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re: Inflation and mid terms
Posted on 12/25/25 at 9:48 am to deltaland
Posted on 12/25/25 at 9:48 am to deltaland
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as Americans just kept spending money like there was no tomorrow
Its a huge trap.
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In neighborhoods across America, a troubling pattern has emerged: consumers are increasingly turning to financial services like Affirm, Klarna, and Afterpay to purchase everyday necessities as prices continue to climb. This convergence of rising retail prices with readily available buy now, pay later (BNPL) financing represents a fundamental shift in how Americans manage household budgets and navigate economic insecurity.
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Posted on 12/25/25 at 9:51 am to burger bearcat
Have no fear Trump had the simple solution...buy less Christmas presents.
Posted on 12/25/25 at 9:56 am to OccamsStubble
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And actual suicide if you don’t. We’ll never know if we don’t try. Trump ran on the promise of trying.
People need to stop blaming Trump or Biden for our fiscal situation. Trump did try. Doge highlighted a ton of fraud and waste, Trump tried to cut or end a lot of it. He tried to eliminate a ton of federal jobs. He tried to get Congress to codify it in the BBB. What happened? All of it was challenged in court and most was overturned. Congress passed the BBB that had a fraction of the cuts it was supposed to have, then the govt was shutdown by the Dems to try to get some of those cuts funded again.
Trump isn’t the problem. The problem is Congress, both sides. The problem has been Congress for 25 fricking years. When the last time they passed an actual new budget and not a CR? So much of our fedgov bloat is codified law and cannot be undone via EO. It takes Congress to undo it, and it’ll never happen. The chance to do it is now, but the GOP has to grow a spine and eliminate the filibuster which Trump called for. We could ram spending cuts and much of Trumps economic agenda through Congress but the feckless GOP won’t do it out of fear of rocking the boat and losing power. But they’ll lose power anyways, what’s the fricking point of being in power if you aren’t gonna use it? Do what the people voted you in to do and let the chips fall where they may. I think if the GOP actually made radical change and balanced the budget that they’d be shocked how many people would support them even if it caused short term pain
Posted on 12/25/25 at 10:04 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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Soda prices are said to be jumping because of higher 'tariff' costs, but oddly, Publix soda hasn't risen at all. $1.25 for a 2 liter bottle where as Pepsi and Coke are like $3.50. Hell, Coke is probably still telling us to be less white, so Eff them.
This is a case of raising prices and conveniently blaming tariffs to justify it. Coke products concentrate is made it Atlanta and shipped to local bottling and distribution companies in the U.S. The plastic bottles are made by Southeastern Container, aluminum bottles in Missouri, glass bottles from local glass manufacturers in various areas.
There is zero reason tariffs should impact Coke products here none of that is being made overseas and shipped back here
Posted on 12/25/25 at 10:21 am to deltaland
Coke sure as hell isn't Schooner Tuna. 
Jacking prices up for no damn reason.
Jacking prices up for no damn reason. 
Posted on 12/25/25 at 10:46 am to deltaland
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Overreaction to Covid by shutting the economy down leading to stimulus money being injected into the economy to keep people and businesses afloat, then later a supply shortage of goods and a ton of supply chain logistical problems. And then companies kept using that as an excuse to further raise prices even when those problems went away as Americans just kept spending money like there was no tomorrow
What caused inflation pre-Covid? I ask, because measurable commodities which do not increase in value over time, like gold, have moved from $40 per ounce 1972 to $1600 per ounce 2017.
Posted on 12/25/25 at 11:17 am to wackatimesthree
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Also, we need to spend more money. But don't worry, the Big Beautiful Bill is on it's way, and it will spend $4T over the next ten years, so we're golden there.
Spending $400b a year isn't that much for a country our size.
While you were bitching about spending, I noticed you forgot to mention the savings that that expense will provide us. The BBB funds deportations. When you remove millions of people from the demand side, what inevitably happens to the supply side and subsequent prices?
Your expense estimates are also based an flawed numbers from the CBO who severely underestimated Trump's ability to drive GDP. When GDP goes up like Trump is doing, what happens to tax revenue? And when tax revenue goes up, how does that affect the deficit? It makes $4 trillion not $4 trillion.
If you're going to bitch about spending without touching on the whole picture, then at least use accurate numbers.
Posted on 12/25/25 at 12:14 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Its a huge trap.
Yup. Being able to finance everything is not a good thing.
It is if you’re good at managing money and able to utilize zero or low interest offers but most people fall into the trap of accumulating crippling debt a little at a time. It will create a huge credit bubble leading to bank failures and bankruptcy filings
House of cards being built to maintain the necessary consumerism to keep our debt driven economy growing because GDP growth is the only thing keeping our massive govt debt serviceable
The day it collapses leading to extremely high interest rates and several quarters of negative gdp growth and rapid inflation it will be years of recovery and civil unrest and a massive loss of wealth for the middle and upper middle class combined with the loss of benefits for the low income due to unsustainable govt spending being forced to be cut
Posted on 12/25/25 at 12:18 pm to burger bearcat
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What can we realistically do about the cost of everything (and I mean everything) being so high and constantly getting higher at unreasonable rates
Last time inflation was under 2% we were in a recession with high unemployment.
Here are the facts. You got a permanent 26% tax under the democrats.
Stop voting for them.
Posted on 12/25/25 at 12:20 pm to fairweatherfans
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Have no fear Trump had the simple solution...buy less Christmas presents.
This is the first Christmas since he was last president that wages outpaced inflation for the year.
Posted on 12/25/25 at 12:31 pm to deltaland
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The day it collapses leading to extremely high interest rates and several quarters of negative gdp growth and rapid inflation it will be years of recovery and civil unrest and a massive loss of wealth for the middle and upper middle class combined with the loss of benefits for the low income due to unsustainable govt spending being forced to be cut
And on that day, 90% of citizens will be sitting, head in hands, staring at their feet asking themselves “man, how’d this happen man?”
The answer will be “it’s math”
Posted on 12/25/25 at 12:36 pm to burger bearcat
See that is the thing about inflation. It is permanent.
Deflation is required for prices to go down. But the thing about deflation is that your money is worth more over time. This is a huge incentive for people to hold on to their money and not buy anything.
That is antithetical to having a healthy economy. The side effects of deflation are arguably worse than the inflation itself. This is why the goal is to keep inflation positive but under 2%.
Deflation is required for prices to go down. But the thing about deflation is that your money is worth more over time. This is a huge incentive for people to hold on to their money and not buy anything.
That is antithetical to having a healthy economy. The side effects of deflation are arguably worse than the inflation itself. This is why the goal is to keep inflation positive but under 2%.
Posted on 12/25/25 at 2:56 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
quote:The future of the country lies at the feet of what soda pop costs? Oh my!
What's the story behind that? Coke & Pepsi are now $2.49 a liter? Sure, Walmart has them cheaper, but the last jump was like 30 cents in recent DAYS.
Posted on 12/25/25 at 3:16 pm to burger bearcat
Inflation doesn't matter to two groups. The uber wealthy and parasites. The uber wealthy are invested to whete inflation actually helps them and parasites just expect more free shite to keep pace. None of this will ever be fixed until only people with skin in the game are the only ones voting. There's not enough uber wealthy to offset the middle class votes.
Posted on 12/25/25 at 3:27 pm to Diamondawg
Americans inhale the stuff at insane levels… scoff all you want!
Posted on 12/25/25 at 9:00 pm to wackatimesthree
Weren't you tariff panickers saying prices would skyrocket? They haven't. What happened?
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