Devil's advocate: this is objectively less bad than the gas crisis of the 70s or war-rationing during WW2 but only because we have so much more today than we did back then; still, all of this is self-inflicted which the writer and many might miss. We can easily end the staffing and supply chain issues at any time, whereas previous shortages were due to outside circumstances.
That's what makes all the nonsense with the inflation and supply chain so galling. Okay, there's a war, or a cartel gets together to bottleneck oil. Not good but we have to make sacrifices when our country's at war and can't help when the people making a resource everyone needs decide to buddy up to drive the prices up.
But the nonsense we've had to deal with since March 2020, completely self-inflicted over something that isn't even a threat unless you're fat and old. And we've known this for far longer than we haven't. Jan-May or so, ok, understandable to react as we did (to a point) when all we had was various footage of people being welded into their homes and massive smoke plumes from crematoria in China, but now?
And that's not even going into how even when we didn't know anything things started going overboard. The massive devaluing of the $, whole commercial sectors shut down for months. Paying people not to work. Driving small businesses into bankruptcy. Months of unchecked riots. Completely self-inflicted and it could have been avoided if we didn't have the misfortune to have the "leaders" we currently have.
All of that and they have the nerve to say "everything's fine!" "Don't worry about it!" "Inflation is good!"
edit: Oh, and for whatever reason, there's been surveys done floating around that show Democrat voters generally think the economy's good.
I've heard enough that it seems the gas crisis of the 70s was self-inflicted too. I've spoken about it with people who were alive at the time, and the common consensus was that they had the tankers full of fuel just sitting off the coast refusing to dock them. I can't remember what the supposed motive was, so take that with a grain of salt.
Devil's advocate: this is objectively less bad than the gas crisis of the 70s or war-rationing during WW2 but only because we have so much more today than we did back then; still, all of this is self-inflicted which the writer and many might miss. We can easily end the staffing and supply chain issues at any time, whereas previous shortages were due to outside circumstances.
That's what makes all the nonsense with the inflation and supply chain so galling. Okay, there's a war, or a cartel gets together to bottleneck oil. Not good but we have to make sacrifices when our country's at war and can't help when the people making a resource everyone needs decide to buddy up to drive the prices up.
But the nonsense we've had to deal with since March 2020, completely self-inflicted over something that isn't even a threat unless you're fat and old. And we've known this for far longer than we haven't. Jan-May or so, ok, understandable to react as we did (to a point) when all we had was various footage of people being welded into their homes and massive smoke plumes from crematoria in China, but now?
And that's not even going into how even when we didn't know anything things started going overboard. The massive devaluing of the $, whole commercial sectors shut down for months. Paying people not to work. Driving small businesses into bankruptcy. Months of unchecked riots. Completely self-inflicted and it could have been avoided if we didn't have the misfortune to have the "leaders" we currently have.
All of that and they have the nerve to say "everything's fine!" "Don't worry about it!" "Inflation is good!"
edit: Oh, and for whatever reason, there's been surveys done floating around that show Democrat voters generally think the economy's good.
How they could think that, I have no idea.
40% of all dollars in circulation were printed in the last 12 months
I've heard enough that it seems the gas crisis of the 70s was self-inflicted too. I've spoken about it with people who were alive at the time, and the common consensus was that they had the tankers full of fuel just sitting off the coast refusing to dock them. I can't remember what the supposed motive was, so take that with a grain of salt.
I wasn’t alive during that time, but I suppose they were trying the Great Reset back then too,