I was hoping Schumer wouldn't cave like a weak liberal…. That way, the government would shut down and DOGE and OMB could start the decimation of the administrative state…hokiewolf said:
Making America Broke Quicker!Republicans are currently planning to increase the debt by more than any bill in recent memory has (including the covid emergency bills!) https://t.co/AD3KtjDHE2 pic.twitter.com/N7iZcTtGSC
— Corey Husak (@CoreyHusak) March 14, 2025
The courts are on the side of the Administrative State. That said, if true! That Federal employers require a 45 day notification, then, legally, they should provide one, so, do it now.El Lobo Loco said:
It seems some people are in favor of wasteful government spending
Kevin O'Leary calmly shares the brutal reality of the stock market and tariffs that CNN refuses to accept.
— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) March 13, 2025
"the stock market corrects about every 18 months as much as 10 to 20%. We're right in the middle of that right now. It's actually healthy."
It's only been 51 days and CNN… pic.twitter.com/GOJDvkLXgh
Kevin O'Leary tells Elon Musk to cut 20% MORE and whack EVERYBODY! 👀
— Bridgett Fertig (@LightOnLiberty) March 12, 2025
CNN is trying do hard to dismiss the government waste and fraud Elon is finding because CNN themselves is also in the category of waste and fraud that needs to be cut and they damn well know it! pic.twitter.com/qdJ295bhXf
It is odd that anyone takes seriously Trump's obsessive nostalgia about maximizing the number of manufacturing jobs (many of which are at desks or managing robots). The red bars in the graph on the left show that manufacturing jobs are a trivial share of total private jobs, shown… https://t.co/ZlkKBxl01o pic.twitter.com/9QTEr1IiGP
— AlanReynoldsEcon (@AlanReynoldsEcn) March 14, 2025
The “American Dream” isn’t about cheap Chinese trinkets and consumerism.
— Neil Axelrod 🇺🇸 (@NeilAxelrod) March 8, 2025
Free trade is good. But free trade has to be bidirectional and one side can’t be a free trader while the other is protectionist.
The US has ignored protectionism from others in the name of free trade.
Michigan Board of Education passes resolution to keep boys in girl’s bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports and renews their contempt for parents and the Trump administration: pic.twitter.com/ljHD6UHehJ
— Anna Hoffman (@shoesonplease) March 12, 2025
Current projections for Miami are 60% underwater in the next 35 years. You're thinking of Asheville.erniencsu02 said:wasnt Miami supposed to be underwater by now?SmaptyWolf said:/facepalmcaryking said:Do tell…SmaptyWolf said:Come on Cary, you're so close to thinking something through.caryking said:Greenland is a strategic location for defensive maneuvers.SmaptyWolf said:Hey, why do YOU think Trump wants Greenland? What do you think of Were spreading those Round Earth MARXIST LIES?GuerrillaPack said:You only believe something if known communist liars tell you to believe it. Because the Marxist Democrat Left is a religious cult that WORSHIPS LIES.SmaptyWolf said:
I was told that global warming wasn't real.
So you believe communist Leftist lying fake "authority figures" when they tell you about 70 genders, men can become women, unborn children are "not human" but only a "clump of cells", theory of evolution and you came from a monkey, a big bang explosion 14 billion years ago "created the universe by random chance".
...Russian collusion delusion hoax and Putin stole the 2016 election, Al Gore telling you in 2009 that all the polar ice caps and snow on Kilimanjaro would be gone within 5 to 10 years, etc etc etc
You will believe ANYTHING your lying Marxist overlords tell you to believe.
Soooo why is Greenland suddenly such a strategic location for defensive maneuvers? Why is the Arctic now expected to be full of ships sailing around instead of being a big ice sheet like it used to be?
Trump's obsession with Greenland is because shipping lanes are opening up and minerals are becoming available for extraction because all of the ice is rapidly melting (say goodbye to the Outer Banks).
It takes a special kind of diabolical idiot to cheer for gutting any effort to combat climate change and then cheer for taking over Greenland to take advantage of climate change.
Don't worry, I'm sure Trump will clamp those tariff loopholes down and put your company out of business. A small price to pay for the "greater good", right?caryking said:
Regardless of the type of manufacturing jobs that comes back, I support this happening. What China did well was create a linear manufacturing process that killed the world. So, let me explain a simple structure for golf bags:
- All the metal pieces (grommets, hooks, etc) are built internally or via a partner in the same province
- The tops and bottoms are controlled by a company (TDCA). This company provides all the tooling, design, and manufacturing for damn near every bag company. Stitch designed its own top and bottom system: however, TDCA manufacturers them and send to the factory.
