Monday, May 10, 2021

Some observations, comments

 Well good evening all,


I think third party and independent candidates that participated in the 2020 election in Arizona need to sue to stop the recount since there is no one monitoring to make sure none of their votes are being stolen. Also there is very little representation for third parties and independents in any election so this recount potentially could be ripe for fraud and their votes stolen. I am not in Arizona or I would as an independent voter to make sure my vote was not changed or lost. Something to look into.


Republicans are fighting infrastructure, but what is infrastructure? Take the pipeline that was compromised by ransomware or something. Shouldn’t we be spending money on protecting our critical systems and even those managed by private interests, however this type of investment in infrastructure should be a public private cooperation, since the private companies make money from the pipeline or electric grid or waterway that would receive funds to update protecting their systems. This is where companies need to step up to help the government help them. Yet the Republicans fighting how much should be spent on infrastructure is either ignorance on how much is truly infrastructure in the modern world or making some attempt to play to the pre Trump Republican base. Either way.... sad.

And speaking of pre Trump Republican base, they are raising their little corporate oh poor me little heads, with all this talk about cutting unemployment benefits so people will come back to work. One article has the franchise owners of McDonalds up in arms they cannot hire anyone because of the extra unemployment benefits. Do not be fooled, they do not want to pay high enough wages to bring people back and are trying to convince the public that $7.25 minimum wage is enough. If you do the math people earning $7.25 hour do make approximately the same as unemployment benefits, If you pay people $10, $12 $15 an hour it does eat into their profits, but put things in scale. If a McDonald’s franchise turns a profit in the hundreds of thousands to close to a million, dollars then paying 25k to 100k extra in wages and extra benefits is not going to hurt them, only their ego. They will still be in business and the Franchise owner still makes money because he has people to serve his customers. If you pay $7.25/hour, yeah you make more profit for so long until sales drop due to no service and then you go out of business because you were too greedy to pay somebody enough to buy your food. Inflation is coming, but it isn’t because people should be paid a bit more, it is because free money from the Fed has allowed us to build up too much debt and the wealthy have skewed the system by using this free money to make themselves richer  off playing with money not investing in commerce. There are going to be some serious shortages in supply and products which will drive up prices. And honestly there is much to this argument so you will find people arguing all over the map about who is to blame so tread carefully in inflation discussions. Even my little point is subject to a wide range of factors.

Or in general the only people making money are criminals. The crimes they commit have nothing to do with the way they look. 


Cheers

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