The financial punditry class are befuddled, confused and perplexed. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics released the November jobs report [data here] showing a six figure miss from expectations. Economists were expecting around 535,000 additional jobs; however, the U.S. added only 210,000 jobs according to the new data.
The situation itself is not that difficult to understand when you look at Main Street. However, so many of the professional punditry class are confused because they only focus on the Wall Street economy, their only prism of reference for the last several decades.
Americans are preparing, cutting back and hunkering down from the Hurricane that is Joe Biden’s inflation.
Inside the jobs numbers, you will note the areas where consumer spending contraction first hits: retail, luxury, leisure and hospitality, is the area where November employment was flat or jobs were lost. DUH!
The ‘retail sector‘ lost 20,000 jobs in November. Think about that. What usually happens in November? People are hired to handle holiday seasonal shopping…. but they weren’t… why not? The professional economic punditry cannot figure it out, so they avoid those questions entirely. Those questions hold the key to unlocking the understanding. Does the “pretending not to know things” ring familiar?
The damn jobs report is simply reflecting how Main Street USA workers, consumers, spenders and survivors live when gasoline, energy and food costs necessarily skyrocket. The November employment results are a reflection of the blue collar prepper mindset. This is not hard to figure out. As long as inflation continues to hit items that cannot be avoided, at a level that is two to five times the rate of wage growth, decisions are made that are based on checkbook economics.
The cognitive dissonance is quite remarkable look:
(Via MSM) – The employment situation last month wasn’t what experts expected. There were only 210,000 nonfarm payroll jobs added in November, coming in below the median estimate of 550,000 from economists surveyed by Bloomberg. This comes after October’s gain of over half a million, at 546,000.
Employment in leisure and hospitality was struck hard by the pandemic, and has been slowly making its way back. The industry still has a lot of ground to make up; it’s 1.3 million below pre-pandemic employment, as hiring dramatically slowed last month.
After two months of job gains of over 100,000, leisure and hospitality saw a gain of just 23,000. Instead, leading the way in November’s gains was the professional and business services industry, with 90,000 jobs.
The pandemic may continue to play a role in hiring in the leisure and hospitality industry, according to Daniel Zhao, a senior economist at Glassdoor.
“I think what’s going on here is that the Delta wave is lingering. Even though there has been improvement in the public health situation, cases are still elevated — if not rebounding,” Zhao said. “That has a disproportionate impact on COVID-sensitive industries like leisure and hospitality and retail.” But it could also be that people don’t want to work in such a low-wage industry. (read more)
They’re still blaming COVID, as if the virus is the explanation to justify all of Joe Biden’s massively failing policies.
Inflation is being fueled by legislative spending, monetary policy, fiscal policy, economic policy and Build Back Better. Inflation is the unavoidable Hurricane bearing down upon us…..
The American middle class worker is prepping, boarding up the windows, bringing in their family, preparing to survive this storm and hunkering down. It really is that simple.
I hope that metaphor helps explain the November jobs report.
Joe Biden’s massively failing policies
I would disagree. I think it’s by design.
They can be intentionally failing, and still be considered failing.
I suppose that’s true.
Like, as in not “failing” badly enough?
Agreed. These are their policies and they must be measured by their impact on the American people (whether they agree with that measuring stick or not). By that measure they are abject failures
There evidently have been allusions here to that, as well as potentially to the media not actually having high expectations for what is forecast versus framing it that way towards the goal of narratives.
Agreed..intentional is an understatement….this is regime is on a kamakazzi mission to destroy the country come hell or high water.
Frankly, whats scarier; that this is all by design, or that they, the “expert technocrats” are SO out of touch with reality, so believing of their own myths, and so fanatically obsessed with how “they are right”, that they truly have NO IDEA what they are doing?
“Fanatasism consists of redoubling your effort, while forgetting your aim.”
“In the interests of public health, we are going to kill millions of citisens!”
“In the interests of the American people, we are going to TRASH the economy, to avoid the boogieman of Climate Change!”
I KNOW its a common belief that this is all by design, but I am still “on the fence” ,…I do think that many of those instituting this crap, really BELIEVE their own false narratives.
Part of that whole having to ignore “inconvenient truths”; I think MANY truly BELIEVE PDJT is the devil incarnate, BELIEVE in “Climate Change” hoax, and BELIEVE in the Vax hoax.
