~46~ Lame Duck Unfit Uncle Joe Biden ~46~

[youthathletics]

But since you asked.....
Yup.....stay at home with your damned child(ren) until you no longer need to do so....that was easy. Sell the damned tahoe, stop buying the new iphone every year, eating out for lunch and dinner all the damned time, getting your hair and nails done every 8 weeks, and raise your own damned child. You can always go back to work....you only get one shot at your child.

That's a great solution for my coastal liberal elite friends, who have done precisely that. You're right. They're all set. Oh, and they have their kids in their 40's, when money is stashed away. So if there's an emergency, they're not F'ed.

Now...what about the bottom 50% earners in the US? What do they do?

That 40 y/o thing you mentioned is about 15 years too high.....now come back to earth for a moment, mmk? You see what you are doing? ....creating a problem where there is none. It is enabling poor(er) behavior and even poor(er) decision making. You see, when you provide a means for an easy way out....(many)people will take it, then exploit it, then abuse it. But when it is an either or choice......they often straighten up and fly right. And those remaining in tough spots, that really and truly need support....there are already plenty of county, city, state and federal benefits for those that qualify.

We certainly are not going to solve world hunger here....but I believe this majorly stems from the pressure, and arguably the societal stigma of a stay at home mother. The "oh, you just stay at home" or "why don't you work...you deserve it" or "keeping up with the jones'", rather than the maternal instinct that was blessed upon them by God. Lord knows, our wives (for the most part ) do a helluva lot better than we do and that is for good reason.

Any way....I can get long winded at times and probably dug myself a hole, go easy on me.

Actually only a slight exaggeration for the socioeconomic bracket about which he is speaking, "coastal liberal elites"...

But your data is averaging all moms, only a small portion of which are "coastal liberal elites"; sure, your diatribe about stigmas about stay at home moms who should enjoy "the maternal instinct that was blessed upon them by God" might fit for them.

He then asks about the "bottom 50% earners in the US". These indeed have children the earliest, the most likely to be out of wedlock or broken family, abusive parent, substance abuse, dad in jail, single mom or abused mom for all kinds of reasons largely outside of her direct control (for God's sake don't let her get an abortion) etc, but also simply a whole lot of working poor, struggling to keep their sh-t together.

And for them, the option to stay at home so that they can properly nurture their little one, ? A fantasy. But what are their options? Child care costs a bloody fortune and that's assuming you can even get a slot. sure, there are some gov't programs, but it's a nightmare of paperwork (watch "Maid" on Netflix for a good dramatization of this reality).

Not a problem we can just say, ahh well, straighten up and fly right and all will be hunky sorry...especially for those kids.

Could you please pass the Grey Poupon, whilst in the backseat.

Sounds like a question you would indeed ask.

Maybe I'm just totally misunderstanding you on this, but it seems like your ire displays a complete lack of empathy for the circumstances of folks with less than, say, your family.

BTW, what do you mean by: "Lord knows, our wives (for the most part ) do a helluva lot better than we do and that is for good reason." ?

Anger (ire)... not me MD. Not sure where that take came from by you....chalk it up to talking past each other.

Empathy, is something I certainly do not lack. My problem, is I speak a bit too frankly, which can come off harsh. I often have to say "cover your belly button" because here it comes.

As in, wives certainly would raise our children far better than we men would.

ahhh, I indeed missed that meaning. Coming from my generation's typical perspective and norms, I'd agree as to at least the 'maternal instinct' aspect, though I'd like to think my role as a parent was pretty darn important too. I changed fewer diapers though...

What does seem apparent to me is that it's a heck of a lot harder to do the entire parental 'job' alone; all the more so if coming from a lesser socioeconomic situation to begin with, much less getting paid less for same work...

It's also extremely difficult to make it at the lower level without two incomes. Not to mention the problem with power dynamics in a potentially abusive relationship. Most such folks really don't have the happy choice of simply staying home to care for young children.

These are the folks where these "human infrastructure" measures are being aimed, to make it easier and more affordable to have child care that enables a parent, whether single or dual, to have such support so that they can indeed work, whether full or part time.

Slightly different re early childhood education though it all flows...there may be no greater lever to apply to the life trajectory than great early childhood educational prep.

As a 'conservative', who wants policy to smartly consider market economics, and thinks about global competitive environment, I can also look at this overall issue as a serious friction (and opportunity) on optimizing human capital potential.

