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Jussie Smollett, Ghislaine Maxwell, Omicron – Some Random Thoughts for Consideration!

Non Sequitur - Carpe Diem Two significant trials started in the last couple of days, both of which the media has been trying very hard to keep quiet while at the same time trying to, in the case of Epstein’s pimp, also make money on. The sheer audacity of the media, as well as their complicity in the crimes, remains astounding to me. The whole time Epstein was powerful and wealthy, the media fawned and twisted themselves into contortions fit to shame a pretzel. Then when his crimes could no longer be covered up, they still tried to protect him while simultaneously trying to report on a story that should have been written decades earlier.

Jussie Smollett is a little person who arranged to be attacked, jilted the attackers from their money, lied, and is now on trial. Where this wasted excrement is concerned, may he enjoy his consequences to the utmost! I hate liars; lying about being attacked as a hate crime is the sickest method of trying to garner attention, and I look forward to justice being served, hard and cold! The evidence in the Smollett case reflects the incompetence and depravity of the person committing crimes!

Someone help me understand. When cooking, if I try to move a hot pan and get burned for my troubles, the first time is my opportunity to learn. The second time I get burned is an attention-getter. The third time I get burned on the same pan, it just proves I am not learning! Any additional burns reinforce that I am careless, not understanding, and the consequences are mine, no sympathy, nothing but scorn and ridicule. COVID Omicron, and the media hysteria, the vaccine insanity, and the endless cycles of governments exerting authoritarian and tyrannical controls, continue to represent that pan and burn analogy. Vaccine

COVID-19 is burning out. Standard viral science is being witnessed globally, and the science of viral longevity is known and has been studied in-depth. I am not a viral scientist, but even at my uneducated levels, I can understand that viruses have shelf-lives; the virus’s lethality weans with every generation; as the virus survives as it mutates, it weakens. Yet, the hysterical media continue to push COVID and its mutations as if these viruses are killing millions wantonly, daily, and must be feared, when the exact opposite is true. Unfortunately, the media have the government doing knee-jerk reactions to every hyperbolic, hysterical fantasy the media can dream up and push.

Tell me, if the vaccines have not worked, and “booster shots” are the only answer, are we not fulfilling the definition of insanity as described by Einstein, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.” Now, consider the following peer-reviewed research from a reputable source, presenting well-documented science. The scientific community, whose views are as political as a politician, particularly Fauci, are already trying to destroy the research, discredit the researcher, and throw up sufficient smoke to invalidate the study. However, the truth is evident to those who have followed the vaccine and the guinea pig testing of communities across the globe who were mandated, coerced, and threatened into getting vaccinated; the vaccines are dangerous to the heart!

Lemmings 1 Yet, what is the automatic response of government; more lockdowns, more masking mandates, more authoritarian government overreach, and less common sense! The lack of common sense in the COVID “pandemic” remains a crucial point of contention. The flip-flopping dead fish government cannot make up their collective minds, except to claim they want to inconvenience their citizens more. Every citizen should be sardonic and hold their elected officials in contempt for their COVID-SILLINESS. More to the point, the citizens of representative government need to send the only message to the government that can awake and arouse, “You’re FIRED!” Yet, I guarantee some politicians and bureaucrats consider themselves safe from the repercussions and citizen anger; I fully support correcting this misconception, pink slip the lot of them!

Will Durant, author, philosopher, and all-around good egg, once lectured about the “Shameless Worship of Heroes.” The lecture is well worth experiencing to light the mind with the efforts of humans to gather knowledge and advance the reason of all. However, I like the lecture less for something missing from it, the discussion of the traitorous hero. Every tin-pot dictator, authoritarian thug, and miserable little person who has risen to power has a position in history. Every good person acting selflessly and risking all have a place in history. But, think about the Benedict Arnold’s and Judas Iscariot’s in history; what has happened to them? These are people who have set themselves up to be hero-worshipped, and when the crowds discovered they were duped, they culled this person from society so thoroughly the only actions remembered are the infamy.

Knowledge Check! Consider Fauci, he of COVID NIH infamy. The media has worked tirelessly to edit his life story to avoid the multiple instances of medical misfeasance. Fauci has been hero-worshiped across America, and his thumbprints are on the virus and pandemic to the Nth degree. His funding is central to how much the world has suffered, and when his 15-minutes of fame expire, the whiplash will be legendary. As more of his actions and role as central to the creation and lethality increase of COVID are made known, I expect his “hero-worship” will turn to the screams of mobs demanding retribution. Do you think Fauci is aware of what happens when society stops hero-worshiping blindly?

