Kansas Crimson

The economy is great. Which is why the GOP is holding a gun to its head and yelling about how bad Biden is. Hell, Pence said -TODAY- the economy was so bad that raping people shouldn't cause us a second thought on candidate choices.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... real-wages

The White House celebrated falling inflation even as real wages remain in negative territory.

Inflation fell slightly to 4.9% for the month ending in April, a welcome sign that the Federal Reserve's efforts to tame price growth are working....

The Biden administration also pointed to gas prices, which are down by close to $1.50 a gallon, on average, since last summer, along with slight dips in grocery prices.

The Republican National Committee released its own statement pointing to 25 consecutive months of negative real wages, which means that people, on average, have seen their spending power decline over the last two years.

anybody that lives and works and pays knows the economy blows. don't need a fancy chart for that.

Charts farts.
Chalk it up to whatever you want but MY dollar today isn't worth what it was 3, 4, 5 years ago.
Or at least is doesn't get me as much as it did.
Period. End of story.

i’m doing the best financially that i ever have, despite living in a relatively expensive locale

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 2:27 pm anybody that lives and works and pays knows the economy blows. don't need a fancy chart for that.

Big boy chair.

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 1:36 pm https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... real-wages

The White House celebrated falling inflation even as real wages remain in negative territory.

Inflation fell slightly to 4.9% for the month ending in April, a welcome sign that the Federal Reserve's efforts to tame price growth are working....

The Biden administration also pointed to gas prices, which are down by close to $1.50 a gallon, on average, since last summer, along with slight dips in grocery prices.

The Republican National Committee released its own statement pointing to 25 consecutive months of negative real wages, which means that people, on average, have seen their spending power decline over the last two years.

Why are these different? https://www.statista.com/statistics/135 ... 0of%202023.

The rate of inflation exceeded the growth of wages for the first time in recent years in April 2021. In this month, inflation amounted to 4.2 percent, while wages grew by 3.2 percent. The growth of wages surpassed that of inflation for the first time since March 2021 in April of 2023.

Mjl wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 3:35 pm

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 1:36 pm https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... real-wages

The White House celebrated falling inflation even as real wages remain in negative territory.

Inflation fell slightly to 4.9% for the month ending in April, a welcome sign that the Federal Reserve's efforts to tame price growth are working....

The Biden administration also pointed to gas prices, which are down by close to $1.50 a gallon, on average, since last summer, along with slight dips in grocery prices.

The Republican National Committee released its own statement pointing to 25 consecutive months of negative real wages, which means that people, on average, have seen their spending power decline over the last two years.

Why are these different? https://www.statista.com/statistics/135 ... 0of%202023.

The rate of inflation exceeded the growth of wages for the first time in recent years in April 2021. In this month, inflation amounted to 4.2 percent, while wages grew by 3.2 percent. The growth of wages surpassed that of inflation for the first time since March 2021 in April of 2023.

I can't say for sure, since statista won't let you look at anything about their chart unless you register first -- no source, no data breakdown, etc.

Statista is likely using their own proprietary data/estimates (or consensus guesses) since they produced their chart on April wages and inflation eight days BEFORE the actual government data were released (and because their CPI number is the same as most estimates, which the actual data beat by .1%)

https://www.eui.eu/Research/Library/Res ... statistics.

Statista GmbH (Hamburg) collects and aggregates data from multiple public and private sector sources, including ACTA, AWA, Euromonitor, Gfk, Outfit, Scarborough, Simmons, Target Group Index and VUMA. Statista also publishes industry reports, market forecasts and 'top-lists' of sectoral statistics.

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 4:25 pm

Mjl wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 3:35 pm

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 1:36 pm https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... real-wages

The White House celebrated falling inflation even as real wages remain in negative territory.

Inflation fell slightly to 4.9% for the month ending in April, a welcome sign that the Federal Reserve's efforts to tame price growth are working....

The Biden administration also pointed to gas prices, which are down by close to $1.50 a gallon, on average, since last summer, along with slight dips in grocery prices.

The Republican National Committee released its own statement pointing to 25 consecutive months of negative real wages, which means that people, on average, have seen their spending power decline over the last two years.

Why are these different? https://www.statista.com/statistics/135 ... 0of%202023.

The rate of inflation exceeded the growth of wages for the first time in recent years in April 2021. In this month, inflation amounted to 4.2 percent, while wages grew by 3.2 percent. The growth of wages surpassed that of inflation for the first time since March 2021 in April of 2023.