- Fabrics are created by a select few manufacturers in China. Our Stitch Touring fabric cannot be made in the US.
- Assembly is done at the partner factory. The partner factory works with each manufacturer to order the needed components to assemble the golf bags.
So, with the tariff changes, the owners of the partner factory will open a new factory in another country; however, the raw components are still being made in China. Stitch avoids the larger tariffs because the origin of the bag, when shipping, comes from a factory, other than China. Our manufacturing cost may slightly increase, because of shipping of the raw material from China, to the new factory; however, the tariff reduction outweighs the slight manufacturing cost.
Why not the US? Well, it starts with raw materials manufacturing. We cannot find proper raw materials manufacturing in the US, that can support our demand. Just as important, the fabric, we use (and are known for) is not being done in the US.
One brand (fairly big) actually has the golf bag built in China and shipped partially assembled. They bypass most of the tariffs doing it that way. They do final assemble in the US. Personally, I see that as a hole in the tariff model. Additionally, I see what Stitch does as a hole in the tariff model. Trump did say, he wants to add larger tariffs on other Countries as the owners of the factories, in these other countries, are nothing more than China owned businesses that moved or opened their factories in a different country. Trump is 100% correct. I know, because we do it.
Stitch has tried to find manufacturing in the US and continue to look for it. Until the country has a significant change, in the way we operate, we will always look outside. Also, just remember, Stitch is at the top of the market with the price of our bags, so, any cost changes are absorbed by Stitch. We can't pass it on to the consumer, because of the inflection point between price vs margin.
SmaptyWolf said:Don't worry, I'm sure Trump will clamp those tariff loopholes down and put your company out of business. A small price to pay for the "greater good", right?caryking said:
Regardless of the type of manufacturing jobs that comes back, I support this happening. What China did well was create a linear manufacturing process that killed the world. So, let me explain a simple structure for golf bags:
- All the metal pieces (grommets, hooks, etc) are built internally or via a partner in the same province
- The tops and bottoms are controlled by a company (TDCA). This company provides all the tooling, design, and manufacturing for damn near every bag company. Stitch designed its own top and bottom system: however, TDCA manufacturers them and send to the factory.
- Fabrics are created by a select few manufacturers in China. Our Stitch Touring fabric cannot be made in the US.
- Assembly is done at the partner factory. The partner factory works with each manufacturer to order the needed components to assemble the golf bags.
So, with the tariff changes, the owners of the partner factory will open a new factory in another country; however, the raw components are still being made in China. Stitch avoids the larger tariffs because the origin of the bag, when shipping, comes from a factory, other than China. Our manufacturing cost may slightly increase, because of shipping of the raw material from China, to the new factory; however, the tariff reduction outweighs the slight manufacturing cost.
Why not the US? Well, it starts with raw materials manufacturing. We cannot find proper raw materials manufacturing in the US, that can support our demand. Just as important, the fabric, we use (and are known for) is not being done in the US.
One brand (fairly big) actually has the golf bag built in China and shipped partially assembled. They bypass most of the tariffs doing it that way. They do final assemble in the US. Personally, I see that as a hole in the tariff model. Additionally, I see what Stitch does as a hole in the tariff model. Trump did say, he wants to add larger tariffs on other Countries as the owners of the factories, in these other countries, are nothing more than China owned businesses that moved or opened their factories in a different country. Trump is 100% correct. I know, because we do it.
Stitch has tried to find manufacturing in the US and continue to look for it. Until the country has a significant change, in the way we operate, we will always look outside. Also, just remember, Stitch is at the top of the market with the price of our bags, so, any cost changes are absorbed by Stitch. We can't pass it on to the consumer, because of the inflection point between price vs margin.
Well, most recently I was CTO of a successful analytics startup and cashed out, but nothing as intellectually demanding as making golf bags.caryking said:SmaptyWolf said:Don't worry, I'm sure Trump will clamp those tariff loopholes down and put your company out of business. A small price to pay for the "greater good", right?caryking said:
Regardless of the type of manufacturing jobs that comes back, I support this happening. What China did well was create a linear manufacturing process that killed the world. So, let me explain a simple structure for golf bags:
- All the metal pieces (grommets, hooks, etc) are built internally or via a partner in the same province
- The tops and bottoms are controlled by a company (TDCA). This company provides all the tooling, design, and manufacturing for damn near every bag company. Stitch designed its own top and bottom system: however, TDCA manufacturers them and send to the factory.