Agreed on the early childhood education. Our county has two pre-k classes, for 3y/o's, and 4 y/o's. You apply and it is primarily filled by those in the lower income/need-based demo. Keep in mind this is not an all day class....only a few hours. Keep in mind this is not an all day class...for obvious reasons

My wife is an early childhood major and teaches special needs pre-k. I get to see and hear all about this in her remote meetings and continuing education. Crazy out there......multiple evening of training just on restraints and behavioral situations. I always tell her...I prepared her for these kids, so it should be easy to deal with them, since youve had me to deal with for 28 years.

The Lord's work...

Seriously, this is a huge challenge...and that also means opportunity.

Setting aside the overall challenge/opportunity part, 'special needs' poses additional sets of issues.

One is that we, as a society, tend to lump together all sorts of quite different 'needs' as if all the same, mostly to simply remove those students from getting in the way of the progress of 'regular' students; but this lumping together into a single group doesn't address well the actual needs that are quite different; don't need to tell you this, of course. Offered for other readers.

For instance, a child with mild Downs is very different than a child with some autism, or ADHD, or dyslexia...and not all of each of these sorts is the same, as well, each needs very specific educational tactics and processes.

But lumped together, it all too often becomes about "restraints and behavioral situations" as you describe. Just controlling kids' behaviors becomes a huge priority, rather than the individualized educational needs.

I don't have easy answers, but I do know that in say, dyslexia, it's very possible to overcome this problem and for students to eventually thrive and be super productive through life...yet most 'learn' that they are 'stupid' and become so frustrated and with low self-esteem that they give up...our jails are disproportionately filled with such.

Here in our Baltimore region we are blessed with two of the very best schools in the nation for dyslexic students, but it's very expensive private education and slots are very limited...but kids thrive. Kids without these opportunities rarely do.

In our school system, the the special needs pre-k class ratio is 1:2 (one adult for two children) a teacher and two aides for a max of 6 students. Add in on deck. behavioral specialist, SLP (Speech language pathologist), OT (occupational therapy fine motor skills), Physical therapist (gross motor skills), and the school psychologist. Certainly no shortage of support....but quite often, not enough of them, b/c the needs are not linear/uniform each year....certainly a joggling act.

Are the dyslexic kids in the same group, or are they in another pod? A whole lot of them, I'd think.

Indeed, estimated at 20% of overall population and 80-90% of those with learning issues.
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However, societally we tend to not diagnose the issues until quite a few years of damage have been done, if at all.

There would be a 504 on that child, most commonly in the same group with their peers in gen-ed and would often be either pulled out or pushed in with specialist to support them. They are also provided extra time with studies, tests, etc. A few kids I coached where like this....always with their peers, through HS graduation, and each of excelled in and beyond college.

It's ideal if able to be mainstreamed as early as feasible, but I'd be surprised if 20% of kids are getting this kind of intensive support.

They know what signs to look for, and early tells begin around 5 y/o...maybe earlier...but certainly by 2nd or 3rd grade. I think public schools do a great service in this arena. Can not speak for privates, but assume the same...althgouh I assume public schools have many more personnel to to pull from for collaborative efforts.

[Farfromgeneva]

That 40 y/o thing you mentioned is about 15 years too high.....now come back to earth for a moment, mmk? You see what you are doing? ....creating a problem where there is none. It is enabling poor(er) behavior and even poor(er) decision making. You see, when you provide a means for an easy way out....(many)people will take it, then exploit it, then abuse it. But when it is an either or choice......they often straighten up and fly right.

Ah, but if this is REALLY your belief? That parents should pay for their own choices? Why do we have .gov K-12 funded by taxpayers? Why do we have .gov Universities funded by taxpayers? Why do we have .gov backed loans for college? And those remaining in tough spots, that really and truly need support....there are already plenty of county, city, state and federal benefits for those that qualify.

Why aren't we forcing these parents to pay for their choices? Private Schools, across the board....why are they coming to me to pay them for their choice to have kids?

Your team starts calling for that? Ok, you'll get more of my votes out of sheer respect for putting your money where you mouth is. Until then? Taking my money so you can subsidize your choices to the 1 yard line and then saying "no thanks" to help with childcare after I paid for the other 99 yards is a bit much for me to take.

