Long-term CTH readers might remember in 2014 when President Obama claimed U.S. families had been paying too little for electricity for too long. As soon as Joe Biden took office, he began implementing the Green New Deal energy policy that, (a) directly forces higher costs for energy; and (b) is now creating massive problems.
In July I noted my own electricity bill had jumped 28% in a single month. That bill was followed by another almost identical increase this month. A review of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for July [Data Here] shows that nationally the same thing is happening. The year-over-year electricity price has increased 15.2%. However, worse still, the July increase alone was 1.9%, which figures to an annualized rate of 22.8%.
When the growth rate of monthly increase is exceeding the year-over-year result, that means future higher prices are coming. This is a serious problem that cannot be overstated. Already struggling with a doubling of gas prices, massive food price increases at the grocery store and the pain of all costs for goods far outpacing any rate of wage increase, this type of uncontrollable increase in price of electricity is going to hit the middle class hard.
Steve Cortes calls this the backside of the Biden created inflation hurricane. The backside of a hurricane is the worst because it hits from the opposite direction upon already weakened infrastructure.
The hurricane metaphor is apt because any increase in energy costs will be accompanied by the simultaneous arrival of another wave of food inflation, as the massive increases in field and crop prices start to feed into the food supply chain headed to our forks next month.
Making matters that much worse, Bloomberg is now reporting that 20 million households are now behind in their utility bills, specifically electricity bills, and the moratorium on shut offs has ended. [Paywall Article] Steve Cortes has written about the issue on his substack [Here].
One in six U.S. households, that is tens-of-millions of Americans, are now facing having their electricity turned off due to lack of payment. It is certainly understandable how this horrific outcome would happen. Joe Biden’s energy policies are destroying working class families with unsustainably higher prices.
20 million households is a catastrophic level of utility default. This is a serious issue with major social implications created by the desperation of those families. Middle- and lower-income families cannot survive this level of financial pressure.
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Rents are behind. Mortgages are behind. Car payments are behind. And now this report on utility bills.
Steve Cortes appeared with Steve Bannon to discuss {Direct Rumble Link} – WATCH:
Simple solution:
Print more money to pay the student debt.
Print still more money to pay electricity bills.
Print even more money to send Ukraine a top-up.
Print, print, print, print – it is all very easy.
Then to avoid exhorbitant interest devalue the money
and keep devaluing it till the debt reaches a manageable level.
Wow, this is far more exciting than playing Monopoly.
Unfortunately, this is not a game and tens of millions will suffer.
LOL, AOC is that you? Thanks for the chuckle this money, it is nice to read irony so early in the day.
It is counterfeiting U.S. dollars. Plain and Simple.
If someone came to you and said I will exchange your current $20 bill for another $20 bill that will purchase only $10 of the same goods, in a few years, you would call the cops.
I’m sure Biden will try to do this, maybe even get it through before November. Let’s make sure no one is burdened by bills.
Maybe Biden will forgive their debt(s) too, like tuitions. It’s all free money, the Treasury just adds to the Debt.
In NH electric rates have nearly doubled.
Well….just have solar installed. Energy Secretary solved it for you a few days ago. Simple fix.
30% discount!
It’ll only cost 50 grand or so.
Yeah, go solar, when you get your true-up bill in the mail at the end of the year you aren’t going to be happy either. You may not have the money to pay for the “free energy.” Whatcha gonna do when your solar panels aren’t producing in bad weather, or the power is out altogether. Backup generator cost $$$$. Energy is not free and out of reach for most people now. People will flock to Starbutts to energize their electronics. Find a State Park that has showers and use those – cheap energy. 25 cents for a shower at the campsites. Get creative people, learn to survive on your own.
In SoCal, electric rates have jumped 91% for BASELINE, but only 14% above baseline. Hammering those that use the least.
Wfb123.. I predicted long ago that “o, my elec bill is zero now that I have solar!” would kick solar people in the butt.. WHO will pay pge, sce, power companies salaries, pensions, maintenance..?? If EVERYONE had solar on houses and electric cars, this still uses fossil fuels and nat gas (cleaner than ever)..it will NEVER be free, plentiful and as cheap as gas, oil, coal.!
Wind turbines only work in wind. Study after study shows the industry over inflated average wind speed numbers to sell a junk product.
