Democrat debates inflation using Big Mac chart

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• "Repeal inflation"? WTF? Add this one to another astoundingly stupid democrat speech.

  • Wait a minute. We're still processing the tipping over of an island due to increased population. There has to be a globally warming story in there somewhere.

• The regular burger was what is now called the kid's burger. I liked mine with cheese. 29 cents. The fries 10 cents. They wonder why our kids are obese.

• !968 saw the nationwide introduction of the Big Mac and it was a delicious sandwich. They looked pretty much like the artwork used to promote them, not at all like this placard shown. They were assembled and surrounded in a white collar of sorts that tabbed into itself, then the whole deal was wrapped on a metalized paper wrapper. The price was $0.49. There was one size order of fries available. There was no meal deal.

  In 1968 minimum wage was $1.60. Sales tax was a federal issue set at 4%. A person could go to bagadonal's to order a regular hamburger with an order of fries and a regular Coke and get it for a buck and a couple pennies. If you really wanted a Big Mac you'd need an extra quarter or so.

  As years wore on minimum wage was about the same as 3 Big Macs or so. They are about $3.50 per unit now, quite a lot more than they were just a few years ago.

  They now look like shit. They will make a regular person shit funny shit in short order. I crave a Big Mac about once a year. Regularity or a B.M. hurried on by a McDonald's B.M. sandwich used to be an affordable laxative.

• Yes, prices have increased because of an inflated money supply in which more money is competing for the same amount of wealth. A problem which this fellow seems to want to fix by creating an even more inflated money supply in which even more money will have to compete for the same amount of wealth. But at least next year when the cost of the big mac (or whatever) has increased to nine dollars per unit he won't have to get a new picture for his chart.

• Anybody remember a routine Father Guido Sarducci did once: it was all in Italian, about Jimmy Carter, and part of it was using the cost of a hamburger to illustrate inflation. It MAY have been a Big Mac. The kicker on it was his miming "pesce" -- fishing -- to describe Carter's recent vacation, showing the picture of a half-burger to show what inflation had done, and then indicating Carter may be sent "pesce -- permanente`!"

  No, couldn't find it on Youtube.

• Maybe if we hadn't had increases in minimum wage during those years, inflation wouldn't have taken such a big "bite" of that burger.

  • Ouch!

• It's not that things cost more, it's that things take more dollars to buy. There is a huge distinction between the two. Few progs understand that and the ones who do will never admit it.

  • I expect the ones that do understand the difference between real costs and pricing are using the ignorance of most voters to forward their cause with the very costly policy of cheap money.

• This clown wouldn't know what inflation was if Ronald McDonald hit him in the ass with it.

• Always remember that progressive fascists are smarter than you, just ask them.

  The sad part is that several democrat staffers looked over this and failed. The sadder part is that these people are making critical decisions and they are very stupid with little to no real world experience. It is no wonder our country is in the crapper.

• This guy needs a clown suit.