I have read that our VSG P DJT ‘allowed’ Biden to pretend to be Pres so that we American Citizens could have a really good exposure to the true intentions of the Biden Admin – and of course, communism.
True or not, reality is that Pres Trump will not go back into the White House unless and until he has the political wherewithal to clean house and restore our Constitutional Republic. IMHO
Various posters – here and on other sites – support both your suspicions.
Yes, they are doing damage to ‘we the people’ by design
and Yes, they are really that incompetent and that full of hubris that they ‘believe’ they are doing what is best for us – while they line their pockets and build their egos
So, probably all your points are spot on – as usual
When you don’t believe in God and believe the Bible is fiction, you’ll find something else to believe wholeheartedly.
No, they don’t believe the things they say. They may push aside all other reality as they say them, but when you look to their actions you see that they don’t really believe any of their own lies.
There is however an even worse likelihood: they know they are lying but they have been lying so long that they no longer know the truth. They know what they say is false, but they are so delusion-dependent that they no longer recognize reality from the panoply of false existences. Once they reach this stage they know they are delusional but they are willing to fight like a drowning rat to cling to any delusion just to make the world stop changing, even for just a little while, for they realize that the moment they allow any aspect of the current delusion to be stripped away the rest will crumble and they will spiral into yet another new delusion.
By his CCP & Globalist masters. Build Back Better = the Great Reset and its neo-feudalism.
Build Back Broker..
When it all falls apart……
NO MERCY!
But Biden said retailers have lots of inventory!
I am getting a bit fed up eating cabbage patch dolls ?
In forder to builod back everything needs to be stripped to the foundation.
Oh, they have a bulldozer standing by for the foundation, don’t you worry.
They probably do have lots of inventory… of things that most people either do not need or cannot afford in the current economic (99% artificially generated) storm.
in the absence of quantifying what it means to fall apart, the goalpost is gonna keep movin.
“They’re still blaming COVID, as if the virus is the explanation to justify all of Joe Biden’s massively failing policies.”
From the perspective of letting people go because of vaccine mandates while concurrently offering a revenue hammock essentially with ongoing subsidies for those who just walk away, it appears technically to be related in part to the virus — or rather, the leveraging of it.
And, without them SAYING it, by blaming Covid, they set up for the dumb CNN watchers to finish the thought for themselves;
“The economy is becausecof COVID. And Covid remains a problem (and a drag on the economy) because of those damn “anti-vaxxers”!,….
ergo they should use increasingly more severe mandates, including isolation camps and extirmination to FORCE everyone to take the jab!
Not only are the anti-vaxxers threatening MY health, they are threatening MY livlihood and lifestyle, by their stubborn refusal!”
And to the deluded, they OWN those thoughts, cause they seem self-generated.
Devious propoganda.
1000 upvotes.
What happens when all the folks who can figure out this ruse are expelled from the workforce? Whoa. Thats quite a bit of intellectual capacity to replace with sheep, immigrants and recently matriculated social justice warriors. Untended infrastructure lasts a limited amount of time. I went on Russia tour post USSR around St Petersburg. The amount of “deferred maintenance” was staggering. It was surprising that things just didn’t collapse like the USSR did.
I toured Budapest towards the end of the cold war, on a very cheap budget that had me seeing where the average people lived. Not only was there sloppy maintenance, it was apparent that a lot of the damage from WWII just sat, unrepaired.
Americans are too proud of being Americans – We need to change that.
Barium O’bama
Wow, the loss in retail jobs is stunning for November, thats the stat everyone needs to know!
in line with the aforementioned anticipation of cognitive dissonance, do you think the average New York Times reader is making a note of that rather than just letting it go in one ear and out the other ones if there are no alarms attached to it nor the offering of someone politically convenient to blame?
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Astute observation: “…no alarms attached to it..”
The media has used up much of their “alarms” by attaching several of them to every story about covid that they can fabricate. They have become the modern day example of the “boy who cried wolf.”
Hope we will be able to recognize when a real public health emergency arises….
It’s all BS.
wait for the predictable revisions that will appear on pg 47 in small print next to the story about all the Americans they saved from Afghanistan.
NOT!
Just to be sure nobody else is confused, capitalists build economies, socialists feed on them until they collapse.
Socialists are the parasites of the human world. They’re not new, their role is understood. After they consume their hosts they die.
The problem is, before they die they take a lot of innocent lives.
