The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) released the December jobs report today [DATA HERE] showing 223,000 jobs gained in December ’22.
Most of the job growth was in the “leisure and hospitality” sector (+67,000), healthcare (+55,000), construction (+28,000) and social assistance (+20,000). Additionally, average hourly earnings rose by 0.3%, with a year-over-year measure of wage growth at 4.6%.
At this point in the history of our economic pretending game, we are well aware the employment numbers are heavily manipulated in order to support the government policymaking that is destroying the same workforce they claim to represent. It’s all a ruse, just look around your community and you will see what I am talking about.
The financial pundits, Wall Street, government policy makers and various individuals and economic gaslighters are concerned that worker wage growth could drive inflation. This is one of the most aggravating aspects to reviewing the majority of economic punditry. [Example:]
This knuckleheaded narrative engineer from the New York Times/Atlantic even has the audacity to say, “let prices continue to fall to target,” as if there is a single item at any price that is dropping. His spin is a good example of gaslighting just from the use of the statement “price inflation is falling back towards where we want it.”
Price inflation is not price. ‘Price inflation’ is the rate of increase. There’s a BIG DIFFERENCE between “inflation falling back” and prices dropping. Inflation falling back is merely a lessening of the rate of price increase. The price does not drop, and never will.
This reality is why it is infuriating to see government policymakers and pundits decry wage growth as a bad thing that might cause inflation.
Government monetary, fiscal and energy policy created inflation. Devalued currency from spending, simultaneous to massive government policy changes driving up supply side energy costs, exploded inflation.
Prices for energy, oil, gas, home heating, fuel and food all skyrocketed as a result. Workers need pay raises to afford these essential costs of life. However, the same people who created the inflation are now worried that wage rate increases may drive inflation. The mindset at work here is infuriating.
Consider these empirical data points. In August of 2021 the Biden administration permanently increased food stamp benefits by 25% for everyone who needed the subsidy {LINK}. This permanent benefit increase was delivered at the same time as the administration was claiming “inflation was transitory.” They knew it wasn’t transitory. They were lying.
The Social Security Benefits were also raised in 2022 by 8.7% for the largest ever cost of living adjustment in 2023 {LINK}. Both the 25% food stamp increase and the 8.7% SSI COLA were needed to offset the inflation created by government policy…. However, the same government doesn’t want wages to rise. Can you see the hypocrisy.
Workers are being crushed by the outcomes of policy, and those who created the policy making the outcomes do not want worker wages to offset the policy.
We need to see wage growth in the 20% range just to keep pace with the increased cost of living created by policy. Food costs 40% more, energy 30% more, housing 20% more and the list keeps going.
The prices for many goods have already doubled, worker wages need to compensate for those increases. However, government, Wall Street, corporations and policy makers do not want to see wage growth that will offset the price of goods because they fear those wage gains will drive inflation.
The financial media, Wall Street, govt policy makers (republican & democrats) and corporations are lying to us and simultaneously killing the working-class. We, the workforce, are in an abusive relationship with govt…. and they have the nerve to blame us for inflation.
Our food costs +40%, energy +30%, housing +20%, all of it.. with interest rates now climbing, making it worse. Yet, they now clutch pearls and worry about our need for higher wages to afford these costs (from their policy) driving inflation higher?
Yet we are supposed to be concerned about giving an entitled republican control of the speaker position in congress because.. why?
Probably the same reason they want us looking at Ukraine, or transgender issues, or queer/gay rights, or climate change, or (fill_in_the_blank with something Ron DeSantis is promoting) all to keep us from realizing our economic life is being destroyed all around us while this constant and insufferable game of pretending continues.
A pox on all their houses!
I hate them all right now.
We are supposed to accept being a penniless serf quietly.
Our corporate overlords joined with our government decades ago to make this possible with careful plans.
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
I wonder how many of those overlords go to church? Or even pray?
