I'm surprised there's not an inflation thread yet
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Quote:Politics, especially switching back and forth randomly between Democrats and Republicans, WILL NEVER FIX WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE LIVES OF THESE VOTERS. What the voters need is to fix their own lives. I have no idea where in hell people in the western democracies got the idea that dramatically switching political support will fix their lives.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:$4,194.
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Average with mortgage: $2,675
Average with rent: $2,436
Here's why I win. And incidentally, Second, this is why I'm not talking about ME when I'm talking about American's hurting.
That is my monthly Social Security
Not my point, and nobody cares.
My first point was that if nothing changes I won't even get $800 a month by the time I'm 62 and I could easily live off of that.
My second point is that Twitter isn't the Real World and most of the people who vote Democrat aren't in either of our financial positions and don't give one single shit about Russia or Ukraine or any other bullshit excuse about why they can't even live paycheck to paycheck anymore after a year of Biden* being in office.
Not only do they want answers why they're hurting. They want solutions. And all the current regime has to offer is excuses.
Democrats are done. Enjoy the next 7 months while they last.
I'll give you a real short story about how to actually fix your own life. Nobody in my family has ever voted, except for me. Neither father, mother, or sisters voted. None of them ever cared about politics during their entire lives. I was the only stupid one who followed politics and political belief caused me to volunteer for Vietnam, long after it was obvious the war was lost. I was 18 in 1970. Vietnam was a huge mistake for me that put me in the hospital. What about the rest of the family?
My father was a Burger King manager. My mother worked for him. We lived in a crappy apartment in Pasadena Texas. Those apartments at 3030 Lafferty Rd, Pasadena, TX 77502 are still standing. My parents didn't own a house until my father retired. He bought the house with cash and he and my mother lived in it until they died. That house sold for $116,030.54 on June 25, 2013. I still have an image of the cashiers check. When my mother died in May 2013, her estate was worth $2.3 million. It was all in certificates of deposit, not one piece of stock. The only stocks they ever owned, they lost money on.
My sisters are a school teacher, who just retired at 71 years old, and a nurse, 65. They are both multi-millionaires and it wasn't from inheritance. Their houses are okay looking, but you'd never know how much money they had by looking at their houses. Their husbands? One is a Trump voter who isn't worth a damn, and hasn't had a job in decades, and other is even more worthless. Typical Texan husbands, in other words.
To sum up: my parents worked at Burger King, not great jobs, but very commonplace jobs. The children worked as a teacher, a nurse, and me an engineer, all very commonplace jobs that anyone could have today. All of us are unimaginably rich compared to Americans who think voting for Trump will turn their lives around and give them the American Dream.
There are literally millions of jobs available in nursing, teaching, engineering, even at Burger King, so instead of voting and bitching that Trump or Biden have not fixed your life, go fix it yourself.
I should mention the failures in my family: Every Trump voting cousin has never done well in life. They have always lived beyond their paychecks. And the $millions I have loaned out at 0% interest or just gave away, none of the money to relatives, has never done a bit of good that I can see because those people, same as my Trump voting cousins, also live far better than they ought to based on their incomes. The high price of gasoline is NOT the cause of these people's financial and personal pr
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Politics, especially switching back and forth randomly between Democrats and Republicans, WILL NEVER FIX WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE LIVES OF THESE VOTERS. What the voters need is to fix their own lives.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:$4,194.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Average with mortgage: $2,675
Average with rent: $2,436
Here's why I win. And incidentally, Second, this is why I'm not talking about ME when I'm talking about American's hurting.
That is my monthly Social Security
Not my point, and nobody cares.
My first point was that if nothing changes I won't even get $800 a month by the time I'm 62 and I could easily live off of that.
My second point is that Twitter isn't the Real World and most of the people who vote Democrat aren't in either of our financial positions and don't give one single shit about Russia or Ukraine or any other bullshit excuse about why they can't even live paycheck to paycheck anymore after a year of Biden* being in office.
Not only do they want answers why they're hurting. They want solutions. And all the current regime has to offer is excuses.
Democrats are done. Enjoy the next 7 months while they last.
I'm actually not going to argue that point, because I agree 100% with that.
You and I may have very different financial positions and levels of potential income, but I don't worry one second more in a day about my future than you do. I've got everything I could ever need and living is cheap. I taught myself how to do that when I didn't need to, and it would have to get a hell of a lot worse than it is now for me to ever worry about anything again.
You are still missing my point though. None of that matters. The voters are never going to stop doing this. They're never going to fix their own lives. They're always going to look for somebody else to give them things and somebody else to blame their problems on. And Democrats are going to be voted out in November.
