Smoking Guns wrote:

China makes shit cheap and people like cheap shit and to a degree they have kept our suppliers honest from fvcking us even harder.

I am all for cutting ties with China, but our costs will go up across the board I would imagine.

Distancing ourselves in any meaningful fashion isn’t possible. They have the precious minerals needed to make microchips and circuitry. Ours were all shut down. They make our electronics. This isn’t something that can be done at the drop of the hat. Mass processor output manufactured in the US would take years and subsidies to manifest. Trade laws and our inability to ever legislate properly something like this just makes it impractical. We design the damn things, but they’re manufactured in China.

We need China more than they need us day by day. The real threat is if China bans US exports, not if we reduce our imports.

A lot of action right around the corner...for the love of God they could spare a single.

Discovered this song on the radio about 10 years ago. It's been tossed aside as 'album filler', as it's 'the long song' opposite Sympathy For The Devil, kindof a Dylan-esque attempt which, is pretty good. Goes to show you a band like RS can have this song completely buried & unheard of anymore.