like @bamaEER , or @moe , or @Bucktown Brown or @MountaineerWV or @NYC_Eer .....it's probably too late for any of them but YOU have a chance to walk away.....
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If you're like one of our board's resident Leftists
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I walked away around 2010. And I had voted for Obama in 2008. I’ll never go back to the Democrats again
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People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the end of America.I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of what would actually happen:
1. The government announces that grocery retailers aren’t allowed to raise prices.
2. Grocery stores, which operate on 1-2% net margins, can’t survive if their suppliers raise prices. So the government announces that food producers (Kraft Heinz, ConAgra, Tyson, Hormel, et. al.) also aren’t allowed to raise prices
3. Not all grocery stores are created equal. Stores in lower-income areas make less money than those in higher-income areas, as the former disproportionately sell lower-margin prepackaged foods (“center of the store”) instead of higher-margin fresh products like meat (“perimeter of the store”). Because stores in lower-income areas aren’t able to cover overhead (remember, even if their wholesale costs are fixed, their labor, utilities, insurance, and other operating expenses aren’t fixed… yet), grocery chains start to shut them down. Food deserts in rural areas and in low-income urban areas alike become worse.
4. Meanwhile, margins for food producers are also quickly eroding. Their primary costs (ingredients, energy, and labor) aren’t fixed, and their shrinking gross profits leave less cash flow available to cover overhead, maintain facilities, and reinvest in additional production capacity.
5. Grocery chains, which have finite shelf space, start to repurpose their stores (those they didn’t have to shut down, I should say) to sell more non-price-controlled items—everything from nutrition supplements to kitchenware to apparel—and less price-controlled food products. Your local Kroger or Safeway starts to look and feel more like a Walmart.
6. Food producers stop making products with lower margins. Grocery chain start competing with each other to secure inventory. Since they can’t compete by offering stronger prices (remember, producers aren’t allowed to raise prices here, and, even if they could, grocery chains no longer have the gross profit to bear price increases), they compete on things like payment terms.
7. Small grocery chains start to shut down entirely, or get sold to larger chains like Kroger. In addition to not being able to cover fixed costs, a major reason for this is because they can no longer reliably secure delivery of products, due to producers prioritizing sales to larger customers, which are able to leverage their stronger balance sheets to offer superior payment terms.
8. Smaller food producers—which typically sell via distributors, rather than directly to grocery chains—start to go out of business. Because these producers have an additional step their value chains, and because they have lower volumes over which to spread their fixed costs, their cost structure is inherently disadvantaged compared to major food producers. When grocery stores aren’t able to raise prices, cutting product costs becomes all the more important, and deprioritizing purchases from smaller producers is an easy way to do so.
9. As supply chains break down, lines start to form outside grocery stores every morning. Cities assign police officers to patrol store parking lots, and food producers draft contingency plans to assign armed escorts to delivery trucks.
10. The federal government announces a program to issue block grants for states to purchase and operate shuttered grocery stores. The USDA also seizes closed-down production facilities.
11. The government announces that prices for all key food costs—corn, wheat, cattle, energy, etc.—are also now fixed, to stop “profiteers” from gouging the now-government-operated food industry.
12. Shockingly, the government struggles to operate one of the most complex industries on the planet. The entire food supply chain starts imploding.
13. Communism, mass starvation, and the end of America quickly ensue.
Hey wait a second
I walked away.....
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
I walked away too...
Tulsi Gabbard
Yeah...me too
Joe Manchin
I couldn't walk away...they kicked me out!
Those ungrateful bastards creepy Joe...after all you did in '20 to help them cheat to get you in...look how they "walked away" from your old ass when you needed 'em?
I'd leave if I could, but I have no place else to go, plus I got no teeth either!
Poor old guy....says a mouthful with no teeth!!!!
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
I walked away too...
Tulsi Gabbard
Yeah...me too
Joe Manchin
I couldn't walk away...they kicked me out!
Those ungrateful bastards creepy Joe...after all you did in '20 to help them cheat to get you in...look how they "walked away" from your old ass when you needed 'em?
I'd leave if I could, but I have no place else to go, plus I got no teeth either!
Poor old guy....says a mouthful with no teeth!!!!
What this guy doesn't understand is she really is pushing what alot of Socialist and Communist Countries have become. That is the Tyrants and their allies become wealthy while the middle class get destroyed. The poor never get an opportunity to advance.
The CCP uses Crony Capitalism to enrich their top leaders. The DNC and RINOS have been doing the same thing here and globally. Everyone needs to park the old text book definitions. Call it Capcom, Socialism, Communism, Neo-Marxism, or Neo-Nazism. Call it whatever helps you wrap your brains around it.
Just understand it leads to Tyranny and you losing your freedom. Elites in Socialist and Communist Countries live good. The rest of us not so much.
So yes she's a fvcking wannabe Communist Dicatator. Walz is a wannabe Communist Dictator. Their problem is you all are still armed.