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I have no idea where in hell people in the western democracies got the idea that dramatically switching political support will fix their lives.
How about from the Politicians themselves. That's what they tell us every single day. And despite the fact that they've never once delivered on a single campaign promise the electorate falls for it every time.
It's been my experience that since the year 2000 this country has been going down the shit tubes. The only actual break from that was four years of Trump, but the Legacy Media wouldn't allow that to happen, so here we are again. In one single year the Establishment managed to make up for the 4 lost years that they were going to be dicking all of us into oblivion and cramming 5 full years of that pain in only 13 months.
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I'll give you a real short story about how to actually fix your own life.
I don't need your advice, dude. My life is fine.
If it weren't for house repairs that are only upping the value of my largest asset, my yearly living expenses are less than two months of the average American's. And those graphs didn't even include things like student loan debt and credit card debt or Bridezilla mega-wedding debt, which make my situation even better than it looks above. Probably by a very large margin.
I've been semi-retired since 32. I'll never be rich, but I don't even care to be. Learning how to fix stuff and do everything on my own gives me plenty to do and gives me a whole lot more fulfillment than sitting around on my ass binge watching Netflix in my retirement. I'd be a fat lazy piece of shit if I were rich right now. How do I know that? Because even though I wasn't ever rich, I was lacking in discipline and spent all that free time nearly drinking my formerly fat lazy piece of shit ass to death and
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Politico: A sour and angry America poised to punish Dems this fall
Biden and his top advisers know that the window to change the economic narrative through executive action is rapidly closing.
https://archive.ph/IuNHv#selection-761.1-765.125
Well... The poll they cited is obviously bullshit and the Administration and the large number of vulnerable Democrat politicians are fools if they're buying it.
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The survey offered some reason for optimism for Democrats, given that a majority of Americans don’t blame Biden for the higher gas prices. The numbers also generally break down along partisan lines in most polling, with Republicans more likely to blame the president for economic problems. People also mostly still feel confident in their own personal finances even as they worry about other people and the national picture, the survey said.
That means they're only polling rich white Democrats.
Not a good move. There's not enough of them to matter.
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And they worry a lot.
Yes. That is all that rich, white, virtue-signalling millennial Democrats are good at doing. We are well aware of the young college "educated" white Democrats and their 1st world problems by now.
Keep lying to yourselves about all of this at your own peril and then make up a bunch of lies about why Trump is President for four more years through the mid-20's because you couldn't figure that out twice.
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Quote:Three real problems, all involving money and inflation:
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You are still missing my point though. None of that matters. The voters are never going to stop doing this. They're never going to fix their own lives. They're always going to look for somebody else to give them things and somebody else to blame their problems on. And Democrats are going to be voted out in November.Quote:
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I have no idea where in hell people in the western democracies got the idea that dramatically switching political support will fix their lives.
How about from the Politicians themselves. That's what they tell us every single day. And despite the fact that they've never once delivered on a single campaign promise the electorate falls for it every time.
It's been my experience that since the year 2000 this country has been going down the shit tubes. The only actual break from that was four years of Trump, but the Legacy Media wouldn't allow that to happen, so here we are again. In one single year the Establishment managed to make up for the 4 lost years that they were going to be dicking all of us into oblivion and cramming 5 full years of that pain in only 13 months.
1) Health care costs are too high. Democrats have a plan that will fix the problem but every Republican votes against plus one Democrat, Joe Lieberman, also votes against.
2) Billionaires aren’t paying their taxes. Over a trillion dollars per year are not being collected. Democrats have a plan to hire more tax auditors for the wealthy but every Republican votes against plus one Democrat.
3) Gasoline prices are too high. Democrats have a plan to switch over to electric cars (electricity costs 25% per mile compared to 100% per mile for gasoline) and save the planet from CO2. Every Republican votes against plus one Democrat, Joe Manchin.
Three problems, but no solutions. The voters decide that both political parties are to blame for this sad state and in the next election the opposite party will get their vote.
This is the kind stupidity by voters that leaves problems forever unsolved. I have seen this same kind of stupidity on construction projects. The right solution is always to find out which few people in your construction crew are screwing things up. The wrong solution, but conceptually easy, is to fire everybody and hire a new crew, which leaves the whole project stalled. You need to find out who in the crew should be fired, but if you have little understanding of what a competent crew does, then firing everybody seems like the only solution. Voters are like construction managers who fire everybody – the dumbest imaginable “solution” to very real problems.