Serfs were the lowest of the peasants in the medieval times. I won’t go quietly.
The Manchurian Marionette and his minions go to church, and their future gridirons in Hell get hotter every time they enter and profane the sacred atmosphere.
It would make no difference if every FEDGOV employee went to “church” 3 times a day. The LORD Christ says, “By their fruit ye shall know them.” FEDGOV and everybody in it produces bitter, bitter fruit. That is all.
@Liqueda, everything you just wrote describes my hometown of San Francisco. The middle class is decimated here, the Homeless and Wealthy are the norm.
The number of vacant store front are worse than in the Great Recession. People are STILL moving out yet, “Apartments” aka Neo-Soviet Style Multi-Story Building were being built during the height of the Lockdowns – all subsidized by City Government coffers.
There is no “war in Ukraine”. As an official WEF distraction, Elon Musk knows this.
Don’t forget the other axiom the Left says under their breath, “And even if they DON’T know they’re Trans we’ll sure they WILL Transition!”
My electric bill in Nevada is up 24% per KWH over last Dec.
Paul Smith: Yes, but your electricity is much more diverse, equitable and inclusive than during the dark days of America’s white, patriachal and racist past.
So, so funny, and makes me wanna cry at the same time.
I know how you feel, but times like this reminds of the last part of Lord Tennyson’s Poem Ulysses.
“And tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
We still have fight in us, and we aren’t beaten just yet! We have each other and Pres. Trump, the other side has just the false religion of Progressivism.
You do that too well. 😉
AND if we just shovel more of our dwindling paychecks to the Imperial City, Biden et al can control the weather.
North Korea seems to be in charge of any numbers coming from “our” FedGov.
Believe nothing from the Media, believe nothing from state governments, believe nothing from the FedGov…until you have investigated as much as possible.
However, it is becoming difficult to investigate as the FedGov manipulates the Internet more and more.
Honest information may be strangled with the guts of the last honest bureaucrat.
Lies and information warped and woofed remain, all worthless!
Assume the opposite of what you are told by the FedGov and you are most probably closer to the Truth!
It seems like the day is coming when we envy a gubmint as “open and transparent” as NK.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/inside-strong-jobs-report-full-time-workers-1k-part-time-workers-679k
1k more full-time. 679k part time jobs.
Pure crap numbers.
CUT THE CORD
Wage growth suppression in an inflationary environment is Build Back Better™ .
Creating a class of serfs is the point.
I put jobs numbers in the same category of COVID and illegal alien numbers.
Guaranteed to be massive lies.
Strange. I walk into any store in my area and I still see severe inflation.
Who are you going to believe? Biden or your lying eyes?
I went to the grocery store last night. Kiwis were $3.99 EACH!! Each!
Guess I won’t be buying kiwis any more
The prices for many goods have already doubled, worker wages need to compensate for those increases. However, government, Wall Street, corporations and policy makers do not want to see wage growth that will offset the price of goods because they
fear those wage gains will drive inflationwant to reduce your quality of living and kill a large portion of the population.Seems to me that when Trump was in office this same media screamed that December increases in jobs were “merely part-time seasonal/holiday/blah-blah…..”
The pattern is whatever narrative serves their ends best.
We’ve always been at war with East-Asia, comrade.
And that’s what one of my family members says is the reason for the Amazon layoffs. “They always lay people off after the holidays. It’s been that way forever.”
You will have no ability to create demand and you will love it !
Anal Swab, WEF
Why does this story smell like three day-old dead fish on a hot August afternoon?
For the second time in one month we were snowed in again for four days and finally got out today.
Went to the grocery store and was shocked – SHOCKED – at a lot of empty shelves and signs that said something about ‘Supplier shortage.’
One area that was empty was the egg cooler. Empty except for some she-she eggs that were selling for $10 a dozen.
Eggs yesterday at WalMart in North Texas
$10/dozen
I sure noticed that the commercial advertising electric cars are very high end. Cadillac, Mercedes, Audi, and a few trucks.
