..."I am not sure, however, that those with their fingers on the knobs of the burner have been sufficiently careful about how quickly they are raising the temperature. Things can get out of hand very quickly, and I am not just talking about military showdowns.
When average families can no longer pay their rent or mortgage, gas up their car, or even put food on the table, all bets are off. Our rulers think they have anesthetized those portions of the population they have not simply bought off. They might find that there is quite a lot of jump left in the frog yet. If so, they may be the ones in hot water."
"Although the subprime mortgage crisis was the immediate cause, multiple interconnected financial factors caused the specialized-industry bubble burst to ripple out, bankrupting firms, crashing the stock market, and hobbling the whole economy."
And now locally, Xcel is raising rates on those who use too much energy during peak times of the day like Summer afternoons. So now poor seniors will have to decide to shut off their air conditioning rather than pay those higher rates. Thanks President Biden for shutting down domestic natural gas production! Your hatred of fossil fuels make Putin very happy in the face of record high energy prices.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
It is difficult to plumb the depths of cynicism that fires the Biden Administration’s motions with respect to Ukraine. On the one hand, we are being invited to join in a grandiose morality play in which the great white-hatted forces of the West talk endlessly about peace and democracy while waging or at least fomenting war. On the other hand, the war drums drown out the cries of ordinary people, those millions of people Hillary Clinton and her ilk dismiss as “deplorable,” who acknowledge Putin’s crimes but also acknowledge Ukraine’s deep corruption and totalitarian leanings and wonder why we are strangling ourselves to intervene in that battle.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
