Knowing, not predicting – knowing – the Biden economic policies were going to create massive U.S. inflation in the years to follow, in 2021 I pinned a tweet thread to the top of my timeline on the CTH Twitter account that could be used as a reference. [You Can Read Here] Not a single month of statistical data has come in the past two years that was not entirely predictable. Today’s report from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) [DATA HERE] is no different.
Inflation is a measure of the change in a price. It is usually presented in terms of a percentage of change. When inflation starts to lessen, what that means is the rate of the price increase slows down. The price is still going up, but at a slower pace.
February prices overall increased 0.4% for the month, putting the current rate of annual inflation at 6.0%. Meaning prices (on aggregate) are 6% higher than this exact same time last year.
Meanwhile, wages increased 0.2% for the month, and hours worked dropped 0.3% [DATA]. Wages only rising by half the rate of prices, and hours worked dropping, means the net ‘real wages’ declined, yet again, by 0.4%.
Workers are going backwards.
The very real impact on the working class is getting worse. The blue collar team, who works for a living and does not take Instagram pictures of their lunches, are getting crushed in the Biden economy. The divide between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ is getting wider.
Put another way, Team MAGA, the entire continuum of normally apolitical working class, is watching the rust growing and feeling the worst part of the Biden economic outcome. I have often spoken in my immediate circle of influence with the phrase, “financial anxiety is a very real concern the closer you get to the laundromat,” and many people have no idea what that means.
The biggest BS statement of the day goes to CNBC with this sentence:
“Inflation began rising in early 2021 due to a supply-and-demand imbalance. Now, it’s largely fueled by strong demand for labor, economists said.” (link)
I challenge you to find a more encapsulating pile of horsepucky that represents the financial media era of great pretending. When I read stuff like this, I begin to think the next great eruption of a violent war is getting even closer, and this war will have nothing to do with nations.
Our current inflation crisis is directly related to the western aligned intentional Build Back Better/Green New Deal, climate change policy decisions that have destroyed energy production and created massive increases in energy costs. Those costs go everywhere and drive up the unit price of all goods and services.
Nothing about the Biden economic plan, which is really an extension of the collective WEF economic plan, has anything to do with ordinary supply-and-demand imbalances – other than the forced and intentional destruction of oil, coal and natural gas development.
The WEF climate change energy policy is destroying the U.S. economy, creating pain for all U.S. workers and consumers, driving up prices and doing the same thing in every western country that is following it.
War is good for stimulating an economy. Maybe civil was is exactly what we need!
But not a race war. It’s them vs. us and they are the elite pol WEF BBB enemy tribe. Really a small group against MILLIONS of Patriots. It theoretically would be a simple and quick fight.
This is a lot better for stimulating an economy :
TURN THE SPIGOTS BACK ON! or as Palin said “Drill baby drill.”
We got it folks ….OIL and GAS its huge they really don’t even know how much is in reserves in the Texas and NewMexico oil fields.
2014
The US Geological Survey (USGS) said that it assessed in Texas the largest oil deposit ever discovered in the country, the agency announced this week.
The USGS says an estimated 20 billion barrels of oil, 16 trillion cubic feet of associated natural gas and 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas liquids were located in the Wolfcamp shale in the Midland Basin area of the Permian Basin province in west Texas.
This is the largest deposit ever found in the United States and is three times bigger than the one in the North Dakota Bakken-Three Forks oilfields assessed in 2013.
https://www.ibtimes.com/nearly-1-trillion-worth-oil-found-texas-largest-deposit-ever-discovered-us-2448534
and this:
LONDON, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — There’s a breaking energy story that could potentially be a repeat of Texas’ multi billion dollar Midland Basin…A basin that has been producing since the 1930s and won’t reach peak production until 2035 at a phenomenal 3.8 million boe/d … Mentioned in today’s commentary includes: British Petroleum (NYSE: BP), ConocoPhillips Company (NYSE: COP), Petrobras (NYSE: PBR), Enbridge (NYSE: ENB), CNOOC Limited (NYSE: CEO).
The most trusted name in natural resource assessments—Wood Mackenzie–says this new discovery is analogous not just to the giant Midland, with a development value of $540 million, but to two other world-class basins. In fact, it could become the biggest oil story of 2021… And the oil and gas rights to the ENTIRE Basin is owned by one small under the radar oil company that is quickly making waves amongst investors called Reconnaissance Energy Africa (RECO.V, RECAF)
This is President Trump’s ace in the hole play and it could bail out our entire economy very quickly.
I compare the actions of our fedgov to a farmer who finally raised up a milk cow and the cow calves and gives milk enough for the calf the farmer and some left over to sell. The next day the farmer goes out and shoots the cow because she belches too much and too often.
