Government Shut Down

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Adak

Now that is a very good observation, now ask yourself "WHO is causing the inflation? What is causing the inflation?

Overspending, and printing more and more money, when we don't have the actual increase in our economy's wealth, to cover it.

Guess what. Oh you'll never guess. Not only is this criticism not true if you adjust for inflation, it's not true if you DON'T!

Not adjusting for inflation is the second answer on this stackexchange discussion. The first answer is looking at the question without even adjusting for inflation.

See there's criticism, which I'm very open to, and then there's shit-flinging monkeys. Most criticism on both sides comes from shit-flinging monkeys. Don't be a shit-flinging monkey. We already have way too many of those.

[lumberjim]

Word

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Adak

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Any Commander-In-Chief, who refuses to give the veterans of foreign wars respect, is VERY questionable!
Any Commander-In-Chief, who refuses to allow veterans of foreign wars, access to their OWN war memorial for political gamesmanship, is an utter ass-wipe!
If Obama was a REAL Commander-In-Chief, he would apologize to those vets, and personally lead them around the memorial, in a return visit.
But he won't of course.

I had heard about the vets at the WWII Memorial, but had not followed the news.
So, when I came across this Washington Post pic, I thought of Adak.



But then, don't these "vets" look sort of young to be WWII vets ?

Adak, must be so proud... and their parents must be too !

[Adak]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Guess what. Oh you'll never guess. Not only is this criticism not true if you adjust for inflation, it's not true if you DON'T!

Not adjusting for inflation is the second answer on this stackexchange discussion. The first answer is looking at the question without even adjusting for inflation.

See there's criticism, which I'm very open to, and then there's shit-flinging monkeys. Most criticism on both sides comes from shit-flinging monkeys. Don't be a shit-flinging monkey. We already have way too many of those.

So in your opinion, inflation is not caused by government and treasury dept. policies, including the Fed. Res. Bank?

You are a national treasure!

Too bad every single economist, politician in either party, and the people who work in the above departments of gov't / institution, disagree with you.

[Adak]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

I had heard about the vets at the WWII Memorial, but had not followed the news.
So, when I came across this Washington Post pic, I thought of Adak.

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But then, don't these "vets" look sort of young to be WWII vets ?

Adak, must be so proud... and their parents must be too !

I am proud of these guys! Do you REALLY believe 80 year old vets can man-handle steel barricades?

Many of them can barely walk, or use a cane or a wheel chairs, furrkristSakes!

This was the ass-wipe Obama, operating WAY outside his purview, and we have every right to dissent and protest that action.

What? Did you think dissent and protest should be limited to 80 year olds? Maybe we should sit around and wring our hands out and shake our heads?

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Adak

So in your opinion, inflation is not caused by government and treasury dept. policies, including the Fed. Res. Bank?

You are a national treasure!

Too bad every single economist, politician in either party, and the people who work in the above departments of gov't / institution, disagree with you.

You may not be intelligent or intellectually honest enough for us to have this discussion. It is not about inflation. It is about adjusting for inflation.

Do you know what adjusting for inflation is, and why it's important when comparing dollars from 1970 against dollars from today?

[Undertoad]

By the way, I favor the Milton Friedman school of thought which says that inflation is mostly caused by money supply.

[Adak]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

You may not be intelligent or intellectually honest enough for us to have this discussion. It is not about inflation. It is about adjusting for inflation.

Do you know what adjusting for inflation is, and why it's important when comparing dollars from 1970 against dollars from today?

You're too insulting to have an intelligent conversation with, it appears.

[Undertoad]

I'm a national treasure.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Adak

You're too insulting to have an intelligent conversation with, it appears.

Please overlook the insult if you can, Adak. Can you, will you please, answer his question about adjusting for inflation and how it applies to your original point?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I'm a national treasure.

word.

[Undertoad]

Adak said so, #289

[Big Sarge]

Undertoad - I agree, you are a "National Treasure". I know you are our benevolent overlord and would make the ultimate supreme leader of planet earth.

Adak - The government shut down sucked big time and there is a lot of blame to go around. I am not a fan of the current administration, but calling the President of the United States an ass wipe is wrong in so many ways. You may not like the man, but for God's sake you need to respect the office he holds and what he represents.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I'm a national treasure.

[Lamplighter]

NY Times
JONATHAN WEISMAN
December 10, 2013

Capitol Leaders Agree to a Deal on the Budget
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The agreement, which would finance the government through Sept. 30, 2015,
would eliminate about $63 billion in across-the-board domestic and military cuts.
But it would provide $23 billion in deficit reduction by extending a 2 percent cut
to Medicare providers through 2023, two years beyond the cuts set by the Budget Control Act of 2011.
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While the agreement had the backing of senior House Republicans, Heritage Action,
the political arm of the Heritage Foundation and a group influential with rank-and-file
House Republicans, came out against the deal even before it was announced,
as did Americans for Prosperity, the advocacy group backed by the billionaire brothers
Charles and David Koch, and Koch Industries, the conservative brothers’ energy and paper conglomerate.<snip>

Sometimes I think this sort of GOP theatrics is just a ploy to make
the Democrats think they are getting a good deal.

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