According to the new inflation numbers out this week, the inflation rate was “unchanged” in the latest reporting period. (Month on month.)
Not according to our grocery bills – and I expect yours, either. In fact, inflation mainly moderated at the gas pumps. Which, in turn was only because of some short-term relief from taxes that will return as soon as mid-term “show elections” are over.
Which gets us onto an important track, since we’re on Social Security: How does papering-over inflation really work when comes to setting retiree benefits?
Social Security Cost of Living
Calculations are all spelled out on the SSA.gov website this way:
| What is a COLA? Legislation enacted in 1973 provides for cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs. With COLAs, Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits keep pace with inflation.Latest COLA The latest COLA is 5.9 percent for Social Security benefits and SSI payments. Social Security benefits will increase by 5.9 percent beginning with the December 2021 benefits, which are payable in January 2022. Federal SSI payment levels will also increase by 5.9 percent effective for payments made for January 2022. Because the normal SSI payment date is the first of the month and January 1 is a holiday, the SSI payments for January are always made at the end of the previous December.How is a COLA calculated? The Social Security Act specifies a formula for determining each COLA. According to the formula, COLAs are based on increases in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). CPI-Ws are calculated on a monthly basis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.[Ure adds: Important to see how the complicit corporate media reports CPI-U NOT THE CPI-W! BLS touts CPI-U which is lower than the CPI-W figure presently!] A COLA effective for December of the current year is equal to the percentage increase (if any) in the CPI-W from the average for the third quarter of the current year to the average for the third quarter of the last year in which a COLA became effective. If there is an increase, it must be rounded to the nearest tenth of one percent. If there is no increase, or if the rounded increase is zero, there is no COLA for the year. COLA Computation Also shown in the table below, the average CPI-W for the third quarter of 2021 is 268.421. Because this average exceeds 253.412 by 5.9 percent, the COLA effective for December 2021 is 5.9 percent. The COLA calculation, with the result rounded to the nearest one-tenth of one percent, is: (268.421 – 253.412) / 253.412 x 100 = 5.9 percent. |
The good news – such as it is – is that the COLA can already be “roughed out.”
Since we have the 2021 CPI-W numbers, all we need to do is thumb through the most recent couple of Labor Department CPI reports (and detail) to find current year data.
The key part of the report Wednesday was where things are tracking for retirees:
“The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 8.5 percent over the last 12 months to an index level of 296.276 (1982-84=100). For the month, the index was unchanged prior to seasonal adjustment.
The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) increased 9.1 percent over the last 12 months to an index level of 292.219 (1982-84=100). For the month, the index declined 0.1 percent prior to seasonal adjustment.”
A Wild-Ass Benefits Guess
We know what CPI-W was for the three months of Q3 2021. It averaged 268.421.
Therefore – and early guess – based on no – zero – month-on-month inflation, would mean the POSSIBLE increase this year could be thought of as something like this:
2021 quarterly CPI-W into 2022 quarterly CPI-W average equals percent increase
268.421 / 292.219 = 8.86 percent.
A LOT will depend on energy prices between now and mid-term elections. The payoffs to voters are coming hot and heavy now – the bills for all this largess will come later.
This leads us to wondering what they will do to SSA running out of benefits money. We’re still planning to see benefits halved well before 2040. At which point we’ll be in our 90’s. Still, gotta have goals!
Producer Price Data
Just out from Labor today is the PPI report – which can be thought of as “inflation in the pipeline report.
“The Producer Price Index for final demand fell 0.5 percent in July, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This decline followed advances of 1.0 percent in June and 0.8 percent in May. (See table A.) On an unadjusted basis, final demand prices moved up 9.8 percent for the 12 months ended in July.
In July, the decrease in the index for final demand is attributable to a 1.8-percent decline in prices for final demand goods. In contrast, the index for final demand services advanced 0.1 percent.
Prices for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services moved up 0.2 percent in July following a 0.3-percent rise in June. For the 12 months ended in July, the index for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services* increased 5.8 percent.”
*I must have missed when they shoehorned in this “additional feel-good and pretend it’s not just us lying more widely” number.
With a nod to Steeley Dan there is a kind of Pretzel Logic to how this operates on stock prices.
The longwave economics view is that Deflation is incipient and that we will likely (as my pal Jas Jain has been warning) be back into a massive deflation within 2-years – and the Second Depression will be here in 2023. (Papering-over Q3 is important to the socialist economic narrative, you see?)