- Fabrics are created by a select few manufacturers in China. Our Stitch Touring fabric cannot be made in the US.
- Assembly is done at the partner factory. The partner factory works with each manufacturer to order the needed components to assemble the golf bags.
So, with the tariff changes, the owners of the partner factory will open a new factory in another country; however, the raw components are still being made in China. Stitch avoids the larger tariffs because the origin of the bag, when shipping, comes from a factory, other than China. Our manufacturing cost may slightly increase, because of shipping of the raw material from China, to the new factory; however, the tariff reduction outweighs the slight manufacturing cost.
Why not the US? Well, it starts with raw materials manufacturing. We cannot find proper raw materials manufacturing in the US, that can support our demand. Just as important, the fabric, we use (and are known for) is not being done in the US.
One brand (fairly big) actually has the golf bag built in China and shipped partially assembled. They bypass most of the tariffs doing it that way. They do final assemble in the US. Personally, I see that as a hole in the tariff model. Additionally, I see what Stitch does as a hole in the tariff model. Trump did say, he wants to add larger tariffs on other Countries as the owners of the factories, in these other countries, are nothing more than China owned businesses that moved or opened their factories in a different country. Trump is 100% correct. I know, because we do it.
Stitch has tried to find manufacturing in the US and continue to look for it. Until the country has a significant change, in the way we operate, we will always look outside. Also, just remember, Stitch is at the top of the market with the price of our bags, so, any cost changes are absorbed by Stitch. We can't pass it on to the consumer, because of the inflection point between price vs margin.
Smapty and his hyperbole…. You know nothing about running a company, do you?
SmaptyWolf said:Well, most recently I was CTO of a successful analytics startup and cashed out, but nothing as intellectually demanding as making golf bags.caryking said:SmaptyWolf said:Don't worry, I'm sure Trump will clamp those tariff loopholes down and put your company out of business. A small price to pay for the "greater good", right?caryking said:
Regardless of the type of manufacturing jobs that comes back, I support this happening. What China did well was create a linear manufacturing process that killed the world. So, let me explain a simple structure for golf bags:
- All the metal pieces (grommets, hooks, etc) are built internally or via a partner in the same province
- The tops and bottoms are controlled by a company (TDCA). This company provides all the tooling, design, and manufacturing for damn near every bag company. Stitch designed its own top and bottom system: however, TDCA manufacturers them and send to the factory.
- Fabrics are created by a select few manufacturers in China. Our Stitch Touring fabric cannot be made in the US.
- Assembly is done at the partner factory. The partner factory works with each manufacturer to order the needed components to assemble the golf bags.
So, with the tariff changes, the owners of the partner factory will open a new factory in another country; however, the raw components are still being made in China. Stitch avoids the larger tariffs because the origin of the bag, when shipping, comes from a factory, other than China. Our manufacturing cost may slightly increase, because of shipping of the raw material from China, to the new factory; however, the tariff reduction outweighs the slight manufacturing cost.
Why not the US? Well, it starts with raw materials manufacturing. We cannot find proper raw materials manufacturing in the US, that can support our demand. Just as important, the fabric, we use (and are known for) is not being done in the US.
One brand (fairly big) actually has the golf bag built in China and shipped partially assembled. They bypass most of the tariffs doing it that way. They do final assemble in the US. Personally, I see that as a hole in the tariff model. Additionally, I see what Stitch does as a hole in the tariff model. Trump did say, he wants to add larger tariffs on other Countries as the owners of the factories, in these other countries, are nothing more than China owned businesses that moved or opened their factories in a different country. Trump is 100% correct. I know, because we do it.
Stitch has tried to find manufacturing in the US and continue to look for it. Until the country has a significant change, in the way we operate, we will always look outside. Also, just remember, Stitch is at the top of the market with the price of our bags, so, any cost changes are absorbed by Stitch. We can't pass it on to the consumer, because of the inflection point between price vs margin.
Smapty and his hyperbole…. You know nothing about running a company, do you?
Hokie, as a true libertarian conservative (dang near anarchist), I often struggle with my bring back manufacturing stance. That said, I do believe the best interest, of the country, in whole, is for manufacturing to become more plentiful in the US.hokiewolf said:
I really appreciate your insight. Thanks for the real world example. That's helpful. I still feel like tariffs are an inefficient solution to create more manufacturing.
HOLY CR*P 🚨 Joe Biden was paying off his blackmail bribes by sending USAID Money
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