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So you are saying that your $10,000 investment would be over a 42 year period? You do of course realize that that comes up to like $4.58 per week invested for 42 years. And you are saying that $4.58 a week for 42 years would be worth $800,000.00?
I agree that your initial investment of $10,000.00 in 1980 would now be worth $800,000.00 and probably even higher. But, you will have to explain to me how $4.58 a week over 42 years will be worth $800,000.00. Remember to talk slow so this ‘ole simple minded Arkansan can understand it.
I see in your post, you are in fact, talking a bit slow? Did you ever go to Walmart and get those new teeth?
 
Used to be common benefits I remember when my grandfather retired from IL Bell in 1984 he had paid health insurance through retirement and a pension with cost of living increases. Then CEO's in the 80s came out with the 401scam save for your own retirement and pay for your own health insurance.
401-K is that YOU control & NOT the Greedy Union is better than the Union going broke pension and plus you can give it to your kids after your gone , unlike Union pension where your kids get none , they get it all .
 
Not to get a financial argument going, but if I remember correctly, you could get crazy returns on interest rates for CD’s back in the day as well. Not the case nowadays. Same situation for a 401k today as well. Unless you have a company match for a certain percentage of your 401k, they are pretty much useless when it comes to saving for the future. Unfortunately, most young people are not concerned with saving for the future until later in their careers. So I would dare to guess that most people in a driving or any other blue collar job have a 401K that they have contributed to for more than 25 years. Let alone 40 plus years like you are suggesting.
Healthcare is another area that young people ignore early on until a tragedy occurs and they then realize a supplemental plan would have been a good idea. Once the tragedy occurs, it is too late and you are out-of-pocket for thousands if not hundreds of thousands.
That is why I am thankful for the pension and healthcare provided by the collective bargaining agreement that I work under. I may not bring home as much at the end of the week as my friend that works for his employer with no company provided pension and little to no healthcare. But, at least I know that when a tragedy strikes or I am ready to retire, I am better off than most.
His financial argument goes something like this:
You put every minute of a day in forever. And he invests $2.
He's the boss and owns you.
You get nothing.
He gets everything.
 
No employee, Teamster or otherwise, ever gets ripped off if he is paid the agreed to rate for the work he performs.
Your argument is foolish. If you think you should be paid by the volume of freight on a trailer, I guess being paid the same rate for empties as for loads should be addressed.
No.
Our rate now is just for showing up. Driving or not.
Higher rates should apply to bigger trailers and rig jobs.
Doubles pay double.
Triples, triple, 53's should pay at least 25% more.

Uline pays $24/hr to start in their DC.
Nonunion. Distributin center work. Not driving trucks.
 
Distribution is now our skilled labor....the low level labor for globalists who sell in cohoots with Communist China. Shelf stockers. .
Not our product but theirs.

When you quit viewing the market at a thing for your people, and start viewing your people as secondary to the market......and you do that thru mental games and government influence.....then your country is on its way out...or already gone
 
Not to get a financial argument going, but if I remember correctly, you could get crazy returns on interest rates for CD’s back in the day as well. Not the case nowadays. Same situation for a 401k today as well. Unless you have a company match for a certain percentage of your 401k, they are pretty much useless when it comes to saving for the future. Unfortunately, most young people are not concerned with saving for the future until later in their careers. So I would dare to guess that most people in a driving or any other blue collar job have a 401K that they have contributed to for more than 25 years. Let alone 40 plus years like you are suggesting.
Healthcare is another area that young people ignore early on until a tragedy occurs and they then realize a supplemental plan would have been a good idea. Once the tragedy occurs, it is too late and you are out-of-pocket for thousands if not hundreds of thousands.
That is why I am thankful for the pension and healthcare provided by the collective bargaining agreement that I work under. I may not bring home as much at the end of the week as my friend that works for his employer with no company provided pension and little to no healthcare. But, at least I know that when a tragedy strikes or I am ready to retire, I am better off than most.
You may be better than some, but how much squirrel gravy do you have stashed?
And yes, I remember getting 16 or 17 % on CDs
 
Distribution is now our skilled labor....the low level labor for globalists who sell in cohoots with Communist China. Shelf stockers. .
Not our product but theirs.

When you quit viewing the market at a thing for your people, and start viewing your people as secondary to the market......and you do that thru mental games and government influence.....then your country is on its way out...or already gone
You obviously don't understand markets. The market is neither a "thing" for or secondary to people. The market is people. It is the consumer (people) who drive the market. Capitalism works because the consumer controls the market with purchasing power. Consumers demand quality products and services at a reasonable price. Producers and service providers must compete for customer dollars. Socialist/Communist/government control of the markets results in inferior and overpriced products and services. For example, farm subsidies like price supports and land set asides raise the cost of food. Regulated airlines increased the cost of travel. Regulated trucking increased the cost of transportation.
 
You obviously don't understand markets. The market is neither a "thing" for or secondary to people. The market is people. It is the consumer (people) who drive the market. Capitalism works because the consumer controls the market with purchasing power. Consumers demand quality products and services at a reasonable price. Producers and service providers must compete for customer dollars. Socialist/Communist/government control of the markets results in inferior and overpriced products and services. For example, farm subsidies like price supports and land set asides raise the cost of food. Regulated airlines increased the cost of travel. Regulated trucking increased the cost of transportation.
It's manipulated.
 
Tariffs and physical local,state and national borders are like cell walls. You can add morals to that list...religion.
Tariffs are value added taxes paid by consumers to subsidize industry that should be allowed to fail if they cannot compete in a global economy.
Where exactly are those physical borders between states and cities? I haven't seen any barbed wire or walls.
Religion? By that I'm assuming you mean Christianity not religion.
Most locals never care about nor visit the world. The businessman wants to own and control the whole thing.
Worldwide commerce does indeed control much of our lives. Commerce provides all the goods, services and jobs that keep our economy and our family prosperous. I'm not sure who you think the "businessman" is. Every participating member of society is in business. Business is production and production requires labor at all levels.
He brings in everything to destroy people who get in his way.
He brings rural to urban, 53's and doubles and triples and 102 wides, he brings product from other nations, he brings people from other nations, he wants no regulation nor any kind of borders because he wants to own the world.
Trucks do not destroy people. If you believe that, you should advocate for horse drawn wagons and the railroads of the 19th century. Thanks for products from other nations because we have no rubber for those truck tires, and I like bananas. Might I point out that countries that trade with each other don't shoot at each other.
 
When you remove tariffs and the jobs all leave.
You give up the jobs and put taxpayers in the position to pay higher taxes to subsidize the now needed socialist programs to take care of the people who lost their jobs. And their areas which formerly had tax income to take care of their areas and states.
The workers here competing must then also take concessions to compete if they even can. Less tax to be collected.
More socialist need.
Less available taxable income.

Tairrofs removed....puts tax on the product at the store.

So Americans take a double whammy.

Only globalist corporations make out on the deal...the tariffs and good pay they had to pay are all removed when they move......and it is all shoved off onto Americans.

A sham.

The price NEVER comes down.
This product at this time goes from fitty to eighty-fi cents.......after jobs were cut...automation brought in....foreign and state competition brought in...deregulations imposed.......prices never go down.

A good reminder as to what can happen when you pis* of the wrong person. 5 grand of damages for a .50 can of soda. Priceless. von.
 
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