Inflation Hits a 39 Year High

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There was a recent interview with Putin who correctly observed that America is slowly regressing into the old Soviet Union with growing government and increasing government meddling with grand plans to centrally plan everything. He noted that America was becoming just as inept and corrupt as the 1990 period that the Soviet Union had to crawl out of.

Even if Reagan were alive today, DC most likely wouldn't allow a hands off approach at this point since the corruption is so great. There probably is no path to the same solutions America used in 1980. We are headed to the same exact fall as the Soviet Union experienced in 1990 for the exact same reason. A mass delusion of trust in government to centrally plan an entire society. It's inevitable.

So I guess you proved an important point in a way. It's irrelevant whether or not Reagan was to be credited or to blame for the recovery of double digit inflation in 1980.

Today's present Government is too far gone down the path of centrally planned socialism to implement any of those solutions. The patient is simply too sick to accept the vaccine.
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i would say cutting taxes as much as he did wasn't a neutral act. if inflation got subdued during that time, it was despite his recklessness in borrowing and spending. you are correct that at least he didn't like run away government. you're showing some keen insight in a lot of your posts in this thread. 
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If trying to convince anyone of anything, instead of just trying to offend, your points would likely be better expressed without so much vulgarity.

Case in point, so far you used the R-word 6 times in this thread. It's needlessly over the top crossing into hate-speech, and using that level of invective in repetition reflects poorly upon you, and thus poorly upon that which you are advocating.
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The fact that you can make a post like this reveals only your own bias, not mine.
You think everyone starts talking about these things at the same time purely because the evidence shows they are real issues? You don't think there are more issues to select from - how do you think the priorities are decided? That is my point, it doesn't work that way and there are literally conspiratorial networks that are planning out the discourse in advance. Anything you said about liberals is beside the point.

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@rbelivb
I don’t know what to tell you. Inflation IS at a multi decade high. I’m not supposed to talk about it because some think tanks are presumably talking about it as well? It’s a conspiracy to talk about it?

I seriously don’t understand the point you are trying to make. Yes think tanks exist. They exist to push an agenda. These agendas are often in contradiction with each other, and there are think tanks broadly affiliated with every part of the political spectrum. For example CIS exists basically for the sole purpose of arguing for immigration restrictions…CATO supports open borders. But these two organizations are involved in a successful conspiracy to lead right wing voters a certain way, even though they themselves advocate for different things. 
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I’m not supposed to talk about it because some think tanks are presumably talking about it as well? It’s a conspiracy to talk about it?
That's what I mean. It's not that you are talking about inflation because it's at a multi decade high, and think tanks also happen to be talking about it. It's that you're talking about inflation because think tanks conspired to make it a talking point, and it also happens to be at a multi decade high.

They exist to push an agenda. These agendas are often in contradiction with each other, and there are think tanks broadly affiliated with every part of the political spectrum.
In my opinion you are really painting a misleading picture of the role of think tanks in the modern political discourse. I disagree fundamentally that they play a passive role simply reflecting what are already the main issues, advocating on all sides.

But these two organizations are involved in a successful conspiracy to lead right wing voters a certain way, even though they themselves advocate for different things. 
Exactly, they are defining the parameters of what is discussed, and which issues are prioritized.
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That's what I mean. It's not that you are talking about inflation because it's at a multi decade high, and think tanks also happen to be talking about it. It's that you're talking about inflation because think tanks conspired to make it a talking point, and it also happens to be at a multi decade high.
Dude I’m rich and I’m noticing inflation. It’s very real, not a conspiracy, and absolutely something that a normal person would notice and be concerned by