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82-T/A [At Work]
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JUN 05, 08:47 PM
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I'm trying to understand how the country isn't completely up in arms over the massive inflation we've seen in every single category. How is Biden STILL... STILL at 40% approval rating.
I can't find a single poll aggregator that allows the collective polling to drop below 40% for Biden... this has got to be complete bull **** .
I'm lucky, I basically increased my income by 35% in January of 2022. You guys don't know me, so I just don't care at this point. I make a quarter million dollars a year, not counting various investments, rental income, and my wife's salary. I also now work from home, so I don't have to worry about fuel prices anymore. With the money I make, I stupidly hand my credit card over for whatever it is that I want without having to really think about it. I'm not "wealthy" but consider myself really lucky that I'm able to afford a certain lifestyle for my family. I save, I save a lot... so I don't buy fancy big cars or spend my money on really big stupid stuff. But I do take my family to dinner on Friday, Saturday and Sunday... because I can, and because my wife works also... doesn't seem fair for her to cook the entire week.
I'm really, really getting ****ing pissed. I just paid $100 bucks for some bull **** sushi for three people; a teenager, myself, and my wife. I realize this sounds totally stupid... but if I'm pissed about the cost of eating out at a sushi restaurant that would have been like $50 (and bigger portions) a year ago. I can't even IMAGINE what it must be like for the average person who has to drive to work at least 5 days a week at ~$4.50 a gallon, and who's grocery expenses have gone up MORE than double since January of 2021.
I am ****ing pissed to no end that after getting a huge pay increase, almost all of it has gone to inflation. And while I realize how lucky I am to be in the situation I'm in right now where I can be upset by stupid silly things, I'm beside myself at how incredibly retarded apparently 40% of this country is that they're so ****ing stupid that even though inflation has been surging since March of 2021, that they somehow think that all of this has to do with Russia's war with Ukraine... and that somehow none of this was going on before March of 2022... as if they just totally forgot anything before the Russia/Ukraine war.
WTF is wrong with this country... how are people able to survive?
When I was like 19-20... I could barely afford to buy the gas I needed for my Fiero to take me back and forth to work. At that time (in the late 90s) if gas prices swung 20 cents, it was a really big ****ing deal for me. There were times I could barely afford to buy groceries. What are THOSE people doing? How are they even surviving right now???
I know there have to be people today like I was then... where the smallest cost increase makes a huge impact on your budget. Where are these people? How come they are not losing their **** and speaking more loudly???
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randye
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JUN 05, 09:21 PM
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rinselberg
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JUN 05, 09:38 PM
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Within every American who responds to a pollster, there's an inner Betsey Stevenson.
Highlighted moment at 4 minutes and 34 seconds:
https://youtu.be/jo2YQF2Ento?t=274
[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 06-05-2022).]
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MidEngineManiac
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JUN 05, 10:07 PM
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Where are they ?
Juggling bills, eating ramen noodles, making minimum and partial payments, using up all the credit, living off the bank of mom and dad....or dealing meth.
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WonderBoy
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JUN 06, 12:38 AM
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The jobs report is bogus. The unemployment report is bogus. ADP is NOT the sole company who deals with payroll numbers. The gov controls the numbers. The MSM controls the narrative to deliver the bulls**t to the masses. Talking heads and celebs get paid well, because they have an important job: Tell the masses what to think.
"....control, uh, exactly what people think, that's our job...."
If you've got the $money$, can lick ice cream containers and put them back in the stores freezer, talking head or hollyweird persons birthday or death, YOU have nothing but social media with bots, like the rinselbot.
Seriously, WTF was the Depp/Heard trial covered on the MSM for? Just another BS distraction. That's not news.
Again as a person in the telecom industry, I've seen what's going on 'out there'. Families are moving in with one another. People are cutting back. Many rental properties are being bought up quick once they're on the market by big investment firms. I've heard so many customers tell me they moved because rent was jacked up when the apartment was sold.
