[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Hatsturbation?

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

They do have Project 2025 as a guideline this time though. So we'll see how that works out, I guess. It's going to be all the true believers who probably don't have any actual management skills, but they'll at least be determined.

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I'd argue that its name was somewhat deceptive (like most congressional acts) but that the money largely went to projects that are beneficial for the country. Also, the next section on Wikipedia talks about how the overall deficit reduction would lower medium-term and long-term inflation. I think in general, when money is allocated to things like this, it takes a long time to payback since the money has to first be disbursed and then the projects completed for the results to actually be felt.

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Very interesting. Surely we can trust our current crop of billionaires to do better for society!

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I'm not an economist, but your point on slow deflation seems to make sense. I wonder what deflation to prepandemic prices would do to the economy if it occurred over a couple years.

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

Dodged a bullet only to get hit by the Gorsuch missile?

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

How did it make inflation worse now?

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Can you elaborate on what Rockefeller did? Never heard that before

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Inflation was like 9% in 2022. It's like 2.5% now. How is that not bringing down inflation?

Inflation is the rate of change of prices. It's not the prices themselves. I got skewered in another thread for pointing this out, but I still think it's an important distinction.

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

We thought that the insanity would eventually make Trump and MAGA candidates unelectable. That hasn't happened yet, so I'm not sure if limiting it really matters.

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago

The left didn't vote against fascism, but also the center didn't. And the right, obviously.

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

If by small you mean 0.00000000000001%.

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