Current Events > Since the Inflation Reduction Act passed last year, inflation has dropped.

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Since the Inflation Reduction Act passed last year, inflation has dropped.

Yet prices haven't gone back down

Laugh out loud if you believe that act is actually reducing inflation with energy and food prices still inflated.

That's great for anyone already able to afford solar

The economy has been in a downturn since last year propped up by endless money printing. I remember bringing up the bank failures from match being a indicator of economic issues and people ignored it. Good luck to everyone when this market crashes.

Which doesn't actually help anyone. not really something to brag about.

The interest rate hikes are disastrous policy decisions on a global scale.

There's no way it was just raw greed being sold to us as "inflation", companies wouldn't lie to us.

I've been a fan of reminding people that inflation cannot coexist with record profits. By definition.

This, things keep going up. Nothing has gone down

Problem is, the average person either doesn't care, or isn't smart enough to understand how inflation

The problem is, nobody wants to hear "things are better now!" when things are still really bad.

Yea, at this point, things are so bad that we need a full on course reversal. This system isn't sustainable anymore.

Except for the fact that as soon as you ask people about a specific economic indicator they say everything is fine.

What exactly do you think is so bad? The low price of gas? Continued availability of the supply chain? Low inflation? Low unemployment?

It's helped to lower interest rates without increasing unemployment. Seems like the FED did wonderful with the rate hikes.

I have to disagree.

Republicans have no problem selling to Americans that a pile of shit smells like beautiful roses. Hence why they are able to convince a good number a swing voters to consider them.

When Trump was President, if you asked many of these people complaining about the state of the economy now, they sung praises to how great the economy was doing despite the shitty wages.

Republicans are just better than Democrats at messaging and spinning bullshit. Also way too often Democrats don't really consider swing voters. Some on this very board automatically write them off as right wingers instead of low info, memory of a goldfish voters.

Republicans are just better at tapping into the emotional aspect of working for poverty wages, and tricking those people they have their best interest to heart. Even though it's complete bs they are selling.

Yea, at this point, things are so bad that we need a full on course reversal. This system isn't sustainable anymore.

Whats your solution and whats your roadmap for getting us there? I swear posts like this are just virtue signalling without more details.

Gas jumped up .30 few days ago and meat still costs a fortune :(

My gas still costs over $5.00 per gallon, but that's in large part due to Governor Inslee being a fucking idiot.

Yes food keeps going up, gas just went up too. Things have not gotten better at all

Yes food keeps going up, gas just went up too. Things have not gotten better at all

One thing to be particular about: inflation has slowed, it does not go down. It being 3.8% now does not negate the inflation percentages of the past. Unless we are in negative inflation, which rarely happens, then it is always going up albeit slowed.

"The economy took off like a rocket ship." The fact you would hear this from many different people, almost verbatim, tells you all you need to know about how their messaging works.

Also, again, I don't think it's that democrats are bad at messaging, it's that democratic/left wing voters don't want to be messaged to. It's exactly as you say, right wing voters just eat up whatever they're told, meanwhile democrats DO try to message something good - i.e. inflation reduction act helping inflation - and left wingers are like "nah fam, it didn't help and here's the cause and despite the facts and figures the right creamed themselves over on the greatest economy of all time ever now being BETTER under Biden the economy isn't good because x, y, and z.... also why can't the democrats message well!"

And it's great for people who install solar. And it's great for the communities where solar businesses are located. And it's great for people who needed a job, because now there's demand for solar installers.

It's not going to solve an economic crisis, but it's going to help a hell of a lot more people than just homeowners buying solar.

I can't disagree with you for the most part.

The only slight disagreement I have is I feel like Democrats could definitely improve on messaging. My focus is on reaching the swing voters and the flake (easily convinced to stay home) voters. Those two demographic of voters also tends to easily manipulated since they tend to not understand how legislation actually pass, and have the memory of a goldfish and many things.

Not saying you are accusing me of this, but to be clear, I'm not "both sides"ing this or saying it's Democrats fault things are perceived as still bad.

Whats your solution and whats your roadmap for getting us there? I swear posts like this are just virtue signalling without more details.

AND it's the biggest climate bill ever passed. Yet no one knows a thing about it.

why would they combine the two

Because that's how politics works when one party refuses to work with the other.

thats fucked

it sounds like they threw in environment stuff just so they could complain about republicans voting no

A good solution would be to cut government spending but that would never happen and we don't have any control over that.

A good solution would be to cut government spending but that would never happen and we don't have any control over that.