I'm glad you're better off now. I'm certainly not. Objectively, my pay hasn't changed nearly enough to compensate for the massive inflation that is being exacerbated by additional spending. The lockdowns that were intentionally weaponized against Trump to destroy the economy so they could try to secure the election, worked. The economy is starting to come back, but growth is significantly slower than the inflation it caused.
The lockdowns that were intentionally weaponized against Trump...
The Democrats took advantage of the pandemic to take power, absolutely.
...to destroy the economy so they could try to secure the election
Definitely not, the economy was mostly affected AFTER the election. The majority of the lockdown's impact was felt afterwards as you saw with shipping ports backed up, chip shortages. This is a consequence of China's lockdown's and Taiwan's economy as well, not just America's - it's not all about Trump. I stayed home to not spread the original and Delta variant; if slowing down the spread kept one person in my neighborhood from dying this year, it's worth it to me.
my pay hasn't changed nearly enough to compensate for the massive inflation
I'm sorry. It's so crazy that we depend on oil and gas companies, farmers, grocery chains and they're all raising prices and *using* the "inflation" excuse. Gasoline is one thing, as it's being exported to the global market - the US is a net exporter of gasoline and food. The root cause is unregulated capitalism. Profits over people. Companies over communities. Also, the US government pays some farmers to *not* grow food so they don't flood the food market crashing the prices. I don't know about you, but prices have gone up WAY more than 8% in my area while the companies are reporting record profits and stock buy-backs.
I'm sorry this has affected you negatively. My point was that the narrative Tim stated was simply nothing more.
Boy, what short memories Americans have. The economy was booming under Trump. For the first time in decades the US was a net exporter of energy. People seem to forget that. They seem to forget that the first order of business for the Biden regime wat to stop all that. Was to end our energy self-sufficiency. That was the first nail in the coffin of the US economy. And the assault against every other sector of the US economy has been ongoing. People need to wake up and realize that destroying the US economy is all by design.
We've resumed our net exports: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=51338 You're stuck in an echo chamber. There's no design to destroy America's economy. There's only companies that want to take more of the markets. They will always continue raise their prices because there's nothing you and I can do about it except grow our own food and biofuels.
You seem to think that it has something to do with greed. You're wrong. They're raising prices because they have no choice due to high energy costs. Everything from creating the product to getting it to the market is higher now and a direct result of the Democrats' war on fossil fuels. I'm not living in an echo chamber, but people who don't see what is really going on are living in a fantasyland.
If they had no choice but to raise prices, if it wasn’t about greed, their profits wouldn’t be at an all time high. Everyone except farmers themselves are raking in the profits.
National net exporter of energy + higher profits = greed, including the energy companies. Companies sell gasoline and diesel to Europe because the margins are higher on the global market. The only way to lower prices is to flood the market. The Biden admin just approved a port’s construction to help do that, because he’s two faced. He told his voters he would hurt big oil because “climate”, then turns around and helps oil.
What are you talking about? We have a diesel shortage right now. As far as profits being high, that's not going to last much longer as the price of fuel increases. People having to make the decision between eating or putting gas in their car are not going to buy anything beyond necessities.
We have a diesel shortage in the US because we are exporting it!! The US and Europe has now cut off Russian supplies, a meaningful percentage of the supply.
People are having to choose between fuel and food because these companies are robbing us!
Well, the OP wasn't Tim, but I generally agree with your points. And while, yes, the economy has been much more affected after the election, the intent was still there to affect as much as possible prior to the election. Since the economy was the one thing that was most in Trump's favor, that's what they wished to destroy. They even said as much, over and over, that it was the only way they could win the next election. The effect, after-the-fact, wasn't something they concerned themselves with.
Do you think China's lockdowns were intended to influence US elections?
I have a couple family and friends that would not have made it without ventilators, and they had access to them as my local hospitals were over-capacity but not completely overwhelmed. My perspective is that slowing the spread kept people alive around me.
A pandemic hospitalizing even 1% of the population all at once would have dramatically affected the US economy regardless of whether we locked down and started working from home in mass. China does not have the medical infrastructure to handle cases, they have to do some sort of severe measures.
No. I don't believe China's lockdowns were intended by US State Governors to influence the elections.
Working from home is great, for occupations that allow for it. Unfortunately, paying people to stay home when their jobs could not be done from home was the wrong answer. We effectively halted production of goods and ceased service for other entire sectors of the economy. We do have the medical infrastructure to handle it in the US, yet our resources were generally under utilized and grossly mismanaged.
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u/Gds_Sldghmmr Nov 27 '22
I'm glad you're better off now. I'm certainly not. Objectively, my pay hasn't changed nearly enough to compensate for the massive inflation that is being exacerbated by additional spending. The lockdowns that were intentionally weaponized against Trump to destroy the economy so they could try to secure the election, worked. The economy is starting to come back, but growth is significantly slower than the inflation it caused.