13, 2020 (edited) According to the article we rely on them for more than that currently. Considering our resources and brain power in this country there is zero reason to need those motherfuckers for anything. Edited March 13, 2020 by Jimmy Snacks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKIQPilot Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 8 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: Once this thing is under control this country needs to get it’s shit together and decouple from China 100%. https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-deny-americans-coronavirus-drugs If we decouple from China every dollar store in the US would have to shut down. Where would all those people shop for their shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodtick Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 4 minutes ago, f7ben said: So the only thing we need China for is fucking over American workers? Kill yourself No, they do buy a lot of cigs and liquor from us. I think Neal sells them some corn? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodtick Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 1 minute ago, AKIQPilot said: If we decouple from China every dollar store in the US would have to shut down. Where would all those people shop for their shit. Harbor freight would be gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted March 13, 2020 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted March 13, 2020 (edited) 3 minutes ago, AKIQPilot said: If we decouple from China every dollar store in the US would have to shut down. Where would all those people shop for their shit. Well it all goes back to the wage stagnation issue that Moto talks about but we cannot continue placing our well being in Chinese hands. Edited March 13, 2020 by Jimmy Snacks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchy Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 29 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: Once this thing is under control this country needs to get it’s shit together and decouple from China 100%. https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-deny-americans-coronavirus-drugs Everything China does and tries to do is at the explicit detriment to the west. They are not our friends. Never will be either. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted March 13, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted March 13, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Jimmy Snacks said: According to the article we rely on them for more than that currently. Considering our resources and brain power in this country there is zero reason to need those motherfuckers for anything. I wouldn't go that far however we without question need to evaluate critical needs like meds and med ingredients that come from there first. China's not the only place. 85% of our filled saline IV bags come from Puerto Rico. There is all kinds of shit where countries dominate production of certain goods and materials. Imagine in the 50's thru 80's Russia being so integral in our supply base. Fucking insane. Trump has been the ONLY POTUS to stand up to them since Nixon. 2.5 years of worrying about Russian FB ads. Edited March 13, 2020 by Highmark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEFF Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Wait a minute... I thought we needed China to buy our soybeans?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoughnut Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Woodtick said: The only thing we need China for is cheap labor, no epa,and no osha. They have nothing else to bring to the table. BS, the only ones benefiting from that cheap labor is greedy American companies. Funny how we didn’t need that cheap labor 30+ years ago. 1 hour ago, frenchy said: Everything China does and tries to do is at the explicit detriment to the west. They are not our friends. Never will be either. Greedy American companies are part of that detriment, it’s almost like modern day slavery. 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 6 minutes ago, snoughnut said: BS, the only ones benefiting from that cheap labor is greedy American companies. Funny how we didn’t need that cheap labor 30+ years ago. Greedy American companies are part of that detriment, it’s almost like modern day slavery. Unless you can convince every consumer to spend 50-100% more on products, you can't call it greed by the companies... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anler Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 I thought it was funny how he talks about migrants fleeing socialism while he's in DC working on a big batch of socialism 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted March 13, 2020 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted March 13, 2020 2 minutes ago, Matt said: Unless you can convince every consumer to spend 50-100% more on products, you can't call it greed by the companies... Well if wages were better people would be able to pay more...which came first...the chicken or the egg? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motonoggin Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Just now, Jimmy Snacks said: Well if wages were better people would be able to pay more...which came first...the chicken or the egg? The chicken. Unless the chicken comes, the egg won't be fertilized. Lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motonoggin Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Actually, eggs came before chickens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoughnut Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 27 minutes ago, Matt said: Unless you can convince every consumer to spend 50-100% more on products, you can't call it greed by the companies... Like I said, 30+ yrs. ago most of our products were made here and Americans had no issues purchasing those products. American companies are exploiting Chinese workers and the cost of the products aren’t really that much cheaper, the greedy fucks are just keeping all the profits they would have spent employing American workers.....swing and a miss by you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 1 minute ago, snoughnut said: Like I said, 30+ yrs. ago most of our products were made here and Americans had no issues purchasing those products. American companies are exploiting Chinese workers and the cost of the products aren’t really that much cheaper, the greedy fucks are just keeping all the profits they would have spent employing American workers.....swing and a miss by you. Honest question. What do you think happens to "profits?" I swear, some of you guys think there are a bunch of Scrooge McDucks out there just putting coins into a giant vault somewhere... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmeeAgain Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 4 hours ago, motonoggin said: Actually, eggs came before chickens. True, but, chickens came before chicken eggs. Eggs came about 340 million years ago while the chicken came about 58,000 years ago. Quote This claim came from some researchers studying how chicken eggshells form. Eggshell is mostly made from calcium carbonate (CaCO₃). Hens get their supply of calcium for eggshell production from dietary sources (calcium-rich seafood shells, such as oyster or prawn shells, are a popular snack for backyard hens for this reason). To form a shell, the calcium needs to be deposited in the form of CaCO₃ crystals, and hens rely on specific proteins that enable this process. One such protein, called ovocleidin-17 (or OC-17 for short), is only found in the ovary of a chicken, leading to the suggestion that the chicken must have come before the chicken egg, since without OC-17, there can be no chicken egg formation. (Interestingly, it seems that this protein is responsible for speeding up the rate of eggshell formation, enabling hens to build an egg from scratch and lay it within a 24-hour timeframe.) So, can we lay this age-old conundrum to rest? Or are scientists and philosophers still scrambling to find an answer? At the end of the day, the question is something of a false dichotomy. Eggs certainly came before chickens, but chicken eggs did not—you can’t have one without the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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