"Volvo has reduced its hiring plans at its new assembly plant in Charleston, South Carolina, due to increased tariffs from President Donald Trump’s trade dispute with China.
Volvo global CEO Håkan Samuelsson told USA TODAY in an interview Wednesday at the Los Angeles Auto Show that the company had throttled its South Carolina expansion plans.
Originally, Volvo planned to hire 1,500 workers at the plant by the end of 2018 and 4,000 within a few years. Samuelsson didn't specify precisely how those figures would change.
The Chinese-owned Swedish brand opened the $1.1 billion plant earlier this year – its first U.S. factory – with plans to make vehicles there for the U.S., Europe and China.
But after China hiked U.S. vehicle import tariffs from 25 to 40 percent in a dispute with Trump, those plans went awry."
The arrest of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's CEO in Canada, and the imminent extradition to the United States is about to cause the stock market to slide, and now the latest reports are that EVERYTHING from shampoo to toilet paper is about to cost a lot more.
You Trump supporters don't seem to understand that we have a fucking IDIOT in office.
Ian Lewis
Make America Broke Again
Jeremiah Martin
This is John Ortiz-Keyhoe
In 1996, he strangled a teenaged girl, chopped her up into pieces, burned her body, and dumped her ashes all across Michigan….
He was sentenced to life in prison, and after sentencing, he laughed at the jury.
Now he's in prison, making Tweets, making YouTube videos, using Facebook to beg for money, complaining about having to eat Ramen Noodles.
In 37 minutes, I'm going to call Warden Chapman at the prison and inform him of Mr. Ortiz-Keyhoe's use of cellphones from within the prison walls.
Yes because corporations make bad deals and the tariff lowering in the 70s and 90s was about selling out america. They do not give two shits about americans. They only care about making americans slaves and you are worried about short term higher prices?
Tariff lowering was about destroying domestic production and destroying the middle class. You fucking globalist communist piece of shit.
William Cook
After the arrest of the Huawei CEO, the stock market is sliding today, and China is about to lash out at America, raising tariffs…
Dominic Cook
We don't need them they need us. They need our welfare money. They are a apathetic people. Who manipulates the stock market? china? No thats globalist bankers that push communism. Cry me a river about stock prices when its literally a scam.
We are paying more for defective low quality products from china over time then paying for high quality products up front in america. Things are cheaper but cost over there lifetime MORE to maintain because its cheaply made.
Tariff lowering did nothing to help americans. Fuck china.
Aaron Rivera
Lol enjoy paying twice as much for toilet paper and shampoo, genius.
Austin Lewis
THAN*
Nicholas Walker
I've never taken complicated economics advice from someone who's too lazy to teach themselves the difference between THEN and THAN.
Cooper Gomez
and you CANNOT blame your refusal to teach yourself basic one syllable words on your past, or on an education system, or on life's circumstances.
It's up to YOU to teach yourself.
If you weren't lazy, you could sit down right now and teach yourself how to differentiate between THEN & THAN, YOUR & YOU'RE, THERE THEIR & THEY'RE.
it would only take you 5 minutes tops to drill these words into your head forever.
But instead, you choose to sit in Zig Forums.
Kayden Ramirez
but I'm NOT insulting you
I'm actually on your side
I like you
Landon Parker
The way I see it, your biggest problem is in your PACKAGING.
you don't seem to understand how to package things, how to market your product…………….
if you want to persuade people you need to package your message
if your goal is to demonstrate an intelligent outlook on life, not being able to spell simple one syllable words defeats the purpose……………………
If you got somebody a gold watch, you don't want to wrap the box with used toilet paper
Alexander Allen
if you want people to follow your 'life advice', you don't want to present yourself as someone who let his life become a self imposed prison of fear………………
Bentley Sanchez
if you want people to click on links, you shouldn't overwhelm them by posting 35 links at a time
that makes it mathematically improbable that they'll even click on even ONE of the links
Isaiah Williams
to market your product, whatever product it may be, you'll want to make people actually WANT the product……………
Ian Edwards
if you want to convince people to follow your example, and to make modifications to their lives……………………………… you shouldn't present an image of a man who has lost his ability to be happy due to his addiction to paranoia and fear……………….
