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re: Is Reaganomics and free trade officially dead?

Posted by Decisions on 5/21/24 at 11:51 am

[quote]Funded by the savings created by an efficient economy (aka, shipping the cheap jobs offshore). [/quote] Oh, I suppose the savings these workers were previously accumulating from their jobs just never saw reinvestment into the economy? No one would have put it in a bank to loan out or a 40...

re: Is Reaganomics and free trade officially dead?

Posted by Decisions on 5/21/24 at 10:46 am

[quote]quote: Free Trade has resulted in redistribution of wealth and the relocation of jobs abroad. While creating much better jobs domestically that pay incredibly. Don't forget that.[/quote] Those jobs weren’t created because we shipped off the industry. They were created because of new tech...

re: Is Reaganomics and free trade officially dead?

Posted by Decisions on 5/20/24 at 6:13 pm

[quote]OK.. We put a tariff on avocados, for example... The seller charges the same price, but adds the tariff. The buyer pays more, because of the added tariff, and passes the cost to the consumer. Who pays?[/quote] Tariffs are placed to protect markets from product dumping that could outcom...

re: Is Reaganomics and free trade officially dead?

Posted by Decisions on 5/20/24 at 1:59 pm

[quote]Extremely small amounts of government manipulation of the market (domestic or international), to produce as close to a free market that avoids war. [/quote] It’s not possible. No one is playing fair on the world stage. Not the EU, not China, and now not us. You’ve GOT to be protectionis...

re: Day trip to Natchez

Posted by Decisions on 5/16/24 at 1:50 pm

Most of it’s been covered, but there’s the Camp under the hill for a sort of sports bar environment. Magnolia Grill is is also under the hill and imo has the best seafood in town. The antique stores are mainly on Franklin Street while the more modern shops/boutiques are on Main....

re: A Question for Cane Farmers on Cold Tolerance

Posted by Decisions on 5/15/24 at 9:45 pm

[quote]cane is at its northern limits.[/quote] [b]Current[/b] northern limits. It wasn’t that long ago that many would have laughed at the idea of Avoyelles (and even Concordia, briefly) growing cane, but it’s happened. I think we’ve just got a logistics problem, personally. I’m aware of t...

re: A Question for Cane Farmers on Cold Tolerance

Posted by Decisions on 5/15/24 at 2:03 pm

[quote]Pretty sure it was even worse a while back when cane was transported in larger sizes. When the Meeker mill closed, cane pretty much disappeared in CENLA.[/quote] What was the deal with that mill? Poor management? It sounds like everyone that I’ve talked to around that area would grow can...

re: A Question for Cane Farmers on Cold Tolerance

Posted by Decisions on 5/15/24 at 1:40 pm

[quote]Wow. Really? More than any excavator, dozer, forestry equipment??[/quote] Does any of that equipment run more than a million dollars new? Cane farming definitely isn’t small stakes, lol. [quote]It’s not about how much cane the farmer can handle cutting it’s about how much cane the mill...

re: A Question for Cane Farmers on Cold Tolerance

Posted by Decisions on 5/15/24 at 8:24 am

[quote]Doesn’t sugar cane need two season’s?[/quote] In Louisiana I believe the seed cane is planted in the fall and harvested the next year. After that you get one or more years of regrowth (stubble) that you don’t have to replant. How many years depends on how well it weathers I think....

A Question for Cane Farmers on Cold Tolerance

Posted by Decisions on 5/15/24 at 7:36 am

What’s the real limiting factor about it? Seed cane not surviving the winter? Freezing before harvest is done? Why not have more cane cutters to speed up harvest? Or is it more of a growing season limiter?...

re: Phone use Internationally

Posted by Decisions on 5/9/24 at 6:22 am

I’ve traveled with and without it. I’ll never travel without again....

re: Looking like Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan won't run in the Preakness

Posted by Decisions on 5/6/24 at 5:55 pm

That’s part of the mystique of the win, IMO. You almost never get to see the greats duel it out with both at the top of their game. Truly the stuff of legend....

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re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"

Posted by Decisions on 5/6/24 at 11:14 am

[quote]The issue is most are blue collar/skilled. Kids are terrified of the stigma. [/quote] There are young men who will work these jobs, but the stigma is coming from women not wanting to marry a man working those jobs. It doesn’t matter how much they make, try telling a girl in the bar you...

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re: Will LeBron go into coaching when he retires?

Posted by Decisions on 5/5/24 at 2:59 am

I can’t imagine becoming rich enough to be a partial owner in an NBA team and choosing to be the third wheel to the Lebron circus. ...

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re: Natchitoches and Lafayette restaurants

Posted by Decisions on 5/1/24 at 9:05 am

[quote]Check out The French Press n Lafayette. Not sure on hours though. Fantastic brunch.[/quote] Seconded. Love the brunch....

re: Need a safe/decent hotel in Pineville/Alexandria

Posted by Decisions on 5/1/24 at 9:04 am

I highly recommend checking the prices at the Bentley downtown. It’s actually really reasonable considering how nice it is (and it’s probably the nicest hotel in the state outside of New Orleans)....

re: Developing commercial properties

Posted by Decisions on 4/29/24 at 10:04 am

Is the area growing or shrinking? What sector of tenants are growing in volume/income? What are they looking for in a building? What would it cost you to build that building? Is there a “moat” that will protect your investment in the space from competition in the future? These are the sort of...