I want to make it clear that I’m not talking about the mentally ill or people with an addiction problem.

The US has so many homeless people because we have lots of stupid people.

Let’s say someone is living in a suburban area.

A young couple. No kids.

Both are making $30 an hour. $1200 a week. Roughly $5000 a month each. $10,000 a month.

Paycheck to paycheck living. Renting an $2000 a month apartment. Order out all the time on credit cards. Pay the minimum balance. Both cars financed. Money in. Right back out. No emergency fund. Didn’t bother with the 401k at work.

After 3 years? 40k credit card debt each.

$2000 a month on each. Plus $2000 rent. Plus $1500 car payment. After tax take home is about $7000 a month.

Oops! bills exceed income. Cant run up the credit cards anymore. Theyre maxed. Time for a bankruptcy. Then somebody gets laid off from work. Fighting all the time about money. Miserable.

Then they break up. Try renting an apartment or buying a car with bad credit and a bankruptcy.

If mommy or daddy can’t let you move back in?

Congrats! You just joined the homeless.

I’ve known plenty of people that worked great jobs. Nice houses. Perfect middle class suburban lives.

Then they got out of hand with debt. Home equity loans to pay off credit cards. Then their job shutdown. Or a divorce. Or health problem.

Right out on the street.

Boy! We’re they shocked to be homeless at 55 years old.

Trump’s previous China policies were like a capricious kid playing games. One moment he did this, another moment he did that, with no consistency at all. One day he imposed tariffs, and the next day he set up some restrictions, messing up the otherwise good China-US economic and trade relations as if he was stirring up a clear pool of water with a big stick, splashing water everywhere and leaving nobody in peace.

Now look at China. China has always been steady and reliable, just like a dependable big brother. No matter how much the other side tosses and turns, China just follows its own rhythm. We focus on our own development and cooperation, wholeheartedly getting our own things done and making the lives of our people prosperous.

If Trump comes up with another set of his China policies during his new term, who knows? He might just dash around like a headless chicken again. But China has long been equipped with the ability to handle such situations. No matter how much he messes around, China will still stick to its own path, continue to expand friendly cooperation with other countries, make our economy even better, and bring more happiness to our people. Anyway, if he still acts recklessly, it’ll be him who gets dizzy and disoriented in the end. China won’t be led astray by his unreliable actions.

Trump flipped all 7 swing states and crushed Harris by a huge margin. He even took the majority of the House and Senate and the Supreme Court is all MAGA judges.

That’s the American people choice!!!!

This is what the American people want, ordinary Americans who believe that Trump can lead them to greatness again and out of the cycle of decline.

I suggest that Trump could pack up the illegals in the US in batches and send them to Israel as cannon fodder. That way Israel is not short of soldiers, and in the meantime, the US solves the illegal immigrant problem, and the Chinese don’t have to worry about chinese traitors (Taiwanese included) being repatriated back to their place of origin.

I hope this ploy will be adopted by Trump.

November 7 (2 days ago as I write this) was the anniversary of the death of a young police officer named Ryan Bonaminio. He was 28. Ryan stopped a semi tractor that *might* have been involved in a minor collision. Big rigs often unknowing get involved in minor fender benders, or accused of it, usually because of stupid moves on the part of the car. So, a “simple pull over.” When Ryan stopped the truck, the driver fled on foot and Ryan gave chase. During the chase, Ryan slipped and fell. The suspect turned around a struck Ryan in the head with a metal pipe and then took the dazed officer’s gun. Despite Ryan’s pleas not to shoot him, the man shot him twice in the head, executing him. What Ryan didn’t know about the routine stop, was that the suspect had been previously arrested 13 times, convicted of several crimes, and was on parole. The suspect’s desire not to return to prison was worth more to him than Ryan’s life. I was one of the officers assigned to document the crime scene and can still see every detail. Another officer I worked with stopped a van for driving without its headlights on. He approached the vehicle and asked the driver for his license to verify it was valid. When he returned to the van, the driver shot him in the throat. The officer didn’t know the suspect was on parole and hadn’t reported to his parole officer for a while. A parole hold was in the works but hadn’t been issued yet, so there was no want in the system. I pulled up on that scene as the paramedics were doing CPR.

