The only contribution our Government had in this current(and all of the previous ones) ammo shortage is the restrictions placed on imported Russian ammo. This didn't even take place till last September, which was already more than a year into the current shortage. This will affect about 20% of the ammo that used to be available for sale in the U.S. for a minimum of 12 months. As I tried to point out in my previous post....the blame lies on us, the American Public. In 2020 alone, 8.5 million people bought a gun(or multiple guns) for the first time in their life. If they were lucky enough to find ammo and bought just 2 boxes of factory ammo, that would be 17 million boxes of ammo off the shelves that would have been left otherwise.....and then there are the hoarders and the Bannic buyers, on top of those of us who would like no more than we used to shoot. Again, the stimulus did what it was supposed to do...stimulate folks into buying American made products to get Americans back to work. Problem is, we don't have enough folks that want to work. This is why I have no problem paying folks a living wage. If folks get up and go to work 5 days a week, contribute positively to the American economy and culture, they should be able to afford to live above what is considered the "poverty level".....period. They should have health insurance for them and their family. If they do this for a substantial portion of their life, they should be able to retire at a reasonable age without the fear of loosing their home, if for chance they get sick. If there are legitimate reasons they can't work, then I have no problem with them receiving benefits that will reasonably support them. It's folks that live off the "system" I have issues with.....and it's just not those receiving welfare. It's those folks with more money than they know what to do with, that pay nuttin' in taxes. IMHO, that's just another form of "welfare".
Oh, I'm with you brother on that. At 68 years f age, I still work full time, even tho I don't have to. Will have worked another 10 hours of OT come next paycheck. I have worked full time since I was 13 years old, back in the day when there was no restrictions on how much a school age child could work. Coming from a poor family, if I wanted new clothes and a car to drive when I turned 16, I had to find the monies myself. It was that way for most of us back then. Not anymore. I was lucky enough to afford a $500 car to drive to school so I could leave early to go to work to pay for it. drive by the High School parking lot today and you see nuttin' but $30,000 cars and $50,000 trucks/Jeeps and SUVs. None of which the students driving them paid a nickle for. They walk from their car to the school with a $1300 phone in the back pocket of their $120 jeans(with holes in both knees) and complain because mom wouldn't give them monies to get take out from the Chinese restaurant today....and God forbid they have to eat the "free" hot lunch(yes, hot lunch and breakfast is free to every student in the U.S.). Instead of taking the free lunch and filling their water bottle at the bubbler, they use the debit card dad gave them to buy a bag of $2 chips and a $2 bottle of water at the vending machine in the Commons. They can't work after school and on weekends because they have sports, don't you know. They have no work ethics or any appreciable value of money. This is the workforce we are looking at for the future. Good luck to them.