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New evidence that Democrats are seeking a massive inflation booster shot
Washington Examiner ^ | 01/11/21 | Thompson

Posted on 01/12/2022 5:33:23 AM PST by Phoenix8

One of the main reasons Sen. Joe Manchin said he could not vote for President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" bill is his concern about inflation. Manchin is worried the bill would increase deficits and debt and fuel even more inflation, which is now rising faster than it has in 40 years.

Manchin's concerns about inflation are confirmed by two recent studies. They show inflation costs the average U.S. household an incredible $5,000 a year.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: biden; booster; boostershot; brucethompson; getthebooster; inflation
5000 dollars a year….is a lot for a retired guy.

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed under Trump everything was his responsibility but now the MSM always has excuses? Inflation is caused by COVID and the supply chain etc.

1 posted on 01/12/2022 5:33:23 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8

Yeah, we don’t have a lot of extra cash either. What CAN’T CONvid do?


2 posted on 01/12/2022 5:38:20 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Phoenix8

I have noticed that. Even vax “safety and effectiveness” to my chagrin.

But that is the hallmark of a good leader.


3 posted on 01/12/2022 5:39:28 AM PST by Sarcazmo
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To: Phoenix8

Democrats take zero responsibility for anything. In other words they are IRRESPONSIBLE. Or any of these would work (reckless, undependable, negligent, feckless, unreliable, immoral, immature, impractical, careless, untrustworthy, rash, unstable, arbitrary, impetuous, impulsive, irrational, unaccountable, unthinking, thoughtless, unethical, dishonest, hypocritical, reprehensible)

Yea, it was fun just running through the Thesaurus looking up descriptive words for Democrats. So Many Fitting Words!!!!


4 posted on 01/12/2022 5:45:28 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Phoenix8
"5000 dollars a year….is a lot for a retired guy."

Yeah, tell me about.... :(

5 posted on 01/12/2022 5:45:36 AM PST by unread (Everything you ever thought was right, fair and just is completely wrong..... I think..(?))
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To: Phoenix8

Yeah, well the government workers will be fine, they will just give themselves raises.


6 posted on 01/12/2022 6:03:40 AM PST by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: Phoenix8

It’s a bit too early in the tenure, but my deepest hope is all this horribleness means there is a Ron at the end of the tunnel….


7 posted on 01/12/2022 6:23:57 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: OHPatriot

Thesauri are proof the English language is delightfully flexible and “diverse”.


8 posted on 01/12/2022 6:25:32 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: Phoenix8

Few remember the Carter Years and people bragging they got ONLY 14% interest rate on their home mortgage.


9 posted on 01/12/2022 6:35:26 AM PST by Zathras
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To: McGavin999

BINGO! that is what happened in the 70s. I watched as federal employees got steady COL increases while the rest of us got little or nothing.


10 posted on 01/12/2022 6:37:06 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: Phoenix8

Inflation is caused by the federal government, which mints money, spending money which it doesn’t have. Inflation devalues all wealth. So when government issues money to people it is taking that money from people who earned it, and giving to people who did not earn it. By any name inflation is theft.


11 posted on 01/12/2022 6:45:57 AM PST by nagant
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To: Sarcazmo

I know Trump also had some stimulus bills but it seemed to me inflation really hit “overdrive” after Biden’s bill. I think the difference was Trumps bill was a direct payment to ALL Americans so the economy was stimulated and we had money to spend. (After saying that let’s be honest—frugality wasn’t Trumps best quality)

Also Biden has spent more in his first year than any year Trump was in office (2020 6.6 trillion, 2021 6.8 Trillion). So that’s a reason for much of the inflation, printing money. IMO.

Just for farts and giggles I also noticed in my search the last year the US had a surplus was 2001. Imagine if you had been going deeper in debt every year for 21 consecutive years….


12 posted on 01/12/2022 6:59:03 AM PST by Phoenix8 (:)
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To: Phoenix8
They show inflation costs the average U.S. household an incredible $5,000 a year.

I think it is more than that - what with gas up over $1.00/gallon, along with everything else.

I am shocked at how high my grocery bill is for just two people - who don't eat a lot of meat. I rarely get out of the market for less than $90-$100.

13 posted on 01/12/2022 7:00:30 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: OHPatriot
Democrats take zero responsibility for anything

Because so many of them either:

1. Don't work.

2. Work as politicians.

Yet they want us to believe that their "ideas" and "feelings" about how our lives are supposed to be trump reality, data and facts.

While the media report it all with a straight face while demonizing Trump and Republicans.

14 posted on 01/12/2022 7:03:02 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Bon of Babble

I can’t believe the quality of the fruit! It’s awful! When we order groceries, most of the time the fruit we ordered has bad pieces in it. By bad, I mean oranges, strawberries with unmistakable mold on them. I picked up a bad of radishes once and some of them were actually LIQUIFIED in the bag.
And this is at all the local stores.


15 posted on 01/12/2022 7:43:09 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: telescope115

Sorry about your rotten fruit. One of the best things about living in California is that I can grow a lot of my own produced almost all year around.

That and everything seems to have grown smaller in size.

I picked up some King’s Hawaiian hamburger buns the other day - I’ve been buying them for decades - got home, and they were the size of their normal rolls - looked at the package to make sure they were hamburger buns. It took two to make up what one used to be.

Also, the heat-n-eat meals my local market sells used to feed two people - easily - now one barely feeds one of us, there is so much less of it.

Noticed there was a lot of air space in the liquid detergent I always buy, so there is less of it in there, despite what the label says.

The “new normal” in Biden’s America.


16 posted on 01/12/2022 8:07:14 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Phoenix8

NYS gave $34MM of stimulus checks, to friggin INMATES!!!


17 posted on 01/12/2022 8:22:27 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Bon of Babble

We visited California back in 2005, our first and only time. We were invited by friends in Costa Mesa to stay with them for a week. It’s a beautiful state, it’s too bad the liberals have messed it up. There are a lot of places I would love to see.


18 posted on 01/12/2022 8:23:01 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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