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To: Mongo2116 who wrote (45906)	4/10/2022 9:55:34 PM
From: Sdgla	2 Recommendations Recommended By toccodolce Trumptown Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 73922

Maybe you should learn to look beyond race and focus on qualifications. You’re a race baiting Trump hater Gene so really I wouldn’t expect u to know how the kkk grand dragon & his fellow racist joe pedo Biden took action against an overqualified candidate for scotus. Here’s a freebie : aei.org

To: Mongo2116 who wrote (45906)	4/24/2022 10:22:16 PM
From: Sdgla	1 Recommendation Recommended By Hugh Bett Respond to of 73922

HISTORIC HUMILIATION: Trump-Endorsed Candidates Sweep Establishment GOP Picks as Michigan Grassroots Rise Up… Win Against All Odds By Patty McMurray Published April 24, 2022 at 6:30pm 723 Comments 100 Percent Fed Up Exclusive – In what can only be described as a historic election, MI GOP delegates wiped out decades of establishment rule yesterday at the GOP State Convention with their votes to elect Trump-endorsed election integrity candidates Kristina Karamo for Secretary of State and Constitutional Attorney Matt DePerno for Attorney General as their choice to run in the 2022 general election. Over 2,000 GOP delegates and alternates gathered together today in Grand Rapids, MI, to cast critical votes for the next Republican Secretary of State and Attorney General candidates for the upcoming general election in November 2022. Both races were highly contentious, with two Trump-endorsed, grassroots election integrity candidates, Kristina Karamo for SOS and Constitutional Attorney Matt DePerno. Karamo and DePerno, two grassroots candidates with no political experience and limited campaign funds, ran against career politicians like Tom Leonard, who was showered with money and endorsements from establishment Republicans and anti-America First PAC money. Over 2,000 GOP delegates and alternates gathered together today in Grand Rapids, MI, to cast critical votes for the next Republican Secretary of State and Attorney General candidates for the upcoming general election in November 2022. Both races were highly contentious, with two Trump-endorsed, grassroots election integrity candidates, Kristina Karamo for SOS and Constitutional Attorney Matt DePerno. Karamo and DePerno, two grassroots candidates with no political experience and limited campaign funds, ran against career politicians like Tom Leonard, who was showered with money and endorsements from establishment Republicans and anti-America First PAC money. Constitutional Attorney Matt DePerno ran against the popular former Speaker of the House Tom Leonard and MI State Representative Ryan Berman. In the first round of voting, DePerno came in just under the 50% threshold needed to win the election on the first ballot. He was forced into a runoff with second-place Leonard after Berman conceded and threw his support behind Leonard. Even with Berman’s delegates getting behind Leonard, he still lost to Trump-endorsed Matt DePerno, who walked away victorious with just under 54% of the vote in the runoff election. DePerno made the following statement after winning the runoff vote: “Today marks the first step towards taking back our state and our country. I am eternally grateful to the freedom-loving patriots of the convention who put their trust in me to be their standard-bearer. Together, we will create a red wave to wash over the Wolverine State this Fall! My general election opponent, Dana Nessel, is a socialist Soros sycophant out of touch with Michigan voters. In November, she will be out of time as well. I look forward to continuing to campaign across the state.” Michigan GOP delegates also sent a strong message to the school boards at 3 major universities in Michigan when they elected anti-mask, anti-vaccine mandate, and anti-CRT candidates to serve on the boards of the increasingly liberal universities: Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University. The attacks from the media were swift, labeling Kristina and Matt “conspiracy theorists” and “election deniers.” BuzzFeed, the first publication to push the fake Russian dossier, attempted to paint Kristina Karamo as someone pushing fake conspiracy theories because she believes there was massive voter fraud in the 2020 election.

To: Mongo2116 who wrote (45906)	5/5/2022 5:58:40 PM
From: Sdgla	Respond to of 73922

Why’d u vote 4 pedo joe ? Labor Warning, First Quarter Productivity Drops 7.5 Percent, Largest Decrease Since 1947 May 5, 2022 \| Sundance \| 112 Comments CTH puts released economic data into ‘what does it mean‘ terms as a conversational priority. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) releases the first quarter productivity and costs report today [ BLS Data Here]. Outputs, what was created, dropped 2.4 percent, yet labor hours used to create those outputs increased 5.5 percent. This creates a productivity drop of 7.5% for the overall business. The largest quarterly drop in productivity since 1947. This is a warning indicator inside the economy to employees of large organizations. CTH has been tracking productivity for quite a while, and the signs have all looked foreboding. { Go Deep} Businesses cannot afford to keep employees on payroll if customer demand drops. The per unit labor cost to make the products has increased 11.6%. Wages have gone up 3.2% (pay increases) and productivity has dropped 7.5%, combined that creates the 11.6% increase in per unit cost to producers. I have often used the example of making bread { Go Deep}. If you are making 10 loaves of bread, there is a set amount of cost associated with each loaf created. The total cost of each loaf is the total cost to produce the entire batch divided by ten. (more…)