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MRSA and COVID – Pandemic Hype Indeed

Bobblehead Doll MRSA is shorthand for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a medicine-resistant staph infection that swept America beginning in 1990 —gaining massive popularity in 2017 when it killed more than 10,000 people and hospitalized more than 300,000 in the United States alone. Worse, of those hospitalized, many had to have large sections of their anatomy excised, limbs removed, and other surgical procedures done to cut away the infected flesh.

As for COVID’s death toll, your guess is as good as mine. We all know the scandal of the emphasized numbers to obtain greater Federal Money and media attention. We have all been exposed to the hype and hysteria from infection rates that do not equate to those with frank symptoms, and neither of those numbers equating to those needing hospitalization. Worse, we all have been front-seat with the PCR testing scandal where a tampon, motor oil, and a host of other non-human samples all tested positive (falsely) for COVID.

When the intentional housing of infected patients with healthy residents in long-term care facilities is added to this COVID-drama, they shouldn’t be, for these are victims of murder, and the governors need to be held accountable for their deaths; nothing but confusion in statistics reigns. Unfortunately, all this and more is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the statistics in the highly politicized COIVD-debacle we are living through. The Duty of Americans

One point of significant contention is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic. An epidemic is when a disease (bacterial or viral) spreads over a large geographical area, and many different people simultaneously take ill. A pandemic takes an epidemic one step further and is a political decision, as the illness spreads across national borders infecting larger numbers of people. MRSA for all the people killed, in all the different countries, and health systems, has only ever achieved epidemic status. The Spanish Flu (1918) for all the people killed, in all the different countries infected, only achieved epidemic status. As a point of reference, the Spanish Flu (1918) is a confusion of terms between pandemic and epidemic, and depending upon the source; you can see the media hype of the flu. MRSA, like the annual Flu, Chicken Pox, Mumps, Measles, and Rubella, are still just as effective at killing people, and we do not shut down the globe for these viral infections. Yet, nobody in the world’s governments wants to discuss why COVID has been given this treatment. But, I digress; let’s get back to MRSA. ?u=http3.bp.blogspot.com-CIl2VSm-mmgTZ0wMvH5UGIAAAAAAAAB20QA9_IiyVhYss1600showme_board3.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

Please note, while hospitals are on track to meet a 50% reduction in MRSA and bloodstream infection reductions, this does not mean that other places MRSA pops up will meet these same reductions. MRSA causes outbreaks under specific conditions, typically in crowded areas with inadequate hygiene, skin-to-skin contact, and shared equipment. Hence, MRSA is prevalent in gyms, dressing rooms, daycare facilities, and any place where human body fluids can sit on a surface shared by other humans. Hence, before going further, I urge informed caution where MRSA is concerned. Ask about decontamination of hard surfaces, cleaning habits, and customs, and when in doubt, ask for more information before participating.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in partnership with Janssen Research and Development, found some interesting results in protecting the body from MRSA by boosting the body’s immune system. These results are interesting because until COVID came along, medicine generally wanted to stimulate the body’s immune system first, then look at vaccines and drugs. But, since COVID came along, doctors want to revert to what created MRSA, an overabundance and reliance upon vaccines and medicines instead of boosting the body’s immune system. Vaccine

Let’s take a trip down memory lane to the 1990s. MRSA is breaking onto the scene and scaring the living daylights out of medical professionals. This new staph infection is resistant to every drug known to man and kills rapidly once the skin infection gets into the blood. Sepsis deaths which had been trending down for a decade, were spiking. People went to the hospital for a routine checkup and died of skin infections horribly a few days later. Research quickly discovers this is a staph infection, quickly realizes it is drug-resistant, and new practices are needed in cleaning and disinfecting to prevent this from spreading. But, the first step was to boost the body’s natural immunity. Vitamin C, D, E, and Fish Oils, were discussed as options to be added to some diets. Exercise, diet, and weight loss became much more important topics, and the reason why was witnessed on the evening news. We saw patients lose limbs; a patient lost their nose; a patient went swimming in a pond and died horribly shortly thereafter. Pressure Injuries - Example

I mention MRSA because common sense, research, and boosting the body’s immune system work, as historical data supports, to protect communities from large health problems and viral outbreaks. Masks, isolation, expensive government mandates and vaccines, do not protect communities from health problems. Many media pundits have cited the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic as comparative to COVID. What’s the difference, the most significant difference between 1918s Spanish Flu and 2020 COVID, government interference, and media hyperventilation!

