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Read it and weep, MAGAts: Strong wage growth gave Americans a $1,000 spending boost in 2023


Strong wage growth gave Americans a $1,000 spending boost in 2023
Treasury Department report finds that wages grew faster than consumer prices

US real wages — wages adjusted for inflation — have risen 0.8% over the last 12 months, according to the Treasury Department's recent research "The Purchasing Power of American Households." The growth is 0.2% percentage points higher than the average annual real wage growth in the 10 years before the pandemic.

That income growth brought along increasing consumer purchasing power. In 2023, the median American worker can afford the same goods and services they did in 2019 — and still would have $1,000 left.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/strong-wage-growth-gave-americans-a-1000-spending-boost-in-2023-194703857.html

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$7 Doritos says Yahoo is fake news. This is North Korea level gas-lighting.

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It's citing the US Treasury Department.

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They can lie like every other government agency.

The proof is in public at the checkout lines, and at the water cooler. And that shit does not line up with the Fake News.

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So where is your evidence in this instance, that the US treasury department is lying? Were they also lying under Donald Trumps presidency?

>The proof is in public at the checkout lines, and at the water cooler. And that shit does not line up with the Fake News.

So "just trust me bro". That's your evidence.

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When people go to different stores and pay double or higher for almost everything and see/experience the hyper inflation of everything around them while everyone they know also complains about it for three years....That's evidence.

What type of imbecile requires internet data to confirm and acknowledge what people are already seeing and experiencing first-hand?

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>When people go to different stores and pay double or higher for almost everything and see/experience the hyper inflation of everything around them while everyone they know also complains about it for three years....That's evidence.

Again, you haven't demonstrated that this is happening for "almost everything".

I don't remotely trust your claims.

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I don't remotely trust your claims.

No, of course not, you are an NPC that only trusts and believes internet scriptures from perceived authoritative sources.

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No, I don't trust you because I think you're full of shit.

Also you are a theofascist who wants to persecute gay people. You hate freedom of speech.

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No, I don't trust you because I think

hahaha, you don't think, you use the internet to do the thinking for you.

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No, I do not. I've directly criticised many sources people have posted here in support of their claims, and invited others to do the same for my sources. Most of you refuse to do so.

Fascist

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Bullshit, you are either citing sources from the internet or asking others for it.

You are less than nothing without your precious internet to think for you.

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>Bullshit, you are either citing sources from the internet or asking others for it.

Yes, and then I will check the sources myself. I also invite people to scrutinise what my sources actually say and explain how they're wrong.

Fascist

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You just confirmed that you can't think independently without the internet.

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Not remotely. I am noting that when I see someone make claims online, I might ask them to back up what they're saying with some evidence. I will then judge the presented evidence.

Do you just expect me to take what you say without argument as true?

Fascist

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Not remotely. I am noting that when I see someone make claims online, I might ask them to back up what they're saying with some evidence. I will then judge the presented evidence.

Yes, by using internet scriptures. That is confirmation that you can't think independently without the internet.

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>Yes, by using internet scriptures.

Sorry, if you present a source that is contradicted by another source - I might show if it it is relevant to show. Why should I not regard the sources that you once provided as "internet scripture"?

Also, no, I often will scrutinise the claims they make and cross-reference them with other sources.

You genuinely, unironically seem to be bordering on solipsism. You fundamentally reject all institutions and articles and research that disagrees with you.

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Sorry, if you present a source that is contradicted by another source

When the truth is presented by arguments based on critical thinking and real life experience and then the information you cite contradicts it with lies because you disagree based solely on perceived authoritative sources confirms that you are incapable of independent thinking without the internet.

This is precisely why you are incapable of distinguishing between truth and lies.

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>When the truth is presented by arguments based on critical thinking and real life experience and then the information you cite contradicts it with lies because you disagree based solely on perceived authoritative sources confirms that you are incapable of independent thinking without the internet.

Sorry, are you unironically arguing that everyone should just agree with people based on them claiming "real life experience"? That I should just automatically accept whatever someone says because they refer to some "real life" situation (claim)?

Also none of your arguments about anything have any sort of "critical thinking" about it. Your bizarre comparison of *deaths by snake bite* to *deaths by COVID vaccine* was illustrative of that. And you run away when your logic is challenged (LGBT threads) so I wouldn't bang drums about how you seem to have "critical thinking".

Does that mean you automatically always believe women when they make rape claims? Or when LGBT people or black people claim discrimination and persecution in daily life?

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Sorry, are you unironically arguing that everyone should just agree with people based on them claiming "real life experience"?

No, people should form their own opinions based on common sense without relying on the internet to think for them like a mindless NPC.

I used the snake-bite analogy since your argument was based on internet lies about the vax which you used to backup your claim that you personally didn't know anyone that died from the death-shot (confirmation bias).

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>No, people should form their own opinions based on common sense without relying on the internet to think for them like a mindless NPC.

And how do I do that, specifically?

You don't present any evidence at all for any of your claims. You present flawed reasoning and nonsensical arguments. I have responded to many of them.

>I used the snake-bite analogy since your argument was based on internet lies about the vax which you used to backup your claim that you personally didn't know anyone that died from the death-shot (confirmation bias).

What "lies" did I say about the vaccine? And how is me referencing that I don't know anyone that died from the vaccine ANY DIFFERENT in principle from your claims about people paying twice or three times for everything? Both are personal anecdotes. Your snake bite analogy made zero sense. Snake bites are rare. So are vaccine deaths.

