US Tariffs, Sigh!

[JBurton]

that's a sore subject with me right now. I'm selling my home in Tomball in a really nice area and cannot find a comparable home in the clear lake area. mainly due to flooding and insurance being 1200 a year for any home near the water. all because of one flood in 2017.

Hell, mine is $2,200 a year.

 

[Stacey K]

that's a sore subject with me right now. I'm selling my home in Tomball in a really nice area and cannot find a comparable home in the clear lake area. mainly due to flooding and insurance being 1200 a year for any home near the water. all because of one flood in 2017.

Mines $1100 a year for the house I just bought

 

[Boudica]

Hmm, I just looked and mine is $1770

 

[Geneva Olson]

I made a mistake in my post. i said 1200. i meant 12,000. my current insurance is $5000

 

[Boudica]

I made a mistake in my post. i said 1200. i meant 12,000

Yikes!

 

[Geneva Olson]

Yikes!

my broker told me to find a house further from the water.

 

[productionMike]

Why would you bother to post something that anyone could easily disprove with a quick search?

Posts falsely claim Carney sold off Canadian gold to U.K., confuse reserves with mineral exports

In April, multiple social media users claimed Liberal Leader Mark Carney sold all of Canada's gold reserves during his tenure as governor of the Bank of Canada, or that he

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

Why would I bother ? Because its Its true!!! ... Cant verify where your article is getting its source from.

Mark Carney did "sell off all of Canada's gold reserves" mineral deposits and reserves are two different things altogether

Source ... CBC no less ("Communist Broadcaster of Canada")

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/gold-canada-reserves-1.3475818

"quote form article - 2016"

"The government of Canada has wound down its gold reserves to basically nothing after a multi-year strategy of selling them off in favour of hoarding other countries' currencies instead.

According to the Department of Finance's official international reserves data released Thursday, Canada's gold reserves were down effectively to $0 as of the end of February. That's the value that Ottawa assigns its gold holdings from an accounting perspective.

In fact, Ottawa still has 77 ounces of gold, worth about $130,000 Canadian at current market prices. All of that consists of gold coins, as opposed to large bullion bricks that the government once hoarded.


The price of gold surged to its highest level in more than a year on Friday at $1,274.70 US an ounce.

Ottawa's gold holdings peaked in the 1960s at more than 1,000 tonnes. But the government has been steadily selling off its gold holdings ever since. By 2003, Ottawa was down to 3.4 tonnes, which it has now almost entirely sold.



More links:

And Then There Was None: Canada Sells its Gold – Resource World Magazine

resourceworld.com

 

[RabidOne]

Why would I bother ? Because its Its true!!! ... Cant verify where your article is getting its source from.

Mark Carney did "sell off all of Canada's gold reserves" mineral deposits and reserves are two different things altogether

Source ... CBC no less ("Communist Broadcaster of Canada")

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/gold-canada-reserves-1.3475818

"quote form article - 2016"

"The government of Canada has wound down its gold reserves to basically nothing after a multi-year strategy of selling them off in favour of hoarding other countries' currencies instead.

According to the Department of Finance's official international reserves data released Thursday, Canada's gold reserves were down effectively to $0 as of the end of February. That's the value that Ottawa assigns its gold holdings from an accounting perspective.

In fact, Ottawa still has 77 ounces of gold, worth about $130,000 Canadian at current market prices. All of that consists of gold coins, as opposed to large bullion bricks that the government once hoarded.


The price of gold surged to its highest level in more than a year on Friday at $1,274.70 US an ounce.

Ottawa's gold holdings peaked in the 1960s at more than 1,000 tonnes. But the government has been steadily selling off its gold holdings ever since. By 2003, Ottawa was down to 3.4 tonnes, which it has now almost entirely sold.



