Saturday, June 4, 2022

Shipping, supplies, and news

 


Today, I am going to touch on so much of what I am finding in my own research. I quit watching television in 2010, so I have spent my time researching real information. Sadly, what is reported on the noise box is often not the real story. They play on our sympathies and emotions, and that is how they have managed to divide our entire country. 


Let's just in to shipping. Throughout the entire Covid crap, our ports were packed. The mandates created massive shut downs, layoffs, and a severe lack of workers. People were getting paid to sit at home. That caused shortages in workers at the ports, driving trucks and trains to move those containers holding all the imports. Fast forward 2 years, there is STILL a lack of workers, our ports are the same as empty, and the ports exporting good from China...are FULL, because of their horrendous lock downs and response, their production/manufacturing plants are shut down due to mandates/policies, and many of their ports are still shut down. What that means to us, is that all the goods/food we import from China...will not be coming in, anytime soon. I'm told that the time frame of production to our ports is averaged at about 12 weeks. That's great and fine...once their production restarts. Folks, we were told in March 2020 - 2 weeks to slow the spread, and here we are more than 2 years later. If China follows the same play book, what will our store shelves look like if this drags out 2 years?


Our supplies on the shelves at many of the stores I have been in, are really thinning, quick! So, what is everyone going to do? Well, I have been constantly talking about stocking up, and sadly...I am met with so many excuses why people aren't. That being said, it's going to be a sad day when people go to the store, and realize there is nothing left. The biggest excuse I keep hearing is "I don't have enough extra money to stock up." Well, I'm going to be a bit obnoxious, I don't buy that. If you can't afford an extra $5 a week to grab 5-$1 cans of soup from the Dollar General...you need financial help. You can't pack a lunch one day instead of eating out? You can't skip one stop to a coffee shop in a week? You can't sell old clothes or items you are no longer using in your house? I don't buy it. Sorry. I'm not talking hundreds of dollars here, I have been talking $5 per week. Instead of those convenient individual mac & cheese containers that are price for the convenience, buy the supplies to make 2-3 batches, from scratch. Ya'll I am talking about relearning to be frugal. I couldn't afford to go out and spend $1000 to stock up, even though I would love to. I have spent months, adding a hand full of items when I do my grocery runs. Whether that be bi-monthly or monthly. Everything is now higher than it was when I first really started pushing this. Those $3.50 - 32 packs of water, are now $6.35. Even my boys know, if you go to the Dollar General, you grab a pack of water, soup, rice, or whatever they can for about $10. Again, every little bit is going to help! 


The supply chain is a mess. Everything from food, to vehicle parts, to tires, to farm equipment parts, to vehicles, to chips for everything from vehicles to cell phones. Folks, this stuff is not going to get better overnight. It's not just going to magically change. This mess has been created, and those controlling the strings, don't want to give up their power. With the supply chain mess, it has created even more inflation, a stock market crisis, and a housing market crisis. We have had a rash of fires break out in food processing plants this year, and insane recalls of food.  We are seeing a depleting availability of poultry, now eggs, peanut butter; just to name a few. The prices of food alone, have in most cases, doubled already and economists are talking about the price doubling by August. That means we have a rough 6 week period to stock up, before you are having to spent $8-$10 on a pound of ground beef, $6-$8 per gallon for fuel, $12 a dozen for eggs, $30+ for potatoes(shortage there too), $20 for 5 lbs. of sugar(another shortage), $20 for 5 lbs. of flour(wheat shortage), and this is IF you can even get any of it. 


Speaking of economists, have you seen what their actual numbers are? The Biden Administration is claiming an 8.5% inflation from April. Economists are claiming it's actually closer to 30% inflation rate, with timber rising nearly 600% and Gas nearly 30%. Now, we are being told that 2/3 of the country is expected to electrical blackouts this Summer to boot. Those electric cars are going to be more useless than those gas cars, when there is no power or no fuel/price is outrageous. So, our powergrid is part of our infrastructure. Wasn't there an "infrastructure" bill passed in this administration, that included arts and museums in it? Where did that infrastructure money go? What's the point in all the windmills destroying nature, if they aren't producing electricity? Oh, I know...they are producing electricity, just not for our country. I know so many have become de-sensitized by the news, the constant dramas, and the complete lies coming from this administration. Doesn't seem odd that all these shootings are kicking up again, when the Covid scare is no longer keeping home, when the Monkeypox scare isn't stopping people from doing anything, and people are living their lives? I wonder how soon before Antifa and BLM start their "mostly peaceful protests," again. How many more cities, federal buildings and privately owned businesses will be effected this time? No, I am NOT buying anything our government - Republican NOR Democrat, are selling. These freaks have destroyed our country, they have destroyed the fundamental foundation which this country was founded on, and they have destroyed our Constitutional rights every chance they have gotten! These people have forgotten that THEY are the servants, and WE are the masters. 


The news is bleak. The economy is sinking fast. Every single item we need and use, is double or more, higher and increasing daily. The friends and I family I have in some states that are seeing even higher prices than I am...I pray you are paying attention. It's unnerving to wonder how you will pay your bills, buy groceries, and put gas in your car to get to and from work. The talking points of most journalists and this administration, is rhetoric and divisive. It wasn't enough to leave Americans in Afghanistan, we left millions in military equipment. It's not enough that American babies are going without formula, but there are warehouses full of it on the southern border(yes, there is video evidence of this), it's not enough that this administration is going to pay fueling stations to add equipment to allow for double digit fuel prices instead of opening up our own pipelines again. It's truly sad when Americans are in such a struggle and the ability and financial assistance is being sent abroad by those "elected" to take care of Americans first.


Personally, I am praying that everyone opens their eyes before it's too late. It does make me wonder how many people must suffer before people start to shift from us vs. them mentality to a We the People vs. the government mentality. The freak show in DC, is only concerned with their own benefit, their own greed. They do not care about Americans. It's time American's start acting like American's again and hold them accountable. Hold our local and state politicians accountable too. Many of them are no better. I am tired of hearing about all the crimes being committed and no one being held accountable. I'm sick of seeing proof and evidence of voting fraud not just from 2020, but for DECADES prior, by both parties. I am tired of watching taxes increase and nothing is being shown for it. I'm tired of watching the federal reserve print money out of thin air, and congress/senate passing bills to spend that money...all the while NO ONE is being held accountable. This is why we have a $30 trillion debt in this country. I'm tired of watching the freak show cause division amongst Americans, just so they can keep digging into the pockets of every single productive American. It's high time we the people unite, take care of one another, and fire the bums locally, statewide, and federally, that are doing nothing more than lip service. 


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