There is no such thing as a routine traffic stop. There is no such thing as a “simple pull over.” Officers are killed every year on traffic stops that should have been nothing, except someone in the car had a different idea. If an officer makes a stop on their own, their beat partners will stop by if they’re in the area to make sure everything is ok, to check their back. Many times, even off-duty officers seeing a cop on a solo stop, will pull over and wait for the officer to signal that everything is good. Officers don’t have a crystal ball and even the most routine, simple traffic stop can go sideways in a heartbeat.

I am an US educated Chinese.

I used to dream about building China into a country like the US.

Not anymore. I now believe that the world deserves a better class of country than the US, and would prefer China to chart its own course.

I am never buying an Apple product, or Tesla, or Canadian products for that matter, for as long as I can help it, or when the US officially apologizes for its racist behavior.

Gifting iPhones and iPads to my wife used to be our thing even when we were just dating in university, but now Apple is effectively dead to us. She also dumped her iPhone and went with Huawei.

In 2018 I was test driving a Tesla model X but went with a Volvo Xc90 instead due to the unreasonable attacks from the US. I just won’t support a racist regime that’s keen on killing us or keeping us poor in my household.

And I will educate my children this way too.

They can make a peace by agreeing to five basic points

Border Agreements :-

A. Aksai Chin is recognized as Chinese Territory and a No Man Zone of 6000 Sq Kms is created out of the 39400 Sq Kms the Chinese occupy today

B. Arunachal Pradesh & Ladakh are Indian Territories

C. Tibet is Chinese Territory & Free Tibet Movements are deemed Separatist in India

D. India China share Brahmaputra and Arunachal Water and Power in the 40–60 Ratio based on power needs and India will receive payment from China for 50% of the water China receives (China gets only 30% water free)

E. Chinese withdraw fully from Galwan Fingers and dismantle any Infrastructure within 180 days

F. Chinese dismantle all Infrastructure in Arunachal Pradesh within 180 days

Geopolitical Agreements:-

A. China to sign a neutrality agreement to not interfere Militarily or Economically with Pakistan if Pakistan launch an offensive aggressive action against India

B. India to sign a neutrality agreement to not assist the United States and QUAD allies for any Chinese Offensive Action against Taiwan or Any Defensive Action by China against any country in the South China Sea or Sea of Japan

India may however assist it’s QUAD ALLIES in the case of any offensive action by China against Australia or South Korea or Japan

C. India not allow the US or any NATO member to use it’s territories for Military Bases on Bay of Bengal or Arabian Sea

D. China to commit to no Chinese Naval or Military Presence along the Indian Ocean Control Zone of India (Maldives & Sri Lanka) without express permission of India

E. India and China both commit to permanently not sanction each other or boycott each other for any reason apart from offensive action against each other or war against each other

F. India and China to resolve all disputes through a Dispute Resolution Committee before taking decisions on any of these clauses. No country shall take unilateral decisions on this regard

Trade Agreements :-

1. China to invest a minimum of $ 200 Billion over a period of 15 years and provide Infrastructure and Technological support to Indian Companies to partner in Areas of :-

A. Supply Chain Development

B. Skills Training for Industrial Production

C. Green Energy

D. AI

E. Robotics

2. India to offer Free Trade and Tariff Free Agreements for all imports with the exception of Steel, Iron Ore, Aluminium & Chemicals

Privacy & Security:-

A. China agrees to store all Information gained through Chinese Apps on Indian Servers operated by Indian Companies

Trade Dispute Resolution:-

A. Any and All Actions by Income Tax Department Or ED Or CBI against Chinese Investors shall be first referred to a Trade Dispute Resolution Committee comprising of both Indians and Chinese and subsequently to an Independent Group of Arbitrators

B. India shall not initiate any unilateral action against any Chinese Investor or Entity related to Trade or Business without referring the dispute to the DRC & the Independent group of Arbitrators

China will be on board with any such comprehensive agreement

India may be reluctant due to the fear of losing votes in elections

Yet it’s the only way according to me for India to develop to its fullest potential

Its a fair agreement for both sides

It’s practical – Modi takes back all territory lost under his regime and can blame congress for the 1962 loss

Are US Consumers using Foreign Brands?