100% agree. But unfortunately we have an idiot residing in the WH right now and fools pulling the strings.
Hopefully God will preserve America for another year+ until we can get Trump back in. 🙏
He’s an idiot, but only installed because he can do the bidding of the globalists and CCP simultaneously via US economic malaise.
John it is not only idiots in the WH but all the rabid WEF Globull western alliance world governments. Here in Canada we are not immune either.
bverwey
Sounds great, but I thought we voted him back in last election. I have little faith in the validity of our elections these days.
“The Campaign” with Will Ferrell was ahead of its time. The voting machines were a Motz brothers product, a dig at the Koch brothers I assume. The movie is comedy and very interesting to watch after all that has happened since it was made.
0′, FART !
Another way to stimulate the economy would be to, lower taxes, have sound monetary policy based on the gold standard and have government butt out of the private sector.
”……theoretically.”
War like all government spending might juice the economy in the short term, In the long term it, sucks money out of the economy that could be used more productively, raises debt and increases taxes. The government does not create wealth only the private sector does. The government has no money it doesn’t take from someone else by force.
“ctrl+galt+del” keeps coming to mind..
The impetus to vote for a MAGA candidate will be stronger than ever, if another election is stolen, it will be the match that lights the fire, I think.
I never hear Trump say how we are going to overcome the steal in 2024. If there is no plan in place he will lose again in 2024, no matter how many more millions of people vote for him.
Why would President Trump tell his enemies what he has planned to fight their planned election steal in 2024?
What makes anyone believe that President Trump does NOT have a plan that he is working on with his team that he surrounds himself with during this campaign?
I’m not going to sell President Trump short, just because he is not out there making speeches, posting on Truth Social, etc. giving us details on how to stop the steal in 2024.
That’s what we thought in 2020. He knew 2016 was a cheat (just not enough) 2018 more of the same so surely he had a plan for 2020, but he wasn’t going to tell his enemy his plan, right? We were wrong.
If there was ever a time he had the power to actually act on election integrity, it was when he held the presidency. He’s got nothing now and even more enemies with greater power and determination. They were blindsided in 2016, made adjustments and found the winning formula. They ain’t givin’it up. I’ve seen nothing that remotely resembles election reform.
act how?
he showed you your congress works together against you.
so that next time, you can realy J6 your local area – and fix it.
Fair enough, so why believe he can do anything to stop the steal in 2024? That was the topic and context of my reply to AS who seems to believe he has a plan. “Why would President Trump tell his enemies what he has planned to fight their planned election steal in 2024?”
because 2020 was in DC on their turf.
get it?
2025 will be on your turkf in your town. getting your local officials to represent you or resign. to examine the vote or RESIGN.
Standoff..
Lol, living in PA, I can assure you it was on my turf back in 2020. Not sure how you came up with that line of thinking, but it holds no water.
We are now off on a tangent. Original post/reply was speaking to the idea that DJT has a plan for 2024 integrity. I do my best to not get diverted.
your place cant do it then. let the red state places that are the reddest do it and replace their legislators. then use their state to push the Fed off so you are ultimately helped.
I’m in PA and attended a grass roots Republican gathering in Feb. I donated money and signed up for two groups, one was concentrated on the voter rolls. I never got an email or call back. A few weeks went by and the lady that invited me to the first dinner called to invite me to another dinner. I told her that I didn’t have time to attend social gatherings, I wanted to get down to business and clean up the voter rolls..never heard another word from the R’s.
And that’s exactly what we’re up against!
This is all too unfortunately exactly like it is – pretty same deal for me with the largest R Womans club in the country.
Elections are controlled by the states. The Fed Gov can do nothing about it.
Then what do you expect DJT to do now?
That’s what Mike Pence still claims. And many others who voted to certify.
So why bother with certification? It is then of no worth, a pointless middle-finger gesture.
Exactly. Furthermore, President Trump can’t be expected to do it all. What can WE do is the question and I don’t have any answers.
Inside the Beltway; Donald Trump to counter Democrats’ ‘ballot harvesting’ with his own – Washington Times
Totally agree and I have no answers either.
I hope the new “team” DJT45 surrounds himself with this go around is more loyal than his previous crowd. He did have the allegiance of some very good and loyal advisors but they were outflanked by the treacherous back stabbers, a weak congress and a traitorous senate.
bverwey
Well he better get Jay Valentine on the case and stop spending time on Desantis.
He should focus his attacks on the Democrats destroying our way of life.
Stop whining about 2020 and concentrate on 2024
He knocked hillary out and we are all paying for it.
Oh, btw hillary, I hope you never find peace.
Isaiah 57:21…. Your hope fulfilled.
I just finished a six month long study of Isaiah and somehow I/we completely missed that jewel of a verse! Thank you for bringing it into focus!