More links:

And Then There Was None: Canada Sells its Gold – Resource World Magazine

resourceworld.com

Again with the misinformation.
In the 1960's Canada had 1000 tonnes of gold, and by 2003 it was down to 3.4 tonnes.
And Carney was Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013.
So he was responsible for the sale of 900+ tonnes of gold while not being in charge.
Keep twisting your facts to suit your agenda.

 

[productionMike]

In Canada we have a program called "TFW" (temporary foreign workers). It allows company owners to bring in foreigners to do jobs we don't want to do... If they can't find local workers to do them. So all the fast food places ... Farms, all back breaking labor jobs are held by people with a TFW permit.

I'm sure deporting illegals will open up a lot of jobs that no American wants to do, and it'll cause a shortage for awhile.... But there are ways around it. I hate the TFW program... But I'd much rather a TFW worker who's over here legallyhavee a job than an illegal who you know nothing about.

There's no doubt there's millions of jobs Americans can't / don't want to fill.... But there are other ways to fix that issue the. Turning a blind eye to law breakers .

Ikarasu:
its an ope secret that the TFW and LMIA programs are scams for a direct pathway to PR status ... All these companies are using if for is wage suppression by importin scab labor and undercutting Citizens and workers who have gone through legal channels.
Its not just the Walmarts and fast food establishments that solely staffed by Indians, its in the tech, banking, engineering, trucking, construction and manufacturing sector as well.

The Great Replacement theory is more than a theory its a reality.

 

[Geneva Olson]

"jobs we don't want to do".
what a work ethic.

 

[MikePro]

slave labor is best enjoyed when you mask it with feigned virtue signaling.

 

[JamesLam]

Ikarasu:
its an ope secret that the TFW and LMIA programs are scams for a direct pathway to PR status ... All these companies are using if for is wage suppression by importing scab labour and undercutting Citizens and workers who have gone through legal channels.
Its not just the Walmarts and fast food establishments that solely staffed by Indians, its in the tech, banking, engineering, trucking, construction and manufacturing sector as well.

The Great Replacement theory is more than a theory its a reality.

I coach lots of high school aged kids that were pushed out of the workforce by immigrant adults working their jobs during the past few years. When the TFW became such an obvious scam you would see news reports where 100's of people would line up for jobs at McD's. Scan the line and they were all newly landed students that came to Canada on a student visa with absolutely no intent to go to school. It was a fast track to Canadian citizenship.
And it's absolute BS that they can't find young people to work, they just want cheap ass labour which they can actually pay less than minimum wage in some cases.

 

[Geneva Olson]

I coach lots of high school aged kids that were pushed out of the workforce by immigrant adults working their jobs during the past few years. When the TFW became such an obvious scam you would see news reports where 100's of people would line up for jobs at McD's. Scan the line and they were all newly landed students that came to Canada on a student visa with absolutely no intent to go to school. It was a fast track to Canadian citizenship.
And it's absolute BS that they can't find young people to work, they just want cheap ass labour which they can actually pay less than minimum wage in some cases.

what time period did this happen? I am starting to see a "world wide" pattern here.

 

[Stacey K]

I coach lots of high school aged kids that were pushed out of the workforce by immigrant adults working their jobs during the past few years. When the TFW became such an obvious scam you would see news reports where 100's of people would line up for jobs at McD's. Scan the line and they were all newly landed students that came to Canada on a student visa with absolutely no intent to go to school. It was a fast track to Canadian citizenship.
And it's absolute BS that they can't find young people to work, they just want cheap ass labour which they can actually pay less than minimum wage in some cases.

That's interesting. Around here you have to hire 10 young people to find one good one. My son has a landscape business and it almost went under this Spring because at $30hr CASH the work was "too hard" "too hot" "5 days a week". He finally hired a white young lady farmer, a male Mexican, a 15-year-old football player and his cousin who's a farmer. My other son and their Dad do all the repairs because it's weeks to get a lawnmower or truck fixed around here - lack of mechanics.

