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Taking part in with cash: What’s the distinction between cryptocurrency and Monopoly cash? Nothing.
Time for GOP to step up: Continued stonewalling shouldn’t be the response this nation wants from the Republican Celebration. Make a transfer. Counting the cash that the NRA provides you doesn’t rely. Possibly you can purchase a conscience with a few of that money. When are we going to begin voting theses scoundrels out of workplace?
Saving Chicago cash: Right here’s a surefire manner the town of Chicago might save a big sum of cash. Cancel the Chicago Bureau of Tourism and shut down your entire division. No person’s going to Chicago. Shootings and violence working rampant within the metropolis, Millennium Park, River North, Magazine Mile and Navy Pier simply to call just a few. Maybe Mayor Lightfoot can divert the cash saved for an additional handout? This could win her just a few extra votes in her subsequent failed marketing campaign for mayor.
Plan backfired: After the earlier 12 months of seven% inflation and this 12 months already over 8%, (U.S. Treasury Secretary) Janet Yellen lastly admitted she was improper when she stated the danger of inflation could be small, manageable and transitory. President Biden stated the prices of meals and fuel is not going to be below management any time quickly. Neither will say that far an excessive amount of cash was despatched for manner too lengthy to state governments and too many individuals, many who by no means misplaced their jobs. It was both socked away or spent recklessly as a substitute of getting used for speedy wants, the way in which it was supposed.
Catastrophe no shock: So Jamie Dimon of Chase Financial institution thinks the financial system is in for a catastrophe. He’s a part of the trigger. Monetary and oil firm CEOs have all the facility and get their boards to pay them greater than 200 instances the median wage. When the Federal Reserve raised rates of interest, banks didn’t increase rates of interest paid to savers. Financial savings was once the idea of financial safety for extraordinary folks, however now it’s simply silly and permits banks to steal from clients. Monetary providers forces everybody to gamble within the inventory market now in bother.
Relevancy questioned: Not being a historian myself, I’d wish to know at what cut-off date the electoral faculty was ever related? And the identical goes for the Home of Representatives, the place even a two-year time period appears manner too lengthy!
Cash controls weapons: I need to make myself completely clear. When you’ve got a gun legally in your family or have a allow to hold one to your safety, I’m 100% in your nook. However we’re holding the Second Modification hostage as a result of we’re the one nation that can’t management weapons. Our lawmakers, specifically the Republicans, preserve passing the buck and never voting for any kind of gun management. The gun lobbyists give thousands and thousands of {dollars} to the Republican Celebration. In order that leaves us with the underside line, cash talks.
Lethal recreation of pinball: So long as the information folks preserve reporting that killings and shootings are going up, the gang-bangers attempt to break the report the next week. It’s a capturing recreation like a pinball machine. How excessive are you able to go?
Not a psychological well being concern: Shooters simply don’t care about human life, yours mine or anybody else. It’s not psychological well being. They’re simply looking for an excuse accountable it on folks with psychological well being.
Trigger and impact: Each time our authorities mentions the opportunity of enacting extra gun management, extra weapons are offered. Extra folks conclude that our Founding Fathers have been appropriate once they added the Second Modification to our Structure for cover from a tyrannical authorities.
