The ideology of these elitist minded control officers is really remarkable. The president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, has given several statements to media saying policy measures must be put into place in order to stop wage growth from fueling inflation.
Think about this in the most practical of terms. Western politicians have created massive inflation through their collective ‘Build Back Better’ energy policy. The central banks have raised interest rates, an effort to shrink the economy by lowering energy demand, to offset the skyrocketing costs of the energy problem the politicians created.
With workers demanding pay raises to help afford the skyrocketing costs of energy, the central EU bank is now worried that wage increases will fuel inflation.
There’s a truckload of pretending needed to avoid seeing the insufferable dynamic of reality.
Political policy drives up energy costs. Central banks try to drive down energy demand. Workers unable to afford the energy prices created by politicians, are then blamed for the inflation the political policy creates.
Sooner or later ordinary people are going to figure out this abusive cycle.
(Via Reuters) – Euro zone wages are growing quicker than earlier thought and the European Central Bank must prevent this from adding to already high inflation, ECB President Christine Lagarde told a Croatian newspaper.
The ECB has raised interest rates by a total of 2.5 percentage points since July in a bid to arrest a historic surge in inflation and has promised even more policy tightening over its next several meetings as longer-term price growth expectations have started moving above its 2% target.
“We know wages are increasing, probably at a faster pace than expected,” Croatian newspaper Jutarnji list quoted Lagarde as saying on Saturday. “We must not allow inflationary expectations to become de-anchored or wages to have an inflationary effect.”
[…] Lagarde added that the bloc’s expected winter recession, induced by soaring energy costs, is likely to be short and shallow, provided there are no additional shocks. (read more)
That last line is just beyond infuriating.
This era of economic pretending, and the disconnect in the mindset of the self-proclaimed elitist rulers, is just jaw dropping in scale and scope.
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How nice /s. This from the multimillionaires and billionaires.
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I have often felt that the aim is to bring down the ‘uppity’ middle class while elevating the lower castes in America.
This construct will emotionally devastate the hard working people who are working on or achieved, the American dream while giving lagresse to the unmotivated.
They want us to work for free. Which brings to mind, the following:
“A government big enough to give you what you want is big enough to take it away”….
Excuse me…someone in a suit and aviator frames is knocking on the door……
After years of working , paying my bills and watching politicians frittering away the taxes I pay…..you could say I’m emotionally devastated. I’d call it something else, but the ladies here would not approve!
No, we are thinking the exact same thing.
I did my base budget for 2023 last night and I’m okay due to IRA savings, a fairly high salary before retirement that gives me a good SS check, no debt except for 12 more months of mortgage payments and currently non-existent medical costs other than insurance. I have no idea how people who don’t have these circumstances will make it a couple years down the road, presuming they are even making it now.
I’ve got a pension from the Operating Engineers, social security and part time teach people how to drive trucks. But, no debt and two successful sons that call almost everyday! Got a four wheel drive pickup ,a shotgun and a dog. Lol! Ya might say I have all I need. How some of these people sleep at night, I have no clue! It will be survival of the fittest and the smartest! Plus GOD and CTH! 🙂
I’ve got a successful daughter and we talk several times a week, 3 cats, volunteer at an organization that helps people with food insecurities issues and a screen porch. Like you, I have pretty much all I need.
Sure does make for a less stressful life! Now I save my stress for Joe Biden and his merry gang!
Simple. They don’t. Suicide is the only way out. Your fortunate.
It sounds as if you are “dumfungled”, Rick…a Scottish word which means you are physically and emotionally worn out.
Can be used in polite company. I appreciate your consideration.
Au contraire, Betsy. Maybe physically (a life of construction and oversized load hauling will do that to ya) but emotionally…..not hardly!
I used that word only because you did in your post.
Construction, you say…I withdraw it. With apologies.
No apologies necessary Ma’am! Happy New Year to ALL!!
Thank you. Very kind. And to you, good hardworking sir. All blessings be with you.
And to You too!!! We’ve got lots of work to do!!
I am a lady, and you should hear what I am saying in my head!
I have many memes that contain the eff word. The one that really fits best says I need a stronger word than that.
