The issues of the world......

In my business, we use to design and bid what we think the customer wanted and got the job with a few small design revisions.

Today, we design and bid as cheap as possible, so the builder does not lose the bid to build a house. Then comes the homeowner, and we re-design what the home owner wants, until they see the price. Then we re-design multiple times to try and get the price down, until eventually we are almost back at the initial cheap as possible bid.
My neighbor has his own electrical company and says the same.....it all comes down to the price and cost...

He said the cost of equipment and supplies have gone up but the customers don't want to pay a mark up. He's also noted that with new custom home building some of the lofty electrical plans are scaled back somewhat these days in order to keep the overall costs down.

..........and I foresee this only getting worse before getting better....
 
Don't worry........................In the end, we will ALL own NOTHING and be HAPPY remember.
We will completely dependant on government for food, shelter, and funds to live..................and we will also be enslaved by it as well.

Those who dare to question the path forward will be arrested and "dealt with" for spreading "misinformation"

Cameron
 
Don't worry........................In the end, we will ALL own NOTHING and be HAPPY remember.
We will completely dependant on government for food, shelter, and funds to live..................and we will also be enslaved by it as well.

Those who dare to question the path forward will be arrested and "dealt with" for spreading "misinformation"

Cameron
James Taylor once wrote “The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time”. You can try that or you can mull all that crap you just wrote. Your choice.
 
Don't worry........................In the end, we will ALL own NOTHING and be HAPPY remember.
We will completely dependant on government for food, shelter, and funds to live..................and we will also be enslaved by it as well.

Those who dare to question the path forward will be arrested and "dealt with" for spreading "misinformation"

Cameron
If you look around, we are already dependent on the government for most things especially utilities...

.....and life sucks without those....just the smell of open sewage pits alone makes me appreciate the sewer system.
 
Don't worry........................In the end, we will ALL own NOTHING and be HAPPY remember.
We will completely dependant on government for food, shelter, and funds to live..................and we will also be enslaved by it as well.

Those who dare to question the path forward will be arrested and "dealt with" for spreading "misinformation"

Cameron
Where you live, can’t you get a team of Huskies, a sled, a rifle with enough ammunition, go build an igloo and live totally happy and independent so your path can’t be questioned and you can’t be arrested?

BTW, Wuzza won’t get this, he will think it is a serious question.
 
Where you live, can’t you get a team of Huskies, a sled, a rifle with enough ammunition, go build an igloo and live totally happy and independent so your path can’t be questioned and you can’t be arrested?

BTW, Wuzza won’t get this, he will think it is a serious question.
Here in Southern Ontario, we don't live in Igloo's

Cameron
 
Where you live, can’t you get a team of Huskies, a sled, a rifle with enough ammunition, go build an igloo and live totally happy and independent so your path can’t be questioned and you can’t be arrested?

BTW, Wuzza won’t get this, he will think it is a serious question.
I built an igloo in the high arctic on a training exercise....it was pretty toasty warm in there......the snow is like Styrofoam up there....
 
Hi. This is why we must keep Harris. We are all rich now and the furure great Americans are all living hogh off the hog. Rember she is going to make it all better than Biden did BUT NOT CHANGE ANY THING THAT HE DID. It is the way to go!
I think there is discrimination here on the forum. If I enlighten people like you do, they make sure to punish me with internet punches.

Blanca actually took my MAGA cap, and put a hole through it, at 1000 yards, using open steel sights and a suppressor.
 
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That must have been a cool experience.

I have Alaska on my bucket list, one day.
We were near Iqaluit Nunavut and went to Ellesmere Island Nunavut...it was pretty cold in the middle of winter in total darkness for 24 hrs...

We went from the high arctic to the jungle to the desert all within 14 days.....going from -40'C to +40'C with high humidity was something else...
 
He said the cost of equipment and supplies have gone up but the customers don't want to pay a mark up. He's also noted that with new custom home building some of the lofty electrical plans are scaled back somewhat these days in order to keep the overall costs down.

..........and I foresee this only getting worse before getting better....
Well it stands to reason. The people that assume things must get better in the face of overwhelming debt and depleting natural resources typically work in Universities and are insulated from the real world. But lets face it, many are making lots of money out of this downturn, if you want to call it that. The 1% grow richer and richer and so does anyone who followed in the footsteps of the 1%. My local Suzuki dealership has exactly one hayabusa on the floor, an orchard of KTM's and a swathe of those Chinese bikes, you know the ones with no oil coolers, cheap accessories and narrow wheels. I saw one outside the cakeshop in town the other day and had a good look over it, definitely not for me! But they are all many can afford now.