Trump has recently stated “We– WON’T LET –them steal the next elections”
The “won’t let” stood out to me as he said it and the way he said it…. bigly
J6 not in DC with DC juries.
J6 at your local location. and demand examination of the vote or resign.
protest until you die.
you have over a year to get people around you to think its life or death – 2024 election.
get them in the mindstate that will help them STAND when they want to zone out
President Trump also said, “We caught them all”, yet no one was arrested let alone went to jail. Talk is cheap.
In one of PDTs recent rallies he mentioned ballot havesting. I took it to mean he has a plan to beat the left at their own game
Yep, tried that in 2020. PDJT campaigned his butt off, and did get monster numbers. Didn’t matter. How quickly we forget. Bet the J6 prisoners remember.
the states make their own election laws
a presidential candidate does not
At a recent rally, President Trump mentioned stationing ballot boxes in churches similar to those scattered across “Blue” run cities. Such boxes would, prresumably, be delivered at election counting centers under the supervision of trusted ballot counters –presumably outside “Blue” run cities — in their respective states. This would eliminate issues with “mal-functioning” election machines for housrs on end, “reprocessed ballots” in “closed centers” and ballots shiped out-of-state “by mistake.”
I thought I heard/read that PDJT was going to somehow mark ballots using special paper or watermarks or something in the 2020 election so one would know if it was a fake or not. Either he didn’t get it done or I was mistaken.
I heard the same thing.
I remember that. However, the “fake” ballots probably had nothing wrong as far as the paper they were printed on. They were just mailed out in droves to every name and address and then the “extras” were collected and/or rerouted to the post office as “undeliverable”, at which point they were scooped up and taken to “special places” where they were marked and taken to drop boxes and counting centers.
They were “real” ballots, but they were “fraudulent” votes.
That was Qanon hopium bullsh*t
How about if they try it again, we all grow some balls and make Jan 6th look like a Sunday lunch?
You haven’t been paying attention… he has a plan, and the plan is us… Inside the Beltway; Donald Trump to counter Democrats’ ‘ballot harvesting’ with his own – Washington Times
He made clear soon after he announced, or within a few weeks of him announcing that they will be beating the left at their own game.
That meant doing whatever was legal in any of the states. Early voting, ballot harvesting, etc.
I believe that is all well and good, but I read an article about how they stole it this last election, and it scares the hell out of me.
The article essentially said they got change of address databases which are more current than the national change of address database.
They figured out who had not voted in the prior election, who might have been dead, etc. They then changed their zip code by one digit and mailed them an absentee ballot. When the ballot could not be delivered, it was returned, and the crooks used that ballot and voted.
They then went in and changed the zip code back to actual, so nobody would be the wiser when the national database was updated.
It explains why so many dead people voted. It explains why people show up at the polls and find someone already voted for them.
It explains why the left refuses to clean up voter rolls in many states.
I don’t know how they will fix that other than lots of canvassing and observation of the polling places.
We barely get enough poll workers on election day, and they are paid a small stipend. (In Idaho, it’s $100 for a 6AM-9PM day.)
Polling place observers are true volunteers (not paid). They are assigned by the party as well as the candidates, go thru training and, because they are so few in number, are usually assigned the more consequential polling stations OR spend that long day traveling between polling stations–all on their own dime usually. These are the true believers.
My experience as chief election judge is that most polling stations have NO observers for the entire day. There’s just too few willing to dedicate their time and make an effort.
And so dies our glorious Republic….
I have never heard POTUS Trump or any other candidate for national office talk about the need to clean the deadwood out of all the bureaucracies–the lifers who have been running the country for 30-40 years.
Another stolen election and America will be gone forever. It’s so close to the brink now it is frightening.
it might be necessary for MAGA supporters to stand guard at drop boxes in the same fashion that Simian 44’s Monkey Mafia stood outside polling places in Philly in 08, except with Kyle gear and not bats.
It might not be possible to shoot all of them, but at least get their photos as they approach the drop boxes.
No one will prosecute a case against them regardless of the evidence.
That’s the plan. Ballot harvesting, early / late voting, illegal drop boxes, etc etc etc.
The multifaceted plan to ruin the US and embrace communism.
We’re pretty much all communists already … oh! oops … sorry … I meant “Democratic Communists” …
Yes, but what is being put in place is irreversible!
I’m okay making less money, losing sovereignty, and dying in a nuclear holocaust as long as Donald Trump isn’t president. I’m just your typical democrat.
Then I guess you’re already dead. 🤣
Brain dead qualifies.
Guess that makes them (figurative) zombies.
🧟♂️
From the neck up, anyway.
I feel fetter man 😉
Meme worthy.
You have accurately portrayed them.
