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Hans Blaster said:

Anyone with a $100,000 annual spending habit complaining about rising costs can just shut up.

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Lol I guess so, but isn't Biden trying to appeal to those earning around that much or erven more with tax cuts and other savings as they are part of middle America.

Even so it seems the average person had to find an extra $11,400 so if their wage is around $45k to $65k thats a pretty big chunk they have lost.

Bradskii said:

Good to know that you understand economics a little better.

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Thats ok always learning lol.

I find the whole moral outrage of child labour by the Left hypocritical. They are quite happy to get in bed with big Corps like Apple, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft and Nestlé who exploit child labour to produce their goods.

stevevw said:

I find the whole moral outrage of child labour by the Left hypocritical.

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So what? They "get in bed" with the same multinational corps as the Republicans? They express unjustified moral outrage just like Republicans?

stevevw said:

Lol I guess so, but isn't Biden trying to appeal to those earning around that much or erven more with tax cuts and other savings as they are part of middle America.

Even so it seems the average person had to find an extra $11,400 so if their wage is around $45k to $65k thats a pretty big chunk they have lost.

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Where is this article that claims that the average person (probably household) have seen an $11k increase in costs, let alone for a wage of $45-65k? I followed the link chain back until I found an article from ABC and that was about food prices rising faster than general inflation.

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SimplyMe said:

Actually, the scientific evidence shows that it is actually a physical disorder,

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Oh?

SimplyMe said:

with the best evidence suggesting that in many cases it is an actual birth defect (and, no, I am not taking about intersex).

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In what way? A chemical imbalance?

SimplyMe said:

The issue is that many without knowledge of the condition, since it doesn't show externally, have decided that it is "imaginary" or a "mental disorder" because it doesn't line up with the morals; and so they talk about it, pretending to be an expert, based on their moral beliefs.

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It is not about morals. It is about their physical sex, being mentally rejected as another sex.

SimplyMe said:

The real issue is, first, trying to diagnose the issue -- there are some with mental disorders where it manifests as if they are transsexual -- and we don't have a good test to tell them apart.

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So, you cannot tell them apart? But you say it is a physical condition. I think you are playing word games.. Confusion !

ralliann said:

Oh?

In what way? A chemical imbalance?

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The structure of the brain itself. There have been a few lines of research but to highlight a couple: there have been hormonal tests of fetuses while in the womb and autopsies of people who identified as transsexual. Forgive me for not providing links but I've done this too many times; to be honest I should have made a cut and paste about this years ago (and I just don't care to do it now).

I'll start with the autopsies, it was found that people that identified as transsexual had brains that were structured like that of the gender they claimed to be. Once a few studies were conducted, one of the criticisms was that the transsexuals might have had some amount of change of brain structure by taking hormones. At that point, further autopsies were done that accounted for hormones, and it was found that even without any real treatment, such as hormones, these transsexuals still had brain structure consistent with the gender they claimed (male body with female brain or female body with a male brain structure).

As for hormones, studies were done on mice (the one I'm most familiar with) where they were dosed with the opposite gender hormones to their DNA at a key point in development. When they did this, the mice acted "transsexual" -- where male mice behaved as if they were female and females behaved as if they were male. Obviously no human trials have been done, though in the 50s (and even into the early 60s) women were sometimes given hormones to prevent them from miscarrying. There was a bit of research done on male children that found an abnormally high number that identified as transsexual -- but it was a rather small study due to difficulty in finding the children, 40+ years later.

Last, a couple of interesting new lines of study. Studies of areas polluted by estrogenic chemicals (such as runoff of fertilizer and pesticides into watersheds) show abnormally high level of "transgender" behavior from the animals in those areas. In fact, there are some new lines of research that appear to show that it is happening in humans, as well, though a lot more work is needed there. Additionally, there have been studies into the human genome that suggest there are alleles inside the genome that may account for homosexuality and transsexuality, though a lot of work still needs to be done here.

ralliann said:

It is not about morals. It is about their physical sex, being mentally rejected as another sex.

So, you cannot tell them apart? But you say it is a physical condition. I think you are playing word games.. Confusion !

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You can't easily diagnose it because of the issue of trying to view the structure of the brain. We can tell with an autopsy but that isn't a good diagnostic method for living people.

