the inflation rate reached 9.1% in June 2022 and was down to 3% in June 2023, and down to 2.4% in September 2024.
It's always amazing seeing the number of Republican female politicians who keep pushing for "traditional values" that they don't actually follow themselves, as they are career women who have benefitted from the efforts of progressive women to allow women to pursue careers on their own and not be limited to being a tradwife. It's like that GOP Trumper Arizona Congressman's daughter who just recently announced that she's running for the Arizona state senate, yet less than a year ago she said in several podcast interviews that she didn't think women should be in politics, that it should be left to men, that she wouldn't vote for a female politician, that in her opinion women "weren't built" for a 9-to-5 job outside the home (LOL), and yet she majored in political science in college and had already interned or worked at two government jobs and now wants to enter politics. And she also said that women were not smart voters and maybe the 19th Amendment needed to be repealed - which would keep her from running for the state senate seat she wants. The cognitive dissonance of many Trumpers is just staggering.
The size of the population is not relevant to the crime rate but the size of cohorts within a population could be very relevant. If I told you that population of country A was 1 million people and 30% were between the ages of 15 and 30 and country B had a population of 2 million people and 20% were between the ages of 15 and 30, which country would you guess would have the higher crime rate, all other things being equal?
No. That is a policy position that makes absolutely no sense. Its absurd. Its unworkable. I can't think of a dumber suggestion but perhaps you have other ideas.
I'd guess that the crime rate wouldn't have been affected by anybody born in the last 15 years. You've made a very marginal point which is very unlikely to be important to the discussion.
That might be the best one-sentence summation of gt's posting style I've ever read.
"Demographics is a layup. Women are having less kids. Young people commit crimes at a higher rate. Lower percentage of young people relative to the population will lead to a lower crime rate."
Fertility rates peaked in 2006 and have been falling ever since. Before that they peaked in 1992. 2025 minus 2006 is 19. 2025 minus 1992 is 33.
I am deeply pessimistic about the future of this country, but in the short term, the reality is that your daughter and her husband are at very low risk of violence. As was the case six months ago, and as will likely be the case six months from now.
Sorry you can't just ban anybody you disagree with anymore.That might be the best one-sentence summation of gt's posting style I've ever read.
Kudos.
If Snoop really wanted you gone, I am quite sure you would be gone. Make no mistake that your insufferable nature is tolerated by many people who could make you gone from here if they desired.
He wanted me gone before but now that he can't ban people directly he doesn't want me gone? I'm not sure that makes much sense.
My suggestion was just following your argument that declining birth rates account for the declining crime rates in DC. So wouldn't it make more sense for Trump to reduce birth rates instead of pouring in the military to "solve" the crime rate "problem" ?
I don't think an executive order to mandate that DC resident males to undergo vasectomies and females to undergo tubal ligations is very practical.
Whether it is practical, would you not agree that it would be a more effective executive order than the one Trump announced yesterday ?
No.