I will starve the warmongers!! pic.twitter.com/eQcpe6AdSD
— TRUMP ARMY (@TRUMP_ARMY_) November 12, 2024
I will starve the warmongers!! pic.twitter.com/eQcpe6AdSD
— TRUMP ARMY (@TRUMP_ARMY_) November 12, 2024
I’ll issue Putin an ultimatum.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 11, 2024
End the war in 24 hours or I’ll supply Ukraine with its Taurus Missiles,”
says German Chancellor Candidate Merz. pic.twitter.com/7aMbUWsqUr
boognish_bear said:Mike Waltz, Trump's new pick for National Security Adviser, has been an early and passionate critic of Biden's policy on Ukraine. His criticism is that Biden hasn't escalated the war quickly and aggressively enough. From my interview with him in July 2022: https://t.co/f3desRUS6Z pic.twitter.com/6h46XbwXvc
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 12, 2024
when your deficits exceed your growth rate, growth actually is "near zero." (or worse).Sam Lowry said:
4% GDP growth obviously isn't "near zero."
I think you're just churning out as much propaganda as you can now in hopes that something or anything will distract from Kiev's ongoing retreat.
BREAKING:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 12, 2024
North Korea ratifies defense treaty with Russia.
The mutual defense treaty commits both nations to come to each other's aid in the event of an armed attack.
The treaty could be used to justify a large Russian-North Korean attack against Ukrainian positions in Kursk pic.twitter.com/cTN29S4DE1
Waltz is a solid choice. He understands that handing Ukraine on a platter to Russia is a spectacularly bad outcome for the USA.Redbrickbear said:boognish_bear said:Mike Waltz, Trump's new pick for National Security Adviser, has been an early and passionate critic of Biden's policy on Ukraine. His criticism is that Biden hasn't escalated the war quickly and aggressively enough. From my interview with him in July 2022: https://t.co/f3desRUS6Z pic.twitter.com/6h46XbwXvc
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 12, 2024
Their full-year deficit is less than half that (1.7%).whiterock said:when your deficits exceed your growth rate, growth actually is "near zero." (or worse).Sam Lowry said:
4% GDP growth obviously isn't "near zero."
I think you're just churning out as much propaganda as you can now in hopes that something or anything will distract from Kiev's ongoing retreat.
The Taliban will attend the UN's COP29 climate summit in Baku.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 12, 2024
They've previously attempted to attend but were denied due to lack of intl. recognition.
The Taliban will have observer status. They can participate in side discussions and hold meetings, but won’t have full rights pic.twitter.com/rafavVMXmr
They are spending 40% of GDP on wartime this coming fiscal year, and are about to layoff 400k govt employees (many of which will likely get to don a new govt uniform). Inflation is in the 20+% range and rising quickly. They are not in a good spot right now.Sam Lowry said:Their full-year deficit is less than half that (1.7%).whiterock said:when your deficits exceed your growth rate, growth actually is "near zero." (or worse).Sam Lowry said:
4% GDP growth obviously isn't "near zero."
I think you're just churning out as much propaganda as you can now in hopes that something or anything will distract from Kiev's ongoing retreat.
Inflation is currently 8.5% per annum and falling.trey3216 said:They are spending 40% of GDP on wartime this coming fiscal year, and are about to layoff 400k govt employees (many of which will likely get to don a new govt uniform). Inflation is in the 20+% range and rising quickly. They are not in a good spot right now.Sam Lowry said:Their full-year deficit is less than half that (1.7%).whiterock said:when your deficits exceed your growth rate, growth actually is "near zero." (or worse).Sam Lowry said:
4% GDP growth obviously isn't "near zero."
I think you're just churning out as much propaganda as you can now in hopes that something or anything will distract from Kiev's ongoing retreat.
with borrowing.....Sam Lowry said:Their full-year deficit is less than half that (1.7%).whiterock said:when your deficits exceed your growth rate, growth actually is "near zero." (or worse).Sam Lowry said:
4% GDP growth obviously isn't "near zero."
I think you're just churning out as much propaganda as you can now in hopes that something or anything will distract from Kiev's ongoing retreat.
