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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(From the article):" .. 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."
(My Comment) : Chinese exports to the U.S. are already reduced and are below 40% from previous years imports.
The three largest Chinese seaports have reduced shipping due to manpower shortages arising from current covid infections (material handlers, laborers, loaders, truckers, etc.)
Expect continued supply chain shipping issues involving manufacturing, medicinal supplies, etc., etc..
China is opening for business, and has already impacted on the rising price of fuel supplies, even though it is based on foreign speculation.
Watch for your drivers, pilots, waiters, students, teachers, certain friends and relatives etc to be dropping dead in their tracks.
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I’m a school bus driver but I haveno intention of collapsing.
I took the Johnson & Johnson vaccination (under intense spousal pressure) but refused the Moderna and Pfizer “vaccines” because I didn’t like what I understood about the mRNA. And no boosters, naturally.
Now I’m reading awful things about heart problems that might be traceable to the jab, but I haven’t seen a single word about the J&J shot.
Anybody know anything about the J&J option? Did I make the right choice?
My grandson took the JJ to get into college. Im still pissed off about that. In 2 years he’s had no problems. Thank God He refuses any boosters. From what I understand the issues with the vax depend on the batch, how it was stored, and if the retard nurse bothered to shake the bottle before filling the syringe.
“From what I understand the issues with the vax depend on the batch, how it was stored, and if the retard nurse bothered to shake the bottle before filling the syringe.”
Those are hypotheses without too much high-quality evidence supporting any of them at this point. May never know...
My old school GP told me this.
Not aspirating the syringe definitely causes problems but these problems? Don’t know.
2023! I see many possible things—most bad. It will hold one of the following:
1. World War Three—USA/Poland and UK vs. Russia/Iran/China
2. Civil War between the Federal States and the Free States.
3. Invasion of Mexico to bring her into the North American states of America.
4. Massive inflation and depression—1/3 of all Americans starving and out of work. Only Ukrainians will eat.
5. Rise of a new brand of Communism—REAL Marxism.
6. End of the NATO Alliance and EU.
7. King Charles removed from the throne—UK a Republic.
8. War with Cuba.
I don't think they would need much coercion to grab on to that gravy train.
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