I’ve been away for a while. This blog experienced technical difficulties. (If you were my age, you’d recognize the allusion there.) I finally got the host to straighten out some problems that arose when his system was hacked and my blog (and backups) erased. Most of it is restored now and the national disaster averted.
Trump delivered a speech last night. There’s no telling who wrote it, but it claimed that everything’s coming up roses. A smart person would know better than to go out on a limb like that. Bad things happen; and if they happen during this year’s campaign, the braggart will have a hard time evading the blame.
If you are sufficiently brilliant and highly educated, perhaps you can imagine how a family would fare if, in addition to their household income, they were given a credit card with a $100,000 spending limit and the assurance that somebody else would pay the bill. Every year. That family would appear to be sittin’ pretty, you reckon? I congratulate you on your economic prowess.
The federal government, in addition to their household income (from taxes, etc.), adds a trillion dollars per year to their credit card balance. They spend that money in the marketplace one way or another; those who receive it, in turn, spend it somewhere else; and so on. Eventually the plumber gets a phone call from somebody who wants to remodel their bathroom because they now have more money than they did a couple of years ago. The plumber says, “Trump’s doing a good job with the economy; business is good.” That’s how elections are won: I’ll give you free stuff and I’ll make some other poor slob pay for it.
I remember hearing Larry Burkett say on the radio that going into debt is a blast; it’s the most fun you’ll ever have! The bills eventually arrive, though, whether it be for a household or a nation.
Trump has done some good things such as getting onerous regulations removed from businesses. I’ll vote for him again, I assume. I’d vote for the Republican candidate even if the candidate were a yellow dog; and that’s not because I have any affection for the party, it’s because the Dims are even worse.
And they’re so stupid! I’ll give two small examples. First: didn’t Nancy Pelosi know that ripping up Trump’s speech would make her look bad, not good? Second: the party somehow cannot see that Tulsi Gabbard would defeat Trump if they’d just nominate her instead of these circus clowns they are allowing to be front-runners.