A different take on the shortages...

GG. I said what I said, and stand behind it

As you should, be proud to be a hate-filled bigot. Own it!

Economists are saying just the opposite of what you're trying to relay in your OP

Bull fucking shit. You really are going to try and tell me that economists do not think that increased buying does not strain supply lines? Really?
 

America isn't running out of everything just because of a supply-chain crisis. America is running out of everything because Americans are buying so much stuff.

  • But US imports are at record levels at some ports, and Americans are breaking shopping records, too.

To understand the situation, consider the country's inventory to sales ratio. This metric, tracked by the US Census Bureau, compares how much stuff sellers have on hand to how much stuff consumers are buying. The ratio is at a 10-year low, which indicates that we're low on stuff.

But the Port of Los Angeles reported a 30% uptick in incoming cargo in the first nine months of this year. (Important note, most of nonfood goods sold in the US come from abroad.) The Port of Charleston, South Carolina, has been breaking all-time records since March. Prologis, a major industrial real-estate player, is "effectively sold out" of warehouse space.

All of that means that the inventory to sales ratio isn't low because the US is short on stuff. It's low because sales have gone completely nuts.

In the first nine months of 2021, retail sales were up 14.5% over the same period in 2020 - a year in which retail sales jumped 8% over 2019. The NRF expected to end the year with sales up 10.5% to 13.5%. Lots of imports and even more spending have driven the inventory to sales ratio down because businesses imported a lot of stuff, and then Americans bought it.
And????
All of us who understand how things work were saying LAST YEAR this is going to happen.
When the government started handing out checks to millions of people, with ZERO regard to whether they needed it or not - OBVIOUSLY - this is going to create a huge artificial demand. Which is going to cause inflation, and supply issues.
Couple that with shutdowns and mandated production limits... this was OBVIOUSLY going to happen.

And here you are... thinking you discovered something.
 
US imports by year....

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What changed is there was not a massive disruption of the world wide supply chain due to a worldwide pandemic. Do you really think that has nothing to do with what is going on today?
Leadership is not judged by how many sappy excuses someone can come up with, but by results. This administration fails on every level and folks like you lap it up without a whimper. Sad.
 
And????
All of us who understand how things work were saying LAST YEAR this is going to happen.
When the government started handing out checks to millions of people, with ZERO regard to whether they needed it or not - OBVIOUSLY - this is going to create a huge artificial demand. Which is going to cause inflation, and supply issues.
Couple that with shutdowns and mandated production limits... this was OBVIOUSLY going to happen.
Yes, from foreign markets which America now depends so heavily upon.
And here you are... thinking you discovered something.
You've at least granted Gator his talking point, even though you put your own twist on it.

Neither he or I have discovered something new, we've both only brought it to light.
 
The store where I shop most has been very low on meat for three weeks now. One week had empty shelves, really no meat at all, in many categories: no hams, almost no beef. No hamburger for weeks. Many other items are gone: none of the laundry detergent I buy for several weeks, etc., etc.

These food shortages are NOT hung up at the Port of Baltimore or at any other port. They are crisis shortages, and the Biden apologists can natter all they like, but we still can't buy stuff.

And gas up to $3.25 here. $3.00 at the beginning of October. I wonder what it will be at the end of October when the new Covid surge hits.

Look around for different stores and don't be afraid to stop off at some of the dollar type stores in better areas of your town. I am finding that where you shop matters a great deal in terms of whether there will be shortages. Mainstream groceries where the unclean masses shop are more inclined to shortages thanks to the breeder bonuses the government is handing out.

Part of the problem that Biden apologists ignore is that the increase in demand is because people fear what is coming so they are stockpiling things like meat into their freezer and shelf-stable items again.
 
And????
All of us who understand how things work were saying LAST YEAR this is going to happen.
When the government started handing out checks to millions of people, with ZERO regard to whether they needed it or not - OBVIOUSLY - this is going to create a huge artificial demand. Which is going to cause inflation, and supply issues.
Couple that with shutdowns and mandated production limits... this was OBVIOUSLY going to happen.

And here you are... thinking you discovered something.

I do not think I have discovered something. This is a discussion board, I put this up for discussion.

But I am glad you see you agree with the basic premise of the article.
 
I'm of the view that the Biden/Harris administration is deliberately keeping ships from unloading in order to blackmail the American electorate into obeying their decrees.

They've consistently tried to cause purposeful division and to try to get those who have obeyed their decrees to attack those who have not.

This has not worked for them. But this form of blackmail with the imports may be yet another attempt to push the envelope even farther to try to stir up society against one another.

Additionally, the American electorate has grown used to the lockdowns and blatant tyrannies.

So keeping imports from being unloaded is yet another way to put the screws to people.

I mean, you can sit here all day and give technical bullshit stories as to what's going on.

But really all you have to do is consider the people in charge of things. What they're about. How they are. Where their interests lie.

Let me ask a question. Why do you think we don't hear much on the idiot box these days about universal healthcare? You'd think it'd be non-stop all day now that the quislings are in power. But it's not.

Why would they have to when they're basically running a live drill to take that power, power they've never before had but always wanted very badly, to control all of your medical decisions at the barrel of a government gun and with a little help from industry factions. That's how fascism works. If you give them an inch, they will take a mile. Remember flattening the curve? My, how far they've taken it since that bullshit story.

