What happened to the secondary market?

[Fuj]

It was meant to be a comment on the double mindedness of the entire situation. My personal feeling is that we should not be doing business with communists of any kind. Yet we are... How did that happen? Is my question... Enemy one second and number one trade partner the next. American houses are literally filled with Chinese everything... It certainly is very double minded.

Nixon (R) went to China. then Ford (R) followed suit. Kissinger was in the middle
of all this.....Two Republican presidents and a U.S. diplomat shook hands with the
communists, and here we are to today.

 

[Gary in MD]

Our political leaders and big business sold out the American people to the Chinese and other foreign governments. The political leaders and big business owners lined their pockets with money from those foreign governments.

 

[TonyinKY]

When I was young my father managed a shoe manufacturing business in our local town. He had started as a construction worker on the building, got a job there when the plant opened, worked up to a maintenance man, then as foreman before becoming the plant manager. It was the biggest employer and the largest building in the county.

Oversee imports put that company out of business in the late 70’s. He then went to work in construction demolition with my uncle. 10 years later a construction accident broke his back and it was YEARS before he received a disability check. My older brother and I covered the family expenses which included two younger brothers up until then.

Today MOST things are imports because they’re the only option. And I see people on disability who don’t have physical limitations. Hell, I know a guy who draws disability on his back and runs demolition cars and operates a garage behind his house.

I teach my daughter to have self control, work hard and save money for hard times. She’s 21 and says she saving $300-400 a week. I hope she never sees hard times but something tells me lots of people eventually will.

 

[Dr. Jay]

It looks to me like every one wants ne w price for their used stuff !!!!

 

[TC260]

She’s 21 and says she saving $300-400 a week. I hope she never sees hard times but something tells me lots of people eventually will.

Preparing for hard times like she’s doing goes a long way towards preventing hard times. She’ll have stuff happen but being able to weather the financial side of the storms is a huge weight off a person’s shoulders.

 

[urbanrifleman]

Our political leaders and big business sold out the American people to the Chinese and other foreign governments. The political leaders and big business owners lined their pockets with money from those foreign governments.

The elephant in the room is so big you basically can't walk around it in the room any more. It's all elephant. Yet people say "what elephant?"

 

[chop house]

I've just about quit going to the local gun shows since 90% of the vendors are selling AR or AR accessories.

ditto... but let's not forget the jerky, sunglasses, macrame.

and, i even stopped my flea market forays because of all the cheap cheesy chineseum household 'goods'.

 

[urbanrifleman]

ditto... but let's not forget the jerky, sunglasses, macrame.

and, i even stopped my flea market forays because of all the cheap cheesy chineseum household 'goods'.

Mr. Wannamaker never allowed the flea market vendors. His son dropped that rule.

Honestly,the entire economy is suffering from what I have dubbed "the COVID recoil". Americans across the nation saw price gouging as just good business, (prices for everything skyrocketed because of the "shortages" don't you know--umm yah). So, now that all the supply chains could have more than easily caught up, companies and individuals still think their items are worth state of emergency prices.