Back in the day, when animals were found feeding off productive humans or the fruits of their labor, they were hunted and eliminated….
The answer to this is known…..
Spoken like a true USMC situational soldier!
They are indeed parasites, and so entrenched in their own detritus they can no longer see. Let them die.
Great metaphor, Sundance… Thanks… All those folks that visit the Treehouse can see how ‘relative’ it is. I do not hold out much hope for comprehension by any of those ‘experts’ that were ‘estimating’ what the numbers would be… they have been in a different ‘reality’ for decades.
For some, a subtle shift in the wind betrays a coming storm, for others the gloom approaching over the horizon.
Those can move out of the direct path will do so. Many more will hunker down in place and prepare given their available means.
The unfortunate remainder, will suffer greatly.
May God help us all.
Now, I feel better.
R F is right but I’m with you JD… it doesn’t put any pep in my step.
Looks like I picked the wrong year to quit sniffing glue…
The man has no clue. Announced at tree lighting last night. Everyone stand, music plays and no Joe. 2 mins later, out pop Joe/Jill and then people are told, please applaud…..
He’s asked today if he’s sick. No, just a cold from my grandson. I’m tested everyday for COVID> Jen Psaski, asked same question, says POTUS NOT tested daily. Who’s right????? She’s press sec.
Wed, WH showcases decorations and all grands (except Arkansas grand) has stocking hung on mantle. New conf yesterday, ALL stockings gone….
It’s just bizarro world, who’s on 1st, 2nd, 3rd?
Bet Joe couldn’t tell you price of an egg/bread/milk last yr vs today…unsure he could come w/in a $1 of an accurate answer. He is failing miserably health-wise if you see him wk to wk…His appearance is remarkably dimming.
Yet our beloved republicans hand him a victory day after day…with 30% approval rating….it’s just the most disappointing disaster ever. NOT many, if any, republicans can be counted on for anything good, just more worthlessness…..
Economy not going to improve under Biden. NOT designed to. NO domestic drilling, pipelines closed and so are jobs, good paying jobs . Green everything costs massive tax $$$ and little return. Economy not growing and there will be no expansion and need for goods since good, well-paid mid/working class jobs are being destroyed. We have the uber, ultra-elite and rich and wealthy and the poor/immigrants. Mid-working class being dumbed down, destroyed and at par with illegals, poor….
“hand him a victory day after day” ?
From the GOP today;
Restricting Legislators & the publics’ access to the State House to exercise their 1st Amendment rights unless they divulge personal medical information is an affront to Constitutionally guaranteed rights we have as Americans.
“that NJ State Police threatened to physically remove Republican legislators from Assembly floor at direction of Speaker, who is calling GOP lawmakers a security risk”
The majority party (DEMS) threw a hissy fit today after losing 7 seats in Nov.(last month)
State House Standoff: The @NJGOP showed clearly that when you fight, you can win.
A state appellate judge has sided with the GOP legislators.
The State House vax mandate is stayed; a hearing is scheduled for December 13th.
Thanks. Always tired of sweepingly eeyorish comments.
Joe’s “cold” will be the catalyst for removing him from office. They’re looking for an excuse and I will bet that this is going to be it.
I’m thinkin the other way.
If they could pump him full of super Formaldehyde & Embalming fluid,
They would prop him up at that podium right thru the 2024 debates.
In that case, Cackles may catch the “cold” from him.
Re “Wed, WH showcases decorations and all grands (except Arkansas grand) has stocking hung on mantle. New conf yesterday, ALL stockings gone….”
You don’t really think they’re going to move all that stuff from the real White House to the fake one, do ya… lol
I’ve said it a hundred times, I’ll say it again. We’re witnessing the death of the “expert”… in EVERY field… economics, healthcare, military, think tanks, legal/justice, etc. Hell, you even see it in marketing (commercials), entertainment (movies, music).
The people coming out of these colleges are morons. Combine that with Leftists being naturally stupid (educated but stupid) and you have a bunch of people who can’t seem to understand that if you spend trillions of $$$, inflation will rise.
If you could go bring generations from the past to the current time period, they would be astounded as how stupid we’ve become.
Very true.
