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Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: Idaho
Posts: 610
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Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: Idaho
Posts: 610
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My experiences which wheelers have been great. Even when my 6112s were back ordered earlier this year. I can’t recommend them enough. One of the few places you can call, they’ll actually answer the phone, and They have knowledge to share. Those are both pretty rare commodity these days.
Everything’s screwed up in the supply chain. If they can’t tell you when it’s because they honestly don’t know.
It’s actually quite simple what’s going on. Well, if your willing to look at the global macro economy that is. Here’s a little insight as I have my best man and a to be sister in-law someday, maybe never as I think my brother and her will never get married, that are incredibly deep in the logistics world for household names around the world. Two of the biggest.
There’s basically 2 Things taking Place. At the moment. Increased purchasing from all this “stimulus money getting thrown out. When the average American can’t come up with more than $400 cash, they become Make it rain rich with an extra check in the mail by whatever payment scheme the government has at the moment. Most people aren’t sinking that money in the mutual funds, they’re spending it on whatever widget the want. Extra demand.
The other side of the coin is you are seeing what shutting down “nonessential”last year looked like. That phrase has always bothered me because it goes against the bedrock fundamentals of what a free market economy actually is. By definition everything is essential or it wouldn’t exist. So it’s shut downs, voting has consequences, and when everybody lets their HR departments run amok with a good idea fairy every five minutes and all the “safety measures“ which causes reduced through put. Then the cherry on top of the turd sandwich is A secondary effect of paying people for doing nothing is it reduces the labor pool. If that wasn’t enough, suspending all things Hippa and tossing a mandate or 2 around is further tightening the labor pool.
That’s why you can’t get your lift kit on time, your Amazon, and why your McRib won’t be back this year probably. It’s either stuck in somebody’s supply chain, they don’t have people to assemble it, they’re waiting on the oil, the place that Bends the Springs doesn’t have the metal or the guy to do it, the don’t have a truck or driver to move it, lacking forklift operators, and on and on and on.
It’s the infinity self licking ice cream cone.
I’m gonna let you on a little bit of a dirty secret too, it’s going to get worse. Cool right? Eeekk!
Romeo, wtf you mean it’s going to get worse? Well, America has developed a crack habit called Biden bucks, trump tickets and stimi checks. The second they stop dumping money by the truckload into the economy The music stops, confidence decays, and then……. If they don’t stop inducing disturbances via mandates, extra purchasing, or reduced labor pool it’s just all keeps accelerating.
Maybe we’ll get to see that $1 trillion bill like Zimbabwe did, or maybe they’ll knock a zero off currency like the Brazilians did. At at at any rate what a marvelous time to be alive. Economic theory is getting tested in real time.
Anyway, hopefully that alleviates some of your frustration by bringing a little bit of understanding to what’s going on.
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99’ Black “Highlander” sport, oak, 5VZ auto, 4.30 axle, e-lock, 265/75 Grabber X3,, Bilstein 6112 (2”) front 5160 rear shocks, OME 2906 springs, Durobumps, 4x Inovations front middle rear skid plates, 4XI square TRD tube sliders, lil skips tank skid, lotus dev RCA skids, overland custom sway bar links, Amp’d hidden winch, warn Vr Evo 10s
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