To: Mongo2116 who wrote (45906)	5/7/2022 11:48:45 AM
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Good News 428,000 Jobs Added in April, Bad News April Employment Drops by 363,000 Workers May 6, 2022 \| Sundance \| 121 Comments The employment news has everyone confused. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) reports today 428,000 jobs were added [ DATA HERE] which is good. We want to see people getting back to work. However, simultaneously the number of people employed dropped by 363,000 and the labor participation rate dropped from 62.4 last month to 62.2 this month [ Table A, DATA]. The unemployment rate remains unchanged at 3.6 percent.

To: Mongo2116 who wrote (45906)	5/8/2022 10:36:49 AM
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Biden’s Economy Sends Americans Into ‘Unretirement’ By Ben Zeisloft • May 6, 2022 DailyWire.com • FacebookTwitterMail U.S. President Joe Biden speaks while meeting with small business owners in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, April 28, 2022. Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images Americans are leaving retirement due to inflation and a tight job market, according to data released last month by job platform Indeed. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the number of retired seniors surged from 28.3 million in February 2020 to 31.6 million in October 2021, however, higher price levels and other economic challenges are now forcing Americans into “unretirement.” Indeed reported that as of March 2022, roughly 3.2% of workers who were retired a year earlier are now employed. Indeed said that a decrease and subsequent rebound in unretirement has precedent. During the Financial Crisis of 2007 to 2009 — the last major recession to impact the United States — workers were enticed out of retirement as the labor market became more lucrative. Yet consumer price inflation rates after the Financial Crisis mostly stayed within range of the Federal Reserve’s long-term 2% target — briefly spiking to nearly 4% in 2011 before returning to relatively stable levels. The aftermath of COVID-19 and the lockdown-induced economic trouble, however, has been marked by once-in-a-generation inflation surges. As of March 2022, consumer price levels are increasing at an 8.5% rate. “It is hard to rule out the influence of waning concerns about the pandemic and faster inflation, and they are surely factors,” Indeed acknowledged. “But it’s not clear that they are the main reasons.” From October 2021 to March 2022 alone, more than 850,000 Americans returned to the job market, according to the Federal Reserve. Over the same period, inflation increased by another 2.3%, after already having risen from 1.4% in January 2021. The rise in prices has outpaced nominal increases in pay, producing a nearly 3% decline in real wages — stretching Americans’ budgets with respect to food, gas, housing, and other necessities. A recent poll found that 94% of Americans were either “upset” or “concerned” about the impact of skyrocketing inflation, while a slim 28% approved of President Joe Biden’s approach toward managing price levels. Experts, however, predict that inflation will continue to plague the American economy. “Inflation, as we all know, when it gets in the system, it’s very hard to get it out,” billionaire investor David Rubenstein said on Fox News. “It takes a long time to get it out, can take a couple of years.” “So now I don’t think the inflation rate this year will be what it was last month or so. I don’t think we’re going to have 8% annualized rate of inflation, but I suspect something around 5% is probably not unlikely, maybe even 6%,” he added. Milken Institute Chief Economist Bill Lee agreed, saying inflation would be “well over 3.5%” for the next five years. “One of the things that we’ve seen is that inflation has, you know, very direct impacts on Americans, on American families and American businesses,” Director of the Congressional Budget Office Phillip Swagel told Fox News Digital. “It also has implications… for the budget. For American families, the high inflation that we’ve seen the highest in decades has meant higher prices for food, for travel, for gasoline. It means that family incomes don’t go as far. Family budgets are stretched.” To curb rising price levels, the Federal Reserve increased interest rates by a half point on Wednesday — which marked the largest rate hike since May 2000 and followed a quarter point increase from near-zero levels two months ago. “Inflation is much too high,” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said at a Wednesday news conference. “We understand the hardship it is causing, and we’re moving expeditiously to bring it back down. We have both the tools we need and the resolve that it will take to restore price stability on behalf of American families and businesses.”