Now they are left with running industrial electric fans powered by coal fired power plants to turn the windmills. Liberal logic!!
The windmill blades cannot be recycled nor solar panels, they go to the dump. So much for being “green.” They are freaking dumber than a rock.
Well, we do ship a bunch of our toxic, unrecyclable waste to third world countries, so their kids get to play around in the muck. Out of sight, out of mind.
There is a concerted effort by the globalist PTB on numerous fronts to dump all developed nations back into the middle income trap, where the world will languish in a UBI/ Neofeudalist flatland.
See Orwell’s boot in the face of mankind forever.
From wiki:
“Between 1960 to 2010, only 15 out of 101 middle-income economies escaped the middle income trap, including Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.”
Even this small fraternity of successful nations would never have launched from the morass had there not been pre-existing developed economies to be ‘sold into’ via the export-development model.
That’s why I’ve viewed the C19 debacle from the start as nothing less than a bid by the globalists to engender economic cessation.
What more fitting euphemism for neo-feudalism than the ‘End of Abundance’ courtesy of Macron today?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/end-abundance-macron-warns-major-tipping-point-and-great-upheaval-difficult-winter
“Steve Cortes: The Biden Regime is creating a Depression that will Destroy American Ciyzens…”
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Of Course it Does. That IS What it was Designed for. Now, wasn’t it!
NOW, what are American Sovereign Citizens going to do about it — Considering the Authority RESERVED to them in the SUPER-RATIFIED Constitution of the United States of America, which did NOT CEDE ANY SUCH Authorization to ANY PART of the USA Govt Public Servants….
Stand there and calmly let the Vultures pluck out your Sheep Eyeballs like Ripe Olives, and chew your passive sheep leg off for you???
You did NOT LEARN SUCH from the FOUNDERS, and THEY were CLEVER from their FIRST STEP of Response, and gathered to themselves and Made Realistic PLANS and Strategies to keep the British Red Coats from ISOLATING people on an INDIVIDUAL and DEFEATABLE basis, and without Telephones or Telegraphs or Tell-A-Woman, they set up intelligent secret messaging to eachother. NOT using British RED COAT systems to do it.
Jis’ Sayin’….
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Well, I blew that. Did it right, just days ago. Maybe I will figure it out again.
Please Pardon my lack of proficiency.
I do beg Pardon.
Pics need to have an internet based host, Imgur and such; need to get an account myself…
Sorry about your electric bills, but we got to get those college tuitions paid for. Little brats come first, just like they have come first for the past four decades. Might be part of the problem. Most of them are libs now.
Last night on Tucker, I listened to them go on about bailing out Harvard and Yale. 10,000$ is NOT going to tough a Harvard tuition bill!! Wonder why he picked 10K? Seems like a drop in the bucket for most college grads. Most colleges run 25-60K/YEAR! 10K is just going to piss people off! Good luck Joe!
If they somehow survives this November’s election, there will be more “forgiveness”before the 2024 election. Gotta keep the freebies flowing!
$137 in May
$149 in June
$189 in July
$277 in August
Upstate NY
I WISH. Texas in drought, on a Co-op electrical system, which is suppose to save money. Live in a pier and beam house with window units (older home). electric in July $500, August $550. This is about $200 a month more than last year at this time. Expect that by Sept it should be about double last years amount.
Most of my Nor. CA house is offline as I am doing a large remodel. June PG&E bill: $189.00 … July: $279.00
Nothing changed in our pattern of use whatsoever. Nothing. PS … no AC.
I keep saying ….”they” are controlling the weather. Droughts are occurring simultaneously in all countries that are heavy food producers. Coincidence? I don’t think so. There was/is a defense program where weather control is used for war. When our hard working /s republicans take control I hope they make it a point to make sure this is not being used and to cut funding. Along with taking away Bidens ” Emergency state” controls. The Republicans should have a huge stack of bills ready to vote on January 2023 Like Biden had a huge stack of executive orders on his first day.