Of course that much is true. What you don't realize is that the Russians have won the war of attrition. They can force victory on their own terms in relatively short order.whiterock said:with borrowing.....Sam Lowry said:Their full-year deficit is less than half that (1.7%).whiterock said:when your deficits exceed your growth rate, growth actually is "near zero." (or worse).Sam Lowry said:
4% GDP growth obviously isn't "near zero."
I think you're just churning out as much propaganda as you can now in hopes that something or anything will distract from Kiev's ongoing retreat.
if the data is remotely accurate.....
no nation can mobilize for war forever. It's a losing proposition....dumping so much labor, resources, and capital into a fundamentally destructive activity. Sure, you get a flush of economic growth on the front end, but if you can't find victory, you inexorably start dealing with escalating problems with maintaining labor, resources, and capital. And the end of the war is not the end of the pain. The demobilization is as big of a challenge as the mobilization itself....massive, immediate redirection of resources. Economic hardships almost always follow, even for the victor. WWII is a great example.....
Sam Lowry said:What you don't realize is that the Russians have won the war of attrition. They can force victory on their own terms in relatively short order.whiterock said:with borrowing.....Sam Lowry said:Their full-year deficit is less than half that (1.7%).whiterock said:when your deficits exceed your growth rate, growth actually is "near zero." (or worse).Sam Lowry said:
4% GDP growth obviously isn't "near zero."
I think you're just churning out as much propaganda as you can now in hopes that something or anything will distract from Kiev's ongoing retreat.
if the data is remotely accurate.....
no nation can mobilize for war forever. It's a losing proposition....dumping so much labor, resources, and capital into a fundamentally destructive activity. Sure, you get a flush of economic growth on the front end, but if you can't find victory, you inexorably start dealing with escalating problems with maintaining labor, resources, and capital. And the end of the war is not the end of the pain. The demobilization is as big of a challenge as the mobilization itself....massive, immediate redirection of resources. Economic hardships almost always follow, even for the victor. WWII is a great example.....
boognish_bear said:The Taliban will attend the UN's COP29 climate summit in Baku.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 12, 2024
They've previously attempted to attend but were denied due to lack of intl. recognition.
The Taliban will have observer status. They can participate in side discussions and hold meetings, but won’t have full rights pic.twitter.com/rafavVMXmr
How many “qualified” people with “strong resumes” did it take to pull this off? pic.twitter.com/KYX0wuksZp
— Lafayette Lee (@Partisan_O) November 13, 2024
Russia will be lucky to exit with a Pyrrhic victory.Sam Lowry said:Of course that much is true. What you don't realize is that the Russians have won the war of attrition. They can force victory on their own terms in relatively short order.whiterock said:with borrowing.....Sam Lowry said:Their full-year deficit is less than half that (1.7%).whiterock said:when your deficits exceed your growth rate, growth actually is "near zero." (or worse).Sam Lowry said:
4% GDP growth obviously isn't "near zero."
I think you're just churning out as much propaganda as you can now in hopes that something or anything will distract from Kiev's ongoing retreat.
if the data is remotely accurate.....
no nation can mobilize for war forever. It's a losing proposition....dumping so much labor, resources, and capital into a fundamentally destructive activity. Sure, you get a flush of economic growth on the front end, but if you can't find victory, you inexorably start dealing with escalating problems with maintaining labor, resources, and capital. And the end of the war is not the end of the pain. The demobilization is as big of a challenge as the mobilization itself....massive, immediate redirection of resources. Economic hardships almost always follow, even for the victor. WWII is a great example.....
lol.....only if NATO throws in the towel. And that's not gonna happen.Sam Lowry said:Of course that much is true. What you don't realize is that the Russians have won the war of attrition. They can force victory on their own terms in relatively short order.whiterock said:with borrowing.....Sam Lowry said:Their full-year deficit is less than half that (1.7%).whiterock said:when your deficits exceed your growth rate, growth actually is "near zero." (or worse).Sam Lowry said:
4% GDP growth obviously isn't "near zero."
I think you're just churning out as much propaganda as you can now in hopes that something or anything will distract from Kiev's ongoing retreat.
if the data is remotely accurate.....
no nation can mobilize for war forever. It's a losing proposition....dumping so much labor, resources, and capital into a fundamentally destructive activity. Sure, you get a flush of economic growth on the front end, but if you can't find victory, you inexorably start dealing with escalating problems with maintaining labor, resources, and capital. And the end of the war is not the end of the pain. The demobilization is as big of a challenge as the mobilization itself....massive, immediate redirection of resources. Economic hardships almost always follow, even for the victor. WWII is a great example.....
ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
You don't have to tell me. I've been saying it for some time that we can't do here what is done elsewhere from a manufacturing perspective. It's why outsourcing has occurred. To put it in perspective, China and India graduate well over 1 million engineers every year. The U.S. graduates around 100,000. And people wonder why we need to import skilled labor. There's a fundamental shift that has to occur in the American workforce for us to compete from America vs through America.The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
ATL Bear said:You don't have to tell me. I've been saying it for some time that we can't do here what is done elsewhere from a manufacturing perspective. It's why outsourcing has occurred. To put it in perspective, China and India graduate well over 1 million engineers every year. The U.S. graduates around 100,000. And people wonder why we need to import skilled labor. There's a fundamental shift that has to occur in the American workforce for us to compete from America vs through America.The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
Because the government pays for those jobs??? Our top doctors make PLENTTTTTYYYYYY of $$.....engineers and scientists, too.The_barBEARian said:ATL Bear said:You don't have to tell me. I've been saying it for some time that we can't do here what is done elsewhere from a manufacturing perspective. It's why outsourcing has occurred. To put it in perspective, China and India graduate well over 1 million engineers every year. The U.S. graduates around 100,000. And people wonder why we need to import skilled labor. There's a fundamental shift that has to occur in the American workforce for us to compete from America vs through America.The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
For once we agree.
Instead of wasting billions of dollars on failed proxy wars, use that money to increase the salaries of our top doctors, scientists, and engineers and incentivize young people into pursuing those careers.
trey3216 said:Because the government pays for those jobs??? Our top doctors make PLENTTTTTYYYYYY of $$.....engineers and scientists, too.The_barBEARian said:ATL Bear said:You don't have to tell me. I've been saying it for some time that we can't do here what is done elsewhere from a manufacturing perspective. It's why outsourcing has occurred. To put it in perspective, China and India graduate well over 1 million engineers every year. The U.S. graduates around 100,000. And people wonder why we need to import skilled labor. There's a fundamental shift that has to occur in the American workforce for us to compete from America vs through America.The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
For once we agree.
Instead of wasting billions of dollars on failed proxy wars, use that money to increase the salaries of our top doctors, scientists, and engineers and incentivize young people into pursuing those careers.
ATL Bear said:You don't have to tell me. I've been saying it for some time that we can't do here what is done elsewhere from a manufacturing perspective. It's why outsourcing has occurred. To put it in perspective, China and India graduate well over 1 million engineers every year. The U.S. graduates around 100,000. And people wonder why we need to import skilled labor. There's a fundamental shift that has to occur in the American workforce for us to compete from America vs through America.The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
Even if it's 30-50% the differential is astounding and emanates from educational focus, purpose and outcomes.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:You don't have to tell me. I've been saying it for some time that we can't do here what is done elsewhere from a manufacturing perspective. It's why outsourcing has occurred. To put it in perspective, China and India graduate well over 1 million engineers every year. The U.S. graduates around 100,000. And people wonder why we need to import skilled labor. There's a fundamental shift that has to occur in the American workforce for us to compete from America vs through America.The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
How much fraud do you think comes with that number?
There are quite a lot of articles out there about Chinese diploma mills and the cheating that goes on
(india as well)
It's not a compensation issue.The_barBEARian said:ATL Bear said:You don't have to tell me. I've been saying it for some time that we can't do here what is done elsewhere from a manufacturing perspective. It's why outsourcing has occurred. To put it in perspective, China and India graduate well over 1 million engineers every year. The U.S. graduates around 100,000. And people wonder why we need to import skilled labor. There's a fundamental shift that has to occur in the American workforce for us to compete from America vs through America.The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
For once we agree.
Instead of wasting billions of dollars on failed proxy wars, use that money to increase the salaries of our top doctors, scientists, and engineers and incentivize young people into pursuing those careers.