Education is by far the biggest consumer of taxes on the State and local level. If you want to hold Americans responsible for having kids: stop taking everyone's taxes to educate these kids. It would make your protestations about childcare subsidies make a heckuva lot more sense.

So.....no comment here? You're happy to take taxpayer's money to help people who CHOSE to have kids?

This goes against what you say above regarding decision making.

Sorry, I missed this.

I added the full quote back...in red, which may help put my thought back into context. I still do not like the feds getting involved in child care and would much prefer that a family member raise their child...perfect world yes, which is where the majority of my effort goes. If we want to be like Denmark....then lets just say it out loud to make it real.

Side note: Just saw the stat after Biden spoke earlier...the average American spends roughly $9k/yr on child care.....roughly 20% of their annual income and he wants to get it down to 7%....that;s a heavy load.

I simply have a hard time swallowing the pill that we need a major makeover and billions/yr to revamp childcare. And if they do subsidize these places....then we have red tape and added expenses that get passed right on down to us....and we end up paying even more.

We already have this white elephant in the room of our current public school debates. THe childcare issue just seems to muck up more of what the feds touch.

$800/mo but we have an average of 1.8-1.9 kids per household? So $450/mo? That doesn’t sound right even for low cost areas. If we’re suing average american maybe but that’s not the right denominator if that’s what is being used.

[youthathletics]

I’m pretty sure my son has adhd, it’s not uncommon in a types. Waiting another year or two but testing to have the knowledge is important, medicating it is not

I think most boys have some form of it. I struggle with the label frankly, as does my wife. Trying to put every child in the same box and forcing upon them the standard by which all kids in a class must adhere, otherwise be considered 'different' is troublesome on its face. They all grow up at different paces.

My oldest was having conversations with us at 13 months, and could cite 3 and 4 syllable dinosaur words. By 16 months he was asking "why" , which typilcally does not happen until 2-3 y/o. By contrast our youngest didn't really start talking until he was 3. 20 years ago this was consdered normal...not they want to run a battery of tests and send them to specialist. Why?....conformity for starters.

I shared this to contrast the developmental differences of children and siblings. Anyway....you are doing great by staying engaged, keep at it and never giveup.

[seacoaster]

I’m pretty sure my son has adhd, it’s not uncommon in a types. Waiting another year or two but testing to have the knowledge is important, medicating it is not

I think most boys have some form of it. I struggle with the label frankly, as does my wife. Trying to put every child in the same box and forcing upon them the standard by which all kids in a class must adhere, otherwise be considered 'different' is troublesome on its face. They all grow up at different paces.

My oldest was having conversations with us at 13 months, and could cite 3 and 4 syllable dinosaur words. By 16 months he was asking "why" , which typilcally does not happen until 2-3 y/o. By contrast our youngest didn't really start talking until he was 3. 20 years ago this was consdered normal...not they want to run a battery of tests and send them to specialist. Why?....conformity for starters.

I shared this to contrast the developmental differences of children and siblings. Anyway....you are doing great by staying engaged, keep at it and never giveup.

Great post YA. My two — boy, then girl — were profoundly different, and we just had to honor who each one was and is. Reluctant learner vs. eager competitor. And every other contrast. The school psychologists were after us to get my son analyzed…. He teaches Eighth Grade in public school now, and remembers every time he was unfavorably compared to his sister by teachers and staff. Honor their path.

[Farfromgeneva]

I’m pretty sure my son has adhd, it’s not uncommon in a types. Waiting another year or two but testing to have the knowledge is important, medicating it is not

I think most boys have some form of it. I struggle with the label frankly, as does my wife. Trying to put every child in the same box and forcing upon them the standard by which all kids in a class must adhere, otherwise be considered 'different' is troublesome on its face. They all grow up at different paces.

My oldest was having conversations with us at 13 months, and could cite 3 and 4 syllable dinosaur words. By 16 months he was asking "why" , which typilcally does not happen until 2-3 y/o. By contrast our youngest didn't really start talking until he was 3. 20 years ago this was consdered normal...not they want to run a battery of tests and send them to specialist. Why?....conformity for starters.