Here in CA they keep harping on the “Drought” everywhere you go. On the more Liberal sites it is referred to as a “MegaDrought”. As if you couldn’t guess that a large part of this is more “Fear Porn” by the MSM. What no one in the media or anywhere else wants to draw anyone’s attention to is the fact that when the last water retention structure (dam) was built in 1980 (New Melones – Sonora, CA) the projected population was 20-25 million. It now stands at 35 million, so how much of “climate change” is actually just poor water management and catering to the consistently Democrat voting “Green/Climate Change crowd. I’m not even going to get into the millions of fresh water flushed daily into the estuaries feeding the San Francisco Bay to “Save the Spotted Smelt”or the monies/bonds approved by the voters in 2014 to build new water retention structures yet to be enacted or built as we speak. Guess who controls all aspects of the government apparatuses of power for the last twenty years? You guessed it the Democrats.
A 10 million differential over projection, could it be an influx of illegals? /sarc
New York State has abundant nuclear power (ignorant Cuomo and company shut down Indian Point) and hydro power. Too bad they aren’t accessing the Marcellus Shale of the southern tier of the state.
“Lower and middle-income families cannot withstand this level of financial pressure.”
That’s the idea.
I follow this gal on Gettr who’s from Italy, she posted a pic from an Italian ice cream maker where he had a snip of his power bill from July of this year and last year. It was in Euro dollars of course but the 2021 per kwh was 9 and the 2022 per kwh is 53! I still have the image but am not sure how to post on here. She said it was a warmer July than normal in Italy but that’s a serious jump in charges.
Seems to me that is just the beginning for the Euro countries. It’s bad enough here but can you imagine!
You are so right.
BTW, I posted a picture recently with no trouble. Tried again with a similar picture from the same source, my own files, and nothing worked. I went to remove the useless link and took too long, it timed out.
I can’t for the love of Pete, whoever that is, figure out how I did that, so recently.
But I wasn’t able to upload as I always have to Explorer, and use THAT address to link to my comment. I don’t know if there has been a change of function on my computer, but I cannot imagine them changing their system this week, after using the same method of uploading from our files to the Net, for Decades.
Surely there is a genius on this platform, I saw someone else post a photo last week, maybe someone will give us instructions and I hope to run across it if they do!
God bless your future endeavors.
I take a screenshot of something, edit it as needed, upload it to imgur, open the image ensuring it has a .jpg or .png end to the file, then post it here. They render every time.
If the picture is too big for the forum, the forum software reduces it and one can click on the image to see the full-size one on Imgur.
One option of many. Sample image, quite topical today…
Natural gas is at $9.37 this morning. Why? Manipulated markets. We have trillions of cubic feet of the stuff and it has tripled. It BS.
TOTALLY a DC Construct for Supremely Malicious purposes, since it doesn’t answer the “Publicly stated” goals!
I take Comfort in the Fact that, in spite of my own fallibility, the One True God Creator of all Creation is Also the One Whose NAME is JUSTICE and also MERCY, and He Is True.
We are selling it to Europe.
So Biden addresses student loan debt instead…..which only aids a certain percentage of the citizenry….oh and do illegals get that as well?
I dunno, I don’t think they were charged in the first place???
But they did get THIS nice little pkg:
EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Aliens Take Taxpayer-Paid Vacations to San Diego Courtesy of DHS
August 24, 2022, 2:30pmby Joe Hoft
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/illegal-aliens-take-taxpayer-paid-vacations-san-diego-courtesy-dhs/
Now, Ain’t THAT cute???
Student Loan debt that was already going into default.
Hmmm, and who gets this payoff of student loans? Well, that would be the FEDERAL GOVT that loaned them the money in the first place! Just like Obama bailed out the big banks and hedge funds in 2008’s “Too big to fail” scam.
Illegals get about a $10k pkg when they walk across the border. Free phone, identification/drivers license, clothes, housing, food, transportation and reloadable “gift cards”. See #BidenGoodieBag if they haven’t shut that hashing down yet. It was blocked on FB.
LOL! It would be Funny, but I think it might be a HANGING offense, seriously. Ain’t it?
I think some King’s Men and some scalawags were tarred and feathered for LESS! Back in Th’ Day!
BTW, where did you put that image so you could link it to your Comment?
I did that last week or so, but today, I blew it big time, still cannot find the path for it.
Yes, I see the “Link” icon, but cannot find the way I got my pics on the Net many times, before Today..