Alarming MOST if our military that will be relegated to a regiment that can’t and won’t conquer anyone nor defend US, the USA against the elite militaries of China, Russia, N Korea. Dnn’ t think those leaders aren’t keen to how/what our military is becoming or is….Theirs would walk through fire, ours will soon not get close enough to a fire to get warm…
Medicine and medical is NOTHING but political on a stick….How many times have I seen recently, local and state med communities touting NOT serving anyone unvaxxed if they come to an office, a clinic or medical facility and willing and wanting to turn them away….THEIR OATH WAS? Serve ONLY your political preferences???
Legal: AG’s and DA’s….nothing but political hacks. BLM, ANTIFA, marxists given free reign to murder, riot, loot, destroy and perfectly acceptable under ‘their’ law……
Music/entertainment: listen to no music and wouldn’t dare go to a movie…Can’t watch ads on tv (pc, gay, lesbian, queer, bi-racial) and same for series that were at one time watchable. NOW, has to be agenda-driven, political-driven. I could watch Jeopardy and enjoyed the show and comp. Now, it’s the trans man/woman of whatever he/she is…that’s all the rage….
JWM son: “Medicine and medical is NOTHING but political on a stick….How many times have I seen recently, local and state med communities touting NOT serving anyone unvaxxed if they come to an office, a clinic or medical facility and willing and wanting to turn them away….THEIR OATH WAS? Serve ONLY your political preferences???”
You are completely correct. This is just disgusting. There was a time, a few years ago, that the medical community seemed at least to respect their own. Nowadays it’s all about the politics/money involved.
So scary and disheartening. They have no idea what is the meaning of The Hippocratic Oath.
New this or perhaps last year are doctors’ offices calling me for “your annual Medicare visit.” WTF? Does anyone know what this is all about?
My doc has been my friend for many years. I assumed his office was calling so he could visit with and talk to me. I was wrong. I was shunted to his PA whom I had never met; spent some time giving him history even tho I brought a synopsis of my history with me; he was not particularly knowledgeable.
I saw the Medicare summary a few weeks later for this garbage visit, and he had charged Medicare approximately $750.
I’ll tellya. Just so damn nasty to even think this crap could occur; then it hits you right between the eyes.
Doctors in America have sold their souls to the devil.
Yes…after they are all in for the vax that was not approved by at least the FDA they all said everyone needs it.
Really? All human makeup is different…so they accept the blanket endorsement of the lame CDC whereas isn’t each patient and the doctors recommendation on a case by case basis?
In my business, doctors are the suckers…they have no business sense or sense at all. They think they are smarter than everyone else and have proven to be the most gullible.
have you ever stopped to think what is really in those injections that everyone, regardless of immunity status, must have the injection? have you stopped to wonder why the sputnik five injection, that seems to be at least as effective as the mRNA shots are claimed to be, is not accepted as a valid ‘vaccination’ by any western country? maybe it doesn’t have the same components in it – no graphene oxide, no hydrogel biosensors……
My husband and I signed up for a new practice five years ago. For any just in case scenarios which always come after a certain age. We couldn’t just fill out paperwork to sign on. We had to go in for a minor check…bp, heart, that was it. And of course Medicare was charged plus our little contribution.
Two years later we received a call from that practice telling us to come in for our yearly. There was no point as we have fortunately stayed healthy, so far.
But then, the nurse, secretary, admin, whoever, told us IF we didn’t come in then Medicare would shut off our coverage going forward, a blatant terrorist type threat. We checked…it was a despicable intentional lie. We phoned back and confronted the woman we had spoken to with this info. She seemed genuinely surprised and told us she “was told by the doctor who was the practice head to say this”.
The doctor, a part of the group, we saw was fired, but we really liked him. We signed onto his new practice. No initial check required.
Lots of Medicare scams right now. Clark Howard (consumer advocate) did an article on it this week.
https://clark.com/scams-rip-offs/medicare-scams/
Re “The people coming out of these colleges are morons.”
It’s not just college.
I was in the eighth grade when all this crap started back in the ’60s with a lot of emphasis being put on social science, sociology, and theater arts. We actually even had a school book titled “Social Studies.” At age 15, I remember thinking, “What the Hell is that all about.” Now, I know…
Whenever I see the word “Social” I check my pocket to make sure my wallet is still there.