I guess build from the bottom or middle up is not the goal that I hear is going on.
EVs are designed to fail…which they will.
Because in the end the WEF has declared private ownership of cars is immoral.
Psychopaths or lunatics…both I say.
https://newspunch.com/wef-declares-people-have-no-right-to-own-their-own-cars-you-can-walk-or-share/
I expect them to lead by example.. No more Bi Turbo V12 Saloon cars, no more Gulfstream Jets etc.
They dare to speak of immorality, CR.
They must have Full Moon Fever like my cats.
😁
I suppose a lot of people will take out max term loans, leases, and cut out eating to buy an EV. Many people won’t be able to do that and will still need transportation like for going to their job. Guess what ? The Bidenettes don’t care, it will result in less vehicles on the road, one of their goals.
You are right. Just as they do with gasoline powered ones.
My husband, now retired, has sold high end vehicles.
He knows.
Oh man! I just get such a rush with this above”we” shite … that I can’t contain my feeling for the ill-logic of said inflated pinhead’s digi-ego.. no doubt all by design by our/his so-called ‘betters’ with many cult followers still gazing wide-eyed as their retinas fry ever further!
– Sigh –
You know, some days I wake up regretting that I ever took that cute, little, clear glazed red pill. I don’t feel very well cured of what ails MY plebian concerns, so far. But long hauls and all that.
Sundance, most of us have been in ‘hate mode’ since 2008….I know I have…
Rant continued…..hard working, invisible people, have dreams and hopes….and routinely, without skipping a beat, these so called ‘leaders’….
‘decision makers’ is a better description….come along, and trash the economy….and people’s hopes and dreams, and try to make ends meet.
Average folks have a budget they stick to….whether they realize it or not. Big companies have multiple accounts to ‘borrow from Peter to pay Paul’….and come up solvent. Most average folks, do not.
An erroneous thought I just remembered, triggered by our beloved “retired magistrate”….One thought about taxes…at the local levels…the school require families to buy school supplies for their kids and to supply classrooms.
Bad policy has been crushing people, for a long time. As long as government funds companies to hire…well, too, when the government money runs out, people either get fired or face lay offs. This is, IMHO and uneducated in business opinion, is why a roller coaster in jobs, hiring and unemployment.
The lack of economic stability is and has been an ongoing problem, for decades.
About a year ago, I commented about all the companies in my ‘hood with “now hiring” signs but yet they weren’t….their ‘claim’ was “no one wanted to work”…I was not quite buying that one, given the strict guidelines for unemployment monies for white people in IL.
An immobile population has a hard time making it to the next peaceful protest.
I just wanted to raise my daughter peacefully and quietly… not be concerned that I’ll be delivering her into an adulthood of lies, immorality, trafficking, and poverty.
Everything liberals touch turns to garbage and the conservatives who stand by and do nothing are complicit.
God save their souls.
As mentioned above, “As for me and my house, we serve the Lord”
Yeah, I hate them all too – especailly seing over 400 Uniparty members with no interest in releasing the tiniest bit of power back to the “people”.
F them all
Gonna go check CSPAN now to see if they are still pretending that McTraitor is at risk to lose SOH. What a joke.
This d33p stat3 report is sketchy beyond belief…
Media = Enemy of the people
So much time and money for leisure and hospitality!
The fraudulent election of 2020 was never successfully rectified. Confirmed in 2022. Made mostly possible through weaponization of a fake pandemic.
This is why the globalist crap appears so much more obvious and blatant now. They can afford to pretend less carefully now because we simply cannot vote them out under the new normal election scheme.
The fake covid emergency health declarations will remain in place until the damage created by it is irreversible.
They got away with stealing the election for the President of the United States. With that behind them they have become so bold that they don’t care what we know. They figure there is nothing we can do about it.
And they will keep doing it.
“I hate them all right now.”
