Alabama to Prosecute Those Who Help Women Travel to Obtain Abortions

[kutter]

hasn't the unemployment calculation changed over time, so by definition, it's not a fact. Or maybe you could say it's a fact that changes in the winds of political desire?

Yes, sometime in the past they took out the cost of food, fuel, and I think housing from the calculation. Ya know, the THREE things that we spend the highest percentage of our wages on are no longer factored into inflation. Riddle me that Batman!! It was done because without them the COLA every year for SSA and military retirements, as well as the annual increase for active duty is lower.

As for the abortion thing, I guess it is pretty simple, how would you feel if someone assisted your children in going out of state to a religious camp without your permission. If they are adults, it is there business, I am very libertarian when it comes to things like that. I hate abortion but it does not involve me so I stay out of it.

[~Rocktar~]

If you are referring to the Black unemployment rate, it hit a low point in 2019, but that record was beaten during the Biden administration. If you pick the very best monthly unemployment number for every minority group during the Trump administration, you'll have difficulty finding one that was not beaten during the Biden administration. And if you want to look at averages over the full presidential term, instead of picking the best month, then it's not even close.

Unemployment rate is not the same as unemployment since it's a synthetic number. More minority people were employed under Trump than ever before. Facts don't care about your copium.

[Parkbandit]

Yes, sometime in the past they took out the cost of food, fuel, and I think housing from the calculation. Ya know, the THREE things that we spend the highest percentage of our wages on are no longer factored into inflation. Riddle me that Batman!! It was done because without them the COLA every year for SSA and military retirements, as well as the annual increase for active duty is lower.

Bingo.

"LOOK! THERE'S NO INFLATION ANYMORE!"

[ClydeR]

Yes, sometime in the past they took out the cost of food, fuel, and I think housing from the calculation. Ya know, the THREE things that we spend the highest percentage of our wages on are no longer factored into inflation.

False.

[ClydeR]

More minority people were employed under Trump than ever before. Facts don't care about your copium.

The same can be said for the majority of Presidents, since the population increases over time. Are you sure you want objective truth, as you said? I'm starting to suspect that you prefer it slanted. Here's another similar, and absolutely objectively true, Trump achievement that I think you will enjoy. Trump was President number 45. No President in history before him ever had such a high number. It was huge! Biggest presidential number ever at that time.

[kutter]

False.

Sorry Clyde, you are wrong:

Keeping inflation low has been a key concern of the Federal Reserve System (the Fed) for most of its 100-year history. In pursuit of this policy, the Fed focuses on core inflation, inflation that excludes volatile components, often (though not exclusively) seen as food and energy prices.

Go here and read it, or not, I do not care.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/be...separately.htm

[ClydeR]

Sorry Clyde, you are wrong:



Go here and read it, or not, I do not care.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/be...separately.htm

Your position has drifted. You initially said the measure of inflation had changed to remove the effects of housing, food and energy prices, and you said that COLA computations were being made without regard to housing, food and energy prices. That was false. Now, you are saying that the Fed concentrates on other matters in its attempt to control inflation. That may be true, but it does not make validate your original statement about inflation indexes and COLA computations.

[kutter]

Clyde I am not going to get into a debate with you about this, but in the interest of clarity I said food and energy and I think housing, turns out it is only food and energy. If you would like I can dig out from a gov website where it says that COLA and military pay rate increases are tied to inflation, but you know what, even were I to do that, you would disagree so I will not bother.

I will concede that military pay rates are not directly tied to inflation, but influenced by it, they are directly tied to how little congress can get away with increasing it every year, a point which is coming back to haunt the country given the severe decline in retention/enlistment/application rates.

[~Rocktar~]

Clyde I am not going to get into a debate with you about this, but in the interest of clarity I said food and energy and I think housing, turns out it is only food and energy. If you would like I can dig out from a gov website where it says that COLA and military pay rate increases are tied to inflation, but you know what, even were I to do that, you would disagree so I will not bother.

I will concede that military pay rates are not directly tied to inflation, but influenced by it, they are directly tied to how little congress can get away with increasing it every year, a point which is coming back to haunt the country given the severe decline in retention/enlistment/application rates.

First, it's ClydeR, you are wasting your time.

Second, I highly doubt that pay is the primary driver of the failing military enrollment currently. I would place failed policies, likelihood of war, social engineering BS and the current public perception pushed by the media much higher on the list of issues.

[kutter]

First, it's ClydeR, you are wasting your time.

Second, I highly doubt that pay is the primary driver of the failing military enrollment currently. I would place failed policies, likelihood of war, social engineering BS and the current public perception pushed by the media much higher on the list of issues.

I agree that all of those are contributing factors, that being said more money and not destroying the retirement system would go a long way to making people more open to the possibility. And while we are at it, how about not screwing with retired health benefits too.

The powers that be have been paying lip service to supporting the military for years now, and not just this administration. After a period where the military was appreciated and the actions of the government reflected that we are now in a period where that no longer seems to be the case and public opinion, while not terrible, is not what it once was. Those of us that served do not put up with all the bullshit for adulations or to get rich, but a little appreciation and a fair wage go a long way to enticing and keeping people.

Ok, I will stop derailing the thread and get off of my soapbox now.