On the other hand, on word of the declines, the stock futures rallied because it lowers the odds of the Fed doing another big rate hike in September. Except, of course, the devil is always in the details. Click over here and it’s quickly apparent the ONLY thing moderating PPI was Energy which dropped 9 percent for the month. It then rippled out into totals and averages. Everything else sucks.
Year on Year final demand is up 9.8 percent and even throwing out food and energy (*which the Fed does for reasons that are partly delusional) up 5.8 percent YoY.
The relationship is a little noisy, but it’s an idea of what things look like up the pipeline.
Bananas in the Republic
We might begin with who “took the 5th” during his (democrat-run) NY criminal investigation Wednesday. If you guessed it was the same guy the story Trump Asks Allies: Who’s ‘Wearing a Wire,’ Who’s Snitching to the FBI? – Rolling Stone is centered on, you get a gold star.
Still, we have questions about the magistrate who signed off on the Mar-a-Lago search warrant executed Monday by the FBI: Far-Right Extremists Are Violently Threatening the Trump Search-Warrant Judge (vice.com).
One thing now clear? Government may be “turning on The People” as evidenced as IRS seeks armed accountants ready for ‘deadly force’ | Washington Examiner popped.
And they’re turning on their own ruling class, as well: Why Scott Perry stands out in the FBI’s investigations of Trump allies – POLITICO. Less than a month now before the Witch Trials pick up in the District of Corruption.
War is a racket, a famous Major-General once explained. So is Government. Our view around here is simple: never cheat on taxes and be leery of those who do. As we explained on the Peoplenomics side, when the government turns on its bosses (We the People) you have turned once great America into Venezmerica. We would NOT be surprised to see the expanded IRS – which the socialist congress is destined to loose on America – start mass audits of anyone who has a crypto account. (Which we avoided in an abundance of caution.) Yes, government’s a racket – and it’s run by the rich.
Speaking of the Rich Who Run Things like Climate fraud: Climate is a scam run by the rich is something we’ve told you for how long? Now comes Three oil scions PAYING hundreds of eco activists $25,000-a-year to be professional protesters | Daily Mail Online to prove our assertions.
Same line of Inquiry: Think our calling out of the communist insurgency is over-wrought? Well, read what the boss at Whole Foods is saying: Podcast: Whole Foods’ John Mackey on socialism (reason.com)
ATR: Rains Return
Our Houston Bureau Chief reports 5-inches of rain fell since breakfast Wednesday. But they seriously needed the rain. Flooding, sure, but only in the usual places, she reports.
Meantime, here at Uretopia we had a little over an inch and a half overnight. May get a few drops today, but the next “real” rain will not be along till a week from now.
Good news and bad around here. Good news is that the rain barrels supplying the Garden Room are close to full. The bad? The lawnmower may have to be fired up for the abbreviated fall season shortly.
A number of Peoplenomics readers have given passing marks to the first couple of chapters of the Collapse-Capable Electronics Operator e-book, one of our prepping guides. The one “Power in the Second Depression” is a few bucks on Amazon, but a freebie for subscribers. (I know the author, lol.)
William at the Radio Ranch sent in a much shorter (one page) cheat-sheet of the clear channel AM stations around CONUS. So that will replace the too-long Wiki table. He’s got it down to essentials.
Will Shortwave Return? Ever since radio hangouts on shortwave started rolling over onto the internet, we’ve been wondering how long before net collapse leaves billions in a “news/information lurch.” Long-range bet, understand.
A couple of years ago, shortwave radio manufacturer Tecsun had a pretty optimistic take on things: The Future Of Shortwave. We’re not so sure. Until it becomes obvious that EMP can wreck the internet, governments are busily giving away money to the squeakiest wheels – usually socialist-driven agendas that benefit spoiled rich kids egos…
For now, shortwave is not the great intelligence source it once was. But, the late-night ham radio conversations are pretty eye-opening. Reminds us what real people think (and talk) about.
Takeaway here is that another couple of chapters of this new book may be ready for next Wednesday’s Peoplenomics.
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
Got our 10% of an inch yesterday afternoon when the weather bureau took it away in the forecast. No word on whether or not armed weathermen are coming to take it back.
More IRS goons – looks like the picture of the future is unfolding very rapidly. The Trump raid pretty much demonstrated is that we really do not have a government in DC – just a bunch of competing mafias who ignore and law, and provision of the Constitution.
