The UN is an abject failure

Sorry, not give the UN credit for what it has not done. The only thing that has prevented WWIII is nuclear weapons.

 

It really has not done that. Who do you think gave Pakistan and India nuclear weapon technology, or for that matter North Korea and China.

 

You misunderstand as always. All I said was that major world players in possession of massive numbers of nuclear weapons have meant that there has been no world war III. How much longer this state of affairs will last is anybody's guess as the only calculations the Biden administration seems able to make are mis.

 

A response to the post saying that the UN is anti-american.

 

Well, since the new administration has taken office, the little guy and the middle class have been screwed for the benefit of the rich guy and the 'righteous' guy.
Are you a rich guy or a 'righteous' guy?

 

I desire a further explanation of your other post...I desire a further explanation of your post that America not kissing its own ass isn't un-American. Are you saying, for example, that The Constitution in kissing America's ass isn't necessarily American?? I mean, dude, you have to understand ( I think you already do) that, if America does something not in the best interest of America, America is actually doing something in the best interest of America.

 

Wake me up if you ever get past cliches.

 

I have yet to see anyone make a convincing case the Biden admin is responsible for inflation. Want to try?

 

If you don't realize that average Americans are being screwed over, for example (and, mind you, The Biden Administration has screwed over the little guy in America quite a lot) by the Biden Administration's sanctions on Russia, for example, you won't mind this latest screwing over of the little and poor American for the rich's 'righteous' motive of saving Ukraine. Said 'righteous' motive to save Ukraine appears more to be profit motivated and politically motivated than righteously motivated.

 

More of the same...

I was aware of being screwed in the 1960s...

But you've barely scratched the surface.

 

Your position being we should let Russia attack Ukraine with impunity?

 

Inflation is caused by government spending money into existence. The 2 trillion covid bill is an example. He isn't the only president responsible for inflation. All of them are since WWII. But Biden certainly has contributed to it.

 

You haven't gassed up lately, have you??

Were you asleep when congress at the bidding of the Biden Administration pumped trillions of dollars into the US economy for various reasons like Covid, infrastructure and Ukraine??

 

Even though you used an emoji, which I guess gave you the impression you made your case, you didn't. I'm waiting.

 

No. My position on this was always to try to find some diplomacy to prevent the invasion. No one. The UN, the US, no one, seemed to be enthused about diplomacy even though Russia threatened Ukraine for months if not years.

 

I can't explain inflation to you if you don't understand inflation.

 

Faced with the judgement by the CBO that the economy's recovery would be negatively impacted until 2025 without additional stimulus Biden decided to act. The bulk of inflation is due to supply chain restraints that is a hangover from COVID.

 

That is an egregious falsehood.

 

The CBO was wrong, Biden was wrong. The supply chain problem affects prices, not inflation. Biden gets some of the blame for that as well.

 

Cite at least one instance by either the US or the UN, for examples, of attempted diplomacy between Russia and Ukraine in the past year.

 

~ For me it was early 1970s — I was 18 y/o. As the song goes " Oh What A Night "

 

BS.

Both. Price increases show up in inflation stats even if they are temporary (meaning not inflationary).

Biden gets some credit for keeping the country, and the economy, from running off the rails. Most economists thought the risk was worth it, and I agree. Letting the country fall into recession would have been a terrible mistake..

 

I have yet to see a rational argument that Biden shutting down US oil production did not effect world oil prices. But that would be because there is no such logical case.

 

I have been gassing up since I was 16 years old. My first gas price I saw was 89 cents a gallon. Should we be blaming all president from then till now because gas prices have ALWAYS steadily increased over time?

What @Lee Atwate is arguing specifically are what policies have the Biden Administration done to increase gas prices today? Does the Biden Administration control the oil production facilities and dictate how much gas should be produced? Or does the Biden Administration control the Futures market where the price of crude oil is traded? Or does the Biden administration control other countries such as Saudia Arabia, Canada, Mexico, etc. in how much they produce?

Oil is a global market and the fact that oil production has not kept up with demand, aka capitalism or Adam Smith classical economic theory, is one of the main reasons why gas prices are high.

https://time.com/6156525/gas-prices-oil-prices-oil-and-gas-industry/

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/19/1086925726/gas-prices-oil-crude-drilling

 

The economists were also wrong. They never agree on anything. So were you. Partisanship has no value at all. Only the evidence matters. All the economic problems we face today were CAUSED, at least in part by Biden or to be more accurate to his incompetent staff.