I can't say for sure, since statista won't let you look at anything about their chart unless you register first -- no source, no data breakdown, etc.

Statista is likely using their own proprietary data/estimates (or consensus guesses) since they produced their chart on April wages and inflation eight days BEFORE the actual government data were released (and because their CPI number is the same as most estimates, which the actual data beat by .1%)

Remarkable given the war, supply chain issues, and oil instability.

Sparko wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 5:47 pm

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 4:25 pm

Mjl wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 3:35 pm

Why are these different? https://www.statista.com/statistics/135 ... 0of%202023.

I can't say for sure, since statista won't let you look at anything about their chart unless you register first -- no source, no data breakdown, etc.

Statista is likely using their own proprietary data/estimates (or consensus guesses) since they produced their chart on April wages and inflation eight days BEFORE the actual government data were released (and because their CPI number is the same as most estimates, which the actual data beat by .1%)

Remarkable given the war, supply chain issues, and oil instability.

True, but you misspelled the part about ...while dealing with a cult involving nearly half the country that has no regard for arcane concepts like reality and facts, and is led by a political party with little to no discernible interest in developing policies and promoting programs to make average American lives better, and whose leader has called for the "termination of...the constitution" because he and his cult won't accept that they lost the 2020 election and who then attempted a coup by attacking our capitol to prevent the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in our nation's history.

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 8:41 am

where’s the beef?

https://www.alternet.org/amp/whats-plan ... 2659998432

(i smell a kraken)

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 3:09 pm

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 8:41 am

where’s the beef?

https://www.alternet.org/amp/whats-plan ... 2659998432

(i smell a kraken)

Comer should be removed from office and assigned to a job he seems more qualified to do.... headline writer for MSN.com.

"World reacts to astonishing (fill in the blank) news!"

Feral wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 3:47 pm

I have zero problem with CNN providing their viewers a chance to see Trump speak to an audience. I tuned in for about five minutes, in which he told multiple obvious lies and said he would likely pardon most of the Jan. 6th insurrectionists.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 3:09 pm

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 8:41 am

where’s the beef?

https://www.alternet.org/amp/whats-plan ... 2659998432

(i smell a kraken)

They say they have "bank records."

I think that's pretty simple. If they actually have them, there's fire. If they don't, then it's just more smoke.

twocoach wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 3:15 pm

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 3:09 pm

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 8:41 am

where’s the beef?

https://www.alternet.org/amp/whats-plan ... 2659998432

(i smell a kraken)

Comer should be removed from office and assigned to a job he seems more qualified to do.... headline writer for MSN.com.

"World reacts to astonishing (fill in the blank) news!"

i don’t care for him or jordan, and think their shenanigans in “hearings” are disgraceful. that said, if there has been illegal impropriety by any of the Bidens, it should be dealt with accordingly

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 3:22 pm

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 3:09 pm

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 8:41 am

where’s the beef?

https://www.alternet.org/amp/whats-plan ... 2659998432

(i smell a kraken)

They say they have "bank records."

I think that's pretty simple. If they actually have them, there's fire. If they don't, then it's just more smoke.

and if they do, “great”

they do themselves zero credibility favors by trotting out in front of the cameras the way they have while having provided zero substance

Benghazi! Benghazi! BENGHAZI!!!!!

The video has disappeared, but after Comer and Grassley made their big announcement about the allegations that then Vice President Biden was involved in taking foreign $ as bribes last Wed, 5/3, Grassley appeared on Gretta Van Sustren's Newsmax show last Friday, and said this:

"The letter is electrifying because it talks about exchange of money for policy decisions," Gretta Van Susteren said to Grassley. "It's a very serious allegation against the then-vice president."The senator replied, "I wish I could say that I knew it was true or untrue."-May 5th





And then, this, this morning:

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Life creeps at this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.

Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.




Republicans who have been trying for years to “prove” that President Biden is somehow corrupt made a big show Wednesday of revealing their smear campaign to be a shameless, empty exercise in rumor and innuendo.

Don’t take my word for it. Listen to Steve Doocy, one of the hosts of the morning show “Fox & Friends,” which is normally the safest possible space for Republican politicians to trumpet their talking points.

“You don’t actually have any facts to that point,” Doocy said Thursday to House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), who was trying to sell the idea that the president, his brother James and his son Hunter were part of some shadowy influence-peddling scheme. “And the other thing is, of all those names, the one person who didn’t profit is — there’s no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally.”

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