I was hoping that the US people would not have to use violence to protect themselves from the mafia goons, but that possibility grows more each day. And the US Military – supposedly defenders of the faith? They are MIA and AWOL. I cannot tell you how deeply disappointed I am as a US Marine officer in a past life with the current military – they guard the extraction of oil in Syria and look the other way as millions of invaders cross the US border, pretty much unimpeded.
The democrats are now forcing the idea of invaders ‘legally’ voting – another way of stuffing the ballot box. And this is done right out in public – no real deception needed. Just announce what you want to do and do it! Kind of like criminals announcing they are coming to your home tonight and taking what they want – then doing it without any fear of pushback.
At 80 years old, brain fog is settling in. I used to be able to do complex calculations in my head but no more. Can someone out there do some investigation and calculations for me?
Joe has promised his 87,000 new IRS hires wont’t bother anyone earning less than $400,000 a year. How many people in the USA other than professional sports athletes and Wall Street executives earn more than $400,000? Divide your answer by 87,000.
New IRS hires are told to be able to handle a weapon and be prepared for combat. How many new guns and rounds of ammo has IRS obtained in the last 4 years? Subtract 10% for target practice and divide the balance by 87,000.
“I used to be able to do complex calculations in my head but no more. ”
Don’t feel alone with this Bob… lol lol I use to do moles and logs in my head lol lol lol.. I use to be able to write with one hand and doodle with the other at the same time ( that was really hard even then.. you cannot think of anythingat all..) .. I can still stand an egg on one end.. but that is getting harder as well..grand daughters teacher said it was impossible so she called me from class and had me do it and send a picture.. I could tell then that my hand wasn’t as steady..lol..
Anyway I was at work some kids were having issues with some of their work and I said let me take a peek..only to have it dawn on me that I had forgotten the process lol lol lol.. use it or loose it.. I had lost it all..when I did it every day it was natural..
Last figure I had was 25000 per citizen.. what they haven’t allocated for was all the people that the administration has hustled over the borders..
I don’t believe that The military is absent..
Many I visit with realize what’s going on.. and are voicing that their main goal is to protect home and the constitution..
I personally believe that Those in power also know this.. and that is why there have been UN forces on us soil.
Give them what we want they want and they won’t audit you …. Any more than, the usual, of course …
https://wtvbam.com/2022/08/10/yellen-to-irs-no-increase-in-middle-class-audits-if-irs-gets-more-funding/
(As if 80 some thousand new IRS Agent’s are gonna get hired and just sit in the break room all day … riiiight.
Oh, … don’t forget to declare what ya stole and/or sold … unless you gave the stuff back …
https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2021/12/29/irs-reminds-drug-dealers-looters-thieves-and-burglars-to-report-illegal-gains-on-2021-tax-return/
Well, that’s how I comprehend all that. Go figure.
Geez Bob. I forgot all about smash and grab thieves and drug dealers having to declare their incomes. Well over $400,000 :-(
Curious.
Where exactly are these 80 some thousand qualified auditors coming from ?
Anyone believe they wont be weaponized ? ( see FBI , DOJ )
All right leaning auditors too , Im sure.
IF , the righties take over the house , cant they simply cut continued funding ?
G,
Let us not take for Granit, that our current administration has been “officially” warned on or about July 31st..according to Chyknees sources..
What we have been told, posted here, and heard from “other” experts is pure unadulterated BUNK..old, out of service, useless information supposed to drive Ure imagination.
The USA is DEFENSELESS aganst Russian hypersonics – Defenseless..
Russian Sub in neutral waters (400km) directly off of coast of Virginia. Zircons travel at Mach 9 – thats right geniuses, MACH Fucking 9 !
{US is “testing” Supersonics – they fly same speed as Granits (lots of leftovers- see pain in kraine)}
Zircon flying at Mach 9 from 400 kilometerZ out – hits DC in 4 minutes.
At Mach 9 it is completely invisible to everything we got, Everything.
No ask Ureselves – ? Where did ALL THE TRILLIONS of US taxpayer DOLLARS go?
Food for the poor/hungry, Education to lift the masses out of stupidity/poverty, infrastructure, rural fiber… What The F Over ?
Me thinks “The Tree” is Dead , and no amount of “water” can restore her to health – its gonna take a Burn event to stimulate new growths 1st…burn baby BURN.
Oh yeah – how did like 222 day of year yesterday – new timeline/countdown has begun..
For those who are missing the under point, these agents will be used to CONFISCATE your (whatever they deem) possessions in lieu of money.
This goes along with the laws Obama passed while in office allowing the seizure of your property. This is much deeper IF you don’t connect all the puzzle pieces to see the bigger picture here.
An aquaintance of mine was harassed mercilessly by leftist IRS auditors. He made the mistake of rolling over the first time they came, so they coming back try to raid him every year until he defeated them in tax court. He was dying of cancer at the time, and looked like an easy victim. He was targeted because of his financial support of the R’s in earlier decades.
Armed IRS agents
It continues to impress me that clarion writers Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and H.G. Wells were able to anticipate in their works key aspects of the world we live in today. Humans, alas, are entirely predictable things, and the above writers imagined worlds where such predicability played out to the advantage of more nefarious individuals. Freud, Jung and later, Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays, who penned the infamous book “Propaganda” (later the name was changed to “Public Relations after the Nazi’s adopted its tenets hook, line and sinker), also realized how easily the uneducated and/or biased mind could be influenced, and each made their livings writing on the subject. Sadly, as with the aforementioned Nazi’s, dictators, oligarchs and career politicians realized it too. The devolution of a democratic republic into ideologically warring factions seems inevitable when both sides refuse to compromise on a ‘middle ground.’ The prognosis in the not-so-United States is not positive at the moment, but America has picked itself up and dusted itself off several times in the past after experiencing serious domestic matters and internal dissent. But the danger today lies in those rulers watching from abroad. What are their intentions? How might they take advantage of America’s internal political and growing ideological schism? I believe we will all find out soon enough, unless a new breed of American leaders rise up and reapply some level of bipartisan common sense laid out in the Constitution. Otherwise, those of us alive today may well see the end of an era.
“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”
Benjamin Disraeli
IRS agents = Gestappo
That’s how I read it. Armed Federal agents visiting your home to shake you down!
And the funniest thing is they say the aliens are us coming back from the future to get our old DNA back! … Why??!!
“The devolution of a democratic republic into ideologically warring factions seems inevitable when both sides refuse to compromise on a ‘middle ground.’ ”
The problem is: For more than half our history, “compromise” has always shaded to the leftmost side of “middle ground,” thus “moving” “the middle” gradually but inexorably to the left.
We are a pot of boiling frogs, and very few of us yet realize either our plight, or how we got here…
John brunner: the sheep look up
still the scariest book i have read. prescient!!!!
His 1968 novel “Stand on Zanzibar” is even scarier. Too bad he died so young.., would have been interesting to see what he would have come up with.
Thanks d’Lynn.. it’s been a long time since I read that book.. it’s back on my re-read list…
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/stand-zanzibar.pdf
Yes, Miss Scarlett, according to the official White House schedule the First Couple arrived yesterday past noon in Charleston, SC aboard Air Force 1 as High Society does. Today they’ll be enjoying some southern hospitality on the former plantation lands of the Kiawah Island Golf Resort owned by the Virginia Investment Company. You’ll have to have to clarify with Mr. Butler in the saloon whether the Kuwait Investment Company also sold them the land it sits on.
Comrades, good tidings sighted in the Eastern Mediterranean! Ukrainian grain loaded cargo ship Razoni has at last been assigned a berth to unload at Mersin port according to the public ais beacon. The Ukraine embassy in Beirut finally revealed that the original Lebanese buyer backed out because of the months late delivery.
Great Confucious! The Razoni is tied up at Mersin dockside beside the Chinese cargo ship Qing Feng Ling. While flying different flags, their hull paint schemes could be seen as twins in the colors of the Russian flag. We live in such a world of coinkydoinks.
Okay viewers, we have to break away from the Ruso-Sino eagle clinic. Returning you now to Kiawah Island and the attempt for double-bogie out of the sandtrap.
Whoah, best be fetching the dining room table extension from the cellar. The Greenville News has pictured the First Couple accompanied on Air Force 1 to their vacation getaway along with son Hunter and his spouse and son. Folks, reducing carbon output per passenger, this is the sort of example America needs more of. You can do this with your car. Better yet, take a bus. It’s going to be a great week, Fore!
