It’s less of an understandable mistake when the author specifically mentions the M-B AMG SUVs being made in Alabama and makes it into the entire lede paragraph.

https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/usa/article/detail/T0308635EN_US/the-new-2021-bmw-alpina-xb7;-first-class-adventures-at-warp-speed

Sure. But that doesn’t mean taxpayer money should be funding middle-income kids going to Julliard for 5 years just to be a high school music teacher and play in the Tulsa Symphony (/hyperbole.)

I give them a little leeway. For quite a while “Turbo” lined up in their trim levels pretty nicely with where a turbo actually found its way into the car. Then as technology changed, they just kept their trim levels where they had been. At least they have their heritage to lean on, rather than just latching onto…

But it really got screwed up with 993-996-997-991-992. It’s like they’re changing their model number nomenclature every time they have a new model at this point.

How is the current pandemic impacting the affordability for your average dentist?

No, the corporation’s goal is to make money for their owners. They don’t care about the workers one way or another.

“married couples with children” is an ever shrinking segment of the population. That’s one of the big things that’s weighed on MHI growth - the shrinking of number of working age people per household. Which, at the same time, makes the “adjustment for household size” in the Pew chart pretty significant.

I’m not ignoring the increase in housing, medical, or education at all. It’s part of the CPI. Housing is by far the largest component, making up 43% of the index. Cherry picking the baskets of the CPI that rose more than the CPI as a whole is pure data manipulation, though.

Facts don’t support that:

Yes, the “The CPI the BLS uses doesn’t support my narrative so I’m going to make my own” argument. Always compelling.

I mean...lower, middle, upper. They’re quantitative terms. Pick something else to get offended about.

Making education free? That’s garbage. Means tested support for vocational education, sure. But I don’t see how putting some kid through four years of fine arts education pays off for society.

I mean...we could. With those 2010 figures, you could throw $10K a year at those households earning less than $15K/year and it would only cost $163mn.

Well, 25.7<26.5, so yes. That’s an improvement.

I...just don’t get it.

You own three Porsches, supported by writing for a blog, and consider yourself to be “suffering under the boot of plutocracy?”

The point of the union is to “fairly” compensate labor leaders.

Aerospace seems to be pretty consistent in projecting 2022-2023 return to 2019 demand. Not sure who’d be saying end of summer.