ATL Bear said:It's not a compensation issue.The_barBEARian said:ATL Bear said:You don't have to tell me. I've been saying it for some time that we can't do here what is done elsewhere from a manufacturing perspective. It's why outsourcing has occurred. To put it in perspective, China and India graduate well over 1 million engineers every year. The U.S. graduates around 100,000. And people wonder why we need to import skilled labor. There's a fundamental shift that has to occur in the American workforce for us to compete from America vs through America.The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
For once we agree.
Instead of wasting billions of dollars on failed proxy wars, use that money to increase the salaries of our top doctors, scientists, and engineers and incentivize young people into pursuing those careers.
ATL Bear said:Even if it's 30-50% the differential is astounding and emanates from educational focus, purpose and outcomes.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:You don't have to tell me. I've been saying it for some time that we can't do here what is done elsewhere from a manufacturing perspective. It's why outsourcing has occurred. To put it in perspective, China and India graduate well over 1 million engineers every year. The U.S. graduates around 100,000. And people wonder why we need to import skilled labor. There's a fundamental shift that has to occur in the American workforce for us to compete from America vs through America.The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
How much fraud do you think comes with that number?
There are quite a lot of articles out there about Chinese diploma mills and the cheating that goes on
(india as well)
Look at Bar_Bearian. Always wanting Big Govt Big Handouts....so long as they are to him.The_barBEARian said:ATL Bear said:It's not a compensation issue.The_barBEARian said:ATL Bear said:You don't have to tell me. I've been saying it for some time that we can't do here what is done elsewhere from a manufacturing perspective. It's why outsourcing has occurred. To put it in perspective, China and India graduate well over 1 million engineers every year. The U.S. graduates around 100,000. And people wonder why we need to import skilled labor. There's a fundamental shift that has to occur in the American workforce for us to compete from America vs through America.The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
For once we agree.
Instead of wasting billions of dollars on failed proxy wars, use that money to increase the salaries of our top doctors, scientists, and engineers and incentivize young people into pursuing those careers.
And your moment of clarity has passed... doctors, scientists, and engineers are underpaid for the value they bring to society. If you have never worked in STEM you dont know what you are talking about.
trey3216 said:Look at Bar_Bearian. Always wanting Big Govt Big Handouts....so long as they are to him.The_barBEARian said:ATL Bear said:It's not a compensation issue.The_barBEARian said:ATL Bear said:You don't have to tell me. I've been saying it for some time that we can't do here what is done elsewhere from a manufacturing perspective. It's why outsourcing has occurred. To put it in perspective, China and India graduate well over 1 million engineers every year. The U.S. graduates around 100,000. And people wonder why we need to import skilled labor. There's a fundamental shift that has to occur in the American workforce for us to compete from America vs through America.The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
For once we agree.
Instead of wasting billions of dollars on failed proxy wars, use that money to increase the salaries of our top doctors, scientists, and engineers and incentivize young people into pursuing those careers.
And your moment of clarity has passed... doctors, scientists, and engineers are underpaid for the value they bring to society. If you have never worked in STEM you dont know what you are talking about.
I know quite a few surgeons, doctors, engineers and other STEM oriented folks that get paid quite handsomely, with very little coming from government (outside of contractually obligated stuff from Medicaid/Medicare...which none of them want to deal with since they make less money off that) .
So once again, you just show your ass about small government. You don't want small government. You want big government that makes you the safe space. You want government that selects you and not all "those other people."
Sorry buddy. Keep banging away at the data entry that all the medical doctors do so you can get your paychecks like everyone else does.
You really have no idea what you're talking about. The simplest example is in 2 areas. First, countries with more socialized medicine (government involvement) have lower earnings for physicians, surgeons, specialists, etc. Second, healthcare payments and reimbursement rates are driven down by Medicare/Medicaid and hospitals, surgeons, physicians, etc. struggle for profitability unless they have a healthy private payer, private insurance revenue stream.The_barBEARian said:trey3216 said:Look at Bar_Bearian. Always wanting Big Govt Big Handouts....so long as they are to him.The_barBEARian said:ATL Bear said:It's not a compensation issue.The_barBEARian said:ATL Bear said:You don't have to tell me. I've been saying it for some time that we can't do here what is done elsewhere from a manufacturing perspective. It's why outsourcing has occurred. To put it in perspective, China and India graduate well over 1 million engineers every year. The U.S. graduates around 100,000. And people wonder why we need to import skilled labor. There's a fundamental shift that has to occur in the American workforce for us to compete from America vs through America.The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
For once we agree.