From my Tabletop…
I posted a brief tutorial as a prior response to a similar inquiry and, if you simply post an internet hyperlink that ends in the correct suffix, it’ll render. No need to embed a link or do anything else, just post the text that points to the image on the internet.
You for got the Brandon cut, the clitton cut, the shit for brains cut, and all the commie libturds cut.
Thanks to the foresight of my wife, we got an 11.5kW solar array installed in 2020. Our July 2022 electric bill was $15. That was in part to the geothermal system she wanted the following year. We also have a wood-fired back up system that we can cook with that she wanted after I got home from Afghanistan. I’m supposed to be the good idea guy, but it seems she’s done a lot more to prep for our dystopian future than I have. Well, I have taken care of our kinetic needs 🙂
NICE! Very good work.
Good on you for the geothermals. That has been the truly viable alternative OTG system for over 20 years.
I moved to somewhere that’s hydro and seven cents a kwh and in the coastal forest so temps are moderate. So far that’s a been a good solution.
This fine August morning there’s mist dripping on the roof from the redwoods and cedars. No one around here has solar. Different solutions for different circumstances.
If power goes away, easy to live here without it and can make micro power for communications gear in the creek. A century ago a lot of America was yet to be electrified and plenty of folks lived without power. Amazing.
“If power goes away, easy to live here without it and can make micro power for communications gear in the creek. A century ago a lot of America was yet to be electrified and plenty of folks lived without power. Amazing”.
I get that Dunes, and it is admirable that you are able to creatively minimize your costs, but the bigger picture is we shouldn’t have to live without power in a 2022 America. The self imposed gun shot wounds in this scam known as green energy have placed the elderly and those on fixed incomes in the unfortunate position of needing to decide between living with life’s little luxuries like A/C and lights, OR food, but not both. We have ample amounts of fossil fuels here under foot just waiting for us to take that would ease the hardships those elderly on fixed incomes and the less fortunate are now experiencing because of Biden’s war on energy. . But, ya know we cant do that all in the name of saving the planet!
I am also blessed with a forward-thinking wife. We decided to install solar panels 5 years ago. They are now fully paid for and I seldom get an electric bill I owe anything on. Still heating with oil with a new hi efficiency furnace and super saver hot water tank. I’m now looking into geothermal to supplement heating. I’m close to retirement and won’t have much coming in as far as income. This is a survival thing for us.
I recommend watching the documentary “Europa: The Last Battle” to understand where we are going and how this ends.
Electric bill for 1700 sq ft house on Anna Maria Island average was $160 per month. Moved to Naples (where it is 10 degrees warmer) avg. is $125 for 1400 sq. ft. house. We have FPL. I know there are other electric companies in fl. And don’t forget to add that couple of $ donation to your bill!!! s. For now my electric bill seems more than reasonable compared to others. Pray and pray more.
Not denying the need for prayer, but pay and pay more … may be closer to today’s reality.
You got that right about not complaining! You are doing well. I also have FPL and I am under 800 sq ft and my last bill was $75.
I’m just over 1000 sf and my FPL bill was $120. It’s 20 higher than last month. It was hotter this month but prices may also have increased.
Did the towel in the dryer hack tonight and boy did it make it faster. NICE!
SERIOUSLY!!!
People just don’t understand, or won’t, what’s coming! This is all preparation for that.
I think just because it’s “Europe,” most Americans can’t believe it has anything to do with them.
That’s what evil depends on: “It may get bad here, but that can’t happen here. It’s apples and oranges.”
But it’s not. [sigh] Most won’t take it seriously until they, their loved ones, and neighbors are forced to — by labor, torture, starvation, and death.
Thank you for that heads-up. I hope at least some here will have enough sense and curiosity to look it up and realize exactly where we are in the evil ones’ centuries-crafted plan now in fruition.
I’m glad I’m old and may pass before the gloves come off. Again, thank you for trying to warn people here. May you be well, safe, and may this horror finally not come to you and yours.
When 20 million consumers are allowed to continue receiving the utility without paying for it, prices for those who pay will go up, or the utility will implode.
In a similar way, rents not being paid, coupled with rent controls and eviction moratoria, will shrink the rental housing inventory.
Buden: “I don’t understand it. All the lights are on at my mansions and there is no indication were behind in electric bills. Not sure why this happened to these people….HEY, CAN I GET AN ICE CREAM OVER HERE!?