I was in grade school (1-6) in the early 50s. I had “social studies” books, too. And I couldn’t figure out what the point was either. Everything else was specific, hard knowledge (math, history, geography, spelling, language etc).
right. We used to call it civics and it covered basically how government was structured on a local, state and federal basis. Now its morphed into social studies which is essentially useless for all practical purposes
IMHO real experts are still around. They are the ones, however; getting smeared, denigrated by the MSM, banned from Twitter and other social media because they refute the lies and moronic claims of the media-anointed “experts” who have been given the positions, the platforms, the mics, and the spotlights simply because of their agreement with and compliance to the prevailing Leftwing Globalist narratives..
These are the guys who let those pesky facts get in the way of a great BS narrative.
The financial pundits are perplexed?
Perhaps they should tune into CNN to get the “story.”
I watched maria this morning with her “experts” spinning this as a good thing and it’s a good sign for the future and blah, blah, blah! Buy more stocks.
It was fux news so nobody would even dare mention mandates, masks or vax passports or biteme’s destructive energy policies or Californian green laws, congresses spending,QE27, higher taxes, crime, billion’s for illegals, unaccountable politicians or anything else that is DESIGNED to making America suck again!
Exactly, I couldn’t agree more with your Metaphor!! Hunker down Patriots, we will make it to the other side of the storm!! God Bless all of us.
If these numbers are bad in November, which they are, January will be a total disaster. January is always bad in retail. Healthcare will be absolutely getting drilled. In the middle of cold weather in the northern states, heating costs will bankrupt people, adding stress, which adversity affects health. Then add the new illnesses from those vaxd who’s immune systems have been destroyed, along with reduced healthcare staffing levels in those states with communist governors who mandated these workers be jabbed to stay employed and you’ll see a major crash of the entire system. It’s bad now but nothing like what January and February will look like.
It’s all OPEC’s fault, we can’t do anything , you know COVID !!!
Cackle, cackle, snort
Inflation will not come down, until gas and fossil fuel prices come back down. And that ain’t gonna happen with the Green New Deal. Main Street is WAY smarter than the idiots on TV.
And Democratic regime is blaming the Russians
On rising gas prices,
Because,
The Russians will not supply the US with enough oil .
I heard this on the news.
If the White House can’t identify the problem it will never get fixed.
I think you mean: won’t identify the problem.
I noticed something strange at a couple of Walmart stores I went to after Thanksgiving they had large quantity of pumpkin pies discounted because they did not sell, people seam to be more selective on what they buy with their food budget.
When does the national guards of our states arrest the congress and the exec branch for treason? Cause we are there
Using the Army to make America FIRST again is a CRAZY idea.
Using the GOP to do anything is a CRAZY idea.
We had our chance, and blew it.
WE had 1 million patriots, IN D.C., right outside (and some inside) the Capitol, and a small, inadequate police presence, and NO National guard.
IF we had been adequately prepared, we could have easily overcome the police presence, dragged every one of those 535 out from under their desks, and their staffs, stripped them to their undies, and tarred and feathered them,,and made them “ride the rail” through the crowds.
Now THAT would have been an Insurrection, its what the Founders would do,…but WE are too nice and law abiding for something like that!
To say nothing of HANGING the barstuds from the rotunda.
“HINDsight is the FIRST thing you see, when you jerk your head out of your ass!”
This is the best and truest comment I’ve witnessed in all the years I’ve read and commented on this forum. We blew it. Revolution was as simple as following through at that moment and we froze in the moment of our enemies’ greatest fear. Their fear has always been being found out and held accountable. The stench of urine and fecal matter among the 535 must’ve been foul that day. If only we’d followed through. The fight will be much harder going forward now, but the moment was there. Of course this analysis is entirely useless now. Unless the moment is upon us or our progeny again.
Just for background knowledge, – from a european perspective the dollar has gained 10% in value since summer and is still rising. However – besides the gasoline – prices does not seem surging here. Something is not adding up!
Is Germany still at “negative” interest rates? That is, do they CHARGE customers to deposit money? That would explain why the EURO isn’t gaining. The dollar is crap but the EURO may be worse.
Yes that is also my worry …
However – could it indicate that your interest rate is set too high – supporting the inflation?
…Ok I am sorry – at 0.25% I guess it is not the problem.
We are essentially already there. Our scrimping and saving so we could earn a decent, not exorbitant, return on our money has come to nought.
Right now we are in the process of moving all we have to a small but well known Texas bank. I’m feeling decidedly uneasy about the large one where we currently bank, as well as where we are all headed in this NWO.
