The Biden Presidency

[nsacpi]

I am curious though why, in your endless obsession to defend the norm busting administration, that you post data titled "food in US city"

When I posted the raw FAO numbers above for all to see

It's not my label. It is the Bureau of Labor Statistics' label. You can ask them. It is their job to collect data for the Consumer Price Index.

[sturg33]

So it only measure food costs in urban cities?

[sturg33]

We can do our normal song and dance.

We disagree. I say inflation is a problem. You lecture that its fine.

You smugly lecture me about how brilliant you are your useless anecdotes, etc.

Time goes on... your argument is simply destroyed by the facts. (See Russia, Kavanaugh, Covington, Wallace, 1932, Masks, Cuomo, Whitmer, Portland storm troopers... and I could go on for quite a while).

Then when I point how hopelessly wrong you were again, you go quiet... silent. Can't be bothered. You're on to the next lecture.

I say we just skip to the silence part and save yourself the embarrassment

[nsacpi]

We can do our normal song and dance.

We disagree. I say inflation is a problem. You lecture that its fine.

You smugly lecture me about how brilliant you are your useless anecdotes, etc.

Time goes on... your argument is simply destroyed by the facts. (See Russia, Kavanaugh, Covington, Wallace, 1932, Masks, Cuomo, Whitmer, Portland storm troopers... and I could go on for quite a while).

Then when I point how hopelessly wrong you were again, you go quiet... silent. Can't be bothered. You're on to the next lecture.

I say we just skip to the silence part and save yourself the embarrassment

just sharing some data on the food component of the Consumer Price Index...you are free to make what you want of it

[sturg33]

just sharing some data on the food component of the Consumer Price Index...you are free to make what you want of it

You randomly shared data of food in urban centers

[sturg33]

Yup.

The useful idiots are too stupid to see how they are being played. But they will go along with it. They always do.

They will be eating bugs

[nsacpi]

You randomly shared data of food in urban centers

The Bureau of Labor Statistics calls its main index for consumer prices the CPI-U (Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers). This is the one I used for the graph. The phrase "all city" means it aggregates across all cities. There is a separate CPI for individual cities. If you are interested in learning this is not a bad place to start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...er_Price_Index

If you want to read the report for March 2021 you can find it here.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf

There is a lot to take in. If you scroll down to table 4 of the March report you will see there is a Consumer Price Index for each region and for a bunch of individual metropolitan areas. The main one "all city" is for all of the locations they survey.

[Julio3000]

I don’t think most mom and pops pay many dividends to shareholders other than the owners.

I’m not talking about mom and pops, because I think that doing so in this context is a well-intentioned sideline at best, and a bad-faith misdirection at worst.

I have some sympathy for small owners struggling to keep a business afloat. I’ve been one. I’m particularly sympathetic if they’re struggling to pay their own household bills, not buy a boat or a second home or whatever. I just think this whole conversation is missing the point in a lot of ways, and missing the point in a way that seems cynical and intentional. Too much focus on UI, too much focus on mom and pop, not enough worker perspectives, too much knee-jerk bashing of wage-earners, not enough systemic analysis.

[nsacpi]

systemic analysis.

you have to go to the soccer boards for that

[sturg33]

How much should a cashier at Walmart be paid?

[goldfly]

A livable wage

This ain’t hard bro lol

[sturg33]

How much is that bro?

[goldfly]

You act like this is an insane thing to know or find out lol

No matter how unskilled or whatever way you want to look down on those workers. They should be paid a liveable wage where they don’t have to make choices like getting medicine vs eating or rent etc etc etc

[sturg33]

So Walmart in New York needs to pay their cashiers around $43/hr.

That's the fastest path to 100% automated checkout I've ever seen.

And the small businesses?

They done. Well, they were gonna go out of business anyway I guess.

[goldfly]

Cool

That was fun

You could just say you support paying people poverty wages and we could have just moved on instead of acting like you’re a serious person

[sturg33]

You made a post and I told you what that would cost.

Sorry the answer was a ridiculous pipe dream... Like all your ideas

[goldfly]

Lol, ok

[goldfly]

This dumbass lol

[sturg33]

This dumbass lol

I was told for 4 years what happens under his watch is on him.

The US has gas shortages as our federal government is fighting the ol diversity and inclusion battle first and foremost

[nsacpi]

I was told for 4 years what happens under his watch is on him.

I would make a distinction between say a hurricane hitting Puerto Rico and the president instructing FEMA not to spend available funds to help Puerto Rico. I know that's a fine and subtle distinction, but I'm gonna for it.