500BILLION to pay lazy, sorry-ass students debts off.
COUNTRY/economy is just about there….
THINK INFLATION going to subside with the Bill passed last wk and this wk we’re spending another $500B to BUY VOTES.
We’re in never, never land at this point.
By Exec Order of course, the I have a phone and I have a pen rollback…..
McConnell and McCarthy part of the game/system…riding out the tide until 2022 and 2024. DON’T EXPECT ONE DAMN thing from them even close to leadership……
Buckle up so-called middle-working class. Soon to be no more. It will be ultra-rich and poor….about it.
Rich getting richer, mid-working class, poor, getting poorer.
AND IF you think you may make it, 87k IRS agents to show you that you didn’t or won’t..
HOW did America LOSE ALL ITS LEADERS?? God-knows, we were be under British rule/monarchy and WWI & II would have been lost without a doubt.
WE ARE LEADERLESS and we have been pacified into submission.
Ouer electric rate doubled in July. We belong to a co-op in NH, so this is not a monopoly business and has had the best rate for some time.
The notice I got was that electricity would jump up 146% in August. More than double??? That’s insane. I already conserve energy and use appliances at off peak hours such as the dishwasher and laundry. I don’t keep the lights on. In the humid South, air conditioning is a necessity if you don’t want to die of heat stroke. But, again, they don’t give a rat’s patootie if people die from heat stroke.
Use a clothesline to dry your laundry and shut off the breaker for the water heater. I only flip the water heater breaker on for an hour and me, myself and I are good for about 5 days.
They need to hire debt collectors to keep the unemployment rates low.
87 thousand of them.
If Germans and Britons will freeze this winter, we Americans must do our dooty and freeze along with them. EQUITY! UKRAINE!
I’m not technically behind on my bill, because I’m on what they call the budget plan, which evens out your payments so you pay basically the same amount year ’round.
The problem now is that my actual bill did not go down this summer, which is when I would normally be paying off the balance of the higher winter costs.
So, right now I owe money, even though I’m up to date on my payments.
I don’t know what will happen when those payments go up to the point I can’t afford them. I don’t know what peope who have a family or elderly people who need more heat are going to do.
When you have kids, the simple act of going in and out of the house frequently is one of the things that makes your energy bill go up.
Why did people even listen to some phony who never went without anything in his life, when he kept kicking Americans for having the same things he always had?
Part of the plan…..have the government bankrupt the country, ruin the middle class. destroy wealth/pensions, make basic necessities unaffordable. Then gave the government take control to “fix” things, massive redistribution in the name of “equity” and “healing”
#FJB
Of course, this solution will be tied to digital currency requiring a digital ID, and THAT will be tied to a social credit system with mandatory vaxes. I heard the quantum computers systems/software is being tested now. Your initial placement in the new system will be partially based on your social media and internet presence profiles that they’ve been building since 2004. Project LifeLog never ended.
They HATE us…
The Bolsheviks behind Joe Biden don’t care about your utility bills.
San Jose police average salary approaching $200,000 per year.
California sitting on a pension tsunami.
Hungry, in the dark, in support of the Washington, District of Corruption, stealing American tax-payer money using their Ukrainian Capo.
My power company is FPL. 76% of the fuel used to generate electricity by them is natural gas. In January I am expecting a bump in that cost. I hope they adequately contracted supply for 2022 and there won’t be a fuel component arrearage added to the 2023 rates.
If only Ole Gropey would forgive us our carbon footprints. Or else I’m switching my major to Chattering Teeth.
Brandon and the enviromental lunatics own this. Pay them back this November.
And what are the electric utilities to do when they can’t get billing income? Fuel and infrastructure have to be paid for.
I’ve said it before: “election fraud has disastrous consequences. It must be OVERTURNED. We can’t just make movies about it: this is a Felony crime with hundreds of millions of PLAINTIFFS.
There are many ways to wage “unconventional war.” This is one of them.
Ahhh, the Roaring Twenties. All aboard the inflation train. Higher gas prices. Higher food prices. Higher rent. Higher mortgages. Higher car payments. Higher electric rates. Higher credit card debt. Higher and higher cost for all essentials. Oh, and free money for student loan debt. Get ready to disembark at our next stop, and the end of the line: Depression, just ahead. Hope you enjoy the trip, brought by the Biden Regime and his puppet masters (Obama, Rice, Kline, Holder, et. al.).