We could probably increase our monthly income by joining the Wall Street casino, but that’s not a risk we are willing to take. That is where the Fed wants us to be as their outright financial repression has played out.
Honest money is no more and hasn’t been for years.
You don’t have California EPA laws cutting out have the trucking for goods, China gets its goods there through the Suez.
That is right, but with an inflating dollar one would expect its value to fall, but our currencies apparantly fall even more.
“prices does not seem surging here”
They make the packaging smaller to confuse us.
Smaller packaging doesn’t confuse me. Just ticks me off.
Joe Beijing is in charge. They want us to believe that total presidential failure and national destruction is the new normal. Lower your expectations for a high standard of living and achieving the
lostAmerican “dream,” and this will help you keep things in “perspective.” We, the new American proletariat, need to understand that Joe is the best we will ever have and therefore we need to shut up, comply, and lower all of our expectations for living in a safe, free, democratic, and prosperous country. We must all give up the American dream and accept that our children will live with a lower standard of living than us.My response: FJB, Let’s Go Brandon, Let’s Go Trump 2024 (after 2020 is fixed!!).
2020 corrected it was already fixed. : )
Biden’s and the Democrats’ “policies” are doing exactly what they’re intended to do… and that is grow the list of government dependents… whether by making people lose their jobs by Covid, or govt payments (“gifts”) encouraging people not to work, or inducing high inflation to make everyone poorer, or by massive illegal immigration, or massive asylums for Afghans, et al
The metaphor is great with one exception. Usually we know approximately when the worst part of the hurricane will hit, we can see the beginning and the approximate end.
With the Delusional Joe Hurricane we know it is coming, we are being battered f by the high winds every day, but we have no idea when the worst will hit, nor do we know when and if it will ever end. It is just hovering, hovering, hovering, battering, battering, battering and there is no end in sight, and it started on 20 Jan 2021.
People hold out hope during Christmas, spend a little more etc Wait until the second week of January. BOOM! Make your preparations now.
The COVID shield is not so strong over time they are over-investing in COVID for salvation Look up in the sky it Capt Omicron he is sweeping down on all of us Mask and Vax scares people to death that why no one is working.
My concern is that they know, or will soon realise they have maxxed out their Covid card, and will need something ELSE to generate fear, confusion and dissention.
“Whats NEXT?”
Covid maxxed, Climate change boogieman losing steam, White Supremacists never resonated sufficiently, Islamic terror old news,..
Either assasinate Joe, and blame it on redhats with a patsy/patsies, ala “kidnap Gov Witless” or a FOREIGN threat, i.e. WAR.
Trying to think the way they do is very difficult, since they are,..you know INSANE, but thats all I can think of.
Taiwan?
After the 2022 winter Olympics.
Harry’s Hardware store on Magazine closing – a hardware store has been in this location Uptown for over 100 years. Closing due to 100 employee mandate. Now we have to drive 8 miles to nearest box store.
NOLA?
Don’t know it but probably succumbed to not the employee mandate but the affects of Wal Mart/Home Depot /Amazon…
There is no 100 employee mandate. I believe OSHA suspended enforcement due to the pending lawsuits and stays.
Sundance? At what point do we identify the outcomes of these policies as the INTENDED outcomes of these policies? Serious question.
Sundance has been saying, for quite some time now, that these outcomes are all intended.
I still have SOME doubts; I think its POSSIBLE they, thru hubris, and being totally disconnected from reality, have overestimated their ability to control public opinion, and the “power of technology”, and grossly UNDERestimated the native intelligence of people.
They truly believe what IS, doesn’t MATTER, that all that matters is the PERCEPTION of what IS, and that THEY have near absolute control of the PERCEPTION of what IS, which is why what really IS, doesn’t matter.
Which is like jumping off the roof of a high building, and TELLING yourself and anyone who can hear, that you are flying, and in no danger.
It “works” in a very limited sense, for a little while. Right up untill reality and the ground smacks you in the head.
But didn’t they just tell us that we have plenty of extra $$ to spend since we haven’t been spending as much while locked down so inflation isn’t that big of a deal?
I would say they’re idiots but they’re not. They live in a bubble and have absolutely no clue as to running a business or surviving with essentially 50% tax rates.
Where’s the pic of FJB’s steaming pile of BS in that last photo?!
It’s up AT LEAST 200% or more!!
