I think my chocolate ration just increased to 20 grams.
Say What?
The only “insidious” activity with respect to inflation comes ftom the government.
Typical Democrats....blame others.
It is not defunding police and tolerance of gangs that lead to high homicide rates....it is the availability of tools, like guns.
It is not a shortage of oil, driving up the price of a commodity....it is greed by oil companies that make less per gallon than government.
It is not an FDA that sat on its hands since October while baby formula went into shortages....it is price gouging by companies.
To Durbin, producers covering their costs equals “price gouging”.
Democrat polices created these disasters ... period ... but naturally, they whine “it’s not our fault” ... “circumstances are beyond our control” ... “there’s nothing we can do” ... “we’re working REALLY hard” ... “it’s the other guy’s fault” ...Democrats always offer excuses rather than fixes, because actual fixes are always diametrically opposed to Democrat ideology ... Democrats: the party of “can’t do and f@@k you” ...
Where Democrats can tell people that it is the end of the month, as opposed to the middle, and MSNBC will certainly not question such a pronouncement.
Vintage Stalin. Blame the businesses, then begin to bring them under govt ownership.
Paying people not to work so they fall off counting them in the unemployment numbers isn’t record employment.
LOL! Only a democrat, whose brains can’t even grasp an economic concept of inflation, would say that it’s price gouging!
Everyone’s costs have gone up.
The farmer who fuels up his tractor, and who has to paid a lot more for parts that take 3 months to arrive. The trucker, in that very same boat. The food processing plant, can’t find enough workers, and has to pay the ones they have twice what they were paying them last year, and that’s when airplanes aren’t flying into their warehouses and causing fires.
Now that’s three steps for the price of a food item to get more expensive, and that doesn’t even account for the trucks to take the food from the plant to a distribution center, or to pay workers at distribution, or for the retailers, who also have to raise prices to pay workers enough to actually show up and clock in.
I’m sure there are lots of additional costs in this hypothetical supply path that were miss, but to Dick Durbin, it’s just one evil guy somewhere jacking up prices. He does so arbitrarily, because his products magically appear from out of thin air, and have nothing to do with higher costs snowballing everything up.
What you said
Listening to career politicians talk about anything is like listening to Manson debating Geraldo.
I used to think these people had no real clue about economics but now I know that they do understand economics and just want to wipe out the middle class.
And there I was trusting my education again. I just needed to listen to a Dick and that fixed everything.
The government (FDA) shut down a large plant that produces baby formula for no good reason.
Inflation is a monetary phenomenon created by Washington.
Folks,
We can have some price gouging but it is available when we want it
OR
We can have price controls and we stand in line.
CHOOSE................................
Oh. I am so tired of hearing the name Dick Durbin. How does an idiot like him keep getting reelected for so many years?