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US Truckers Organize Stateside Convoys Set to Protest COVID-19 ‘Overreach’

Allan said:
Fake news. Take your socialism somewhere else.
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I don't know how it happened. I was just reading about "logistics" and suddenly I felt the need to seize the means of production and toss bankers in the gulag.
 
sanman said:
Paying people to stay at home certainly isn't helping productivity, and is only driving inflation.

Most of the infrastructure bill isn't about infrastructure -- the word infrastructure has been redefined to mean anything Dems wants to shower with money. That's inflationary too.
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No one is being paid to stay home.
 
Luce said:
Today I learned that conservatives don't believe supply chains.

Things just magically appear on store shelves.
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They magically appear on store shelves unless Biden has made them magically disappear.

Damn that Biden…he’s a magician.
 
It is not US truckers, it is a far right funded PAC trying to invoke civil disobedience.
And it is any truckers who are persuading to join who will pay the price in terms of fines, impounding of their vehicles, and arrests.
 
sanman said:
Paying people to stay at home certainly isn't helping productivity,and is only driving inflation.
Most of the infrastructure bill isn't about infrastructure --
the word infrastructure has been redefined to mean
anything Dems wants to shower with money.
That's inflationary too.
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sanman said:
Biden shills have been blaming the pesky "supply chain" for all the inflation which is actually being caused by the Biden govt's non-productive spending (any spending that doesn't improve productivity will automatically increase the supply of money relative to goods/services, which automatically results in inflation).

Now, with a truckers' strike, Biden shills can actually point to supply chain workers to blame them.

Ahhh - those silly workers - the ones whom the Left have claimed to represent all these years. Silly blue collar deplorables - like truckers, farmers, etc.

The Left-wing elites have decided to switch over to Wall Street, and love to make speeches at Goldman-Sachs, etc. The Lefty elites have outgrown those silly deplorables, and have moved on to more lucrative pastures. Never mind that these wealthy investment bankers don't quite add up to as many votes as those blue collar deplorables. That problem can be solved by eliminating Voter ID and filling in lots of mail-in ballots in the name of heaven-knows-who.

We're like George Orwell's Animal Farm in real life now.
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Supply chain issues have driven inflation.

Go out and try and buy a new car if you don’t believe it.

“The Left-wing elites have decided to switch over to Wall Street, and love to make speeches at Goldman-Sachs, etc.”

Where did your savior’s Treasury Secretary come from????

How about the Governor of Virginia?

And, who does Ted Cruz’s wife work for?
 
TomFitz said:
Supply chain issues have driven inflation.

Go out and try and buy a new car if you don’t believe it.

“The Left-wing elites have decided to switch over to Wall Street, and love to make speeches at Goldman-Sachs, etc.”

Where did your savior’s Treasury Secretary come from????

How about the Governor of Virginia?

And, who does Ted Cruz’s wife work for?
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Yeah, but also mostly just price-gouging.
 
What on earth are these people on about?
 
Khayembii Communique said:
Pandemic payments were approved by Trump with a republican congress. Remember, he wanted his name on the checks?

There isn't any such thing as "non-productive spending". Money that goes into the economy and circulates is by definition real economic demand. The idea that money could be both non-productive (i.e. not demand-inducing) and circulating is nonsensical.
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It's also important to note that Trump wanted even more money than eventually ended up as part of the stimulus; he was originally asking for $2,000.
 
Gulag
 
TomFitz said:
Supply chain issues have driven inflation.

Go out and try and buy a new car if you don’t believe it.

“The Left-wing elites have decided to switch over to Wall Street, and love to make speeches at Goldman-Sachs, etc.”

Where did your savior’s Treasury Secretary come from????

How about the Governor of Virginia?

And, who does Ted Cruz’s wife work for?
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It's a part of it, but at the same time it can't be denied the stimulus many plays a part into that as well, since it contributes to the demand part of consumption. The big question is how quickly supply chain issues sort themselves out and things level off. In the case of cars, I've read that we won't see that until later this year. Cases are rising in South Korea and Vietnam, so it's possible factories will be shut down to help contain the spread; I haven't followed the situation in those countries closely enough to know if that has happened yet.
 
ElChupacabra said:
It's a part of it, but at the same time it can't be denied the stimulus many plays a part into that as well, since it contributes to the demand part of consumption. The big question is how quickly supply chain issues sort themselves out and things level off. In the case of cars, I've read that we won't see that until later this year. Cases are rising in South Korea and Vietnam, so it's possible factories will be shut down to help contain the spread; I haven't followed the situation in those countries closely enough to know if that has happened yet.
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Yes, the stimulus did have an effect. But the alternative would have almost certainly been a depression.

I think that inflation will subside.

And, I suspect that this is one of the last times in history that a sudden rise in the price of oil will have a major impact on the US economy.
 
sanman said:
US truckers are set to organize their own freedom convoys to protest against govt overreach on COVID-19 restrictions:

nypost.com

US truckers organize stateside convoys set to protest COVID-19 ‘overreach’

A group of US trucker convoys are joining protests against COVID-19 restrictions and mandates in several cities. The Great American Patriot Project urged truck drivers to join three convoys to…
nypost.com nypost.com
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Most truckers I know can't afford to involve themselves in long term protests
 
TomFitz said:
Yes, the stimulus did have an effect. But the alternative would have almost certainly been a depression.
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What I do think would have been more effective was a more targeted approach to delivering stimulus to those who needed it more than others. Based on the data available on how people have spent this money though, it does seem like much of it has been on necessities, and the goods that fall in that area would have been in demand regardless.

TomFitz said:
I think that inflation will subside.
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Agreed. The question of when is the big one, as is the margin of the price reductions once it does.

TomFitz said:
And, I suspect that this is one of the last times in history that a sudden rise in the price of oil will have a major impact on the US economy.
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I wonder about that. Right now the conflict in Ukraine is one of the causes of the price fluctuations; I don't know how free of that we ever will be while this form of energy remains prevalent.
 
KingLeo said:
It is not US truckers, it is a far right funded PAC trying to invoke civil disobedience.
And it is any truckers who are persuading to join who will pay the price in terms of fines, impounding of their vehicles, and arrests.
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The right-wing is always looking for ways to recruit the working class around issues that have nothing to do with their low wages, brutal working hours or lack of benefits.
 
Its pretty easy to see that these truckers really enjoy and support their FrEeDuMbZ$™.

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