THE BATTLE FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Just so you know, the congressional district in this special election is different than the one Flores and Gonzalez will seek come November.
I am giving you the numbers, because you have come to expect them. But nationally, I am compelled to ask, after Ulvalde what do these low numbers tell us about how the people really feel about gun control? Prayers and vigils do nothing to bring back the dead or heal these families. But it becomes a distraction from the fact nothing will change. I will go so far as to say we can have another mass shooting, and nothing, and I mean nothing will change on gun control, and it will not impact November's election.
What will happen in November is anyone's guess. Nationally the polling shows the people effectively have zero confidence in the economy. I blame the people and Congress.
To get the Covid checks pass Congress the people had to agree to pay the people who did not need the money. This helped to spur spending and thereby inflation.
We left it to the Corporatists to regulate themselves, and they built the factories for computer chips in countries will low wages and no worker's rights. Now we are paying the price and it is more than cars.
A CPAP machine keeps you breathing at night. Several years ago I was one of the first to get a new wifi CPAP which meant every morning I would get and email telling me how many times I stopped breathing and any adjustments I needed to make. In time the doctors with the machine's serial number were able to get the same data on a daily basis. If you had a warning in your email you could call your doctor and they could check the online system for doctors.
Well not for the new CPAP machines. For now the new ones because of the computer chip shortage do not have the wifi function. But we left it up to the corporatist to decide where to manufacture the chips so essential to our economy, and now we are paying a price. But instead of blaming the corporatists, we blame the President.
But when the polling says the people have no confidence in the economy who does that benefit? They could be saying they have no confidence in the government to fix the problem.
The Republicans will block any effort to stop price gauging by the oil and gas industry. But unfortunately, the Biden Administration has no one in the administration who understand messaging, or is it Biden still believes some day the Republicans will play nice?
As Trump was leaving office and he proposed the last excessive stimulus package he knew it would increase spending. He knew it would cause a sort of fake inflation.
THE PRESS LOVES IT HEADLINES, BUT NOT INSIGHTFUL REPORTING.
During the worst of the pandemic prices dropped dramatically. This is why I call it false inflation. If a pandemic causes prices to drop dramatically, and then during the recovery prices recover and go up do you really have inflation? Well, yes, but what the Biden Administration is not doing is looking at prepandemic prices, calculating in normal inflation and then comparing it to what we are paying now.
Wages are way up and unemployment is at records lows. When you pay people more either the employer has to eat the loss, or they have to raise prices.
This is basic, but not being explained to the people.
The price of housing is up because of the cost of building supplies. Congress has no control over this. The logical result is the price of renting is going to go up. Yes you are earning more money, but the cost of living is eating it up. So of course you are frustrated.
But you know what, the President controls none of this.
Nixon through emergency powers issued a raise and price freeze. The law has changed several times, so I am not sure if President Biden can freeze the price of oil and gas. If he can, he needs to. But then the very people who are complaining about the price of gas will call him a socialist.
WHEN OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FAILED, OUR REPUBLIC FAILED
When rote memorization replaced true critical thinking to measure a student's success, we lost the capacity to plan and see ahead. I am not sure why we teach the social sciences at all, since it is all based on rote memorization and not critical thinking.
I was asked to review a senior project for a young man who just graduated a very high priced NY university. I was horrified. Had I turned in the same project in middle school, I would have failed, but it was approved as a senior project at a well known NYC university.
We have to end rote memorization as a measure of a student's intelligence.
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