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   Bob F to redds   
   Re: Here's who's buying panic rooms and    
   16 May 24 17:02:53   
   
   XPost: alt.security.alarms, alt.home.repair, alt.politics.democrats   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns, sac.politics   
   From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 5/16/2024 4:06 PM, redds wrote:   
   > On 16 May 2024, "max headroom"  posted some   
   > news:v25qnb$1oj9t$2@dont-email.me:   
   >   
   >> In news:v23s4a$1b7a6$1@dont-email.me, Bob F    
   >> typed:   
   >>   
   >>> On 5/15/2024 7:50 AM, Scout wrote:   
   >>>> "Richard"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:20240515.070054.aaa3b050@erienetworks.net...   
   >>>>> In  Frank wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 5/14/2024 2:12 PM, ðŸËoŽ Mighty Wannabe âÅ" wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Frank wrote on 5/14/2024 12:11 PM:   
   >>>>>>>> On 5/14/2024 9:18 AM, ðŸËoŽ Mighty Wannabe âÅ" wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> Scout wrote on 5/14/2024 7:28 AM:   
   >>>>>>>>>> "ðŸËoŽ Mighty Wannabe âÅ"" <@.> wrote in message   
   >>>>>>>>>> news:iNp0O.3481$ifn.1768@fx05.ams1...   
   >>>>>>>>>>> Frank wrote on 5/13/2024 10:28 AM:   
   >>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> Then your favorite DA will reduce felonies to misdemeanors   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> except in the case of Trump where a small misdemeanor is   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> tried as a felony.   
   >>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> In most countries in the world, inciting an insurrection to   
   >>>>>>>>>>> usurp power is a high crime punishable by hanging.   
   >>   
   >>>>>>>>>> Well in most countries in the world you would actually need to   
   >>>>>>>>>> engage in an insurrection to be charged much less convicted of   
   >>>>>>>>>> it.   
   >>   
   >>>>>>>>> The fat weasel is too cunning to personally engage in an   
   >>>>>>>>> insurrection riot. I was watching all the news channels on   
   >>>>>>>>> internet on and around Jan 6. I have watched his speech on   
   >>>>>>>>> GAB.com and at the White House. I am sure the fat weasel would   
   >>>>>>>>> be guilty of summoning and inciting the insurrection mob to   
   >>>>>>>>> riot at the Capitol to usurp power by force, by any   
   >>>>>>>>> international standard.   
   >>   
   >>>>>>>> TDS has no borders.Ã, Tell us what you like about your   
   >>>>>>>> leader.Ã, I bet you love him.   
   >>   
   >>>>>>>> BTW Trump looks leaner these days.   
   >>   
   >>>>>>> Our leader has become a spineless weasel blindly following Uncle   
   >>>>>>> Sam's marching orders. His father should be rolling in his grave.   
   >>>>>>> I might stop voting Liberal in future elections.   
   >>   
   >>>>>> So now you know that we have the same type leader in Biden. Most   
   >>>>>> know it but many are blinded by TDS.   
   >>   
   >>>>> Biden is not a leader though. He's a stooge being pushed along by   
   >>>>> Obama retreads.   
   >>   
   >>>> Let's put it this way... in all of Joe's political history about the   
   >>>> only thing he can point to as his achievements was getting elected   
   >>>> to office.   
   >>   
   >>>> He has been, is and will be nothing but an empty suit that follows   
   >>>> the mandates of the DNC.. not the American people.   
   >>   
   >>> Other than overseeing the survival of thousands from covid, restoring   
   >>> USA economic growth after tRump crashed the economy, raising income   
   >>> for hundreds of thousands of American workers, rebuilding /America's   
   >>> infrastructure, setting the lowest unemployment rates in 50 years,   
   >>> actively bring manufacturing back, .........   
   >>   
   >> The Spin: Americans Are Getting Poorer While Prices Keep Going Up   
   >>   
   >> Americans' real weekly earnings dropped sharply in April and still   
   >> remain well below their level when President Joe Biden first took   
   >> office, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).   
   >>   
   >> Real average weekly earnings fell to $1,191.93 in April, declining by   
   >> 0.4% in the month and 4.8% compared to the start of Biden's term in   
   >> January 2021, according to data calculated by the Daily Caller News   
   >> Foundation from the BLS. Prices have risen over 19% since Biden first   
   >> took office and 3.4% in the last year, degrading the value of   
   >> Americans' wages.   
   >>   
   >> The decline in earnings is also due in part to a decrease in the   
   >> average number of weekly hours worked, which fell from 34.9 in January   
   >> 2021 to 34.2 in April, according to the BLS.   
   >>   
   >> Real wages have been degraded due to persistently high inflation under   
   >> Biden, which was measured in April at 3.4% year-over-year after   
   >> peaking at 9% in June 2022.   
   >>   
   >> The average number of hours worked per week has declined because   
   >> employers are resorting to cutting hours and shifting to part-time   
   >> jobs to offset the increase in costs and slack in business conditions.   
   >> Gross domestic product measured just 1.6% in the first quarter of   
   >> 2024, representing a major slowdown in the growth of the U.S. economy.   
   >>   
   >>    Average hourly earnings rose again in Apr but fell in real terms as   
   >>    inflation outpaced wage growth; here you can see how wages have   
   >>    rocketed higher since Jan '21, but fallen significantly after   
   >>    adjusting for inflation - you got a raise, but it buys you less:   
   >>    pic.twitter.com/XtyTxvsFhm   
   >>   
   >>    - E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) May 15, 2024   
   >>   
   >> Biden has repeatedly claimed that he has brought inflation down,   
   >> falsely telling CNN and Yahoo Finance that the inflation rate was 9%   
   >> when he took office when it was really around 1.4%. Immediately   
   >> following that claim, Biden falsely asserted that "the pay for the   
   >> jobs are outpacing the inflation rate that they're   
   >>   paying."   
   >>   
   >> The president also touted on Wednesday that "inflation has fallen more   
   >> than 60%" from its peak. While the inflation rate has decelerated   
   >> around 62% from its peak, inflation has not fallen, and the rate   
   >> continues to fail to come close to the Federal Reserve's target range   
   >> of 2%.   
   >>   
   >> The number of people employed in part-time positions because of poor   
   >> business conditions or they could only find part-time work increased   
   >> by 161,000 in April compared to the previous month, according to the   
   >> BLS. Around 1 million more people held part-time jobs in April   
   >> compared to the previous year, while the number of people employed in   
   >> full-time jobs declined by 557,000 in that same time frame.   
   >>   
   >> In accordance with rising costs and shrinking wages, the cumulative   
   >> amount that Americans are holding in savings has declined in recent   
   >> months, totaling just $671 billion in March, compared to over $1   
   >> trillion the year before. Credit card delinquencies greater than 90   
   >> days have also risen substantially in the past several quarters as   
   >> Americans look for ways to finance through the increase in costs and   
   >> the loss of income.   
   >>   
   >> Persistent inflation and low growth have worried some economists that   
   >> the economy is entering a period of stagflation, which wreaked havoc   
      
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