If you were in Britain, you’d be arrested for it.
Lol!!
“They” can take their best shot
Excellent observation!
Remember, when the knock on the door comes….say nothing, sign nothing, and waive none of your rights!
Don’t answer the door.
Why make it easy on them?
You can try, but their entry will not be denied.
Hillary and Obama and Biden and Pelosi and on and on..
All the egalitarian leftists somehow wind up extremely wealthy themselves.
But if it works, if it sells..
The forget that all their wealth will not be able to buy a place in heaven and that they will not take even a single dollar with them when they die. Someone else will end up squandering this. This wealthy is truly meaningless.
They are so corrupt that they would not be happy in Heaven.
The moral or the story is the less there is for you, the more there is for them.
There are many things in the world of politics and policy that infuriate me, but this example of how the bankers view wages is one of the more egregious examples.
How more influential people cannot see this and talk about it is also very troubling.
When the tipping point comes, it will be stuff like this cited as ‘why’.
I think there are 2 camps in the “elite”: there are the ones who know what is going on. As you have said, this is not a bug, but by design. There are the second group that is just absolutely ideologically blind. There is an absolute block in their heads that any of this is their fault, it is ours. The natural human emotion is to shirk blame and fault, how dare you say that I had anything to do with this. I am only here sacrificiing for your good.
Until the vast majority of the preoles wake up, it is going to get much worse. With the technology, possible central bank digital currencies, glot shots, cell phone tracking, monitoring of the internet and cell phones, the populace is slow walking in tyranny without paying attention.
At the main student performance for my wife’s nonprofit, one of the graduates was back to help with the production. As she worked backstage, I am slowing trying to deprogram the communist programming from university, I was talking about freedom and privacy and how it was so much different when I was their age 35 years ago. The response I got was jaw dropping. They have no expectation of privacy on their phones and computers, and they have been programmed to not care about it. Stunning.
Sundance, keep up the excellent work.
PS: Sorry to hear about your Kitty.
The perfect Slave thinks he is free.
Truest words typed today!
That’s not Sundance.
“When the tipping point comes…”
Do you really think it will come? Because we have already put up with so much, I don’t know what else needs to happen before people act.
If you have food in your fridge, and your fridge is still running, then we’re not there yet.
If you wait until you are out of food, then it is already too late. How long do you think you will be able to fight on an empty stomach?
Hunger is the best stimulant.
As long as there is food in fridge and sports on TV, there will be no revolution.
— Anonymous
Bread & Circuses a familiar lead up to total collapse
100 percent agree.
When it comes directly at people in their homes/lives- in person, and on a large scale- people will fight back. That hasn’t happened so far.
Worthy to consider:
“Keep in mind, if a single round from a single firearm is discharged at a police officer, national guard personnel or a drone, the protocol is immediate elimination by all means necessary, whether deadly poison gas, darts, lasers and finally, they will use DEWs, missiles, mortars or high impact munitions to blow an entire house to bits.
If a patriot is planing to use their firearms, they won’t get more than a few rounds off.
They have deployed the most advanced computer AI programs to analyze this issue, they have teams of trained analysts, and of course, entire armies of paid agents and disinfo shills working non-stop to infiltrate these groups. So it’s an issue they are very focused on, one they believe they have control over.
This is not considering the technology they have which can be deployed. The biggest advancements are in drone and robotics technology, which are not being shown to the public.“
I mentioned Open AI a few weeks ago… something to look into. Elon Musk in on the BOD
https://www.yahoo.com/now/elon-musk-history-openai-maker-011005933.html
Really?!
Hasn’t our current administration sent most of our missiles, drones, mortars and munitions to Ukraine? Hasn’t it depleted our strategic petroleum reserves down to a puddle? Hasn’t it devastated most of our supply chains? Hasn’t it created distrust of all institutions and caused the most weapons to be bought by the people in the last two years? Haven’t they practically bankrupted the USA?
So…how will they accomplish this feat you describe? Most hunters and regular gun users can take out a drone with no problem, by the way. And, who are these “experts” you describe – are they of the same caliber as their COVID experts, climate change experts, foreign policy experts?!
