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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Karin on June 14, 2022, 02:18:08 PM
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142929320 (https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142929320)
This is from a thread about the sinking stock market. Never run across this dude before.
The Mouth (2,613 posts)
17. The worst thing around here is the denial
It seems alike there is a chorus of excuses and minimizing just how seriously *BAD* things are.
I swear, one more person saying crap like "It's about the war in Russia", "Gas prices aren't as bad as under GWB accounting for inflation", "The Fed is just doing what it has to do" and every other version of "It's not so bad" is doing a grave disservice to the very real experiences of normal Americans who are getting hit *HARD* with both deadly inflation and a plunging market.
What some didn't seem to get about the insane gas prices (And IDGAF about how much gas costs per liter in Europe) is that these prices aren't just "Well get an electric car", these prices are why everything in every store is going up.
I'm sick and tired of people with their hands over their ears going 'LALALALA I can't hear you middle class rubes crying" and having as the only stock responses the war in Ukraine, the reaction from Covid, or how bad TGF was.
The party in power owns the economy. Right now, the economy sucks; we have inflation, we have a crashing stock market. Denial is bullshit.
The economy is a disaster, this is an emergency, people are hurting, and our leadership is not addressing this existential danger. This is as bad as the 1970's, but at least Carter and even Ford knew how terrible inflation is, I get very little sense of urgency from our leadership and none from the Pollyannas with rose colored glasses who have have either the 'let them eat cake' of the electric car people or the bitter jealousy of people who have no investments to be despoiled.
When you go to the store and the same stuff costs almost twice as much as it did the year before, there are no sufficient excuses, there is no explanation, there is no reason that is going to be sufficient for a lot of people to vote for whoever was *not* the incumbent.
The President and our leadership need to acknowledge how bad this is, make getting inflation under control the absolute number ONE priority no matter what has to happen to any other initiative, do any and everything to make it easier for goods to be manufactured, extracted and transported regardless of what sacred cows need to be slaughtered to make the factories roar, the oil and gas fields pump, and the trucks; everything else can wait.
This guys with the gross username replies:
LymphocyteLover (3,194 posts)
26. It is bad but there's no doubt the administration is doing what they can to mitigate
the situation and they are talking about it.
I think Dem voters realize that a lot of these things are out of the control of the POTUS and congressional Dems, the problem is the mushy middle, as usual.
We have to hope things stabilize by the end of summer.
He didn't listen to a thing the Mouth had to say. All that demented shithead says is how great his booming economy is. And yells at you for not getting it.
Nobody else cared to comment on the post.
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Of course they won't comment. It's all true. I'm surprised it wasn't instantly banned!
If this had happened under any republican administration those people would be apoplectic. They have a thread over there about how much mortgage rates are jumping and most of them seem 'ho hum' about it. Lord have mercy! Everything is going to hell in a handbasket and I don't care how much they try to say the administration is not to blame, the administration IS to blame.
If they have so much faith in what they're saying, why don't they petition Joe Biden to UNsign the 150 EO's he signed in like his first week and see what happens. They won't do that because they're afraid of what it will show.
KC
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Talk about painting a target on your back…
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It's the 70's all over again. Remember when Ronald Reagan rescued us from James Earl Carter? Well, there's another "Ron" waiting in the wings to rescue us from James Earl BIDEN!!! Yay, DeSantis!!!!
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Warpy (103,111 posts)
19. Why was the market booming in the first place
QE never went to Main Street, it went to Wall street.
Why do you think most billionaires vote democrat, DUmbass?
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What exactly is the administration doing to mitigate the severity of the bad economy. Nothing mediately comes to mind.