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Posted on 03/09/2026 10:34:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Eight months before the crucial midterm elections, the administration of President Donald Trump is battling high living costs. The strike against Iran threatens to undo the first successes achieved in the struggle against inflation via falling energy prices.
Ludwig Erhard understood the formula for sustained political success. The equation was as simple as it was powerful: stable money circulating in free markets coordinates the millions of individual decisions made by households, businesses, and credit institutions -- day after day -- in the most efficient manner.
Stable money requires a lean state. Public debt, meanwhile, is widely regarded as the primary cause of inflation, because it is typically financed or diluted not through real growth but through the central bank’s printing press.
Erhard condensed his economic principles in his popular work Prosperity for All -- recommended reading for anyone seeking to understand the roots of Germany’s present political crisis from the perspective of economic policy.
Regardless of how one assesses his chancellorship, the framework designed by the nonpartisan liberal economist remains a civilizational achievement of modernity. It stands for economic rationality, rules-based order, and the conviction that prosperity grows out of freedom. Yet these principles are too often forgotten -- or systematically discredited by political and left-wing ideologies.
In the United States, after years of regulatory decay, this thinking has found renewed resonance. Donald Trump deliberately aligned his campaign with Erhardian principles. He understood that elections are decided at the checkout counter, in housing prices, and at the gas pump. The upcoming midterms -- where half of Congress is up for election -- will effectively become a referendum on living costs and the purchasing power of the working middle class.
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Those prices are lower, way lower, than at any time under Otto Pen. And this is in Commiefornica
Our gas prices just went up by 18 cents a gallon a week ago thanks to a new tax imposed by Navin Newsom and his band of plundering demonicRATS in the Legislature.
RE: Our gas prices just went up by 18 cents a gallon a week ago thanks to a new tax imposed by Navin Newsom
Well, you’ve got company. Gas prices have risen to an average of $3.40 everywhere in the USA because of this war in Iran, although not as high as they are in Kalifornia. Let’s hope it comes down soon.
Its just a short term pain for long term gain.
Trust the plan.
I wonder if we kicked 20 million illegals and their children off of welfare it would change things?
Purely anecdotal, but I do the cooking and grocery shopping and, unfortunately, live in NJ. The prices have gone down for me. The only killer on my list is the price of beef.
RE: The only killer on my list is the price of beef.
I see that here in my part of town as well. Lately, I’ve been buying more chicken and less beef. I don’t NEED to have beef if they’re expensive. Chicken, Pork, Lamb, Venison — so many other alternatives.
At least I think it is. I didn't actually read it. I have standards!
Same here in Oregon. Prices at the grocery store have come down near half from Chomo Joe. I even got eggs at 50 cents a dozen on sale a few weeks ago. Eggs are back down. I got shredded cheese 3 a pound. Local beef $6 a pound for the good cuts. The only thing not lower is beer (I don’t drink anymore -:() but hard liquor is the same. Restaurants are insanely expensive but that is state and local regulations kicking up the costs. Staples like rice, beans, grains, all around $1.50 a pound in bulk. Butter was on sale $2 a pound.
Gasoline is higher but Pregon always had one of the highest in the nation. Still cheaper than anytime with Chomo Joe. But Diesel has remained the same. So likely the gas is higher for the new blends and the inevitable shuttering of the regional refineries to ‘save the planet.’
Prices go up with democrats in power. Always.
It takes a minute to right the ship. Chill. It will be ok.
I remember the shock when BHW Bish invaded Oraw the first time. After a few weeks oil prices crashed. Iran will be the same way. All this talk of Iran closing the strait of Hormuz is bluster. Not much to stop shipping when their navy is at the bottom of the sea.
Trump must neuter Newson or he will blame the high gas prices on Trump and the Iran war. Once in Power—Trump will be impeached or assassinated. Vance next as the new “Hitler” and a Religious zealot -—he will be tarred with the orangeman bad brush. Then the road to turn the whole US government bright socialist blue. A new pandemic, environmental laws, Make America California. All things Trump torn down-starting with the wall, the ballroom, Trump Tower, The new Navy. Freedom of speech the first to go.
Sorry Surrender Monkeys but this steaming pile of garbage didn’t age well:
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: A left-wing NBC poll just dropped finding the American people TRUST Republicans more on the issue of immigration by +12 points, crime by +22 points, border security by +27 points — and TIED on the economy ahead of the midterms.
Mr. Trump sacrifices his Republican Majority on the altar of Zionist ambition.
>> Mr. Trump sacrifices his Republican Majority on the altar of Zionist ambition.
You’re an idiot. A Jew-hating idiot.
Are you really this stupid??
People are idiots if they think Democrats will lower prices.
Most of the stormfront clowns here are.
I forgot that Navin ran the last oil refinery in Commiefornica out of town recently so that helped prices rise as well. Meanwhile, there’s oil seeping up through the ocean floor right off the coast. Heaven forbid we should allow anyone to go get it.
Trust Trump.
Margaret Thatcher told President George H.W. Bush,
“Remember George, this is no time to go wobbly,” in August 1990 following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
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