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December 2nd, 2021
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Democrats are on a mission to dispel any notion that massive new government spending in their Build Back Better (BBB) bill will let roaring inflation out of its decades-old cage.
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November 23rd, 2021
Looted Store in SF
Our wonderful “experts” are instructing us not to use the term “looting” to describe the mass looting and brazen shoplifting plaguing the San Francisco Bay Area.
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November 23rd, 2021
pile of money $1s & $5s
Inflation versus Rising PricesInflation is an increase in the overall general price level of an economy.
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November 22nd, 2021
Pelosi & Dems celebrate spending bill
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 21, 2021 The Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal dominated the weekend news, but the more significant story for the long run was House passage Friday of the multi-trillion-dollar tax, climate and entitlement spending bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi marched her majority off a cliff in 2010 with votes on ObamaCare, and now she has done...
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November 19th, 2021
WV Sen. Joe Manchin
By: Phil Gramm and Mike Solon – wsj.com – November 18, 2021 Long before the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported inflation had hit a 30-year high, Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) raised concerns about how President Biden’s Build Back Better bill would affect the economy, the national debt, entitlements and especially inflation. To assess the bill’s potential consequences, he demanded, among...
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November 11th, 2021
Kamala Harris at lectern, Joe Biden
  A vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill is a vote for Biden’s reconciliation legislation — the largest cradle-to-grave expansion since the New Deal.
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November 11th, 2021
WV Sen. Joe Manchin
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 10, 2021 For something we’re told is “transitory,” inflation sure is persistent. The latest evidence arrived with a jolt Wednesday when the Labor Department reported that consumer prices jumped 0.9% in October, or 6.2% from a year ago and the fifth straight month higher than 5%. That’s also the fastest rate since...
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November 11th, 2021
Business - smoke pollution - carbon emission
There has been a long-running narrative that big business leans Republican because both Republicans and big business generally oppose high taxes.
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November 5th, 2021
$4 Trillion Dumpster Dollar
In a series of new polls, Americans share their criticisms of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill and its high price tag.
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September 24th, 2021
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer points
No one seems to care that Democrats are walking us into a fiscal catastrophe.
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