What’s the difference between the ongoing MRSA battle, which claims hundreds of thousands of lives annually in the United States and millions of lives globally, and COVID? Government intrusion and media hyperventilation. Back in the 1990s, Dr. Fauci was still relatively unknown in the pantheons of NIH and was still misinforming about AIDS/HIV. By 2018, Dr. Fauci has reached the pinnacle of his lackluster career, and he needs a pandemic to come along to help his career into the spotlight of historical immortality. In the 1990s, the president was a Clinton, and the media adored his every breath. In 2016 the president was detested by the media, and a solution to his popularity needed to be generated. Apathy

MRSA has killed and maimed more people globally than COVID ever will; yet, MRSA, while being more deadly and dangerous, is relatively unknown outside medical centers, and the media hypes about COVID non-stop. Ever stop to ask yourself why? Common sense medicine is still the best method for preventing and healing after an MRSA infection. It would be the same for COVID except for the political environment that shut down inexpensive and effective drugs. Ever stop to ask yourself why?

The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) has a graph of MRSA infection rates by country reporting. Romania is on top with the worst rates of hospitalized MRSA, Iceland has the best rates of non-infection, and the numbers appear to be current as of 2004. Yes, that data is 17 years or so old and can be taken with a grain of salt. However, it does provide an interesting view on MRSA infections. Not all MRSA infections are reported equally. Plato 3

The main MRSA reported and tracked are those where the infection can be reliably proved to have originated in a hospital—leaving infections from gyms, locker rooms, sports equipment, daycare centers, schools, etc., all open for speculation and wonder. Not good policy on something this dangerous and easily spread from person to person. I worked in a call center that was threatened with being shut down if infectious pink eye (a staph infection) was not brought under control. Pink-eye was spread around that call center so often, and so prevalently, the health department threatened drastic and dire measures if the business did not take action. Yet, MRSA, another staph infection, isn’t even tracked and reported. Ever ask yourself why? Ever wonder why some infections and communicable diseases are reported to death and others never even get mentioned?

Knowledge Check! Please let me repeat myself, and I repeat myself only for emphasis; we live in a world of risk. The government, any government, cannot control the risk of living. We, the citizenry, should never expect the government to attempt to control the risks of living, for that is the road of tyranny and oppression. The government is only a tool; the tool should be used sparingly and only in times of greatest need for the greatest good of all citizens. When the tool of government is overused, tyranny and oppression are the only results, and the citizens will weep in frustration and anger at the governments’ largesse! MRSA is a risk we undertake to enjoy a social activity, exercising in a gym. MRSA is an activity we expose our children to when we send them to school, for the benefits outweigh the potential risks. The risks of runaway government are being felt right now; what are we willing to do to fix that problem?

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New Jersey, New York, California, Oregon, and Washington – Just Sell Them for Parts!

With a nod to Bill Engvall, let’s honestly discuss three complete holes in America where suicide by legislative fiat and executive stupidity has produced catastrophic failure. Let me be perfectly honest, if either of these states were a business, they would have been forced into receivership, broken up, sold for parts, and their leaders jailed for incompetency and felonious charges of malfeasance long ago! The charades have ended, the rose-tinted glasses are off, and frankly, the party is over, all the taxpayers are fleeing, and the businesses are closing shop and fleeing for healthier climates.

California this week passed another job-killing piece of legislation. The bill is targeted at Amazon and is built on hogwash, acrimony, lies, and allegations so thin you could read Apple’s User Agreement through them. Not the first time California’s legislative body has targeted a specific business for job-killing legislation, not the first time the legislation is built on sand, and the forecast is for torrential rain, not the last time this idiocy is going to happen. The fact that California keeps killing itself is depressing!

New Jersey and California hold an interesting title, and 32 other states are 100% insolvent in their Unemployment Compensation Trust Funds. Business owners, this fact alone should scare the living daylights out of you and every one of your workers right now! Now, some of you get it; some are scratching your heads and going; why is this important. For those who got it, feel free to skip the following explanation.

The unemployment trust fund is akin to the social security trust fund managed by, raided, and depleted by the Federal Government. No money means that the debts in those trust funds cannot be paid, and all the funds being collected right now are not being used for future calamities. For all you economists out there, yes, this is a very simplified explanation. Insurance trust funds are expected to be the funds of last resort to ensure payments to investors; those paying premiums for coverage can receive protection. Not having these trust funds means the state unemployment insurance fund is in deep trouble, and there is only one direction to point the blame, the legislators and executives in government.

