ECON Supply chain - Biden Is Considering Calling In The National Guard To Help

Hfcomms

EN66iq
Our Epic Supply Chain Crisis Just Hit Another Level, And Biden Is Considering Calling In The National Guard To Help
October 19, 2021 by Michael Snyder

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It is the month of October, and right now many Americans are more scared by the state of our national supply chains than by anything else. Some of the things that I am going to share with you in this article are truly frightening, and I would very much encourage you to take them seriously. Our economic infrastructure is failing on a massive scale, and officials are openly admitting that things will get even worse in the months ahead. We are in uncharted territory, because none of us has ever seen anything like this before. If our leaders cannot get this fixed, 2022 is going to be a truly nightmarish year.

Of course just last week Joe Biden gave a big speech in which he assured all of us that he was implementing measures which would soon turn things around.

Unfortunately, just like with Afghanistan, the southern border, inflation and so many other problems, our supply chain crisis has gotten even worse now that Biden is personally involved. On Tuesday, it was being reported that the number of vessels backed up off the coast of southern California has just hit a brand new record high

The nation’s largest ports shattered more records Monday as massive bottlenecks at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach continue to wreak supply chain havoc.
The Marine Exchange of Southern California reported 100 vessels berthed October 18, topping the previous record of 97 set September 19.
A single container ship can hold thousands upon thousands of enormous shipping containers, and so we are talking about a backlog of absolutely immense proportions.

It would take many months just to work through a backlog of this magnitude even if the ports in southern California were making progress in paring it down.

But instead of making progress, the backlog just continues to get even deeper.

As the supply chain crisis escalates, the Biden administration has actively been considering using the National Guard on an emergency basis…

White House officials have explored in recent weeks whether the National Guard could be deployed to help address the nation’s mounting supply chain backlog, three people with knowledge of the matter said.
The idea appears unlikely to proceed as of now, the people said, but reflects the extent to which internal administration deliberations about America’s overwhelmed supply chain have sparked outside-the-box proposals to leverage government resources to address the issue.
This is how serious things have become.

Our supply chains are in such a state of chaos that the Biden administration is actually thinking of doing something that has never been done before in American history.

Of course publicly they are still trying to put a happy face on things, but privately administration officials are really freaking out.

And things could soon get a lot worse.

Today, approximately 85 percent of all magnesium production in the world happens in China. We should have never allowed ourselves to become so dependent on China, because now we are facing a critical shortage of magnesium, and that could result in a nightmarish shortage of aluminum

The source of the shortage is China’s monopoly on global magnesium production. Production curbs of energy-intensive smelters have reduced the industrial metal’s output, resulting in dwindling stockpiles in Europe and North America.
Barclays analyst Amos Fletcher told clients in a note that “there are no substitutes for magnesium in aluminum sheet and billet production.” He warned if “magnesium supply stops,” the entire auto industry will grind to a halt.
Oh.

That is bad.

What I first read that, I just sat there stunned for a moment.

Are things really that crazy already?

Yes, they are. In fact, we are being told that magnesium reserves in Europe will be completely exhausted “at the end of November 2021 at the latest”

“It is expected that the current magnesium reserves in Germany and throughout Europe will be exhausted in a few weeks at the end of November 2021 at the latest,” the group said. “In the event of a supply bottleneck of this magnitude, there is a risk of massive production losses.”
Needless to say, it wouldn’t just be the auto industry that grinds to a halt.

Just think of how many food and beverage products come in aluminum cans.

I don’t know if I even have sufficient words to describe how serious this is.

Meanwhile, it is also being reported that we are potentially facing a propane “armageddon” this winter…

The expanding energy crisis is causing propane to rocket higher (read: here) as supplies dwindle to below seasonal levels as research firm IHS Markit Ltd. warns of “armageddon” during the Northern Hemisphere winter.
IHS analyst Edgar Ang told attendees during a virtual presentation on Tuesday that US propane inventories are at a record low and will be extremely tight as cold weather is ahead.
That isn’t good.

Millions of Americans use propane to heat their homes. So what are those millions of Americans going to do when supplies of propane run out?

If you use propane to heat your home and you don’t have a back up plan, you need to start developing one right now.

As if things weren’t bad enough already, the absurd mandates that our politicians are pushing on all of us threaten to make things far, far worse.

Let me give you just one example

Union Pacific Railroad is the latest company to board the mandatory vaccine train.

The company’s 31,000 employees across 23 states have been given just under two months to comply or face additional consequences.
We are already having enormous problems getting things transported across the country, and trains are a key part of that equation.

So what would happen if thousands upon thousands of highly experienced railroad workers are suddenly railroaded out of their jobs?

Of course similar scenarios will be playing out in industry after industry in the months ahead.