Y’know, that makes me wonder about Camp David. It seems like it’s been decades since any references to it have been made. Have they turned it into an Antifa training spot?
Bill,
I hadn’t realized it, but Ike’s Camp David had previously opened as Shangri-la by FDR in the ’30s. I don’t think a memorial to Mr. Putin’s visit there during the Bush II era ever materialized?
Sadly for the present administration, Camp David only offers a one hole golf course.
George, thanks for the detailed explanation of the SS COLA calculation! There’s a lot of partial info out there and I’d thought that only the third quarter mattered. I suppose we’ll see what’s really happening in October. Regardless of the COLA, it’s obvious that the intention of the Brandonistas is to bleed us all down to the status of serfs, while establishing a new and overt oligarchy.
Regarding the list of Clear Channel stations – I actually appreciated the long list since I sometimes travel at night and get AM skip from who knows where. I have the greatest respect for WoTRR and the abbreviated list may be useful too. Have fun writing the rest of the book!
Shortwave:
As I have mentioned in the past here I firmly believe that Shortwave NEEDS to move to a new technology broadcast standard that both makes it’s signal stronger and more dependable but also adds to the quality and content of that signal.
Of course in addition I also believe that instead of “turning off” more shortwave stations, with the change in technology they need to “turn on” more stations.
There is currently in the wings some pretty amazing technology for shortwave that has NOT been rolled out since nobody wants to take the lead (except India but they have only gone 1/2 way). What that technology is is a move to a full digital signal, that has timing redundancy of the content built in so as to counter the affects of fading in and out, adds full stereo, AND adds additional digital content to the signal which can be written text, still pictures, OR most amazing slow frame rate TV (about 6-8 low resolution TV frames a second).
ADD into receivers a software program to Auto-Translate at least the written content into multiple languages and then spit it out as speech – Text to Speech chip … and voila one could allow people who say don’t speak say English to hear the program in their native “Himiansishmandial” or whatever. Instead of having to wait for a program sent in your native language the chip would translate EVERY broadcast into your native language, be that a Chinese program translated into English or a Spanish program tanslated into Russian.
ADD into the receivers some CHEAP memory and one could “time shift” programs for later listening AND to also have the ability auto download digital editions of newspapers and magazines for later reading.
The technology is there. The new digital compression methods are there. The language translation stuff to put into the receivers is there ($2-$5/receiver if done en-mass, maybe less). Memory added to receivers for time shifting and/or digital content downloading is CHEAP. NOBODY except India is currently going there (and they are only going part way).
Shortwave is great, but as it is currently structured in the technical methods it uses, it is exactly the same as it was 100 years ago, in the mid 1920’s. SW has the ability to SKIP OVER the internet and bring information and entertainment directly to the people of the 3rd world FOR FREE if some leading country would just DO IT!!
The problem? NOBODY on the equipment or programing side is going to make BILLIONS in doing this change over. Companies are going to make oodles more, 1000x more, by tethering ALL the content people receive to a PAY FOR short range digital signal (ie: a cell phone like device) since like razor blades they can then charge charge charge and charge again for each megabit of data every person consumes in receiving information via their devices.
S2:Eye opening posts like yours are what keep me coming back here and and to Peoplemomics.
Lying Biden said yesterday that inflation was 0. The stupid idiot does not know that they were talking month over prior month. CPI for SS is rigged to keep the COLA as low as possible.
Here are the facts for the last 12 months. The Real Biden Misery Index:
Food:
Eggs +38%
Butter and Margarine: +32.3%
Oils and Fats: +20.8%
Coffee: +20.3%
Fresh Chicken Parts +18.6%
Fuel:
Energy +32.9%
Gasoline +44.0%
Fuel Oil +44.5%
Electricity +15.2%
Biden is a Pathological Liar. Always has been since he got into Congress based upon lies about law school.
“Biden said yesterday that inflation was 0. The stupid idiot does not know that they were talking month over prior month”
He wouldn’t know.. he like all of them live in a bubble.. ducked in the box with the flaps shut..money is easy.. there’s billions tossed at them.. like our realtor that lives on the hill but hasn’t got a clue about those living in his own city.. or myself meeting the can man.. I didn’t have a clue about what life was like living in a dumpster to call it home.. or how thankful he felt having a bed to sleep on.. Biden hasn’t ever had a real world labor job..or if he did he was still living under the umbrella of his parents..his whole life has been in the public arena where people shove money at them.. where dual standards of law allows them to make deals to benefit them and their families..
