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Post by pulmonarymd on May 16, 2022 8:34:40 GMT -5
So you believe the polls now?
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Post by billisonboard on May 16, 2022 8:47:45 GMT -5
I forget what poll I saw the other day, but number one on the list is jobs and economy and inflation was number two. People vote the pocketbook. And if that holds this year, elect too many to office who will then push a social agenda as if that was why they were put there.
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Post by dondub on May 16, 2022 11:08:03 GMT -5
With the UE rate at 3.6% and 1.6 million jobs available, and rising wages for the first time in 40 years, what’s wrong with the economy. And anyone incapable of understanding this inflation is just uninformed or Repo-con.
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Post by Value Buy on May 16, 2022 13:28:22 GMT -5
With the UE rate at 3.6% and 1.6 million jobs available, and rising wages for the first time in 40 years, what’s wrong with the economy. And anyone incapable of understanding this inflation is just uninformed or Repo-con. I thought the latest statistic money wage growth is down over 1.5% Amazon has already stated they over hired and have to let the workforce fall in numbers. Might happen through attrition rather than lay offs but will staunch the available jobs numbers as other companies like Uber, etc, face the same issues
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Post by dondub on May 16, 2022 16:27:37 GMT -5
With the UE rate at 3.6% and 1.6 million jobs available, and rising wages for the first time in 40 years, what’s wrong with the economy. And anyone incapable of understanding this inflation is just uninformed or Repo-con. I thought the latest statistic money wage growth is down over 1.5% Amazon has already stated they over hired and have to let the workforce fall in numbers. Might happen through attrition rather than lay offs but will staunch the available jobs numbers as other companies like Uber, etc, face the same issues Not uber!!!😱
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Post by Value Buy on May 16, 2022 21:58:46 GMT -5
I see a poll came out and 75% of the people polled felt the country was headed in the wrong direction.
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Post by tallguy on May 16, 2022 23:40:48 GMT -5
I see a poll came out and 75% of the people polled felt the country was headed in the wrong direction. Probably because the Republicans are in favor of destroying American democracy, excusing mass murder, and trashing individual rights. I agree, that is very much in the wrong direction.
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Post by djAdvocate on May 17, 2022 0:43:45 GMT -5
I see a poll came out and 75% of the people polled felt the country was headed in the wrong direction. i am not convinced this poll is very politically meaningful. in 2011, this poll was even worse under Obama. he got reelected. but i get why you are bringing this up. a year ago, this number was at a 12 year low. Republicans must have been scared shitless, then. but i don't remember reading anything about the 12 year high (in the right direction survey). i am choosing to think the reason WHY is that it is not a very meaningful thing. the more meaningful thing is: who is best equipped to do something about it? the GOP doesn't even want to govern. and it is not just me saying it. it is them.
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Post by Value Buy on May 17, 2022 14:34:32 GMT -5
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Post by djAdvocate on May 17, 2022 17:53:23 GMT -5
i told you i would not reply on this thread. now i remember why. i am not going to read anything that Chuck Todd has to say. bye.
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Post by Value Buy on May 18, 2022 10:33:05 GMT -5
i told you i would not reply on this thread. now i remember why. i am not going to read anything that Chuck Todd has to say. bye. Why Not? Todd was one of the reasons Biden got in office. Please remember this was not my opinion. It is his, and I was under the impression this was a discussion of various political views..
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Post by djAdvocate on May 18, 2022 14:49:34 GMT -5
i told you i would not reply on this thread. now i remember why. i am not going to read anything that Chuck Todd has to say. bye. Why Not? Todd was one of the reasons Biden got in office. Please remember this was not my opinion. It is his, and I was under the impression this was a discussion of various political views.. you asked WHY so i will reply. Todd is dishonestly surveying the landscape. he does't look at the history of these statistics, he simply offers his opinion in the absence of comparable data (like the fact that Biden is ahead of Reagan in the polls at this point in term). further, the NBC poll (the ONLY POLL HE USES) is 2-3% below the polling averages. that fact was ALSO not mentioned. so, yeah, that is WHY, VB. now, can i please excuse myself from your thread? thanks.