Send some of these good workers down here. All the landscape companies are BEGGING for help. Every single one of them asked me Mutiple times this year already if I knew anyone who needed a job. Like begging me with tears in their eyes. My own son being one of the ones who was crying. I felt so bad, people just don't want to work. They text the day of or night before and say they quit or they just never show again and ghost you. Explain to me why I don't complain about the work when I help him and I'm 51 and some 20-year-kid is "too hot". Go pound sand you lazy little SOB.

 

[JBurton]

Around here you have to hire 10 young people to find one good one.

I just interviewed 7 guys, and I had a very hard time picking one. Would they all be great workers? Who knows, you find out a lot about a guy after you put him in a metal box and tell him to start welding.
A great resource we have is working with a rehab program, who funnels guys with our oddball experience our way, and an in prison program, which helps inmates find work and housing after release. The inmates are some of the best put together individuals I've interviewed, and the rehab guys are incredibly hard workers. I highly recommend looking into anything of the sort and talking to some directors to get an idea of what these guys go through before they're sent out for jobs.

 

[Stacey K]

I just interviewed 7 guys, and I had a very hard time picking one. Would they all be great workers? Who knows, you find out a lot about a guy after you put him in a metal box and tell him to start welding.
A great resource we have is working with a rehab program, who funnels guys with our oddball experience our way, and an in prison program, which helps inmates find work and housing after release. The inmates are some of the best put together individuals I've interviewed, and the rehab guys are incredibly hard workers. I highly recommend looking into anything of the sort and talking to some directors to get an idea of what these guys go through before they're sent out for jobs.

That's interesting you say that. He did have a guy who applied with experience but he was a felon, which wasn't for murder or anything like that. The thing was he had tattoos all over his neck and face and my son wasn't sure how customers might react to that. I'll pass this on to him though, some of those guys are on strict work programs so they would probably be more likely to show up and do a good job. Thanks!

 

[XtremeXccessories]

Ikarasu:
its an ope secret that the TFW and LMIA programs are scams for a direct pathway to PR status ... All these companies are using if for is wage suppression by importin scab labor and undercutting Citizens and workers who have gone through legal channels.
Its not just the Walmarts and fast food establishments that solely staffed by Indians, its in the tech, banking, engineering, trucking, construction and manufacturing sector as well.

The Great Replacement theory is more than a theory its a reality.

Man, I thought this thread has hit some low points, but white nationalism/supremacy is lower than I thought it would go. Congrats on showing your true colors.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

That's interesting you say that. He did have a guy who applied with experience but he was a felon, which wasn't for murder or anything like that. The thing was he had tattoos all over his neck and face and my son wasn't sure how customers might react to that. I'll pass this on to him though, some of those guys are on strict work programs so they would probably be more likely to show up and do a good job. Thanks!

Guy I have working for me did time for accessory to murder. No visible tats and doesn't look out of the ordinary.

 

[JBurton]

That's interesting you say that. He did have a guy who applied with experience but he was a felon, which wasn't for murder or anything like that. The thing was he had tattoos all over his neck and face and my son wasn't sure how customers might react to that. I'll pass this on to him though, some of those guys are on strict work programs so they would probably be more likely to show up and do a good job. Thanks!

Felonies are wide ranging. Had a long time employee that was convicted for terroristic threatening of a witness. Turns out during his divorce, he wrote a letter that said something threatening to his ex, not even along the lines of 'I'll kill you', more benign like 'If you take the chickens I'll take your dog', but since it was written and they were in the middle of proceedings, her lawyer used it against him.
I've got another in for felony evasion/eluding and another for possession. One has tattoos all over his legs and arms where he'd get drunk and draw away. Now he's staying sober and blacking it all out.
As long as your son isn't telling Tattoo McTattface to go ask the customer questions or ask for payment, they really won't care what they look like, at least in my experience. Tattoos are so mainstream now, aside from faces...

 

[GAC05]

Guy I have working for me did time for accessory to murder. No visible tats and doesn't look out of the ordinary.

Does he handle collecting overdue invoices?