The government will never send away all of their weapons.
They will always keep enough to attack those they perceive as their true enemies-
us.
spot on right
Her annual salary as head of the European Central Bank is $467,940 with an annual allowance of $83,760 for living expenses. Her salary is not subject to taxation.
She has an estimated net worth of about $6 million.
These elites are so divorced from the concerns of every day people.
One price of her rings would let me retire I’m sure.
She makes more in one month that many people make in a year.
More in one month than many make in a lifetime.
“Her salary is not subject to taxation.”
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
That was at the IMF, which was also tax free.
She has not paid direct tax on any income for 12 years at either the IMF or ECB, despite being employed.
You would think $5 million tax free in salary in the last 10 year would give you a net worth over $6 million.
She is Faux-chi level. Nice tax-free salary. And the Klaus Schwab wardrobe.
Yep, a “ Red Pilled” friend and I often chuckle when we hear a sheep bleat.
“ What happened”
Then watch them wander off in a zombie like state.
Cheers!
There is no disconnect, it’s all carefully orchestrated and engineered to implement their “Reset”.
Better pray for a miracle in 2023.
You know her entire salary is tax free?
she gets $421,308 + her own salary is automatically linked to inflation to increase?
When he was head of the IMF it was 467,940 tax free + 83,000 per year tax free living expenses.
_ staff at the ECB just got a 5% pay rise.
Christine LaGarde est Francaises, n’est ce pa? For any Treepers who have spent time in France know, the French are the FIRST to the barricades, it definitely runs in the culture. And as I understand it, Europeans have been out in the streets en masse fighting WEF crotte de vache.
We Americans are much more like Canadians, which is why it brought me to tears to see the Convoy build across the frozen north throughout much of last January and February. Herr Schwab bragged about he he owned half the upper echelon of the Canadian Government.
At any rate, people like Christine LaGarde, Klaus Schwab and their acolytes and infiltrators infuriate me as well.
May we defeat these vampires in 2023.
Happy New Year!
Pure Evil. Praying for your enemies to find the Lord Christ Jesus is what’s required . Lord please give us your peace and forgiveness.
Lord
Convert the wicked and greedy to Christ and for those who refuse render them incapable of harming your flock on earth.
amen.
I do continue to pray for God’s victory in their lives, but if they refuse His grace I no longer feel sorry for them.
I’m not proud of my attitude, but my compassion supply is nearly empty.
I am forced to reserve what remains for the victims of these evil-doing servants of Satan.
Way beyond time to form a true resistance party.
And it’s going to have to be a world wide union with a worldwide recruiting effort.
We proles all in the same boat.
You fir$t, Frau Blucher!
Notice the resemblance to Frau Hochsul?
Good grief.
Lucifers Children always tell us what they are going to do. But most people dont want to hear it because they just cant believe how evil these creatures are. They better start listening because there will be only one side that wins this spiritual war.
“It is finished.” We in this generation (the first generation was from Creation to Christ’s first coming; “this” generation is from Christ’s ascension to His second coming) are living through the often challenging mopping up operation — but loudly and clearly we hear the Distant Triumph Song: Revelation, Siegbert Becker.
It’s the aristocracies’ views of the peasants, you are not human to them you are simply an asset in a ledger, like a cord of wood, a parcel of land, or livestock they simply do with you as they will, your only use is to provide them with more simply more.
100% . we are non persons in the eyes of the elites. I can hear the guillotine blades being sharpened in the distance.. They never learn.
I have the same feeling we aren’t look at an American revolution but a French revolution if the elitist keep pushing.
They have learned nothing and have forgotten nothing… Where have I heard that before?
We are merely “products” or “barcodes” to the elite.
Just things to be managed.
Christine Lagarde looks like a dominatrix!! Yikes!
She’s wearing one of those Klaus Schwab outfits.
You noticed too! Kind of an odd looking dominatrix.
Klaus Schwab is a dominatrix too?
No, I picture Klaus in a leather thong, with straps over his shoulders, and thigh high leather high heels, on his hands and knees and a red rubber ball in his mouth and Legarde in her dominatrix outfit riding on his back with a whip.
