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skjl47

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Believe what you wish but I contend corporations did not fundamentally change at that time. My contention being corporations were no more or less greedy in 2018, 2019, 2020 that they were in 2021 or 2022
I believe the time frame your talking about coincides with another event. Covid didn't cause the inflation but 6 months of shutdowns and no production did,
Hello; I do not know for sure if you are responding to my post, but if you are, your comments support my view. We have had corporations for a very long time. We did have a glut of excess spending and economically disastrous shut & lockdowns during the reaction to the Covid disease. A case where the "cure" was indeed worse than the disease, at least economically. (Some questions have arisen as to if the lockdowns and all did much good in terms of disease impacts but that is for another time and may not be allowed on here.)
Sadly, additional excess spending continued after Covid to the tune of trillions. Described as printing money out of the air by some. My take is this is the root of the huge inflation hole we are now in. In addition to the spending was added an increase in the cost of transportation fuels. While my vehicle travel costs went up, the cost of diesel for over the road trucks made everything we buy cost more. In particular food was a big inflation hit. I can and did cut back on some personal trips. I could not however avoid buying food.

To tie this back into the UHC exec shooting which apparently kicked off the discussion, an attempt has been made to lay inflation on greedy corporations. It also appears a great number of folks are having problems with major health insurance carriers. I do not know many details at this point, but it seems the shooter is become something of a folk hero to some. An irony may be that the particular UHC exec who was shot was one of the few who was working to correct those sorts of problems. Guess we may find out.
 

Cal Amari

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Well it was a response to the topic of inflation, not directly aimed at you, but partially agreeing that corporations are not more or less greedy than they always have been. I had been in or near a couple other conversations that same day about inflation in the past few years, and no one seems to grasp how it works. It's more complicated than that and I'm not an economist, but I get tired of hearing one side say it's covid, and the other side saying covid is just an excuse, and neither of them can understand they're both partially right, but you also can't just pump free money into an economy with causing inflation. I also understand this was in the U.S., and we have an international collection of members here, but the U.S. economy has an impact on the global economy. Anyway, back to reading fishkeeping posts for me 🙂
 

Ulu

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A very early Good Morning from The Gateway to the Sierra.

I spent several cold hours out in the boatyard, cleaning up my VW chassis, rolling it back over to hit the ugly spots with a grinder. Scraping, wire brushing sanding and feathering paint is all nearly done on the bottom side.

Yet I want to put some more spot welds on the pan. About 50 more.

I am praying the weather will get dry enough to paint before it all gets rusty again. I still have a bit of minor welding on the topside first.

I’m not used to wearing gloves just for sanding, but I am much more sensitive to cold weather now, than when I lived on the muskeg, in Baudette Minnesota, at the Northwest Quadrangle.

That’s farther north than 3/4 of all Canadian people live. I didn’t realize at the time why the only TV shows we ever got were some variety show from Winnipeg, with stomping Tom Connor, and then Hockey Night in Canada.

I prefer the local warm weather, hitting 54F yesterday. Here’s hoping for continued warm weather. The paint I bought wants 55 min. I will heat the paint and the metal before I try to spray, but first it gets etched.
 

RD.

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Cold? Lmao. You’re getting soft.

Spent 10 min sweeping light snow off the back patio off this morning in a t-shirt, sweat pants, and runners. 3F …. -10F with wind.

10 minutes was enough……
 

Ulu

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Cold? Lmao. You’re getting soft.

Spent 10 min sweeping light snow off the back patio off this morning in a t-shirt, sweat pants, and runners. 3F …. -10F with wind.

10 minutes was enough……
10 whole minutes? Yer gettin' zero sympathy here, Bro. ;-)

And don't think I haven't been there.

I have lived near Spokane Wash, Duluth & Baudette Mn, Ogden & Logan UT, Albany & Newport NY and Cape Cod.

There was a lot of bad weather. I shoveled a mountain of snow, and chipped tons of ice, until I was 20 and moved to the San Joaquin.

I don't have to suffer that anymore. Plus I have 30 tropical fish living outdoors.

So shiver on, RD. When I became an adult with choices, I chose not to freeze.
 
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Ulu

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Oh, also this…
This is the bottom of my truck. It is 13 years old. There is no rust.
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My first car was from Minnesota, it was only five years old, and the fenders had holes in them.
 
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RD.

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It was a short sleeve t-shirt. lol 10 minutes was plenty long enough.
 
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