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Post by Value Buy on May 18, 2022 15:37:06 GMT -5
Well today the markets may have finally threw in the towel on Bidenflation and his far left agenda package. Now that people realize their 401-k has become a 301-k they might wake up and decide democrats have screwed the pooch. www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/dow-plunges-nearly-1200-points-in-worst-day-since-march-2020/ar-AAXr8hu?li=BBnb7KzUnlike 2020 when the coronavirus hit and people realized the world will not end in a month the markets started recovering. This time, it may be a five year recovery process. On another thread here I Bonds are paying over 9.5% interest. Even the government knows inflation is rampant. The next thing to drop: housing prices Then even some liberals will feel the pain as real and not a made up Republican talking point.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 18, 2022 15:55:33 GMT -5
Valuebuy-shouln't you be updating the thread title to 15 months now? You're slipping in your job.
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Post by dondub on May 18, 2022 17:41:44 GMT -5
Valuebuy-shouln't you be updating the thread title to 15 months now? You're slipping in your job. I think he should be trying to explain how inflation is Biden’s fault and no one else’s. That would be fun.
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Post by weltschmerz on May 18, 2022 17:45:34 GMT -5
Food and gas here have skyrocketed in price. Pasta has gone up by 20%. I guess it's Biden's fault.
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Post by Opti on May 18, 2022 17:54:23 GMT -5
Anyone know if the US oil industry is doing anything to increase the supply of gas? Found this article on timing on opening up oil wells, etc. www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/061115/how-long-does-it-take-oil-and-gas-producer-go-drilling-production.asp#:~:text=Oil%20and%20gas%20production%20is%20a%20complex%2C%20lengthy,wells%20are%20costlier%20and%20can%20take%20much%20longer. While new wells in developed reservoirs can be drilled and brought online in a matter of months, timelines for production from new fields stretch for years because they have complex permitting requirements and require the construction of infrastructure such as pipelines and storage facilities. One study found the world's largest oil and gas fields averaged 5.5 years from discovery to first production and took 17 years of production on average to reach peak output.10 Chevron Corporation's (CVX) Gorgon natural gas development project off the coast of Australia took 30 years to progress from discovery to construction and nearly six more years to start producing liquefied natural gas.11
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Post by Value Buy on May 19, 2022 9:14:42 GMT -5
Food and gas here have skyrocketed in price. Pasta has gone up by 20%. I guess it's Biden's fault. Hmmn, someone is making a fortune on all the Canadian wheat they produce..........must be Trump!
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Post by weltschmerz on May 19, 2022 14:59:10 GMT -5
Food and gas here have skyrocketed in price. Pasta has gone up by 20%. I guess it's Biden's fault. Hmmn, someone is making a fortune on all the Canadian wheat they produce..........must be Trump! You're the one beating a dead horse. I didn't mention Trump. Canada also produces oil, yet the current price of gas is ridiculous. I guess you're not familiar with prices going up due to global demand, war and climate change. New Delhi — India's recent decision to severely restrict wheat exports amid a devastating heatwave has driven up global prices for the basic commodity to record levels, and drawn warnings of looming food shortages around the globe. The price of wheat futures rose by 5.9% Monday to touch an all-time high of $12.68 per half bushel in Chicago, before recovering slightly on Tuesday. In the European market, the price rose to 436.25 euros per ton — up 4.68% during the day's trading. The price of the food staple has risen more than 60% this year for several reasons, but largely due to disruptions caused by the war in Ukraine. Together, Russia and Ukraine — long known as the "bread basket of Europe" — have accounted for almost a third of the world's total wheat exports in recent years. Fertilizer shortages and poor harvests have contributed to the rising prices. www.cbsnews.com/news/india-heat-wave-wheat-prices-soar-climate-change-ukraine-war-supplies/
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Post by weltschmerz on May 19, 2022 15:01:57 GMT -5
Canada lost a great deal of its wheat crop last year due to extreme drought. Lowest yields, ever. This year, it's under water due to extreme flooding.
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Post by dondub on May 19, 2022 15:31:27 GMT -5
Canada lost a great deal of its wheat crop last year due to extreme drought. Lowest yields, ever. This year, it's under water due to extreme flooding. That Biden is so clever. Drought and flooding in Canada, heat wave in India, and Russia~Ukraine war all messing with the wheat crop.
