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The most important key issues are if Biden will be able to climb any stairs or not fall over!
War and the military industrial complex are revving up under Biden.
The inflation rate under Biden is 17.1%. officially.Your anecdotes are irrelevant.
Bumbling and stumbling into war all the while smirking because war is stimulating to the economy through the military industrial complex. Yes, definitely multi-tasking.More evidence of Biden's ability to multi-task. Smokin Joe is able to lead America back to prosperity even while falling up the stairs
As in any project, there are real numbers that apply. Material costs and labor, how much per square foot. That could easily be determined if you are really interested.
BTW you talked about asphalt taxi ways however concrete is and has always been extensively used for taxiways for airplanes. Again, the costs can be calculated for material and labor. $194 million, for a taxi way when a mile of interstate is $1 to $2 million pre-Biden cost is a bit excessive by any calculation.
$260,000,000 is more than the entire budget for some Arizona Counties, if I am not missing a few zeros here. I believe the budget in this county is around $250,000,000.If you want to claim they are paying too much, I'll let you take that up with the local officials who designed it to cost $260 million -- the plans and the reasons for that cost should be publicly available.
Most of it is a 200+ foot bridge over roadways. At least the taxiway itself is.$260,000,000 is more than the entire budget for some Arizona Counties, if I am not missing a few zeros here. I believe the budget in this county is around $250,000,000.
That county budget pays for all county personnel and services for an entire year.
Do I think $260 million for a concrete apron in Sky Harbor is a bit excessive? What do you think?
Yes, that's what politicians do.It is useless to talk to local officials. They had a huge ceremony with Buttigieg and all the Big Wigs, made all the papers. "Look what Biden is doing for Arizona" all the usual clap trap. It is a big photo op and guaranteed to impress the folks...except it doesn't.
Like I said, Americans are counting pennies and those big numbers flashing in the headlines only makes them uneasy and maybe angry.
But not everything, all the time. That's how averages work.Meanwhile, there was a 10% increase in both phone and internet cost this morning. More inflation. And the official rate is 3.2% except every month something goes up double digits.
IT all adds up.But not everything, all the time. That's how averages work.
Maybe so.In this case, Biden was right.
2029 would be very interesting should Trump become 47.Saving democracy should be uppermost in everyone's minds. Elect Trump and he won't leave...and once he entrenched himself he won't keep his promises to social conservatives and the 99%. Do you really believe a self-proclaimed sex addict (the grabber confession) cares about abortion? Does a man who, when his pastor approached him about a new roof for the church said "no, but this guy will give you a discount" care about faith at all? Does a man whose hotels are staffed with immigrants on visa really care about the wall?
It has to do with the price of bananas. Bananas were always abt 58 cents a pound. Now they are 72 cents a pound.
Pennies. The average voter counts pennies while the government spend Trillions without accountability.
What the heck..global infrastructure, sounds good, toss out another $200 Billion.
Another form of fealty is DEI. Either swear the oath to the agenda or lose the funding or the patent. Pure Feudalism.
According to some sources inflation rate since 1998 is 250%. I would say that the fundamentals of the economy are not sound. And it doesn't matter who is President.In 1995, the price was 45 cents a pound....
Nearly 25 years later, 72 cents a pount is a relative bargain. I guess it all dependes on your perspective.
I thought that I would re-visit the initial question regarding the top issues of the 2024 presidential election campaign.I cannot vote in your election though close relatives can. But it seems to me that this election is one of the most important ever. So what advice would you give my relatives as to the most important issues in this election?
From my European perspective, the following seems most pertinent. But I would be interested to learn what Americans think are the key issues:
1) POLITICAL PARTISANSHIP threatens to split the country and even provoke a civil war - much to the delight of America's rivals. So what candidate can best unite America and reconcile those on both sides? How can personality politics, abortion obsessions, lies about election fraud, and 'plan-demics' be put into proper perspective?
2) AMERICAN PROSPERITY AND POWER ARE UNEQUALLY SHARED - Your super-rich grows richer while those at the bottom struggle with high prices, debt, a lack of proper health care, and educational disparities. Social mobility continues to decline and various voices among the superrich are too loud while those of the people can hardly be heard. Seething resentment is dismissed as socialism but this just feeds the underlying discontent.
3) PUBLIC DEBT levels are at a record high and this is becoming unsustainable. The political culture seems to disallow the possibility of a balanced budget.
Obviously, you are entitled to your opinion. Personally, I don't believe that prices being 2 1/2 times what they were 25 years ago is a significant problem, if it is a problem at all.According to some sources inflation rate since 1998 is 250%. I would say that the fundamentals of the economy are not sound. And it doesn't matter who is President.
The fact is the rate of inflation is increasing in the last several years. The underlying system is becoming more unstable.
In a Feudal System the amount of taxes,, any surplus of production, above a producers needs, was limited to physical reality as produce was tangibles such as grain.
That is not the right number. The Consumer Price Index has increased by ~90% since 1998. (And that "250% you quoted isn't a rate, it's a total.) That doesn't indicate something wrong with the economic fundamentals. (It's also a very long time for such a measure of fundamentals anyway.)According to some sources inflation rate since 1998 is 250%. I would say that the fundamentals of the economy are not sound. And it doesn't matter who is President.
Inflation went up coming out of the pandemic and then it fell. The current rate is around 3% per year, down from near 10%.The fact is the rate of inflation is increasing in the last several years.
Feudalism has been dead for centuries. It is irrelevant. (And yes, I read your earlier post, and it is nonsense.)The underlying system is becoming more unstable.
In a Feudal System the amount of taxes which was any surplus of production was limited to physical reality as produce was tangibles such as grain.
Outside extraordinary events, the size of government spending is fairly smooth. It increases (in dollars) or decreses a few percent in any pair of consecutive budget years. There is a hesitancy to cut or increase by large amounts.Now the amount of government spending is not tied to production (taxes.) GDP. The government merely increases the money supply.
This is incoherent. You should probably stop while you're behind.It is telling that a percentage of the GDP was the base of taxation. That is the Feudal formula, how much the government can syphon off for the Administrations agenda rather than the amount necessary to actually administer the government.
The price of bananas is irrelevant in modern money theory because the government merely increases the amount of money passed out. ("Adjustments for Inflation) Money is just zeros on a screen.
What's to complain about?
Feudal is an old system and it was fairly stable, however abusive and corrupt, for many centuries Capitalism attempted to leave the wealth in the hands of the producers to invest according to their judgement (capitalism) Now who produces, what, how and by whom is increasingly according to government control. And who receives is also according to government control.
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