For Sundance…
What the hate does for me, is makes me more and more determined to live a life free of government interference and control.
Fly under their radar.
I wish we could live free but they desire to come after us and will use social credit scores, digital currency, assignment of income, and chipping. All mandatory.
Not sure who could honestly say they don’t strongly dislike these pretentious pieces of human waste. It’s the liars promoting the WEF bs that make me the maddest. You can hate the ones driving it but the ones lying about it which allows those creating it to avoid direct confrontation are every bit as guilty. They’re just to brain dead to know they’re being used. 2023 will be the year normal people who just wanted to be left alone are going to suffer more than they have in their entire lives when they can’t keep their families warm and fed.
My family will be warm and fed so help me God.
“I’ll never be hungry again.”
Scarlett O’Hara, with her arm stretched toward heaven, as the curt fades on Part One of Gone With the Wind.
Should read: As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.
Your comment reminded me of this scene.
And I often think of the similarities, in that America as most of us know it IS in fact very much “gone with the wind.”
Oops
Posted reply to you up above your comment.
Yep!
Even if only a base of rice or pasta & beans or lentils jazzed up with alternating frozen veggies and spices and small portions of frozen fish, poultry, pork , beef or turkey; while it lasts.
Flour & water makes yeast for breads and baking.
Here’s one of many sites with info:
https://jacksonsjob.com/beginners-guide-how-to-make-yeast-with-minimal-flour/
Thus is a good video / site to grow yeast and never run out and get recipes too:
Tomato paste is an excellent stocker. A small can can go a long way.
Makes a small pot of sauce:
sautéed in a little bit of olive oil, add 2 cans worth or so of water,
salt & pepper,
onion & a dash of garlic powder,
dried or frozen basil.
If too acidic add a pinch of sugar
or a dash of baking soda (Stir till it stops foaming).
I made homemade yeast last summer. Smelled so good all the time, just like homemade bread was baking.
I spend a couple hours every day these days printing stuff we will need when/if the internet/power goes out and we can’t get the information any more.
Making and storing yeast was a good thing to learn. Water glassing eggs was another.
Hard thing for me is finding out exactly what food can be preserved what way so I don’t kill anyone with botulism. After buying brown rice and packing it in H2O and oxygen absorbers I read you can’t pack brown rice that way — or it will produce botulism.
EGADS! Now I have to throw out all my brown rice.
Thanks for this info!
“I hate them all right now.”
Welcome to the party Sundance.
Sundance is the host of this party.
Has anyone noticed that they never said how much was spent at Christmas time,or all the part time help that was never hired.
I know. Retailers didn’t hire seasonal workers like years past, plus shippers like FedEx announced job cuts before the holiday season.
Shippers were dead. They usually hire a ton of temps and mandate OT – not this year because there was no Christmas surge and the shippers are nervous about the economy.
Whats going to cause the largest part of inflation in the future
Place your bets now
The FED is acting clueless where inflation comes from.
Except for the short sound bites where they can blame the working class, THEN they know.
These analysts are incompetent or evil or somewhere in between.
Unquestionably evil.
Competency is not exclusionary to the degree of that evil they exhibit.
They are competent at being evil, self-absorbed, delusional, and they take no responsibility for how their actions affect others. They could care less. The problem is The Trouble will come for everyone eventually. So that makes them really stupid to boot.
Correct me if I’m wrong but they haven’t printed the $1.7T yet because the debt ceiling is approaching. The debt ceiling fight will be my gauge for the ineffectiveness of the RINO led House of Grifters…
Hasn’t Biden and his minions claimed that wages are growing faster than inflation ?
Sure if you received approx. 15% payraise last year. But how many could say that.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
“Narrative engineer”. LOL. Good one.
Do those lazy, lying, self-serving elected (cough) leaders
actually believe
that they
will not
be affected
by what they have created and continue to forge????
That’s the delusional part. But, then again, Satan is the Father of Lies.