I’ve noticed that most voters aren’t any better at solving personal financial problems then they are solving political problems. Most voters use the same overly simplified mental shortcuts for all problems. Those shortcuts leave them frustrated because they can’t figure out why their problems persist. It never crosses their minds for very long that their problems are not completely out in the world, but half of their problem is inside their own heads. Nobody but themselves can fix that half hidden in the darkness of their minds. But once that half is fixed, the other half, out in the sunlight of the real world, is easy to see what is wrong and, sometimes, easy to fix. Some fix such as spend less money or find a better paying job or desist from doing that thing which annoys the hell out of your boss and coworkers.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Markups.org https://markups.org/ is a crowdsourced website out to shame dealerships that ask for absurd markups for cars.
The price of a Jeep Wrangler was doubled by one dealer last year, and a Kia Forte had $7,000 tacked on. Automakers are feuding with dealers over markups.
Automakers, with the exception of Tesla and a few similar startups, don’t set the final prices for the cars. They set the prices they charge third-party dealerships, but a dealership can then get greedy and overcharge for it. The greed must be Biden’s fault! Vote Republican to fix this! Just kidding. Sorry to tell you, but that’s not how greedy Capitalism works.
The company that builds a car has limited ability to step in when a dealership overcharges for it. Ford has threatened to stop sending popular models to dealers that engage in questionable markups. General Motors has done the same.
Subaru, ever the love company, has tried gently requesting that its dealerships keep prices reasonable. It has expressed fatherly disappointment in those that don’t.
But there’s another party with some ability to push back at markups – buyers. That effort has apparently begun.
Markups.org https://markups.org/ is a crowdsourced website out to shame dealerships that ask for absurd markups for cars.
The builders of the site remain anonymous. In the About Us section of the site, they say they started the effort because of the markups some dealerships were taking on high-performance truck models like the Ram TRX and Ford F-150 Raptor.
Users reporting dealerships for marking up everything from Kia Forte sedans (an alleged $7,000 dealer adjustment at a Nevada dealership) to an Audi RS 6 Avant (a $75,000 markup reported in West Palm Beach, Florida).
The effort is small for now, but it’s the first sign we’ve seen of buyers organizing resistance to the new wave of markups.
https://www.kbb.com/car-news/car-price-vigilantes-crowdsourced-effort-
pushes-back-at-dealer-markups/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Three real problems, all involving money and inflation:
1) Health care costs are too high. Democrats have a plan that will fix the problem but every Republican votes against plus one Democrat, Joe Lieberman, also votes against.
Health insurance caused this problem. Health insurance is, and always was, a Ponzi Scheme.
As expensive as dentures were to pay for out of pocket, they're at least still affordable and reasonable since medicare/medicaid doesn't cover them and most insurance policies through jobs would not cover more than 10 or 15% of the cost. The dental industry itself is a real-world example about how prices on health services don't rise when insurance was never involved. They can only afford to charge what people could ever possibly hope to pay off.
If the Dental industry had been covered with Medicare/Medicaid back in the 80's, those $3000.00 dentures would have been $40,000.00 today.
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2) Billionaires aren’t paying their taxes. Over a trillion dollars per year are not being collected. Democrats have a plan to hire more tax auditors for the wealthy but every Republican votes against plus one Democrat.
Billionaires don't pay any taxes. This is a problem. A lack of tax auditors isn't the problem.
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3) Gasoline prices are too high. Democrats have a plan to switch over to electric cars (electricity costs 25% per mile compared to 100% per mile for gasoline) and save the planet from CO2. Every Republican votes against plus one Democrat, Joe Manchin.
Nobody wants electric cars. That isn't going to solve anything.
Electricity isn't magic. Just because you tree-hugging dummies don't actually see any smoke coming out of a stack when you plug something in doesn't mean we're not burning shit to power your rides.
Mining the minerals necessary to build the batteries that weigh as much as the rest of the car comes with a gigantic carbon footprint, and that's not talking at all about disposing of them.
Your wind and solar dreams are just dreams. They can make a nice supplement to Nuclear, but until you bring Nuclear power back to the table, we're going to keep burning coal and natural gas for power, and your overpriced electric cars aren't going to save anyone any money or save the world.
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Three problems, but no solutions. The voters decide that both political parties are to blame for this sad state and in the next election the opposite party will get their vote.
That's right. NO solutions. One party pretends there isn't any problems. The other party runs on nonsensical non-solutions.
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This is the kind stupidity by voters that leaves problems forever unsolved. I have seen this same kind of stupidity on construction projects. The right solution is always to find out which few people in your construction crew are screwing things up. The wrong solution, but conceptually easy, is to fire everybody and hire a new crew, which leaves the whole project stalled. You need to find out who in the crew should be fired, but if you have little understanding of what a competent crew does, then firing everybody seems like the only solution. Voters are like construction managers who fire everybody – the dumbest imaginable “solution” to very real problems.
