This is what the Socialist leader of Canada has to say:
When we see that women’s participation in the economy has reached an all-time high, this much is clear: $10-a-day child care isn’t just good social policy, it’s also good economic policy.
I normally don’t post things from other countries, but many of our own political figures support stupid stuff like this. Let’s do the math:
If a mother wants to work an 8 hour job, she gets 30 minutes for lunch, plus time to get to and from work, so let’s call it 9 hours of child care per day. That also means the kid will have to be fed lunch, call it a cost of $5 for lunch. That leaves nine hours of child care for $5.
Then there is insurance, utilities, health insurance, and all other expenses, not to mention the cost of paying the childcare worker. Let’s assume that we are going to pay our childcare worker an average of $18 an hour. All expenses considered, this fictional daycare center will need to assign 65 children to each childcare worker in order for this to be feasible.
This is to the people who commented on my post of last week, and that includes Aesop. Let me address a few of the points here.
So we have rampant illegals entering the country. How do you stop that? Voting for Republicans? Where has that gotten us? Or do you want to head to the border and take on the cartels, US law enforcement, and the national guard? Is that the hill you literally want to die on?
We haven’t built a refinery in 40 years. So? Are you going to use guns and force people to build some? Vote for one?
You think you’re going to cause a societal collapse? How? You have a plan?
To Aesop: Yes, I believe that a collapse of this country is mathematically certain. There is no other possible outcome at this point. We are more than $31 trillion in actual debt, with another $50 trillion in mandated spending just in Social Security payments over the next decade. What do you think will happen to the first Congresscritter that proposes cutting those checks? His career will be measured in days. No politician is going near that third rail of politics. Top that off with another $4 trillion in interest payments on the debt we already have. In case you haven’t been paying attention, we are borrowing $1.2 trillion a year, and there is no motivation from either party to slow down the spending spree.
So even if you were to overthrow the powers that be, who do you put in charge? What will they do to fix it? Who in the American public will accept the fact that Uncle Sam has put away the checkbook? Will the 69 million people currently on Social Security accept the fact that the checks have stopped? How about the additional 10 million people who are due to begin collecting within the next 7 years? Will they accept the fact that there is no more money? How about the 93 million people on Medicaid? The 41 million on food stamps? 65 million on Welfare? Now I know that there is a good bit of overlap, but my best guess is that just about half of the country is receiving some form of government handout. What will they do when you, having overthrown the current powers that be, announce that there is no money?
One in 20 US adults is collecting disability. I personally know five people who are, and they seem to have no problems riding roller coasters, running marathons, and going out partying. There are lawyers out there that make a living on disability payments for “back injuries” and “fibromyalgia.” I warned my readers about this a decade ago. Then in 2016, I warned all of you that we were monetizing the debt, and it would eventually cause inflation.
Nope. Every path forward ends in one place: we stop spending more than we have.
There is no path to victory that results in a return to the good old days, whatever you consider those to be. It’s a fact. No matter who is in charge, we are broke. Republicans, Democrats, Whigs, Libertarians, it won’t matter. Once the rest of the world figures it out, there is going to be an end to the dollar as a reserve currency. Then when the general population realizes this, there will be plenty of unrest and riots for everyone to participate.
You can’t shoot your way out of this. You can’t protest it away. Mathematics and economics are cold-hearted, inescapable bitches. There aren’t any sides to join. You can’t cross over and join the side of math. Once the money is gone, it’s gone. Like a Terminator, economic reality can’t be bargained with, it can’t be reasoned with, and it will not stop until you are dead.
At the end of World War 2, this nation inherited a world where we were the most dominant manufacturing, farming, and economic nation in the world, mostly because the rest of the developed world had seen its farms and factories destroyed by warfare. This created a golden age for the US. Instead of continuing to work and maintain that standard of living, the Baby Boomers partied and spent it all on baubles and bullshit. Once that was gone, they began to borrow from future generations. It became a never ending spree of parties and excess. That’s why they won’t give up power today. They would rather be wheeled in to office looking like a moving corpse than give up power.
I have seen better looking corpses
What’s unfortunate is that we, the Gen X people inherited the world that they created, and many of us tried to continue the party, but the money must eventually run out. So Generation X, the Millennials, and the Snowflake generation are going to inherit what is left: a dying society and a pile of unpaid bills.
When all of this comes to a head, we are going to get a new nation. My guess is that we will see one of two outcomes:
A nation that is made up of the territory we have now, perhaps with some losses of territory that we just can’t defend (Alaska, Hawaii, the Pacific territories, Puerto Rico, and the counties located along the Mexican border) because we are out of money. That nation will likely wind up as a dictatorship.
A nation that is made up of fractured pieces of what used to be the US. I think that in this outcome, the US will fracture into ten or more regional states. Again, the Pacific territories and Hawaii will belong to China. Alaska will either go to Russia or China. Large areas of the nation, centered around the largest cities, will become third world shitholes. Going anywhere within 50 miles of places like Chicago, Atlanta, New York, New Orleans, Saint Louis, or DC will mean taking your life in your hands.