Let’s see

• Iphone
• Airpods
• Ipad
• IBM
• Google
• Nike
• Microsoft
• Ford
• GM
• Starbucks
• McDonalds
• Intel

How many “Foreign Brands” do you see here?

From Boeing to Pharmaceutical Drugs to Medical Machinery to Food to Vehicles almost everything available to Americans are AMERICAN BRANDS

How many Qilu Or Mahindra or Jinma tractors do you see in Kansas or Wisconsin?

They are made overseas to make them affordable to the US Customer and bring down inflation

And to help the Corporates make profits

For every 5% Profit that China or India or Vietnam makes, the American Corporates make 18%-24%

Now Mr Syphilis wants to impose tariffs

Who suffers?

The Chinese?

Sure they lose their 5% profit

Yet the Corporates lose their 25% profits too

The US Consumers lose access to Affordable High Quality Stuff and now have access only to Expensive stuff of the same quality

In short – The Average American who paid $ 950–1200 for an Iphone will be paying $ 3,150–3400 for the same Iphone

So will Trump pass a law wherein an American who earns $ 70,000 a year now suddenly earns $ 220,000 a year?????

Nopes

That means from 60% Americans who can afford the Iphone and it’s price tag of $ 950–1200 only maybe 35% can afford the $3150–$3400 price tag

That means Apple and Qualcomm need to raise their own profits from $ 380 per iphone to $ 822 per iphone to get the same profits within US

That means the Iphone cost rises to $ 3,592 to $ 3,842

Now 35% Americans who can afford an Iphone reduces to 30%

Again to keep the same profits Apple and Qualcomm need $ 923 per phone

So again price rises to $ 4073 – $ 4,323 per piece

Consumers are f****

Apple is f*****

But sure you have maybe 60,000 US factory Jobs and people earning $ 70K a year

You know what US has become by this time???? 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

The UNITED SOVIET STATES OF AMERICA

That’s Trumps Model

To keep US workers going by raising prices insanely and forcing Corporates to become utterly uncompetitive

Sure the US will earn revenue at the cost of burying it’s economy and making it the USSA from USA

The Communists become Capitalists and the Capitalists become Communists

Trumps wants more jobs in the US?

He has to follow the China or Russia or India Model

Partly or Wholly Nationalize all the Critical Industries

• Energy
• Transport
• Defense
• Banking & Finance

Then reduce their profits from 10.7% a year to 2% a year and their share growth from 22.3% a year to 4% a year

That can get him to employ a further 850,000 employees in 5 years at $ 43,250 a head and 2.2 Million Employees in the next 12–15 years

Consumers also get prices reduced because the profit margins are low

That’s the only way

Will the Cabal allow it?

Of course they won’t

So you tell me what exactly is Donald Trump going to?

And maybe the Deep State knew this and ensured that Trumps legacy would be completely and utterly shattered from 2025–2029 and by the time he leaves office MAGA is completely dead

Without a bunch of details, I’ll share a few things that opened my eyes!

#1 – In prison I met some of the foulest, evil, sinister, hateful men your nightmares couldn’t even imagine! Men who would cut your heart out and literally eat it!

#2 – In prison I met some of the most intelligent peaceful hearted men than I’ve ever seen before or since.

#3 – Prison Guards are a “Blue Lives Gang” of their own. In every prison and jail, I’ve been to, right around half of them should be doing time themselves and are no better than the prisoners!

#4 – I’ve seen some of the most talented, skilled, artists of many mediums in prison.

#5 – Every man, woman, child incarcerated has a Government price tag on their lives. Each are at minimum worth their weight in silver to the Government, just in “Profits”, each year!

#6 – Government, Politics, Bureaucrats, Money rules this society. It also rules prisons and the life.

#7 – “Killers” look just like a Lamb. Often quiet, speaks softly, talks no smack, but will stick you with a dozen holes before you even realize what happened if you push them!

#8 – Some children or adults go into an Isolation cell and that person never comes back out. Their body still alive may walk out or get carried out, but their minds and who they were, no longer with us, never to return! For the rest of their lives, they’re doped up blobs of flesh without any comprehension of life or being human.

