Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

They changed the way inflation is calculated. If it was still calculated the way it was when Carter was president it would already be over 15%.

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yankeeinstitute.org

Inflation may be much higher than reported, and that could hurt seniors and the poor

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that inflation in 2021 had hit 6.8 percent, a rate not seen since 1982, but, according to some economists, the reality may be much worse and that could leave senior citizens and o...

Link:yankeeinstitute.org/2021/12/15/inflati...

Oooh fun game. I’ll play!

Number of people who died of covid when Obama was president: 0

number of people who died of Covid when trump was president: Maybe 500,000.

Your death toll from covid was much lower when Obama was president.

Hooma, agip and Flagpole, you just down voted articles and statements from 3 individuals who worked for Obama (El-Erian was chair of President Obama's Global Development Council from 2012–17). Summers was an advisor for Biden as recent as 2020. These are the words of people in your own party that you are down voting. The inflationary crisis we are currently experiencing was predicted by your own party and yet, you glean to the idea that economic policies couldn't possibly cause inflation. Take your blinders off and acknowledge the massive cluster*@$% that Biden and the Democrats created.

Agip - this is what class is all about . Watch and learn ...

foxnews.com

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Link:www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ivanka-t...

Biden was gifted three Covid vaccines from Trump. Trump had NO Covid vaccines - number of deaths under Trump was far fewer than those under Biden who had THREE COVID VACCINES gifted to him.

I highly recommend you not get into a discussion with with a ma.gat about Economics, supply and demand. You will lose any optimistic view you might still hold about the intelligence of the US population as well as the US educational system.
You have to trust me on this one.

Trump was anti vaccine and still is despite getting them. Go figure another republican hypocrite

Terrible energy policies, slow-to-act central banks, labor shortages...

We're not going to ignore Biden's mistakes just because other countries have problems too.

AKA:

"Never argue with idiots. They'll only bring you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

go ahead 'loper. Say 'inflation is because of COVID and the war.' You can say it. I know you can say it. Just take the step. it's easy.

Thoughts:

1) Unfortunately, applies to pretty much any topic.

2) The good news for teachers is that I think that Trumpism demonstrates that teachers have it REALLY hard in shaping certain minds into any thing resembling properly-thinking humans.

Imagine the most dishonest, disgusting, utterly transparent American public official of all time. You watch him for years. And you STILL believe what he says. And you STILL disbelieve criticism of him. And you'd STILL like him to be in power again.

If way too many modern Americans can't get over that infinitesimal hump of critical thinking, imagine your chances of teaching them to think with any sophistication or nuance whatsoever? An impossible task. But hey, the job security and pension are generally pretty good.

FFS summers has been predicting a massive inflation outbreak for a generation. Or more. When it finally happened you can't give him any credit. A broken clock is right twice a day but isn't a meaningful tool. I don't know the others' history but it's probably similar. Anyway, NO ONE can predict macro economic results with any skill. No one.

Inflation is 90% because of COVID and the war. Inflation will recede when we are healed from COVID and the war is over. That's the story. the extra spending was just an icing on top of that.

This cherry picking of experts is nonsense and you are smart enough to know that if you know how hard it is to predict oil prices a year out.

I've made plenty of posts about inflation over the last 2 years including arguing with people in 2021 who said it high inflation was "impossible" or would magically work itself out in a couple months. I already know the causes of inflation and don't need to repeat them all. I'm not going to stop criticizing the ways the government made it worse.

this is something I've thought about for years....that from I dunno 1945-2016 it didn't really matter who was president. Not really. US politics were played within the 40 yard lines. So civics, critical thinking etc weren't all that important. Whether you voted or not wasn't a big deal. Any major party candidate was genuinely making normal decisions. The major parties kept the crazies small and on the margins. Whoever was elected would be...ok.

But then we elected trump and suddenly American politics were played on the entire football field. It matters who is president now. Our democracy depends on who is president. So all this garbage civics education and lack of humanities in college MEANS something now.

The electorate has to be able to see trump for what he is - an authoritarian huckster criminal who has thrown the entire nation under the bus to help him get richer and stay out of jail. If we can't see that then we will lose our democracy.

Critical thinking is suddenly life or death important to the American experiment.

BTW I do think Larry Summers is exaggerating (about how much deficit spending and interest rates matter).

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why do I suddenly long for some tangy wing sauce.

this is something I've thought about for years....that from I dunno 1945-2016 it didn't really matter who was president. Not really. US politics were played within the 40 yard lines. So civics, critical thinking etc weren't all that important. Whether you voted or not wasn't a big deal. Any major party candidate was genuinely making normal decisions. The major parties kept the crazies small and on the margins. Whoever was elected would be...ok.

But then we elected trump and suddenly American politics were played on the entire football field. It matters who is president now. Our democracy depends on who is president. So all this garbage civics education and lack of humanities in college MEANS something now.

The electorate has to be able to see trump for what he is - an authoritarian huckster criminal who has thrown the entire nation under the bus to help him get richer and stay out of jail. If we can't see that then we will lose our democracy.

Critical thinking is suddenly life or death important to the American experiment.

The 100,000+ who died in pointless wars might disagree with your 3rd grade level assessment of US history.

If the president is too far from the middle or grossly incompetent it leads to problems. LBJ was incompetent. Carter was incompetent. Bush Jr. was incompetent. Obama was too far from the middle.