I know, kinda weird, but that’s the picture I had of these WEF types.
Look up “Klaus Schwab on the beach” on Youtube.
Your mind-picture is rather tame compared to what you will see.
LOL, I’ll take your word for it.
I will spare myself the non-pleasure.
Take a gander at those diamonds on her finger!
Joe Dan at Intellectual Frog Legs recites “Save America and save the world!”
Exactly.
All variations of leftism yearn for a return to feudalism: a few rich and many poor.
Quoting from the Constitution won’t defeat these monsters – they hate the American Constitution.
America remains the last, best hope.
The Great Pretending continues. Last day of year 3. Nothing is real, it’s all a godawful charade.
Why oh why are so many putting up with this?
Have they put Soma in the drinking water? Seriously – have they?!?
No. They put it in the vaxinez
Retired Magistrate here: I will pay attention to what she is saying if she sells that big diamond ring first and gives the money away to those who need it. It am so sick and tired of “not for thee but for me.”
What they do or don’t do, speaks louder than anything they say.
By their fruits yee shall know them…….
Your mom dresses you funny.
On one hand, I’d appreciate a psychoanalyst’s take on this all black, futurist style now in vogue among the WEFfers.
On the other, I don’t think I need one to understand the message behind it.
Sigmund Fraud.
I think they’re all Star Trek fanatics who want to achieve what happened on Earth before the series began- war and chaos, then only equity and getting rid of all monetary systems.
I suspect it is mostly a power play.
They dress and act ridiculously, like cartoon villains, because it forces you to do one of two things.
1) Accept it, and thus accept their absurdity.
2) Call it out and open oneself to mockery.
Believe me. I feel kind of stupid saying she looks and dresses like a vampire, because I know she is not actually a vampire.
But there are reasons she chooses to look and dress like a vampire. Those reasons reflect who she is and what she believes.
There are reasons the public face of the WEF has cultivated the persona of a campy Bond villain. It speaks to how the organization operates and, more deeply, what it believes.
If one lets such things stand unchallenged, one is reduced to being ruled by cartoon villains. If one pushes back, one is reduced to the level of arguing with cartoon villains. It is a very cynical but effective strategy (ridicule, isolate, marginalize) to undermine resistance.
She may well consume human blood, I don’t know.
But I am sure she consumes human souls.
She is so sexless . Power always drains the beauty of girls. AOC a fox at 21. Jacinda Ahern now a manbot. It’s the all consuming flame of fame and power without responsibility.
Dead – vacant – eyes….
Freaks
Christine Lagarde can pound sand until the cows come home.
If she looks like a vampire, if she dresses like a vampire, if she makes statements which suggest she views you as livestock… it is just possible she might not have an interest in your longterm well-being.
Or your shortterm well-being, for that matter.
Nailed it! On first reading the article, I said to no one in particular/the dog 😁… “looks like it’s time for some vampire hunting!”
Is that Ukraine ‘thing’ winding down? 🤔
What they want is for food and energy prices to remain high relative to wages, in order to maintain increased control and oppression of the masses. If wages simply increase in direct proportion to the increase of food and energy costs, then nothing is accomplished in the minds of these totalitarian bastards.
She’s wearing an outfit matching Klaus Schwab’s Dr. Evil get-up. The only people I despise more than our Deep State are Euro Trash.
She’s also wearing a Riviera tan. A pose. With her puffy sleeves and turtle cowl neck, a vanity to hide her need for a neck job, despite the old aristocratic being above it all, doing a way with hair color–doesn’t want to look girly, brainless, or frivolous. She is brainless.
It’s even worse in the U.S., where the The Fruitcakes are claiming that the solution to the inflation problem is to funnel more slave labor through El Paso, Texas. Low Income Wage Earners are just to comfy in their comfiness.
Nazi yetch!
Import cheap illegal labor to stop wage growth forcing the Citizen labor force into poverty.
Gee would they do that in the USA? They want a subservient labor force that’s just smart enough to get the job done.
The Powers That Be/The Ruling Elite want Serfdom/Slavery back.