I shared this to contrast the developmental differences of children and siblings. Anyway....you are doing great by staying engaged, keep at it and never giveup.

thanks, I talk to my sister a lot who went back to grad school (again, theatre 25yrs ago didn't pay apparently) and is in early childhood development and she's been helpful despite the hippy skew (and her degree in this came from a real out there place called Mills College - bay area). He's good with sharing information and knowledge and a huge consumer of knowledge, I got him into reading Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology and he loves telling me the people's stories (3rd grade) but sensitive and yet super aggressive/passionate bull in china shop (basically mini me). Gregarious and has tons of friends but clearly misunderstood by most even though they all like and kind of follow him. I asked his teacher at our conference yesterday morning if there were ways to lean into his desire to teach and share by earning leadership opportunities (she said he's a awesome helper and proactive with that stuff) and she took it in as something that could help him, her and the other kids so I'm optimistic. he got in trouble in his first childcare place (a goddard school) for a few reasons, one was not being perfect in potty trained at age 3 before we moved him and my daughter to one closer to our home but I butted heads with the head early on because she first met me and straight up called me a helicopter parent in front of me but not exactly directly, I got her moved out and was hero of the employees there, but my bigger issue was when I saw her MPA at kennesaw (not emory for sure) and she was talking all this psychology and playing a role she wasn't trained for clearly because of an ego (and learned she was racist despite all these great long tenured workers/"teachers" being black ironically). Anyway that lady put him in a box because of me so we went to her place (Elaine Clark Center - she probably got a kickback) and they were like "I don't see any meaningful issues but a slight sensory processing deficiency" (which I threw in the head lady's face, cost us a ton of dough but did learn something if unnecessary). So we've used that, I play rough with him, we did this pushing thing for a while and even bought him these rubber chewable necklace things.

I make him sound messed up but just a aggressive, happy, high functioning learner who's sensitive and maybe doesn't understand that the other kids don't think like him. He understood at 3 that getting dirty means your probably having fun and that you learn more from failure than success (in the proper context, he still struggles with losing but who doesnt?). It is good to know this stuff and as long as you have a decent teacher they like and can use the information parents provide I've found. I'm not asking for customized help but knowledge is power and that's how I've approached this child development stuff w respect to my kids.

Now if only I could get my own 'ish straight...

[youthathletics]

I’m pretty sure my son has adhd, it’s not uncommon in a types. Waiting another year or two but testing to have the knowledge is important, medicating it is not

I think most boys have some form of it. I struggle with the label frankly, as does my wife. Trying to put every child in the same box and forcing upon them the standard by which all kids in a class must adhere, otherwise be considered 'different' is troublesome on its face. They all grow up at different paces.

My oldest was having conversations with us at 13 months, and could cite 3 and 4 syllable dinosaur words. By 16 months he was asking "why" , which typilcally does not happen until 2-3 y/o. By contrast our youngest didn't really start talking until he was 3. 20 years ago this was consdered normal...not they want to run a battery of tests and send them to specialist. Why?....conformity for starters.

I shared this to contrast the developmental differences of children and siblings. Anyway....you are doing great by staying engaged, keep at it and never giveup.

thanks, I talk to my sister a lot who went back to grad school (again, theatre 25yrs ago didn't pay apparently) and is in early childhood development and she's been helpful despite the hippy skew (and her degree in this came from a real out there place called Mills College - bay area). He's good with sharing information and knowledge and a huge consumer of knowledge, I got him into reading Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology and he loves telling me the people's stories (3rd grade) but sensitive and yet super aggressive/passionate bull in china shop (basically mini me). Gregarious and has tons of friends but clearly misunderstood by most even though they all like and kind of follow him. I asked his teacher at our conference yesterday morning if there were ways to lean into his desire to teach and share by earning leadership opportunities (she said he's a awesome helper and proactive with that stuff) and she took it in as something that could help him, her and the other kids so I'm optimistic. he got in trouble in his first childcare place (a goddard school) for a few reasons, one was not being perfect in potty trained at age 3 before we moved him and my daughter to one closer to our home but I butted heads with the head early on because she first met me and straight up called me a helicopter parent in front of me but not exactly directly, I got her moved out and was hero of the employees there, but my bigger issue was when I saw her MPA at kennesaw (not emory for sure) and she was talking all this psychology and playing a role she wasn't trained for clearly because of an ego (and learned she was racist despite all these great long tenured workers/"teachers" being black ironically). Anyway that lady put him in a box because of me so we went to her place (Elaine Clark Center - she probably got a kickback) and they were like "I don't see any meaningful issues but a slight sensory processing deficiency" (which I threw in the head lady's face, cost us a ton of dough but did learn something if unnecessary). So we've used that, I play rough with him, we did this pushing thing for a while and even bought him these rubber chewable necklace things.

