Tariffs and sky high audio prices.

@oregonpapa

I don’t believe @nonoise intended any slight toward you, maybe the person in the video (which I have yet to see if it is referenced in the link to Breitbart) but not you.

I again pose a familiar question, why is everyone so angry? Is there considerable surprise that our fellow citizens of the world are capable of dishonesty? Surely not. Politicians? Surely not. TV repairmen? Lawn services? Surely not.

If we would all commit to vote our conscience, not our self interests but our conscience, then our elected officials may begin to resemble ladies and gentlemen of character. I won’t comment on a particular politician or party, things like that can be a slippery slope. I am concerned that future elections will be decided by those casting votes who get their news and information from a single source. People, please read alot and from a broad variety of opinions. Think about what you have read and use your own intelligence to make up your own mind. You shouldn’t want Steve Bannon or Steve Jobs charting your path any more than you should want Jeff Bezos or Jeff Beck.

Donald Trump almost won the popular vote and without diving into politics at all, just observations, I was kind of surprised that America elected a president who went broke in the casino business. Do you realize how hard it is to lose when the odds are stacked in your favor? Term limits would be nice. People with good intentions on both sides of the aisle get elected and immediately they are in grave danger of experiencing a gradual but steady erosion of their character.

The main point of this post though is, if you believe you are a good person, then go do some good. Help 1 person today, help feed the hungry, mentor a child or someone less fortunate, go volunteer at a soup kitchen. Maybe it will catch on. People of character having a great day helping others become impervious to the negative schlock and bitterness that pervades. The more we give, the more value will be placed on giving and maybe, just maybe, people will begin to care less about what they are getting or entitled to.

Isn't it obvious why the prices are high and getting higher, Chinese tariffs or not ? Tariffs on European products are in the making too, as I understand. Besides steel. Corruption is the norm, lack of it should be punished and it is punished. 

I don't understand. 
My post got deleted and all I said was that I have no audio equipment from China or Mexico.
Watch this will be deleted again.
Is Audiogon becoming like Facebook/ Twitter?

ozzy

I, however, do understand why my post about Chinese Square was deleted.
I have always ignored Facebook/Twitter and intend to keep it that way.

Ozzy ... There’s just something about you that pisses them off. *lol* (jk)

gasley ... The problem with communicating as we do over the Internet is that we cannot see facial expressions, hand gestures or body language. As a result, sometimes our comments are taken in a negative way, when we were intending to be friendly, or at least passive. There was nothing in nonoise’s post that I took as offensive. Nor did I intend to offend.

nonoise ...

There are no "half-truths" in the fact that Tibetans have been ground into the ground by China. There are no half-truths about the fact that China has locked up between one and two million Muslims in internment camps. There are no half-truths that thousands of Chinese citizens were ground to death under tank tracks and shot to death in Tiananmen Square for the "crime" of peaceful protesting. Same with stealing our patents, hacking our computer systems, manipulating their currency and dumping their products.

inna ... Yes, it is obvious why prices are going up. When money is "printed" into existence and distributed throughout society, it dilutes the worth of money already in the system. This causes more money to chase fewer goods and prices to go up. The politicians blame the consumer, as the Gerald Ford administration did. I wonder if any of you guys remember Gerald Ford’s "WIN" buttons. "WIN" stood for "Whip Inflation Now." The thrust was to get consumers to stop consuming so much. *lol* Those among us who were more astute kept saying ... "consume less, hell ... stop printing money!"

But then, what do I know. I don’t even have an AA degree like nonoise does. Heck, I barely made it out of high school. My Mom considered it to be a miracle. :-)

Frank

PS: Even Adam Smith promoted a "safety net" for those less fortunate amongst us.

PPS: I second gasley’s suggestion ... READ.