Brace for shortages the likes we have not seen since WWII (wages, drugs)
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Hmmmm .... Maybe because this is a global issue and not just a US issue?
Go spread your panic in the prepper forum.
We've seen shortages, nothing that can't be worked around. Sometimes I see these threads and at how delicate it seems Americans have become.
UK has major gas shortages, Africa has vaccine shortages, China had the world's 2nd largest port close, air cargo close, and half their provinces are rationing electricity.
We are tough, we have ingenuity, we are not wimps. Pull it together.
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The perfect storm ingredients have been added and mixed together. It is brewing now. Paying people to not work all year has some people liking not working. Other people wanting to go back to work have decided not to after Biden and Fauci told them they are not safe at work even with the vaccine in them. People that are willing to work are being banned from working because of their personal health choices.
It's already starting with shortages and much higher inflation than expected and the FED now admitting it won't be just transitory.
Last year I was the sad sap listening to the experts saying not to stock up. Wiping my ass with leaves won't happen to me this year. I am buying items and stocking up like crazy. 1 item limits everywhere, so buying what is available one at a time from multiple stores each and every day. I am going to stock up to the roof.
Democrat Socialism = Venezuela
To usher in full bore Communism
Cloward & Piven Theory played out right before us, and done on purpose.... They are 4 years behind schedule on the 16 year plan.
Cargo ships haven't been unloaded by hand by longshoreman in decades. With the exception of bulk cargo like oil, grains and chemicals most cargo arrives via 20' and 40' ocean containers. longshoremen unload them one at a time with cranes and place them on trailers where trucks haul them to a container year for examination and release by Customs and Border Protection (CBP). All of the imported cargo has to have entry paperwork filed on it by a customs broker so that it can be released by CBP. The back up at the ports has nothing to do with a labor shortage.
C'mon, who knows more about it, you or someone whose only knowledge about shipping comes from watching On the Waterfront? You would have at least expected they watched Season 2 of The Wire.
I guess they've also never seen containerized trains or heard of intermodal freight transport (which has only been around forty years or so).
C'mon, who knows more about it, you or someone whose only knowledge about shipping comes from watching On the Waterfront? You would have at least expected they watched Season 2 of The Wire.
I guess they've also never seen containerized trains or heard of intermodal freight transport (which has only been around forty years or so).
Yes, watch the water...
Everything to live comfortably is being held off shore in mass... on purpose. It is not a coincidence.
Great. Yet another "Time to panic as the world is coming to an end" thread.
No, the world isn't coming to an end. Living life will get harder, not easier, though, and if you haven't done even a little bit of preparing for what's likely to happen, you're going to be in the worst position when it does.
Do you own a fire extinguisher? Why? Just in case, right? Doesn't hurt to invest a little and stock up on things you're going to use eventually, anyway, just in case. And everyone should have a bare minimum of a few days worth of necessities, extra or earmarked prescriptions, etc on hand for natural disasters and the like, regardless of the economy or anything else. Same mindset.
The world isn't ending, and nobody's claiming that it is. We're undeniably headed for hard economic times, though, and if you don't understand what that means, go find a chat group with older boomers in it or even the greatest generation if you can find one, and ask to see some family stories about the Depression. Or just search around - I'm sure there are blogs filled with them. People love sharing their family history.
My normal inventory is like 6 months, including dog food.
That's just normal for us, not for any specific reason.
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No, the world isn't coming to an end. Living life will get harder, not easier, though, and if you haven't done even a little bit of preparing for what's likely to happen, you're going to be in the worst position when it does.
Do you own a fire extinguisher? Why? Just in case, right? Doesn't hurt to invest a little and stock up on things you're going to use eventually, anyway, just in case. And everyone should have a bare minimum of a few days worth of necessities, extra or earmarked prescriptions, etc on hand for natural disasters and the like, regardless of the economy or anything else. Same mindset.
The world isn't ending, and nobody's claiming that it is. We're undeniably headed for hard economic times, though, and if you don't understand what that means, go find a chat group with older boomers in it or even the greatest generation if you can find one, and ask to see some family stories about the Depression. Or just search around - I'm sure there are blogs filled with them. People love sharing their family history.
I actually am on older Boomer. Any yeah, my mother was a gloom and doom person always eagerly waiting for something bad to happen to justify her feelings. There will always be people of all ages following her pattern. But I have chosen not to go down that road
Cargo ships haven't been unloaded by hand by longshoreman in decades. With the exception of bulk cargo like oil, grains and chemicals most cargo arrives via 20' and 40' ocean containers. longshoremen unload them one at a time with cranes and place them on trailers where trucks haul them to a container year for examination and release by Customs and Border Protection (CBP). All of the imported cargo has to have entry paperwork filed on it by a customs broker so that it can be released by CBP. The back up at the ports has nothing to do with a labor shortage.
So are you saying the backup is due to customs paperwork?
We've seen shortages, nothing that can't be worked around. Sometimes I see these threads and at how delicate it seems Americans have become.
UK has major gas shortages, Africa has vaccine shortages, China had the world's 2nd largest port close, air cargo close, and half their provinces are rationing electricity.
We are tough, we have ingenuity, we are not wimps. Pull it together.
Delicate?
The past 18 months have shown the Trump crowd to be the true snowflakes in comparison to Team Blue.
They are beyond delicate. You’re being too kind.
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at how delicate it seems Americans have become.
