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.
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 if you're fat and not old. And we've known this for far longer than we didn'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.
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 if you're fat and not old. And we've known this for far longer than we didn'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!"