Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Oh, I guess that when you were saying just recently that Jerome Powell was a f'in idiot, now you're changing your tune on him and he's some smart cookie?

Do you realize just how stupid you look now when YOU claimed that the tariffs were going to cause all kinds of inflation?

Where's the inflation you predicted was going to occur with the tariffs?

The inflation rate is well below the target that the Feds want to see, which is 2%.

So YOU were also wrong about the tariffs causing massive inflation.

Gee, another economic metric in which YOUR failed prediction reared its head. 

Could you possibly fail on more issues than you already have?

I mean could we possibly Pile on any more failures coming from the fat mouth of our resident communist Rod Kaufman?

Are there any MORE predictions that we can count on coming out of your communist mouth? 

Just curious.   

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Communist in Cal. wrote:  

the inflation will  soon be realized.

When?

When is this inflation going to occur and to what level will it be?  Will it rise to 9%?

You've made so many predictions in the past and virtually every one of Your predictions have proven to be wrong as wrong can be.  

The communist then wrote:  

Anybody who doubts this can check out new car prices for many popular models. Checking Subaru, for example, the cost of their popular Forester model has risen a couple of grand compared to pre-tariffs levels.

LOL!   Oh so since Subaru has raised the price of their Forester model of car by $2000 that's Your shining example of inflation coming to fruition?

Here's a clue for you, the prices of the Subaru Forester model over the years.  

In late 2020 the 2021 came out.  Its base price started at 25,845.

In late 2021 the 2022 came out.  Its base price started at 26,320.  

In late 2022 the 2023 came out.  Its base price started at 26,395.

In late 2023 the 2024 came out.  Its base price started at 26,895.

In late 2024 the 2025 came out.  Its base price started at 29,695.

In late 2025 the 2026 will come out.  Its base pricing is not available yet.


So then the big Jump came in 2024, during the Biden administration, when the price of the Subaru Forester jumped up a full $2,800.

I guess the Auto manufacturer Subaru couldn't handle the 9% inflation that Biden gave us all, which apparently hit the Subaru company in 2024, and caused Subaru to raise the price of the base model Subaru by more than 11%.

BTW, what I read indicated that Subaru was raising the Price of the Forester by anywhere from $750 to $2000.

The BASE model was going up by $750, so 1/3 of what the price went up in the last year of Joe Biden.

Even your lies are exaggerated.  

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Okay, so then when I put the facts forth that Subaru is NOT raising its prices MORE than it did in previous years BEFORE Donald Trump took office, that's a positive indicator that inflation is not driving up their prices.

You have zero evidence that inflation is the cause of the price increase, which for 2026 is NOT significantly MORE than price increases in previous years. In fact the 2024 increase in price was upwards of $2800.  That was under Joe Biden.

When challenged, the only thing you can do is regurgitate a leftist's take on Subaru.  

Do you have any evidence that inflation is the cause of price increases at Subara, aside from your statement?

You say that Subaru's prices are increasing "Potentially" due to tariffs.

That's false, based on evidence of past years increases of cars at Subaru.

In fact in 2024 during Biden's reign of terror, Subaru increased their prices on the base model of the Forester by $2800 (which you cited in orderr to lie about the inflation), almost 4X the increase of the base price of the Forester in 2025 under Donald Trump.    

Therefore, any reasoning person who has a logical brain understands that tariffs aren't going to cause Subaru to increase their costs of the 2026 model.

However you are free to continue to lie about the inflation under Trump which is simply not occurring. 

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Yes, it went up a little, so on average, a $100 purchase went up 30 cents.  

Thanks for the information.  

I bought eggs yesterday and the price had dropped by over $1.50 per dozen to $2.74 from the week before. 

Man that's about a 30% decrease in my costs there.  

I also bought milk for $3.29 per gallon, when it was $3.79.  

That's about a 13% decrease if I'm doing my math correctly in my head.  

Good news there

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

With the removal of some health care options for some people there will be SOME deaths over and above what would have occurred if 'the Bill' (TM) had not been enacted....  Will it be 300 000?  I don't know.  30 000?  3 000? 300? 30?

The important question is what number of deaths is acceptable to you, Richard?  

Dave

Originally Posted by James Lacey

There is no doubt that the Big Beautiful Bill will contribute to excess and unnecessary deaths, since it cuts Medicaid, food assistance, and other social services for vulnerable Americans. When vulnerable people lose access to this kind of help, the outcome is always worse health and more deaths. How many it will cause is up for debate, but there is no doubt that it will. Republicans seem to be ok with that since they have been led to believe that a large portion of the people on Medicaid and these other social services are somehow freeloaders. However, that is a dangerous and untrue myth. There are strict criteria even before the Big Beautiful Bill; you can't just choose to be on Medicaid. Your income must be below the federal poverty level, and you must demonstrate a need. The majority of people on Medicaid are children, low-income working adults, elderly people in nursing homes, and people with disabilities. Another consideration is that cutting this type of aid doesn't save money; it merely shifts the cost of the need elsewhere. Emergency rooms, unpaid caregivers, and other social services that are already struggling to keep up will be the ones who pay the cost of these cuts. The Republican framing of the most vulnerable among us as underserving freeloaders who are expendable is morally troubling for what is supposed to be the "pro-life" party.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

The bill is break-even for my household, or at best a modest gain. I guess that any gains we do get will be offset by other unintended consequences of the bill, such as state and local taxes rising to cover costs, inflation, or tariff impacts. And I won't be around to see the truly awful effects, unless they do materialize sooner than 20+ years from now. So, Happy Birthday America, and let's all make America Worse Again!

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I wonder how self-loathing a person has to be, to purposely invoke the words of one of the most, if not THE most anti-semitic congresswomen in the United States' House of Representatives.

You offer interesting insight into the mindset of people like yourself who are so sadly bent and twisted in the head, that he would not only defend this vile congresswoman named Ilhan Omar, as you have done, but even Laud her as she continues to hate You, and the very people whom you once called "My tribe" here on this forum.

Now you are adopting her vile racist language, the words she used to denigrate all Jews around the world.  

Says a great deal about your mind these days and how far it has devolved.  

I just marvel at those like yourself and I do see people like you on the street and in the news who are so blind to those around you, and I almost feel sad, but yet I realize that you are SO very devoted to a political party that you would now accept any garbage human being, be it a racist, bigot, or whomever, and then choose to quote these vile cretins.

That sure seems bizarre to me, however I suppose that tactic is just more evidence of the symptom of a sickness developing inside you.

The party it appears has become your entire life, consuming your every thought, and it now is your Raison d'etre.  

I'm sure that reasonable psychologists in this nation would love to have you sit in front of them so they can dissect your thought process to try and figure out what motivated You to become so truly deranged in the head.  

Is your next move one that will quote Adolf Himself?  Will you now give the sig-heil salute in your daily life?  

Just curious.  

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Like I stated, your entire life is based upon and worships at the God of the Democrat Party.

As Dennis Prager, an orthodox Jew who practices has stated many times in the past, some Jewish folks in this nation have as their sole, singular, secular reason for being a devotion to a political party (and I'm paraphrasing his words since he could define it much better than myself). 

Now having said that, you epitomize that deranged leftist mindset.  

It is funny to me that your entire reason for existence on this planet is to worship a political party.  

There has never been a single political issue upon which you have differed in your entire life with the Democrats.

You have not only not criticized one member ever, and in fact you have made excuses for the biggest racists and anti-semites in your party, those like Ilhan Omar and Rasheeda Tlaib. 

Quite sad.  

Tell me, do you have a DNC party platform statement on your wall, and do you get on your knees and light candles beneath it, and then recite the party lines by which you live?