Swordsmyth
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And exactly the intent of free trade. The rich profit by reducing everyone else down to the lowest common denominator of slaves who own nothing of value and are paid little more than what is required to live paycheck to paycheck. (if that much)

Classic leftist projection. Accuse the enemy of what you are doing.

Leftist globalist hogslop.

Ultimately the international corporate globalist class pay the cost through higher wages for the middle and working classes.

This is proof-positive we're not just poorer now than we were 40 years ago, we're much, much poorer. Armies of well-paid apologists, apparatchiks and propaganda peddlers--economists, pundits, statisticians, influencers--spend their entire careers pushing a big shining lie; we're more prosperous now than ever before. This is demonstrably false, as the truth--that we're much poorer than we were 40 or 50 years ago--would disrupt the status quo in which the few at the top get to control the narratives and wealth as long as the masses believe the propaganda that we're all better off. This is the reason why the four-decade collapse of the purchasing power of wages must be papered over with propaganda and gamed statistics. If we accept the reality of our declining standard of living and well-being, then a few reforms will be recognized as insufficient; we'll awaken to the necessity of a Reformation, not just a handful of standard-issue policy tweaks. Inflation statistics are easily gamed. So are statistics such as median wages. Official inflation is gamed by various statistical tricks (hedonics and what's in the price basket) to understate the real-world decline in purchasing power. There is only one true measure of prosperity: the purchasing power of an hour's labor / wage. It doesn't matter what the wage or price numbers are, what matters is: how much can you buy with an hour's wage?

This is proof-positive we're not just poorer now than we were 40 years ago, we're much, much poorer. Armies of well-paid apologists, apparatchiks and propaganda peddlers--economists, pundits, statisticians, influencers--spend their entire careers pushing a big shining lie; we're more prosperous now than ever before. This is demonstrably false, as the truth--that we're much poorer than we were 40 or 50 years ago--would disrupt the status quo in which the few at the top get to control the narratives and wealth as long as the masses believe the propaganda that we're all better off. This is the reason why the four-decade collapse of the purchasing power of wages must be papered over with propaganda and gamed statistics. If we accept the reality of our declining standard of living and well-being, then a few reforms will be recognized as insufficient; we'll awaken to the necessity of a Reformation, not just a handful of standard-issue policy tweaks. Inflation statistics are easily gamed. So are statistics such as median wages. Official inflation is gamed by various statistical tricks (hedonics and what's in the price basket) to understate the real-world decline in purchasing power. There is only one true measure of prosperity: the purchasing power of an hour's labor / wage. It doesn't matter what the wage or price numbers are, what matters is: how much can you buy with an hour's wage?

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Yeah, he knows it's government lies to harass Raw Milk producers.

The election is over, you can't suppress votes for him anymore. And he's putting RFK in charge of investigating vaccines.

Who's to say Trump was wrong about RFK for POTUS? Fortunately RFK got nowhere near the White House and Trump found useful things to use him for.

Raw Milk Legend Tapped to Craft Trump’s FDA Policy https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-12-13/raw-milk-legend-tapped-craft-trumps-fda-policy

Yep, she worked for the CIA and then wrote an unauthorized (but not penalized) book glorifying the CIA.

The solution is for parents to control their own children or get parental control software to do it.

Actually the exporting country often pays the tariff by lowering prices or devaluing their currency to try to maintain marketshare, and the importing companies often eat part or all of the cost for the same reason. When tariffs are high enough that the exporters and importer companies don't eat the cost the American consumer may face some higher prices temporarily, but they are more than made up for by higher wages when the industrial economy recovers and improves the rest of the economy along with it. Meanwhile we can lower or eliminate other taxes to compensate the consumer as well, and we regain our independence and resilience.

That's false, I never admitted any such thing and I proved you were wrong. He did what he could and gave us the best results in living memory, he'll do even better this time.

Congress passed the aid, and the events showed they would have impeached him for stopping it, they tried to impeach him for holding it up to get Ukraine to investigate corruption that affected us. He's going to eliminate government agencies, he and the people around him have already made that quite clear. He's not going to implement authoritarian garbage.

I mean either one, the charts show they can't buy as much and have to work more hours to get the same stuff. And you again edited out the part where I showed you were wrong and being deceptive like the Fed and how it calculates inflation.

And you deliberately edited out the part that shows why it's such a stupid comparison, you are literally comparing a mouse to a lion and telling the lion that it can get fat on the same diet as the mouse.

Talk to Matt, I just copied and altered his Headline. I DID read the article when nobody else did or I wouldn't be the only one here calling out the false headline that presents a rumored consideration as a done deal.

Notice how none of the free trade cultists will engage with the facts posted in the charts, they just keep spouting dogma and appealing to authority.

Hong Kong was a tiny city state with a low population and few resources, being an international trade hub was its only option. But you can't provide wealth for a Continental sized country with far more inland than coast and a huge population by being a trade hub or a service economy. America became wealthy and developed the largest middle class in history using tariffs, it has become weak and lost its independence while driving its middle class into the poor and the poor into the dirt since adopting free trade.

The charts literally show that American workers increased productivity and didn't get increased compensation for it. They also show that they get less for their hours of work than before, I'm sure you can point to garbage like the Fed uses to calculate inflation using underwear and computers that are assumed to be 20 times as valuable because they can perform calculations 20 times as fast (but don't actually benefit you all that much more than older computers aside from games looking prettier), but the fact is that all the necessities of life like housing and anything that would allow you to bootstrap yourself up the economic ladder are further and further out of reach for the average man.

The International class takes all of the profits and the average American gets all the inflation.

Not when you don't get your share of it. You literally can't stop thinking like a .1%er. Who is "We"? because those charts clearly show the average man is far poorer than before the mass offshoring and immigration.

Spoken like a globalist Neo-Feudalist. At least you make your position clear that the impoverishment of the middle and working classes, which results in their destruction and extinction through plunging birthrates, is your goal, it would be refreshing it it weren't so disgusting.

That's utter nonsense. In the first place there are schools of economics that are against it, in the second you are appealing to authority because the facts are against you, and finally economists (especially mainstream economists) have one of the worst track records in the world.

Several hundred years of economic data say exactly the opposite of what you claim. But the globalist plutocrats who use free trade to reduce all the workers of the world to slave labor and destroy small and medium sized businesses thank you for your devotion to their cult.