Maybe 2025.

But Pete Buttigieg says the reason we have shortages is because Biden has does such an amazing job making the economy bounce back we are spending so much money the manufacturers and importers cant keep up. America should feel insulted. Yet these liberal (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman)es just nod and say ok sounds good.

He also wants to be a woman.

I wouldn't either.

O now be careful, Tucker Carlson got “in trouble” asking how Pete and Chasten are gonna breast feed!

That's rich. Those yahoos can twist anything around.

I find this hard to believe. I don't believe America became a nation of preppers overnight buying up everything they can find. I don't see that in the stores when I am shopping. During the TP shortage, I did indeed see people with full carts of TP but I've not noticed anything like that lately. I'm not buying more of anything than I ever do, and I am a moderate prepper. The one exception to that is ammo. Whenever I see boxes of an ammo we frequently use, I do grab a box or two.

But I do believe retail sales are up due to 2 reasons... the stimulus money burning a hole in people's pockets being one. The other is that with all the school/work closures continuing, people are just home more. If your kid ain't eating breakfast and lunch at school, you need to buy food to feed them. And if you're not working, or are working from home, it's easier to eat at home than eat out, especially if you live in a rural area.

It does seem like a truck driver shortage is at least part of the problem, which isn't surprising. When EVERYONE is begging for workers, it makes sense that truckers would leave their jobs for ones that pay as good or better than what they were making without requiring them to be away from home all the time.

It's kind of a perfect storm. People needing more groceries because they're home more due to covid, having the money to buy them due to government hand outs, not enough employees in the shipping/trucking/retail jobs to efficiently move the goods once they get here, and ACTUAL shortages of things not being produced (again likely due to covid shutdowns) kind of all combined to create this.

The only answer I see is opening the country wide open as in no shutdowns, and cutting off ALL extra government freebees (including the $300 kid credit that's still going on).

Works for for me Ang. If you want stuff hauled do away with computer logs and figure out a way to bring truck stops back so drivers can have some pleasant down time including 24 hr restaurants

Hang on this isn't going to get better as long as people are walking off their jobs over forced mandates about their health care choices.

Mandate a work requirement for people over 18 yrs of age. If you are not retired or disabled. You are required to work. Enforce that. Problem solved. Debt solved. Shortage solved. Economy back on track in 1yr. I would bet on that

Let retired folks on SS work if they want to. Who cares if they're making "too much" on SS. $18000/yr is considered "too much". If someone wants to work let them work!

One thing it has done is made the phrase “they are waiting on you” a truth making dispatchers no longer the liars they once were. lol

Don't we have enough mandates already?

The best way to fix problems is rescind laws. In fact most laws. We really only need anti theft anti assault laws.

The US is being brought DOWN to the rest of the world's standards. Be patient it takes time destroy a nation.

I fear country is in the process of coasting to a stop. May eventually hit the wall and come to a dead stop.

Just some random examples......started a few months back. A Taco Bell shut down midweek......closed and not open at all. Could not get help. Then some McDonalds closed inside........drive thru only. Was said to be Covid related, but mostly due to lack of help. Then last week, local McDonalds closed entirely.....no help to run it.

Went to two different places to eat yesterday......two different towns....both open.....drive thru only......... but both out of nearly half of food on the menu. Finally got down to what do you have?

Help wanted signs up all over.....nothing moving for lack of effort.

Strangest times I've ever lived through. People who are not working have all kinds of money to buy stuff that doesn't exist cause nobody is working.

hayday is onto something....^^.

It really a bizzarro world. Up is down and bad is good.....never have we seen large crowds chant f--- the potus. Then on the other side they will cancel you for being a white conservative..go thru your past back 50 years looking for one sentence that they can use..

Fear is their weapon and when there is no fuel/food people will be very afraid. Plus any 'event' will add to the panic/fear....natural or manmade.....like a grid down. Imagine empty food shelves, no gas and a grid down in the dead of winter...they are working on the first two, although we had achieved energy independence but that was bad, and they can cancel the grid anytime they want too.

A year ago I would have called this a crazy conspiracy theory but I'm not so sure anymore.

People who knew this a year ago were just insightful, yet today many folks will still not listen to what they are now saying....and many people still think everything is going to be fine, just look at the is America done thread.

One thing is for sure those in power now will not allow any loss in 2022, they will make sure they gain by hook or by crook. That is why they are transporting illegals in the middle of the night all over the USA on your dime.....and will support them on your dime for years to come...

They need a crisis to instill fear and dependence so they can implement the new green deal and do away with internal combustion engines. biden made an exec order that by 2030 50% of vehicles made would be electric.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/biden-sign-order-50-us-auto-sales-electric-2030/