President Trump was asked a question about bringing down the price of food yesterday in Iowa and his immediate response was we need to bring down ENERGY costs. Energy costs effect everything in our daily lives.
That’s the right answer but half the country buys the Putin excuse. Two explanations for everything. Trump, Putin.
But he didn’t do anything about stopping the use of corn in our gasoline when he had the opportunity.
IMHO, that is ignorant. Congress dictates the corn/ethanol requirements, not the President. Big Ag pays the Congress to do exactly that. And they do.
Presidents do not write legislation. Congress does.
Corrupt Presidents ignore legislation and substitute magical thinking and ignorance for Law.
Which is EXACTLY why Biden jacked up energy prices immediately…. Biden Crime Family has been stealing roughly 30% per annum of the American People’s incomes/savings, since the real inflation rate is roughly 30%, when compounded over his 2 years Coup/reign it’s even higher.
STOP PAYING TAXES!!! THEY CANNOT ARREST US ALL, NOR CAN THEY FIGHT US HEAD ON. IT IS TIME TO HONOR THE CONSTITUTION AND ABOLISH THIS REPUGNANT AND ILLEGITIMATE REGIME AND PUT A NEW GOVERNMENT IN PLACE. OUT FROM UNDER THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND OUT OF NATO,WHO,ETC. OF BY AND FOR THE CITIZENS AND NO ONE ELSE.
I agree with that idea but the vast majority of citizens (the half that actually pay taxes) do so through payroll deductions or quarterly payments. They’ve already paid in. It’s not like people can opt out at this point. If everyone paid in full on April 15th we would have enormous power, but the IRS knows that so it’s deducted all year long.
One option is to stop working for the system and start working for the alternative economy.
The last time I had wages withheld was nearly 40 years ago.
Simple, easy, glad handing one’s buddies? Nope. Going against the grain of society isn’t easy. Eschewing brainwashing is a challenge. Most go along to get along and take what pleasures they can along the way. I respect that. God loves all His children.
The Phoenix will rise from the ashes.
“I challenge you to find a more encapsulating pile of horsepuckey that represents the financial media era of great pretending.”
Challenge accepted.
“This is Trump’s fault.”
…or Neil Kashkari’s finger pointing statement about two weeks ego blaming the people who work real jobs, sometimes two or three, just to keep their and their families’ heads above the rising flood of inflation.
Wages are rising too fast, were his words. Signaling his and the Fed’s intent to put a hard stop to that.
A work in progress which is succeeding beyond his wildest dreams.
Almost no one’s wages are keeping pace with inflation. And any savings loses value everyday. Everybody but the wealthy will eventually be living a lot poorer if this keeps up much longer.
You mean the ones who now say ‘do you want fries with that’ who now makes $15/hour doesn’t add to inflation?
I wonder if Hunter Biden’s graft–er, I mean “wages”– kept pace with inflation?
Inflation outpacing wage increases makes the open borders policy and the Fed’s tightening in the face of good data for future inflation so contemptible. It is an open, outright attempt by the uniparty elites to harm regular people to benefit a select few.
Continuing the economic war against citizens begun during the ’emergency’ enacted during the Covid operation. The damage to the essence of the Republic is IMO incalculable and TBH I think the numbers we’re using are massaged within an inch of their life. Trust has gone.
On WarRoom right now:
Steve Bannon is discussing this very issue with Peter Navarro.
The government picks winners and losers. Why, the politicians get big money from the Big banks, Wall Street, multinational’s, PACs, lobbyists, NGOs, and foreign interests. It far out weighs individuals and Main Street donations. Ask me how basement JoeBama got 81 million votes. They fixed that too. F the dollar, that’s why we have inflation. They don’t need us. Eventually we may have anarchy, but first they must have my generation die. Notice how Wall Street’s being propped up by the FED and treasury. That’s the globalist multinationals raking in big money from Chinese manufacturers. Low wages more profits. It will take time.
Just re-logging in after clearing out cache/sites. Thanks for this info!
Cloward/Piven on steroids.
This is all part of the plan to implement 0’Bama-ism — correction — communism…
obozoism
This gaslighting was only 4 days ago! ChiCom Joe says at the 2:44 mark “inflation is down 30% from what it was this summer”? Wot??
That little gem might take the horsepuckey encapsulation prize, Bubs
Looks like Sundance agrees with you!
I think he means the rate of increase in inflation is down. Maybe that’s part of that “soft landing” I keep hearing about.
He’s completely gone and telling any lie he thinks might have some gain for him, knowing full well our enemedia will never call him out on it.
There is video of him claiming he had an epiphany when he was a teen about LBGQwerty because he saw 2 guys kissing.
It must have been Corn Pop and Vito. It didn’t square with comments he has made long after he became a political hack.
He also claimed today that Republicans should stop trying to defund the police. This is the second time he has told that lie.