It’s gonna be shitty for awhile. So my position still stands. I will, of course, entertain anyone who sees another path forward. Tell me how I am wrong, or tell me how we avoid an economic collapse, and don’t tell me how you are going to get half the nation to accept the money hose getting shut off without tearing the nation apart. Heck, half of the people who read this blog will argue about how the DESERVE their social security checks, because they paid into the system for their entire working life. People just aren’t ready to admit that their money is gone- it’s been spent already. The boomers in charge have spent it all. There is no trust fund- it’s just a file cabinet full of IOUs.
The numbers look good, and Gold Dot bullets have a great reputation.
200 grain hollow point moving at nearly 1100 feet per second and 518 foot pounds of energy. That will certainly do the job, if the bullet performs well.
The Democrats claim that Trump was a fascist dictator because he ignored Congress and said the press was fake news. He was a threat to Democracy because he, they claim, wanted to end run around Congress and the electoral college.
We talk about gear, we talk about kits. What about skills? When it all falls apart, what do you know how to do? I have a pretty good set of skills, and many of them will allow me to trade and participate in an EOTWAWKI society. I am certified or skilled as:
Mastery level:
a nurse and paramedic
an electrician, having been trained to do so in the military
an electric motor repairman. I can rebuild, repair, rewind, and completely overhaul electric motors and generators. Again, military.
A master SCUBA diver
Journeyman level:
I can maintain and perform simple to moderate repairs on a variety of firearms.
I can do simple machine work.
I can do simple auto and machinery repair. (Things like power transmissions and gear boxes)
a HAM radio operator
Apprentice level:
I can do simple welding, brazing, and cutting, along with some metal work.
I can perform simple electronic repairs
I am always looking at adding to my skillset. Be as widely skilled as you possibly can. Everything that you learn is something else that you know. You never know which skill it will be that saves you or your life.
I have a great set of tools, measuring equipment, and a pretty well equipped workshop.
I am planning on buying a MIG welder in the near future.
I have spares in stock for firearms like sights, springs, and other parts. Electrical parts, magnet wire, bearings, brushes, switches, light bulbs, and other parts.
Parts for the cars like brake pads, fuses, motor oil, and spark plugs.
Spare radios, antennas, and coaxial cable.
All of this puts me in a great place to be an asset to my neighbors and community. Don’t be a sponge, be a contributor. Be the person that others want on their team.
The Democrats have introduced a law that would provide breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack to every school child, regardless of the income level of the student. Called the Universal School Meals Program Act of 2023, it would mandate that schools provide the food, but no mention of how these kids will be fed during school holidays, summer, the weekends, or on how late the school cafeteria will be open to provide dinner. Since most schools let out between 2:30 and 3:30, this would most likely require that the school cafeteria stay open until 7 or 8 o’clock at night.
Also not mentioned is how this will be funded. Borrow and spend.
Yesterday, we talked about a 13 year old who got in a shootout with a Lakeland cop. Today, we have a 14 year old middle school student who shot another child on May 7th because the victim paid for his drugs with a counterfeit bill. The gun was stolen from another student, who in turn stole it from a vehicle. He was arrested for the shooting and for possessing a firearm on school property.
The race is, of course, the one that usually does this sort of thing, so don’t even ask. This is more than an hour’s drive away from my new house, so at least I have this going for me. Get out of cities. Stay away from areas where blacks live or congregate.
A Florida “teen” (probably Dutch, Swiss, or Canadian) engaged in a gun battle with a police officer. Officer Jamie Smith pulled over a vehicle that was involved in a drive by shooting, and saw the 13-year-old bail out before running down a sidewalk next to an apartment complex. He was seen with a gun in his hand. The “teen” continued fleeing into the complex despite being commanded to stop. As the officer turned a corner, the teen was crouched in wait for him and fired at him three times with a handgun, striking the cop in the foot.
Officer Smith called for backup and continued chasing the teen. He saw him hiding in bushes next to the apartment building; the 13-year-old engaged in another round of gunfire and was struck in the leg and abdomen by the officer’s return fire. The three suspects were 19, 13, and 14 years old. They have all been charged with felonies.
The 13-year-old and 14-year-old were on probation after being arrested in January following a car burglary and had a stolen handgun at that time. The biggest travesty here is that they were caught in an armed burglary and only got probation. Less than three months later, they tried to murder more than one person. It is too damned bad that the cop in this case didn’t remove his ass from the gene pool. Three guesses as to the race of the “teens” involved in the attempted murder of a person on the street and of a police officer. Here is a hint:
By now, you have all seen the video alleging that this guy who proports in the video to own “Moonlight Industries” and has a contract with “SEAL Team 6.” The video is supposedly of a cop and an ATF agent who came to his door, asking for him to turn in his forced reset triggers. If you haven’t seen it yet, here it is:
This video? It’s fake. That woman is not an ATF agent. Let me show you how I know. Look closely at her body armor:
Note that the ATF can afford real plates for their body armor and don’t need to use a $12 target in place of it. The guy with her? His chest rig is bullshit, too. These aren’t cops, or ATF, or any of that. That leaves two possibilities:
The guy in the video who claims to be the owner of the FRTs is being punked, or
he is the one doing the punking.
So why is this being faked? Your guesses below in comments:
