Posted on 03/26/2022 10:38:10 AM PDT by blam
Typo fix: I should say The US Constitution does NOT enshrine what WE (the people) can do,
That's a pretty good way to make you want follow the party line to a T ..no matter what it is ...I want to be “considered especially deserving” to get that extra cash..... /s
In his latest letter to investors, the CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, said the Ukrainian conflict has the potential to accelerate the development of digital currencies across the world.
The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, helps many of the world’s largest central banks, including the Federal Reserve and the ECB, manage their assets.
BlackRock was the largest beneficiary of the Federal Reserve’s bailout of exchange-traded funds during the market rout of Spring 2020.
Malthusian economy
bmp
They’ve been busy out here in my very rural area, putting down fiber optic cable for high speed internet. I’ve been wondering with all the crumbling infrastructure across the country, why they seem so eager for everyone to “have access to high speed internet”. They’ve been acting like it’s a basic human right that no one should be without.
We already have DSL here and the $50/mth plan is plenty fast enough for surfing and most streaming. The trend includes getting everyone a cell phone even if fedgov has to supply it for free. Obama phones.
Never understood why fedgov pols on both sides of the aisle were so concerned about getting everyone on high speed internet like it was some basic right or necessity.
All this recent talk of CBDC kind of clears things up.
...to be “considered especially deserving” to get that extra cash...
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(Snipped your /s)
Not cash. Coupons. Scrip.
The Company Store (today only, 3 pounds of pseudo mushroom cafe for the price of 5 with applicable Loyalty Points Only)
...my very rural area, putting down fiber optic cable for high speed internet. I’ve been wondering with all the crumbling infrastructure across the country, why they seem so eager for everyone to “have access to high speed internet”. They’ve been acting like it’s a basic human right that no one should be without.
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Went thru that in my previous locations. Finally got fiber optic when a regional co-op got a Federal grant. We paid some pricey access fees and the monthly bills were somewhat higher than DSL.
I know someone who has made a lifetime career (at least 30 years, so far) supervising crews that do the installation of these systems. Takes a long time in often challenging outdoor conditions. Many near-inaccessible places with rocky soil, swampy soil, mountains, etc and many miles needed. Many workers aging out, but I imagine it’s attractive to laid-off drillers/pipeline workers.
Now I live in a thinly-populated area that so far is not hot to get those Federal grants. Our DSL allows 90MBps download and it is not noticeably different than the fiber optic. I suppose gamers demand more, plus high upload speeds.
I believe most people out here use their phone for internet. I know the vacationers do. So, less demand on the system as a whole.
However, my $79 comm bill just rose by nearly $10. That may also reflect some local depopulation and less travel/tourism/2nd home owners...idk, just guessing. We do have one new home built over the past year in the neighborhood. Our immediate neighbors are summer, hunting and fishing season folks and they have not been visiting....some since Thanksgiving. The third-side neighbor cleared their land, brought in a travel trailer and have done nothing else in 2 years. Probably supply/price issues. They’ve visited maybe 2x since Thanksgiving, for weekends.
I hope this area does not change for the time I have left. The County reorganized to save money and cut personnel and when valuations rose, they reduced the mil rate. The local paper is locally owned and not, so far, swallowed by the regional aggregators. It’s quiet, boring and was logging country, so mostly flat. Our parcel is on Old Glacial Lake Wisconsin, meaning 1” of thin, acid (pine & oak barren) topsoil over sand. East are bogs. Rock formations are privately owned. State parks are under Blue governor control. Two narrow lakes for fishermen and boating with resorts and pricey subdivisions. Little industry. Row crops need lots of fertilizer and irrigation. Absent some magnet for the blue-haired hipsters, we hope to remain independent and isolated for the foreseeable future.
We are 5 miles from a town with shopping & 25 miles from a city with more services. It has turned out to be a decent compromise between convenience and isolation.
They need high speed for the Great Reset. Also 5G for the control aspect. That’s my personal opinion.
It might be inconvenient, but, if it keeps the tech tyrants, and globalist slavers, from being able to put us in a chains for a while longer, it's worth the hassle, IMO.
What Canada banks did to their truckers, who were protesting government forcing them to take injections, (froze their bank accounts), was a real eye opener.
This is a varied tourist area: fishing/hunting/boating, mostly, with a few mid-level fishing resorts and a well-known condo/golf lake community for the upper middle & a few condo lake developments, as well. Several very small villages and lots of rural subdivisions.
The RV dealers (there are a lot of them) have not moved much inventory that we can see for the past 2+ years. Sheds seem to sell faster as most of the homes are manufactured and need storage. In fact, storage is a major enterprise.
My west-side neighbor has utilities and a parked RV and is rarely in residence. My north-side neighbors had one moved in until they got their home built, but so far (2-3 years), it’s a rarely-used weekend vacation home.
DH wanted an RV...he still has wanderlust...but, as he ages, he sees them as a never-ending maintenance problem.
I think the city costs for taxes and utilities and the rising cost of fuel and food means people do not have the time/$ for vacations. I also wonder if the costs of a 2nd vacation property will become untenable for many, although we have low property tax, here.
Except for the lakeside golf community, this is a workingman’s vacation area. Just the folks getting squeezed right now.
And, don’t forget to factor in the many folks living with low-midlevel vax injuries. Not enough to keep them in bed, but enough to curtail their energy.
I see very few people in their 20s, here. It is just not a happening place. I don’t anticipate a boom of RVers, either. There just aren’t the RV parks and few 1 acre properties. Mostly 3-8 acres that need cleared and utilities installed.
Not sure of the taxes on them, but my neighbor could not build a woodworking shop and continue living in his RV. Not allowed. Sheds over 400 sq feet need permitting & are taxed.
Summer trash collection will become a problem to the extent that the county is exploring contracting the trash collection to a private entity. The landfill charges have already increased, due to limited space.
Our county regularly turns down those leftist tentacles that get a foothold by running *summer retreat* venues for *disadvantaged city youth*.
We’d all rather live a bit simpler by choice than participate in our own financial rape. I see it as a conservative oasis within 100 miles of the Beast System to our East and South. 25 miles north is one city of 25k and west is better farmland. You have to travel 75 miles west to find any attractions for the young & trendy....the very place we moved away from because they ruined it.
I think the article is sus.
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