{"id":42211,"date":"2021-05-28T12:24:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T16:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42211"},"modified":"2021-05-28T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T16:24:15","slug":"voting-with-your-feet-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42211","title":{"rendered":"Voting With Your Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Epoch Times<\/a> posted an article about the population migration that is currently taking place in America. People are fleeting states with high taxes, liberal policies, and shaky finances and coming to the southeast.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The shortages and rising price of fuel<\/a> due to the ransomware attack that temporarily halted all of the Colonial Pipeline networks were devastating to many businesses in the American Southeast. But despite the rising costs of construction<\/a> materials, business is booming for Southeastern contractors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Stephen Smith, owner of Geneva Construction\u00a0in Orlando, Florida, the $250,000 in materials he would have spent to build a home a year ago cost him around $300,000 today.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPlywood is ridiculous,\u201d Smith told The Epoch Times, describing how a 4-foot by 8-foot sheet of three-quarter-inch plywood he paid $25 for two years ago now costs him $72 to $75.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Still, Smith said his business is going strong. In fact, because of the demand for construction work in his area, he\u2019s having a hard time finding enough skilled contractors to help him keep up with his workload.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only thing that makes Smith angry is a proposal by the Commerce Department this week\u00a0to double lumber tariffs on shipments of Canadian lumber into the United States from 9 percent to 18.32 percent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat an idiotic thing to do,\u201d Smith asserted. \u201cThis is not the time to start levying tariffs on Canadian lumber. Why Biden is doing this, I have no idea, but it sure isn\u2019t helping our industry at all.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not the time to start a trade war with Canada.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Contractors are also in high demand in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. Ed Tolson, owner of Carolina Home Improvement, told The Epoch Times that prices are high but there isn\u2019t a shortage of people who are willing to pay. The challenge is getting the materials required to do the job.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou go to Lowes and Home Depot and plywood is $48 a sheet when they cost $14 a year ago. A 2\u2033 by 4\u2033 went from $2.25 to $8 each.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s also Tolson\u2019s observation that the shortages in construction materials might be due to the same phenomenon that sparked the shortages and panic-buying of fuel in the Southeast\u2014hoarding.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During a recent trip to 84 Lumber, Tolson said he saw signs posted everywhere saying there was no Oriented Strand Board (OSB) Plywood. Yet thousands of sheets of OSB Plywood could be seen stacked in the lumber yard. After speaking with a couple of the major contractors in his area, Tolson said these companies admitted they bought it all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey buy it when it comes in so they\u2019ll have it when they need it,\u201d Tolson asserted. \u201cThey\u2019re hoarding it. They buy it all up so the little guy is left with nothing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI invested in silver years ago,\u201d Tolson mused. \u201cI wish I had known then about plywood. I would have invested in plywood.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plywood has become the new toilet paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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