Your cost of living is going to go up...
 

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but...

What can we expect from a Trump presidency?

One promise Trump has repeatedly made is to put up trade barriers...

Explicitly, he's said...

He's going to have a 45% tariff on goods from China.
He's going to put up a 35% tariff on products from Mexico, to force American manufacturers to relocate back to the USA.
He's going to force Apple to make their iPhones in the USA.

This will be good for jobs... But the prices for everything are going to go through the roof.

Let's take one example, the Apple one.

Foxconn makes Apple iPhones in China. They pay their workers $1.85 per hour.

If Apple opens a factory in the USA, will they be able to pay their workers $1.85 per hour? Of course not.

If Apple made its phones at home, the price of an iPhone could jump from $650 to $1,300 or more...

In fact, we're lucky if the price just doubles.

This will be true of every product now made in China, Mexico, or wherever else Trump wants to force manufacturing to come back...

I'm not saying this is bad. More jobs is a good thing.

It's especially good for the younger folks, since most of the new jobs will go to them.

I'm just stating the facts - there's always a price to pay, and that's the price.

If you're not one of the younger folks getting a job, it means this. You're going to spend a lot more of your hard-earned cash, to get the same as what you get for it now...

That means, you better know how to make more money, if you want to keep your lifestyle...

Those are some hard facts we will probably see in the next year or two ahead (depending on how fast these trade barriers go up)...

If you don't know how to bring in as much cash as you want, now is the time to start learning.

Best wishes,

Dien

More evidence that prices are going to go up...
 

Here's an article which says essentially the same thing, with a wider point of view...

The price of everything in America may be about to go up
http://www.businessinsider.com/infla...-trump-2016-11

If you don't know how to make more money when you want it... Now's a good time to learn...!!

- Dien

I hear that train a comin'...
 

It's easy to see the storm coming, isn't it Dien?

It's going to hit hard and hit deep.

It's going to be bloody, too.

Lurking in the dark are those "cans kicked down the road", discussed in earlier threads. They are coming due.

The price will be high under President Trump.

The price would have been higher under President Clinton, who was determined to push us into war with Russia.

I can survive and thrive in just about any economic environment, but if nuclear bombs are falling at the same time, all bets are off.

Ron

Bomb shelters, bullets and bagels. A guide to surviving the Trump Presidency.
 

Actual title of the next episode of Fly Low Collect the Dough UPDATE HOTLINE.

It is the dirty bomb, maybe accomplished via a "bombing" of software and nuclear power plants, consider Fukushima, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island.

I'd avoid New Mexico, storage central of waste. But, more likely is a domestic attack, and even a greater threat, expanded gang warfare.

Opinion: a safe room in your home is a good idea, if you can defend it.

Basement bomb shelters as a Biz-Op? Why not? Retreats? (Most survivalists and a few preppers already have them, wrote about these circa 1999 for the Y2K panic).

In the next four years, you can't have too many bullets, a reloader might come in handy. And bagels represent the food, and food prices will soar, maybe double.

Wall Street is prepping for inflation, add to scarcity, fear...what an opportune time to make your moolah, eh? But, then, it has been like this, for, what, 50 years? Or longer?

Anyhow, more in the newsletter on Tuesday.

Gordon

PS. TWO things you must have ready, AIR and WATER. The perfect retreat would have all the elements of a nuclear submarine deployed for a couple of months running silent and running deep. How do they do it? OH, yea, I know!!

Will that be a one or two holer?
 

Yepper, prepper. Time to start that customized outhouse business.

Coming soon, to a neighborhood near you. Maybe add a trap door for an escape hatch. Whoops...not that one!!

A place to ponder, what's over yonder.

Stack the old phone books and catalogs in the corner Mr. Whipple, and don't be squeezing them.

Comes with a "strategically located" picture, of your favorite political putz. Designed to improve the aim of the "ever wayward" male occupant.

Ron

Two story outhouse. Corn cobs piled high.
 

Bomb shelter plans are available now, or call them "storm cellars" if you prefer. How about some Tee Pee with Trump or Hilary on it, or both?

Those old yellow pages will come in handy, and intertwine a few for some bullet slowing down walls, between the concrete blocks and the 2" steel.

It all comes down soon, so eat, drink and be Mary. Before you get hung for wearing a dress while having a penis.

GJA all puns intended with a groan.

Re: Two story outhouse. Corn cobs piled high.
 

Or you can move to Canada like some celebrities said they would if Trump wins. I've even included a guide to how much it'll cost that I found. :D

http://www.thepennyhoarder.com/heres...if-trump-wins/

Re: Your cost of living is going to go up...
 

I don't think, that the threat of high prices is within America only. It is actually happening in the Philippines right now especially that the exchange rates of dollar to Peso went up. That would mean a decrease in the value of the Philippine money.

Re: Two story outhouse. Corn cobs piled high.
 

Depends on where you live. For example Moncton, New Brunswick area, seeks to import 700 skilled American workers. See article here:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...cans-1.3878129

Century21 real estate: houses for sale for 150,000 or less in the Moncton area:

http://www.century21.ca/search/0-150...84961/v_Hybrid

Regards,
Steve

Re: Your cost of living is going to go up...
 

Wish I had bookmarked the link to an
article I read last week where Apple stated
that their cost to assemble a iPhone in China
is $1.62 but would cost $12.50 in the USA.

They only plan to assemble the phones in the USA, but
will still purchase the parts from the lowest cost vendors
who compete for Apples business each year.

But that extra $10.88 cost per phone gives them a good
way to spin a story and jack the prices up.