The CCP uses Crony Capitalism to enrich their top leaders. The DNC and RINOS have been doing the same thing here and globally. Everyone needs to park the old text book definitions. Call it Capcom, Socialism, Communism, Neo-Marxism, or Neo-Nazism. Call it whatever helps you wrap your brains around it.
Just understand it leads to Tyranny and you losing your freedom. Elites in Socialist and Communist Countries live good. The rest of us not so much.
So yes she's a fvcking wannabe Communist Dicatator. Walz is a wannabe Communist Dictator. Their problem is you all are still armed.
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My own transformation came shortly after leaving College in the early 80's. I was raised by a Kennedy Democrat Mom and an Eisenhower Republican Dad. Suffice it to say political discussions in our home were spicy to say the least. I grew up during the Civil rights era, and my Dad was from the Jim Crow South...where he saw his Dad (my Grandfather) blatantly discriminated against legally (by Democrats as a matter of fact).
Grandfather who helped mentor me along with my Dad, moved his family North from Alabama back in the late 40's...jobs were plentiful in Buffalo NY where he was urged by relatives who'd done the same to "come North, and get work". My Grandfather worked for Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna NY, shoveling coal into coke ovens to make steel. Buffalo NY was a booming town back then, and jobs for low skilled Black men like my Grandpa were plentiful. He was smart, but lacked letters behind his name because he had to teach himself to read. Blacks weren't allowed to read books in the Jim Crow South.
I had Uncles my Grandad raised who eventually worked in the car business both repairing and selling vehicles. My Uncle Jim who was second oldest after my Dad managed two GM dealerships...which was unheard of back in the mid 60's and 70's. I had other Uncles who worked at places like Harrison radiator, Westinghouse electric, Saginaw steering gear, and Trico (the wiper blade people). As Black men, they all lived well, were educated, and economically successful, including my Dad who worked for Mid-State meat packing as a licensed butcher. He had his own butcher shop on Buffalo's East side, selling fine cuts of meat to mostly Black customers. I used to help him in the shop, but I hated the smell of dead carcasses and the sight of uncooked red meat. I wanted a different life for myself.
I say all that because I was raised never to depend on anyone but myself. I was educated by Nuns and Jesuit Priests (my parents insisted on placing me into Private schools) & they told me I could be anything I wanted to be because I was especially created by Almighty God. So if I was willing to work hard for it and strive for excellence I was capable of anything. My Mom, as sympathetic as she was to the Civil rights struggles ongoing at the time I was being raised, also always told me to never believe I was less of a person because of the color of my skin. I believed her.
When I finally got to College, I ran into a wide variety of views about race. The people of West Virginia were good to me, and I honestly never felt I was treated less by any of them because I was Black. Being in a College town, everyone was open to diverse culture but I had a lot of Liberal Professors who tried to tell me America hated me because I was Black. That wasn't what I was feeling at WVU, but those messages sure were sent. I didn't believe them. That began my slow transformation away from Liberal "groupthink"
It wasn't until I graduated as a Broadcast Journalist and got into anchoring & reporting the news that I began to see through more of the charades Leftist politicians (mostly Democrats) played. I always tried to keep my objectivity in front of me, but I wasn't stupid, so I reported the facts as I saw them and exactly as I was trained in College to do. However for some reason Democrats I'd cover had a problem with my reporting because they perceived I was "against" them! Facts are never friendly to the Left, and I was always about the facts, and the facts only.
I was equally tough on Republicans, determined to cut through their facades and tell it straight right down the middle. For the most part Republicans didn't have a problem with my reporting, but Democrats always seemed to throw a "hissy fit" if they felt I didn't "take their side" or make them look good! After 20 years of that caca, I decided to get out of the business because I saw it turning more and more slanted toward the Democrat only view, and biased against Republicans. It's worse now than it ever was when I was a reporter!
That wasn't what I signed up for. I had established some contacts in the auto business which I was familiar with because of my Uncles, and decided to try my hand at selling where it was made plain to me I could use my name and T-V familiarity to earn a good living. It worked well, and I've spent the past 20 years living quite comfortably moving metal and rubber. The car business has also allowed me to see Democrats in a different light. In my business (which is strictly based on commission sales) you don't eat if you don't sell.
Competition forces you to stay alert and in touch with not only your products, but your customers and particularly their personal financial conditions. This is where I've seen the devastation caused by misguided Leftist fiscal policies and poor economic understanding of just what makes our Capitalistic free enterprise economy function? I haven't voted Democrat since I was a Sophomore in College back in 1976. (I voted for Carter that year) but since then from 1980 on... it's been GOP. (As a Reporter I never discussed my voting preferences) but when I voted it was for Reagan (twice '80 & '84) Bush twice ('88 and '92) Dole in '96...GWB in 2000 & '04 (I was out of the news business by then) & later two votes I now regret for McCain in '08, and Romney in '12, then most recently Trump in '16 and again in '20. I'll vote for Trump again this year.
