Higher wages are a threat to the whole service industry business model.  This was the folly of allowing well paying manufacturing and technology jobs to be offshored.

"Allowing"? As in state or Federal gooberments forcing manufacturing operations to stay within the US? Had this been done Apple and HP and Cisco and Dell and ... would have moved their entire companies from California and Texas to the State of Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 County.

#Bidenomics Update: Or 'How to Crash a Soft Landing'
Beege Welborn


Did y'all hear that boom in the distance this morning?

Schmaybe get a foul whiff of something burning in the air?

Perhaps saw a pale wisp of smoke on the horizon and wonder, "What now?"

It was only the economy tanking. No bigs.

The big babies on Wall Street swooned. I wonder if Biden's gonna chew them out now, too.

    Stocks tumbled Thursday after the latest U.S. economic data showed a sharp slowdown in growth and pointed to persistent inflation.

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 493 points, or 1.3%, weighed down by steep declines in Caterpillar and IBM. The S&P 500 dropped 0.9%, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 1.3%.
    U.S. gross domestic product expanded 1.6% in the first quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said. Economists polled by Dow Jones forecast GDP growth would come in at 2.4%.

    Along with the downbeat growth rate for the quarter, the report showed consumer prices increased at a 3.4% pace, well above the previous quarter’s 1.8% advance. This raised concern over persistent inflation and put into question whether the Federal Reserve will be able to cut rates anytime soon.

Well, huh. So we were right about what things cost again. Man, for dumb clucks, we sure are smart.

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To end Gazans' suffering, Hamas can surrender and release their hostages at any time.

Hamas and Iran want to draw Western nations, and their troops, into an asymmetrical ground conflict to bleed the solidarity, treasure, and resolve of the West to remain in the Middle East.

We don't need Middle East oil anymore, (unless Biden buy oil from Iran to replenish the Stategic Petroleum Reserve), so we don't need to be on the ground nor in the region.  Let the buyers or suppliers of Persian Gulf oil expend their own blood and treasure to protect freedom of navigation.

America does not need to expend more blood and treasure to provide security to Britain's former protectorates in the Middle East.

Empires die for a reason ... they over-extend themselves in wars of foreign adventure and ignore the homefront.

What did America get for 20 years in Afghanistan?  Heroin and more future terrorists.

What did America get for nearly 20 years in Iraq?  ISIS/ISIL

There will not be a Pax Americana in the Middle East.  It is a mirage that has distracted and beguiled American foreign policy since the late 1940's.

My first “job” was to help a local guy, whose business was pumping out septic tanks, clean his equipment and truck at the end of the day. I was 12 years old at the time and I was required two times a week to show up to help him with that and he paid me

It wasn’t glamorous. But I learned things like punctuality. I had to be at his house those days at 5 o’clock. Would work for an hour.

I also trapped furs  and did other odd jobs for neighbors and when I was 16, I got a job at the Duluth Arena. I saved up my money that summer to buy my first car which was a 1973 Camaro. And I was open to pick up any extra shifts they had available


I was pretty blue-collar until I finished college

Defamation and libel are not free speech.  Criminal acts are not free speech.

The First Amendment is not a Get Out of Jail Free card to be an @$$hole.

If your media concern is going to bull$h!t, at least make it funny or entertaining: