Trump has GOT to change the way he speaks if he want to win. [from this afternoon]

[Sparks]

37 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

Yep it is; however interest rates on savings is back to positive numbers. It is a mixed bag for sure. I do think inflation is a world wide supply and demand issue, not just a USA Democrat caused issue.

Inflation is caused by printing too much money.  Period.  Central banks like the Federal Reserve are privately owned, and cannot be audited.   When there has been a push to audit them using legislation, it is always Democrats that prevent it.  Central banks have two tools to control money:  printing money, and interest rates.  They control both. 

When you print too much money, the cash is what is 'inflated.'  The more money you print, the weaker the buying power of the cash becomes so that prices go up because it takes more cash to buy the same item.  The item itself, say a house or gold or cheese, does not change in value; money does.  Inflation is also a regressive tax due to printing money.  That is, if you leave cash in the mattress for 10 years, it loses value as they print more.

Inflation has nothing to do with supply and demand of products.  Supply and demand can make certain items go up in price because the more rare an item, the more it costs, but that is not inflation.

[In the Clouds]

I am not going to follow Cesar and march with the Romans.  I have to pay what is due to Cesar; but, that's as far as I go.  Man cannot serve two masters.  Man sells his soul when he doesn't do what is right.  I, too, will vote for a person who does not give in to worldly ways or I don't vote at all.  Will I become a martyr?  I don't know.  I've been a victim before by both dominant parties; but, I refuse to sacrifice my good side by walking in step with man's greed or sin.  Unrealistic for this plain?  Probably.  But I won't have to answer for going against my conscience.

[Neighbor]

1 hour ago, Sparks said:

Inflation has nothing to do with supply and demand of products. 

Ha try  buying plywood when the hurricanes are coming, You will see the supply and demand effect on prices in a hurry.

PS I bought my own at a mere $55 a sheet instead of the more historic $8.50 price. But that was down from the $85 peak price so I got a bargain on 26 sheets just before  the big one came through. Praise God for the $1430 plus tax  that I had need of to pay for it.

Ever try to load and transport 26 sheets of ply into a SUV? -life's little adventures.

[Neighbor]

1 hour ago, Sparks said:

Inflation has nothing to do with supply and demand of products. 

See https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/economic-letter/2022/06/how-much-do-supply-and-demand-drive-inflation/  by  Adam Hale Shapiro V.P. Federal Reserve Bank Of San Francisco

 

[Neighbor]

2 hours ago, Debp said:

except for the interest rates being low on savings accounts.

Well? And doesn't that force many a retiree to deplete the principle they have worked a lifetime to save up? All my working life I paid 8 to 12 plus percent for mortgages and then upon retirement Instead of 5 to 9 percent interest on savings I  get one half of one percent with threat that it will go minus,  that savings will be punished it will cost money to save money. Hey there's a deal eh?

Now rates are back to more normal ranges, with mortgages at  higher rates, home pries will stop going through the roof, and are right now retreating some.

Plus savings will not be punished.  I can live with that. praise God for the option to do so.

As Dave Ramsey sells; live like nobody else so that when you retire you can live  like nobody else!

[Inquiring Mind]

4 hours ago, Neighbor said:

As to the USA borders and those that are crossing it illegally, the only candidate that I know of that has personally spent time interviewing and researching who it is that is crossing now is Robert F, Kennedy Jr..

RFK Jr. has spent time on the border, has seen and interviewed two groups consisting of  some 110,000 men each, none of whom are Mexican. They are 19 to 21 year old males from China and other lands that he has described and witnessed. RFK Jr. wants not only to stop this invasion, but to also find and deport them all.

Trump has been saying this for years, so much so that he addressed it and started building a wall during his term, which was likely part of your wasted time and energy, the unproductive argument you didn't want to revisit, as you referenced in an earlier statement.  Respectfully, I find it strange that a lot of people automatically disagree with Trump on anything he proposes and does, and then if you listen to them long enough they seem to agree with what he does/did in the first place, but vote opposite... strange.  It's like the left's media has programmed them to go against their intuition.

[walla299]

3 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Ha try  buying plywood when the hurricanes are coming, You will see the supply and demand effect on prices in a hurry.

PS I bought my own at a mere $55 a sheet instead of the more historic $8.50 price. But that was down from the $85 peak price so I got a bargain on 26 sheets just before  the big one came through. Praise God for the $1430 plus tax  that I had need of to pay for it.

Ever try to load and transport 26 sheets of ply into a SUV? -life's little adventures.

Nothing a little "redneck engineering" can't fix: tie it on top if it won't fit inside, and drive slow . . . lol

 

[Neighbor]

1 hour ago, Inquiring Mind said:

a lot of people automatically disagree with Trump on anything he proposes and does

Don't know about automatically, but his business history makes one wary of him for sure. He has visited the Southern border  more than once, I had forgotten that.

Walls and fences, are rather useless in the longer run, for no matter where they are built on this planet they always get breached or by passed. What is  needed is to remove any advantage for coming no matter how deep into the county one gets.  

Presently USA federal government rules that have existed under both Republican and Democrat administrations  literally punish anyone trying to stop the inflow of illegals.

This is not the only country facing this serious issue. It is part of this "time of the signs". Maranatha. 

 

[Sower]

3 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Ha try  buying plywood when the hurricanes are coming, You will see the supply and demand effect on prices in a hurry.

If you lived in a coastal area when hurricanes hit you would know the facts.
Those who flock and follow disasters are called scalpers, not investors.
Selling Ice, bottled water, plywood, tarps, canned food etc are top methods to 10x their money off the victims. They have trailer loads or large box vans coming into the disasters like roaches.

In the 70's the municipalities clamped down on these shysters with laws enacted.
They confiscate and prosecute.  I went through two hurricanes, Texas coast.
Marshal law, curfew down town, off limits enforced by the national guard.

That was many years ago. When Katrina hit New Orleans we went there.
A group of men from our church stayed at emergency shelter while working.
I purchased plywood, electrical wiring and breaker panels etc at Home Depot.

Home Depot brought in employees/supply trucks volunteering to help

The prices/cost was the same or cheaper than prior to the hurricane.
They kept up the flow of material from suppliers to meet the demand.
The same thing happened in Houston several years back.

Just saying.

[Neighbor]

12 hours ago, Sparks said:

Election Betting Odds places Kennedy at a 0.6% chance of winning the presidency.  That is slightly better than Pence at a 0.0% chance. 

Election Betting Odds

Doesn't matter, I am not betting. And I am not going to be voting for a choice between two evils.