I make him sound messed up but just a aggressive, happy, high functioning learner who's sensitive and maybe doesn't understand that the other kids don't think like him. He understood at 3 that getting dirty means your probably having fun and that you learn more from failure than success (in the proper context, he still struggles with losing but who doesnt?). It is good to know this stuff and as long as you have a decent teacher they like and can use the information parents provide I've found. I'm not asking for customized help but knowledge is power and that's how I've approached this child development stuff w respect to my kids.

Now if only I could get my own 'ish straight...

You certainly sound like you are well on your way to raising a fine young man.....and the more time you spend with him, the more likely he will be the one to help you get your 'ish straight.....and I bet he'd appreciate knowing that.

[kramerica.inc]

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[kramerica.inc]

Shortages everywhere. Rising prices.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/la-long- ... 48353.html

Truckers and port workers want to work, Longshoremen, not working:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/as-suppl ... 07621.html

[Farfromgeneva]

And???

[kramerica.inc]

And???

Good leadership.

We have a number of mega threads here that blamed (and still blame) Drumpf for everything.

A year in, Biden needs to assume some of the responsibility for his "work."

[MDlaxfan76]

Shortages everywhere. Rising prices.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/supply-c ... 50733.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/la-long- ... 48353.html

Truckers and port workers want to work, Longshoremen, not working:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/as-suppl ... 07621.html

And why is this posted on this thread, not the one about the economy?

You're not saying that the federal government should own and run all these sectors of private enterprise are you?

You're not suggesting that they should regulate more are you?

and calling on Biden?

We've had a massive disruption to our economy, with consumers now spending far more on hard goods than they did previously, and much less on services. The mix is very, very different from what these private supply chains were fine tuned to handle.

Private enterprise has optimized that fine tuning to maximize quarterly profitability, not extreme tail events like this.

Some of that is going to eventually shift back, some of that may persist.

Depends somewhat on Covid and our longer term changes in behavior. Really, really difficult to predict, much less fine tune for.

Here's a chart of lumber prices: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lumber

crazy, crazy high last May, falling back to reasonable norms this summer until Delta began to scare everyone again...coming down again now.

But hey, the stock markets keep setting record highs...

[dislaxxic]

So true, all VERY good points, MD.

Kram and his merry band of Always-Trumpers don't wish to recognize how SO MUCH WORSE it would be today if that Orange Cheeto had somehow won that last election. He'd be blaming China, telling his lemmings that Mexico would pay for all the productivity lost to COVID, which of course was caused (not by him) by some guy named Fauci who had a YUGE financial interest in a Wuhan Virus Lab. "Yeah! Fauci caused all this to make my numbers look bad!"

..

[Farfromgeneva]

And???

Good leadership.

We have a number of mega threads here that blamed (and still blame) Drumpf for everything.

A year in, Biden needs to assume some of the responsibility for his "work."

So why didn’t you say all these supply chain issues were Biden’s fault? Did you not want to take responsibility for making that claim but still float it out there or what was the point of your method of transmitting this supposed argument?

[Farfromgeneva]

So true, all VERY good points, MD.

Kram and his merry band of Always-Trumpers don't wish to recognize how SO MUCH WORSE it would be today if that Orange Cheeto had somehow won that last election. He'd be blaming China, telling his lemmings that Mexico would pay for all the productivity lost to COVID, which of course was caused (not by him) by some guy named Fauci who had a YUGE financial interest in a Wuhan Virus Lab. "Yeah! Fauci caused all this to make my numbers look bad!"

..

The poor management can be seen in charts layering 20&21 flow of cases.

[youthathletics]

Shortages everywhere. Rising prices.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/supply-c ... 50733.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/la-long- ... 48353.html

Truckers and port workers want to work, Longshoremen, not working:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/as-suppl ... 07621.html

And why is this posted on this thread, not the one about the economy?

You're not saying that the federal government should own and run all these sectors of private enterprise are you?

You're not suggesting that they should regulate more are you?

and calling on Biden?

We've had a massive disruption to our economy, with consumers now spending far more on hard goods than they did previously, and much less on services. The mix is very, very different from what these private supply chains were fine tuned to handle.

Private enterprise has optimized that fine tuning to maximize quarterly profitability, not extreme tail events like this.