The stage is perfectly being set for so many of the things that I have been warning about, and I am entirely convinced that we will soon see extreme economic pain all across the nation.

In this sort of an economic environment, there is no way that our politicians should even be considering any sort of mandates.

But they are pushing ahead anyway, and we are all going to feel the consequences very deeply.


 

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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Oh for pete sake ... how many empty industry positions are they going to use the National Guard for? And what is the vaxx rate of the NG? Something like 50% last I read.

There aren't enough NGs to fill all the positions that are vacant and going vacant out there.
 

WalknTrot

Veteran Member
:lkick:

What in hell are the Guard guys gonna do? Sure, a few might hold legit OTR credentials, or heavy equipment operator training, but nothing to make a dent. Flipping burgers at MickeyDee's? Waiting tables at the local brewpub? Stocking grocery shelves, working at the bottling plant or pulling all-nighters at the local oil refinery?

No.
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
:lkick:

What in hell are the Guard guys gonna do? Sure, a few might hold legit OTR credentials, or heavy equipment operator training, but nothing to make a dent. Flipping burgers at MickeyDee's? Waiting tables at the local brewpub? Stocking grocery shelves or pulling all-nighters at the local oil refinery?

No.

This is all about nationalizing our food and other goods supply chain. Nothing to see here.
 

WalknTrot

Veteran Member
Beside the fact that it would be just robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Likely unrealized by the Einsteins in DC, but "Guard Guys" have real full time jobs in real life that they fit in between their guard duties. Butchers, bakers and candlestick-makers, doctors, lawyers and Indian Chiefs...but instead, they are all gonna be down at the Dollar Store now, checking out your cans of beans?

Yep...that'll work.

:lkick:
 

jward

passin' thru
I have this image of all our armed forces types unloading those containers and such coz there's actually nuclear bomb and other assorted party favours stashed inside.

..probably just the other thing tho, ticking the boxes toward nationalization. Guess runnin' round with me hair on fire will at least keep me warm this winter though, eh?
 

EMICT

Veteran Member
When I was a kid, our community of around 350,000 had a Derby refinery (fuel), a Wonder bakery, a stockyards, a Dold meat processing plant, a mill, et. al. and all input was 'local'. We still have the local resources available. It will all depend on how severe the disruptions become.
 

Hfcomms

EN66iq
Well, this should go on the weekly prep thread but just went and placed another order and this time it was about $70 for a bunch of sauce mix packets. Brown gravy, turkey, pork and chicken and then added two dozen more spaghetti sauce packets.

Going to be a lot of hungry people out there. I've got a lot of these things already and some of my sauce packets are over 15 years old but they still mix up just fine. Add a cup of water, bring to a boil and simmer to thicken. I still have several hundred pounds of Y2K rice and dry beans that were never used but beans and rice make a complete protein. The gravy makes it palatable and just add some spices.

That and I just read awhile back that McCormick [huge spice company] was having supply issues so these spice and gravy options are going to disappear as well.
 

Hfcomms

EN66iq
Found it..


McCormick CEO says 'unprecedented' demand for spices is hard to keep up with

McCormick CEO Lawrence Kurzius said supply chain disruptions are creating challenges in respect to spicing up customers’ cooking in an exclusive interview on "Cavuto: Coast to Coast" Wednesday.

"The demand for our flavor products has just been unprecedented," Kurzius said. "And this recent challenge around logistics really makes it hard to keep up with the demand."

With more people staying at home and cooking from scratch throughout the pandemic, Kurzius told FOX Business’ Neil Cavuto that McCormick saw sales jump 20% over the past two years.

Continues......

 

Garand

Veteran Member
Driving on I-70 west today in Ohio, about 1 out of 4 trucks don’t have trailers attached. Not sure how normal that is.
 

Samuel Adams

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Our Epic Supply Chain Crisis Just Hit Another Level, And Biden Is Considering Calling In The National Guard To Help
October 19, 2021 by Michael Snyder

Arizona-National-Guard-U.S.-Air-National-Guard-Photo-by-Staff-Sergeant-Kelly-Greenwell-560x374.jpg


It is the month of October, and right now many Americans are more scared by the state of our national supply chains than by anything else. Some of the things that I am going to share with you in this article are truly frightening, and I would very much encourage you to take them seriously. Our economic infrastructure is failing on a massive scale, and officials are openly admitting that things will get even worse in the months ahead. We are in uncharted territory, because none of us has ever seen anything like this before. If our leaders cannot get this fixed, 2022 is going to be a truly nightmarish year.

Of course just last week Joe Biden gave a big speech in which he assured all of us that he was implementing measures which would soon turn things around.