Now, some are claiming these funds were only depleted due to the COVID pandemic. Do not believe the hype. These funds were in trouble long before COVID hit, and the fact that there are funds to replenish these trust funds and government leaders are refusing to invest money in the trust funds should be major red flags for everyone in the state! State and local governments are spending money like it’s Christmas, and the New Year will never come with the bills from the holidays. Think drunken-sailor on 7-day liberty here if you prefer that analogy. Either way, financial troubles are brewing above and beyond the current inflation woes, and the media is deftly NOT reporting this crisis. Does anyone want to venture why this topic is not being discussed?

The Article from the Tax Foundation lays out the data nicely, and you are left to draw your own conclusions from the data. But tell me, what happens when you call GEICO, Farmers, All-State, etc., with a claim and the claim is denied because the insurance company has no money? Now multiply that by every wage-earner and business in your state and tell me if maybe, just maybe, the unemployment insurance trust fund being insolvent should be a more significant issue of discussion.

If your state is insolvent, and your next paycheck is a LOT lighter, remember this tidbit about unemployment tax insurance trust funds.

“Unemployment insurance tax rates on businesses rise automatically when trust fund balances are low.”

Do you see the trouble now? First, the government maliciously raids and spends the funds, then a hidden tax kicks in, depleting your paycheck, and the government does not have to tell you why your paycheck is lighter. Especially since those in legislative bodies traditionally exempt themselves from having to pay these taxes. Now add in the other hidden taxes; inflation goes up because when taxes climb, inflation climbs, prices go up to cover the hidden taxes of higher costs to operating a business, and wages stagnate, which crimps your budget even further.

The states mentioned are not the states that did not need Federal Intervention, and they are not counted among the states spending money wisely, as discussed by Governing.com. Please tell me that nobody is surprised by this revelation. I find it alarming that Governing.com, in their analysis, was able to conclude the following:

“Despite predictions that COVID-19 would crush state tax revenues, most of them didn’t need mega-billions in pandemic aid to balance their budgets. But for the most part, they seem to be spending the money wisely.”

Leading me to ask, why did the Federal Government invest our tax dollars, venture into such incredible debts, and shut down a booming economy? COVID has proven NOT to be worthy of the title “Pandemic.” Yet, COVID remains an excuse for emergency measures, emergency spending, and emergency police actions. Will any media representative ask a politician why? I didn’t like the book, but I read Albert Camus’ book “The Plague” for light reading. That is a book about a public health crisis, a pandemic worthy of the title pandemic, and several times in world history, the title pandemic has been warranted when survivors are burning corpses in the street. COVID fits none of the definitions or situations for a Pandemic, except for the politically connected to laugh at the politically abused populations.

Look at Washington, New York, New Jersey, California, and Oregon across the COVID-19 political mania. Tell me why COVID is not an exercise in malicious government and politics gone horribly wrong. Sure, we can add New Mexico, Minnesota, Michigan, and a couple of other states into the mix for fun. These core states are where politicians made vast sums of money on COVID-Hysteria, and I would like to keep the focus small for the current article.

The House Ways and Means Subcommittee is reporting 32 states are intentionally withholding money from rural governments as a political move. When you take the top 20 receivers of COVID-Relief money and the 32 states withholding COVID-Relief money, you find some lines of congruence with states with the harshest COVID restrictions, ridiculous COVID mandates, and no correlating data to infection risk avoidance. Now, why isn’t COVID reported as a political and social experiment gone horribly wrong? Worse, why was the money borrowed by the Federal Government at extortionate rates and given pell-mell to the states when the majority of those states do not need the money and the states that did need the money have sufficient if their politicians reigned in spending?

The five states mentioned are not poor states by any stretch. They have resources, both human and natural; they have riches galore, they have potential, they used to have favorable business climates, they are committing suicide. Why should the rest of America bail them out? Why not break them up into parts, sell assets to cover debts, place them into receivership, and force them on a diet of sanity and logic until the bills are paid?

I close with a word of warning. Texas, you’re headed to California status faster than you would like to admit! Your COVID restrictions are particularly heinous and represent the infection found in Austin spreading like fast-moving cancer to steal your state and liberty. Arizona, Idaho, Wisconsin, Iowa, you are all on a similar track, the speed might not be as noticeable right now, but the infection is there and growing. Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, both Dakotas, you are all at various places in being terminally sick with the same cancer. If soft words and political expediency can conquer the Western US, the entire United States is lost. New Mexico has been lost since it was given statehood in a political move that robbed Arizona and Texas of land!

The time to awake and arise is now! The fight for liberty and freedom will be fought and won or lost in the American West. Sure, the coasts of America are well and truly infected. But, the fight for independence is not on the shores; it is right outside your doors. The media and politicians like to hyperventilate about the coasts, but the rural communities in the “Fly-Over” states are more important to liberty and freedom surviving than any other local in America. Awake and Arise!