Xavier Hernandez
Hey faggot boomer, I would gladly pay double for shampoo and toilet paper if it meant America fucked off from the world trade network. Unlike your kind I actually give a shit about my people and the lives they're able to lead. Fuck your lolbertarian "people are just economic units to be assfucked into oblivion" philosophy.
Chase Mitchell
MARKETING 101
present an image of something your audience will actually DESIRE
Jack Flores
it's not like you have any choice in the matter
in fact, they never asked your permission
because your opinions don't matter, and your permission is not required
Chase Clark
oh, and by the way…………
Congratulations on the 'spelling your & they're correctly' achievement
Alexander Clark
THIS. When we manufactured products in the USA they were much better quality, but they cost more too. Didn't mean people didn't buy the products, in fact the whole world used to buy our products because we made THE BEST QUALITY products out there.
I still have an old 60s Maytag manual washer that works. I wouldn't mind taking a picture of that, btw.
Dylan Anderson
(whispers)
"psssst! Hey you… Yeah, YOU!"
they've been economically assfucking you into oblivion since the day you were born
and your parents before you
and their parents before them
Jonathan Parker
people also used to dress in suits and ties every day
and they used to hold doors open for little old ladies, and they said "thankyou" and "yes ma'am" and "no sir"
but the world changed
and it's not coming back
Juan Gonzalez
I've got my kids and my wife AND my mother all waiting to see the toasters today……
I already told you that my father had a collection of antique and retro toasters
so it's really important to my family, and I told them you'd have photos to share today.
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please don't disappoint them on this Christmas season. They're counting on you
Josiah Miller
Q: who changed the Made In USA thing?
A: politicians & businessmen
……..wow……….
I just realized that Caveman Trump is a businessman turned politician…
Not very good at either role But he's both nevertheless
lol @ how he's actually HURTING our economy
Parker Gutierrez
the White House pumps out brainwashing press release propaganda, claiming our economy has grown stronger, that unemployment is down, that our military is stronger, that other nations respect us more, that North Korea is bowing down to us, etc etc etc
B U L L S H I T
I have seen ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF of any of those claims, and in fact, it appears to be the exact opposite.
but sheeple will believe whatever they WANT to believe, no matter what
My mother is crying. She came all the way over to my apartment special to see your photos of the toasters.
wow
Luke Stewart
DUDE, that was really stupid expecting me to dig through all my stuff, especially opening up unopened boxes and taking these things out without needing to use them yet. I told you many times they are a major hassle to find, let alone opening them up just to take pictures and re-wrapping them and putting them back.
I said I'd be willing to take a photo of the Hamilton toaster that my bother gave me (when he was done using it) because that one is simply laying around in a closet. I'll take a photo of that, but I CANNOT guarantee I can find the others because they could be anywhere, whether in the storage room, or stacked in my garage (which is filled up), or wherever. I have TONS of old electronics stashed away.
Aiden Nelson
If I take a photo of the used Hamilton toaster will you be satisfied for now?
Lucas Hernandez
Thank-you for reminding me !!
I forgot to call Warden Willis Chapman of the Thumb Correctional Facility in Michigan to report John Ortiz-Keyhoe for using cellphones in prison to solicit commissary funds.
Thankyou
BRB
Dylan Turner
dude, my mother is 87 years old
this meant a lot to her
Charles Thomas
(she's a good Christian woman)
Eli Taylor
OK, hold on a couple minutes, I got a pic of the used Hamilton toaster + something else that she WILL REMEMBER (its vintage now, and it still works!) Must convert to PNG and transfer…. I'll be back on soon….
Brody Sanders
Don't forget the .exif data! Can't be having all that now, can we?
Lucas Collins
Exactly, working on it. This is why it gets me disgruntled, every pic takes about 30min to finally post knowing everything is legit and safe (+conversion and transfer time).
