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20 percent tarrif on everything imported from Vietnam is about to make those Nike's a lot more expensive. Average Nike employee per Google AI makes about $200 per month. No one in the US is going to work for that wage. That's not the type of manufacturing this country needs back.

Clapper Zapper, your calculations were anything but careful... unless the intent was to be deceptive.

Thanks for clarifying that this imaginary retirement account was based upon the S&P 500. So that would provide an annual rate of return of over 12.5% rather than the much more conservative 4% I used.

And if your hypothetical retiree withdrew even the entire 4% annual distribution you cited, the account withdrawal would have been $40,000 on a $1 million balance. But you cite monthly distributions, and the March-April correction was of very short duration. So even if the retiree stayed the course of taking a monthly $3666.00 withdrawal, the total loss to their account would have been much much smaller than the deceptive $50,000 loss figure you gave.

In other words, you lied to us again. There is no other way to put it.

In addition, you and everybody else can look at performance charts for S&P 500 Index Funds over time, and see that the March-April drop was a very short and minor blip compared to the deeper and much more sustained drop in the S&P 500 that happened from 2022 to late 2024.

But of course, Joe Biden and the Democrats were in power. So we didn't hear you complaining that your shooting buddies were seeing a big decline in their retirement portfolio, and also getting killed to the tune of 20-25% by Bidenflation at the same time.

Oh yeah... I guess getting details on how you got the Audi Q7 while blood was flowing in the streets will be as hard as getting Princess SKB Stevie to tell us if he has been paying Dave the $12.00 fee for sales resulting from his/her Free Tagline Advertising.

Princess SKB Stevie, I believe most of us have figured out the answer to my question of whether you have paid Dave the $12.00 fee for each and every successful sale you have made as a result of your Free Tagline Advertising.

Your refusal to answer such a simple question speaks volumes, and tells us much about you.

This new strategy of dodging the question by saying, " I refuse to roll in the mud with a pig like you." is just another lie from you. You have "rolled in the mud" with me on a long string of subjects over the years, and continue to do so even in this Thread. Here is a very partial list of subjects where you have been so willing to "roll in the mud", that you ended up being subject to Moderation of your posts:

1) Your admission of use of lumpy degraded epoxy on your customers guns.

2) Your inability to tell feather crotch black walnut from figured thin shell walnut, even when the glaring differences were expressly pointed out on Crying Bob's gun.

3)Your frequent criticism of Donald Trump, Republicans, and Conservatives, and calling yourself an "Independent Moderate" when you show obvious bias in favor of, and support of anti-gun Democrats.

4) Your support for Demasculating of the Boy Scouts.

5) Your permitting ATF Agents to photograph your FFL Bound Ledger books during inspections

6) Your lies about Gun Control in New Zealand

7) Acceptable types of solder flux for shotgun ribs

8) Your suggestion that Mail in Ballots are secure and there was no vote fraud in 2020

9) Your dishonest support for Moderation and Censorship--- until it hit you.

10) Your disdain for Voter I.D. Laws

11) Your wearing of girl's shoes

12) The correct definition of Quartersawn Lumber

Shall I go on... and on... and on with dozens of more examples of your willingness to "roll in the mud" Princess SKB Stevie?

Anyone can see your latest ploy to avoid the simple question of whether you pay Dave the $12.00 fee for each and every sale you make as a result of your Free Tagline Advertising is nothing but a cowardly gutless dodge.

What are you afraid of Princess SKB Stevie?

Another day... another lie from Princess SKB Stevie, the Trump deranged closet Democrat!

Here's a current screenshot of U.S. Dollar Index (DXY/USDX) chart development from January 1973 to June 30, 2025

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1404145/us-dollar-index-historical-chart/



As we can clearly see, this is not the worst start since 1973. It is not as bad as the decline from Jan. to July 1978. The decline from Jan. 1985 to Nov. of 1987 was much deeper and more protracted. And the Dollar value against foreign currencies has certainly been much lower than it is currently. It has been lower than 100 for the majority of the time covered by the chart.

But Anti-Trump Princess SKB and Anti-Trump Yahoo News will make a mountain out of a molehill to denigrate him.

The Dollar value vs. foreign currencies on the FOREX is largely based upon current perceptions, unlike the real value of the Dollar as affected by inflation caused by printing $ Trillions out of thin air.

Too bad that Princess SKB Stevie, Clapper Zapper, graybeardtmm3, tut, and others won't mention the Inflation under Biden and the Democrats that destroyed at least 25% of the value of the dollar in just 4 years. Unfortunately, it would take a painful deflationary Recession to reverse that damage, and then all of these TDS Democrats and Libtards would be blaming Trump for that too.