Change in Format Going Forward
I am at risk of death every day due to a new complication, hypercapnia. It means excess carbon dioxide in the blood. Even if oxygen saturation shows 100% it can occur. Fortunately, it’s treatable with a BIPAP machine. Unfortunately, it will be months before any arrive. It seems that, to fund Obamacare, we imposed a tax on US manufacturers of Durable Medical Equipment but not foreign ones. This was a “gross receipts tax,” which means that if a company put $90 into making a machine and then sold it for $100, the entire $100 was taxed, but at a reasonable rate, such as 15%. For those who don’t do math in their head, that meant that every time the manufacturer sold a new machine, one of two things happened:
· He lost $5
· He was publicly accused of price-gouging and hauled into court, where he was acquitted, but spent so much money defending himself he went bankrupt.
The end result was predictable. This was a reason why Trump won.
The new format will be things I know are true but without much if any supporting references. All readers are welcome to post walls of text about what a buffoon I am and post warnings about ever listening to me about anything. My response in that case is I concede, you win; declare victory, stop engaging. Examples:
We do not have a supply chain problem; we have a policy problem.
The crisis du jour, Monkeypox, probably entered through the open southwest border. We have let in people from well over 100 countries, without health screening, and outbreaks of other tropical diseases have been taking place weekly in “sanctuary cities” where the “blue governments” cooperate with the Biden administration in covering up the evidence.
Defund the police was the work of white limousine liberals, who hijacked the equal justice movement so they could feel better about themselves.
The Moynihan Report, written by the most important liberal thinker of the twentieth century, remains gospel. It accurately predicted the current state. It may take three generations to fix the result, which is the result of the worst sort of racism. Lyndon Johnson promised self-anointed civil rights leaders a place at the table in return for promising to change the narrative to deliver the black vote for Democrats.
Today’s Democrats are not liberals, but authoritarians. They used to be liberals. Nowadays they are a criminal enterprise gladly sacrificing the country to retain political power. Republicans are no better because they do not call out the Democrats on their hypocrisy.
The loss of the dollar’s status was the inflection point. We surrendered not just the ability to influence global affairs, but doomed us to third-world inflation for at least another two weeks.
The current chaos is either by design or a result of Ron Klain, Chief of Staff, believing his mission is to elect Democrats rather than to help the President lead the country. In either case, he has to go. Consequences can include
Civil War. Largely, the West and East Coast would be one country, and “flyover country” a second. That does not have to be either deadly or violent.
We knew what Kamala Harris was when we elected her: an intellectually lazy self-absorbed opportunist. If we can get rid of Klain, she might be OK.
We now know what kind of Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland would have been. He refuses to enforce and prosecute violation of law by abortion protesters. Demonstrating, parading, intimidating in front of any judge’s house to influence his opinion is a felony.
Senator Chris Coons, D-DL, is a hero. He co-sponsored a bill to provide FBI protection to Supreme Court Justices. Nancy Pelosi refuses to bring it to the floor in the House of Representatives. She would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
I did not mean doomed us to third-world inflation for two weeks, but two years.
Well heck now that you've fixed that typo I can agree with all of this...
...and it's about time someone mentioned Moynihan again, our Cassandra for the ages. Here's something from Pete Hamill too. Sorry the link may be hard to read but it was the only free version I could find:
https://books.google.com/books?id=GL8dFT7C1cwC&pg=PA368&lpg=PA368&dq=pete+hamill*+letter+to+a+black+friend*&source=bl&ots=hzTWrL1L-Y&sig=ACfU3U02iDK0ljFwpf2dPjX9vcopjM9G8w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicjbjslfP3AhWRpIkEHUxuA_QQ6AF6BAgaEAM#v=onepage&q=pete%20hamill*%20letter%20to%20a%20black%20friend*&f=false