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Post by missouriboy on Aug 28, 2023 14:40:20 GMT
Don't sugar coat it there Matt. “I can normally talk to anyone that has more than a few brain cells to rub together. That wasn’t the case in South Carolina and Georgia,” he wrote of his time there, adding: “People in the South are incredibly suspicious of those that are different from them while at the same time being insufferably polite to your face while holding you in contempt as soon as you turn your back.”
It's been a while since I spent any time in the "Deep South". I remember Statesboro GA back around 2000. Spent a " very" long year  teaching at Georgia Southern University ... just up the road from Savannah ... last town that Sherman partially burned on his way to the sea. Very interesting place demographically. White and black population in almost equal proportions. Very interesting watching the interactions between local blacks and whites in comparison to "me". Always very polite, "but", (never actually said) you're not from here are you? And it was true. And it would likely always be true.  As for COMO (a big university town) ... I'm from here. Marta says that there is a similar underlying tone (from some "local" women) directed at hispanics ... message to the same effect. |
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Post by walnut on Aug 28, 2023 22:03:37 GMT
Don't sugar coat it there Matt. “I can normally talk to anyone that has more than a few brain cells to rub together. That wasn’t the case in South Carolina and Georgia,” he wrote of his time there, adding: “People in the South are incredibly suspicious of those that are different from them while at the same time being insufferably polite to your face while holding you in contempt as soon as you turn your back.”
It's been a while since I spent any time in the "Deep South". I remember Statesboro GA back around 2000. Spent a " very" long year teaching at Georgia Southern University ... just up the road from Savannah ... last town that Sherman partially burned on his way to the sea. Very interesting place demographically. White and black population in almost equal proportions. Very interesting watching the interactions between local blacks and whites in comparison to "me". Always very polite, "but", (never actually said) you're not from here are you? And it was true. And it would likely always be true. As for COMO (a big university town) ... I'm from here. Marta says that there is a similar underlying tone (from some "local" women) directed at hispanics ... message to the same effect. Every time you mention Marta, I can't help but remember the "Marta" from the movie Scarface, also a Colombian. I bet your Marta is a little more charming than Hector's Marta. |
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Post by ratty on Aug 30, 2023 4:34:32 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 30, 2023 14:34:56 GMT
Every time you mention Marta, I can't help but remember the "Marta" from the movie Scarface, also a Colombian. I bet your Marta is a little more charming than Hector's Marta. Marta doesn't do guns. But don't piss her off. She's got a 45 caliber mouth.  |
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 30, 2023 15:00:47 GMT
Missouri, prime your musket! I'm not sure that Sarah Palin is a good call on anything. But when both parties are being taken to task, perhaps there is hope. If you had cut out the 1% on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, 1861-1865 "might" have turned out differently. There was a saying back then ... "Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight'. It was hard to tell the Industrial Northeastern Slave Lords from the Southern Plantation Slave Lords.
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Post by ratty on Sept 2, 2023 21:38:34 GMT
Seen on another forum discussing Trump & the swamp (abscess) ...
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Post by code on Sept 6, 2023 15:50:35 GMT
Opinion
Democrats have to dump Joe Biden as their 2024 nominee — prez, policies wildly unpopular with the peopleBy Michael Goodwin Published Sep. 5, 2023, 10:48 p.m. ET
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Post by code on Sept 7, 2023 13:43:03 GMT
Trump’s Real Trade Record His tariffs haven’t cut the trade deficit; they’ve merely shifted it. By The Editorial Board Sept. 6, 2023 6:44 pm ET www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-trade-deficit-tariffs-china-d434bf0f?st=1ifo9wbk1di6quq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalinkMr. Trump’s answer, as usual, is to quintuple down in a second term. A universal 10% tariff would “raise taxes on American consumers by more than $300 billion a year—a tax increase rivaling the ones proposed by President Biden,” the Tax Foundation says. Including expected retaliation, it would “shrink the U.S. economy by 1.1 percent and threaten more than 825,000 U.S. jobs.”
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Post by nonentropic on Sept 7, 2023 19:20:06 GMT
Its rubbish trade is a win win thing, but any country that uses subsidies or trade barriers more generally risks its own welfare.
China needs to be controlled when they introduce distortions and they do.
For me the biggest distortion is their undervalued currency and the US could demand a normalization of the currencies valuation. Any country that has persistent visible and invisible surpluses, I mean big, is working the game.
Think back to Ronald Reagan in the 80's and Japan. Currency was in the 200's went into the 100's problem solved.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 7, 2023 21:49:43 GMT
Its rubbish trade is a win win thing, but any country that uses subsidies or trade barriers more generally risks its own welfare. China needs to be controlled when they introduce distortions and they do. For me the biggest distortion is their undervalued currency and the US could demand a normalization of the currencies valuation. Any country that has persistent visible and invisible surpluses, I mean big, is working the game. Think back to Ronald Reagan in the 80's and Japan. Currency was in the 200's went into the 100's problem solved. The American traditional cash saver is now getting a boost (money market rates) that they haven't seen in a long time. Homes will decline but savers with cash will benefit. Debt will be crushed without mercy. Does this include the American Government. Watch California and New York as examples where the current Fed may want to subsidize their state budget deficits. Most States will resist I think. |
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Post by code on Sept 9, 2023 14:39:56 GMT
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Post by code on Sept 9, 2023 14:47:39 GMT
Its rubbish trade is a win win thing, but any country that uses subsidies or trade barriers more generally risks its own welfare. China needs to be controlled when they introduce distortions and they do. For me the biggest distortion is their undervalued currency and the US could demand a normalization of the currencies valuation. Any country that has persistent visible and invisible surpluses, I mean big, is working the game. Think back to Ronald Reagan in the 80's and Japan. Currency was in the 200's went into the 100's problem solved. The American traditional cash saver is now getting a boost (money market rates) that they haven't seen in a long time. Homes will decline but savers with cash will benefit. Debt will be crushed without mercy. Does this include the American Government. Watch California and New York as examples where the current Fed may want to subsidize their state budget deficits. Most States will resist I think. "Watch California and New York as examples where the current Fed may want to subsidize their state budget deficits"
Ughhhhh! Please, God NO!
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Post by walnut on Sept 9, 2023 16:52:45 GMT
Its rubbish trade is a win win thing, but any country that uses subsidies or trade barriers more generally risks its own welfare. China needs to be controlled when they introduce distortions and they do. For me the biggest distortion is their undervalued currency and the US could demand a normalization of the currencies valuation. Any country that has persistent visible and invisible surpluses, I mean big, is working the game. Think back to Ronald Reagan in the 80's and Japan. Currency was in the 200's went into the 100's problem solved. China is getting theirs. This isn't planned devaluation, this is forced devaluation.  |
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 15, 2023 23:19:39 GMT
I think I really like this guy. |
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Post by duwayne on Sept 16, 2023 13:46:37 GMT
While the Biden/Trump overall national poll numbers are close, it appears that based on the current state-by-state polling, Trump might win handily using the electoral college votes.
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teaching at Georgia Southern University ... just up the road from Savannah ... last town that Sherman partially burned on his way to the sea. Very interesting place demographically. White and black population in almost equal proportions. Very interesting watching the interactions between local blacks and whites in comparison to "me". Always very polite, "but", (never actually said) you're not from here are you? And it was true. And it would likely always be true. 