Sorry, started ‘WAY before any of them. Same culprits as started that old depression . . .
Well hidden from view. Same players, different names and times, is all. Research the “Federal Reserve System” and how it came into being, through whom — and why.
Puts things into perspective, and maybe hints at what needs to be done before very much longer if we really want out of this before we die for it — and them!
And that period of time was manipulated too. By the Rothchilds and their private banking systems.
Long term – for our ‘electric dreams’… electrical transmission lines woefully lacking with no viable plan in place.
This is easy to solve.
Send everyone in the US an Electricity Inflation Prevention check, and poof, the problem goes away.
Come on, man.
I’ll be the guy to correct your arithmetic.
1.9% monthly is not a 22.8% annual rate of increase, but 25.3%. The percent rate works like compound interest.
The increase finally hit on my bill due a week ago. I had a 28% increase year over year. However, we did use 200 more KWH than we did last year same month. We re-calculated and accounted for that and actually found an 18% increase all from fuel usage. I will budget for at least a 20% increase from this point forward. I expect that to continue to rise.
When the cancerous Junta was not removed, like it should have been in January of 2021, what did people think was going to happen – utopia?!
Economic collapse will be the least of our worries if the Uniparty Crime Syndicate is allowed to continue its reign of intentional error…
The Potted Plant in the White House strikes again! All this price insanity is the result of a bunch of amateur neophytes running the country. They adhere to and are students of the latest economic theory: Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). The people doing this are NOT the problem! The problem is a generation of Americans that have put them in positions of power.
MMT basically states that a government that controls it’s own currency (fiat) can print as much money as it likes without negative consequence. Make no mistake, the Federal Reserve operates on this theory. It’s starting to show some cracks, to put it mildly. The FED has created inflation and are now loathe to being it under control. Raising interest rates doesn’t follow their Keynesian ideology. In the end, higher utility bills are just one result.
All these suggestions for austere use of energy are fine, but ultimately a tiny correction to an immenese problem. Spare me!
Here is the latest example of disregard for ANY economic acumen or responsibility. This from the Daily Mail in the UK…… even the Brits seem to understand what millions of Americans don’t get! This issue alone is going to add 500 billion $ to the inflationary spiral. Probably would buy a little bit of energy…
Democrat’s civil war over student loans explodes: Biden is blasted as ‘out of touch’ and told he is punishing ‘those without a degree’ by his OWN party – as new projection says it will cost Americans $500 BILLION
• Democrats continue to turn against Biden for his plan to cancel between $10,000-$20,000 in student debt each borrower making less than $125,000
• New Hampshire Rep. Jared Golden called the move ‘out of touch’
• Comes as a new estimate claims American taxpayers will pay between $400 – $600 billion over the next decade to pay for the relief
• Taxpayers who didn’t take out student loans or have already paid off loans will not benefit from the program, but will still be helping pay for the relief
• Republican lawmakers have heckled the move as unfair to working families
• Some Democrats are hopping on board, and also claiming that the move doesn’t do the work to address root causes that make college so expensive
“Americans put them in positions of power” I don’t think you are seeing the big picture.
Somebody isn’t!
Error: NO “amateur neophytes” running the country.
The people running this country have planned for this for more than 100 years. They KNOW what they’re doing, and they’re doing it deliberately, because they have a specific set of global goals. It is suicide to believe we’re the victims of amateurish mistakes.
So, what’s your solution(s)?
A lot of things. Not one more NEW cent spent by the federal government on useless programs. Cut back on the 3 million civilian employees the government employs….by half! The Federal Reserve needs to STOP printing and giving away helicopter money. Abandon MMT and become responsible. Hold the pervaders of this false Covid pandemic criminally responsible. Put them on trial.
Anyone who thinks a Republican change in congress this November is going to make a difference better think again! Our friend, McConnell in the senate will be his usual treacherous self, along with the rest of the Republican do nothings.
Wholesale change to citizen legislators like Ron Johnson of Wisconsin would go a long way to fixing much of our ills.
THIS IS JUST SCRATCHING THE SURFACE.
Well, these are good things to start with if you believe you need government.