“Go ahead, eat it, you won’t die!”
Well… at least some of them think themselves ‘immune’ to any repercussions as to their avaricious policy choices where the sovereign state (as envisioned by the plebiscite generally), is concerned.
Random payback is what I would guess at.
They are on the road to destroy their own world.
Apparently they have no regard for their own children and future generations.
-It’s really crazy.
The sexual degeneracy and currency issues in America today are really beginning to look more and more like pre-Hitler Weimar. Who if anyone will rescue us from that?
We party like it’s 1776.
It’s coming.
The hard part is how do you do that in a multicultural sewer of a country where at least half the population does not really want liberty?
And they don’t know history.
My shopping report from today:
I was in a Walmart supercenter store between 1 and 2:30 p.m. to stock ip on every toiletry, cleaning and medicine item to get to at least a 1 year supply. They had everything I needed but one item. However, there were lots of holes on the grocery shelves for pasta, grains, pet food and other items. Canning jars were sold out in all sizes though they still had lids. I bought another 2 dozen. The astonishing thing was how EMPTY the store was! I’ve been to this location numerous times. I have NEVER been able to checkout without a line of people in front of me. There were several cashiers waiting for customers and no line for self-checkout.
The next stop was groceries at Aldi. The bread section had many holes, including croissants so I guess I’ll try my hand at making my own. Texas toast was gone as was organic spaghetti sauce. I will try another store tomorrow or make my own. This is a new store so usually not too busy but even so it seemed slow. Most people had just a few items in their cart (15 to 20). I was doing more stock up while the prices are “lower” than they will be in upcoming months. White eggs are $4.99/ dozen, the same price as the cage-free, pasture raised ones, which were sold out. The cage free brown eggs are $4.33 and the organic brown are $4.39 but also sold out.
Both stores and the Dollar Tree I stopped in still had Christmas stuff on clearance, 12 days after the holiday. My daughter will benefit because I bought her a hot chocolate bomb making kit. She can use the mold included in the future to make other flavored bombs.
My overall impression was that shoppers were absent and those shopping not buying much (except for me but I’m stocked up now.)
Dozen eggs range from $3.59 upwards to $8.00 for Vital Farms. Many small pastas are out, but still linguini, spaghettis, rigatonis etc. I kept spending tighter than normal, picked the sales, $234 for two adults and two boys for a week (wife added some goodies). Soups, chilis, meatloaf, simmer stir fry…
Best not to announce your stash to anyone.
Funny you report empty shelves. I was in the local Winn Dixie and at least a quarter of the shelves were bare. Another quarter was at best lightly stocked. The produce section was decimated, picked over and not fresh looking. And the prices?? Wow. Prices have gone up up another 10% in 2 weeks, the last time I went shopping
The sheer amount of lying that is going on is stunning.
The gaslighting is coming from everywhere.
We don’t have a chance of fixing anything because the truth is being destroyed.
We’re being left with no option but to simply disengage.
Yahoo is the most read internet site in the world and I see how they rig their comments section and then fill them full of pure gaslighting that has to have government involvement that makes what happened on Twitter seem like nothing.
A few years ago I heard the term, “my truth” for the first time. I thought, ‘what a load of crap, there’s not my truth and your truth, there’s only one truth.’
There are different views of what someone witnessed, but only one truth to what actually takes place.
By adding perception and feelings, and then top it off with lies, it appears they want to make sure no one knows what truth is any more.
I have a hard time believing that leisure and hospitality job positions grew when almost nobody is traveling or going out to eat or taking cruises. Could it be holiday travel peak? I also have questions about construction jobs increase when building materials are sky high, interest rates are rising, and new home sales are declining.
It doesn’t matter what the government says. It is what I feel and everything is slipping little by little by little with nobody buying much beyond essentials and not even a lot of essentials.
A lady I work with leaves tomorrow for a cruise. I’ve been warning her what’s coming for over a year but it falls on deaf ears. Can’t help leftists, they just won’t listen.
