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POTUS 46.10: A New Hope

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MichVandal said:
Warren has stated more than once that the tax structure is unfair- as he pays less relative tax than his assistants do. It would be better if he put some of his resources behind getting rid of the capitol gains tax structure, and just treat income like income.
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Talk is cheap; it takes (Warren-type) money to buy (tax structure reform) whiskey. And he has DC connections (see: Mr. Obama). Why hasn't Warren done more than talk and fixed this. Or does his Berkshire Hathaway CEO brain override his tax structure brain?
 
aparch said:
"Oh no. It's the consequences of my actions voting for the GOP since Reagan coming back to haunt me."
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You ever have to train senior engineers and managers to start up a new corporate tech center 11 time zones away?

Off-shoring is something I've disagreed with always. I'd rather find better, more efficient ways to do things here than be dependent on others (now the Chinese) for critical essentials.

We're in "hard lesson" time for that right now, and I fear it's going to ramp us toward "Cold War 2.0: Xi is his name, not his pronoun".
 
The Sicatoka said:
Talk is cheap; it takes (Warren-type) money to buy (tax structure reform) whiskey. And he has DC connections (see: Mr. Obama). Why hasn't Warren done more than talk and fixed this. Or does his Berkshire Hathaway CEO brain override his tax structure brain?
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Which makes me very much question the integrity of the uber rich. Seeing how the others work just amplifies that.
 
The Sicatoka said:
Talk is cheap; it takes (Warren-type) money to buy (tax structure reform) whiskey. And he has DC connections (see: Mr. Obama). Why hasn't Warren done more than talk and fixed this. Or does his Berkshire Hathaway CEO brain override his tax structure brain?
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Did Obama raise the top rate? You somehow manage to use the one example that goes against your narrative. Well done.
 
The Sicatoka said:
Off-shoring is something I've disagreed with always. I'd rather find better, more efficient ways to do things here than be dependent on others (now the Chinese) for critical essentials.
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The irony of GM parking "just-shy" built vehicles in the parking lot of a closed factory thst used to produce chips for their vehicles isn't lost on me. We do seem to be reaping the side effects of capitalism and the race to the cheapest product.
 
aparch said:
The irony of GM parking "just-shy" built vehicles in the parking lot of a closed factory thst used to produce chips for their vehicles isn't lost on me. We do seem to be reaping the side effects of capitalism and the race to the cheapest product.
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Yep, because we decided that pure capitalism is the way to go and destroyed the Government that gives us the checks, balances, and guard rails necessary for Capitalism to work properly. We never learn.
 
aparch said:
The irony of GM parking "just-shy" built vehicles in the parking lot of a closed factory thst used to produce chips for their vehicles isn't lost on me. We do seem to be reaping the side effects of capitalism and the race to the cheapest product.
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Which is to say, it's costing more to save money. Which has happened before in many industries. Short term thinking just looks at the costs of moving production, and rarely looks at risks to factor them into the overall cost. The irony is that OEM's tend to have many suppliers of the same part to avoid this very things. But sometimes they talk themselves into these risky moves.

Same thing happened in Flint- so great that we have business people trying to play real politics. The millions in savings has been more than offset in the billions in cost, which they did know was a risk.
 
MichVandal said:
Which is to say, it's costing more to save money. Which has happened before in many industries. Short term thinking just looks at the costs of moving production, and rarely looks at risks to factor them into the overall cost. The irony is that OEM's tend to have many suppliers of the same part to avoid this very things. But sometimes they talk themselves into these risky moves.

Same thing happened in Flint- so great that we have business people trying to play real politics. The millions in savings has been more than offset in the billions in cost, which they did know was a risk.
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I have found Risk Management the most important thing in any Project. And it's also the number one thing that is skipped in every project.
 
The Sicatoka said:
Or are foreign things underpriced because their workers are being thrashed on payday?
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What do you mean "or"? That is exactly what I am saying. If things like IPhones were made here the labor cost alone would cause Tim "Well I am Not As Bad As Steve Jobs At Least" Cook to raise the price astronomically or risk his stockholders revolting as the bottom line falls through the floor.
 
MichVandal said:
Which is to say, it's costing more to save money. Which has happened before in many industries.
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We were going to save so much money moving some engineering 11 time zones away.
And they we started getting their work product, and having to re-work (fix) the designs ... which always costs more.
 
Handyman said:
What do you mean "or"?
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I mean "or" as in you saying "If things were made here they would cost twice as much."

Things don't cost "twice as much"; things are underpriced elsewhere.

Put another way -- Is the real price the price to build in US or the price to build in Z. If Z price is real price, yeah, US price is "twice"; but if real price is US price, Z price is half of reality (and somebody is taking the short end of a stick).
 
ScoobyDoo said:
I think Risk Management is more important but point taken. The lack of Quality Assurance is something that should be considered during the Risk Management discussions, etc.
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I think Risk Management is more important too, but I think QA/QC gets left on the doorstep more often.

Fade: OCM is so fucked I'd never even heard the acronym before, and I've worked Change Management.
 
And PV&V is something that should happen organically as QA/QC and OCM happen.

That's why PV&V is an afterthought ... as in after the problem report calls from the field start coming in.
 
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