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You don't present any evidence at all for any of your claims. You present flawed reasoning and nonsensical arguments.

I used to provide them with links and/or blockquotes but you rejected them with fake news, propaganda, and mis/dis-information aka internet scriptures.

I have responded to many of them.

With flawed reasoning and nonsensical arguments based on internet scriptures that confirm your bias.

Snake bites are rare

How many people did you say die every year from snake bites?......In the tens of thousands every year; the exact number is irrelevant since you cited it from the internet as usual.

Just because you don't know anyone who has died from a snake bite, doesn't mean it doesn't happen every year by the thousands. The same applies to the clot-shot.

If the internet made a claim that no one has died from a snake bite, would you believe it? Yes or No?

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>I used to provide them with links and/or blockquotes but you rejected them with fake news, propaganda, and mis/dis-information aka internet scriptures.

And why shouldn't I just considered your links as "internet scripture"? Why are your sources for your claims valid, but other people who disagree with you not?

>With flawed reasoning and nonsensical arguments based on internet scriptures that confirm your bias.

And I say the exact same to you. Although you don't even address my links. You just go "nuh-uh" and reject them outright.

>How many people did you say die every year from snake bites?......In the tens of thousands every year; the exact number is irrelevant since you cited it from the internet as usual.

Sorry, are you suggesting that the information online for the amount of snake bite deaths is wrong? Do you have have a better way of determining, as an individual, how many snake bite deaths per year there are?

>Just because you don't know anyone who has died from a snake bite, doesn't mean it doesn't happen every year by the thousands. The same applies to the clot-shot.

I didn't say it didn't. However, far less people per year get bitten by snakes than the amount of people who get vaccinated. Billions of people get vaccinated. A fraction of that gets bitten by snakes. There is much more obvious danger from a snake bite.

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You already do, which is precisely why I don’t provide you with anything regardless of your incessant requests.

I have addressed them many times, but as usual, they are mis/dis-information and/or rants by leftist-radicals lying as usual.

No, you imbecile, my point is that you don’t need the internet to tell you the specific number of deaths by snake bites when it is commonsense knowledge that at least thousands of people die from them every year.

I was not comparing the number of death-bites to the number of deaths from the vax, damn, you are obtuse.
Billions were vaccinated and millions have died from the covid-vaccine.

Thousands of people die every year from other vaccines but they didn’t roll those out to billions WW and this has been labeled as the deadliest vaccine of the past 30 years.

If the internet made a claim that no one has died from a snake bite, would you believe it? Yes or No?

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>You already do, which is precisely why I don’t provide you with anything regardless of your incessant requests.

That's not what I asked you. Why is it *your sources* when you deign to provide them must be considered truthful reflections of reality, but any sources that disagree with you are automatically "internet scripture".

>I have addressed them many times, but as usual, they are mis/dis-information and/or rants by leftist-radicals lying as usual.

I do not recall you ever addressing any link I have ever provided you in support of an argument.

>No, you imbecile, my point is that you don’t need the internet to tell you the specific number of deaths of snake bites when it is commonsense knowledge that at least thousands of people die from them every year.

That's "common sense knowledge" because the data is widely documented, and has been for many years. It's not "common sense knowledge" that tens of thousands die from the COVID vaccine per year, at all.

>Billions were vaccinated and millions have died from the covid-vaccine.

Evidence please.

>Thousands of people die every year from other vaccines but they didn’t roll it out to billions WW and this has been labeled as the deadliest vaccine of the past 30 years.

Evidence please.

>If the internet made a claim that no one has died from a snake bite, would you believe it? Yes or No?

No. Because it's widely known that snake bites kill. I didn't need to see someone die from a snake bite, or get bitten myself to know this. I have been EDUCATED to know that snake bites are dangerous.

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I’m not going to address your other points because you are going in circles and are too obtuse to comprehend anything unless I ask you questions that you are willing to answer. You are definitely on the spectrum.

No. Because it's widely known that snake bites kill. I didn't need to see someone die from a snake bite, or get bitten myself to know this. I have been EDUCATED to know that snake bites are dangerous.

Finally!!!, The same logic applies to vaccines from the past three decades and the covid vax shot.

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>I’m not going to address your other points because you are going in circles and are too obtuse to comprehend anything unless I ask you questions that you are willing to answer. You are definitely on the spectrum.

I answered all of your point

>Finally!!!, The same logic applies to vaccines from the past three decades and the covid vax shot.

And what "education" have you had on this? Are your saying your schooling taught you that vaccines were dangerous?

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When people are still paying double and triple prices for almost everything and then read propaganda like your article, they start realizing how much bullshit the Biden establishment has been feeding them.

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File this under "tRumpsters gotta whine."

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Leftists either don't shop for groceries, or their grocery bill is subsidized in some way, either through EBT, or living at home with the parents. Or they are just lying. Everyone is hurting from the inflation, it's undeniable, and only very few people don't recognize it.

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Thanks Joe!

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Meanwhile, it costs the average American $11,400 more in 2023 to sustain the same level of living.

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And everyone is making more money than enough money now. That's the point, duh.

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So an extra $1000 in wages covers the increase of $11,400 in inflationary adjustments? That's a $10,400 budget shortfall using my Gen-X math.

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You really didn't put much thought into this thread before posting it now did you?? Seriously, your TDS really is getting the best of you

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Are you simple?

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