Some of that is going to eventually shift back, some of that may persist.

Depends somewhat on Covid and our longer term changes in behavior. Really, really difficult to predict, much less fine tune for.

Here's a chart of lumber prices: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lumber

crazy, crazy high last May, falling back to reasonable norms this summer until Delta began to scare everyone again...coming down again now.

But hey, the stock markets keep setting record highs...

So Biden has no responsibility in this.....that's your take?

Why have this...To improve the quality of life for all American people and communities, from rural to urban, and to increase the productivity and competitiveness of American workers and businesses. https://www.transportation.gov/

Why have this....The mission of the Department is to create the conditions for economic growth and opportunity: https://www.commerce.gov/

[Typical Lax Dad]

Shortages everywhere. Rising prices.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/supply-c ... 50733.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/la-long- ... 48353.html

Truckers and port workers want to work, Longshoremen, not working:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/as-suppl ... 07621.html

And why is this posted on this thread, not the one about the economy?

You're not saying that the federal government should own and run all these sectors of private enterprise are you?

You're not suggesting that they should regulate more are you?

and calling on Biden?

We've had a massive disruption to our economy, with consumers now spending far more on hard goods than they did previously, and much less on services. The mix is very, very different from what these private supply chains were fine tuned to handle.

Private enterprise has optimized that fine tuning to maximize quarterly profitability, not extreme tail events like this.

Some of that is going to eventually shift back, some of that may persist.

Depends somewhat on Covid and our longer term changes in behavior. Really, really difficult to predict, much less fine tune for.

Here's a chart of lumber prices: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lumber

crazy, crazy high last May, falling back to reasonable norms this summer until Delta began to scare everyone again...coming down again now.

But hey, the stock markets keep setting record highs...

So Biden has no responsibility in this.....that's your take?

Why have this...To improve the quality of life for all American people and communities, from rural to urban, and to increase the productivity and competitiveness of American workers and businesses. https://www.transportation.gov/

Why have this....The mission of the Department is to create the conditions for economic growth and opportunity: https://www.commerce.gov/

I have folks disrupted by the global supply chain. They are all managing it. You know who these management teams blame? Nobody.

[youthathletics]

Shortages everywhere. Rising prices.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/supply-c ... 50733.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/la-long- ... 48353.html

Truckers and port workers want to work, Longshoremen, not working:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/as-suppl ... 07621.html

And why is this posted on this thread, not the one about the economy?

You're not saying that the federal government should own and run all these sectors of private enterprise are you?

You're not suggesting that they should regulate more are you?

and calling on Biden?

We've had a massive disruption to our economy, with consumers now spending far more on hard goods than they did previously, and much less on services. The mix is very, very different from what these private supply chains were fine tuned to handle.

Private enterprise has optimized that fine tuning to maximize quarterly profitability, not extreme tail events like this.

Some of that is going to eventually shift back, some of that may persist.

Depends somewhat on Covid and our longer term changes in behavior. Really, really difficult to predict, much less fine tune for.

Here's a chart of lumber prices: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lumber

crazy, crazy high last May, falling back to reasonable norms this summer until Delta began to scare everyone again...coming down again now.

But hey, the stock markets keep setting record highs...

So Biden has no responsibility in this.....that's your take?

Why have this...To improve the quality of life for all American people and communities, from rural to urban, and to increase the productivity and competitiveness of American workers and businesses. https://www.transportation.gov/

Why have this....The mission of the Department is to create the conditions for economic growth and opportunity: https://www.commerce.gov/

I have folks disrupted by the global supply chain. They are all managing it. You know who these management teams blame? Nobody.

Yea....ships backed up in US waterways is the new norm.

Whoever you are speaking with has not looked at their labor reports recently...unless they are just middle men. Labor burden is on the rise, companies staffed for their high and continued growing backlog, but margins are dropping significantly due to lack of product.

[a fan]

And???

Good leadership.

We have a number of mega threads here that blamed (and still blame) Drumpf for everything.

A year in, Biden needs to assume some of the responsibility for his "work."

What's he supposed to do about the issues detailed in the articles you cited? Federalize the ports?

Every single part of the port process is privatized. The ONLY part that's the government is Customs. I have yet to see one single article blaming Customs.

And speaking as someone who exports and imports-------the problem is really simple: it's complicated.

