Ag with kids

I think you're onto something here.

As bad as both sides of the aisle are at budgeting, I think having an unelected group of people make decisions for the the budget is WAY worse...

I wasn't. I clarified myself. Congratulations on being a dick. I have defended nobody except for Milton Friedman.

Sorry...I corrected it later in the post... I meant the latter...sorry for the confusion. BTW...rather than being shitty like you were, could you next time ask for some clarification as to which timeline I was referring to?

I included huge initial injection that so all you Trump haters wouldn't accuse me of letting him off the hook. How was I not honest (I FUCKING stated the time period)? And it IS a "both sides" issue. The injections of money should have slowed down much earlier. But, it didn't. BTW, the rate of increase has been MUCH higher over the past TWO years, too...And it would have been even higher if several of the spending bills proposed in congress hadn't been killed - something like $3 trillion more...

You do realize that $6 TRILLION has been injected into the money supply in 2 years, right? It went from $15.5 Trillion to almost $22Trillion. That's a 41% increase in the money supply in 2.5 years. NOBODY should be surprised we're seeing inflation.

How was Friedman wrong? What is "right"?

I have read a lot of Friedman. I can agree with Friedman and disagree with a lot of the actions the Republicans have done. They're mutually exclusive. If I disagree with the Republican actions that doesn't mean that I think the Democrats are any better, though. I think they're fucking up WAY worse than the Republicans have. And drop the "hatred and violence" schtick. Just because you accuse everyone that disagrees with you a racist doesn't mean it's true. And if you ever wanted to convince someone of your point, using that line of reasoning is NEVER going to get them to consider your view. hth

We'll stop at Bray's Smokehouse in Kingsville if it's around lunchtime on a trip to/from Port Mansfield from Corpus for work - get work to pay for lunch and all that shit. Although, in the beauty that is working for the state, it's considered taxable income.

I root for spending cuts. Tax cuts are nice, too. In 2021, the government collected $4.05 trillion in revenue. I'm going to guess that the government collecting 17.6% of GDP means they're not fucking starving. You root for tax increases AND spending increases. So, please don't talk about ME cheering for disaster. BTW...tax cuts by themselves do not increase the money supply. Which is the only thing that causes inflation. I assume you're a good guy too. But, please don't try to tell me that you're smarter than Milton Friedman. And I did note you ignored the part of my post which showed that M2 has increased by shitloads over the past 2+ years. And should have stopped increasing about 1.5 years ago. Except the federal government AND the Fed Bank kept dumping money into it. Call it QE69420 or whatever. BTW...I'm going to guess that the other folks you tagged earlier won't respond because they've abandoned this site. It's become a Burnt Orange DemocraticUnderground here. I got negged into purgatory (lost 500 rep points in 1 day) because I "dared" to have a contrary opinion in the CR. So...I don't post there anymore.

https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2019/04/17/6740067472361080848/640x360_MP4_6740067472361080848.mp4 This is the correct answer...duh!!

Yes...during a fiscal crisis. This is the money supply. It's 50% higher than 2.5 years ago. The fucking slope should have normalized a LONG time ago, but the government just keeps pumping cash into the economy. As my point from MF said...inflation is always and everywhere a MONETARY phenomenon. There's an extra $3 Trillion dollars more in the economy in the past several years than there should be... BTW, tax cuts were financed? Ummm, no...it was the SPENDING that was financed. The money that comes in as tax revenue isn't the government's in the first place. Why don't we ever look at THAT side of the ledger? Of course, over 50% of the spending is welfare/social spending, so I actually know why...Bur, I will say I blame BOTH sides of the aisle for this. NO ONE will make the hard choices that need to be made regarding any kind of spending the government does. And I take the Ag with kids comment with pride. I'm an extremely lucky man in life to have these kids. Kind of sad that you're taking to insults now, though. You used to be better than that. But, maybe the tack this site has taken has changed you. Hope you get back to being the guy I remember from, holy fuck, about 20 years ago...

I remember one time watching the weather on TV back when I lived there as a kid. The weatherman made a comment about the temps getting into the "sizzling seventies". Having vacationed several summers in San Antonio prior to that, it was quite amusing...

I live on N Padre. The temperature difference between the island and Flour Bluff is at least 5-10 deg. I leave work on the bluff and it is just hot/humid even when the wind blows. Then you get on the island and it's a different world. But, use shade wisely...it's a good thing.

I own my house and 4 rental properties. Only my house is homesteaded. The others don't get that lovely exemption. Perhaps that's his issue.

What's your point? Yes...the long periods of low interest rates was bad. They were too low for too long. The Fed fucked up. But... What about the trillions of dollars dumped into the economy over the past 2 years? Do you think that adding that kind of economic stimulus could have had any kind of effect? You know, too much money chasing too few goods and all that shit? Or as Milton Friedman said, “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” And why would taxes affect anything in the aggregate? It's either money available to the economy via the taxpayers if they get to keep the tax cuts or it's money available to the economy via the government when they spend those tax dollars...

They haven't regressed THAT much. Just because other places have gotten better than them doesn't mean that they're still not orders of magnitudes better than most BBQ places...

I've heard that about the Fried Chicken. But, I have a Good and Crisp 2 min from my house, and it's the best I've had. And I still have ZERO idea how they exist with their BBQ...especially being only an hour away from BBQ central in Lockhart/Luling.

I'm not sure I would classify not going to someplace because their BBQ is fucking shitty as a "boycott".

People think Apple is dead?

I have zero give a shit about Newsom. I guess he's a douche from the French Laundry thing. But, I went to Per Se, Thomas Keller's OTHER 3 Michelin Star restaurant, literally right before the whole Covid shit hit the fan...late Feb 2020. The Oysters & Pearls may have been the best thing I have ever eaten in my life. It was fucking sublime...The rest of the meal was great, too...but...I could have done 10 courses of the Oysters & Pearls and been the happiest man alive that day.

Alcohol... It's a HELLUVA drug... MY balls got sucked up into my internal body cavity when he jumped in that water.

Water Temperature in Degrees F (Degrees C) Loss of Dexterity (with no protective clothing) Exhaustion or Unconsciousness Expected Time of Survival Recommended Paddling Clothing* 60 to 70 (15.5 to 21) 30 to 40 min. 2 to 7 hrs. 2 to 40 hrs. Wetsuit with light paddling jacket, paddling shoes, hat FUCK! THAT! SHIT!!!!!! My GF is a swim coach and they swim in 75 deg water and it's COLD

Rock fucking sounds painful... And is that a PERSON in the fucking water on the other side of that "beach"??? Isn't that shit about 50 deg F????