They’re a pack of perverted grifters if you ask me, and that includes ALL of them!
“They’re a pack of perverted grifters if you ask me, and that includes ALL of them!”
I sure won’t argue with that one @WestcoastDeplorable…
Ever since his release from boob a certain with some Greek computer gimmick has turned into a real fake patriot elite . Borderline schwab ster scams everywhere but he is part of the biggest USD. It’s over Marty get over it
I say, I say Otto, an illeagle is a sick bird..wake up little Otto, wake up..https://youtu.be/oMCjCk4YEXs
Speaking of sick and or dirty burds – you be watching the money markets ?
Behold – “Bitcoin is the index of money laundering” – Blackrock, 2017
“We are seeing substantial interest from some institutional clients in how to efficiently and cost-effectively access these assets” – Blackrock, 2022 -ZH
Well Ill B, MR Ducks, CM Wings?
$25K is on the way – this is of “no matta” if still insist on being a/living as a sheared sheep..”everyone LENDS to US Govt, if you hold dollars” – Congrats you be a Lender of Choice to the US Government (criminal)
? know what happenz to creditors of unsound businesses, with dishonest managers ?
und zo
keiner von die BITCOINZ 4 Du kraine nazi supporter Mr Ure, or is it Dietrich, SS ?
Mickey Mouse Greek computer!!! That’s a laugh !!! Brace yourself Marty . It’s time !! Big $$$$ in guruland!!
“According to the new inflation numbers out this week, the inflation rate was “unchanged” in the latest reporting period. (Month on month.)Not according to our grocery bills – and I expect yours, either. ”
I was just visiting with a store manager.. on a normal truck delivery..there’s usually a price adjustment sheet.. on average it’s one to four pages.. last nights truck the price adjustment sheets were 37…everything is soaring.. and no end in sight.. sure gas at the pump may be down..but prices are shooting through the stratosphere..
The package that was signed into being will make an increase in all utility costs by a minimumof ten.percent..considering the increases in their costs my guess is it to will have to double..or more..
The property tax man was out.. what I’m hearing is property tax is going up.. minimum 30 percent to 50 percent..
They can paint any Rosie picture they want..wages not going up .. the only thing that could maybe and that’s a huge maybe is giving a huge stimulus before the election.. we will go down the rabbit hole no matter what.. do they let it continue to go now.. or push the noodle that’s falling apart a little further before it tears apart..
It’s official the vegetable actor just bailed out the FED with digital currency . I’m going remote soon this is gunna get badder than bad.bloody facist nazis won
Isn’t politics just another expression like religion?
When you see these actors on the TV it looks like
ALL OF THEM work the same principle:
Convince public to worship the untouchable. ;-((
P.S, Do we have choices? Indeed, we do!
“P.S, Do we have choices? Indeed, we do!”
Unfortunately..our choices are usually shizt, shizty, shiztier or shiztiest..
Then there’s dumb, dumber, dumbest, and can you believe that..
Finished I tell yah . Vege potus actor signed America over 2 facist elite nazis . I feel like crying . 25 years of fighting the dark side vanished in one signature , one executive order
S.S. increase –
Take a picture of this year’s receipt for the family reunion party/Labor Day party expenses.
Compare it to next year’s party receipts. Then decide if the 8%-12% increase was worth it.
At the other end soon the $15.00 /hr minimum wage schlep will be slapped with a felony for stealing a tin of SPAM for lunch.
The granular level shelf cameras see and record who removes the cans of SPAM from the shelf. Probably use facial recognition and know where the SPAM is headed after it leaves.
“Then decide if the 8%-12% increase was worth it.”
Hmm let me see.. one retired gent let me know two months ago that his Low Income Rent is Two hundred dollars more than what he gets in retirement.. Groceries are already thirty percent higher across the board.. the two dollar loaf of bread is now four dollars.. they are going home to home to raise house taxes .. and employers are not increasing wages..
the president signed a sheet of paper making sure all utilities would go up approximately ten percent.. and that doesn’t count for the cost of the materials and the labor costs they have to maintain the equipment.. so you will see a huge spike in costs.. Hmm..