Down 30%? I am sure he believes it.
I think you mean Angelo, the long – dead Amtrak conductor.
Q & A: Tucker: This is where GOP 2024 hopefuls stand on Ukraine – video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2023/03/q-tucker-this-is-where-gop-2024.html
I hope that this clip from Tucker Carlson gets a viewing and comment from Sundance and the Treepers. My take: President Trump is the leader and has the stature and temperament to achieve peace in Ukraine. DeSantis, Rawashawmy and Noem respond as advisors, very bright and insightful, but not decision-makers or leaders. Christe and Pence come across as advocates for a war without military leadership experience or a practical plan to achieve a meaningful victory in any war with Russia. Governor Abbott should run for US Senate, not POTUS, as with the Senator from South Carolina. Somehow President Trump must be re-elected in 2024.
“The WEF climate change energy policy is destroying the U.S. economy, creating pain for all U.S. workers and consumers, driving up prices and doing the same thing in every western country that is following it.”
The WEF climate change energy policy is implementing technocratic feudalism.
Just ask a retiree on fixed SS and pension (if they’re lucky)
Yep, I get the minimum and approve of this message. Every swing of the hammer or stroke of the chain saw finds the mental image of another Communist going to God. I love manual labor now. Thank you God for good health and today’s breath.
My coworker asked me today to recollect the black out we had on Christmas Eve when we were experiencing sub zero temps ( the first I’d experienced in the 17 yrs I’ve lived in TN) and it was a 45 min outage. He then went on to tell me about his UK friend who told him they had just experienced a 19 HOUR black out! I don’t know where this person lives but I know it isn’t in a big city in England.
More of what we have to look forward to with the Commie’s New Green Energy deal. Yippy skippy. A-holes, all of them.
THIS. I’ve been through the hurricanes and they’re scary enough. And if incompetence takes out the power, then you just fight it with competence. But what if malice knocks out your power? Getting back on your feet takes a whole different kind of patriot!
It’s odd.
I can live very comfortable without taking care of one democrat policy, however they can’t live without me sacrificing my hard labor and years of experience.
Cuz Democrats are parasites, which explains why they react so violently to criticism because cutting them and their feckless supporters off from their nutrient source is unacceptable.
“Pay increase”? What’s that?????
Aren’t they the things that Biden says outpace inflation.
Example…
“Biden Administration Outlines Federal Workforce Priorities in Budget”
https://fedmanager.com/news/biden-administration-outlines-federal-workforce-priorities-in-budget
The President proposed a 5.2 percent average pay raise for both federal civilian employees and members of the U.S. military. Federal civilian employees received a 4.6 percent pay raise in 2023, as the nation dealt with rising inflation.
It’s the highest proposed pay hike for federal workers since 1980, when the Carter Administration proposed a 9.1 percent hike.
My one question always is (and it’s because I’m not an economist): at what point can there be no recovery of a semblance of a constitutional republic?
Put another way: where is the tipping point in these numbers whereby even if Trump were reinstated as the LEGALLY ELECTED, RIGHTFUL POTUS tomorrow, it would be too late, the whirlwind and destruction cannot be turned back except by the hand of God Himself?
It’s already over. Right now a guerilla ambush here and there in our favor would be heartening.
Oh we were probably there by 2010 or so…
We are passed the point of no return.
I see no way of getting out of this mess without a war on foreign soil or a civil war.
Something is gonna give.
With everything going on… I’ve been thinking lately… and maybe it sounds crazy… that the only way out is for a TOTAL COLLAPSE of The Republic… then Patriots can rebuild from the ground up, like they did in the olden days… a Great Reset, if you will.
PDJT is a proven builder. Give him the green light and watch it go, just like he got that embassy set up in Jerusalem. Our job is to rid the Republic of Communists, then leave the rest to him to organize and ramrod.
Thanks for all who replied to my orig post.
What triggered it was sitting thru a very interesting seminar on estate planning, which retirement plans/funds play into.
I was overwhelmed and felt somewhat depressed leaving the classroom, as I asked myself: to what end, all this planning and saving?? The old planning/savings/investment rules don’t apply in a world where YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT is doing everything it can to destroy the dollar, collapse the dollar, kill you with a lab grown virus or a “vaccine”—and if all this doesn’t succeed in finishing enough of us off, there’s always reckless foreign policy to get us into a nuclear exchange with Russia or China or both.
Honestly: how do you reconfigure plans to accommodate a retirement where a dozen eggs could cost $12-15? It’s crushibg retirees now, but for those in their mid-50s like me, there’s a huge course correction that has to take place.
Sorry for the “downer” post. I try to remember God is still on his throne and none of this surprises Him, but I have my moments…..
It will never be too late.
It just takes more to fix it the longer we let things go.
