Posted on 01/13/2023 5:14:23 AM PST by MtnClimber
I believe most people hope 2023 is a better year than 2022. But I am not counting on it.
In just the past two years, our national government has spent roughly $13 trillion and authorized spending trillions more. Politicians use words and phrases like "investments," "long-term savings," "reducing inflation," "protecting Ukraine's sovereignty," etc. to justify this. Clearly, they are either lying or living in a fantasy world. Most of the money is being used to pay off campaign contributors and special interest groups, such as the climate change lobby, or to make politicians look good.
Inflation spiked to nine percent in June 2022, so the Federal Open Market Committee began raising interest rates to fight it. As interest rates rose, the stock market tanked. In 2023, interest rates will likely increase further, possibly sparking a worldwide recession. Neither is good news for investors.
China appears to have ended its zero-COVID policy for economic reasons. Now COVID is out of control in the Middle Kingdom, which will lead to other complications, such as pneumonia. Since the Chinese communists do not like to be embarrassed, if China is suffering, they may want everyone else to suffer, too. That seems to coincide with reports that roughly half of the airline passengers from China have tested positive for COVID. They caused a pandemic once. Why not twice?
Supply chains are a second issue. Who will make the products we normally buy if Chinese workers are sick? Yes, I know this sounds like a "who cares" thing. But if they are not shipping parts, our factories will grind to a halt.
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Happy article for Friday the 13th.
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And Republicans aren’t spending too?? 18 signed on to the 1.7 trillion omnibus that none of them read.
Watch for your drivers, pilots, waiters, students, teachers, certain friends and relatives etc to be dropping dead in their tracks.
“most people hope 2023 is a better year than 2022”
Personally, like many I’m hunkering down financially......and have been since that idiot took the oath of office......and will continue at least until he’s long gone.
Corruption and fraud rule and nobody goes to prison in congress, executive branch or judicial. Free ride for the law breakers of dc
No surprises here.
2023 will be a knockout punch for a lot of folks asleep at the wheel.
I’m looking up! And very hopeful!
President Heels Up Harris is something *I* worry about...even more since The Big Guy’s documents have been announced (notice I didn’t say “discovered).
I’m looking up! And very hopeful!
Yes indeed, FRiend!
The stinking Lawyers of DC are very much like sharks, they rarely eat their own..
“Happy article for Friday the 13th.”
Reality is sometimes a tough thing to swallow.
Just a 10% kickback for the big guy....and for the black dude who's actually running the country....or, what's left of it.
The DemonRats are leaving one more mess for the Republicans to clean up, then they will claim the success for doing it.
We’ve been ‘fundamentally transformed’, as promised.
I say let the house of cards fall on their heads. I would rather start over then continue with the scum we have today.
Amen....won’t know what hit them when revival fires up soon!!!
The Remnant has hope!!!
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