it's not 1%'res buying all the bullshit---it's the lower middle, middle, and Club 401K buying the bullshit and they dont wanna pay. Indeed go to one strip mall----cell phone and pager stores. $200 hair braiding shops. Overpriced liquor and convenience stores----THEY are buying the bullshit. Then go to another strip mall -- Kumon math tutoring, a modestly priced Chinese restaurant, perhaps an insurance agent. LOL - they live within their means (yes, culture ......)

THANK YOU for saying this out loud. I swear, every Millennial who whines that they can't afford anything of course is carrying around the latest iPhone (that they upgrade every year) and has 900 subscription services as well.

THEN instead of pissing off the likes of Canada? I'd have united the Canadians and even the Europoeans----and wanted ALL of us to face down China economically. Tariffs, corporate espionage, etc etc etc.

I still feel we'd have gotten away with tariffs. We were doing WELL --- even with the tariffs in.

it's the gas prices that got us. That permeated family budgets and - encroached into costs for most other products.


Yep. Funnily enough, directing money out of China and back here is actually WORKING:

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment Situation Summary

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 165,000 in October, and the unemployment rate changed
little at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in
professional and business services, in health care, and in transportation and warehousing.


165,000 jobs added, included 19,000 in manufacturing(!). That's outstanding. Sadly, the libs are going to somehow claim credit for it.

Agree with you on an absolutely terrible slate of democrat nominees in 2028. Hair Gel is their frontrunner. He can promise to do for the country what he's done for California - instead of 2 chickens in every pot and 2 cars in every driveway it'll be 2 crack pipes and 2 passed-out fetty bums in every front yard.