Inflation unConflated

Inflation of 7% is not a problem.

The government programs passed early in the Biden administration (American Rescue Plan, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) pumped much needed cash into the pockets of people and families needing help living indoors and eating.

Those folks could then do what they needed to do and they spent that money back into the economy.

Businesses did what businesses most often do when approached by customers with money to spend; they raised prices.

Inflation will not stay this high.

SCOTUS Infamy

 

Chief Justice John Robert's SCOTUS continues to cement it's infamous place in history...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) can't mandate a uniform response to a global pandemic that has killed more than 800,000 Americans and worked our health care system (from the cleaning and maintenance crews to logistics to the nurses and doctors, etc...) to extreme, unnecessary, exhaustion.

However, a woman can be forced to carry a rapist's fetus to term...

Expand the SCOTUS, maybe; indict the Justices that have joined the vaccinated, Qpublican, homicidal maniacs, definitely.

Democrat's Tips for Inexpensive and Easy Campaigning

Some thoughts for cheap and easy messaging, via Internet (TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, etc...), promoting Democratic candidates up and down all ballots starting in 2022.

FDR (D): The New Deal and Keynesian economics, etc...

 

JFK (D): 1962 Speech at Rice University, FFRDCs, etc...

 

LBJ (D): Great Society, Medicaid, Civil and Voting Rights Acts, etc...

SCOTUS: 1973 Roe v. Wade...

 

Obama: Affordable Care Act...

Biden (D): American Rescue Plan, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, etc...

Insurrection of 2021 brings violence to the fore in the re-prosecution of the (un)Civil War...

History that Qpublicans are trying to repeat: Every Confederate state's Constitution stated the rights of white people to own black people as slaves; recover and punish escaped slaves...

Democrats did not abandon their oath of office.  Republicans became Qpublicans when they, with very few exceptions, violated their oath of office, on multiple occasions, during the 45 administration...

Crypto/Klepto-currencies are attempting to evade (criminally?) national and international regulatory environs... 

 

Homes are rare and expensive after the Wall Street casinos got the last of Glass-Steagall eliminated; the Savings and Loans financial services industry was also eliminated...

Charts, from the book: Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box, that need to be updated and posted everywhere: pages: 227-229, 252-266...

Publish and harp on all the consequences for those found to be criminally involved in the various dubious activities of the 45 administration.

 

You Can't Get What You Want...

A democratic republic only exists when eligible voters vote.

The USA is an oligarchy because a majority, barely, of eligible voters only vote on presidential elections.

A minority, of about 25%, of eligible voters show up, without fail, for nearly every election. That allows them to dictate who governs from the local school board to the state capitol and on to Washington, DC. That 25%, that always votes, were accurately described as, “deplorables,” by Hillary Clinton.

Some of the oft altogether too silent majority are complaining that government isn't meeting their needs. That complaint rings hollow when too many of us are not doing our requisite duty of voting in as close to every election as is possible.

Our local, state and federal government can't do what we want because, by and in large, we don't show up!

The US Senate can't deliver, for our silent majority, till we vote for a majority of Senators that is sufficient, at a minimum, to eliminate the Jim Crow filibuster.

Get the message out:

VOTE!

Vote Democrat, because at this time in US history they alone represent the idea of keeping a democratic republic.

 

Voters Must Enable Democrats' Ability to Restore Democracy in the USA

Our President is a Democrat, there is a Democratic majority in the US House and a simple, Democratic majority in the US Senate...

Folks are expressing disappointment that the Democrats aren't delivering as expected.

There are three problems keeping the Democrats from meeting expectations: Senators Manchin and Sinema (listed alphabetically) and the filibuster.

All these issues need voters to deliver the Democrats' abilities to the fix said problems: continue the Democratic House majority and deliver a Senate, filibuster proof, majority capable of eliminating the intransigence of the two aforementioned Senators and allow the, Jim Crow, filibuster itself to be eliminated once and for all; relegated to, and passed out of, the bowels of history.

Consequences for Texas' Qpublican Mismanaged Infrastructure

Question: Can Texas' existing power grid handle the addition of a new Samsung wafer fab and the huge new Tesla facility?

No. The Texas power grid, that experienced an outage last, 2021, winter (similar to a power grid failure during the winter of 2011), can't handle it without adding significant capacity and resiliency.

The proposed Bitcoin (kleptocurrency) mining facilities will also consume enormous amounts of electricity.

Samsung's new wafer fab, in Taylor, and the new, enormous, Tesla facility, in south east Austin, will also put a substantial strain on existing transportation (roads, bridges, airports, rail, etc...), telecommunications (phone and Internet), education, etc... infrastructure.

These new businesses could be very good for Texas (with the exception of kleptocurrency mining) but not while Gov. Death and the Qpublicans seriously undervalue, and yet overestimate, the physical plant and services the state needs to provide for successful implementation.

Economics in the USA... Causes and Solutions

Challenges to our economy started at least 50 years ago when factories in the USA started to move from north to south, then to south of the border, then to the far east. 

There are enormous container ships waiting, sitting off our west coast, because American businesses, trying to save costs, moved manufacturing largely to mainland China.

The same management decided, "just in the nick of time," could continue to reduce costs; wound up with little, to no, inventory on hand when supply chains are hit by extraordinary challenges (e.g., a global pandemic).  They, intentionally, built-in a lack of flexibility/alternatives to deal with unforeseen economic problems.

When looking for the cause of the current inflationary pressures on the economy you need look no further than company/corporate management.  The destructive approach to economics was enabled by the ludicrous, supply-side, economics of the Republicans and the problematic policies of neo-liberal Democrats.

Democrats have recently remembered, and started to return to, the Keynesian methods and processes that were key to the New Deal and the Great Society. When the Democrats boosted economic possibilities for the most needy 40% of Americans (the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021) it was done with no cooperation/assistance/votes from Qpublicans.  When attempting to do more (The Infrastructure and Jobs Act) Democrats checked across the aisle to find only 13 Qpublican votes in the House and 19 Qpublican votes in the Senate.

The current economic problems, inflation included, have roots that are, most often, not political...  When government assistance, Keynesian solutions, are proposed it is oft exclusively from the Democrats...  When assistance, or a counter proposal, is sought from across the aisle...  Little, to nothing, happens...

Keynesian solutions are underway, in spite of the 2 well purchased, neo-liberal (corporate owned), Democrats' obfuscation. More can be done if the elections of 2022, and beyond, give the Democrats (plus the two Independents) the larger majorities needed in the US House and Senate. More Democratic controlled, state governments are potentially even more important.

Without the massive and consistent efforts of the voting public our democratic republic, and the extraordinary economy it has enabled, could be gone forever.