Prices will go up because the elites who are smarter
than deplorable stupid Trump supports will see to it so
they can blame Trump while they plan and scheme how
to raid America, while they live inside of their well protected
gated communities designed to keep illegal immigrants and
deplorable Trump supporters out... They are out to punish the
voters for temporarily taking political power away from them.

So they will hit everyone in the pocket until they brainwash enough
people into being good little gullible liberal zombies and regain and
increase their political power.

Re: Your cost of living is going to go up...
 

Steve,

Here is your last paragraph:

So they will hit everyone in the pocket until they brainwash enough
people into being good little gullible liberal zombies and regain and
increase their political power.

Here is my answer:

They already have. It is called an American University/College. It has been an evolution in the making before our eyes and they have won. Study Edward Bernays and you'll get a free education on how it was accomplished.

BTW, we had a cop shooting a defenseless white kid in Reno this past week at Hug High School. The 14 year old was brandishing (supposedly) 2 knives. The brave man in black reportedly had a taser and pepper spray on his belt. He elected his service weapon. I tell you this only because they also own the enforcement arm of their regime. I also disclose his race because it is important to understand another part of the narrative. Only some lives matter and it is growing increasingly important that you know which ones.

Re: Two story outhouse. Corn cobs piled high.
 

I'm thinkin' it's high time for deployment of that Sowpub "bug-out outhouse" previously discussed here.

The Trumpster has put just about everybody on notice, as his 3D (soon to be 7 or 8D) chessboard, goes into full tilt overdrive.

His next move is anybody's guess, but he's indicating regime change for more than one country. Stories of U.S., Russian and Chinese ship and troop movements, are starting to hit the news cycle.

Hoooowee!

Just picked up one of those old school desks we used to hide under in case of nuclear attack. Hope it works as well today, as it did back then.

Ron

Gerald R. Ford
 

IF we make it til then, this Fall. Gerald Ford gets commissioned, THE largest carrier ever built. Where it deploys will indicate the hotspots. My guess is the Indian Ocean.

The USS Carl Vinson cancelled leave and some ports of call and is headed toward Korea. This is where Trump could get his itchy trigger finger ready.

I think he gave China what they asked for last week, in exchange for the green light to "nuke" N. Korea, if not literally, at least figuratively.

LOOK, military arms is a global industry which at some point has to lower the stockpiles to get more demand going.

Recon forces have been called up, all this via news outlets, no secret sources or leaks, I just listen to "Jimmy's Mom" who reports his every move, and pay attention to what the US Navy is doing...not "wiretapping" anyone, just picking up news channels with my antenna.

Anyhow, the desk is only protection if you take it to a 75 year old school and put it in the hallway or the janitor's closet, the most reinforced room in the bldg. I keep one too, albeit, my big belly precludes me from getting into it, let alone under it.

Trump is making the world interesting, eh?

Gordon

I need a cold war refresher...
 

I need to find one of those too...

Then watch the "duck and cover" video, to remember how to stay safe!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

- Dien

We want to shoot the monkey before he gets that close...
 

NEXT military action, and reason for strike force Korea, will be the shooting down of a Korean test missile. Sort of the whole point to going there.

IF the Aegis systems work, it puts Korea/China on notice as well as Russia that we have the capability to shoot down missiles, Trump will test this, ASAP, mark my words.

Hope the monkey doesn't learn how to toss the dynamite from behind the tree.

Gordon

I'm glad I'm no longer in South Korea...
 

Me too!

As you know, Gordon, almost 10 years ago I spent around 4 months in South Korea, living in Seoul... (I actually lived in Gangnam, of the song "Gangnam Style"...! Gangnam is an area of Seoul...)

Whenever Kim Jong Il, who was the North Korean leader at the time, would do some sabre-rattling, all the expats (that's the Westerners) living there would freak out, and wonder if they should flee the country.

All the South Koreans, though, were used to it...

Having said that, I'm glad I'm not there now... If the USA attacks North Korea, they could send all their nuclear bombs to completely wipe out South Korea, especially Seoul (which is right next to the North Korean border).

(North Korean nuclear missiles can't reach the continental US yet, I don't think...)

Though war with Syria could easily degenerate into war with their supporter, Russia... And Russian nukes are nothing to sneeze at.

Live long and prosper!

- Dien

Just my opinion...
 

I was in Seoul too, also at Chinhae. By the way, did you pick up a health issue while there? Me thinks you did.

By late this weekend, the Carl Vinson strike force should be in position. What we want to see is the Aegis anti missile system in action.

For those out of the loop:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Combat_System

Australia uses it too. Also, Iran Air Flight 655 was a major turning point in the "hearts and minds" of the Iranian people toward USA.

Because of the 70 years of tunnel digging, and some say old coal mines, a mile deep, have been converted to storage and bunkers by N. Korea. An air strike would more likely approximate the one in Syria last week, targeting planes and fuel.

One unknown factor in the American fleet arsenal are the subs attached to the strike force. Probably a couple of them.

Although a ballistic missile launch by N. Korea isn't that great a threat, at this time, a dirty or suitcase bomb could devastate Seoul.

That and/or a sarin gas attack on Seoul, like the one in Tokyo, could have dire effects.

There are claims Russia knew about last weeks use of Sarin, could it have been a test run?

N. Korea should get our full attention, and it is a stick of dynamite which could shake the turtle right out of his shell, where he gets exposed and stands naked before the world.

A ground excursion is just as likely as an air strike.

GordonJ

Re: Your cost of living is going to go up...
 

I totally agree! It seems that some places are having the difficult time to catch up with the high cost of living. Philippines is one of them. The value of Peso went down and the high cost of commodities went up because of the increase in dollar exchange rates.