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The Role of Customer Service – Find Solutions!

Bird of Prey 24 September 2021 UPDATE: For the record, the doctor’s appointment forming the central element of this article was with Advanced Neurology Epilepsy & Sleep Center (ANESC), Dr. Aamr A. Herekar M.D. The staff are now trying to report that I was threatening, demanding, insulting, and reportedly told the commando secretary to “sit on my lap.” All of which I strongly and hotly contest. I was at all times professional, but firm. I did not swear. I did not insult the staff. I did not breach professional conduct. I have never asked any male or female to EVER sit on my lap. When told to get a face shield, I went to my vehicle, retrieved the face shield, and wore the face shield for the appointment. For the commando secretary and other staff to accuse me of this behavior is disingenuous at best and I am glad to be rid of this provider. If you are in the El Paso, TX., are, beware if you are referred to this clinic!

I do not care if there is a pandemic or not! I care even less if there is sunshine or rain, wind, snow, sleet, or hurricanes. Guess what; neither do those people expecting customer service. They want solutions, and when they do not obtain solutions, that customer will be looking at your competition and wondering if their needs can be met elsewhere. Angry Grizzly Bear

Let me set the scene. I have a follow-up doctor’s appointment this morning. I traveled more than an hour for an early morning appointment, which included surviving multiple school zones, crazy rush hour parents trying to get kids into school and themselves onto work, and the inevitable school buses working tirelessly to deliver children to school safely. All of this I can accept; I agreed to the early morning doctor’s appointment as I need to do things this afternoon. Upon arrival at the doctor’s office, I am greeted by a commando secretary, who knows I have a breathing problem and cannot wear a mask. Who invents a reason to deny me care. She calls a supervisor, then “politely” invites me to a back room to try and tell me off. She then walks out when I suggested she had two options, move my care to another neurologist or have me wear a face shield, and I was leaning towards option 1.

Since January, this scene has repeated itself more than 10-times in two different states, and frankly, I am sick to death of customer service people who refuse to look first for solutions! Your first duty in customer relations is to find solutions, not complain someone is not wearing a mask, not embarrass, isolate, and denigrate. Your entire mission is to find solutions that will work with government mandates, business policies, and customer needs.

?u=http3.bp.blogspot.com-CIl2VSm-mmgTZ0wMvH5UGIAAAAAAAAB20QA9_IiyVhYss1600showme_board3.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 For example, I was a new patient at a medical clinic. I explained my mask predicament, and the business already had a procedure to protect those wearing masks and accommodate those who could not wear a mask. Better still, it did not require a supervisor, it did not require special approval, I did not have to be embarrassed by office staff judgments, nor did I have to fight for my right to breathe. Two different medical offices, two wildly different approaches to the same customer problem, and two phenomenally different solutions and different mental strategies from staff to provide customer service.

Was discussing cellphone service providers; provider one has deplorable customer service, provider two is not much better, and there is no third option. I asked about solutions for small businesses to compare between the two providers and was aghast at the lack of interest in providing help to owner/operator small businesses. I do upwards of $3600 in cellphone business a year; yet, even though I have five lines personally and pay for an additional one for my spouse, and am a small business owner, the cellphone provider is not interested in looking for solutions for small businesses. Is it any wonder that customers are looking for options to ditch their phones?

Call Center Beans Internet providers are another huge pain point for me and my business on the topic of service providers and detestable customer service. After moving, I am paying double for my Internet service connection, not paying double for the same speeds. Paying double and not getting similar speeds. Worse, the customer inattention has gone downhill since I was last a customer of this company 18-months prior. I have been told that deregulation is why Internet providers cannot compete fairly in markets and scoff. I have been informed, several times, that the reason the costs are so high for Internet connection is from outdated equipment. I have scoffed again. When Google tried to muscle into Phoenix, the current Internet providers threw an unholy fit, and Google was rejected the permits through legal, regulatory means. Apparently, competition continues to be anathema to cellular phones and Internet service providers, all while these same providers abuse customers and refuse to perform basic customer service, such as finding solutions!

What is the solution; I offer the following as potential places to begin launching a customer service revolution.

1. Commit to finding solutions first. Quicken Loans is one company I know that asserts that they want to say YES before saying no. Commit to the same; demand your people learn how to say YES!
2. This might sound old-fashioned, but believe it or not, it works. Smile and say please and thank you! When you are thanked, say you’re welcome. Manners matter in setting the tone in customer relations. A smile goes a long way to setting the proper tone.
3. Another potentially old-fashioned idea, but worth considering if your front office staff looks rough. Customers will automatically not want to do business with you if their first impression is tattoos, body piercings, crazy hair, long nails, and scowling faces. The doctor’s office, the lead office support person, is covered in tattoos, has a body piercing that draws attention to body areas that make professional interactions difficult to conduct. Her hair matches her demeanor, rough and disruptive.

