[RANT starting
]I just paid $14 for a small 8" pizza. Not gonna buy a restaurant made pizza for awhile. Tenderloin steak is now $32 a pound. Too rich for my blood. $4.79 a gallon for non-ethanol premium gas. Ain't driving so much now. Could be worse. Some areas are seeing $7+ a gallon. And for God's sake, get rid of that goddamn ethanol welfare for farmers paid for with my tax dollars! I'm paying a premium to keep it OUT of the gas I buy. ★■◆●! Damn oil companies and all those idiot environmentalists back who knows when that mandated this crap! Ethanol has NEVER benefited the environment. In fact, it's made things worse with the wasteful farming practices required to grow acre upon acre of water and fertilizer intensive corn. In fact, they are destroying farmland for fuel that could go towards growing FOOD! So ★■◆●ing stupid! Oh, and natural gas is going up too. There goes my heating bill this winter.
Guess who's going to get blamed for all this during the next election? The Democrats and Joe Biden, all because it happened on their watch and they seemingly sat on their hands and argued like a bunch of petulant children through all of it. Stagflation screwed Jimmy Carter and gave us Reagan and the current inflation is going to screw Joe Biden and give us back Trump, whether it's Biden's fault or not. People see money bleeding out of their pocket books and blame the current president and his party. He's so wishy washy and old, he looks weak and incompetent and he's as bad to listen to as superlative blathering Trump. He's handing the next presidential election to Trump on a silver platter all because he's a wuss and can't get his own damn party in line. Even though they FINALLY passed the Infrastructure Plan, the Dems STILL keep trying to pass their insipid social Build Back Better Plan, moving their eyes off the ball, the current state of the economy. Just because it's the pandemic's fault doesn't mean you have to
look like you're ignoring it. Besides, the money to pay for all of this is certainly not going to come out of the pockets of the elites because they've got the system wired for their benefit no matter who says who or what is going to pay for things. The Progressives are young, stupid idiots who don't know the ass end of who controls our dirty politics. They want the rich to pay. Well, the rich run Washington, they ain't gonna pass something that they may have to pay for OR will instead find a way to stick it to the rest of society if something DOES get passed. For example on a personal note, paid child care. Nice ideal, but forget it. That may sound heartless, but I'm on a fixed income. My mother worked when I was a kid and she paid for my child care out of her own damn pocket. But if we pass paid child care, I'M going to end up paying for it one way or another. I'm sorry, but ★■◆● that! I don't have kids and I don't want to pay to care for yours. So if you have kids, cough up for the child care if you need to work. Besides, the kiddies are starting to go back to actual school, pubic day care. Oh, but they're afraid of Covid. Well dammit, get them vaccinated all you conspiracy loving antivax idiot parents! I got vaccinated with all sorts of mandated vaccines as a kid, so get yours vaccinated today for the good of the country, get them back in school learning and get back to work and earn the money to pay for any care they need!
Along those lines of getting stuff passed, guess what got axed in all their "negotiations" in the rest of the bill they DO want to try and get passed? They left out a very important item for me and millions of seniors on fixed incomes, giving the government the sensible ability to negotiate drug prices for Medicare Part D. WTF! I want to thank Republicans for that little screw job, especially since Part D is now REQUIRED or you get fined! ★■◆●ing A! My stupid conservative sister didn't even know HER PARTY gave us that little gem. Now the Dems can't even be bothered to correct that mistake either! Pussy drug company butt kissers. Every time I see those ★■◆●ing expensive wall to wall drug ads on the mostly network news shows, (that all seniors are essentially paying for) I want to strangle someone in Big Pharma for being ripoff assholes. Medicare premiums are far cheaper than private insurance, but the Medicare Advantage companies find ways to nickle and dime you with their out-of-network bull★■◆●, high deductibles and copay's and other nefarious fine print. Trump's little hollow executive action, err deal, died a neglected death and did
absolutely nothing to solve the problem for all those deluded conservatives who want to tout that Trump "deal".
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/13/91254509 ... rug-prices
So the Dems are going to crash and burn come 2022 AND 2024 because they haven't been able to deal with our current important problems, like inflation, our expensive national healthcare mess and the fact we as a nation are so close to civil war I can smell it. I've got a conservative friend who's a gun owner and now ready for war. They can't even come to a consensus within their own ranks, all because the Progressives are not willing to give up some of their pie in the sky platform and get ANYTHING decent done for the American people and you know what? It's their own stupid fault because they've forgotten one simple thing. You can't always get what you want and that working towards a goal means not standing in the mud defiantly flipping the bird saying my way or the highway. [END OF RANT]
On a similar note concerning public money, THIS little item will definitely burn Joe Biden with nearly ALL conservatives and probably quite a few moderates
if true. Biden is being cagey out this one, so something is up his sleeve. He's already come out and stated that these separated families need compensation. Thoughts on this? I would hate to have to pay for Trump's little nasty policy. I say he needs to pay for it himself. He came up with it, implemented it, needs to own up to it and he's rich and can afford it. Contrary to crazy conservatives, Biden has never done this. There may have been other screw ups with immigrants under Biden, but not this one.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-a ... d=80958988
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2 ... g-country/