We continue to listen to their infuriating lies. We continue to read their infuriating lies. We continue to discuss their infuriating lies. Yet, we still do nothing. Apparently, the populations of the western nations are willing to absorb more punishment and humiliation.
Many of us are doing something..prepping, ignoring or ridiculing Hollywood, the MSM.
Same for politicians ( President Trump excepted)
Taking care of family and friends.
Cheers!
I need to start stockpiling howitzers.
Perhaps I could send her my favorite cake recipe.
The very same thing is going on here in the States but on a much larger scale. Many businesses are moving to an all Spanish speaking shifts within the workforce/production lines. Couple those two situations with the massive influx of illegal aliens so that business can fill those open jobs because Americans primarily men are not working because they are hooked on pain-killers and living off of disability benefits. These illegals will then compete with the working poor Americans who won’t stand a chance as those illegals will be paid cash.
Yep, and buying houses. Three families to an abode.
Same with immigrants legal and otherwise for decades.
Greater Vancouver B.C.
Has areas settled by Italian, German, Pole, Sikh, Chinese, even back in the day Japanese.
The difference IMO was there was no welfare folks came to work and get ahead..now it’s about screwing the system.
The Wizard of Oz, she’s the good witch and Janet Yellen is the bad witch or vice versa, they’re both bad.
I’ll take Ms Lagarde seriously when she leads by example – she can easily take a 25% pay cut from her taxpayer funded largess.
She’s infinitely wealthy, now she just lives on the blood she sucks from people.
Somewhere a lamppost is missing it’s ornament.
Her name is an oxymoron….Christine….
Legarde reminds me of Laura Dern’s character from the Star Wars Last Jedi….evil looking benevolence….
How bad is it. It’s so bad that someone like this is one of the most powerful people in the western ‘democracies’. Pitchfork and torch time, people.
The picture of Christine Lagarde says it all. Reminds me of the French Revolution for some reason😉
…of with their heads comes to mind…
Will you take a look at the sparkler she is sporting on her finger. That rock can buy a lot of food for the peasant’s.
Same people who scream for a “living wage”.
She can go first and reduce her salary.
.webp
Hopefully, you notice that that isn’t an elephant…..LOL!
Bears a great resemblance to Mitch!
Love the RHINO!! Perfect!!
Laugh if you want but the MSM will run with it and the drones will lick it up. Then blame business when they wonder why they can afford less and less stuff.
Rising prices are not inflation. Printing money to fund political profligacy..THAT is inflation.
Rising prices are merely a bitter consequence of inflation, for working people.
So sayeth the elitist twit who’s actions and reactions have no effect on her or her ilk but devastates the economic security and lifestyle of the great unwashed whom her and her BIG CLUB loath with a deadly passion.
Total collapse brought to you by the WEF , NWO and every mainstream national and international banking system now designed with the UN blessings to impoverish and starve as many as possible if their vaccines cannot complete their population reduction desires !
Anyone still confused why there is constant pressure to destroy the BILL OF RIGHTS especially the SECOND AMENDMENT ?
Disarmed starving and helpless or Or Independent and able to take a stand in your own defense .
Not a hard decision is it ?
“Sooner or later ordinary people are going to figure this out this abusive cycle.”
The question is what will they then do? Vote differently? That won’t be nearly enough.
Hey elitist scum…when it all falls apart…SO DO YOU..
Back to the days of Nixon wage and price controls! When tyrants are given an inch, they start building the camps and ovens very quickly, and this current bunch is no exception. It’s such a fun time for those that don’t remember. No raises until approved, by somebody unnamed, but unions get theirs, politicians get theirs, etc. Raises are also timed with tax increases, to make sure you really don’t get anything more, just taxed more. As the black-market builds and the practice of trading and bartering gets common, they ease up a bit.
FIGHT BACK! Grow your own food, use farmer markets as much as possible, get and stay as frugal as possible, get your own water, mend your own clothes, mow your own grass, change your own oil, conserve as much as possible on heat, A/C, water, garbage, entertainment, insurance, electronics, furniture etc as possible. Get VERY VOCAL at council meetings, school meetings, to STOP SPENDING for anything! Get VERY VOCAL at politicians and vet their lies and excuses!
