6 hours ago, Clevfan4life said:

so as i suspected they're not americans and ur employer is hiring 7/11 engineers who come from countrues where money isnt conjured up in a digital witches cauldron. 

rong agin

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3 minutes ago, Clevfan4life said:

this never happened. nobody that graduated with an engineering degree in the u.s is clueless about cc vs deb card. no one. 

mi mployer hirez ruffly 100 injuneers from round thu wurld 4 injuneerin trainy posishuns

sum of dem hav trubl wid westrn cultur

17 minutes ago, MLD Woody said:

No, economics is a requirement for some engineering. Engineers in the workplace cover a wide range. Hopefully I can get my MBA here soon. And if engineering is too rough for someone, they can drop down to business. (Or stop half way and go to Industrial Engineering :).  )

But, again, I was just taking your own rules and making it more accurate. 

 

No offense at all. I studied, lived and worked with them for 4 years lol. We're all weird. Somewhere on a socially awkward scale. 

I work in a department with Mechanical Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Electrical Engineers, and Chemical Engineers.

Just about everyone of them are highly intelligent when it comes to their respective positions.

However, some are challenged by simple things in life like...the difference between a credit card and a debit card.

1 hour ago, MLD Woody said:

No, that's not at all my logic. I actually haven't said anything close to that.

Plus, for your "gotcha" to work, you would have had to test out of mechanical engineering courses. Did you?

Mechanical Engineering to a Business major, is the same relevance as an Econ class to an Engineer.

I’m not an engineer, but I work in an engineering department for nearly 20 years.

No offense, but engineers are a strange bunch.

15 minutes ago, MLD Woody said:

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I tested out of the econ requirements for mechanical engineering

So by your logic, since I took zero mechanical engineering courses I should know more about it than you.

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11 minutes ago, MLD Woody said:

... but I took 5 econ courses while at school so I know more about this than you. 

And how many did you take?

Asking for a friend.

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4 minutes ago, MLD Woody said:

Do college courses now determine how valid your argument is? Hmmm

You tell us...you’re the engineer.

21 minutes ago, Clevfan4life said:

 if trump thinks he can shtstart with every global trading partner we have, fine....if it fails tho you dont even realize what the consequences potentially are. 

If every global trading partner we have, has a trade surplus with the U.S. we’ve already experienced the consequences.

Again, whoever buys the most (aka the United States) has the leverage.

57 minutes ago, Clevfan4life said:

still losing. u cant follow me more than a sentence into an economic discussion so out comes the sentence nazi. make no mistake, ur telling me how in ur eye i really am. 

Your claiming to be some kind of intellectual on a message board, but struggle with spelling and grammar.

I’m not a guru in economics, but I have a BA in business and was forced to sit through 4-5 Economic classes in college (not my favorite subject).

What’s your academic background in the world of economics?...I’ll wait.

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2 minutes ago, Clevfan4life said:

ahh now we've resorted to pointing out touchscreen fails, the last refuge of the soundly beaten troll

Blame it on the touchscreen.

Funny, I’m using one too...but dat all u gt?

54 minutes ago, Clevfan4life said:

thats what i thought. u got nothin. juat another uneducated old fart bag trolling around the poly board, precisely up to spec for these parts well done

 

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At least I can spell.

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9 hours ago, Clevfan4life said:

go ahead and tell me how, go on...

 

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You’re the court jester on this board.

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9 minutes ago, Clevfan4life said:

but lets call the trade war a win for trump cause mercedes and bmw convinced the german govt to cave on auto tariffs. this is going to be a mesdy complicated affair that spans multitudes of industries and the true consequences may not be known for some time. im not saying its imposdible for the trump admin to come out ahead, but just like the nk deal....this is gonna take sometime and uneducated roobs need to pump the brakes talking about sht ur clearly know little to nothing about. 

the likely reality is that trump saves some industries at the exp of others. tge question than is will those industries he threw under the bus vote for him?

My god you are full of sh!t.

1 hour ago, jbluhm86 said:

Just like the above article mentioned, China will go to other countries like Brazil to pick up lost US agricultural production, and at a cheaper price than what the US was selling them.

We’ll see.

The U.S. is the number one exporter of food and agricultural products.

Lets see the Chinese try to beat our prices...it’s gonna get interesting.

10 hours ago, Clevfan4life said:

hey thats great, germany capitulated to bmw/mercedes etc etc who said we cant lose the american market. those are high end automobiles so they cant "dump" that product anywhere else.

look im relaying alot of things that i was personally told, like the soybean farmer diwn in dayton who is a republican and voted for trump....buuttttt, he has his realities on the ground whether he personally likes trump or not is irrelevant. he's gonna take a bath on the the tariffs

Its simple economics, when you buy the most...you have the most leverage.

6 hours ago, Clevfan4life said:

and that leverage was lost when trump went to war with all our partners. why will anyone ofvthem capitulate now that they know all our industries will be facing pressure? soy for example. in a 1 to 1 war with china it may have been possible to alleviate some of those rariffs by finding other buyers....soy farmers may still have faced profit reduction but it would have been "something"

but why now would any of the other trading blocks we've pissed off help undermine chinas soy tariffs? they wont. and china wont undermine any tariffs imposed against us from any other xountry.

What were you saying?

Germany willing to cut tariffs on US cars, lifting automakers’ shares

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/germany-willing-to-cut-tariffs-on-us-cars-lifting-automakers-shares

The U.S. has the leverage in trade wars.

1 hour ago, MLD Woody said:

Imagine if you put this kind of effort to something productive

My exact thoughts when it comes to the Mueller and the Trump/Russian collusion theory.

37 minutes ago, TexasAg1969 said:

He better do something because he is about to meet this...................................

 

Things are about to get ugly for the Dims.

If Trump did this, he would go down as the greatest Prez ever. . .

1 hour ago, Westside Steve said:

Am I the only one here who doesn't spend any time whatsoever worrying about survival tactics and such, whether from natural disasters or insurgent terrorism?

WSS

Nope, my idea of roughing it is parking the RV at an angle causing me to fall out of bed.