Historically speaking, the Founders slit throats for less.

And none of those shenanigans are even considering the fact tha tthe Fed has used the covid narrative as a convenient look the other way kind of excuse to continue doing what it's always done, except now it's doing what it's always done ten fold.
 
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Leadership is not judged by how many sappy excuses someone can come up with, but by results.

Why yes it is.

This administration fails on every level and folks like you lap it up without a whimper. Sad.

Actually I think this administration sucks. The one thing they have done I agree with (getting out of Afghanistan) they fucked up even.
 
They've consistently tried to cause purposeful division and to try to get those who have obeyed their decrees to attack those who have not.

Yes, they are continuing the trend started after the 1992 election. Since then both parties have been trying to cause purposeful division. The more we fight each other, the less chance of us ever uniting behind a 3rd party again.
 
It is simply amazing how many people hate facts and data when it does not support their political agenda...

follow the data, not your hate.


As I've been saying.

It's classic capitalism.

People who aren't filthy rich have some money. Unlike people who are filthy rich, they are spending that money.

Not just for day to day necessities but for home improvement. For building. For expanding.

Interest rates are very low right now so borrowing is cheap.

I know that starting late last year, it took nearly 2 months to get a person to my home to just measure for flooring. I put the order in at Home Depot and their soonest availability was 2 months away. It was like that at Lowe's too.

This summer, when I needed to get my refrigerator fixed, the first opening for someone to come out here was a month away. Getting it fixed ended up taking 3 months mostly because of waiting. The businesses were all booked up.

Simple capitalism. Supply and demand.

Demand is up above normal levels, the supply can't meet the demand so capitalism causes the price of goods and services to increase.

When the supply catches up with demand, prices should decrease.

I find it funny that the people who have spent decades championing for free market capitalism now are complaining about that free market capitalism.
 
Let me ask a question. Why do you think we don't hear much on the idiot box these days about universal healthcare? You'd think it'd be non-stop all day now that the quislings are in power. But it's not.

EXCELLENT QUESTION!!!!
I asked this several times, and of course no one answers.
When Trump was President, the media lemmings brought it up a lot!! As did the drones here.
Oh..but wait...uh... WE are in power now... heh.... nevermind... we'll talk about universal healthcare if Republicans get back in power.
 
EXCELLENT QUESTION!!!!
I asked this several times, and of course no one answers.
When Trump was President, the media lemmings brought it up a lot!! As did the drones here.
Oh..but wait...uh... WE are in power now... heh.... nevermind... we'll talk about universal healthcare if Republicans get back in power.

They're effectively using the covid narrative to run a live drill to just flat out take that power.

It's clear what they're doing. To that extent anyway. Meaning tha tparticular group odf special interests.

A lot of people incorrectly called Obamacare socialist. It was actually fascist.

The same special interests who played a part in that legislation are the same special interests assisting the administration today in their live drill to assume the power over our medical decisions.

As you know, the way fascism works, government and industry cannot achieve these things on their own. They require each other to function in synergy. That;s how fascism works.

There are other interests who are doing different things for different purposes, though. Though it's al being done under the same narrative, the topical discusion would be different.

Anyway. I hope your spider bite is healing. I saw tha tthe other day when I flipped through here for a few minutes. It's a hell of a thing. I hate spiders.
 
Fair enough. My problem with this is that it didn't happen overnight. The problem was foreseeable and nothing was done. That's a leadership failure up and down the board.

Yep, starting in Jan of 2020 our leaders/government has failed us in this crisis.
 
I think part of the problem lies in our delivery systems falling behind from the time when lockdowns started to decline. Except they didn't in CA, right? I would suggest that CA politics probably impeded the flow of pretty much everything from our west coast, and the supply problem gradually grew worse as more lockdowns ended. I really think the CA democrats probably acerbated the problem though.
 
They're effectively using the covid narrative to run a live drill to just flat out take that power.

It's clear what they're doing. To that extent anyway. Meaning tha tparticular group odf special interests.

A lot of people incorrectly called Obamacare socialist. It was actually fascist.

The same special interests who played a part in that legislation are the same special interests assisting the administration today in their live drill to assume the power over our medical decisions.

As you know, the way fascism works, government and industry cannot achieve these things on their own. They require each other to function in synergy. That;s how fascism works.

There are other interests who are doing different things for different purposes, though. Though it's al being done under the same narrative, the topical discusion would be different.

Anyway. I hope your spider bite is healing. I saw tha tthe other day when I flipped through here for a few minutes. It's a hell of a thing. I hate spiders.
Oh hell yeah...
Let's pretend for just a moment that Obama lost his first election.
And McCain won. And McCain and the Republicans said they wanted to make a government option for healthcare.
AND - they made the EXACT same legislation as Obamacare.
The Democrats would have hated it!!! HATED IT!!!
And today, instead of trying to defend it.... Democrats would be saying the EXACT same thing Republicans say about it now - it didn't fix the lionshare of our problems, or even address them. AND it cost every single one of us $1000's more a year for coverage.
That is a fact. If Republicans wrote ACA - Democrats would have revolted.

And this is what is wrong with Americans. Both sides.
 
I would suggest that CA politics probably impeded the flow of pretty much everything from our west coast, and the supply problem gradually grew worse as more lockdowns ended. I really think the CA democrats probably acerbated the problem though.

without a doubt
 

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