Confidence. It all runs on confidence and if people hear that the stock market is rising and that the BS government numbers are getting better they will take out a loan for 30k on a bike or 500k on a house regardless of what the economy may be like in 3 years. Human psychology.
 
Well it stands to reason. The people that assume things must get better in the face of overwhelming debt and depleting natural resources typically work in Universities and are insulated from the real world. But lets face it, many are making lots of money out of this downturn, if you want to call it that. The 1% grow richer and richer and so does anyone who followed in the footsteps of the 1%. My local Suzuki dealership has exactly one hayabusa on the floor, an orchard of KTM's and a swathe of those Chinese bikes, you know the ones with no oil coolers, cheap accessories and narrow wheels. I saw one outside the cakeshop in town the other day and had a good look over it, definitely not for me! But they are all many can afford now.

Confidence. It all runs on confidence and if people hear that the stock market is rising and that the BS government numbers are getting better they will take out a loan for 30k on a bike or 500k on a house regardless of what the economy may be like in 3 years. Human psychology.
We have a CF Moto dealership near me, their bikes are all Chinese knock offs....

I see a few of them in the showroom and the salesman said they have sold quite a few but I've yet to see one out in the wild...
 
We have a CF Moto dealership near me, their bikes are all Chinese knock offs....

I see a few of them in the showroom and the salesman said they have sold quite a few but I've yet to see one out in the wild...
I was just thinking that today about ktm's. I saw a couple go past, on the back of a ute, but I rarely see them on the roads, and it's not like you can miss them either with that color lol. When I'm up the dirt roads it's usually all Japanese with a smattering of the smaller BMW's. I must camp out in a corner some day and get pix of bikes as they past. With the new camera's and their in-built 5-axis stability systems you don't even need a tripod

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I would like to see a 2 state system finally employed in Gaza. The Israeli and Palestinian population in the area are for it, but Netanyahu is firmly against it, and Hamas remains a problem.
There are other posts I made, another with the same for Gaza and Netanyahu sitting with Iranian officials to find some end to the bombing, but don't have the energy to find, as the search function isn't usually my friend. It doesn't matter; we go around and around and as Bee put it, it doesn't add up to a hill of beans. I did find 8 posts where you characterize me as an emotional thinker, completely ignoring my response to the contrary. That is the crux of it; you don't always discuss intellectually as you claim, you often play a game of battleship and drop bombs to see what they do, and it's not only with me. If that's your way of staying engaged, that's fine. I don't care; we aren't friends so I feel no loss of connection.
 
There are other posts I made, another with the same for Gaza and Netanyahu sitting with Iranian officials to find some end to the bombing, but don't have the energy to find, as the search function isn't usually my friend. It doesn't matter; we go around and around and as Bee put it, it doesn't add up to a hill of beans. I did find 8 posts where you characterize me as an emotional thinker, completely ignoring my response to the contrary. That is the crux of it; you don't always discuss intellectually as you claim, you often play a game of battleship and drop bombs to see what they do, and it's not only with me. If that's your way of staying engaged, that's fine. I don't care; we aren't friends so I feel no loss of connection.

The problem is Hamas, Iran and the Palestinian people across the globe have already rejected the 2 state solution.
Palestine has already double crossed Israel twice in the past, you don't think they will do it again by calling for peace and mercy while stock piling rockets??????.

How many times will you go around this marigold round before you realize that the ONLY solution is ONE state for Israel or Palestine........................It's time this religious war is pushed to the edge and ended once and for all. Let them battle it out, and see WHO conquerors who. Israel has the backing of the US, so my bets are on them and I hope they glass it from sea to sea like the US did to Japan in 1943. It will shorten the war by at least 3-10 years, and save thousands of Israel citizens from death.

Palestinians support Hamas and have made their choice, let them deal with it and show them the same mercy they show those in the west.

Cameron
 
There are other posts I made, another with the same for Gaza and Netanyahu sitting with Iranian officials to find some end to the bombing, but don't have the energy to find, as the search function isn't usually my friend. It doesn't matter; we go around and around and as Bee put it, it doesn't add up to a hill of beans. I did find 8 posts where you characterize me as an emotional thinker, completely ignoring my response to the contrary. That is the crux of it; you don't always discuss intellectually as you claim, you often play a game of battleship and drop bombs to see what they do, and it's not only with me. If that's your way of staying engaged, that's fine. I don't care; we aren't friends so I feel no loss of connection.
Another thread, same topic?

Note, that I have raised the white flag on this topic with you, but I am curious about this post. You are now replying to your own posts and talking to yourself. Really weird, and just curious?
 
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