Thanks for the reminder, Texas midget. I hope I live long enough ( I’m 54), to see some of America’s greatness restored…..
My mother came to visit amid bank failures and raging inflation. It is stunning to me that she watches Mainstream Media and believes every word of it. You cannot convince her that Biden’s economic policies are destroying the country, or that the vaccines are bad news, or that the Ukraine government is as corrupt as hell, or that our government is walking us into WWIII. She believes everything she hears on “the news”. Zero critical thinking. Now, this is a highly educated woman who had a good head on her shoulders. My father, God rest his soul, was the critical thinker. Without him by her side, she is blown to and fro. And yet, she thinks her opinions are superior because it was on “the news”. She thinks I am just “passionate” about certain things and she forgives me for that. It made me think of how many people in the country believe the absolute crapola broadcast on mainstream news.
There is no point whatsoever trying to convince anyone that we are on a downward slide into the abyss if things don’t change. So, what does a good daughter do? I told her she could live with me and I would take care of her. In that way, I can protect her from what is coming because I am prepared. I see the handwriting on the wall quite clearly even if she cannot.
Sigh… Things are a mess.
My son sent me the article below recognizing it for the propaganda that it is. But how many people buy into this. Too many I’m afraid. Wow, Nobel laureates say it is so, it must be true. They signed a letter, has to be true.
https://www.epi.org/open-letter-from-nobel-laureates-in-support-of-economic-recovery-agenda/
How many of those “laureates” get gunbmint grants ?
Oh jeez… another “open letter”… cram your letter sideways, Nobel Laureates.
Nobel Prize went to zero after Ozero getting one for being mulatto.
How many people believed the Russian disinfo crap about Hunters laptop because 51 Intel hacks said so?
I wonder about family members who watch fake news all day and believe it.
Do they have access to any other media? Do they know how to find alternative media? Is their tv set up for Roku, RSBN, Real America News, etc. where they can watch Trump rallies and see news that hasn’t been manipulated?
If not, then introduce them to real news. For some of the elderly an electronic barrier exists between what is fake and what is true, and they don’t know how to get past that barrier, even if they suspect they’ve been watching and listening to lies.
(This is a general comment, not directed primarily at you. Born Free.)
I talk with my Mama every day. She watches Fox, but I give her all of the behind the scenes information. She loves what I give her and will tell me what she hears and then asks for the truth.
I just love my 86 year old Mama! ♥️
In my comment above about my wife’s grandmother, we did exactly that. She was always having trouble with her TV remote, and what she could find on whatever satellite service she had at the time.
My Father-in-Law taped a template over her remote with clear instructions written on the template. How to turn it on, and which numbers to push to get to her favorite old TV shows.
Somehow the usual news shows were left off.
She is blessed to have you. Your post warmed my heart.
BFAW,
All PDJT has to do is get Tucker and e.g. Norah to announce at 6PM that PDJT has decisively won the election. Everything that follows is MAGA walking over the minority. Yeah, the courts will sort it out. All PDJT has to do is offer each of them his security services. Okay, I’m done for the evening.
My wife’s grandmother was exactly the same after her grandfather passed. She grew up during the Depression and understood very well what hard life was like.
Unfortunately, she also was of the age that she watched the evening news. Cronkite, Rather, those who followed, etc.
She said something one day when we were having lunch with her. I don’t recall what, but I explained to her at length about how she was lied to.
She looked shaken to her core and just could not believe they would lie to her like that.
I never discussed issues like that again with her. She was living in her own condo at the time and very able to care for what she needed financially, so I didn’t think she needed any additional burden about how bad our country had gotten.
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled,” Mark Twain
I’d live with inflation abating itself over time. Better said, we’d be better off if the fed left it alone at this point and moved rates to a different place. The problem is that the fed is actually exacerbating the problem by braking the economy, since the real problem isn’t demand.
Biden and McConnell are cratering America. Establishment ‘Republicans’ want Biden re-elected, even if it means putting him in a room next to Fetterman – He is so easy to control. Establishment Republicans will gleefully help Democrats steal another election. Cruzbots will join in again for 12 more pieces of silver.
“Republicans” have been an equal part of the problem (if not more so) for a very long time. This Ukraine fiasco is Exhibit A.
The GREEN HOAX is like a giant (Installed and Imposed) sinister Ponzi scheme with plenty of shysters making fortunes out of uneconomical and impractical energy schemes along the way ,with the middle class picking up the tab and watching their living standards plummeting to poverty. A great awakening is surely underway with people starting to realize they have been had. These communist WEF bastards have got to go.
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This year to date number is being compared to last year’s 7.9 inflation rate in Feb. So the talking heads are comparing to almost peak inflation and ballyhooing over the number? We are so screwed.
