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China is already in South America and Mexico.
China is eating up Africa, I could not believe how many roadside billboards I saw over there, all in Chinese. And your 100% correct about the entrapping loans they provide that they know cannot be repaid, then they seize the collateral. Also, when they do a project in Africa, they do not hire local they bring in all of their own labor.
 
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yeah, figures.


I’d love to see these liberal communists freaks meet REAL Nazis from WW2…you know…the SS types - like take them back through a time-portal and see just how much in common American Eagle and Sydney Sweeney have to people like Heinrich Himmler, Herman Goring, Joseph Mengele. Liberals toss the Nazi term around like it’s some kind of real insult, when what it is, is a proud display of complete ignorance. Their own Eugenics was more akin to Mengele than any of them possibly understand. Heck, I’d be willing to be 80% of people under don’t know jack shit about WW2 and near 100% people under 30. What they do “know” has be propagandized by the teachers unions.


I won’t go into the fact the NAZI was the National Socialist Party of Germany. Every single one of these people yelling and screaming about American Eagle are at a minimum socialist and most are pure commie. Though, yes, there are “technically” differences between Socialism and Communism…both are 100% un-American and are evil to the core!!!!!
 
China is eating up Africa, I could not believe how many roadside billboards I saw over there, all in Chinese. And you’re 100% correct about the entrapping loans they provide that they know cannot be repaid, then they seize the collateral. Also, when they do a project in Africa, they do not hire local they bring in all of their own labor.
I’ve said since the KLINTON years, the USA policy in Africa is absolutely awful. And now, we’ve effectively ceded Africa to China. Sort of like Biden/Harris/Obama/Rice/et al have done with Our Republic.
 
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I’d love to see these liberal communists freaks meet REAL Nazis from WW2…you know…the SS types - like take them back through a time-portal and see just how much in common American Eagle and Sydney Sweeney have to people like Heinrich Himmler, Herman Goring, Joseph Mengele. Liberals toss the Nazi term around like it’s some kind of real insult, when what it is, is a proud display of complete ignorance. Their own Eugenics was more akin to Mengele than any of them possibly understand. Heck, I’d be willing to be 80% of people under don’t know jack shit about WW2 and near 100% people under 30. What they do “know” has be propagandized by the teachers unions.


I won’t go into the fact the NAZI was the National Socialist Party of Germany. Every single one of these people yelling and screaming about American Eagle are at a minimum socialist and most are pure commie. Though, yes, there are “technically” differences between Socialism and Communism…both are 100% un-American and are evil to the core!!!!!
Feudalism:
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

Socialism:
You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.

Communism:
You have two cows. The government takes both and gives you the milk it thinks you need.

Fascism:
You have two cows. The government takes both and sells you the milk.

Nazism:
You have two cows. The government takes both and kills you.

New Dealism:
You have two cows. The government takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and throws the milk away.

Libertarianism:
Go away. What I do with my cows is none of your business.

Pacifism:
You have two cows. They stampede you.

Political Correctnessism:
You are associated with (the concept of “ownership” is a symbol of the phallocentric, warmongering, intolerant past) two differently aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.

Talibanism:
You have two cows. At first, the government makes them wear burkas, but later shoots them because “they are Hindu religious symbols.”

Surrealism:
You have two slightly lame giraffes with speech impediments. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

Anarchism:
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

Bureaucracy:
You have two cows. To register them, you fill in 17 forms in triplicate and don’t have time to milk them.

United Nations:
You have two cows. France vetoes you from milking them. The United States and Britain veto the cows from milking you. New Zealand abstains. China boasts that it will soon have more cows than anyone, though the rest of the world knows their milk is tainted with unidentified pollutants.

Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
 
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another reason that are covering it up and censoring victims.


One such victim, whose name has been withheld, alleged that she was systematically sexually abused by hundreds of grooming gang members from the time she was just 11 years old in 1997. In a report to the police, she alleged that Police Constable Hassan Ali and another unnamed officer of the South Yorkshire Police also raped her in the back of a police car.

“The first time, he literally said: ‘You do it for the other officer. So you’re gonna do it for me,'” she said of her rape by Ali, who died as a result of a car crash in 2015 and thus avoided prosecution.
She described how the police officer would call on grooming gang members to threaten her if she refused his demands for sex, saying: “I would rather be raped once, or give one man oral sex, than to be taken somewhere where I know it’d be 15… 20 guys one after another. That was just easier.
 
seems to me that a lot of the cause is "investment" buyers like Blackstone. IMHO that drives at least rent to extortion levels. rent $s keep young families from saving for purchase. material costs and labor costs adds to the pileup. builders need a profit. labor needs to make a living. the housing market has become a vicious circle.
 
Good question....

I know you're reader of Wolfstreet:

What all this means is that turnover in the labor market has calmed down from the epic red-hot churn in 2021 and 2022 when employers had trouble hanging on to their workers and had trouble hiring replacements, as workers quit massively to go for better jobs somewhere else, and when the whole labor market was reshuffled in a span of two years.

The last few years has been like musical chairs for both Jobs and Mortgages. Folks that took a seat (retained their job or mortgage) vs those who lost pace in the shakeout and are now in a bad spot b/c no one is looking to give up their chair. Boomers are up against it in the RE market thinking they can sell out at peak price (LOL!) - meanwhile top 30 MSAs have (housing for sale inventory) at @ near trough lows (currently 4.5 months of inventory / trough low in 2010ish was 6 months). Rates will remain elevated b/c what brought them down previously was trillions of dollars of Gov purchases of MBS - that ain't happening.
I had an engineer working for me that wanted constant $20K plus raises every year. Said he could get another job quick like a bunny. Always threatening to quit. Last eval he wanted to work from home and come to the office 2 days per month and be able to travel while working. Thats a hard no. So I gave him the opportunity to find another gig. It took 9 months, and he is highly qualified. If I take that and extend it to those who have NO experience but an education, what is their future in this economy? It's where we are in the economic cycle, and the non-governmental data is backing it up, plus inflation, across all generations. But no one wants to hear that.
 
I had an engineer working for me that wanted constant $20K plus raises every year. Said he could get another job quick like a bunny. Always threatening to quit. Last eval he wanted to work from home and come to the office 2 days per month and be able to travel while working. Thats a hard no. So I gave him the opportunity to find another gig. It took 9 months, and he is highly qualified. If I take that and extend it to those who have NO experience but an education, what is their future in this economy? It's where we are in the economic cycle, and the non-governmental data is backing it up, plus inflation, across all generations. But no one wants to hear that.

i cant hire engineers for anything. thats a specialty where demand is high and the supply of them is low. i needed IT and admin and getting 100s of applications. For engineering, we have to go force people out of their jobs. The last 4 years has ruined young engineers and the market for them. they think they can do nothing and get paid for it.

there is a reckoning coming.

one guy, came from a head hunter, flew him in from another state for a two night stay and interview, when i asked him what made him want to move to this city he said "well, i havent really thought about moving here much yet, this interview came up so i thought i would come down and see". i couldnt throw him out of the office fast enough. waste of time and money.