Strange Mud
Autocross Champion
ibtl
8
Used Car Prices Keep Getting More Shocking
- Thread starter The Fed
- Start date
GTIfan99
Autocross Champion
What do you want the president to do to fix supply chain issues in a capitalist country?
shovelhd
Autocross Champion
dtfd
Autocross Champion
Meow meow. Meow Meow Meow Meow, Meow Meow. Meow Meow Meow. Meow. Meow Meow Meow Meow. It's the fault of whatever politician is opposite my tribe because it's much simpler to blame a person/party rather than take the time to understand both parties have allowed corporate tax rates, infrastructure, education, etc to be where they currently are. Meow meow meow. Meow meow. Meow meow meow meow meow.
Used car prices do be crazy though. Good point OP.
Used car prices do be crazy though. Good point OP.
uberdot
Autocross Champion
I hate both, but gearheads and car guys ironically seem to be Bidenites so it’s more fun to poke at him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nineeightyone
Autocross Champion
Meow meow, meow meow meow meowmeow. Meow meow meow.
gixxerfool
Autocross Champion
I managed to land my R in November 2020 before the spike. I got a fair deal on it. The fact I can sell it for the same money if not more is insanity.
Daks
Autocross Champion
He'll CPO the sticker.
JC_451
Autocross Champion
Sweet meow-mix throw in!
JC_451
Autocross Champion
kyLman
Go Kart Champion
You say capitalist country like the administration is unable to influence our economy. When we are dependent on other countries for our integral components to create home-made products, we're in for a hurting. Especially when the main country of supply for semi's....view us as a threat/ future opponent.
The government acts as a blunt tool, to push business the right direction. It's not meant as a tool of precision (why socialism and communism wont work). Some of the dull tools that our democratic republic of a government can use are:
1) subsidies to incentivize business decisions that impacts our ability to create GDP
2) impose market regulations to further influence business decisions, especially when pertaining to staying domestic versus moving HQ abroad.
Now, if you're asking what the short term solutions is to this mess... I don't know. But I do have an opinion like everyone else. Control the thing we can control: drill our own gas, less reliance from foreign nations, etc. Not only will this impact the now, it'll also impact us for when the next Chinese influenced pandemic hits. (sarcasm on the last part.)
uberdot
Autocross Champion
Everything was Bush, Obama and Trump’s fault when in office and it was the universally accepted paradigm. Why is anything so different with this Resident?
GTIfan99
Autocross Champion
There are certainly things that all previous presidents have responsibility for, Reagan selling weapons to Iran, HW's admin gave Saddam approval to invade Kuwait, Clinton decimated our military capabilities, GW the war on terror mess, Obama made a m mess in Syria and Ukraine, Trump is the dumbest human to ever hold the office and is responsible for driving the GOP into the toilet. Biden, is certainly responsible for things in his control,
but again, what exactly do you want any president to do to ease the private market supply chain, private market corporations?
You're what about ism is just a BS strawman argument to deflect from the fact that Biden has very little control over supply chains and free market pressures.
GTIfan99
Autocross Champion
Got it, you want Biden to fix the supply chain, but mentioned nothing that would actually fix the supply chain.
The US government doesn't drill oil, private companies do, they do drill for oil, barrels/day have almost recovered to pre pandemic levels, those companies export a lot of the oil, doesn't really matter though, because oil is a commodity.
Americans lack of understanding of basic economic issues is why we can't fix things. Don't look up.