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Posted on 05/22/2021 8:35:38 AM PDT by jazusamo
The fiercest band of the hurricane is the looming acceleration of inflation. One report compared the average price of various commodities in May 2020 under President Donald Trump to those in May 2021 under President Joe Biden. Here are some staggering numbers:
Gasoline: $1.77 under Trump vs. $3 under Biden.
Lumber: $332 per 1,000 board feet under Trump vs. $1,570 per 1,000 board feet under Biden.
Home sales: $283,500 under Trump vs. $329,100 under Biden.
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The behavior of the schools, however, is part of the American reality, because it affects people and their children.
First, the culture of work in America is built around the assumption that schools would be available to watch children. When this breaks down, American lives are reshaped in a way which particularly impacts women, who are the most likely to stay home with children. (This is not a statement of misogyny or any sort of "ism," it is a statement of American reality.)
Second, the quality of education will affect children for their entire lives. The decay of the big city schools has been devastating for poor children. The current pattern of trying to eliminate magnet schools so no one will feel bad because all will be equally mediocre is a mortal threat to the economic future of American children.
Third, the new cycle of radical indoctrination of left-wing values about race, American history, sexual issues, and "wokeism" directly threatens parents, who find their own personal beliefs being ridiculed and attacked by teachers who are authority figures in the classroom.
The erosion of education and teachers’ union arrogance, radicalism, and incompetence are driving more and more people to favor the right to pick what school they send their children to (81 percent of Americans favored school choice in a recent McLaughlin & Associates survey).
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DC PLUS its hordes of auxiliaries in the so-called ‘news” media, the so-called “entertainment” industry, and amongst the rank of so-called “academia.”
Sounds like the Democrats better keep control of those Dominion Machines (Dominion, interesting name).
Lots of Republican politicians are listening.
The disconnect between reality and D.C. politicians is a huge power disconnect.
It can be used to save the Republic.
While we talk about it the rats are quietly going to work dealing with it. it’s like the Durham investigation. We’re still waiting for something we don’t know.
They’re all big. This one is concerning:
“Corn: $3.19 a bushel under Trump vs. $7.22 a bushel under Biden. “
Farmers might love it for a while, but it’s going to jack up prices on Americans, cause them to buy less, and in the long run, I doubt China will make up the shortfall.
So, in response farmers will grow vastly more corn and the market will crash.
Newt has an excellent podcast “Newt’s World” that covers a lot of current politics as well as excellent condensed biographies of brilliant Americans.
I wish I felt optimistic…but the amount of Americans who capitulated to big government during the lockdowns is frightening.
The number of people who are fed up and willing to do something about it has to significantly exceed the number who tolerate or even welcome this crap.
Young people are the key, the ones paying most of those higher costs, not the old farts who’ve already paid off their mortgates, aren’t commuting to work, or trying to feed a half-dozen mouths around the table.
Young people are the ones who fight wars too. Just sayin’....
Newt (and Callista) are on the Advancing American Freedom’s advisory board which was started by Pence.
I’ll keep a watchful eye. They may do some good.
Well said, my thoughts also.
Comparing today, when things a roaring back, with May of last year, when the economy was effectively shut down, is only useful for playing politics, not enlightening anyone.
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Nobody is willing to suffer in the very least to fix any of this.
I’m to the point that I hope it all crashes badly so that maybe people will see what we really need to do.
Kill them.
We've called that the Beltway Echo Chamber for a very long time now. It is necessarily insular and its inhabitants blissfully unaware of outside reality because they don't have to be, at least until a Trump happens and catches everyone by surprise. That rocked them, they didn't like it, and the pathetic tools currently infesting the White House are the result of that little clutch of bubble dwellers reclaiming their rightful possession of the playpen. To glean from Gingrich's text, nobody cares about Liz Cheney, everybody cares about gasoline and lumber and corn.
Much of the authoritarian dance in DC centers around laying the shackles lightly on the American people so that they won't notice until it's too late. That has resulted in some appallingly heavy-handed blundering with respect to such issues as CoVid restrictions, censorship, and the norming of deviant sexual practices, to name only three. Sorry, but the victims have noticed.
> Sounds like the Democrats better keep control of those Dominion Machines <
And they will. Step 1 in taking back our country is (obviously) to ensure fair elections. If Step 1 does not happen, then Steps 2 - 100 will not matter.
Bump!
GOP listening. About inflation, yes. The wokism not a peep.
I have not checked , but you have to know that farmers will only make big profits if their costs remain low.
They will not. They can not.
By the way, Newt knows but fails to comment on it, that the increase in money supp;y is not the problem.
The problem is the increase in money supply at the same time many of the recipients of that money are not working, not producing.
If the people receiving the money are producing new goods, he prices stay in balance.
In short, you have people with fists full of money trying t buy items in short supply. That creates inflation.
Our economy is perfectly designed for stagflation.
Regulations, taxes and fees of all kinds are totally out of control—that makes it hard to start a business and keep it operating.
Affirmative action assures that stuff that used to work easily has all kinds of problems that nobody knows how to solve.
Then when you pay enough people not to work then there will be too much money chasing too few goods.
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