Real inflation is roughly 30% per annum, compounded over the first year of his Coup… (so it’s actually higher than that.)
Heard this earlier today… maybe on War Room… what, me worry?
Biden opening up a drilling project in Alaska must mean his brother, or son has brokered an oil exploration project.
That’s the only thing that makes sense. Ten percent for the big guy.
That and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System has a necessary minimum flow rate of petroleum in order to maintain it.
He has those producers over a barrel, if they cannot pump enough through it.
The alternative to transporting petroleum from those remote locations is cost-prohibitive and or non-existent. Pretty much stranded assets if they don’t give that bribe.
It’s to create a talking point for the election. You know how Biden claims that prices going up 7% is a drastic improvement over the 10% they went up last year —“We cut inflation by 30%” –OK, so despite Biden doing everything he has been able to do to hinder and undermine our Energy Independence, he’ll be campaigning on his wonderful effort to give Americans a stable energy future. This even though the project may not have any tangible benefit in the near future, if ever.
He did the same thing with Gas prices- Broke the hell out of affordability then patted himself on the back for reducing gas prices. Unfortunately his fixes NEVER resolve more than a portion of the increases he caused, so he gets a twofer: he gets to do what he set out to do: screw Americans, break our standard of living AND claim he reduced costs. He breaks shit then fixes it partway and tells us he’s so wonderful for saving the day.
Bottom line with Joe, we never get ahead, but Joe can always have some shred of evidence to “support” the claim he is doing a great job. This is the great benefit of having non-critical thinkers as supporters.
I can hear him now” I greenlighted the largest oil project in the last 50 years!”
This is to counter Trump’s truthful point that Biden killed our energy independence.
I think that announcement and his announcement of his gun-grabbing Executive fiats are nothing more than talking points he is feeding to the media to change the subject.
Well, his handlers anyway.
Same difference.
anyone clever enough to show 1 product, year over year from 2019 gaining inflation?
so we can see what a 10% over 10% over 10% jump is…
A $20 item gaining 10% per year would cost $29.28 after four years.
is the interest on the new total each time? like compounding.
its seems more like a 3 dollar can of chilli, cost 5.89 now.
Jest G0 BLOW, Joe.
Every time I get something from my freezer or my shelves, I say a thank you to God for providing and for Sundance’s prescriptions and forecasts.
I don’t see how some people are able to make it. I know 78-year-olds who are still working jobs and young people who are taking on more and more outside work.
Credit Card debt is skyrocketing. What possibly could go wrong? I guess that’s one way to get everybody to live in Urban Shoe Boxes…
“2023 Credit Card Debt Statistics”
https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/credit-card-debt-statistics/
That is huge. But at the same time, the percent of people defaulting on their debt has remained fairly low. That could change fairly quickly.
“That could change fairly quickly.”
Indeed. Folks are hanging on by a thread… choosing food over new shoes for the kids… the country’s teetering on the edge…
Please … I am not all that financially or economically savvy … so someone please tell me …
What is the differencem between the Fed radically expanding the money supply to keep up with Bidinh spending and holds interest rates at near zero for ten years … what’s the difference between THAT … and some guy in his basement printing out counterfeit $100 bills by the tens of millions? And puts the all into circulation. And they’re so authentic looking that people treat them as equal to hard currancy
Be sure to sit up and look straight ahead so your webcam can get a good shot of you sitting at the laptop.
Ironically, Biden himself was in that basement not too long ago… and now he’s printing useless $100 bills by the tens of millions…
The guy in the basement goes to prison.
When the Govt prints fake money, it’s legal. When the guy in his basement prints fake money it is a crime.
What is illegal for citizens is legalized by the Govt. Because they can.
Govt cannot rule over innocent men. To rule them, it needs criminals to prosecute. That’s why there’s so many criminal laws.
Do you really think that Hunter gets $500K for some crappy paintings because it isn’t a bribe? How do all the DC “public servants” enter office with nominal wealth and retire with 1000 times their salary in wealth? It’s a big club, but I ain’t in it.
Why is a bank able to create money out of thin air through fractional reserve lending? That’s the same thing as printing their own money.
Increase oil and natural gas production along with building pipelines and inflation will go down! It’s really just that simple.
But….but…..but….green energy????? LOL!
I live in what I refer to now (La La land) Naples. We are by no means wealthy, and am grateful for what we have. (Paid off house ,$ in savings, and no debt) I recently went back to work after the death of our 2nd dog within 18 months. At 70 wanted something with little responsibility and not a lot of thinking. After jobs for 1 and 3 months at different places have been a security guard for upscale outdoor mall for 7months
The 5 restaurants here are packed everynight and while not everyone is rich many visiting here have 1 or 2 residences here and somewhere else. I started at 3 days a week at$14 and am now at 5 days at $16. I enjoy my job and service type employee jobs offers are easy to find. Live your best life . Pray and help others and best wishes and prayers to all treepers.
