Anxiety
I walk through the grocery store gasping, on the verge of screaming, or laughing maniacally at the prices! One of my regular bon mots for passing fellow grocery cart pushers: “I am going to have to start robbing a liquor store before I come to the grocery store.” Everyone, from the masked, to the unmasked, all have a panicked look on their faces as we shop.
I am not even going to quote the inflation rate, because it is manipulated to be artificially low, just like their misleading unemployment rates. After two years of untrustworthy Covid “stats,” I wouldn’t trust their numbers about anything, anyway. I trust my eyes, not their lies.
It’s a good thing that I sold my car in 2006 because I was not going to support the evil/violent oil companies: I think I would probably have a minor stroke every time I needed to put fuel in the tank—the average price for a gallon of gas in California is $6.55—and home heating and gas is going up by 30%, at least.
In all my years of living through national situations of high unemployment, inflation, stag-flation, recessions, artificial economic bubbles (housing, tech, Covid); I have never seen anything like this: Workers making good wages are sinking fast.
The idiotic governmental over-reaction to the Coronavirus 2019: closing small business, forcing non-essential people to take months off of work and printing “money” like they had it, has obviously contributed immensely to the mess we find ourselves in.
These aren’t “Putin’s” price hikes. This extremely precarious situation lands square on the backs of the profiteers and exploiters in the billionaire/bourgeois class.
The US is over 31 trillion dollars in debt—the US is not sustainable in its current form.
Click the graphic below for constantly spinning USA Debt Clock
I would like to say arrest and jail the price gougers, but my more peaceful solution is to give everybody, from the farmer, to the picker, to the trucker, to the carpenter, to the grocer, etc, some breathing room, would be to roll EVERY price back to January 2020 levels and freeze them for a period of months, but keep wages the same.
It’s about time to give we the people some anxiety-free hope, instead of giving the immorally wealthy more opportunity to be hoarders; to buy more yachts that are too big to sail under some bridges. (Or penis-shaped rocket ships to escape the earth that they are poisoning).
Ukraine and Blue Armageddon
Joe Biden is drooling his way to global nuclear annihilation, and, again, NO ONE should be okay with this—if you, or someone you know, thinks that there is such a thing as a “winnable” or “survivable” nuclear war, may I recommend the grim book: The Road, By Cormac McCarthy? I get the feeling from liberal #WOKE twitter feeds that NOT nuking Russia (ie, peace) is wimpy.
I would call for the removal of Drooling Joe from office, if the next two people in line weren’t also off-their-rocker nuts and enemies of humanity. Every election, voting becomes an even bigger farce than the last time. Elections in the US are only as credible as the lying government and complicit media, so, zero.
Consequently, my small protest for today is to send Joe Biden two words:
Go Eff Yourself, Jack!
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Um, that was four words, Cindy. ;-)
Yes, I agree with all your observations, times are increasingly grim. We (society) are being systematically weakened; toward what end, I can only guess.
My mother had an expression: I have 2 words for ......... and it isn't Happy Birthday.
Love your report