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Needles Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1000 AR Gender:	Re: Hard facts Reply #60 - 11/11/25 at 13:29:03 Going off on weird, unrelated distractions AGAIN, I see.
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Reply #61 - Yesterday at 05:30:55

OK, since there's no sticking with the topic after MAGAT "logic" is applied, I'll give you an example of corporate greed:

To hear older generations tell it, everything was better in the past. Gas cost a few cents a gallon; children respected their elders; toilet paper came with 650 sheets to a roll, and the only thing you had to worry about was the constant existential threat of nuclear apocalypse looming over your head.
Now, chances are at least one of those things was news to you, and we’re betting it’s not the gas or the nuclear war. So, to answer your question: yeah, toilet paper used to come in 650-sheet packages. If that’s not hitting you as remarkable, though, here’s the context: today, a regular roll of Charmin sold in the US has just 56 sheets per roll.
Thanks to Mark Dent over at The Hustle, we actually have quite a detailed picture of the decades-long toilet paper shrinkflation process. In the 1970s, he writes, “Charmin’s regular roll had 650 sheets of single ply toilet paper […] By 1975, the roll shrunk to 500 and then to 400 in 1979.”
But “Charmin was far from done,” he continues. “By 1986, the sheet count had dropped to 380. On eBay, I found nearly identical 1988 Charmin packages – one contained 300 single ply sheets per roll and the other had 280.”
Not only are toilet paper manufacturers offering fewer sheets per roll, he points out, but those sheets are also smaller than they used to be. A Charmin regular roll in 1966 used to be made up of square sheets of side length 4.5 inches (11.43 centimeters), he reports – measure one yourself today, and you’ll find it a paltry 3.92-by-4 inch rectangle (9.96 by 10.16 centimeters).
Even adjusted for inflation, that results in a price increase of 700 percent per square foot since the 1960s.
And, lest you think we’re picking on Charmin in particular, other manufacturers have been just as sneaky. You might think a brand like Scott 1000 would be immune from this kind of shrinkflation – after all, its very name is a promise that each roll comes with that many sheets. And yet long-term analysis by Edgar Dworsky, founder of ConsumerWorld.org, has found that even they have shrunk, with the weight of a standard four-pack going from 32.2 ounces (913 grams) in the past to 23.6 ounces (669 grams) today.
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Re: Hard facts
Reply #62 - Yesterday at 10:36:27

Source:

https://www.iflscience.com/why-are-us-toilet-rolls-so-much-smaller-than-they-...

While I totally agree "Corporate Greed" exists, I also do not expect toilet paper to cost the same year after year.

The obvious culprit to most "shrinkflation" to me, and this is an opinion, my opinion here is that the obvious culprit is US consumer behavior, specifically response to advertising. This is an opinion.

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Needles Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1000 AR Gender:	Re: Hard facts Reply #63 - Yesterday at 15:13:44 When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level. (Robert Reich)
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Re: Hard facts
Reply #64 - Yesterday at 18:39:37

Needles wrote on Yesterday at 05:30:55:

"... I'll give you an example of corporate greed ..."

LOLOLOLOLOL

Did you read about,
Telling the FBI
NOT do their job ?
(Which has happened,
many Many MANY times,
under Clinton, Obama, and Biden.

Perfect example
of the UL FDS WOKE DFI Socialists
INSTRUCTING the FBI to NOT do their job,
Just to Cover Ones AZZ
then deny it ever happened.

Did you read about it ?
Of course not.

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Needles Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1000 AR Gender:	Re: Hard facts Reply #65 - Today at 13:35:39 You know, just because YOU say you saw it somewhere doesn't make it so. Where is the evidence that Clinton, Obama, or Biden told the FBI NOT to do its job? Anybody except Fox or OAN ever say any of that?
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Re: Hard facts
Reply #66 - Today at 14:26:54

Needles wrote on Today at 13:35:39:

"... Where is the evidence... "

PICK ONE !!!!!!!!!!

"... The suggestion was that it was a chance meeting.
It was anything but. ..."

