Larry Dickman
Titanium
- Joined
- Jan 30, 2014
- Location
- Temecula, Ca
Just ordered some TrimSol. Price has increased by over 15% since a couple weeks ago. Anyone else seeing this?
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Just ordered some TrimSol. Price has increased by over 15% since a couple weeks ago. Anyone else seeing this?
Just ordered some TrimSol. Price has increased by over 15% since a couple weeks ago. Anyone else seeing this?
Well, it didnt take long to blame a political party......How much of this increase in pricing, not just in this industry, but market wide is due to the fact that the Dems feel everyone should start out with a minimum wage of $15is/hour?
How much of this increase in pricing, not just in this industry, but market wide is due to the fact that the Dems feel everyone should start out with a minimum wage of $15is/hour?
When the person dropping fries at the fast food place makes $30k per year, how does anyone expect to see low prices for anything? All these politicians think they are doing the lower class a huge favor by boosting their wage and bringing them out of poverty. All they are doing is causing business across the board to raise their prices to offset the higher starting wage which, in turn, causes everyone to pay more for the basic need items. When this happens, do the lower class wage earners really get ahead? NO.
The poor will still be poor and the middle and upper class workers, who didn't see any wage increase, will fall behind.
And don't even get me started on stimulus $. Enough is enough, There is a help wanted sign on just about every store window you look at. There are jobs to be had. Now we need to give people a reason to get off the couch and work.
My rant is over.
If things are more expensive just work harder. Can't deny a good profit, eh? People in the 60s went to college on a part time job and came out with no debt, a house, and a car. Find your bootstraps and pull. You want the gov to make prices lower? Commie much?
Sorry, you are making me laugh If you go back a little farther, Modern Machine Shop was peddling that very same JIT stuff as everybody else in the 70's. That was even before Mark My Word was a young kid .... now he's an old kid The only one really sounding the gong back when it might have made a difference was Ron Khol at Machine Design. He was a cranky old reactionary but no fool - still giggle when I see a BMW Z, he described it perfectly as "Donald Duck's car."Yea you know China is an interesting part of the equation. I've been telling everyone I know to listen to the Modern Machine Shop podcast "Made in the USA" because it was really enlightening to understand the role that China actually played in the offshoring of jobs.
"For every good job that goes overseas, four or five better ones will be created at home." Came out of Clinton's Own Mouth. I will never understand why the Republicans hated him, because he passed more Republican legislation than they'd ever been able to. Summers, Rubin, Friedman, Greenspan .... all those ignorant pricks. China had nothing to do with this, except to recognize what a stupid big mistake the US was making and offer to take up the slack.The situation from the early 2000s was that something along the lines of 15,000+ manufacturing jobs each month were disappearing over a period of a decade or more. That is insane.
Probably should have figured that out forty-five years ago when there was something you could do about it. The only way you can change this now is to entirely change the tax code, and who benefits from the economy.They devoted a whole episode to supply chain economics and I think as a society we are understanding that our supply chains are way too delicate to rely on Just In Time delivery from China and the cheap labor countries.
It isn't 5 or 10% and shipping is not expensive. Roughly $2500 for a 50,000 lb container. Could do 80 but then trucks can't haul it. Dream on with your prospective correctionsId never think to order a product from China if the lead time is twice as long and only saving 5-10% on cost. Not only is the shipping expensive but it is horrible for the environment.
Japan and China had similar rises to manufacturing prominence, largely due to the American market.
However, Japan couldn’t be more different than China. Japan has limited resources, limited population, limited land...and will forever be hand-stringed by their limitations.
China has no limitations of resources, people, or land. And thus the ability to keep moving up the economic ladder higher than Japan ever could.
China will overpower the world with their manufacturing size, just like an army of ants moving an elephant.
IMO though, China will never match the Japanese intelligence and capability, because of cultural differences between the two nations.
And don’t forget, the Japanese have established themselves as world-leaders in high technology and advanced manufacturing.
Just like with the Internet powerhouse companies, he who gets there first and establishes dominance in the market becomes almost impossible to dethrone.
There will always be only one Mazak, Okuma, Fanuc, Honda, Toyota, Mitutoyo, Canon, Nikon, Sony...
Sorry, you are making me laugh If you go back a little farther, Modern Machine Shop was peddling that very same JIT stuff as everybody else in the 70's. That was even before Mark My Word was a young kid .... now he's an old kid The only one really sounding the gong back when it might have made a difference was Ron Khol at Machine Design. He was a cranky old reactionary but no fool - still giggle when I see a BMW Z, he described it perfectly as "Donald Duck's car."
It was the mid-seventies when all this shit started, and obviously had nothing to do with China. They were still hammering scissors together with rocks back then. Most of the magazines, the NMTBA, all the economists, most of society was all gungho for what is now a disaster.
Disaster for us, anyhow. Most kids would much prefer to stand behind a bar selling lattes. Most of society doesn't know or care about manufacturing. If they do have an idea about it, it's "We don't want them stinking factories here ! Let the little brown/yellow guys do that, we'll do the smart part of the work ! "Pareto Principle", pah. Buncha stupid shit.
In the end, it doesn't work that way. It was foreseeable, but nobody wanted to foresee it. Everybody wants to be a chief, nobody wants to be an Indian. Even the dipshit Obama, when he was peddling training, did he talk about teaching people to be plumbers or welders ? Hell no, it was "web designers".
Make your bed, then you lie in it.
"For every good job that goes overseas, four or five better ones will be created at home." Came out of Clinton's Own Mouth. I will never understand why the Republicans hated him, because he passed more Republican legislation than they'd ever been able to. Summers, Rubin, Friedman, Greenspan .... all those ignorant pricks. China had nothing to do with this, except to recognize what a stupid big mistake the US was making and offer to take up the slack.
China didn't come to the US with guns to force the US Congress to sell out to Goldman-Sachs. You did it to yourselves. They just held up a nickel and corporate America trampled each other in their frenzy to grab it.
Probably should have figured that out forty-five years ago when there was something you could do about it. The only way you can change this now is to entirely change the tax code, and who benefits from the economy.
Normally it takes guillotines and blood to achieve this. Those with money and power are not eager to give it up.
It isn't 5 or 10% and shipping is not expensive. Roughly $2500 for a 50,000 lb container. Could do 80 but then trucks can't haul it. Dream on with your prospective corrections
btw, most of you guys are just as guilty. Most of you are running Jap machines with Jap controls and buying Mitutoyo. People who live in grass shacks shouldn't stow thrones.
Gas prices are now $3.40 in my town, up from $3.05 exactly 7 days ago. NICE!
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