Skipping meals. Racking up debt. How inflation is squeezing single parents

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  1. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Can you cite anything that proves that? And I mean some actual verifiable stats not just some pictures of fat people
     
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    Some people do buy leases with no intent to drill. Sometimes people will go in and bid nominal amounts on leases with no bids on them hoping they can flip them in an assignment in the future. Some companies do it to pad their balance sheets with more assets.
     
  3. notme

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    https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna26987291
    Bush signs $700 billion financial bailout bill



    whatever
     
  4. Yulee

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    People pay for good ****
     
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    Even if we are subject to the same forces as "the globe", which expert economists like former Democrat Treasury Secretary Larry Summers dispute, a fact you keep ignoring, I want a leader with solutions, not excuses. I want a leader who sees the US as a leader, not a global victim/follower. If the US is helpless as you assert, WTF do we need Biden for? BTW, I just got home from a shopping trip. Shortages are clearly apparent. Dems better get some better talking points than you have. Or soon people will be begging Trump to run again. '

    Stop with the excuse mongering and tell us the solutions your man Biden will provide!! Put up or shut up as they say.
     
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  6. notme

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    Aha. So you are conceding to my arguments that the US indeed has no control over these things that have a massive economic impact, by not being able to dispute it. And now you ask why you got Biden. Well, Biden is the leader of the US. Not the world. And you seem to be acting like some spoiled child that yells it wants something, and a parent explains that it is not theirs to take, but the child can't stand it. That's where we are at now.

    The days of the US just can walls in, like they did in Iraq and make it do what it wants is over. The US lost the war in Afghanistan after 20 years of trying. Russia found it's own version of Afghanistan. It's not as if Britannia is still ruling the waves. That's where we are at now.
     
  7. Vote4Future

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    Build back better will drive inflation even higher. Spend. Spend. Spend.
     
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    When did I claim they were not producing oil?
     
  10. Bearack

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    I won't discount that there was was more cargo ships coming, however it is absolutely true that there was a massive labor shortage and trucker shortage!

    Shortages of workers and equipment exacerbate delays
    A struggle to hire enough workers has had a tremendous impact on the transportation industry nationwide, causing headaches at ports, warehouses, railways, and trucking. Many companies have fewer workers than before the pandemic but face significantly more work due to the boom in demand for goods since the pandemic started.

    The shipping delays have made it more difficult for truckers to meet their deadlines and stay on schedule when it comes to picking up goods at ports.

    The backlog has also caused a shortage of containers and the chassis needed to haul them. Containers wait for extended periods in ports, and it takes about twice as much time for operators to return the chassis, the Journal said.

     
  11. crank

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    What claim? That lower socio-economic orders are fatter than rich orders? Are actually saying you doubt this?
     
  12. crank

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    Google it. Obesity is strongly associated with poverty.

    And yes, it costs considerably more to become obese than it does to remain a healthy weight. This can also be googled. Rice & beans are MUCH cheaper than meat, dairy, and convenience foods (the three favoured food groups of the obese).

    If you can't see the link between the behaviour and the poverty, given that, then you have some ideological resistance to truth. Perhaps it's an inconvenient truth?
     
  13. The Mello Guy

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    You claimed people on food stamps are fatter. Do you have a source or not?
     
  14. crank

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    I never mentioned food stamps. I have no idea what they are.

    But if they're associated with poverty/welfare, then I'd be willing to bet that such people ARE fatter than rich people. By a good margin.
     
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    The Biden Disaster Continues: Diesel Rationing Could Hit East Coast This Summer, Refinery Owner Says

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    “I wouldn’t be surprised to see diesel being rationed on the East Coast this summer.”

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    “Drivers will pay the highest gasoline prices ever paid for Memorial Day.”

    "National diesel inventories are the lowest in 17 years, and East Coast stockpiles haven’t been this low since 1990, according to the Department of Energy."

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    Biden rolls from disaster to disaster, first he denies, then he blames, but, being hostage to the degrowthers he never expands supply.

    They want these shortages for us, they have plenty of everything, they just don't want to pay the political price for their actions.
     
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    I was emphatically opposed to both the bank bailouts and the automaker bail outs. Hence I purchased a Ford shortly after. They should have failed so that the monopolies could have been broken down into smaller entities. Not more "to big to fail". Bush in his second term really started showing his true colors. And yes, I am ashamed I ever supported him and the patriot act.
     
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    Your claim is fake news.

    A few years ago we were producing enough to ensure low reasonable global prices. Then after Biden was installed, he immediately viciously attacked our oil and gas production because Degrowthers want the American Worker to pay very high prices for fuel. They have the outcome they want, the "messaging" is an attempt to avoid political responsibility for their deliberate actions.

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    Single mothers got what they voted for.
     
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    Two million barrels a day less than under Trump and growing.
     
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    I'm starting to think that Bush, Romney and McCain were beards and not real choices.

    Trump was the first real choice we've probably had since Reagan.
     
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    LoL no it doesn't.

    It's like giving them credit cards with a high interest rate and a one million dollar limit.
     
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    Yeah the problem with welfare is we're not welfaring hard enough.

    Always the lefts argument. Failed ideas are only failing because we're not failing harder.
     
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    No, working hard to implement leftist ideas like killing pipelines on Day 1 does that.

    Not Russian pipelines to fund Russia though, he approved that one.
     
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    New Poll: 82 Percent of Likely Voters ‘Concerned’ About Rising Gas Prices Under Biden.

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    "Since Joe Biden entered the Oval Office, the cost of energy (especially gasoline and diesel fuel) has absolutely skyrocketed, and this was occurring well before Vladimir Putin arrayed his troops on the Ukrainian border."

    "When Biden entered the Oval Office, the average price for a gallon of gasoline was $2.42."

    Expect to pay the highest prices you have ever paid for gasoline by Memorial Day.

    "Biden’s reckless release of 180 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve wasn’t such a good idea after all, seeing as how it has had little to no impact on the price of gasoline."

    "60 percent of likely voters favor “a law that would dramatically increase oil and gas drilling in the United States.”

    "76 percent of Republicans, 57 percent of Independents, and even 46 percent of Democrats agree on this commonsense solution, something almost unheard of in today’s super-divisive political environment."

    https://townhall.com/columnists/chr...-about-rising-gas-prices-under-biden-n2607040

    The "messaging" and the paid liars in the WH are fooling no one.
     
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    Just like before the housing bubble popped and, refresh my memory, how many people lost their homes?
     

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