Brayden Jones
My mother is smiling now. Thank-you
Get the other ones out of their boxes too
Christian Powell
This is the used Hamilton, I should have cleaned it a bit before tossing into a fucking closet!
My mother just said "your father didn't collect vintage washers. I want to see more toasters"
Parker Ortiz
mom wants to know if that's an old Hamilton Beach 31401 Stainless Steel 4 Slice ?
Easton Martinez
I don't "collect" anything, neither did my father. I have older backup electronics because I prefer them to the newer ones.
This took me time to do so you guys should be happy with this.
I have no clue, all I know is its somewhat new (maybe 5 or 6 years old now) and my brother handed it to me because 1) he got a new toaster and 2) he knows I store older backup electronics.
Levi Richardson
PS: my brother thinks I'm a "kook" just like you guys. So he said one day "hey, if we ever get something new, we'll be willing to give you our older used stuff" and I said "I'll take a look at it, maybe I'll want it, maybe not."
Wyatt Brooks
She's smiling. I'm printing out the photo of the old Hamilton. She's finally happy.
She's telling my kids stories about dads collection. She says she doesn't mind waiting for the other photos. She'll be here for a couple more hours
Cooper James
She's smiling. I'm printing out the photo of the old Hamilton. She's finally happy.
She's telling my kids stories about dads collection. She says she doesn't mind waiting for the other photos. She'll be here for a c
Cameron Clark
If I knew exactly where these backup toasters were and could easily access them, I'd give her pics of ALL of them. The fact is Johnny, sorry, I don't know and I am not spending a whole day or two digging through all my crap. Note that I have boxes stacked to the fucking ceiling everywhere around my house. Its a dump, although I don't hold onto trash, only older valuables.
Lucas Smith
Killcen…………….
PAY ATTENTION: I do not think you're a kook
Charles Evans
it'll be worth it
Christopher Perry
...
Brody Reyes
street lights
Cooper Moore
Be happy with what you have, I never took pics for anyone but for you before on any image boards. You're lucky I took my time to do all this.
Maybe sometime, if you accept this, I'll take some time to post a pic of something else thats old (like my coffee machine or something thats around here in the open).
Jose Moore
Will you post a pic of your willy for me, if I say Pretty Please?
Not Johnny, but I feel bad about you having to spend so much time doing something as simple as stripping .exif data from photos. I know you're running an older GNU / Linux distro, but not sure which one, so I will give you a few ideas..
Now, this next link may only have one tool that will be useful for you.. GIMP. If you're not already aquainted with it, you should be. You can not only change the filetypes but you can get rid of the .exif data too..
I know you don't like learning new things or fucking around with your computer, but sometimes it can save a lot of time to learn a new technique. My distro already comes with tools for this, like MAT. Most do. Look up your distro and what tools it has either with it, or available. And get BRAVE Browser. I told you how. It's easy as fuck!
Carson Miller
Wendy thinks you should give the cat an Asian name
Really, and I just took another look to no prevail. I don't know where those old toasters are, and note that they are still in their boxes unused, so I would think I would see them. They have to be buried amongst tons of other old stuff (which is NOT unusual around here).
Although, I did find an older crock pot from the 60s or possibly 70s. If you want a pic of that, I could do that for you later sometime.
Ryder Hall
Pleeze do not cook the cat in the crockpot.. Wendy said "Crackpot Cat", not "Crockpot Cat"..
Jack Gomez
You're probably not going to believe this, but after I clicked on your post oh, I completely forgot what I was going to say.
Aaron Jackson
I just remembered what I was going to say… I'll tell you later
avail*
Brody Gray
I think that crock pot may have been handed down to me when I was younger, don't remember. I've always held onto stuff over the years. Very rarely will I ever buy something new (and if it is newer, it can't be digitized if its an appliance or I won't buy it). This rules out about 80% of the crap sold in modern stores today unfortunately.
Julian Foster
And now hes running Volvo.