Unfortunately, just like with Afghanistan, the southern border, inflation and so many other problems, our supply chain crisis has gotten even worse now that Biden is personally involved. On Tuesday, it was being reported that the number of vessels backed up off the coast of southern California has just hit a brand new record high



A single container ship can hold thousands upon thousands of enormous shipping containers, and so we are talking about a backlog of absolutely immense proportions.

It would take many months just to work through a backlog of this magnitude even if the ports in southern California were making progress in paring it down.

But instead of making progress, the backlog just continues to get even deeper.

As the supply chain crisis escalates, the Biden administration has actively been considering using the National Guard on an emergency basis…



This is how serious things have become.

Our supply chains are in such a state of chaos that the Biden administration is actually thinking of doing something that has never been done before in American history.

Of course publicly they are still trying to put a happy face on things, but privately administration officials are really freaking out.

And things could soon get a lot worse.

Today, approximately 85 percent of all magnesium production in the world happens in China. We should have never allowed ourselves to become so dependent on China, because now we are facing a critical shortage of magnesium, and that could result in a nightmarish shortage of aluminum



Oh.

That is bad.

What I first read that, I just sat there stunned for a moment.

Are things really that crazy already?

Yes, they are. In fact, we are being told that magnesium reserves in Europe will be completely exhausted “at the end of November 2021 at the latest”


Needless to say, it wouldn’t just be the auto industry that grinds to a halt.

Just think of how many food and beverage products come in aluminum cans.

I don’t know if I even have sufficient words to describe how serious this is.

Meanwhile, it is also being reported that we are potentially facing a propane “armageddon” this winter…



That isn’t good.

Millions of Americans use propane to heat their homes. So what are those millions of Americans going to do when supplies of propane run out?

If you use propane to heat your home and you don’t have a back up plan, you need to start developing one right now.

As if things weren’t bad enough already, the absurd mandates that our politicians are pushing on all of us threaten to make things far, far worse.

Let me give you just one example




We are already having enormous problems getting things transported across the country, and trains are a key part of that equation.

So what would happen if thousands upon thousands of highly experienced railroad workers are suddenly railroaded out of their jobs?

Of course similar scenarios will be playing out in industry after industry in the months ahead.

The stage is perfectly being set for so many of the things that I have been warning about, and I am entirely convinced that we will soon see extreme economic pain all across the nation.

In this sort of an economic environment, there is no way that our politicians should even be considering any sort of mandates.

But they are pushing ahead anyway, and we are all going to feel the consequences very deeply.




Did you wake up this morning, only to realize that you and China Connection was related, maybe twins separated at birth ?



:hof: :hof: :hof:
 

Mprepared

Veteran Member
Well, this should go on the weekly prep thread but just went and placed another order and this time it was about $70 for a bunch of sauce mix packets. Brown gravy, turkey, pork and chicken and then added two dozen more spaghetti sauce packets.

Going to be a lot of hungry people out there. I've got a lot of these things already and some of my sauce packets are over 15 years old but they still mix up just fine. Add a cup of water, bring to a boil and simmer to thicken. I still have several hundred pounds of Y2K rice and dry beans that were never used but beans and rice make a complete protein. The gravy makes it palatable and just add some spices.

That and I just read awhile back that McCormick [huge spice company] was having supply issues so these spice and gravy options are going to disappear as well.

Good idea.
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Found it..


McCormick CEO says 'unprecedented' demand for spices is hard to keep up with

McCormick CEO Lawrence Kurzius said supply chain disruptions are creating challenges in respect to spicing up customers’ cooking in an exclusive interview on "Cavuto: Coast to Coast" Wednesday.

"The demand for our flavor products has just been unprecedented," Kurzius said. "And this recent challenge around logistics really makes it hard to keep up with the demand."

With more people staying at home and cooking from scratch throughout the pandemic, Kurzius told FOX Business’ Neil Cavuto that McCormick saw sales jump 20% over the past two years.

Continues......


Not surprised in the least actually, what I am surprised at is that this didn't happen sooner. A lot of folks are still working from home and are cooking and eating more at home today than they were even a year ago, let alone two years ago.

Couple this with all of the online cooking courses, and the tv cooking shows and well... they should have seen this coming and should have prepared accordingly.

I've been telling people for the better part of 18 months now to stock up on salt and pepper and other basic spices. Canning spices and salt are also in short supply.
 

The Snack Artist

Membership Revoked
joey will eff this up more than he already has. I'm calling out my friends and family and telling them they own this sh*t. Not making a lot of friends. But you know what? They need to be called to account! Did you vote for biden? Then you own this. That's what I'm preaching today and for all time.

They own this debacle of a moron. I just posted on a group thread about the new 4 star joey appointed. Because he's a tranny. No other reason. They own this and we need to get in their face about it! Do it! They did it to us about everything Trump did. Which was improve the country dramatically.
 