The problem IS “the government.” It’s a gang of thieves and murderers writ gigantic! It is NOT something people who are not among the rulers — you and me — can ever hope to tame, let alone control.
How about just deleting and abolishing the whole kit and caboodle, and arranging arbitration courts made up of ordinary, everyday genuine human beings like you and me, and arresting and trying these loathsome criminals and con men/women, convicting them of their offenses and crimes against humanity, and locking them away in solitary confinement for the rest of their natural miserable lives and throwing away the keys?
How about local communities only having the power of their own local individuals to mutually trade with, produce and sell, respect each others’ individual rights and proper and honestly gained property and earned time and labor value, living in peace with each other and their neighbors, taking care of what will be very rare crime if taken care of quickly and locally, and having to face and make restitution to their victims and whatever other rational punishment is deemed necessary by the local community judges, respecting each other’s privacy. Living in peace and prosperity, with no one ruling over anyone else, and certainly no taxation!
The only reason we have “government” is because people falsely believe we must have rulers to settle disputes between us. That’s a lie.
Wonder where it comes from.
We CAN do this, if only we let go our fears and avaricious ambitions.
Have you ever read Lysander Spooner? If not, look up his works online; it’s free. Carefully and deeply contemplate the truths he slaps in our faces. Realize why they are truths, and how we can get out of this mess, if only we really want to. Otherwise it’s just a bunch of bellyaching and tweaking a broken machine that serves no purpose and should be melted down and made into something that actually works FOR US: Individual human rights, liberty, freedom from coercion and violence, peace, prosperity, live and let live. No initiation of violence (Don’t hit first!), no theft (Don’t steal/take what is not yours and that you have no permission to take: Do not covet anything not yours), no cheating and fraud (Keep your promises, honor your contracts, don’t lie or defame anyone else).
Really simple. Really few. No rulers needed. Just proper character, morals, ethics between each other in any successful and prosperous, peaceful society.
Also, please read The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve System, by G. Edward Griffin. Also Kenneth W. Royce’s Hologram of Liberty: The Constitution’s Shocking Alliance with Big Business.
And then there are works by Murray N. Rothbard, especially his Enemy of the State, and, What the State has Done to Our Money, and so much more and many, many more great authors and ideas at Mises[.]com, if you are interested in learning more about being free from other people’s control and building and establishing a good, mutually cooperative society.
Also look up the Web site of James Corbett; LOTS of great stuff there.
What we need in this world is people who think critically, love freedom and individual, inalienable rights, and the products and peaceful, prosperous civilization we COULD have, if only we determined the ancient truth that to be ruled is to be enslaved.
No matter what the “government” is called — fascist, communist, socialist, democracy, totalitarianism, dictatorship, etc. No matter what the head of the government rulership is called — king, queen, emperor, prime minister, senator, representative, president, sovereign, etc. No matter who the “members” are — senators, representatives, members of parliament, etc.
It’s all the same. Someone has placed him-/herself over you, with all power and control of you and your life. Worse, that collectively someone has been placed there for “order” and “civilization” and “protection.” By our passive consent or active “election.”
The fact is, as long as we cede our own lives to someone and/or some rulership/government OVER us, and PAY THEM to be there, we are slaves to them.
There is no other term for that reality.
When the Declaration of Independence says we have the right and duty to delete a bad government, and then assert something else, it does NOT say that something else MUST be yet another “government.” There IS the option of FREEDOM, of individual self-rule.
Why don’t we finally CHOOSE FREEDOM?! What are we truly afraid of if we don’t have someone over us?!
Thomas Jefferson told the wise ones among us that “That government is best which governs least.”
What do you think that means, taking that premise to its only logical conclusion?
It DOES NOT SAY THERE MUST BE A GOVERNMENT.
Do you think so?
No sense scratching the surface. The surface will always grow thicker and thicker. Best to just shatter it and never let it grow again.
The NATURE of ALL governments/rulership is to GROW itself. That always and must mean to your diminishment and eventual destruction. The only remedy is to starve that beast to death and bury it.
How about that, for a start? ;-D
Peace, friend.
