straightshooter wrote:It seems that for some "enough" will never be "enough".
Coming from a somewhat different direction, I woke this morning listening to the BBC World Business Report.
The upshot was that "due to Putin" there is and will be worldwide shortages of energy and inflation is and will be rampant.
No mention of the sanctions against Russia and some Russian individuals nor the massive money printing by western countries most notably the US.
No mention of what the straightforward but politically unpalatable solutions may be.
Reading between the lines we are headed for hard times which grandiose posturing and fantasies will not fix.
I don't for a minute think we are headed for "Mad Max" territory but generally we won't be as affluent as we are even now.
We as shooters have been the first to experience massive price rises on some things and others turning into unobtainium.
What is the principal but never spoken about reason for the Soviet block falling?
A worthless currency.
Also never a mention of Covid mate. I dont know why its like a dirty secret, white elephant or conspiracy theory to link the shutdowns to massive inflation. You close business for a year or two, hammer small enterprise, print money, you will get an inflationary effect. Again its not a conspiracy theory the bloody politicians told us right through covid to expect it.
Now its happened and Aussies seem to have some terrible fear to admit it or memory loss. . Right , wrong, real disease or a secret plot by lizard people doesnt matter when it comes to the financials. Lockdowns means the world has a bill to pay, a big one, and thats that.
The scariest thing is when other wise intelligentaussies attribute all inflation to putins war and the sanctions when they know a bunch of stuff was soaring in prices a year earlier. I mean cmon fellas, fckn seriously..