I am going out on a limb here.. but twelve percent won’t cut it.. minimum would be thirty to fifty percent.. and that is if they gave another stimulus …gas is still a buck higher today than two years ago.. medicines have spiked through the roof again.. as if a hundred thousand percent profit isn’t enough.. LOL Just had that conversation yesterday with someone that is planning to run to canada or Mexico to pick up some medications.. the trip and the medicine costs would save him not only the cost of the trip but several thousand dollars to boot.. the big issue he was having is .. would he be able to bring them home with everything that is going on right now..
I was going to send a medi lift and an easy stand to a family member that is in need of one across the country.. I checked trucking fee’s.. and the cost of shipping them both.. was as much as them buying a new one..
12% would barely cover the costs of the increased tax’s..
Wanna Bet.. I would say that you would see Medicare costs go up that twelve percent to.. ( it is all increasing.. and that is what they usually do.. give on one side take away on the other) People will slow down their spending.. right now everyone is spending like crazy because they can see the writing on the wall.. and want to have enough on hand to cover anything going on..
Ray, let’s look again at your England Covid Stats from yesterday, 14 deaths per 100,00 are attributable to Covid (you might want to re-link that 1 in 246 stat, or is your math really that bad?):
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/monthlymortalityanalysisenglandandwales/late
Bill, you might want to learn the math formula for attrition rate, IRS has lost 50k employees over the past 5 yrs, only 2k of the present 80k IRS employees are Special Agents, but let your red-state victimhood addled mind take over and do the math any way you want to:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ap-fact-check-gop-skews-budget-bills-impact-on-irs-taxes/2022/08/10/10acfc62-18be-11ed-b998-b2ab68f58468_story.html
The FBI had visited Trump’s storage room before, were tipped that papers were missed/hidden:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/11/fbi-trump-classified-records-mar-a-lago
Be careful what you sign, it may come back to bite you (Trump signed law on increasing penalties for mishandling classified info)!
https://www.businessinsider.com/law-trump-signed-2018-may-punish-him-classified-info-2022
Thanks George for the Steely Dan spin today on the turntable of trials and troubles…Aint Seen Nothin Yet, Bachman Turner Overdrive describing 1973 nascent Bear Market that lasted till 1982!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cia_v4vxfE
https://www.investopedia.com/a-history-of-bear-markets-4582652
So I get an email from Social InSecurity telling me to log in and check my account there. They will no longer be sending me a paper notice. Now I know EXACTLY what my username and password were when I set up the account a couple years back. Wrote it down and filed it in the ‘secret passwords’ file. Of course it doesn’t work. Two tries and I’m locked out now.
Perhaps I will just wait and see how much more appears in my direct deposit.
I used to love listening to AM skywave growing up in the midwest. Ran a wire out to a tree and inside wrapped a few turns around the loopstick antenna in the table radio and grounded the wire end. KAAY Little Rock had the best underground heavy metal rock that my local ‘pop’ stations would not play. And WLS was a mainstay. We weakly received WCCO Minneapolis, being just 100 miles east of them, but they beamed straight west and were heard all the way to Seattle across the northern tier of states. “Good Neighbor to the NorthWest” was their logo. I understand ‘clear channel’ no longer exists, but I cannot hear much out here in the middle of the pacific.
George, check out my QRZ page… way down at the bottom. :-)
“So I get an email from Social InSecurity telling me to log in and check my account there. They will no longer be sending me a paper notice. Now I know EXACTLY what my username and password were when I set up the account a couple years back.”
OMG @Hank in Hawaii……. They have been blasting on the television over and over to NOT log in to those.. that scammers from foreign countries use that ploy to get you to log onto a fake site so they can get your user name and password. With the shut downs and the fact that the vast majority of social security offices are closed.. or special appointment only.. the scammers decided it was the perfect route to get information.. I am working on getting an address change for a guy now.. and it is a nightmare.. we were on hold for a few hours yesterday.. never did get through and you have to log onto the site from DC.. a nightmare..
so I would in a hurry be getting in touch with someone at social security even if you have to wait twenty four hours on hold for the next representitive that is working with other customers.. ( they are govt.. employees after all and the average work year for them is 1200 hours compared to everyone elses 2400 hours plus.. the gravy train.. with all the bennies..) ..
everything like that goes straight to trash . it looks like it is on official site…. If you consider.. how many times do you think anyone in govt. service truly gives two cents over any individuals concerns.. HMM NOT unless you owe them money….Don’t hold your breath…… remember the old joke.. the three boys.. one says my daddy is the strongest guy I have ever seen.. he can lift a car.. the second boy says my daddy is the best archer that I have ever seen.. he can put an arrow in the bullseye and then put another on right on top of it.. the third boy says.. thats nothing my daddy is the fastest guy I have ever seen he works for the govt. and he gets off at three thirty but is home by one..