Capt. Eddie

Veteran Member
Driving on I-70 west today in Ohio, about 1 out of 4 trucks don’t have trailers attached. Not sure how normal that is.
I noticed the same thing on I-29 in western Iowa last week. I would guess that since it caught both our attention it is not normal, otherwise we would not have thought anything of it.
 

Hfcomms

EN66iq
Did you wake up this morning, only to realize that you and China Connection was related, maybe twins separated at birth ?



:hof: :hof: :hof:


You prep so you don't have to;

:hof::hof::hof:

The people that don't prep and haven't seen this coming are going to;

:hof::hof::hof::hof::hof::hof::hof::hof::hof::hof::hof::hof::hof::hof::hof::hof::hof::hof:

One has to look at things the way that they are and not the way they hope them to be.
 

summerthyme

Administrator
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Oh for pete sake ... how many empty industry positions are they going to use the National Guard for? And what is the vaxx rate of the NG? Something like 50% last I read.

There aren't enough NGs to fill all the positions that are vacant and going vacant out there.
Not to mention, Guardsmen ALREADY HAVE JOBS..that they'll have to leave to help out. This is the most ridiculous idea yet!

Summerthyme
 

jward

passin' thru
Instead of reminding the cray cray karens and Kens that they own this debacle, it might be safer to spend your time talking about the logistics of bringing manufacturing home, pointing out those meat processors who just raised 300k to start new plants, what your locale has- and doesn't- where u might find the capital and tools to start up something- even teaching your kids how to take apart "things" and rebuild them...

..with any luck this will work to our good and leave us more robust and better set than ever..
 

bracketquant

Veteran Member
The constant mention of the National Guard to help in various situations, is to get the people conditioned to their presence in every day life. THEN the state and federal governments will say, the NG will protect you with their gov issued weapons. Kindly turn yours in, as you no longer need them.
 

Hfcomms

EN66iq
Archie Bunker on the Democrats;

 

Wiley

Membership Revoked
He has the national guard covering all his massive Ef-ups.... from being nurses, doctors, guards for the Capitol building to now being glorified stock boys. Ridiculous use of them. Wish they would all turn on biden and the rest of DC.
 

The Snack Artist

Membership Revoked
Instead of reminding the cray cray karens and Kens that they own this debacle, it might be safer to spend your time talking about the logistics of bringing manufacturing home, pointing out those meat processors who just raised 300k to start new plants, what your locale has- and doesn't- where u might find the capital and tools to start up something- even teaching your kids how to take apart "things" and rebuild them...

..with any luck this will work to our good and leave us more robust and better set than ever..
Already done my friend. I pushed the mantra as my kids were growing up to be of standard to be a leader because we were going to need leaders from their generation. They are all solid citizens.
 

Josie

Has No Life - Lives on TB
joey will eff this up more than he already has. I'm calling out my friends and family and telling them they own this sh*t. Not making a lot of friends. But you know what? They need to be called to account! Did you vote for biden? Then you own this. That's what I'm preaching today and for all time.

They own this debacle of a moron. I just posted on a group thread about the new 4 star joey appointed. Because he's a tranny. No other reason. They own this and we need to get in their face about it! Do it! They did it to us about everything Trump did. Which was improve the country dramatically.
But hey...he doesn't post mean tweets!
 

Josie

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Driving on I-70 west today in Ohio, about 1 out of 4 trucks don’t have trailers attached. Not sure how normal that is.
I drove from Indy west on I-70 on Sunday. The semi to car ratio was about 1/1 and there were a lot of trucks pulling trailers that must have been empty or close to it because the trailers were bouncing around like ping pong balls.
 

ohiohippie

Veteran Member
Driving on I-70 west today in Ohio, about 1 out of 4 trucks don’t have trailers attached. Not sure how normal that is.
I-70 is a very busy Interstate with semi’s.
I try not to drive I-70 from Columbus to Wheeling. It seems to have more semi’s than vehicles. They fly and no not what a speed limit is.
No trailers would be strange anywhere in Ohio.
Very rare unless new Kenworth’s were being delivered out of Chillicothe.
We live in crazy times. Perhaps it’s the “new norm.”
*sigh
 

Bps1691

Veteran Member
Oh for pete sake ... how many empty industry positions are they going to use the National Guard for? And what is the vaxx rate of the NG? Something like 50% last I read.

There aren't enough NGs to fill all the positions that are vacant and going vacant out there.
Not to mention that the vast majority of them actually have other lives and jobs as civilians, so every one they assign to the Blundering Biden's new fill in jobs, just removes them from what they would normally be doing it just moves the hole to somewhere else.

These demon-crats are only good at destroying everything they touch.
 
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