Knock Knock --- Anyone Home

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   Sharlee01posted 4 years ago

   
   What are your thoughts on Bidens first four months in office? It would seem we have some historic problems brewing, and it would seem no one is home in the White House.  The list of problems is growing daily, and it would seem no one is at the helm. 
   
   Violence in Israel Challenges Biden’s ‘Stand Back’ Approach.
   
   Biden’s Plan to Spend $4.5 Trillion -- spend spend spend.  Legislation that is full of unnecessary earmarks.
   
   A historic deficit. If Congress complies with all the spending Biden has proposed.
   
   Inflation --- rising gas costs (apparent before Russian Hack) rising food costs, as well as personal utility costs due to rising gas and electric costs. 
   https://www.statista.com/statistics/201 … %20decade.
   
   IMO ( Biden proposes tax hikes "on the rich". However, even the whisper of this is causing inflation...  In the end, it will be the poor, and middle class that suffer under a tax hike. It is already visible in gas and food prices, without any law being passed to raise taxes. The rich will pass their tax hikes onto the consumer... In the end, it is we the people that are paying for all Joe's free free free !)
   
   Unrealistic promises -  free free free...
      
   Biden administration's failure to contain the border. Record numbers of unaccompanied children in US custody.
   
   Biden's failing economy --- some economist predicting a serious recession. Problems growing getting people back to work with records jobs going unfilled.
   
   The US saw significant crime And it's not letting up. Stats are shocking...
   
   Homeless numbers rising.
   
   Thoughts...  Simply,  where are we headed with the current administration?

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      Kyler J Falkposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      >First four months
      I wish I could see more of Kamala, I think she is really pretty. Biden is an oaf, like Trump but slurs more, needs more stimulants in his life to keep him on the ball.
      >Israel
      Status quo.
      >Earmarks
      Find me legislation that isn't and I'll show you legislation that will never  even see the floor.
      >Promises
      *Sigh*
      >record children numbers
      I'm questioning the motives behind the push to get them here within the countries they come from, seems like foreign meddling to stress the US to me. Hard to handle from any side, and Trump didn't get his wall built so he, like any president, gets blame too.
      >failing economy
      You watching the new housing bubble? Reminiscent of the Bush recession, if Bush can be given the credit.
      >Crime rates
      Didn't know what I predicted early on actually came true, now I do, makes sense.
      https://covid19.counciloncj.org/2021/01 … d-crime-3/
      >Homeless rising
      This makes the most sense to me, and I've witnessed it personally while interviewing the homeless here in CA. Many of the colonies we have out here are full of those displaced by the mishandled government COVID response.
      >Inflation
      I'm mostly worried about the way stores are leaving their shelves half-stocked. Not sure who, but a wise poet once said something along the lines of, "When something goes wrong in the world it is the lack of birds chirping in the trees that speaks of the foreboding. Look to the trees."
      In this case it is every store being half-stocked, shelves remaining empty, and products I regularly use becoming completely unavailable for weeks on end even on sites that have literally everything. Truly, strange times.

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   Kathleen Cochranposted 4 years ago

   I like everything he is doing. He is presidential and so is his staff. Restricting the amount of nicotine in cigarettes is enough to change the expense of healthcare for every generation to follow. Someone had to get us out of Afghanistan. Someone had to put the pandemic back in the hands of the scientists. Someone has to repair and rebuild our infrastructure. And someone has to rebuild the middle class. The republicans haven't done any of that. Here's hoping there is never another one in the White House ever again.

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      Kyler J Falkposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Biden got us out of Afghanistan? I better tell my friends who are still deployed and touring in Afghanistan that they may have been left behind without knowing it! Also, there are currently contractor jobs out of the wazoo in every country of the ME, and all those jobs are offered to former US military exclusively; we'll never be out of any region, ever.

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   wildernessposted 4 years ago

   One of the things that caught my attention was his so-called "infrastructure" plan, or at least the little bit that was actually for infrastructure.
   
   He will pay for it with borrowed money, at inflated prices for labor that are well above prevailing wages in the area.  This will create jobs, something he is excited about.
   
   And when the bridge (or dam or whatever) is built the workers will be back on unemployment without a job.  His great plan to create jobs with borrowed money will last ONLY until the money is gone; no long term jobs will be created. 
   
   This is NOT how to improve the economy OR the job situation.  In addition, we do not have the people to work the projects, not with unemployment figures as low as Trump produced.  This in turn means we will "import" labor (illegal aliens or yellow cards), pay them inflated wages and then send them home (or allow them to say with all the other illegals he is letting in).  Again, NOT something that will benefit the country as a whole, outside of paying more for improved infrastructure than we should.

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 4 years ago

   HUH?
   "Restricting the amount of nicotine in cigarettes is enough to change the expense of healthcare for every generation to follow."
   
   repeating: HUH?

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   emgeposted 4 years ago

   I think you have a point and what you have stated. The military contractors and I have known a few of them are pretty tough guys and that is the method of keeping the American flag flying in the Middle East. I wonder if the contractors will continue in Afghanistan. Ashraf Ghani will be hoping they stay. Incidentally, I have learned that the Americans are scouting for bases in Central Asia. Something to do with Afghanistan?

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      Kyler J Falkposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      The area encompasses just about every single regional border we could possibly want to keep an eye on, but my biggest guess is that we want a better area for our advanced warning and defense systems. As well, it would make sending shipments between these regional powers, and running operations through the area without us noticing much more difficult. Stationing substantial surface-to-air defenses there would also make sense in lieu of being able to post a mobile aegis system on land.
      
      Russia and China wouldn't be able to make as many undetected long-range air-based incursions on regional allies, either. There are many reasons, and the scope of such bases would be very broad.

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