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Leftist policies are wrecking global supply
chains and triggering shortages and looming
hyperinflation. Stand-by for capitalism
to be blamed

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Posted By: PageTurner, 9/30/2021 10:02:39 AM

We already see soaring prices, empty store shelves, shortages of critical products, factories shut down, workers unemployed, and people freezing in their homes. Soon, progressives will be blaming capitalism itself and demanding more government controls if not outright seizure of the means of production. But in fact, these disruptions to what had been a smoothly operating integrated global economy that had raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the last three decades are all due to progressive policies being enforced by those very governments that stand ready to seize even more power over our lives. There are multiple sources of the troubles bedeviling

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A crush of unintended consequences.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: John Moses Browning 9/30/2021 10:24:19 AM (No. 931008)
As Dennis Prager correctly states nearly every day, “The left destroys everything it touches”.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: downnout 9/30/2021 10:35:07 AM (No. 931021)
All part of the plan and the sheep will dutifully fall in line waiting for their government feed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Maggie2u 9/30/2021 10:59:41 AM (No. 931060)
Yes, poster #2, but only for the vaccinated. Right?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: bpl40 9/30/2021 11:11:57 AM (No. 931079)
In a heated argument once. a liberal friend insisted that "capitalism doesn't work". My response was not only that it works but ONLY capitalism works.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: bad-hair 9/30/2021 11:17:40 AM (No. 931086)
My wife and I are both retired engineers. She also has a degree in psychology. My standing joke is that not only can she tell me why my s doesn't work, she can tell me how I should feel about it. She also has this annoying habit of saying the government should fix it. I ask why.. Are they smarter than you.
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