Inflation wiped out America’s pay raises

Companies big and small are raising wages to attract workers and hold onto employees as the economy revs back into gear.

But those fatter paychecks aren’t going as far, thanks to rising inflation.
In fact, compensation is now lower than it was in December 2019, when adjusted for inflation, according to an analysis by Jason Furman, an economics professor at Harvard University.

Not counting inflation, compensation rose 2.8% between March and June, despite the relatively high unemployment rate — a trend that reflects the tight labor market. Job openings are at record-high levels, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

But at the same time, prices are soaring. Gas costs more. Food is more expensive. Car prices are at record levels.  The consumer price index rose 0.9% in June and 5.4% over the past 12 months — the largest jumps for each since mid-2008, according to federal data.

Remember how real wages were going up under Trump.

Well, the Swamp couldn’t let you have that, so they had to take that away with price increases.

They set you back two years and inflation isn’t going to slow down any time soon the way they are spending money.

But hey, at least there are no mean Tweets while your salary backslides.

Nothing friendly about this fire– pic.twitter.com/6nFH7qWLxV

— ₩₳Ɽ ₱₳₮Ⱨ (@WarPath2pt0) August 10, 2021

I hope he enjoys eating and wiping his ass with the same hand for the rest of his miserable.

Fuck him.

Inshallah.

Now, remember, he is quitting for groping ass but not for sending thousands of elderly new Yorkers to their premature deaths.

That is how screwed up they are up there.

Someone I know on the other side of the political aisle sent this to me.

https://www.tiktok.com/@supermantodd132/video/6994429118423026950?_d=secCgYIASAHKAESMgowHnAvd2N9zp0%2B8PbLdgMkOFFE3X3YI7j3igwxVNhaCwykDQHn%2F7d3E4RbO1O7L3uWGgA%3D&checksum=ff942ec53f716e193c655125046923dc625db944f00ee1680a56314f0b1a762f&clips_cover_ab=v2&enable_clips=1&language=en&preview_pb=0&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAAJyb1Twm4sDtKW8-ER3IGQfjNJMiy3I6xJidvLnrd4xi4mzs_22LBBGrWgMZkeVMc&share_app_id=1233&share_item_id=6994429118423026950&share_link_id=7F68C5BF-1121-448B-BC37-1E2328B9D3A1&source=h5_m&timestamp=1628563561&tt_from=sms&u_code=db78hmalcbi4fl&user_id=6800567033995871238&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=sms&_r=1

By the time I got most of the way done watching it I was fed up.

This asshole’s thesis, and the thesis of a lot of people on the Left, regarding America and COVID is this:

If only Americans had simply given up their freedoms willingly, had only we immediately acquiesced to every government suggestion and mandate, if Americans were less interested in their individual rights and more focused on the good of the collective and be willing to sacrifice their happiness for the collective good, fewer people would have died and America would not be an embarrassment to the rest of the world.

Never mind the changing and contradictory narratives and mandates.

Never mind that lockdowns destroyed the livelihoods of people who don’t have the privilege of being able to work from home via VPN and teleconferencing.

Never mind that our children have been so damaged by lockdowns that more have committed suicide than died of COVID.

Never mind that alcoholism and drug abuse skyrocketed and more young people overdosed than died of COVID.

Never mind that COVID spending has driven record, economy shattering, inflation that is going to crush the working and middle classes.

Never mind that restrictions and mandates in other countries weren’t any more effective in reducing per-capita COVID deaths, and America is not a radical outlier in COVID deaths per 100,000 people, especially considering the number of major cities we have which is where the worst spread has occurred.

Never mind that our kids fell a year behind in school or more.

Never mind all the unintended terrible social side effects we’ve experienced.

No, the problem is that Americans are just stupid, selfish, boorish assholes who just can bring themselves to consider the common good for a year and obsequiously obey restrictions on their lifestyle of shotgunning Bud Lites while screaming “freedom, fuck yeah, ‘Murica!”

This belief is little more than using COVID to justify your hatred of America and advocating for totalitarianism, no matter how ineffective or inept it might be.

I’m just fucking tired of this.

Benjamin Franklin said: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

He was right then and he’s right now.

These fucking people need a helicopter ride.

Which is why I did not marry one and went Southern Girl, just two degrees less crazy.

And then some. Our buddy Kevin Creighton goes full nerd/Mythbusters-Intensive investigation on tactical flashlights and presents us with a very complete result.

And let’s face it: we are secret tac light sluts. We just don’t advertise it like with guns or knives.

The Best Tactical Flashlight – Torch Testing Results (ammoman.com)

I’ve seen this meme posted on a few differ Twitter accounts.

I understand that in this day and age that a wife can make more money than her husband.

What o do find objectionable, grotesque is probably more accurate, is a grown man asking his wife to buy him a lego set like he’s a 12 year old boy.

The horrifying thing is how many people I’ve seen, both women and man-children, say how great this is.  How many husbands want this and how man wives would use this to get their husbands to do more chores or domestic tasks.

This is not a husband and wife relationship. This is a child in a weird oedipal relationship with a surrogate mommy.

What happened to manliness in this country?

Why is this any way socially acceptable?

It’s a sad state that this gets more praise than condemnation.