I must admit finding your arguments immensely amusing. You seem to have some small talent in debate tricks, in turning and twisting my statements into a pretzel. However, I continue to be thoroughly unimpressed with your knowledge of the actual subject matter. The too little too late, the storm is coming, and the MAGA way of admitting defeat remarks are quite funny.

As far as admitting defeat, you are right. I've been admitting defeat every single time Democrats succeeded in convincing stupid old people and now stupid not so old people that Republicans Social Security reforms would screw them over, and the Democrats could make saving Social Security painless by just taxing some rich guy a tad more.

My brilliant arguments to the contrary have not convinced you so far, and I can always think up many more, but you would continue to reject them. So I think I will swing this conversation back to your inflation comment.

You seem to be defending, not the idea that inflation could not be helped under Carter and Biden. That argument, whilst not ideal, is at least plausible. I made a similar argument that the economic shutdowns and turmoil of Trump's last year in office were the result of Covid, and likely no other President could have done better, considering the limited knowledge and experience of the virus and it's consequences at the time.

I know you would disagree, but neither of us can prove the other wrong. To get back to inflation, you seem to be making the argument that high inflation under Carter and Biden was good because you and I did well with the high interest rates.

I dispute that viewpoint. Yes getting 19 % on money market funds was kinda cool, but that was a false return. With inflation running so high, real return on capital wasn't as good as it sounds. We were getting back inflated dollars.

I say that once Reagan and Paul Volcker broke the back of the inflation cycle in the early 1980s, returns in the stock markets, until Biden's inflation, were more wealth producing because inflation was no longer eroding the purchasing power of the dollars gains earned. Yes there was some inflation and yes there were some scary economic busts like 2008, but the low inflation from 1982 until 2022 was 40 years of solid wealth building.

Have you ever noticed the grammar of Airforceone ? For five plus years I have tried and failed to teach him the difference between your and you're. Since he is one of your guys, I thought you might have better success than I have. I mean you are a professional and the rest of us are just pretenders.

None of us here will ever likely convince anyone on the other side of anything. For me this place is simply an opportunity for me to try out my arguments and theories against people who think the opposite of me. I find that especially useful because my daughters and nieces and nephews are all Leftists, but not all of them are hopeless cases like the Liberals in this place.

The Leftists on OPP show me whether I have any obvious weak points in my facts and logic. Unfortunately the quality here is not as good as on the sites that were active 15-20 years ago. The Bush/Iraq War years when I was on a dial up modem were more fun. Those Leftists were much crazier, but at least they knew what they were talking about, and they didn't cut and run like the present woosie crowd does.

I've been whining for weeks about my topics not coming up on the list. Suddenly this one did. If I ever figure out what I did right, , , , well..........

Very likely.

What the h**l. My topic is visible. It's like my kid graduated from reform school. I am so proud.

I hope you are right, but the abortion issue is in the Democratic Party' political advantage. I have many uber liberal friends. I know their thinking. Whilst they may get over their hatred of Trump, they want the right to kill that baby. They don't see the little bugger in Mom's belly as anything except an inconvenience until it bursts out of Mom's body. It isn't alive until the doctor smacks it's butt to make it a human.

Firstly, Joe Biden's plan has been proposed before. It is far too little and definitely far too late. You are clueless as to the massive storm that will begin hitting the US of A in a few short years. Joe like every dishonest Democrat has given you an easy out. A way that you are sure will not affect you because you do not earn $ 400,000 or more.

You only know what Joe and his media accomplices fill your head with. I can tell simply talking to you that you have done no independent reading on this issue. It doesn't matter. Even when the storm hits you will not have a clue what is happening or why.

I said this previously, I know more about inflation and it's causes than you will ever know. Unlike you I experienced it first hand, when it was even worse than Biden's inflation. I was working my first full time job, bought my first house during the inflation of the Jimmy Carter years. For awhile I benefited from the inflation because I had a job with cost of living raises that almost kept up with inflation.

I also benefited from getting 17 % interest in a money market account. It was great until it wasn't. It didn't end well. As far as babbling about sand castles, I already told you I do not respect your knowledge of the issues we talk about. I was attempting to explain things better by using analogies.

My mistake. You obviously cannot grasp what an analogy is, plus I am quite sure you did not spend any time at the beach growing up. That is our difference. I understand these complex issues, and I spent a lot of time as a kid at the beach. That is why I am such a well adjusted adult.

" The Biden Administration is proposing yet another change in the funding formula that is intended to fix the problem. "

What is this change in the funding formula ?
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" In the simplest possible terms, inflation is what happens when prices go up and therefore the purchasing power of money goes down. "


" A dollar is worth fundamentally less if, overall, goods and services increase in price. "

You seem to imagine that I do not know what inflation is, that I did not live and work during the high inflation years of Democratic President Jimmy Carter. I am not sure if this meats the strict definition of gas lighting, but it sure smells of it.

Some of the most pleasurable experiences I was honored to have, in the last decade, came from viewing videos of Liberals crying, screaming, and howling at the moon when Donald J. Trump won the 2016 Presidential election. I long to go through those experiences again. I am a simple person. Simple things bring me joy.

" I wrote for a local newspaper for years and still write the occasional press release or history article. "

Cool. On another topic I was lamenting the poor quality of leftist contributors on OPP. Now I see we have a professional writer amongst us. Of course this will raise everyone's expectations. I hope you can handle the pressure and live up to the buzz you have caused.

Let me see, I ain't filthy. I showered 3 days ago. I ain't disgusting, not to most people anyway. I ain't racist, I judge everyone by the quality of their behavior. I try not to be hypocritical. I do not identify as Evangelical. I have never lived in the South, but I have visited.

I see the crazy one of the multiple personalities is in control today.

I love the fight. Leftists constantly complain about how they are bullied and told to shut up on OPP. I always encourage them to speak their mind. I tell them to invite their most intense friends to come here. It is not my fault they cannot stand up to my questions. I always try to answer their questions and unlike them I freely admit my mistakes. My ego can take being proven wrong.

Their egos can't. I figure that since I have facts and truth on my side, I will usually win the arguments. I continue to be disappointed in the lack of quality of those on the Left who come here. I guess the smart ones stay on social media, or maybe there ain't no smart ones.

Karma seems weak to me. All Congressman Schiff lost was a few suits. Many victims of criminals let out on no cash bail lost much more.

Anything Biden is saying is a lie. The man absolutely cannot tell the truth. Uncle Joe has you living in a fantasy. It's okay though, the manure will not hit the fan for a few years yet. By then the Democrats will have come up with a way to persuade folks like you that it is the Republicans fault for Medicare, the Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and Social Security being cut.

This disaster could have been fixed innumerable times in the past, but your people demagogued the issue every single time it came up. Now it is too late. Social Security is a sand castle on the beach and the tide is coming in and will knock it down. The tide will not be stopped now. Uncle Joe has you convinced that digging ditches in the sand and building more sand walls around your sand castle will stop the ocean of demographic debt from flattening your seemingly invincible dream program.

When the waves wash over this disaster we will wish we had the $ Billions Barry the Obama and Olde Decrepit Joe Biden wasted on stupid solar companies and wind farms that will be sitting rusting in the breeze. Still believe Uncle Joe and not me ? Okay.

Remember when Afghanistan was turning to crap under Joe ? As things were collapsing Joe and his flunkies kept saying " All is well, all is well. " Don't remember that ? Okay, you should remember this one from Joe's EXPERTS. " Inflation is temporary. "

As the Great Barry Obama put it, " Never underestimate Joe's ability to f**k things up. "