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My face is right here, if you think you're man(?) enough to try it.
I have a feeling you, a normal dude, getting punched by a transgender anything, would get you on CNN for what CNN would call a hate crime.
You may be right about that.
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Now they don’t want us healthy either.
A few things I hope people learn from COVID.
1. The government or media censor information because it is politically inconvenient, not because it's false. Political inconvenience almost always arises from information being true or at least partially true.
2. The mainstream media is not a watchdog of government. It is an entirely partisan actor. If the government is run by people it doesn't like, it'll lie and attack the government whether it's telling the truth or not. If the government is run by people the media does like, it'll completely do its bidding. Nobody has integrity.
3. There are no honest actors with authority in government. Everything is political or at least agenda-driven. They cannot be taken at their word.
3. When the government seemingly gives away free money, you will pay it back many times over in inflation and destructive economic policies. It's not free money. It's not even a loan borrowed at government interest rates. It's more like a payday loan that you're forced to pay off for the rest of your life.
Mr. Deez, you absolutely nailed it with this statement. And the worst thing is that the impacts are not across-the-board - some groups (like retirees on a fixed income) are hit much worse than others.
There is great truth in the age-old saying - "There ain't no free lunch."
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I think most people just accept the money and think nothing of it. Even those that do think about it probably think the biggest downside is the accumulation of government debt - not good but financed at low interest rates (relatively speaking) and spread broadly. I want people to realize that this isn't the only downside or even the biggest one. Much bigger is the inevitable inflation that viciously and permanently harms every consumer in the country. I know we've more than lost whatever payments we got in higher prices.
And you're right. Some people are harmed especially badly. I don't see how some retirees make it. Their food and energy costs have exploded on them.
Add in the fact that as retirees grow older, their medical costs tend to increase. And the COLA we received on our Social Security didn't keep us up with inflation - it's a trailing index, and it doesn't reflect the emphasis on medical outlays for older citizens.
It has always been true, but we're not a deep people. Crises come up, and we forget even very obvious things and then get mad when the totally forseeable occurs. I still don't understand how economists that advocate this stuff haven't been discredited. They've never gotten this right.
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Does this mean I'm not as far right as I thought I was?
I'm following this one closely with the local school board. They proposed closing down our school or the one next to it due to low attendance then asked for a bond to (in part) convert it to an admin building. People rightfully so went ballistic to vote against the bond proposition. The school board could sense the trouble so the superintendent promised with his word that passing the bond would not close down the school (i.e. maybe only use half the building as admin). The bond language remained the same as I'm sure it was too late to change that and keep the scheduled election day last May (or because the board is full of liars). It passed.
Now we're on the seeing what the board does with the money step...
Does this mean I'm not as far right as I thought I was?
I'm following this one closely with the local school board. They proposed closing down our school or the one next to it due to low attendance then asked for a bond to (in part) convert it to an admin building. People rightfully so went ballistic to vote against the bond proposition. The school board could sense the trouble so the superintendent promised with his word that passing the bond would not close down the school (i.e. maybe only use half the building as admin). The bond language remained the same as I'm sure it was too late to change that and keep the scheduled election day last May (or because the board is full of liars). It passed.
I have an almost per se rule to vote against all local bond initiatives. It solves this problem.
And if school attendance is dropping enough to close or partially close a school, then why expand administrative space? With fewer students, the district should need fewer administrators and less space.
He made his point, but he could have been much tougher. Tom Cotton (who's also on the committee) would have done a better job.
That works if 50.1% of your neighbors do the same. That didn't occur here. The district bundled several other things in the bond. The admin idea is poor for a few other reasons -
a) we're on the edge of the district. An admin building belongs more in the center.
b) the only thing the building needs to be converted from school to admin is more adult sized tables and chairs - not millions of dollars of renovations.
c) the school attendance isn't that low, and there's no reliable data on COVID babies who'd be starting elementary in just a couple of years.
Too bad that husker isn't here to tell you why you are wrong and this is not untoward at all.
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