New Tariffs On Washing Machines

[jerrod6]

I read an article someplace(maybe Reuters)that said Samsung was likely to absorb some of the tariff so the price increase would be slight maybe $10 to $15 dollars. Anyway many people buy for features so if the features they want are on a machine they will buy that, and a few extra dollars will not dissuade them.

This news is now widely known so people know what is going on.

 

[askolover]

I used to work for Goldstar (LG now) in Alabama....believe me, they are very ANTI union!

 

[vacerator]

Greg,

aren't most these days?
Lucky Goldstar, made popular here by K Mart, and even the Price is Right.
Notnin' lasts forever. Excessive Greed doesn't either. People work so they can afford to live, not to be endentured servants.
I do believe the Korean labor force in Korea is mainly unionized. Autoworkers were on a short strike there last year either at GM Daewoo or Hyundai. Maybe they are here for cheaper labor?
Lech Walecza was the Polish Solidarity union leader who championed for liberation form Soviet rule. He was an electrician and union rep. at the Danzik (Gdansk) ship yard. He then became Poland's first post communist president.
The will of the people is union, and any government, or company that steals the hearts of people always fails. I think many have learned that lesson, so if they compensate workers fairly so they prosper, they have no need to organize an outside bargaining unit.
Now that all also depends on other aspects, such as the buying power of currency, inflation, unemployment, cost of living, ability to invest and save, and education.
For example, in university cities like Ann Arbor, or Morgantown W.V., the mean average income is higher than in the outlying areas, and thus so are real estate values.
It's complicated. Who knew? I'm sure you do being a nurse for a university health system. Probably better than many politicians.

 

[washman]

According to Rush Limberger and Faux News, unions are baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

 

[vacerator]

but but but,

that's not supposed to be the fake news channel, is it?

 

[washman]

dunno

all the news today seems to be fake in some form or fashion.

 

[vacerator]

Some is for sure,

not all news. Some is speculation.
Depends who it's about, and who likes or doesn't like them I guess.
Even when there were small town news papers, there were always gossip columns, and cartoons about digniatries in office or running. It's called the free press.
Wisdom is knowing when to ignore speculative news, and not call it fake because we don't agree or it doesn't agree with us.
At the end of the day, or end of the hearing or trial, the only news that matters is the findings of evidence and jury verdicts, black or red ink on the books, and the number count of actual subjects.
Also if the story is a beaten dead horse, is it new(s), or old?
Objective reporting is more difficult today. If someone pays to put out a story that isn't objective, it can lead gullible people to believe it, like the pied piper. So I like to be objective, and even listen to the opposition. The I can often read between the lines and find some truth. Know the enemy or the negative, then see through the bias.

 

[earthling177]

Here are a few key phrases for y'all to think about -- they are slightly different because they convey slightly different things.

There are more in the article the link takes you to.

But the thing they all have in common, in my opinion, its that what #45 (and a lot of his friends) really want is Pubic Relations/Advertising, *not* journalism/news.

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.”

“News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.”

1) News is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising.

2) News is something which somebody wants suppressed: all the rest is advertising

3) News is anything anybody wants to suppress; everything else is public relations.

4) Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.

“Whatever a patron desires to get published is advertising; whatever he wants to keep out of the paper is news,” is the sentiment expressed in a little framed placard on the desk of L. E. Edwardson, day city editor of the Chicago Herald and Examiner.

http://https//quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/20/news-suppress/

 

[mrsalvo]

I wonder if President Trump is going to say anything about the new tariffs in his speech State of the Union address. Anyone planning on watching it?

 

[vacerator]

Maybe until it gets

too conceited. Stormy Daniels is going to be on Jimmy Kimmel tonight.

 

[wishwash]

@superocd, I'm not saying that Whirlpool would have an issue with these tariffs. It will surely help their bottom line. My comment was directed toward those implying that Whirlpool put pressure on our government to put these tariffs in place. It doesn't seem to be that way since Whirlpool is consistently less expensive than the competition, so they are clearly able to make good money and compete without tariffs on imported machines.

 

[washman]

clarification

Faux News=Fox News.

I have some holy roller acquaintances that proclaim Fox News is the one, the only, reliable news source and any other snippet of news from any other source is to be discounted, not trusted nor believed.

 

[vacerator]

Of course they do Ben,

and that's being as biased as any of the other news sources. They don't get that equality doesn't mean identical sameness to them, their belief, values, or much else.
We are all free, which means more choices. Choices are freedom,and not forced on anyone. Their freedom of choice is as protected by the bill of rights and constitution as anyone else's is. It has never been joepardized.
Nobody is perfect, so learn to live and work together.
I've read some books; I'm Ok, you're Ok, everybody else is sick, written in the late 1960's, The Late Great planet Earth, that was an eye and a mind opener.
Talking straight by Lee Iacoca, who I idealized in my own career ethics.
He is in his 90's now, but was a conservative. If someone is smart, they are smart, regardless of their politics, but if dumb, the same goes. Two way street.
So I read between the lines, and divide what people say by their phone number, as an old friend of mine used to tell me. Now he was a real welder, and a darn good one, and I'm not just saying so because he was in my audience. I actually saw his work, and learned a bit of it myself.

 

[vacerator]

LG also

announced their new Clarksville Tn. plant before this tariff was announced.

 

[washman]

I'm ok, I think, and the Speed Queen is ok too I think. 

 

Only snag right now is my local watering holes are out of SA Winter Lager and have moved to Alpine Spring...................blech!