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Scottie’s world today

Oh crap, just realized I never finished the roundup.   Ron and I got talking and doing things and when I went back to the computer I seen the roundup had not been finished or posted.   Oh well lovers / spouses /  other family members are allowed to interrupt.   Besides he bought me the new Halo game!   I spent late last night playing.  Oh yeah!  Hugs

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I posted it here because there was a time in our life when Ron and I had to figure a tip into if we could afford to go out to eat.   During those lean years we would order something on the lower cost side of the menu because we need to save the extra for the tip.   The US system is stupid.  I have eaten in Canada and in Germany and in some few restaurants in the US where tipping is not only not required but actively discouraged.   The wait staff get their pay through their paycheck, not the generosity of the patrons.  That is how it should be.  But what we understand is that the US is not ready to accept workers as equal partners in the corporate scheme of profit making.    Yet during Covid we have found that with out workers being willing to risk themselves to do the work, the wealthy job creators couldn’t make the profit.  Why if they were so powerful and great couldn’t they do it with out the lowly workers?   Because it is a falsehood and myth that the wealthy and the large corporations make the world work, it is the workers that give them the profits that make them wealthy.   Hugs

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Republican Senators want America to fail.

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This is the easiest way for a man to commit suicide.    Hugs

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

Manchin is a conservative running as a Democrat. He’s an asshole who taught his kid to hike prices ten-fold on desperately needed pharmaceutical products. He’s a friend to big business. He’s a friend to the top-1%. He has a vested interest in keeping his constituents poor and ignorant. Manchin is true to who he is.   Because investing in the country is far more “reckless” than flushing trillions down the toilet in an unwinnable foreign war.   I know it doesn’t include a $2 trillion tax cut with no reduction in spending that he had no problems with a couple years ago…or a couple of not budgeted wars from the party of “fiscal responsibility” that I also don’t remember a lot of complaints about.   Apparently Manchin went back on his word just like his republigoon thug masters and sycophants and apologists tend to do.   He doesn’t care. Mitch McConnell said it’s bad, so he doesn’t need to know anything else.   Anyone what to bet that if a Republican gets elected next time, and asks congress for a huge amount that everyone knows will bust both the budget and debt; that both the Senate and House will roll over and give the President whatever they ask for? And that Joe Manchin will be breaking his neck to sign the bill first?

It’s not inflationary. That is already happening without the BBB. Try again.  “Goldman Sachs has cut its U.S. growth forecast again, citing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s assertion that he won’t back President Joe Biden’s key $2 trillion spending bill.”Dow down 500+.   That is the important point.   Every measure said it would improve the US economy and would lower inflation while boosting the US production via infrastructure improvements.   But the Republicans don’t want that as they want to be able to blame Biden for the lack of benefits to the people, again caused by Republicans.   Manchin according to reporting feels lower incomes, workers, and the poor are lazy louts who deserve nothing and if the government helps them, if the government lifts them out of poverty then they not only wont work but will use the money instead of for food and housing for their children to taking drugs and boozing.   It is the old Reagan era bull shit where the wealthy are somehow better than the poor, the wealthy are more moral, better and more deserving.   Yet it is a fantasy created by the wealthy.    It is like saying that every religious person is better and more moral that a non-religious person.   The fact is meritocracy is a myth, the US is not a place where if you just work hard you can be a millionaire.  But what pisses me off is that the Republicans and the right wing media want the US to fail and people to be hurt or political gain.   

Sen. Manchin finds himself in the catbird seat, which makes him seem like the Dem Czar. He’s hated by his Dem colleagues, adored by the Repubs, though they can’t wait to replace him with one of their own, but supported by big coal in his home state of W. Virginia. And oddly enough, almost everything about BBB would greatly benefit his state as does the infrastructure bill, which he worked against. So, now, he has become the deal maker that Dump could’ve only dreamed of being.   

Bottom line, there is inflation, but it’s inflation because of the lowest unemployment in years and an economy on the move. Republicans and their ministers of propaganda on Faux will, of course, blame Democrats. It’s all they have since they don’t have any answers themselves. I believe a majority of people will understand this if you explain it to them.   Manchin said he would not vote for the Bill because he couldn’t explain it to his constituents. I wonder if he can explain his huge houses, house-boat, and all his coal company stocks to his constituents more easily?   Hugs

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And now some for fun

In the old days this is something both of us would do, to have a surprise present appear in the future.   It was kind of nice if embarrassing.   Now we simply check with each other and get what we want when we want it, which we both find much more satisfying.   Hugs