So .. I would jump all over that one.. I am afraid you just gave your user name and password to some joker in Belize ..
Hey, I resemble that remark !
NO BITCOINZ for U !
Not everyone/body in Bayleaze is a joker..its just a laid back tropical paradise that is GRrreeeaat spot for digital nomads to get their funky “funk” a funking on.
Just cause brilliant geniuses like McCaffee and the BCN tend to congregate in places where the weather is warm &sunny, the rum is good and cheap,the cocaine is excellent & cheap, and the Women – warm and beautiful..oh my goodness !
Belizean & Guatemalan Women ??? Shut The Front Door !
not even gonna get into the Diving, Fishing, Caving, Exploring..
https://youtu.be/dV3AziKTBUo
* just kidding regards BTC’s – its called Liberty and might want some of that in the near future..jss
No, LOOB, I am savvy enough to spot a phishing scam. And I did not reply to any links. It appeared to be a legitimate email from SS. I cleared my browser and initiated my own bookmark to ‘my SS’ account login. Bookmark I’ve had for years… that USED to work. But they are mulching their system on their end, and have obviously mucked up the old passwords. I could start the process as a ‘new user’ again, but why bother? I don’t need their information, and they will just muck up the access down the road again, so I will save my energy. I will see what I get when it appears in my bank account.
@Hank
“No, LOOB, I am savvy enough to spot a phishing scam. And I did not reply to any links. ”
Never, ever, ever, ever, ever!
People don’t realize the [Click here to unsubscribe] link in the E-Mail validates your addy. So does the [View in Browser] or [Can’t see this? Click here] link. Once validated, it goes up for sale to spammers who then flood your inbox. Also any E-Mail click can install a virus, trojan, keylogger, etc.
ALSO, when someone random-dials your phone, if you answer, you’ve just confirmed that yours is a working number — If you don’t answer, but then run a search on the number, you’ve confirmed that that (spoofed) number is a working phone number. If you are stupid enough to enter YOUR phone number into the number search then, well, you really are stupid. Everyone from bill collectors to the “900 club” buys lists of these working numbers and spoofs them to trick you into answering your phone. “Barbi,” who you never have, and never will meet, isn’t talking you up because she wants a clandestine meeting, she’s doing it to get you to call her back (at $9.95/minute.) ‘Same with text messages.
Hank, I know you’re savvy, but there’s a lot of folks who aren’t. I hope they read your thread and see this post.
Most folks gots NO IDEA how much an unsavory party can learn from “metadata.”
Just say “no…”
So who do you posters think the rat is?
Could it be Melania was a double agent all along?
well let me see.. they spent billions trying to stop him from winning the election.. what was it.. two billion in the last month before he was elected president.. then millions to have a fake dossier made up.. and how many millions in anti DJT retoric for four years day and night.. not to mention all the agencies that were being pushed by the one side to push an agenda along.. ..
I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that it wasn’t any of his people.. he does have his own protection team everyone that works for him feels as if he has their back on anything including the maids and dishwashers…. I am going to bet that not only was his whole residence bugged but so was all their communications sources.. and has been all along.. with all the funds that they have spent trying to destroy him.. they could for all we know have laser communication systems pointed at his whole building from miles away…. and with the technology today…. well we took pictures of pres. fords golf ball from five thousand miles away in the seventies and could read the printing on the ball.. they have the technology look at the stealth blimps up…. they gather every electronic communications .. and for hundreds of miles in all directions..
My guess the rat is a secret service agent.
‘had to be shown to public”
since the time of its establishment – corrupt and gay to the core. JFK quoted as saying “dangerous as a rattlesnake” when asked about hoover (black&deckerpeckerwrecker).
just witnessed the “initial volley” in the process of dismantling the “fibbies’ – most arrogant, self entitled pieces of shit to ever COVER UP PEDO CRIMES .
– Luis set em von Freeh – Covered Up one of the biggests Pedo/Child Trafficing rings in US for PennState Univ. Child “Services” Big Profit Pipeline.
Think von wray likes real young ones or lil older rent boy types ?
What makes you think there is one?