Visit Us at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas

Visit us at the SHOT Show where we have a booth at the SHOT Show Supplier Showcase Monday and Tuesday, the 21st and 22nd at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV. If you are attending, please stop by and say hello. It would be a great pleasure to meet you and shake your hand.

Manufacturing Output Notched a Solid 1.1% Increase in December

The December numbers for industrial production were better than expected. Prior to the report, we knew that the production component of the ISM index fell in December to 54.3 and while that is still in expansion territory, it marked the slowest pace of production growth since 2016.

The 1.1% pick-up in manufacturing output was not only the fastest sequential increase in 10 months, it was more than three times larger than the scant 0.3% expected by the consensus of economic genius’. This category comprises a little less than three quarters of all industrial production and even among the various components, there was broad-based strength. Wells-Fargo

January 2019 Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey Reports Continued Growth

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia released its January 2019 Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey and reports manufacturing activity in the region continued to grow. The survey’s broad indicators remain positive though movement was mixed.

Producer prices fell 0.2% in December amid lower energy costs, core readings suggest the trend in inflation remains little changed. Wells Fargo

January 2019 Empire State Manufacturing Survey Reports Slight Growth

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released its January 2019 Empire State Manufacturing Survey and reports business activity grew slightly in New York State according to firms responding to the survey. New orders increased at a slower pace than in recent months while shipments continued to climb significantly.

The Wells Fargo Housing Market Index rose 2 points in January as a significant decline in mortgage rates helped reverse the prior two months decline.

US Raw Steel Production Was 1,891,000 Net Tons Last Week

US raw steel production was 1,891,000 net tons last week as mills operated at an ACUR of 79.8%. in the like period last year mills operated at an ACUR of 73.6%

US drill rig count remained static at 1075 units last week. Canadian drilling was 184 rigs in the most recent count.

Let Those Who Create Problems, Suffer their Consequences

Why don’t we try something new in our government: When it becomes necessary to shut the government down for political reasons, let us STOP paying our Congressmen and women and our Senators. THEY create the shutdown, let THEM cease to be paid. Why do the innocent citizens of our great country needlessly suffer for a situation which is no fault of their own? Answer: they should NOT suffer. Those who create the problem should. Better yet, instead of the excessive partisanship, why not legislate in a bi-partisan manner for the good of the country and her citizenry?

The short answer is, they cannot. These are the so called “elites” for whom it is beneficial to keep the lower classes, well, lower. They don’t want us earning or learning, more than what THEY deem necessary or appropriate.

Citizenship Question Blocked on 2020 Census

On Tuesday a Federal judge in New York (go figure) ruled that the Trump administration is not allowed to ask about citizenship in the 2020 census. WHAT??? Why not? Should we or should we not know who is here legally and who is not? Unconstitutional? What IS unconstitutional is foreigners coming here illegally and living off the backs of the American taxpayer. Fuck the liberals and the ship they came in on. They are hell bent on ruining this country.

Toxic Masculinity

Now comes…toxic masculinity…to continue the wussification of the American male. What will you do without masculinity? These liberals and leftists have lost their minds. They are hell-bent on destruction: Don’t behave like a man, pee in the girl’s room, play badminton with your girlie friends, not sure of your gender? Have your penis chopped off and replace it with a vagina…all this nonsense while they encourage women to fight on the front lines, remove their vagina and replace it with a penis, pee in the men’s room, play football, whatever. I am nearly 68 and in total horror of the America which will be left to my children and grandchildren and theirs after them. This is all morally wrong, plain and simple.

White Supremacy & Racism

White supremacy, does anyone believe it exists to the extent the left presents it? Yes, the KKK exists but they are such a minority they are almost a non-entity. The President of the United States a white supremacist? Where is there any proof of this and from where do the lies come? They conjure it up out of nowhere, from any word or action however than can twist the meaning to fit their narrative.

Racism; does it exist, yes, but, if you are listening and paying attention you know there are just as many black racists, if not more, who are quite vocal about their racist attitudes. Farrakhan, reverend Wright (Obama’s mentor), Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters. They all hate white folks… and Jews. Even the icon Lebron James, railed against the Jews only a week or so ago and then painted the NFL owners as slave owners. All this bullshit is bred and advanced by the leftists and liberals. Their agenda is to divide us, to make us weak and unable to think and do for ourselves and our families.

Now, that bitch Nancy Pelosi wants the president to delay his State of the Union Address until the shutdown is ended, saying the security is not adequate. It’s a lie like most words that come out of her mouth. Homeland Security denounced her position as bullshit, that security is more than adequate. Just a political ploy, an unsuccessful one at that. Resist, obstruct. It is all they do.

Maxine Waters (living in a $3,000,000.00 home on her meager salary) is going to target White House Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, over his previous role as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is a Democrat ally created by Obama. It should have been dismantled while the idiot Richard Cordray was running it, or not created at all. A waste of our money, and now she is going to waste more time and money on her folly against the president and his administration.

Infrastructure X (Keystone & Dakota pipelines) Regulation Reform XX 1 in 2 out
Individual Tax Reform XX Entitlement Reform
Business Tax Reform XX Education Reform X
Healthcare Reform Veterans Administration Reform X
Rebuild our Military X Trade Reform X
Secure our Borders (The Wall) XX Lead the world from the front XX
Help for the poor XX Drain the swamp X as we speak
Peace through unmatchable strength Support Israel X
Destroy ISIS XX Extreme Vetting XX
Conservative Supreme Court nominees XX American Jobs XX

I will track these campaign promises and will check them off as each is accomplished adding those I have missed as they become apparent. This is quite an agenda and will be difficult to achieve all in one term, but I believe the American people are behind him and know these things need to be done. Now, if he can get our legislators to support him instead of fighting him….

“MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”

Have a great weekend…. God bless America!

Buy American made products whenever you can, it’s good for you, good for your friends and neighbors and good for our country.

If you are hiring…try to hire a veteran…. they are loyal, disciplined, hardworking…and they deserve our support.

By the way, if you wish to comment on my rants or offer any other insights you may have, you are encouraged to email me.

TEDDY ROOSEVELT ON IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA…1907

In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag…We have room for but one language here and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”