Supply Chain Shortages and Inflation

[C-Mag]

This thread is beginning to look like just my personal diary.

Keep the entries coming.

[PartyOf5]

I have a brother who farms 2400 acres of wheat plus some other stuff.

Fertilizer 18 months ago was $250 per ton, it is now nearly $800 per ton. Nitrogen Fertilizers are the backbone of our steady grain production. All fertilizer is up 200% - 300%. Those costs will be reflected in food costs. Some farmers won't be able to front the money for fertilizer as they are also getting hit fuel, oil, tire increases. The farmers that don't use fertilizers will see a drastic drop in production. This will affect the supply.

Someone, somewhere is making a mint off of these supply chain issues.

[Martin Hash]

Bingo.

[C-Mag]

Globalization is dead.
We are entering the lag period between having all our manufacturing done in 3rd world shitholes, and manufacturing coming back to North America. It's going to be painful in that transition. We have to build back all the manufacturing infrastructure we've destroyed in the last 30 years, and they people steering the ship are greedy morons.

Everyone, for their own good, needs to search out the most local producers of basic needs asap.

[The Conservative]

Globalization is dead.
We are entering the lag period between having all our manufacturing done in 3rd world shitholes, and manufacturing coming back to North America. It's going to be painful in that transition. We have to build back all the manufacturing infrastructure we've destroyed in the last 30 years, and they people steering the ship are greedy morons.

Everyone, for their own good, needs to search out the most local producers of basic needs asap.

I hope this is true, I've been wanting the US to produce their own stuff since the start of outsourcing started to get a foothold into the US mindset.

Honestly, it be nice to keep China and other countries from stealing our technology... especially when we practically hand wrap it to them by giving them the tooling and technology to build stuff.

It would be nice to see the US have a true "blue-collar" again.

[Martin Hash]

This is what MAGA is all about so you can easily identify the people against it.

[The Conservative]

This is what MAGA is all about so you can easily identify the people against it.

Ain't that the truth... of course, if this happens (the US becomes self sufficient again) entities like Walmart will be put out of business... (not a bad thing of course)

I honestly wonder if we should put a restriction on selling Chinese products as China has to the US and other countries... see how long it takes for them to realize who needs who...

[Martin Hash]

Globalism fits both Fascist & Socialist value systems: Fascists are comfortable with an aristocracy so anything that increases the wealth & influence of the private elites is acceptable to them, and Socialists like the consolidation of political power. Chances are, the very first person you talk to about MAGA is already from one of these 2 groups so it's hard to get converts.

[The Conservative]

Globalism fits both Fascist & Socialist value systems: Fascists are comfortable with an aristocracy so anything that increases the wealth & influence of the private elites is acceptable to them, and Socialists like the consolidation of political power. Chances are, the very first person you talk to about MAGA is already from one of these 2 groups so it's hard to get converts.

I don't care about converting, if they can't take a truth bomb, then so be it.

[C-Mag]

Globalization is dead.
We are entering the lag period between having all our manufacturing done in 3rd world shitholes, and manufacturing coming back to North America. It's going to be painful in that transition. We have to build back all the manufacturing infrastructure we've destroyed in the last 30 years, and they people steering the ship are greedy morons.

Everyone, for their own good, needs to search out the most local producers of basic needs asap.

I hope this is true, I've been wanting the US to produce their own stuff since the start of outsourcing started to get a foothold into the US mindset.

Honestly, it be nice to keep China and other countries from stealing our technology... especially when we practically hand wrap it to them by giving them the tooling and technology to build stuff.

It would be nice to see the US have a true "blue-collar" again.

I'm pretty sure a big component of all the build back better shit is globohomos attempting to engineer all this so that they are still in control and control of the vast majority of profit to be made. I hear you about technology and innovation security, but a good portion of our leaders are sold out to China. We have Chinese spies openly on the inside with Congress and nothing happens. Shit pisses me off.

I believe there will be a small blue collar population again, but most of the work is going to be done with robots. I have a son in law who runs a fabrication business. He builds specialized roll cages and bumpers for race cars. Tons of pipe bending to fit all different types of cars. 95% of that work is done by a programmed robotic bender. He still has 4-6 people hired to dress parts and prep for welding, but 30 years ago he would have needed a staff of 20-30, including draftsmen and engineers to do what he is doing right now. The cars are scanned, he designs all the parts in Cad, then the parts are sent to his robot machine, they are manufactured, then he just puts them together and welds.

It's really amazing how much work a few guys can do with these tools.