Knowledge Check! Please note, I am not against tattoos and body piercings. In professional settings, restraint is needed to show respect to the business environment and not distract properly. The nursing staff all have tattoos, and they are not as disruptive as the lead office support person. Others have body piercings on their faces, ears, heads, and body parts. But, these are not distracting, and drawing attention to body parts best left unnoticed in professional settings. There is a distinct difference between acceptable and unacceptable, and business owners will need to draw a line or be prepared to have problems with customers.

1. Post in a prominent position what the customer commitment is and who to contact if customer attention fails. Want to raise awareness of customer solutions, post your commitment, and then live that commitment.
2. Technology is wonderful; there need to be reliable replacement channels when you eliminate a communication channel. For example, the doctor I visited they do not have incoming phone calls. You can text the doctor’s office, you can fax the doctor’s office, you can send messages through a group insurance website, and you can email the doctor’s office. When you insist the doctor’s office do something to fit another bureaucracy, e.g., the VA, the office support staff through a fit and stop responding to text messages and emails. So, not only is their attitudes inappropriate, the customer service communication channels are throttled intentionally to avoid angry callers. Forcing patients to have to deal in person when technology is made to fail.

Why Commit to customer relations, find solutions. Commit to saying YES! You will be surprised how fast people become customers and want to remain customers when employees representing your business are committed to finding solutions first and excuses NEVER! End the abuse of customers; I know which doctor I will be ending my relationship with as soon as humanly possible, and I will leave online customer service reports. Abuse me as a customer, and I will go out of my way to make sure other customers and potential customers know.

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Dollars and Sense – Inflationary Spending and Fiscal Insanity

Bobblehead Doll These articles have discussed money, monetary policy, fiscal sanity, and government spending several times this year. Some have called me alarmist for raising fiscal sanity during a “Global Health Crisis.” While COVID-19 (Sars-COV-2) is undoubtedly a viral disease with a 98%+ survival rate, I cannot in good conscience call this a “Global Health Crisis.” The pandemic declaration was a political move, the mask mandating, business closures, and every other hysterical move have been carefully formulated to present a problem where none exists. Has Sars-COV-2 mutated; absolutely, but the emotional hysteria has mutated far faster.

Dollars and Sense

When you pass paper to a store clerk, are you spending money; no, you are spending confidence. Your confidence in the dollar’s strength, as represented by a check, cash, money order, credit card, etc., is what is being spent. Why was the Great Depression so lasting and detrimental; a lack of confidence in the US Dollar. People who saved their money formed sane fiscal policies personally and acted logically lost their confidence in the US Dollar, and the dollar went into a great depression.

Since President Clinton, the US Government has been on a drunken spending spree and does not appear to be stopping unless the citizens demand they cease and desist! What does this mean for you and me; everything costs more for two reasons inflation and interest. When the government prints money, too much money increases prices, and too few goods chase too much money, resulting in people suffering. When the government borrows money, the interest must be serviced; the interest will increase prices and usually absorb some of the extra capital on the market to bring down inflation. Lemmings 2

Except, Quantitative Easing (QE) is hindering the absorption of money on the market. Hence America is witnessing something truly remarkable for the first time in financial history, the debt (principal), the interest, and the extra capital, all of these storms are combining into a major conflagration economically speaking. Usually, at this point, a country begins to look for a place to go to war, which explains China and its expansionist policies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean. Too much debt, too much interest, a military needing worked, and assets need to be stolen from other countries. Typical historical thinking, war truly is grand larceny on a massive scale!

Where are America and China headed; let’s ask Czarist Russia, USSR, Nazi Germany, East Germany, China, North Korea, Italy, Venezuela, Greece, France, and who knows how many other economically unstable countries historically and presently. Going to war will not solve this economic crisis, though some may try that solution. The only solution worth advancing at this critical juncture economically is reducing the size of government, placing a firm halt on all government spending, and refusing the politicians to get into debt for at least two decades! Yes, this means changing Social Security, Welfare, Medicaid and Medicare, and every other government benefit program to fit a reduced budget and smaller government model. Failure to tighten belts for the next two decades will bankrupt America, and most of the world, making the Great Depression look like a summer picnic. Lemmings 4

Gold and Oil, real estate, Gross Domestic Products (the goods manufactured in America for sale), trade, all of these wealth tools and more cannot support the debt incurred, the money printed, nor the size of the government from the city and county to the White House. As this trend continues, Wall Street will continue to be tumultuous, at best, and the confidence in the US Dollar will continue to slide. But, as the dollar slides, which global currency will begin to take up the slack?