I love the Tommy Bahama Restaurant off 5th Ave in Naples near the Marina, Marc!
Next time you are in area let me know. We can meet for dinner .
Get your money out of the bank
I was told my U.S. Monopoly Money balances are insured. Is that not the case?
This video covers the Crypto angle, BTW…
“Indeterminate” is a mighty long time…. but I’m here to tell ya… there’s sumthin’ else…
You’re insured by the FDIC up to 250K. But here’s the rub. The banks are in trouble because underwater treasury bonds to the tune of 600+ billion. The FDIC has about 130 billion and in a emergency can be loaned up to 500 billion from the treasury. Guess what the FDIC has it’s money invested in now? That’s right, underwater treasury bonds. The total amount of deposits in US banks is 17-19 trillion dollars. We’re screwed because either the Fed lets the banks fail or it destroys the dollar.
“Workers are going backwards.”
Workers have been going backwards for a number of years now… save a couple special years wedged in there… the problem is now it’s accelerating… the Middle Class is clearly a hindrance…
Oh don’t worry! Brian Kilmeade will tell me a return to Bush economic policy will make us all awash in cash….after we give a trillion to Ukraine and a kickback to Colonel Jack Keane first.
On another point, Fox News is all-in on cheerleading for Meatball DeSantis but yet they won’t put Christina Pushaw on TV?
Why?
Is it her batshit crazy coke eyes?
Her John Kerry level of botox?
What’s the holdup?
Why isn’t this brilliant former McCain volunteer on Fox News?
They’re all in with the Meatball, so why?
Perma-roundmouth from collagen injections are a mother when it comes to public speaking..
And the way they calculate inflation is fake and gay.
Unexpectedly.
Drill, problem solved.
This time is the last time for Trump and us.
Waylon Jennings
Sundance, my very good man, I HAVE to correct you on one HUGE point. “Inflation is a measure of the change in a price. It is usually presented in terms of a percentage of change.” B effing S! Inflation is and always was an increase in the money supply. That’s a CAUSE. The effect is a general increase in prices, always. Milton Friedman knew this, Ludwig von Mises knew this. The media get it wrong cause they are ignorant morons. You, however, are a brilliant guy. And now you know not to adopt their vapid terminology. Keep calm & carry… on.
Inflation is best described by Mundell: a decline in the monetary standard.
It’s a too high rate of growth of the money supply. You can have a increase to the money supply while having a rising GDP and not have inflation.
https://www.mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/what-would-milton-friedman-say-about-recent-surge-money-growth
“Inflation is a measure of the change in price.” I gotta be that guy and wholeheartedly disagree with this basic, incorrect sentiment. Inflation is the addition to the currency supply, that’s it. Prices tend to go up in reaction to the currency becoming worth less. Just looking at basic consumer prices can be very misleading when trying to tell if there is inflation or not. Often times it may take years for the newly created currency to affect prices on normal consumer goods.
The “Finding Out” phase is next.
As Sundance wrote, income inequality always increases under Democrats/Utopian statists.
Yes ,but the money printing is a huge factor also.
” When I read stuff like this, I begin to think the next great eruption of a violent war is getting even closer, and this war will have nothing to do with nations.”
Your thinking is correct, and when it starts it will spread worldwide. Except for maybe Russia and Hungary.
Everything costs more.
And people, rightfully, want more bang for their buck
considering the price increases.
Unfortunately, FJB and his crew seem intent on crashing everything again.
Leading to more hardship and even desperation,
as people realize that their pay does not equate to what products and services cost.
A new, installed 50 gallon water heater runs about 1700$
Plumbing jobs run about 170$ an hour.
A sewer replacement will cost you about 250$ per FOOT of mainline from your foundation.
Services such as plumbing,electrical, hvac are outrageous and aren’t going down.
The average American is wincing hard at these prices.
But it is what it is. You want your toilet to flush?
Your lights to turn on?
Your house warm in winter/cool in summer?
$$$$$$&&
It is crazy right now, and it’s not going to return to what it was.
I rec researching and learning how to DIY everything you can.
A few minutes can save you hundreds, if not thousands.
I’ve never understood plumbers getting paid so much… I mean their equipment is basic tools, nothing really expensive.
When compared to other industries where you actually have to own real equipment. Plumbers charging so much is Highway robbery….
I know the plumbing director of a major home builder. He can’t find plumbers even though the company pays a 100 dollars an hour to start. It’s supply and demand, there just isn’t enough plumbers. You’re paying for knowledge in the trade not what equipment they use. If you think plumbers charge too much try getting a elevator repaired. You’ll need smelling salts.