Opinion: Day One; A Marker on the Table
By Mike Ford | Jan 21, 2021 5:00 AM ET
It is done. Yesterday, Chief Justice John Roberts read the words and to the limit of his diminished cognitive ability, Joe Biden tried to repeat them. Thus we have installed a new, if illegitimate President of these United States. Yesterday was a sad day in United States history. We ceremoniously validated the open and notorious theft of a presidential election. Even more sadly, this theft was enabled by members of President Trump’s own party. But that was yesterday and today is the first day in a minimum of two years of unfettered Socialist government.
Where do we go from here? To discuss that, as we will during my “series of miniseries,†we have to establish a start point. Today, I want to place a marker on the table… a basis of reference if you will. I want to establish for the record, just where we are today, the first full day of a Biden administration. I will list three current conditions of these United States and the actions of President Trump that brought them to pass. As we undergo the upcoming pain, we will have today’s frame of reference to help us survive the long road back.
Here is a short list (hat tip to KCB, who got me going on this idea):
1. These United States of America are now a net exporter of energy. We have broken the OPEC stranglehold that once led to gas lines for Americans. As you can see from the featured photo I took at 1537 Eastern time yesterday, the price of a gallon of diet gas was $2.19/gallon in Talladega (Ricky Bobby!!) Alabama. The price of gas spent a lot of time under $2.00/gallon, even prior to the arrival of the Wuhan China Virus on our shores.
How did that happen? Simple. President Trump removed unnecessary and burdensome regulations not based on science. He got the Federal Government out of the way so American ingenuity could take us from being a net energy importer, to a net exporter. Incidentally, the people who the leftists constantly mewl about caring so much about, are the ones who benefit the most from these low gas prices. Face it, $7.00 gas doesn’t affect leftist millionaires. It affects mostly low income folks.
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