There are more people pan-handling at more big box stores, high way off ramps and intersections. Places where is wasn't before in the years I've traveled my territory I cover.
S**t, both the storage lockers I rent, the rental fees went up $15.00. Why? What does a storage place have to do with the price of fuel? Supply-chain issues? Electricity/energy issues since NONE at this place has environmentally controlled storage units? This place has been established for 30+ years, not like it's not paid off. Why? WTF is going on.
All roads lead to Davos. Where all the big companies attend. Follow the ownership pyramid.
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cliffw
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JUN 06, 08:49 AM
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That is so funny. I am going to give you a positive for that, I can't give you two.
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Fats
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JUN 07, 12:46 PM
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I don't get how some people are still going.
We're doing OK and with no kids, we don't have the expenses that others have. But sheesh things are taking their toll.
I only use less than 10 gallons of gas a week going to work and back, and that hurts. My wife's car is a hybrid and gets around 35 mpg, but it stays parked and we take my little car about everywhere because the extra mileage helps a bit.
We're still getting whatever groceries and such delivered to the house if possible, but I expect that option to start going away when the companies start losing money on delivery costs.
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MidEngineManiac
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JUN 07, 01:16 PM
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Personally, I've always been a cheap b-turd  and its paying off. I took my pension while Kim was sick (can only do SO much without going back to a hospital myself) so have a comfortable but not great baseline. Side-gig stuff is back to side-gig. Docs wanted to put me there in 2017 but I told them I wasn't THAT old and hung on another 4 years.
Dont eat out at ALL anymore. Even my coffee has switched to a "value brand" (it's Folgers, just re-labeled for walmart). Bought a collapsible wagon and its only 5 klicks walk to the store round trip. Helps keep me in sorta-shape and shoes are still cheap to replace. LOTS of bulk-cook and freeze stews and such to stretch the grocery buck. Watch the fliers and stock up when ya can. ALWAYS got at least 10 pounds of rice and pasta on hand, and building up the dried/dehydrated stuff stores, both for "in case" security and economy. Not going prepper-crazy or anything but we can survive a week or 2 real emergency. Cook like its 1922 not 2022.
Moving back to a town in March was a stroke of good luck. Ya dont realize JUST how much rural living costs in "little stuff" that you don't think about, until you don't have to pay it anymore. Almost identical base COL but we are 3-400 a month ahead in small stuff.
I buy bulk whenever I can and plan ahead (Filament I can get 3D Max PLA+ for $20 a roll if I buy 10, so the days of snagging one or 2 on Amazon are gone). Lots of "little stuff" on re-use/upcycle picked up from grandma growing up is getting used (sock with a hole in it make a good enough wash rag). All that stuff you thought was silly in the 70's isnt so silly now.
All-in-all it's not eh same "dont worry about it within reason" spending as a year or 2 ago, a lot ore careful and waiting longer for the spendy stuff, but we aren't pinched too badly.[This message has been edited by MidEngineManiac (edited 06-07-2022).]
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MidEngineManiac
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JUN 07, 01:31 PM
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On the whole subject, in 2012-13 i did a 6-month contract at a food plant (international brand). The only difference between the $6 a bag "Premium" frozen ravioli/tortellini/garlic bread/whatever or the $2 "budget brand" is they called me over to swap out the roll in the labeling machine once quota was met. Production didn't even slow down, just load the roll and keep on pumping them out. [This message has been edited by MidEngineManiac (edited 06-07-2022).]
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cvxjet
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JUN 07, 06:45 PM
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The main cause of inflation at the moment is gas prices.....
The oil industry is really hurting due to numerous things, including the Russia attempt to eliminate the Jewish Nazis in Ukraine......So they are "forced" to raise prices because of low supply.....They are hurting bad...but the good thing is, their profits are up by 40-50%....That is bad pain, huh?
The oil industry is America's roy-al-tee......they are above the law....
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