The Euro has discredited itself and is not worth the paper it is printed on. China thinks they will step into the void and take up the slack with the Yuan, except their financial situation is almost as bad as Venezuela’s and Cuba’s, but their size and government type keep this hidden from the public. Even though the Yuan is in junk status, the Communist government hides these facts; the truth is leaking out in higher trade tariffs and other global trade and finance costs. Russia’s economic situation still has not stabilized with the fall of the USSR and will probably need another two to three decades until it can compete on the global economy again. Gravy Train 2

I heard a postulation that the Arabian Oil Rich nations of the Middle East would produce an OPEC-backed currency if the US Dollar fails. I highly doubt this as a solution, but the potential is there. Another person claimed the lack of confidence in the US Dollar would lead to the World Bank/International Monetary Fund (IMF) issuing currency for the world; boy, would that be a significant problem! Yet, the American Dollar is being purposefully destroyed by the current crop of politicians, and nobody is standing up and declaring ENOUGH!

Inflation

The US Government, and many others globally, have increased their drunken spending since Jan/Feb 2020 to incredibly extensive levels and used a “Global Health Crisis” as the excuse. Except when Ebola was sweeping the world, we did not have this level of insane spending and government intrusion. Ebola is far deadlier, easier to spread, and yet the Ebola disaster is barely remembered. Bird Flu, Swine Flu, SARS, MERS, all these viruses have had their time in the media hysterical spotlight, every single one of them is deadlier than Sars-COV-2, easier to spread, and they were never a cause for a global pandemic. Gravy Train

Inflation is caused by poor economic policy, where the government grants itself the ability to print money. Inflation is not just money and monetary policy; inflation is also confidence, faith, and trust. Inflation is how the government acts, thinks, and behaves. Inflation is as real as COVID-19 and just as deadly as Ebola while being more problematic for everyone. From Dec 2020 to the end of July 2021, inflation has increased the price of goods and services by 3.8%, seasonally adjusted, or 5.4% non-seasonally adjusted, which means that prices go up as a seasonal adjustment in the summer.

Fiscal Insanity

Consider with me an analogy; you live in a community of houses and pay a Homeowners Association (HOA) Fee. Your neighbor has decided they can write checks on your checking account, and the HOA has granted them legal protection to write checks on your bank accounts. Because your neighbor has legal protection, you sell off assets to provide the funds for your neighbor. You sell to other neighbors letters of credit that you promise to pay interest on, provided your other neighbors hold those letters of credit for specific amounts of time. Except, your neighbors stop buying those letters of credit over time because they do not like how your neighbor keeps writing checks and spending your money. How do you keep this house of cards from blowing over and losing everything?

Tax Burden America is in this position right now! Trend lines show a steady downward trend in the value of the US Dollar. Inflation will keep increasing prices as too much money is chasing too few products on the market. Debt needs to be serviced and interest paid. But, when the interest payment is the only thing being paid, and the principal will also need to be serviced, where and how does the principal get serviced when the interest is absorbing all the monthly payments? Simple economics, money once created and put into the money market, cannot just be absorbed or disappeared. Just like food doesn’t disappear once consumed, the offal must come out and be handled responsibly. Well, the dollar is in an offal position and needs responsibly handled!

NO MORE BS: The Pandemic Hysteria

I want to believe that the BBC is running the series “The Next Pandemic” as a public service in an effort to spread honest, thought-provoking information and analysis. Unfortunately, experience has taught that the BBC is more slanted and biased in spreading fear, confusion, and angst than many of their corporate media competitors. Some of the bias is due to the differences between America and the United Kingdom, some of this is due to the intended audience, and some of this is the difference in language used. Yet always the truth will shine forth, that BBC is a news organization that survives on selling advertising, and like the adage claims, “If it bleeds, it leads.” Or more plainly stated, the more lurid and emotionally charged, the more advertisements get sold. A sad commentary indeed!

Home - BBC News The BBC is reporting that one of the possibilities for the next pandemic will arrive through mosquitoes. Now, mosquitoes have been causing disease in man for all of recorded history. Anyone who has traveled to Maine, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Michigan, Alaska knows all about mosquitoes, knows how to prevent mosquito bites, and has probably suffered at least one instance of becoming sick from a mosquito bite. Traveling through Central America and even more mosquito-borne illnesses are included in the potential for infection. Common knowledge! Heck, Washington DC was historically known as a malarial killer due to mosquitoes.