Not to mention it’s winter and construction normally slows down in winter at least in the northern states. I don’t think much construction was going on the week the temps dropped below zero.
Trillions of government spending directed where it wants gradually shifts the work force away from Main Street, and results in an addicted workforce antithetical to free market economics.
We need at least 400k new jobs to accommodate those entering the workforce. We’re sputtering along at this point. Not good enough,
Straight up failure.
“I hate them all right now.”
Exactly. And I ask the Lord to forgive me for hating. They are liars.
As a reminder:
That is 230K jobs allegedly CREATED and not filled … recall that about 6 months ago it was reported these “created jobs” did not exist. Plus, the prerequisite 30-50% DOWNWARD adjustment is due 2-weeks from now.
GDP related and jobs with actual growth potential continue to decline in parallel with the continued falling values listed on the DOMESTIC Investment Market Economic Sector Reports that report value of DOMESTIC GDP creating industries.
My wife tells me that the recent college graduates of her friends with technical degrees are NOT being hired and are applying for a dwindling number of openings.
Then there are the recently announced lay-offs at major employers, even from their non and low skilled job pools.
There were also announcements of EV car and truck manufacturing being move to Mexico, with the recently passed NEW GREEN DEAL (oops Inflation Reduction Act) being heavily amended via interpretation to say foreign made stuff = domestic made stuff.
Reatilers still have not cleared their 2021-22 inventory and orders are for 2023-24 are tanking.
Yep..it is all looking just great.
Somehow the small business I started in ’95 is still here but only running at 65% of production that it was from 1998 through 2008. The number of employees has fallen by approximately the same amount. The business loans that Wells Fargo “allowed” me to take out about that time which I was later unable to repay due to the Great Recession” of 2008-2010 our ever generous representatives in DC allowed them (Wells Fargo) to write off and take a tax break on their corporate tax returns while I was later taken to court and forced to make good and repay (without the interest although-what a relief!/sarc). So its no secret to anyone in the business community to whose mutual benefit this government is run because it certainly is not for the small and medium sized businesses of this country.
What was the wage growth of government workers and these financial pundits that are claiming .3% wage growth is too much? Hypocrites.
Yep…The NY STATE Legislature just voted themselves a bonanza raise increase and Botox Nancy gave a substantial farewell raise to her end of the swamp as well, which exceeds that “obscene 0.3%” economists say is not good.
$32k a year for both…..NYS has highest paid lawmakers now……staffers in Congress can earn more than their assigned congressman….congressional pay to start $179,200….max for a staffer $212,000
The city of Charleston, SC, is raising the salary of all employees by 13 point something percent according to the memo a friend who works for them received. One reason was the difficulty they were having hiring at the current salaries. They’ve been receiving 1-2 percent raises recently so I can’t begrudge them a really good increase. Easy for me to say because I live in a different county and won’t be paying for the raises.
A pox on all their houses! Amen Brother Thank you.
If you are waiting for the government to do something you are already a serf. How does it feel to be a serf? Now U know.
Weren’t the Leftpukes dead set on paying us rubes “living wages”/ 15$ an hour minimum wage just a couple years ago?
I can no longer find the kind of flour I like to use and I’ve been searching for months. Not online and not in stores. I sourced some organic flour for $1/lb and I purchased 100lbs. I will share with family. Think about it. 1lb of flour makes 1 loaf of bread. How long does a loaf of bread last in your house? 100lbs for two families equals less than 1 loaf/week. Does 1 loaf last a week in your family? What about the rolls, or buns, or croissants, cakes, cookies, etc? Flour!!! A basic ingredient.
I don’t think people realize what is coming. It’s not just about a brand. My friend in Idaho sent me a picture of a carton of eggs – over $8/dozen. They’ve killed millions of chickens over the “bird flu”. Think you can afford a chicken in every pot?