BCP1928 said:

So what? They "get in bed" with the same multinational corps as the Republicans? They express unjustified moral outrage just like Republicans?

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Well there you go both sides are as bad as each other.

Hans Blaster said:

It is 54 minutes and 51 seconds long according to the counter at the bottom of the YouTube video (0:02/54:51).

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Not what I watched. It was very brief

Hans Blaster said:

Where is this article that claims that the average person (probably household) have seen an $11k increase in costs, let alone for a wage of $45-65k? I followed the link chain back until I found an article from ABC and that was about food prices rising faster than general inflation.

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Yes it says the typical American household has to find an extra $11,400 due to inflation reaching a 40 year high. The average household income is around 75k.

stevevw said:

Yes it says the typical American household has to find an extra $11,400 due to inflation reaching a 40 year high. The average household income is around 75k.

Americans need an extra $11,400 today just to afford the basics, Republican analysis finds

Compared with 2021, the typical household must spend an additional $11,434 annually just to maintain their standard of living, analysis shows.

www.cbsnews.com

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Not just due to inflation,

BPPLEE said:

Not what I watched. It was very brief

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I don't know what random 33 seconds out of 3300 you watched.

stevevw said:

Yes it says the typical American household has to find an extra $11,400 due to inflation reaching a 40 year high. The average household income is around 75k.

Americans need an extra $11,400 today just to afford the basics, Republican analysis finds

Compared with 2021, the typical household must spend an additional $11,434 annually just to maintain their standard of living, analysis shows.

www.cbsnews.com

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Do you think the final words of the headline might matter: "Republican analysis finds" ? I'm trying to find the "study" now.

Hans Blaster said:

Do you think the final words of the headline might matter: "Republican analysis finds" ? I'm trying to find the "study" now.

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Lol I don't really think a Democrate analysis is gonna find it. Thats the problem with much of this analysis it can be viewed in more than one way.

I think the best way to determine economic health is by asking people themselves. The reasons why people percieve that the economy may not be doing so well is different to how analysists produce data. Its how they are coping financially.

It seems most people believe its harder to make ends meet today thanks mainly to inflations effect on the cost of living.

Reasonably Sane said:

This guy has something to say about child labor laws. It affected him big time, and not in the good way.
This video is worth every minute.

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I like Walter Williams and also Thomas Sowell who appeared in the video. Williams makes sense but I think this idea of Blacks being treated like property can be applied to everyone except perhaps the well off who don't have to worry or be subject to the system the State welfare and poverty trap that many find themselves in regardless of colour.

Child labour is obviously wrong but its hypocritical of any government to complain as the entire system is designed to subject people to slaving away to just live. Making profits above people is the incentive for business and big corps to cut corners and compromise to increase profits. Which includes finding ways to cut labour costs one way or another.

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Lol I don't really think a Democrate analysis is gonna find it. Thats the problem with much of this analysis it can be viewed in more than one way.

I think the best way to determine economic health is by asking people themselves. The reasons why people percieve that the economy may not be doing so well is different to how analysists produce data. Its how they are coping financially.

It seems most people believe its harder to make ends meet today thanks mainly to inflations effect on the cost of living.

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Yes, it's a good propaganda move. People are feeling worse off, and if they can be convinced that it is mainly due to inflation and that the inflation is mainly due to Democratic policy they will vote Republican.

BCP1928 said:

Yes, it's a good propaganda move. People are feeling worse off, and if they can be convinced that it is mainly due to inflation and that the inflation is mainly due to Democratic policy they will vote Republican.

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No people are feeling off as you call it because they are really struggling compared to before. They will naturally take it out on whoever is in government at the time.

stevevw said:

No people are feeling off as you call it because they are really struggling compared to before. They will naturally take it out on whoever is in government at the time.

Public’s Positive Economic Ratings Slip; Inflation Still Widely Viewed as Major Problem

Majorities of both Republicans and Democrats remain fearful about the state of the country.

www.pewresearch.org

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Exactly. And the real culprits get away as usual.

BCP1928 said:

Exactly. And the real culprits get away as usual.

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Thats the way the system is designed to allow those with power to maintain power. To feather the nests of some and not others.