How does a society prevent mosquito colonies from becoming a health danger? The same way we have been treating mosquitoes for all recorded history. Citronella oil, mop up standing water, drain old tires of stagnant water, wear bug repellent, all common sense, easily managed actions that work. Heck, Disney World in Florida is known for keeping guests safe from mosquito-borne infections and other bugs while enjoying the park/resort. Hence, the alarmism in the BBC Reporting, claiming new mosquito varieties are arriving in North America, really is a nothing burger, unless you are a bug scientist who finds this fascinating.

Election Yet, if 2020 is any example, the government, fed by the hysterical media, including the BBC, will impose new rules, new restrictions, new problems, new actions, wasting more money and other precious resources, and will remain 100% ineffective. Consider what the citizenry was promised January and February 2020, a “two-week shutdown to flatten the curve.” The curve was never flattened. The government has botched everything. Common sense effective drugs and treatments were replaced for experimental options that cost exorbitant amounts of money, and the media has fueled fear in populations worldwide. Can anyone indeed defend the actions of the majority of governments where COVID-19 is concerned?

Speaking of mosquitos, it took a private company (Disney) to prove that mosquito populations could be controlled, and the government continues to ruin that simple program to the Nth Degree! Why did Disney need to control bugs, especially mosquitos, to make money. Why has the government failed to control bugs carrying diseases; because all a government can ever do is injure!

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” – President Thomas Jefferson

The truth is straightforward; the government cannot be the solution to any problem. Still, the media calls upon the government to act, knowing that the government’s legitimate action will injure the same people calling for government action. Why did the government build the military-industrial complex; governments cannot invent weapons, cannot invent better tactics, and cannot create a single productive item or service. So, the government began choosing winners and losers through the bureaucratic minds of those administering government largess. In so doing, more are injured, more taxes are consumed, more spending occurs, more debt that future generations are saddled with, and more injuries are passed around while claiming the injuries are really grants, benefits, and gains.

Scared Eyes! While I am grateful to the BBC for alerting me that new mosquito variants are being found in North America, and these new mosquitoes can carry more dangerous diseases, the emotional hyperbole passed along with the BBC reporting is beneath contempt! The world has been fighting viral diseases, bacterial diseases, and so much more for all recorded history. We have learned what works and what does not work, we have science trying to create new methods of fighting diseases, and we have individuals acting to protect themselves and their neighbors. Ancient Egypt is famous for the bug problems they experienced. Many movies have been made about the bugs Ancient Egypt endured. Sadly, the same problem from Ancient Egypt survives today: government!

We do not need, want, or desire more government injuries to fight bugs. We do need a smaller and more flexible government. We do need governments that live on a budget! We do need governments that provide for the common defense! We do need governments that allow the maximum amount of freedom while doing the least amount of harm! Hence, a call to the corporate media is in order; “Cease the fear-mongering forthwith!” “Cease calling upon more government!” “Cease being the incestuous partner in the government bedroom!”

As for the government, please heed the citizenry. “Cease the COVID silliness!” Viruses undergo evolution and natural selection, just like all cell-based life, and most viruses evolve rapidly; this is a common known truth. We do not need more COVID mandates restricting life and injuring citizens! What about COVID is new? The common cold, which has been around and used to kill people, occurs due to rhinovirus, coronavirus, and adenovirus. Why the lockdowns, why the hysteria, why the political gamesmanship?

As an interesting fact, here are some of the most common viral infections, which even though these viral infections are more contagious and more deadly than SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19), have never caused worldwide hysteria, mass lockdowns, ridiculous freedom stealing mandates, and 24/7 media frenzies.

- - Chickenpox
  - Flu (influenza)
  - Herpes
  - Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV/AIDS)
  - Human papillomavirus (HPV)
  - Infectious mononucleosis
  - Mumps, measles, and rubella
  - Shingles

Hence, I ask again, what is so novel about a mutated coronavirus? Even if it did escape from a Chinese laboratory, even if COVID-19 viral variant was strengthened through the use of man-made means and scientific methods and was allowed to spread through the government’s intentional actions. Why the media emotional hyperbole? Why the year-long government injuries?

Look The CDC continues to affirm, “Antibiotics do not work on viruses, such as those that cause colds, flu, bronchitis, or runny noses, even if the mucus is thick, yellow, or green. Antibiotics are only needed for treating certain infections caused by bacteria, but even some bacterial infections get better without antibiotics.” Will the corporate media please learn these facts, ask better questions, and demand better answers on behalf of the citizens affected? Essentially, will the media, do your bloody job!

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