With the DOJ, FBI, IRS and mainstream media on-board, “they” feel like they can steal any election, any time. So why would “they” worry about the effect of the “fundamental” changing of America will have on their ability to control government. They will attempt to dominate and subjugate Americans with impunity. The first step is to digitize every citizen’s vaccination status as a means of isolating those who are the most resistant to bullying. The “unvaccinated” will be the first to feel the wrath of these tyrants. I hope I’m wrong but it’s already beginning in Australia, Austria, and soon to come to Germany.
I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED I say, to find gambling in this establishment!”
The ‘experts”‘ ( former ‘spurts’?) were SHOCKED, AMASED and Befuddled, for four years of Trumponomics, at how, DESPITE their dire predictions, the economy ROARED.
And now, the same former spurts are similarly shocked, befuddled and confused that the economy SUCKS, despite their rosy predictions.
Anyone with a modicum of self esteem, would by now stop calling themselves an expert, OR would grasp that all their notionsvof economics are flat WRONG.
Unfortunately, these “experts” having been told for their whole lives how intelligent they are, are in denial. To admit, even to themselves, that everything they THINK they know, is WRONG, would destroy their coveted self-image as ‘the smartest person in the room’, and they simply “Can’t HANDLE the truth”.
They are, however useful as a “reverse barometer”, with everything being the OPPOSITE of what they say, or predict.
I wonder if the smash and grab gangs in San Francisco is actually a way for luxury stores to get insurance monies since the “season” is going to be nonexistent.
That also crossed my mind, but apparently insurance doesn’t cover it as its law! All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray….
steve lies man: ‘i just dont believe it’
Ya, I think he was referring to when Trump was in office they were only revising up, with Biden they will be revising down.
Trygve…
Sundance did say that though the “pundrity doesn’t understand…”
He followed up with…
“Pretending not to know things…”
That’s the key to all operations of the deep state and cabal of elitists trying to control and destroy today’s version of the proletariat.
It is very simple math.
It’s not that American workers don’t want to work- quite the contrary. We don’t like the new workplaces, most of which now require all day masks and/or fake vaccines.
In addition to my self employment, I have been offered work at a friend’s shop which I normally would be glad to do.
It’s a really nice place, local, good customers, etc. BUT I would have to wear a face diaper all day. No effing way. I don’t want to help or need the $$$ that much.
I’m sure it’s the same deal with many, many others. Unless you live in a Blue Gulag state like NY you have no idea how bad it can be.
His loss, Seneca.
it just makes me sick to my stomach when they talk about this build back better BS as progress and getting something done. That damn bill does nothing but hurt regular American citizens. It’s only progress if you hate American and American citizens and want to destroy them.
One hour ago, I went to the WAWA to pick up a gallon of milk. $4.49 for a gallon of 2% milk.
Make sure to stock up on powdered milk
I was trying to find the cost of hamburger meat today and saw this.
Nation of Islam’s head, Louis Farrakhan, speech in Miami:
“I’m looking for 10,000 in the midst of a million.
Ten thousand fearless men who say death is sweeter than continued life under tyranny.
Death is sweeter than continuing to live and bury our children while the white folks give our killers hamburgers.
Death is sweeter than watching us slaughter each other to the joy of a 400-year-old enemy.”
Louis Farrakhan delivered a highly dangerous speech to Baltimore school students
a few months before chaos and anarchy broke out in the city..
We must never forget..
p.s. the price of hamburger is HIGH.
We are living history, my thought is it will be more vicious than the Carter years. It’s my fervent hope our nation can regroup, prosper and lead once again.
That we are in WWIII is not debatable for me. Look abroad. Look at the obvious coordination in what we’ve been enduring. Look at the timing of it all.
These monsters are all singing from the same hymn sheet which they themselves have written.
From my “balcony” I am seeing not one madman, one Hitler…I am seeing thousands of them, known and unknown. The sooner we recognize what we are facing, the better to gird our loins and start dealing with it.
After Trump’s four year success, the left can no longer meet our goals by lowering expectations.
They are either incredibly stupid or it’s all on purpose. And we know it’s on purpose. They think they can scare us into compliance to the globalist reset. Nope. We are hunkering down. When energy costs skyrocket, all the “dead weight”, the luxuries, in the budget get cut. Christmas is going to mean and lean for millions of families this year due to FJB and people won’t forget it.
