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		<title>By: Elizabeth Miller</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/05/03/gop-field-set-to-expand/#comment-202832</link>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 21:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are such a card Stucki and you ought to be dealt with. Heh.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are such a card Stucki and you ought to be dealt with. Heh.</p>
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		<title>By: C. R. Stucki</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/05/03/gop-field-set-to-expand/#comment-202831</link>
		<dc:creator>C. R. Stucki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 20:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BB

The only &quot;Dems&quot; I refer to, or care about what they think, are the members of the U.S. &quot;Democratic&quot; party, obviously properly known as &#039;Democratics&#039;, but normally referred to by ignoramuses, as &quot;Democrats&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BB</p>
<p>The only "Dems" I refer to, or care about what they think, are the members of the U.S. "Democratic" party, obviously properly known as 'Democratics', but normally referred to by ignoramuses, as "Democrats".</p>
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		<title>By: BashiBazouk</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/05/03/gop-field-set-to-expand/#comment-202830</link>
		<dc:creator>BashiBazouk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 17:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stucki-

Are The British labor party &quot;dem&quot;? How about the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan? European People&#039;s Party of Germany? The CCP of china? All took the pandemic just as seriously...</description>
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<p>Are The British labor party "dem"? How about the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan? European People's Party of Germany? The CCP of china? All took the pandemic just as seriously...</p>
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		<title>By: C. R. Stucki</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/05/03/gop-field-set-to-expand/#comment-202829</link>
		<dc:creator>C. R. Stucki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 17:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BB

When mostly only Dems are panicking, ain&#039;t that kind of a &quot;Dempanic&quot; by definition??</description>
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<p>When mostly only Dems are panicking, ain't that kind of a "Dempanic" by definition??</p>
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		<title>By: Elizabeth Miller</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/05/03/gop-field-set-to-expand/#comment-202828</link>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 16:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To be clear, my death count referred to the US only.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To be clear, my death count referred to the US only.</p>
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		<title>By: BashiBazouk</title>
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		<dc:creator>BashiBazouk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 16:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;but its&#039; effect is minuscule compared to the effects of monetary inflation.&lt;/i&gt;

Is it? Can you demonstrate that with real numbers? 

Personally I see a lot of moving parts to inflation. Certainly monetary policy has it&#039;s part but so do the container problems of the early pandemic, increased gas prices from both the war in Ukraine and the post pandemic economic recovery, an extremely tight labor market kicking up labor costs and just general price gouging and profit taking. I seriously doubt that all these parts when added together equal &quot;minuscule&quot;...

As to the fed being &quot;morons&quot; can you demonstrate that the economy would be better off today without the moves they made? Especially with many other counrties doing the exact same thing? What I really find moronic is your &quot;Dempanic&quot; when the &quot;dem&quot; is really a large part the rest of the industrialized world. Seems like you are pushing an ideologically pure economic theory that ignores quite a bit of reality...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>but its' effect is minuscule compared to the effects of monetary inflation.</i></p>
<p>Is it? Can you demonstrate that with real numbers? </p>
<p>Personally I see a lot of moving parts to inflation. Certainly monetary policy has it's part but so do the container problems of the early pandemic, increased gas prices from both the war in Ukraine and the post pandemic economic recovery, an extremely tight labor market kicking up labor costs and just general price gouging and profit taking. I seriously doubt that all these parts when added together equal "minuscule"...</p>
<p>As to the fed being "morons" can you demonstrate that the economy would be better off today without the moves they made? Especially with many other counrties doing the exact same thing? What I really find moronic is your "Dempanic" when the "dem" is really a large part the rest of the industrialized world. Seems like you are pushing an ideologically pure economic theory that ignores quite a bit of reality...</p>
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		<title>By: C. R. Stucki</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/05/03/gop-field-set-to-expand/#comment-202825</link>
		<dc:creator>C. R. Stucki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 13:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Caddy  [3]

Yes , I am indeed well aware of the &quot;world-wide supply chain problem&quot; being contributory to price inflation (by means of causing supply reductions), but its&#039; effect is minuscule compared to the effects of monetary inflation.

