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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (480524)10/2/2021 1:46:26 PM
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Supply and demand. When there aren't enough workers wages go up. When prices go up we buy less. Nothing's changed except now we have a lot more employees who aren't depending on government programs to survive.

The anti-vaxxers don't want to work. It's their choice.

The vast majority of the pandemic spending was unnecessary. Pay for the vaccine (that was already required by law during pandemics) and unemployment benefits, and a few checks and we get maybe half a trillion. But you know how it is. We gave trillions to companies to keep their people employed, they laid them off and now whine about not having enough employees.



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (480524)6/9/2022 9:55:36 AM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542970
 
Uh??

acute shortage of housing and cars due to fires and floods

The shortage of housing has been a longstanding issue following the Great Recession, because house formation fell off after that (kids stayed with parents, stayed in apartments, etc) and then the pandemic shutdown mills and construction too.

The car problem is due to supply chain, mostly chips.

Fires and floods have done very minimal impact on housing and car supply.