trump's tariffs trip up the all-American RV industry [these dick heads still support trump]

[yortsed snacilbuper]

“The tariff price increases are what tipped the RV business — it started the landslide, no question,” said Tom Bond, the materials and purchasing manager at Adnik Manufacturing, an Elkhart-based division of Norco Industries that has been hit with higher costs on metals it uses to make components such as seat frames.

Sitting in an office near the front of the Adnik factory, Bond and Ronald Dick, the company’s brand manager, spent an hour griping about the speed and scope of their materials costs increases. And yet, like many in this region that strongly supported Trump’s election, they often added the caveat that they support the larger goal of the tariffs to protect U.S. factories from unfair foreign competition.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trumps-tariffs-trip-up-the-all-american-rv-industry/ar-AAEvISd?ocid=spartanntp

[PJMcK]

1. They really don't understand their business, do they? (n/t)

[cos dem]

2. I've discovered a lot of "business" people are pretty piss-poor at business.

This includes highly paid CEOs, who are also overwhelmingly weird sociopaths.

[Historic NY]

3. So they doing worse now than ever....

obviously they learned nothing from 2008-09 when many just closed up including the industries top high end names.

[D_Master81]

5. I live in Elkhart county

Very few if any learned a thing. After the recession people were training for other professions, as soon as the economy rebounded they all headed back to the trailer factories. This county is back to where it was, all the help Obama tried to provide has been pissed away and if the RV industry takes a dump again, this county will be right back to 20+% unemployment.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

6. Diversification is a good thing

Hillary offered the Coal Miners trade school, the idiots went with trump and now are out of work with no training to qualify for a job?

[no_hypocrisy]

4. It's easy to explain: they want it both ways.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Seems unlikely the coming recession is going to boost sales, either...