And now Trump has some downside risks from his “war of choice”: the loss of almost all oil exports that pass through the Strait of Hormuz, which is most of what is exported from the Persian Gulf, and rising oil prices.
Their exports are also inputs into fertilizer. Expect food prices to rise again.
Both of them relish stolen glory.
… I think I shall start disregarding you, disregardable. Goodbye.
Might’ve only had to be on the registry for a few years?
Anyway, here: https://web.archive.org/web/20050706062151/http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-molest01.html
If she wants to win, she needs to be out there today pushing back against the regime. Instead, there’s crickets. That’s a “No” vote from me.
You know how, if you fall for one scam, they trade/sell your info to other scammers because they know you’re likely to fall for something else as well? That’s how I feel about these people: they may (eventually) leave the trump train, but they’ll be ripe pickings for someone else.
Also: no tariffs!
The ruling only applies to tariffs he justified with the 1977 Emergency Act; the rest remain in place.
It’s not all the tariffs, just the ones he justified using the 1977 Emergency Act. So of course, now he’ll use another justification, and it’ll take SC®OTUS another year to rule on those.
It’s extremely charitable of you to assume that these laws will be enforced equitably.
Because you’re looking at the English Wikipedia? It’s there in the French Wikipedia.
Void wants to know why you’re snooping on their very private bath!?
My point is that the big manufacturing boom in the US in the 1950s was a direct result of the devastation from WWII, and the US being the one less affected country that wasn’t facing inner turmoil (China, India) and that had a lot of resources and a lot of population. And that the decline of American manufacturing has less to do with the US transitioning to a service oriented economy, and more to do with the rest of the world rebuilding their economies and industrial bases after the war. When you’re the only large-scale industrial manufacturer in the world, of course you do well. When you have to compete with a bunch of other countries, you actually need to compete.
I’m so happy for Bonnie!
The decline in manufacturing, however, is less a story about policy blunders than one about the long progress of the US economy, which has to a large extent graduated out of producing stuff like phones and cars and into the delivery of services, like finance and healthcare – a process similar to that followed by other countries that moved up the ladder of success.
Oh, ffs! You’d think that a British journalist focused on economics and politics would get this right, but apparently not.
The Republicans look back at America’s manufacturing boom of the 1950’s with nostalgia, and they completely ignore the reasons for the boom - namely, the devastation from WWII. South America, Africa and the Southern Pacific countries didn’t have big manufacturing economies. A significant number of other countries (Russia, Japan, most of Europe, etc) were physically devastated by the war and needed to rebuild from scratch.
With China focused inward and India focused on independence (and both countries recovering from the war), there simply wasn’t another large, heavily populated country to compete - New Zealand, Australia, Canada, etc, simply didn’t have the population to build and staff factories to the extent that the States could. That’s where the US post-war manufacturing boom came from: the war itself.
And the boom died out because other countries recovered from the war and built their own manufacturing bases. That boom was never going to last, and it’s unlikely to ever be repeated, and I just wish that people would realize that and move on from that dream.
You know who the biggest welfare queens in the States are? Corporations who deliberately limit worker hours so that they’ll never get benefits, and who deliberately underpay workers relative to their value and the amount of profit the company makes, and who deliberately arrange to underpay their taxes.
All of these things increase pressure on the worker and their desperate struggle to have just a little breathing room - and the government cheerfully goes along with all of this.
If any part of society was working as it should - if government represented the people instead of the corporations, if minimum wage had kept up with inflation, if corporations and the wealthy paid back into the system that has so vastly benefitted them - if any of that had happened, then you wouldn’t be under the stress that you’re under.
Go. Sign up for SNAP. Check with your county and see what other resources are available to you because you’re on SNAP - maybe you qualify for reduced heating, or a free phone line, or seasonal credit at your local farmers market. Anything that you qualify for, take advantage of, because each program will get you a little more space in your life for yourself.
Driver’s license. Credit/debit card. Library card. RFID blocker (if not built into wallet).
Health insurance card. Important medical information (like I dunno, “Diabetic” or “allergic to penicillin”). Contact information for next of kin [can be the same card as health information].
An emergency twenty dollar bill.
In the US:
“A racist post” didn’t change anything. They’re looking at the Republicans getting thoroughly trounced in every election and they’re worried about their chances in the midterms.
This is just them taking something that isn’t going to affect any policy at all and mildly complaining about it. They’ll each do this with a few more non-mattering things this year, then go back to their constituents and proudly proclaim a weird mix of “See, I stood up to Trump, I’m independent, not part of the political establishment” as well as “I’ve been around enough to know the ropes and have connections, so you can trust me to get things done for you!”
Sadly, it’ll work on the Facebook / Faux “News” crowd.
Unfortunately, that could be so very many people - professional relationships, personal relationships, and even family :/
Older Dem here, eagerly waiting generational change. Bring in AOC, bring in Bernie, bring in the Squad, I can’t wait!