Look at your local animal shelter. When people are worried about feeding their kids, pets often go to the rescues/shelters with hoping and praying that someone else will adopt them and treat them well. The shelters are overloaded right now. With skyrocketing pet food prices people have to choose between the family dog eating and feeding their kids. This will not be forgiven. This will be remembered forever. We love our dogs (and cats), almost as much as our own children. Never forget that Fauci is a dog torturer.
#LeskoBrandon
The satellite image above should be that of Hurricane Camille. Those who lived through that or at least saw the movie know what a small, horrific monster that was. It was not long lasting, but exceptionally powerful, as I hope this inflation is not in wiping out even more of the economy.
I resemble that typical blue collar worker that’s preparing for uncertain times. Saving, buying necessities in bulk, shopping for less expensive home, boat and auto insurance, staying closer to home, DIY on home, boat and auto, shopping locally, finding other means of entertainment that are outside of the mainstream and away from the cities, cooking more at home, planning next spring’s gardens and tree plantings, upping the fitness routine, learning new to me skills that my great grandparents knew, spending quality time with family, pup and friends.
This illegitimate administration continues to use the “covid” angle, because it has nothing else. Even if it’s by design, people are getting more pissed off, having to spend more, and getting less.
Build Back Backwards. They know we know and yet they continue because they want it this way. Only a rotten group of people could operate this way.
Nothing can be trusted coming from the swamp. If it says +210,000 added we probably dropped -210,000 or even -420,000. Garbage in garbage out.
Remember obummer added the created or “saved” category.
Is the percentage of baby-boomers and those near their retirement years simply deciding to go full retirement, especially if they have to submit to a mandated vaccine to get back to work, incorporated into these low new employment numbers?
Why this administration and Congress is still breathing is beyond me.
So . . . I guess we’re all just going to wait around and do “something” whenever everyone has “nothing left to lose.” The only problem with that plan is when you have nothing left to lose, you generally don’t have anything left to win with either!
“Home of the brave” my foot!
Oh there’s plenty in this country to win. At the moment, there are way to many people who have yet to feel enough pain. I’m thinking you might be behind the curve on how this is going to go.
They ARE GOING to crash it all. They are like children told they can’t have a toy. They will break it so NO ONE can play. Except being the idiots that they are, what they think is “broken”, is only “stripped for repair and refinishing” to others. The job as I see it, is to be ready for the hard work of fixing ALL that has gone off the rails, and returning the country to its founding.
I suggest you reread what I wrote. I never said there’s nothing “to win.” I said after we’ve lost everything, we won’t have anything to win WITH–as in, no resources to fight this battle.
This is by the Communist designed playbook…intentionally destroy the economy…blame it on the failure of Capitalism therefore blame it on Republican policies…nationalize the banks…get the middle and lower class on the G’ment dole.
Ever been to Moscow?..I have and there is no middle class. It’s either the rich who got theirs by graft, payoffs or g’ment favors and the lower worker class.
This is what the Dim commies want and as SD has mentioned…Covid is their weapon to achieve this…
The red graph line should be called the Hunter Droop after a hit from his crack pipe.
People Balk at Regular Old Grind, Strike Out on the Own
Dec 3, 2021
https://wolfstreet.com/2021/12/03/number-of-workers-jumps-by-massive-1-14-million-in-nov-as-people-strike-out-on-their-own-but-employers-cant-fill-vacancies-as-people-balk-at-old-grind/
…the labor force is still down by 2.4 million from February 2020 and by 5.4 million from trend, and isn’t really catching up with trend, amid 10.4 million job openings that businesses are trying to fill, as many people are still not looking for work. Hence the labor shortages:
As the Potatus’ notavax mandate means I’ll be out of a job on Jan 8, my spending has been reduced to the absolute bare minimum.
Buying local food as much as possible and no purchases from Woke Retailers.
I plan on having a wonderful Retail-Free Christmas!!!
Excellent metaphor!
Government lies, from government liars, appointed by an illegitimate administration, elected by massive election fraud, defended by government lying lawyers and government lying judges; so the music of government initiated HOAXES go on!
“ But it could also be that people don’t want to work in such a low-wage industry. ”
So are they finding jobs then in some other higher-wage industries? What industries are seeing job growth that can employ people that normally work in these lower-wage industries?
I’ll say that when I worked in retail or restaurants, etc, I didn’t enjoy it all that much. I did enjoy being able to eat and having a roof over my head, though.