I'm just putting this up mostly for my friends on the right of this forum, who I'm sure would agree with me this is the most important election of our lifetime. If we don't get this one right, I fear America as we've come to know it, will no longer exist. I have five grand kids myself now, I hope we still have a country left for them to raise their own kids in as I've raised their parents. I am really concerned we won't have a country anymore if that cacklin' Communist gets elected.
Lord help us!
Grandfather who helped mentor me along with my Dad, moved his family North from Alabama back in the late 40's...jobs were plentiful in Buffalo NY where he was urged by relatives who'd done the same to "come North, and get work". My Grandfather worked for Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna NY, shoveling coal into coke ovens to make steel. Buffalo NY was a booming town back then, and jobs for low skilled Black men like my Grandpa were plentiful. He was smart, but lacked letters behind his name because he had to teach himself to read. Blacks weren't allowed to read books in the Jim Crow South.
I had Uncles my Grandad raised who eventually worked in the car business both repairing and selling vehicles. My Uncle Jim who was second oldest after my Dad managed two GM dealerships...which was unheard of back in the mid 60's and 70's. I had other Uncles who worked at places like Harrison radiator, Westinghouse electric, Saginaw steering gear, and Trico (the wiper blade people). As Black men, they all lived well, were educated, and economically successful, including my Dad who worked for Mid-State meat packing as a licensed butcher. He had his own butcher shop on Buffalo's East side, selling fine cuts of meat to mostly Black customers. I used to help him in the shop, but I hated the smell of dead carcasses and the sight of uncooked red meat. I wanted a different life for myself.
I say all that because I was raised never to depend on anyone but myself. I was educated by Nuns and Jesuit Priests (my parents insisted on placing me into Private schools) & they told me I could be anything I wanted to be because I was especially created by Almighty God. So if I was willing to work hard for it and strive for excellence I was capable of anything. My Mom, as sympathetic as she was to the Civil rights struggles ongoing at the time I was being raised, also always told me to never believe I was less of a person because of the color of my skin. I believed her.
When I finally got to College, I ran into a wide variety of views about race. The people of West Virginia were good to me, and I honestly never felt I was treated less by any of them because I was Black. Being in a College town, everyone was open to diverse culture but I had a lot of Liberal Professors who tried to tell me America hated me because I was Black. That wasn't what I was feeling at WVU, but those messages sure were sent. I didn't believe them. That began my slow transformation away from Liberal "groupthink"
It wasn't until I graduated as a Broadcast Journalist and got into anchoring & reporting the news that I began to see through more of the charades Leftist politicians (mostly Democrats) played. I always tried to keep my objectivity in front of me, but I wasn't stupid, so I reported the facts as I saw them and exactly as I was trained in College to do. However for some reason Democrats I'd cover had a problem with my reporting because they perceived I was "against" them! Facts are never friendly to the Left, and I was always about the facts, and the facts only.
I was equally tough on Republicans, determined to cut through their facades and tell it straight right down the middle. For the most part Republicans didn't have a problem with my reporting, but Democrats always seemed to throw a "hissy fit" if they felt I didn't "take their side" or make them look good! After 20 years of that caca, I decided to get out of the business because I saw it turning more and more slanted toward the Democrat only view, and biased against Republicans. It's worse now than it ever was when I was a reporter!
That wasn't what I signed up for. I had established some contacts in the auto business which I was familiar with because of my Uncles, and decided to try my hand at selling where it was made plain to me I could use my name and T-V familiarity to earn a good living. It worked well, and I've spent the past 20 years living quite comfortably moving metal and rubber. The car business has also allowed me to see Democrats in a different light. In my business (which is strictly based on commission sales) you don't eat if you don't sell.
Competition forces you to stay alert and in touch with not only your products, but your customers and particularly their personal financial conditions. This is where I've seen the devastation caused by misguided Leftist fiscal policies and poor economic understanding of just what makes our Capitalistic free enterprise economy function? I haven't voted Democrat since I was a Sophomore in College back in 1976. (I voted for Carter that year) but since then from 1980 on... it's been GOP. (As a Reporter I never discussed my voting preferences) but when I voted it was for Reagan (twice '80 & '84) Bush twice ('88 and '92) Dole in '96...GWB in 2000 & '04 (I was out of the news business by then) & later two votes I now regret for McCain in '08, and Romney in '12, then most recently Trump in '16 and again in '20. I'll vote for Trump again this year.
I'm just putting this up mostly for my friends on the right of this forum, who I'm sure would agree with me this is the most important election of our lifetime. If we don't get this one right, I fear America as we've come to know it, will no longer exist. I have five grand kids myself now, I hope we still have a country left for them to raise their own kids in as I've raised their parents. I am really concerned we won't have a country anymore if that cacklin' Communist gets elected.
Lord help us!
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