A follow-up to my earlier #SupplyandDemand. During the latter part of Covid and afterward, inflation hit America, and corporate America explained that it was caused by increases in labor and materials. That's fine except for one major result; excess profits. If prices were raised on the final product just to cover the increase in labor and materials, then the profit margin for those items would have stayed around the same, and net profits would not have soared.

Instead, corporations were greedy and saw the opportunity to increase prices above their added cost, thus increasing and exasperating the inflation burden on America citizens. Then, at their quarterly earnings meetings, they announced abundant earnings. Once again, greed raised its ugly head, and #Republicans continue to refuse to roll back the Trump tax cuts to alleviate the current #DebtCeiling. A crisis that they have manufactured. Yet, a segment of the voting population continues to vote and retain these #scumbags in government.

That vile human, #JacobReesMogg (as an MP, supposedly representing ordinary people in the UK), hosted the Mendip Farmers Hunt at his home (a fckng massive mansion). #HuntSabs #Foxes #CruelSports #Hunting #Scumbags

Attorney John Eastman urged Republican legislators in Pennsylvania to retabulate the state’s popular vote — and throw out tens of thousands of absentee ballots — in order to show Donald Trump with a lead, according to newly unearthed emails sent in December 2020

#politics #Republican #scumbags

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/10/eastman-emails-pennsylvania-legislators-biden-00031668