Celebrating Christmas is such a full-time job, I wonder how I ever was able to get it all done before I retired.
Only now, a few days after C-Day, do I have a spare moment or two to scribble up a blog entry.
The only way to attempt to cover the bases is with an installment of News and Views.
NEWS: Various Lamestream media outlets report Democrats are unable to understand how the populace is unhappy with the economy despite the “great” numbers being disgorged almost daily, things like a low unemployment rate, rising GDP (gross domestic product) and moderating inflation. Bidenomics is a win, they proclaim, but the masses are just too stupid to comprehend this.
VIEWS: The answers are simple. First, the relatively low unemployment rate is as much a function of a shrinking number of people seeking jobs as it is robust job growth. Simply put, when you use a percentage against a declining base, the good numbers aren’t necessarily as good as you would think. Regarding GDP, the historic national debts we are running to support our out-of-control spending, as well as Zelenskyy’s Napoleon Complex, buys growth, but at what cost? As for inflation, yes it is going up at a slower rate. But prices still are increasing, up about 17.5 percent on an average basket of goods since Clueless Joe was shoved into the Oval Office. Wages, except for lucky auto workers, are not up that much. People feel poorer and rightly so. Calling them stupid for not buying the talking points is not a winning strategy.
NEWS: Our southern border is an out-of-control mess, leading Democratic mayors of northern sanctuary cities (Chicago, Denver, New York City, among others) to cry out for federal dollars to help them cope with the flood of illegal immigrants. But the federal budget already is paying a steep price for unfettered illegal immigration according to a study from the Center For Immigration Studies, as reported by Epoch Times. That study shows nearly 60 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants suck at the public welfare teat, as compared with 39 percent of households headed by people born in the (dis)United States.
VIEWS: Illegals propagate like rabbits, unfettered by the need to earn money to pay for the kids. But keep the gates open, Clueless One, as a source of more Democrat voters to elect and support additional proponents of leftist idiocy. It continues until enough Americans demand it stop. So far, the silence has been deafening.
NEWS: Pennsylvania’s Senatorial embarrassment, John Fetterman, has taken a break from hospitalizations, for issues both physical and mental, to lash out at long-time Democratic strategist James Carville, telling him just to shut the F up on the subject of Clueless Joe and diminishing re-election prospects. Fetterman, who already has made quite the Senate fashion statement with his hoodies and baggy shorts, rightly figures that since he was “elected” to the Senate while running a campaign in a catatonic state, including one abysmal debate, Clueless Joe is a shoo-in for a second term despite similar failings.
VIEWS: Fetterman probably is right. If Biden won once, I’m sure Democratic “vote enhancement” will get him over the finish line again. Never mind those polls that show Trump crushing Biden in key states. Fair elections in this country have gone the way of the affordable house, with both Fetterman and Biden as stumbling, bumbling evidence. But, it is amusing that Carville, described as looking like the grownup “Deliverance” love child, once got Bill Clinton elected on the mantra: It’s the economy, stupid. Is it still the economy, stupid or just who counts the votes, and how?
NEWS: Beer sales in the United States through the first nine months of 2023 were down 5 percent, the worst performance in the past 25 years. The decline was led by the Anheuser-Busch family of beers, who so famously decided to hitch their Bud Light wagon to a YouTube “trans-influencer.”
VIEWS: Dare we dream this is just one segment of the Get Woke, Go Broke backlash by the average American? Disney et al, take note.
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