MMT is just an excuse to print more money. Keynes theory is basically for government to spend when citizens are saving and for government to save when citizens are spending. Unfortunately, the only part of the theory the US government has ever practiced is spending. We are in this jam because of the Federal Reserve System and Federal Reserve Notes. The Banksters skim 6% off the top of the US governments debt. In a fractional reserve banking system, where the money is based on debt, the result is always the same. Rome, Weimar, Zimbabwe and now the US. In my opinion, we actually reached the end of the road in 2008 and they have pushed it to 2022 against all odds with all kinds of shenanigans and can kicking. When the US dollar was the world reserve currency needed to buy oil, the US exported its inflation. Now, Saudi has a deal with Putin for protection and does not need to prop up the US dollar. The world banks have been rebalancing their reserves away from the dollar and adding gold again for several years. China and Russia have been dumping US Treasuries at least since 2008. Ross Perot was right, the sucking sound of manufacturing jobs leaving the country wrote the end of US financial security. They used covid to break the supply chains that held globalization together. Since then they have been destroying the English speaking first world nations, first with the jabs of death, then, crop failures and finally freezing or burning without energy. This is going to be a rough ride for all. If we can get to the other side with manufacturing capability and small businesses and energy, the country will survive. I do not see how that happens without Trump in the White House. God bless all.
Excellent synopsis and summation of what is the cause of the current crisis, which is 100% man made. This is going to get MUCH MUCH worse. The hundreds of trillions in sovereign debt world wide is totally unmanageable. People have been living on debt and inflated money for years.
Powell knows what’s coming and he’s in a panic. This is much like the 2008 crisis, but printing money to get out of it is no longer an option. That little slight of hand was was a One Pony Trick.
Should be quite interesting going forward…
Inflation is a lot higher than the phony CPI.
Inflation is well above 40%. The price of everything from
food to gasoline is constantly going up.
Price is no longer Stable.
Democrat politicians will economically destroy the USA.
There is absolutely no reason to “do without” heat or air conditioning. The invention of the air conditioner
is a blessing. That ‘hole in the ozone’ caused by freon was fear hype.
https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/ozone-the-hole-truth
If one wants to do without heat in the winter and cooling in the summer then go for it. Just do not relegate others to your comfort level.
Um, . . . not to put too fine a point on it, but exactly who here are you talking to? The people who should be conscientiously regarding and heeding what you wrote none of us here can reach. What’s being done is being done to us, not with our consent or voluntary cooperation, though lots of going-along-to-get-along has gone before this.
It is time to stop that, and go after TPTB and stop them!
Overview of Agenda 2030
Thanks Dan, comprehensive, easily understood and not too long. It certainly helps to know the goals of our enemy. It brings clarity to the chaos unfolding around us. Praise God for the list of failed policies undone by citizens. Some things in our government still work, although the process is slow and cumbersome. The attempted transition to their utopia has and is killing a lot of people, the ultimate death of the entity called California is a stepping stone to one world government. Seeing the costs of the transition makes it clear that these policies will keep killing people.
I guess I’m not feeling the pain yet.
I looked at my electric bills back to September 2020. I’m still paying the same $33 service fee and the same $0.108 per KWH. Some months they include a power cost adjustment (0.002850 X TOTAL KWH) or (0.00090 X TOTAL KWH).
There also state and local sales taxes on top of those costs.
Thank you Coastal Electric Cooperative.
Your municipal area may be under an existing contract for electricity. Ours is and we’ve not yet experienced any increase. I fear when the new contract is negotiated. Our city just raises water rates (at will) and adds a $5-10 ‘road maintenance fee’ where 1/2 our town still has dirt roads within the city limits. (TPTB here are desperate to bring “tourism” (think Fredericksburg, Tx) instead of any kind of job industry for our town.) We’re getting alot of liberal transplants with big $$$ moving to rural conservative communities.
WH Press Secretary will say cost of electricity is due to gas prices -Putin- and therefore cost of trucking electricity is higher.
HA HA!! Those massless particles can get pretty heavy when you pack them into a semi with a dual trailer!
Have to find some way for all of us to pay for the electric car subsidies.
This is how you push through tax increases without having to go through a legislative process.
And this is months prior to dramatically higher winter heating bills!
My Electric Bill identifies as a Student Loan.
You win the comment section!!!
What happens to just about any business when they lose 30% of their revenues?
We might want to consider how we’ll stay warm this winter 🙁