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Doing absolutely nothing meaningful about inflation is why our next president is going to be an overt and unapologetic fascist. (Granted, they'll come up with a better name for it.) The foreclosure crisis and Obama's failure to address it properly is what got Trump elected the first go-around.
The recession happened in 07/08 under Bush. Obama didn't take office until January 2009. Trump won because these two private parties control everything about our election process and one of them put up a candidate that almost nobody liked to the point that a failed businessman and reality TV star was somehow more appealing.
It doesn't matter when the recession started. When you don't do something about a preexisting problem, it becomes your policy.
Millions of people lost their homes when Obama was president, and Democrats were somehow shocked that people who lost their homes wouldn't vote for someone campaigning on continuing Obama's policies. (Policies that included criminalizing the poor and demonizing Occupy.)
Dunno why you're all downvoting.
Every single one of you is paying 30% to 50% more to live, and you know it. And the aid you need to cope with inflation? Biden used it to fund another country's war instead.
Because "funding other people's wars" is better than waiting a couple years till it's our war too...
Did you forget about WW2?
Yeah, that's what people say every time.
They said that when our country got a whole generation of young men killed in Vietnam and wasted over a trillion dollars. They said it when we treated Saddam Hussein the same way what's-his-name is Ukraine is being treated now back in 1983, funding his war against Iran and giving him an arsenal, before we went to war against him. Twice. People still pretend that our attempt at maintaining a permanent war in Afghanistan was magically a good thing, even though we wasted several trillion dollars and ultimately learned it was completely unsustainable.
Canada has universal health care and you know how much they spend on war?
23 billion a year.
Stop repeating slogans that make absolutely no sense given our military history since WW2, and please also stop pretending that neglecting our people to blow up other countries is virtuous.
Why are you talking about Vietnam?
Vietnam is the reason we support with money and not bodies...
And why did you tell me to "stop repeating slogans" when you're the only one that's used a slogan?
Vietnam is the reason we support with money and not bodies…
Can't really argue that when you look at our health care system. We're definitely supporting them with bodies, it's just bodies here dying for lack of health care. Most countries, when looking at the question of war spending versus health care, decide to spend their money on health care instead.
We should do the same.
"Another country's war."
Meanwhile completely ignoring the notion that Russia had no intention of stopping in Ukraine, and had their sights set on Moldova and other regions next. Ukraine is a democratically elected country that was taking steps to join both the EU and NATO, a partnership closely linked to the US and one that the US is a member of.
Also completely ignoring that a lot of the retail inflation we're seeing is tied to corporations juking the prices and blaming it on inflation, while they collect record profits.
But hey, troll dicks are small, and their mental capacity even smaller.
I'm not discounting that Russia's evil.
What I'm discounting is that we're somehow good guys for neglecting our own people's basic needs in order to fight yet another war we don't need to, especially in a time when we've spent the last eight years being on the evil side while helping Saudi Arabia starve and decimate Yemen. The only people pretending we're the good guys here don't have any concept of geography or our country's role in the other eight wars we're involved in right now. We already spend nearly a trillion a year on war, so tacking another hundred billion on top of that isn't insignificant.
Also completely ignoring that a lot of the retail inflation we’re seeing is tied to corporations juking the prices and blaming it on inflation, while they collect record profits.
I'm not ignoring that. I'm annoyed that we elected Democrats a majority and they did absolutely nothing meaningful about it while instead flushing tens of billions of dollars that we need down the toilet for another country's war. And I'm annoyed that, with 98% of voters caring about nothing other than team color, I'm powerless to do anything about it.