62 things Trump should be remembered for

Fortunately there were about 8 million more ACTUAL patriots who turned out to dump the turd on the 3rd. Will be even better next time. Enjoy

 

I see conservatives are going full feelings over facts now

You literally have nothing but conjecture to back up what you're saying, and you've preemptively decided anything that goes against your conjecture is "fixed and misleading"

How is anyone supposed to have a rational conversation with that?

 

freshmeat, posted: "Fortunately there were about 8 million more ACTUAL patriots who turned out to dump the turd on the 3rd. Will be even better next time. Enjoy"

You call them patriots? I guess you have proved again that you have a high opinion of cheats, law breakers, low moral values, etc.

Here is the thing. Biden is POTUS however that happened. All is fair in politics. I think you will agree with that. I do. The difference between you guys and me is simple. You cannot even admit something right in front of you. I have to believe you are an intelligent man because you say you are but when you refuse to engage or ignore proven facts you only prove you are IGNORANT of what goes on.

Here is an example: Are you aware that the voting proceedures in PA (an extremely important swing state) were ILLEGALLY CHANGED AGAINST THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA'S CONSTITUTION before the election? Are you aware that the Supreme Court of the U.S. did not do their job and take up that case?

If you do not say Yes, and Yes; you are proven to be IGNORANT and that is because you are too lazy to become an informed, patriotic, American citizen. There are many examples like this but this is one of the biggest. Your vote during a fradulently run National Election cancelled out mine. Your ignorance helped to destroy my country and I have some really bad news. You are totally ignorant of what is coming to all of us in this country very soon. My only joy will be the thought of you and your ilk suffering the consequences of your ignorance more than I will.

 

GeneWright, posted: "I see conservatives are going full feelings over facts now. []

Gene, feelings have nothing to do with it. I personally don't know anyone (except some very rich folks and even they complain - probably just to look like they are also affected -LOL ) who is not worse off than three years ago before COVID. Do you? So please stop posting nonsense about feelings. You are not "Ham" or "Chin-Chin."]

You literally have nothing but conjecture [ Paying almost $100 to fill my tank is not conjecture!) to back up what you're saying, and you've preemptively decided anything that goes against your conjecture is "fixed and misleading" How is anyone supposed to have a rational conversation with that?"

Please ask that to @freshmeat and @JoeNation

 

That’s a very agenda-driven position to take @GeneWright.

Who recognizes patterns, yet fails to acknowledge them . . . no, sorry . . . rejects them as a basis for future evaluation? Certainly not a scientist.

The jobs reports are rosy-looking, but they reflect a market where the same jobs continue to be sliced, diced and relabeled monthly in an attempt to attract qualified people who want to work for the long term.

So many workers have come and gone through the same positions in such a short period of time, giving up, falling short, or jumping to another opportunity, that the employment reports of the past 2 years show no real net gains, instead recycling the same old sludge sliding through the sieve over and over again.

That is not a sound economy . . . It is a symptom of the desperate efforts of employers continually morphing / watering down their job descriptions to fill vacancies in skilled positions, and of an ever-growing work-resistant middle class that has, as I forecast a year ago, broken the middle rungs of the ladder they once thought they wanted to climb.

Inflation has not slowed, credit has tightened incredibly, small business has been COVID-decimated with no hope of affordable capital to restart, and ADP records frequently contradict summaries from the monthly BLS surveys, the conclusions of which are built on surveys not designed to reveal the decline in incomes of new jobs created. Sorry, but America doesn’t need more Walmart greeters and pourers of coffee, even if at $16 hourly. America needs skilled laborers if our economy is to flourish . . . Not lipstick on a pig!

 

Can you quantify these patterns and then use a data driven approach to rule out other factors to make an argument of causality? Or is this some mystical wisdom type stuff I'm just supposed to take at face value?

The only reason I could see for a stubborn unwillingness to use a data driven approach is that it doesn't back up what you want to be true.

For the record, I don't think we've had a sound economy in decades. My whole life the US economy has been an unhealthy boom/bust paradigm. I'm just not seeing the argument for blaming it on the workers.

 

I posted prematurely. While I don’t have much time today to gather and present numbers, I did elaborate more, so please re-read my prior post, as there is additional content.

 

It literally has.

What's a good metric in your mind for this?

We literally have more small businesses active now than all of our history and applications are at historic highs.

They correlate pretty well, but they cover different yet overlapping datasets, so you should expect some difference.

 

@GeneWright

You should apply for a job in the Biden Administration. What you post is either 100% true or manipulated nonsense. The spin is this: Let's say the charts you post are 100% correct. What they show me is the same as a description of the "chart" I have.