Nobody fires everybody. When in recent history could you even give an example of this happening?
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I’ve noticed that most voters aren’t any better at solving personal financial problems then they are solving political problems. Most voters use the same overly simplified mental shortcuts for all problems. Those shortcuts leave them frustrated because they can’t figure out why their problems persist. It never crosses their minds for very long that their problems are not completely out in the world, but half of their problem is inside their own heads. Nobody but themselves can fix that half hidden in the darkness of their minds. But once thatNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:You won't be going to the doctor, will you? Good luck living to 65.
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Health insurance caused this problem. Health insurance is, and always was, a Ponzi Scheme. . . . followed by whole encyclopedia of nonsense from 6ix which ends:
Nobody here believes that you've got it figured out.
You're still the same old terrible person you always were. A completely static character written to motivate others to improve themselves and not be like you. You're the lesson of the fables. The punchline of the jokes.
6ix, in only a few hundred words, which I've heard the same deeply held beliefs from many other Trump voters, you have explained why Trump voters have insurmountable problems in their lives that no government can ever fix, even the Second-Coming -- Hallelujah! -- of Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, the real explanation for inflation in fewer words:
I was told that if we increase taxes it will cause prices to increase. And if we increase the minimum wage, it will cause prices to increase. We have done neither of these things and prices have increased. I can't help but feel rich people are going to increase prices no matter what, and are just teeing up excuses.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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For future reference, I'll save you the time...
I don't read any of your bullshit past the first sentence or two.
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Just another day of Americans feeling the financial pain of the Biden* administration and Democrat's policies.
Countdown to the Democrat Party's irrelevance.
Tick Tock, Tick Tock
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How is AriZona Iced Tea still 99 cents as inflation soars? - Answer: the owner is NOT greedy.
Gas is nearly six bucks a gallon. Groceries are 8% higher than last year. Dollar stores: now dollar-and-a-quarter stores.
But a giant, 23-ounce can of AriZona iced tea still costs 99 cents, the same price it has been since it hit the market 30 years ago. Today, that’s cheaper than most bottled water, 20-ounce sodas, iced teas and canned coffees on the market. If you could fill your car up with cans of AriZona Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey, it would be cheaper than L.A. gas by nearly 40 cents a gallon.
How does AriZona pull this off while everything else goes up? The price of aluminum has doubled in the last 18 months. The price of high fructose corn syrup has tripled since 2000. Gas prices are pumping up delivery costs. One 1992 dollar, adjusted for inflation, is worth two 2022 dollars. But the 99-cent Big AZ Can, as the company calls it, persists.
The short answer: the company is making less money. The big cans are still profitable, but for the moment, they’re much less so than a few years ago.
Don Vultaggio, the 70-year-old, 6-foot-8 founder and chairman of the company, is choosing to take a haircut in order to keep the price flat and cans moving.
“I’m committed to that 99 cent price — when things go against you, you tighten your belt,” Vultaggio said on a Zoom call in early April from his headquarters on Long Island, N.Y. Even though his costs are higher, “I don’t want to do what the bread guys and the gas guys and everybody else are doing,” Vultaggio said. “Consumers don’t need another price increase from a rich guy like me.”
He has the power to make a call like that because AriZona is one of the few independent private companies remaining in the consolidated world of nonalcoholic packaged beverages, a market dominated by PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, and Keurig Dr Pepper, which owns Snapple.
Vultaggio, a Brooklyn native with the accent to prove it, got the idea for the tea company when he was running his route as a beer distributor in Manhattan. He noticed that people were drinking Snapple, even though it was freezing outside. He decided to get into the iced tea business then and there.
Today, he co-owns the company in its entirety with his sons, Spencer and Wesley, who serve as chief marketing officer and chief creative officer, respectively, and joined him on the call. Forbes puts their combined net worth at over $4 billion, all from AriZona, placing them among the thousand richest people in the world. (If they wanted to be in the top 500, they would have raised the prices, following the example of every other greedy Capitalist who seizes opportunities to gouge customers.)
AriZona’s 30-year run at 99 cents is exceptional, but the record for longest-holding beverage price still goes to Coca-Cola, which held the cost of a 6.5-ounce bottle at five cents for more than 70 years, from 1886 to 1959. There was so much five-cent price advertising and so many vending machines that only accepted nickels that it took decades before Coca-Cola could break the nickel’s spell. The end result, however, was a world-spanning soft drink empire geared toward volume, not margins.
More at https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-12/az-iced-tea-inflatio
n-99-cents
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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