#9 – A little guy can walk with the stature of a man 10ft tall and a big mean looking hulk of a guy might be the biggest bitch on the yard.

#10 – Prison Guards are some of the most backstabbing, lying two faced SOBs that will set you up in heartbeat! They are this bad to each other as well as prisoners!

These are a few that opened my eyes!

You had a factory making Zenith TV Sets

To make these sets you needed another factory making valves, another making the wooden cabinet, another making the additional electronics and another making the wiring

That’s a manufacturing ecosystem

Works fine in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s

Slowly labor prices start rising

You make a valve for 17 cents in 1976 because you paid your laborers $ 3.50 an hour

In 1986, you pay them $ 7.50 an hour

So you have to sell your valve for 27 cents to keep the same profit margin

This is true of the electronics, the wiring, the cabinet and everything else

So the TV for which you once paid $ 349 and got a 18% profit now costs $ 519 and you get only a 12% profit

By 1990, the same TV costs $ 599 and you get a 6% profit

So you think you need to close down the business because your profits are low and getting lower all the time

Plus Televisions are becoming expensive despite new features

You try plastic cabinets, you try adding multiple channels, offer stereo functions but the economics doesn’t work

Then someone tells you

Look- You can go to Taiwan and they can make these Valves for 4 cents a piece instead of 30 cents and electronics for 37 Dollars a set instead of 160 dollars

You can pay them $0.80 an hour instead of $ 10

You can sell the same TV for $ 599 now and get a profit of 45%

6% Profit vs 45% Profit!!!

So the factory owner pays off his American workforce who cost him 10 bucks an hour and relocates to Taiwan and later when Taiwan becomes too expensive, to China and later to Vietnam or Mexico or India

Its Economics not Political

Shorpy

Is Singapore really expensive?

Believe it or not?

Even a person who draws $S200,000 or more a year, still can’t make ends meet in Singapore— Is Singapore really expensive? Do you want to know where I am coming from?

Please read on:-

Let me put you in a scenario that is common to the expats in Singapore.

An Asian-American family of 4, a boy1, and a girl2, from the US, arrived in Singapore. The husband got a job offered for $S100,000 per annum. They are like other Americans I knew who started with a humble lifestyle in a simple walk-up apartment or the HDB flats.

He let his wife used his company’s car to ferry the kids to and from the nursery and other classes, and they enjoyed other leisure activities during the weekends, taking the kids to the pool, like a typical expat family.

I got to meet them again after their frequent trips to Phuket. I saw the family photos on the private beach as well as in a yacht. I learned that he bought a brand new car.

Singapore’s Orchard Road is the place that draws millions of tourists who are fascinated by the sights and the crowds. It is lined with 2 Km shopping Malls with many great restuarants with international cuisines, along with pristine wide sidewalks and coordinated sleek street furniture, with skyscrapers in the background.

Always with endless spick-and-span Mercedes Benz public buses in shining red, and cool Apple green complimented with avant-garde bus stops, besides the underground MRT station at every few hundred meters. All these making living in Singapore is pretty cool— Only if one has more money to spend.

By the way, the family has already left Singapore for good after six years. I managed to catch up, before he left. He sold his new 2,000 c.c. car at a big loss, gave up his Swimming club’s membership, returned a semi-detached home he stayed.

The 2-kid bade farewell to their friends in the kindergarten and would continue their schooling in the US.

His last words: “Singapore is too expensive for my family and me. You know what, we never buy clothes here, I bought in bulks the last trip home-all from the US, they last until now., I eat Thai food, other than American and local foods. Living in the US is much cheaper, can’t imagine when the kids get into the International school here.”

His boss, a friend of mine, talked to me after he left: ”I already gave him $S17,000 a month, plus a car for his wife and a rent-free semi-D house, still not enough for his spending.”

But a Singaporean, like a young couple, a close friends of mine, working few hours a day as a piano tuner who earns $S20,000 a year will smile, with a gesture, always a V-sign- “Singapore is NOT really that expensive.”- He said that.

I wonder how he spends the money in a place like this!