Instead of wasting billions of dollars on failed proxy wars, use that money to increase the salaries of our top doctors, scientists, and engineers and incentivize young people into pursuing those careers.
And your moment of clarity has passed... doctors, scientists, and engineers are underpaid for the value they bring to society. If you have never worked in STEM you dont know what you are talking about.
I know quite a few surgeons, doctors, engineers and other STEM oriented folks that get paid quite handsomely, with very little coming from government (outside of contractually obligated stuff from Medicaid/Medicare...which none of them want to deal with since they make less money off that) .
So once again, you just show your ass about small government. You don't want small government. You want big government that makes you the safe space. You want government that selects you and not all "those other people."
Sorry buddy. Keep banging away at the data entry that all the medical doctors do so you can get your paychecks like everyone else does.
Of course there are, but the majority are compensated either directly or indirectly by the government.
Over 50% of a typical hospital's patient volume are on Medicare.
NIH spends $50 billion on grants for medical research every year.
The biggest civil engineering firms and defense contractors work on government contracts.
Utility and Energy companies receive government subsidies.
I want a small government but I also want a sensible government.
I would be in favor of the government subsidizing the industrial sector to bring foundaries and steel mills to the US or spending money on GMP and GLP compliant manufacturing facilities and laboratories to resecure our drug supply chain.
The CHIPS act is a sensible idea, but going back to what ATL_Bear said, there is a gap between the supply curve and the demand curve when it comes to qualified workers with the technical abilities to run these facilities and typically we address this gap in a capitalist economy with wage growth and higher salaries.
America doesnt need any more lawyers or finance guys. We have a surplus.
Only if you think the U.S. doesn't suffer from a similar "fraud" and under qualified degree programs, such as the vast number of "online" engineering degrees .Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:Even if it's 30-50% the differential is astounding and emanates from educational focus, purpose and outcomes.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:You don't have to tell me. I've been saying it for some time that we can't do here what is done elsewhere from a manufacturing perspective. It's why outsourcing has occurred. To put it in perspective, China and India graduate well over 1 million engineers every year. The U.S. graduates around 100,000. And people wonder why we need to import skilled labor. There's a fundamental shift that has to occur in the American workforce for us to compete from America vs through America.The_barBEARian said:Sound a lot like 2024 America.ATL Bear said:The USSR's labor issues were cultural and skill based not the shortage issue they have today. My comment was simply a problematic workforce.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
Putin's Russia is getting closer to the Soviet economic dilemmas that crashed it. Defense spending outpacing social spending, rising deficits with increased borrowing costs, inflationary pressures, and a problematic labor force. An unintended weapon Trump will likely initiate is further energy deregulation resulting in lower oil and gas prices (that Russia is already discounting to avoid sanctions) which will put more and more pressure on Russian tax revenues, which are now becoming the primary funding source vs energy.
Meanwhile China is running a debt trap operation on them since the West is sanctioned from buying Russian debt.
I don't think the USSR had that particular problem:
"The crude birth rate in the Soviet Union in 1989 was 17.6 per 1,000 people. The average population of the USSR in 1989 was 286,731,000"
"The USSR had a Fertility rate of 2.3 in 1978-79"
They were doing ok-ish on the population stuff....there was a workforce to replace the elderly aging out.
But the modern Russian Federation certainly does have that problem:
[Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.46 children per woman, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population levels.
In the first six months of 2024, Russia's birth rate was the lowest it's been in 25 years. In June, the number of births fell below 100,000 for the first time
Russia's population is aging rapidly due to a number of factors, including low fertility and a high mortality rate
The natural population declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021 (the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths over a period). The natural death rate in January 2020, 2021, and 2022 have each been nearly double the natural birth rate.]
TSMC officials claimed the plant they built in Arizona was having problems because the American workforce was too stupid and lazy to develop the technical expertise required to manufacture their semi-conductors.
How much fraud do you think comes with that number?
There are quite a lot of articles out there about Chinese diploma mills and the cheating that goes on
(india as well)
If 50% of their degrees are BS..And if China does have 1.3 billion people
While the USA has 330 million
Then America is not that far off on producing engineers
If anything it's China under producing with its large population