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2021-04-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Bobby 2021-04-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "The greatest aberration of the mind is to believe a thing to be, because we desire it."

"Wants what he wants when he wants it – and thinks that constitutes a natural law" - Robert Heinlein

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-17 04:22|| 2021-04-17 04:22|| Front Page Top

#2 "inflation-adjusted average income" Calculating the rate of inflation can be adjusted by choosing the benchmark commodities and has been. If "Joe Average" looks at what they are buying and it costs more than there IS inflation.

Posted by magpie 2021-04-17 10:05|| 2021-04-17 10:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Adjusted for inflation, there has never been any inflation. So there!

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-04-17 11:09|| 2021-04-17 11:09|| Front Page Top

#4 There is no 'adjustment for inflation", rather it is debasing of the currency. Long, long ago, but within my lifetime you could walk in to a bank and exchange (silver certificate) paper dollars for 10 silver dimes, 4 silver quarters, 2 silver half dollars or one silver dollar. Today they give you federal reserve note dollars. Extrapolating that the silver in those old coins (90%) is now worth around $20 (frn) dollars, they debased the currency to 1/5th of the original.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-17 12:23|| 2021-04-17 12:23|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Essentially, we're still paying for the New Deal.

Posted by Matt 2021-04-17 14:44|| 2021-04-17 14:44|| Front Page Top

#6 "My vote counts."

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-17 15:07|| 2021-04-17 15:07|| Front Page Top

#7 What I got from the whole article was that the average American is not terribly bright, and made consistently dimmer by the biased, slanted, bottom-feeding media they claim to not believe in. Ironic, eh?

Posted by Bobby 2021-04-17 17:27|| 2021-04-17 17:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Doesn't this show a complete and total failure of the education system and the media. There should be a class action lawsuit.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-04-17 18:25|| 2021-04-17 18:25|| Front Page Top

#9 WRT increased income under Obama; income may have actually gone up, but any increase was supplanted by horrific tax payments resulting in a net decrease in middle income and assets.

Posted by Phusolet Gloluper1146 2021-04-17 21:50|| 2021-04-17 21:50|| Front Page Top

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