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Post by tbop77 on May 20, 2022 5:47:01 GMT -5
Well today the markets may have finally threw in the towel on Bidenflation and his far left agenda package. Now that people realize their 401-k has become a 301-k they might wake up and decide democrats have screwed the pooch. www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/dow-plunges-nearly-1200-points-in-worst-day-since-march-2020/ar-AAXr8hu?li=BBnb7KzUnlike 2020 when the coronavirus hit and people realized the world will not end in a month the markets started recovering. This time, it may be a five year recovery process. On another thread here I Bonds are paying over 9.5% interest. Even the government knows inflation is rampant. The next thing to drop: housing prices Then even some liberals will feel the pain as real and not a made up Republican talking point. No, we're used to Republicans handing a shitshow economy (remember the financial meltdown?) to us and then bitching, griping and complaining. Same ole/same ole. Most of us liberals know there wouldn't be one bit of difference in what is going on now if Trump had been reelected. Would be some cheap entertainment on how he would spin it to you!
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Post by Opti on May 20, 2022 6:34:20 GMT -5
Well today the markets may have finally threw in the towel on Bidenflation and his far left agenda package. Now that people realize their 401-k has become a 301-k they might wake up and decide democrats have screwed the pooch. www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/dow-plunges-nearly-1200-points-in-worst-day-since-march-2020/ar-AAXr8hu?li=BBnb7KzUnlike 2020 when the coronavirus hit and people realized the world will not end in a month the markets started recovering. This time, it may be a five year recovery process. On another thread here I Bonds are paying over 9.5% interest. Even the government knows inflation is rampant. The next thing to drop: housing prices Then even some liberals will feel the pain as real and not a made up Republican talking point. Housing prices should drop. They were a bubble due to WFH. It forced rents to go up in an unsustainable manner. That actually started some of the inflation prior to Ukraine and concerns about oil & wheat from Russia and Ukraine.
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Post by tallguy on May 20, 2022 11:30:49 GMT -5
Trolls gotta troll.
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Post by weltschmerz on May 20, 2022 13:32:16 GMT -5
Well today the markets may have finally threw in the towel on Bidenflation and his far left agenda package. Now that people realize their 401-k has become a 301-k they might wake up and decide democrats have screwed the pooch. www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/dow-plunges-nearly-1200-points-in-worst-day-since-march-2020/ar-AAXr8hu?li=BBnb7KzUnlike 2020 when the coronavirus hit and people realized the world will not end in a month the markets started recovering. This time, it may be a five year recovery process. On another thread here I Bonds are paying over 9.5% interest. Even the government knows inflation is rampant. The next thing to drop: housing prices Then even some liberals will feel the pain as real and not a made up Republican talking point. Lol! Far left. He'd be considered a conservative in Canada, and probably the rest of the developed world. There's nothing far left about him.
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Post by pulmonarymd on May 20, 2022 14:58:42 GMT -5
When you are right of Attila the hum, everything is far left
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Post by happyhoix on May 21, 2022 19:41:02 GMT -5
I see a poll came out and 75% of the people polled felt the country was headed in the wrong direction. Interesting you mention that. I saw a news program that interviewed a bunch of Atlantans of different political positions different political questions, and one was “Do you think the country is going in the wrong direction. One of the Dem voters, original from New Jersey, said that she had never seen such overt racism until she moved to Georgia, and she felt like it was getting worse. She was considering moving North again - she felt strongly the country was going in the wrong direction. Another guy who voted Democratic said he also felt it was going in the wrong direction due to the intense bipartisanship and animosity everyone had for each other since Trump was elected A woman who identified as Republican got very angry and said it was clear to her we are going in a wrong direction and she was furious at all the stupid democratic voters and wanting to shout at all of them ‘are you happy now?” So I think a better question would have been to give the responders a list of reasons why you think the country is going in the wrong direction.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 21, 2022 22:37:54 GMT -5
I see a poll came out and 75% of the people polled felt the country was headed in the wrong direction. Link please. I find it bizarre you have a smiley emoji at the end of your quoted post. You're happy that your investments are losing money as are other U.S. investors. You are happy you are paying more for gasoline. Happy you are paying more to purchase food. Apparently happy more U.S. residents are getting sick and dying from Covid. That's pretty sick. Normal folks would have used an angry emoji.
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Post by tbop77 on May 22, 2022 7:02:00 GMT -5
I see a poll came out and 75% of the people polled felt the country was headed in the wrong direction. Link please. I find it bizarre you have a smiley emoji at the end of your quoted post. You're happy that your investments are losing money as are other U.S. investors. You are happy you are paying more for gasoline. Happy you are paying more to purchase food. Apparently happy more U.S. residents are getting sick and dying from Covid. That's pretty sick. Normal folks would have used an angry emoji. You just summed up that party of Trump.
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