And while some &quot;Repugs&quot; might believe as you say, I&#039;m not one of them.  I&#039;m all for &quot;helping ordinary citizens&quot;, but my understanding of how to accomplish that is likely substantially different from yours.

And I also support more taxes for the ultra rich, but that has no relation to fighting price inflation, and it doesn&#039;t change the fact that the Fed&#039;s action is actually counter-productive, as well as stupid.</description>
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<p>Yes , I am indeed well aware of the "world-wide supply chain problem" being contributory to price inflation (by means of causing supply reductions), but its' effect is minuscule compared to the effects of monetary inflation.</p>
<p>And while some "Repugs" might believe as you say, I'm not one of them.  I'm all for "helping ordinary citizens", but my understanding of how to accomplish that is likely substantially different from yours.</p>
<p>And I also support more taxes for the ultra rich, but that has no relation to fighting price inflation, and it doesn't change the fact that the Fed's action is actually counter-productive, as well as stupid.</p>
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		<title>By: nypoet22</title>
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		<dc:creator>nypoet22</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 10:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Globally, as of 4:16pm CEST, 3 May 2023, there have been 765,222,932 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,921,614 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 30 April 2023, a total of 13,344,302,744 vaccine doses have been administered.&quot;

That&#039;s nearly seven million, or about two thirds of the number who died in the Holocaust. Covid is no joke.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"Globally, as of 4:16pm CEST, 3 May 2023, there have been 765,222,932 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,921,614 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 30 April 2023, a total of 13,344,302,744 vaccine doses have been administered."</p>
<p>That's nearly seven million, or about two thirds of the number who died in the Holocaust. Covid is no joke.</p>
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		<title>By: nypoet22</title>
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		<dc:creator>nypoet22</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 03:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We seem to have some very short term memory about just how many people died from covid before the vaccines reduced its mortality rate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We seem to have some very short term memory about just how many people died from covid before the vaccines reduced its mortality rate.</p>
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		<title>By: MtnCaddy</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/05/03/gop-field-set-to-expand/#comment-202819</link>
		<dc:creator>MtnCaddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 03:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And…with every new candidate Trump is more and more assured of winning the nomination — see 2016.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And…with every new candidate Trump is more and more assured of winning the nomination — see 2016.</p>
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		<title>By: MtnCaddy</title>
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		<dc:creator>MtnCaddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 03:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[1]


CRS did you know that inflation is a world-wide supply-chain problem, with our country right in the middle of the pack. Repugs claim that doing anything to help ordinary Citizens is inflationary. Too much money out there, right Stuck? Let’s recind Trump’s &lt;i&gt;no millionaire left behind&lt;/i&gt; tax cuts for starters.</description>
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<p>CRS did you know that inflation is a world-wide supply-chain problem, with our country right in the middle of the pack. Repugs claim that doing anything to help ordinary Citizens is inflationary. Too much money out there, right Stuck? Let’s recind Trump’s <i>no millionaire left behind</i> tax cuts for starters.</p>
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		<title>By: Elizabeth Miller</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/05/03/gop-field-set-to-expand/#comment-202817</link>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 01:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So, Stucki, how would you have managed the pandemic and its lockdowns? Surely you would not have wanted to just see another million deaths, right?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, Stucki, how would you have managed the pandemic and its lockdowns? Surely you would not have wanted to just see another million deaths, right?</p>
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		<title>By: C. R. Stucki</title>
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		<dc:creator>C. R. Stucki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 23:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Re &quot;Macroeconomics&quot;.

Our gov&#039;t, and most particularly, the Fed Res bank is led by morons.

First they intentionally induce massive price inflation by means of monetary inflation (Pandemic, or more accurately &#039;Dempanic&#039; stimulus payments), and then they &#039;fight&#039; the price inflation by slowing the economy thru hi interest rates, which creates still more inflation by causing shortages.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Re "Macroeconomics".</p>
<p>Our gov't, and most particularly, the Fed Res bank is led by morons.</p>
<p>First they intentionally induce massive price inflation by means of monetary inflation (Pandemic, or more accurately 'Dempanic' stimulus payments), and then they 'fight' the price inflation by slowing the economy thru hi interest rates, which creates still more inflation by causing shortages.</p>
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