Bread. Eggs. Chicken. We are in crisis.
Please do everything you can do to stock up. Bulk buy with friends and family.
I try really hard not to be an alarmist. But, sometimes I want to light a bonfire under everyone’s butts.
Pretty much 100% response on Twitter speaks of his ignorance and nonsense. Not a peep in support.
Sorry wrong thread. But SD, people need to hear Tucker Carlson on Jan 6 tonight.
Why should you be concerned about a Uni-Party member in the third-highest position in government? How about one, trying to get voted into position at 10:00PM. To say nothing of his other treachery.
Someone needs to give the remaining 20 opposition, several million, to continue to be in opposition in order to keep the Uni-Party out. It would be worth a great deal more to the American People.
I’m waiting for the KFC in Washington, MO to be able to have enough employees to open their dining room. Where are the workers? I would think $15/hour would bring them in.
Lazy as hell…
They are building a new KFC near me that doesn’t have a dining room in Central Florida. Popeye’s dining room is still closed. The line is always backed out around the building and out on the road everyday I pass by them after work. Same with some Dunkin Donuts. With the prices they charge, I can’t believe they are still busy.
Do they take SNAP? Some FF do. Captured market.
Yellen: “I really doubt we will see an inflationary cycle”
Biden: “I don’t know anybody that is worried about inflation”
Biden Dec 2021: Inflation has peaked pic.twitter.com/2SAWgMnYNT
— Mr. Anderson (@TrueCrypto28) July 13, 2022
Meanwhile China and India buying all the oil Europe isnt allowed to buy.
https://www.rt.com/business/569435-india-russia-arctic-oil/
There is always a lag between prices decreasing and wages that follow. Companies first lay off, when demand drops, then wage cuts follow, because they can and the companies claim they must to survive.
We are in for a long uncomfortable few years.
I just hope people remember this isn’t ‘stuff happens’, it’s an attack on us; a purposeful attack with a mission goal. I see too many people ignoring that reality and focusing on their successes in adapting as we adapt ourselves into feudalism.
post-2020…the only thing real…is the misery.
With the gas lighting from all directions, most people are too conditioned to know they are being screwed. The 2022 election proved that. Some of these idiots could lose everything but still refuse to see Democrats as the problem.
Long time treepers will assume this number will be quietly amended, a few months hence, with no media fanfare.
There are jobs out here. Lots and lots of “Hiring” signs.
Waffle House here has a sign telling customers “to be kind with the employees who showed up to work”..
It seems, to me, that people don’t want to work.
Everything is expensive but that doesn’t keep people from partying, traveling, shopping.
There’s something very weird going on.
Legal plunder is the rule.
Not that unusual when people discovered that they can enrich themselves with redistribution from wealth producers.
Looters and moochers have a common understanding about taking your wealth. Who is John Galt?
Best news for me would be a general strike, which is what I did when closing my business. Sand in the machinery. One person, one business, is nothing. A million people, purposeful and with resolve, then the cage gets rattled a bit. Life is war then you die.
I closed mine as well. I choose to earn only what my family needs. What about investments my friends ask? Make no mistake: the elites plan to take those investments.
Yep. 3 years ago I sold my business and retired. I’m now collecting SS and loving every second of draining govvy coffers that I helped fill for 42 years. Sand in the gears.
I now spend my time helping my family, a few friends, and not participating in “the economy”.
I feel exceedingly sorry for those who can’t quit, or those who still have a vision so won’t quit. The elites will take whatever we allow them to have.
I got turned down for another job today. Weird indeed. I tell you what, I am going to start as serious a physical regimen as I can muster and get ready to head for the Everglades and start catching pythons when breeding season hits before the rains come. There is damn good money in snake flesh and plenty of job security. I have caught snakes since I was a toddler and exploring the wilds of Florida is my favorite pass time. I really need to find somebody crazy enough to go with me.
I think it is time to throw off your chain!!