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I just think if we could buy direct from the manufacturer of the product we would pay wholesale price and save a bundle.

I was just pointing out that shopping has come full circle. First it was delivered to you then we drove to buy things at a store and now we are back to it being delivered. I also remember when it took '6 to 8 weeks' to be delivered(they also charged shipping and handling), UPS and Fedex were game changers in the 80's when you could get your package in 1 week. Amazon has a fleet of planes and big rig trucks not to mention warehouses all over the world, people expect things to be delivered within two days now.

The reason it took so long before the 80's was the USPS was the only game in town, they were slow as molasses.

Quote from: Romanticlover on Today at 06:57 AMTime for a history lesson...

Sears Roebuck started off as a mail order catalog in 1893, there weren't department stores back then and people could order things from the catalog and have it delivered to them. Department stores didn't take off until the 1920's and the shopping malls didn't show up until after WWII.

All of that has changed.  Shopping has changed dramatically from having to go to the store to shop at home.  In the past it would take days or even weeks of waiting for a catalog purchase to arrive. Now you can buy it today and arrives at your door step tomorrow.  I think perhaps the rapid delivery is what AMAZON Capitalize on.

Time for a history lesson...

Sears Roebuck started off as a mail order catalog in 1893, there weren't department stores back then and people could order things from the catalog and have it delivered to them. Department stores didn't take off until the 1920's and the shopping malls didn't show up until after WWII.

Some manufacturers do such as Tesla but most don't because Amazon and Walmart have the infrastructure in place(warehouses  that are setup as fulfillment centers), small manufacturers with a small workforce can let the third party FC handle all the storage and shipping.

Eight grade...walking on the "wrong" side of town...At the time I was looking for a fight...me at the time..Pool hall! Don't know what happened...no fight...I am thinking they recogonized me. And I had friends...

at the time..."they" had a lot more to lose  than me! If I "won" ... they lost all!

I was just claiming territory.

To my knowleges only twice did "others" "invade" MY BLOCK!!! Both times I was alone and it ended badly for them!

Quote from: bligslick on Today at 02:01 AMThis is THE position.  Not the unfiltered last few years of anyone from anywhere version of migration

Yet you voted AGAINST that position. Trump's model for immigration is Viktor Orban's Hungary. A few years ago Orban said this:

"It's my personal conviction that migration leads in the end to the destruction of nations and states." 

Trump doesn't want to increase legal immigration. Remember, he's the guy who said immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country."

As to his mass deportation program, he says he'll start with criminals, but he wants ALL undocumented immigrants out, and he doesn't care if some lawful residents get swept up in the process:

Quote from: Zep on Yesterday at 03:15 PMI don't want anyone here illegally.  I do want an extreme increase in legalized immigration. Our nation's population is dropping. We need more people joining the work force, paying into social security and paying taxes. We cannot sustain our current benefits with a dwindling population. 

Whether some Americans like it or not, we need more coming across the border, not less. 

This is THE position.  Not the unfiltered last few years of anyone from anywhere version of migration

From my first day on my high school campus...Even my own classmates feared for me! In less than two weeks they no longer feared for me! They called to me! I came to know the vice principal intimately...Apparently multiple students became fearfull of me! LOL! all I did was not step down! I called the bullies OUT! "take me! if you can!" No one had the balls. And at that time, very few actually knew me.

Sophomore...likely the badest ass of the class...6'2' ...we hardly crossed paths..to prove his worth he shot himself in the chest with a 22  and walked away! Still he didn't elect to cross my path. A dance we made for four years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ2j1E_hzW0

Quote from: Hobby on Yesterday at 04:51 PMBlocking our border really won't stop illegals from crossing.  The United States needs to first go into Mexico and take out, and destroy all the drug cartels. Next identify and declare corrupt officials as enemies and terrorist who have allowed cartels to operate and imprison them.  We need to take over Mexico and punish all those who break the law.  Then we move south to the next country and so on.  We give back opportunity and freedom to the good citizens of those countries.  We have the most powerful military in the world what's the point of being number one if we allow other countries to poison us?  The US can make it where people thrive and do well in their country and not want to come here. We just need to stop trying to control our border by helping people reclaim their home country. 

Aren't people complaining about Russia doing to to Ukraine?