In other words, its a whole mess of problems, not the least of which is that we're importing record goods from China. Remember Trump standing up to China? Have you checked the scoreboard on that yet, my man? It's not good. At all.

Happy to blame Biden for any number of things. Top of my list is watering down the infrastructure bill both in what we're buying, and how many dollars (way, way too low) spent.

But this ain't on him. Welcome to the very broken global free market. It will take years to sort things out. These issues are global.

Here's a quick list of my manufacturers who won't take new customers until 2023: bottles, tamper capsules, barrels, boxes. They're simply overwhelmed, and can't find new workers fast enough. And from a planning standpoint? Is 2021 a blip in demand? Or is this demand sustained? Who the F knows....so planning your hiring correctly is next to impossible.

We're in uncharted territory, my man. It's REALLY difficult to run a business just now. 1st world problems, I know, but.....

[Farfromgeneva]

Shortages everywhere. Rising prices.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/supply-c ... 50733.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/la-long- ... 48353.html

Truckers and port workers want to work, Longshoremen, not working:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/as-suppl ... 07621.html

And why is this posted on this thread, not the one about the economy?

You're not saying that the federal government should own and run all these sectors of private enterprise are you?

You're not suggesting that they should regulate more are you?

and calling on Biden?

We've had a massive disruption to our economy, with consumers now spending far more on hard goods than they did previously, and much less on services. The mix is very, very different from what these private supply chains were fine tuned to handle.

Private enterprise has optimized that fine tuning to maximize quarterly profitability, not extreme tail events like this.

Some of that is going to eventually shift back, some of that may persist.

Depends somewhat on Covid and our longer term changes in behavior. Really, really difficult to predict, much less fine tune for.

Here's a chart of lumber prices: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lumber

crazy, crazy high last May, falling back to reasonable norms this summer until Delta began to scare everyone again...coming down again now.

But hey, the stock markets keep setting record highs...

So Biden has no responsibility in this.....that's your take?

Why have this...To improve the quality of life for all American people and communities, from rural to urban, and to increase the productivity and competitiveness of American workers and businesses. https://www.transportation.gov/

Why have this....The mission of the Department is to create the conditions for economic growth and opportunity: https://www.commerce.gov/

I have folks disrupted by the global supply chain. They are all managing it. You know who these management teams blame? Nobody.

Yea....ships backed up in US waterways is the new norm.

Whoever you are speaking with has not looked at their labor reports recently...unless they are just middle men. Labor burden is on the rise, companies staffed for their high and continued growing backlog, but margins are dropping significantly due to lack of product.

Boards and executive management teams are to blame-themselves.

[Typical Lax Dad]

Shortages everywhere. Rising prices.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/supply-c ... 50733.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/la-long- ... 48353.html

Truckers and port workers want to work, Longshoremen, not working:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/as-suppl ... 07621.html

And why is this posted on this thread, not the one about the economy?

You're not saying that the federal government should own and run all these sectors of private enterprise are you?

You're not suggesting that they should regulate more are you?

and calling on Biden?

We've had a massive disruption to our economy, with consumers now spending far more on hard goods than they did previously, and much less on services. The mix is very, very different from what these private supply chains were fine tuned to handle.

Private enterprise has optimized that fine tuning to maximize quarterly profitability, not extreme tail events like this.

Some of that is going to eventually shift back, some of that may persist.

Depends somewhat on Covid and our longer term changes in behavior. Really, really difficult to predict, much less fine tune for.

Here's a chart of lumber prices: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lumber

crazy, crazy high last May, falling back to reasonable norms this summer until Delta began to scare everyone again...coming down again now.

But hey, the stock markets keep setting record highs...

So Biden has no responsibility in this.....that's your take?

Why have this...To improve the quality of life for all American people and communities, from rural to urban, and to increase the productivity and competitiveness of American workers and businesses. https://www.transportation.gov/

Why have this....The mission of the Department is to create the conditions for economic growth and opportunity: https://www.commerce.gov/

I have folks disrupted by the global supply chain. They are all managing it. You know who these management teams blame? Nobody.

Yea....ships backed up in US waterways is the new norm.

Whoever you are speaking with has not looked at their labor reports recently...unless they are just middle men. Labor burden is on the rise, companies staffed for their high and continued growing backlog, but margins are dropping significantly due to lack of product.

Yeah, in the middle of the CEO and COO.