RealClearPolitics
https://www.realclearpolitics.com › articles › 2019 › 05 › 04 › when_loretta_met_bill_on_the_tarmac_140244.html
When Loretta Met Bill on the Tarmac - RealClearPolitics
What happened when Bill Clinton met then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the west side of Phoenix Sky Harbor airport between 7 and 8 PM on June 27, 2016?...

CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com › news › president-bill-clinton-loretta-lynch-meet-on-tarmac-in-phoenix
Bill Clinton, AG Loretta Lynch meet on tarmac in Phoenix
As his wife is under federal investigation for her use of a private email server, former President Bill Clinton met privately with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the Phoenix Airport Monday ...

Author:Emily Schultheis

The Sun
https://www.the-sun.com › news › 3079610 › bill-clinton-loretta-lynch-tarmac-meeting
Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch's tarmac meeting: What happened?
3 Bill Clinton had a suspicious meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in 2016 Credit: AP:Associated Press What happened between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch? In June 2016, Clinton met Lynch on board her Justice Department jet while it was parked in Phoenix, Arizona.

MSNBC
https://www.msnbc.com › rachel-maddow-show › maddowblog › four-years-later-seeing-lynch-tarmac-controversy-new-light-n1135786
Four years later, seeing the Lynch tarmac 'controversy' in a ... - MSNBC
In June 2016, Bill Clinton had a chat on a tarmac with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and according to everyone involved, it was a fairly brief and inconsequential social interaction.

NPR
https://www.npr.org › 2016 › 06 › 30 › 484110476 › attorney-general-loretta-lynch-bill-clinton-met-amid-email-investigation
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton Met Amid Email Investigation
Jun 30, 2016An unscheduled meeting between the U.S. attorney general and former President Bill Clinton at an airport in Phoenix on Monday could present some unwanted political problems for both. The former ...

U.S. Department of Justice
https://www.justice.gov › ag › bio › attorney-general-loretta-e-lynch
Office of the Attorney General | Attorney General: Loretta E. Lynch ...
In 1999, President Bill Clinton appointed her to lead the office as United States Attorney, a post she held until 2001. In 2002, she joined Hogan & Hartson LLP (now Hogan Lovells) as a partner in the firm's New York office.

NPR
https://www.npr.org › 2016 › 06 › 30 › 484192533 › bipartisan-disapproval-follows-bill-clintons-meeting-with-loretta-lynch
After Bill Clinton Met With Attorney General Loretta Lynch ... - NPR
Jun 30, 2016Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she discussed family, golf and travel with Bill Clinton — not ongoing Justice Department investigations.

AP News
https://apnews.com › united-states-government-united-states-congress-general-new
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Lynch says she met with Bill Clinton out of courtesy
Attorney General Loretta Lynch tells lawmakers she met with former President Bill Clinton out of courtesy last month after he saw her plane on the tarmac at the Phoenix airport and asked to come aboard to greet her.[/i][/b]

And their is LOTS MORE !!!!!!!

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OH, if you still believe,
the, FDS WOKE DFI Way.
I will save some Ocean Front Property,
Just for You,
In CO !!!!!!!!

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Ben Franklin once said: "If you give up a freedom, for the sake of security, you will have neither".
Which is More TRUE, today, than yesterday.('06, S-40, Stock) well, mostly .

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Needles Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1000 AR Gender:	Re: Hard facts Reply #67 - Today at 14:42:57 Are you out of your fukken mind? Clinton was not President in ANY of those instances. It is not possible for him to "order" Lynch or the FBI to do anything, so, if they didn't investigate, it's because there is nothing there.. Other issue: since Trump has dementia, is Melanoma running the country?
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MnSpring Serious Thumper Offline Younger than most people my age. Posts: 10478 Minn Gender:	Re: Hard facts Reply #68 - Today at 17:38:26 Needles wrote on Today at 14:42:57: *"... it's because there is nothing there ..."* Of Course, *"...there is nothing there..."* Is EXACTLY what a DFI, FDS UL SOCIALIST will always say. !!!!!!!!!! And again: "... The suggestion was that it was a chance meeting. It was anything but. ..."
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