THE POLITICAL AND BILLIONAIRE CLASS IS LIVING OFF YOUR MONEY, BUT MAKING YOUR LIFE MISERABLE! FIGHT BACK
let them eat cake…
Stupid woman. It was people like her, who inspired the French revolution
Hey Lady! How about STOP government PAYING slackers to NOT work? Hint: a scarcity of workers drives up wages. And an open borders policy, turning Western nations into 3rd world shit holes, only raises minimum wages and spurn automation … the highly paid skill workers keep getting paid MORE$$$
Jenni she is a French wealthy socialist and does not give a shit about you me our American illegal flood as a matter of fact our demise is part of her and her WEF PALS PLAN
1) Would she be of the same opinion if she was making bottom of the barrel money?
2) On the bright side, at least she is admitting higher wages lead to inflation. Now she needs to do minimum wage. People should not be paid more than they are worth. Along those lines, is she due for a pay cut? It’s for the economy.
Minimum wage should be the bottom scale of a federal employee that should bring that ever elusive fairness into some light .
Everyone in private sector jobs are taxed to supply government employees at all levels benefits and salaries not seen even close for the majority since the industrial collapse sucking sound of the early 80’s . Now you are taxed and indentured to pay for benefits you get to work till you drop and never see
I think that when they closed the insane asylums, they put those people to work in the government!
Get a load of the *rocks* on her finger…. Yikes 🙂
See her massive diamond rings?
Expensive designer outfit?
Lecturing the peasants.
Christine Largarde is a freak, a phony, a fraud. She is a nothingburger wearing expensive jewelry. She needs to be flying in an EV or on a broom.
When the Euro takes it’s final swan dive, what will sweetie pie be saying then? Will that be the tipping point for the peasants to ask her a few questions or something?
Sweetie pie will say “let them eat cake”!
Sweetie pie may then lose her head as the revolting peasants revolt.
Peasants have a very definite and final way of expressing their displeasure.
Good for the peasants.
More like putrid pie.
She just can’t understand normal thinking. She should disappear.
Abbreviated as “C.U.N.T.” 🙂
Forget the questions. The peasants will take those huge gaudy baubles from her finger, first. Have absolutely no doubt those baubles are real.
Wonder what she paid for them, and what they’re now worth, inflation-wise.
Take the fingers.
Take the baubles by taking the fingers. I could see it happening. These people really are clueless on how this ends. Particularly the females
She can’t take them with her, and they are no use to her if the peasants get desperate enough. and angry enough. to repeat history and wheel out Madame Guillotine.
Biden announced the same several months ago. He was basically saying that if you want cheap goods, you have to accept lower wages.
Consumerism is highly overrated. It makes oligarchs filthy rich & the people poor. They can keep their slave generated junk.
Heat, fuel, lights & food are necessities. They’re going to keep pushing until they get real pushback that may very well trample them.
Better than half the people we know decided they would not exchange Christmas gifts this year. While they all made efforts to keep things positive for their kids, the impact of high costs changed their lifelong behavior. These “elite” pieces of human trash will not survive long once regular people can’t afford to feed their families
Don’t forget clothing. Most folks are not knowledgeable about how to make their own clothing much less create the fabrics from cotton, wool, cowhide (leather), or oil-based materials (synthetic fabrics).
it all began with NAFTA…… you can’t open the gates of a lock without having all of the area fall to the same level. They (the globalists) continued this with Obama’s TPP ( which the political celebrity of the day, DeSantis , voted for)
Up vote for highlighting that “Top Gov” said “yea” to the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Have you seen the movie, the Matrix. Reality – is what we the people say it is. Christine Lagarde and the Bankers have yet to learn this. Your money means nothing. Put the right question to a vote for all, and then act before more people are hurt.
Sellin: Government-Weaponized Public Health: Disease Is Used to Control Populations Like Tear Gas Is Used to Control Crowds
It’s not difficult to understand why these people cause billions at taxpayer’s expense for security.