My chart shows you and I in one room of a burning house with no way out. You smile and tell me the wind shifted and the wall of fire in the room we are in shifted a little o the right. THAT'S THE REAL CHART that is being hidden from you. In a short time, the entire world will be changed. I am told that when it is done, the new generations will like it and embrace it.

 

I long ago stopped suffering the fools of the world and this place is literally a fool's playground.

Not one of them can post a thing to disprove any of the rather easily obtainable figures and trends I posted. That never stops these types from coming at anyone guns blazing with subjective poorly informed opinions.

Is it any wonder I routinely ignore their crap? They never fail to label me or anyone like me a "self-proclaimed genius" yet I have never said any such thing.

Talk about closed minds.

 

Who then is the bigger fool? The fool that believes all the “data points” put out by organizations with an agenda? Or the fool that spends an entire professional lifetime working them? Where are the young professionals that are not beating down my door to apply for a very lucrative and well paid position with 100%paid healthcare? Oh I been covered up with old mostly former customers. Not even a sniff from anyone under sixty…. I won’t even begin to address inflation. A big problem for a business that sells work that it cannot perform for twelve months. You can keep your manipulated charts.

 

Liberals don’t understand the real world.

 

Always escapin' from reality and tryin' to fix what ain't broke.

 

I'll give you that the inflation curve you posted shows a reversal, but high inflation is alive and well. Prices are already unacceptably high and continue to rise. The writing is on the wall, and recent belt-tightening and attendant declines in demand for goods and services are almost certainly responsible for the recent pause in the increase in prices.

Whether that downturn holds or not remains to be seen. We'll know more after Christmas and the peak heating months pass us by. One thing's for sure . . . another stupidity-laden round of stimulus will fire that engine back up again.

That reduction in inflation is not something Biden did by the way . . . that is the work of the Federal Reserve, and it will not come without its own pain . . . in the form of lost jobs once again. Why is that? Segue to the next issue . . . the cost of credit.

The cost of business loans has skyrocketed from 2.5% in 2020 to 6.5% today. Businesses need credit to support their operations, to buy raw materials, equipment and energy before they can sell finished product, to invest in improvements before the benefits can be realized, to pay wages, salaries and benefits before they get paid by customers, etc. That cash flow is expensive, and often disabling when it reaches present levels, to say nothing of concurrent challenges of increases in the cost of goods and services upon which the company is dependent.

For the annual debt service to grow 150% is untenable, and will result in a blood-letting.

As for the decimation of small business, the below graphic you posted is utterly meaningless rubbish when it comes to employment statistics.



And why is that, you might ask?

Because of the 30 million or so small businesses in the US, only about 6 million of them have any employees, as may be seen in the following graphic. The 25 million or so other small businesses are owner-operated, like my own, and do not employ anyone.

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It is small businesses like @Mopar Dude's which meaningfully support our economy, and it is that class of small business which has been brought to its knees by the COVID shutdowns. Lone-wolf businesses didn't have to shutter during COVID and, lacking the much greater overhead and payroll burdens, were able to escape the downturn relatively unscathed.

A huge KUDOS to MD (and his loyal employees) for successfully navigating his business through this very trying time!

 

Thank you very much, but we aren’t at the finish line yet. My salespeople are 80% compensated by commission and that commission is dictated by gross profit and that gross profit has been decimated by inflation this year. These people that are accustomed to 90-100k years are seeing that cut by a third this year due to hugely inflated material and shipping costs. Hard to keep good people motivated when their decreased income is entirely out of their control. Lately I been taking the hari-kari blade out of one or another persons grasp weekly. And what’s worse is that there is no conceivable way to predict what is coming next. And that’s the case for anyone trying to keep business afloat right now. Like the markets, success is dictated by the ability to forecast and right now a magic 8-ball is as reliable a forecasting tool as anything.

 

So, Trump calling for the suspension of the Constitution doesn't even make a slight blip on your radar?

Man! What a cult following. Kind of like Putin if you think about it.

 

Not when so many liberals have been talking for years about squashing the bill of rights for not applying to modern society….. Blade cuts two ways.

 

Really? Which Democrats are those? Biden? Harris? Pelosi?

Face it. Your party is nothing but a bunch of sad ass cultists.

 

Ya hero, BHO. Many extremists lefties chimed in. Look it up. See, you can get an education and not have to have someone else to pay for it if you just put forth the effort.

 

Hey cultist! Look what up you damn idiot? Do you ever finish a thought? I guess not.

Changing or adding to the Bill of Rights IS a Constitutional process. Calling for the Constitution to be eliminated is, well, about as much lunacy as can be imagined.