Bentley Hernandez
Actually, I don't think the Crock-Pot will do me any good right now because my mother is very upset and she went into the bathroom and I hear her crying right now so I'm going to have to try to console her
Lucas Williams
Tell her I'm sorry as much as you are, you should have listened to me before though, I warned you I don't know where everything is! I hoard older stuff, I got stuff stacked to the fucking ceilings all over the place, all along the walls, corners and every closet including my fucking garage is packed. You have no idea the time it would take to look through all this stuff, and then to put it all back!
Jack Lewis
she says she'll wait. she'll be here until 4
Ayden Turner
By my estimation, about 20 minutes ago Warden Willis Chapman called inmate John Ortiz-Keyhoe into his office, and told him about my phone call, and put an end to Mr. Ortiz-Keyhoe's internet activities
Tyler Gomez
All I can say is this: the toasters have are not all that important, I have 3 or 4 extra old toasters somewhere around all the clutter.
However, I found an old crock pot, I have older radios, I have an old 50s flashlight if she wanted to see that, I have an old camera from the 50s (don't have any bulbs for it though). I have an old coffee machine from the late 70s. Blah blah. I could take a few pics of those, if you PROMISE to stop making a big deal about a few old lost toasters.
Jaxon Flores
not that important? try telling that to my mother
Nathaniel Mitchell
How the fuck is he gonna run Volvo now you've done that?
Owen Scott
Did you tell your mother these toasters are basically lost and buried somewhere under tons clutter and would be a MASSIVE hassle for me to try to find? I kinda regret not being more organized after all of this to tell you the truth.
Jaxson Brown
dude, she's 87 and in a wheelchair
this was supposed to be her moment in the sun, where she got to reconnect with memories from the past.
My daughter just told me "dad, your friend is cruel. this was supposed to be our Christmas family time"
She and my son are totally pissed at me now
Wyatt Myers
I'm speechless right now
Michael Baker
I never once said to you I'd be able to find them, I said I'd try my best which I did. I did look through some stuff, to no avail so far.
The problem here is you PROMISED someone something, expecting the other person to 100% do all the work, without any clarification that I could actually get that done.
That is what is shocking.
Oliver Sullivan
Fuck it, I'll look again, someplace else. It will take me a while, but I'll do the best I fucking can. You have to wait a damn while and be patient……
Jaxon Reyes
This is what happens when the Chinese buy a company. In the west the shareholders would be able to remove the guy from his position at Volvo, if hes in prison for murder?
Lucas Sanders
My mother just wheeled herself out of the bathroom, and she wants to know if you have either a KitchenAid 4 Slice Metal Toaster from before 1990, or a 4 Slice Countdown Leverless Toaster by Cuisinart ?
Robert Adams
I apologize. It appears that I got us both into this Jam, and I'm very appreciative that you're going to get us both out of it… I'll make up for it somehow
Easton Reed
my thoughts exactly
Gavin Morris
As if you needed any further proof that this is the end of the world….
Justin Timberlake has become a fake Lumberjack Hipster
*puts gun in mouth*
Brody Perry
...
Samuel Bailey
I finally found one of them, an older kMix stainless steel toaster! It's still in the package so I got a pic of that. This will have to do, because there is no way I'm digging through more than I already had to find this one.
ONCE I POST THIS PIC, THATS IT FOR TODAY. DON'T LIKE IT, TOO BAD!
Luke Green
...
John Torres
Save the pic for tomorrow. My son and daughter just drove mom back home.
She'll be back here tomorrow
Juan Edwards
Alright…. here it is, I'm guessing this is early 2000s so its not too old, but not "new" either. Could not find the older ones.
If you downloaded the pic just show her it yourself tomorrow. PS: I think the few other older toasters I have must be buried pretty well because over time I stack stuff into newer boxes and place them ontop of the older ones, so all the really old stuff tends to be down and beneath a whole pile of other supplies. Its also stupid that most of these boxes were never labeled, so I'd have to literally dig through them for hours to find what I'm looking for.
I don't think they call people like me "hoarders…… I think they call us "pack rats."
Luis Phillips
I've never called you a hoarder
never
Justin Anderson
well, it's a good thing that we got to address this problem