Notebook: Shooting from the hip
EDITORIAL MUG: Larry Anderson
Rather than focusing on one subject, I will shoot from the hip this time. The following are a few random problems on which to ponder. Please investigate further.
In 2025 the Trump tax cut will expire. If Congress is Republican, there is an excellent chance the cut will be extended, but if Congress is Democrat, it is certain liberals will let the relief expire, an act consistent with their goal of erasing all things connected to Trump. That will amount to a substantial tax increase for millions of Americans as the code reverts to its old, higher numbers.
Democrat elitists have sold the absurdity Trump’s tax cuts were for the rich, but that’s a chubby lie. I know because I am middle class and pay taxes and got a nice break when Trump reduced my tax liability. I would like that break to continue and assume you would too in this age of inflation and high cost of living. There is nothing wrong with voting in self-defense, especially as one observes financial security dissipate due to stupidity. I hope you vote in 2024 with your financial security in mind.
Last month inflation was pegged at 3.7%, which is well away from the slippery target of 2%. The 3.7% figure is misleading. It doesn’t factor in the rising cost of food or gas, two constant expenditures for literally everyone. If these were considered, obviously real inflation would be much higher. Like Biden himself, it’s an old trick.
We all know costs at the pump and market are much higher than 3.7%, but this government is comfortable knowing many people will not question any stat it throws out. Moreover, Biden’s administration isn’t built on trust, honesty, realism or integrity. It is built around an agenda of forced social change.
America has become a drug culture built by our own government. That sounds incredible, so how so? Well, illicit drugs such as fentanyl flow into this country from China, Mexico and Afghanistan through an open border. Sure, occasional arrests are made and dangerous drugs sometimes confiscated, but far more gets through as foreign and criminal interests grow rich with our government’s approval.
Joe Biden could order the border sealed militarily as a threat to the country, but he won’t. He could be a world leader by uniting other countries to go aggressively after drug production, but he won’t. Biden could stop enabling, but he won’t. Instead tens of thousands of Americans will continue to die every year from overdoses and addiction with the tacit approval of the federal government.
There’s more. I knew legalization of one drug would soon lead to another. Now on the Left Coast, efforts have begun to decriminalize all drugs. This may take a while, but resistance is down, attention is diverted, and precedence set. I don’t need to explain the danger in this progression, do I?
Our country has been invaded with the approval and aid of this government. Literally millions of illegal immigrants are filling up our cities, schools and health services while Joe Biden and associates rarely even mention the devastation he and the left are causing. The truth is they love the social chaos they’ve created while the country pays. It’s disgusting and dangerous. It’s also immoral and criminal in its treatment of immigrants and its contempt for America.
What leadership anywhere else in the world allows its country to be invaded while pretending there isn’t a problem? This nightmare was deliberately created.
When I was school age, America was a proud first in the world in elementary and secondary education. Today we are fourteenth among industrialized nations. What happened, and how will this condition improve with millions more now in the country who are illiterate or nearly so and can’t speak the language?
China is becoming more aggressive toward Taiwan, the Philippines, and other nations as America becomes less forceful and more dependent. Isn’t it interesting that some immigrants reportedly entering our country via an open border are from China? What does that suggest, and isn’t it troubling that Biden and Company are fine with that?
Understand things will continue to worsen under this regime and only voters can change the direction we are headed as a nation. That direction is downward with calamity waiting, its bloody jaws wide open.
Larry W. Anderson is a retired educator.
