1st hundred days why am I not surprised ?

[727Sky]

I for one am not surprised as Biden and his handlers are doing exactly what many of us thought he would do if elected. I never thought it would be so easy for someone and their party to steal an election.

Get ready and hang on, there’s more to come. And, it ain't gonna get better.
So, Russia is massing troops on the border with Ukraine. Ukraine is threatening to take Crimea back by force.
China is threatening Taiwan and its neighbors while also threatening our ships and Navy.

North Korea is testing missiles again and restarting their nuclear weapons program.

Iran has been emboldened and making more than their normal threats.

Our southern border is a humanitarian disaster caused directly by this administration, and the administration that promised transparency is hiding it and not letting the media have access.

Ford is closing a plant and moving it to Mexico after just bringing it back from Mexico because of the current Administration’s plan for Increased taxes.

Price of steel up 145%, lumber 126%, wheat up 25%, food index up 25%, cotton 35%, silver 38%, copper 50%, soybeans 71%, oil 80%, etc, etc.

Pipeline jobs lost.

Wall construction jobs lost.

$1.9 trillion in stimulus that funds the administrations pet projects and only paid a fraction to the people.

$29 trillion in debt with $4.8 trillion projected 2021 deficit before the $2 trillion stimulus proposed today for the new green deal.
6+% unemployment with millions of job openings that can’t be filled because federal unemployment assistance makes it more advantageous for people to stay home than work.

All in the first 100 days.

[Mystic Wanderer]

And all the Democrats are eating it up. 

It doesn't matter that he is destroying our country. All that matters is, there is a Democrat in power on The Hill. Wonder how they'll feel about that when the country looks like Detroit, MI? And, at this rate, it won't take that long.

[BIAD]

This is the other part of 'The Great Reset', moving a country back to unskilled jobs being rare
and a feeling of desperateness for those on the section of the ladder.

Even though "poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids" and "Corn Pop
was a bad dude"... what matters is the Elite get theirs and the deplorables don't.

Joe Biden's gang know's no bounds when it comes to plagiarism, it's like watching old episodes
of 'The West Wing'!

[Ninurta]

6+% unemployment with millions of job openings that can’t be filled because federal unemployment assistance makes it more advantageous for people to stay home than work.

I wholeheartedly agree with most of the information presented, all but this particular piece.

Speaking from what was once the inside of that loop, I'm not buying the sentiment that folks are not going back to work because they are getting too much Federal money. I got the covid unemployment payments for a few weeks, but that ended last year. They were $600.00 a week, not the 900 a week that news shills are currently claiming. Oh, I was approved for an "indefinite extension", but was refused access to file weekly claims, so that alleged extension meant exactly squat - I got a nice letter proving and granting my eligibility, and that's it. There was no actual money or any payments attached to it. Maybe I could just frame the letter...

I never got ANY of the alleged "stimulus payments". Not a single damned dime of them. None, going all the way back to the Bush Stimulus. Not one thin dime, of ANY of them. I think they are just sound bites for the news to haggle over, and not anything that actually happens on the ground, or at the bank account, in the real world.

So it ain't "federal unemployment assistance" that is the hold-back. I'm told there are help wanted signs popping up around here like daisies after an April shower, and no one is applying for the openings. I know that a government contractor has sent me, at last count, 20 recruitment e-mails, from the same contractor. Smells of desperation to me. A couple of days ago I got another e-mail from Amazon, recruiting for a manager position, "Manager of Distribution Services" in a facility a couple hours from here that they are apparently trying to open.

It's neither federal money nor lack of jobs that is the hold back. It's the damned covid hysteria, and draconian government measures to keep us in line and show us who is boss - and that it ain't the citizens who are the boss any more. I'm not even tempted to apply for a job where I have to wear a muzzle for 8 or 10 hours a day to prove my loyalty to "The Party". They can kiss my unmasked ass. I'm no longer in the market for government contract work, either. It would be hypocritical of me to advise fine young men to run screaming away from the military recruitment centers due to the current regime and their unstable approach to "defense", and at the same time accept work defense contracting to that same unstable regime. Likewise for Amazon - I cannot, with a clear conscience, accept employment with a company that supports The Regime's destruction of my country, one that goes so far as to use it's own private infrastructure to support government censorship and the silencing of political views of the government's opposition. If I won't buy from them, it would be hypocritical to work for them.

It's not ALL on the BidenHarris regime, though. I live behind enemy lines, in the Soviet Socialist State of Virginia (used to be a "commonwealth", and still makes that claim, without evidence). A lot of it is on Ralph Northam and his draconian anti-science covid measures. I will not be working again until those measures are gone, and we are moving back towards freedom in Virginia. I can lay in my bed and shoot deer and rabbits out of the bedroom window far more easily than I can fight for my daily breath through a covid muzzle. If you want to improve the economy and unemployment, then give folks the freedom to work. The only way to open an economy is to give it the freedom to breathe. Anything else is just more totalitarian bullshit.

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[ABNARTY]

6+% unemployment with millions of job openings that can’t be filled because federal unemployment assistance makes it more advantageous for people to stay home than work.

I wholeheartedly agree with most of the information presented, all but this particular piece.

Speaking from what was once the inside of that loop, I'm not buying the sentiment that folks are not going back to work because they are getting too much Federal money. I got the covid unemployment payments for a few weeks, but that ended last year. They were $600.00 a week, not the 900 a week that news shills are currently claiming. Oh, I was approved for an "indefinite extension", but was refused access to file weekly claims, so that alleged extension meant exactly squat - I got a nice letter proving and granting my eligibility, and that's it. There was no actual money or any payments attached to it. Maybe I could just frame the letter...

I never got ANY of the alleged "stimulus payments". Not a single damned dime of them. None, going all the way back to the Bush Stimulus. Not one thin dime, of ANY of them. I think they are just sound bites for the news to haggle over, and not anything that actually happens on the ground, or at the bank account, in the real world.

So it ain't "federal unemployment assistance" that is the hold-back. I'm told there are help wanted signs popping up around here like daisies after an April shower, and no one is applying for the openings. I know that a government contractor has sent me, at last count, 20 recruitment e-mails, from the same contractor. Smells of desperation to me. A couple of days ago I got another e-mail from Amazon, recruiting for a manager position, "Manager of Distribution Services" in a facility a couple hours from here that they are apparently trying to open.

It's neither federal money nor lack of jobs that is the hold back. It's the damned covid hysteria, and draconian government measures to keep us in line and show us who is boss - and that it ain't the citizens who are the boss any more. I'm not even tempted to apply for a job where I have to wear a muzzle for 8 or 10 hours a day to prove my loyalty to "The Party". They can kiss my unmasked ass. I'm no longer in the market for government contract work, either. It would be hypocritical of me to advise fine young men to run screaming away from the military recruitment centers due to the current regime and their unstable approach to "defense", and at the same time accept work defense contracting to that same unstable regime. Likewise for Amazon - I cannot, with a clear conscience, accept employment with a company that supports The Regime's destruction of my country, one that goes so far as to use it's own private infrastructure to support government censorship and the silencing of political views of the government's opposition. If I won't buy from them, it would be hypocritical to work for them.

It's not ALL on the BidenHarris regime, though. I live behind enemy lines, in the Soviet Socialist State of Virginia (used to be a "commonwealth", and still makes that claim, without evidence). A lot of it is on Ralph Northam and his draconian anti-science covid measures. I will not be working again until those measures are gone, and we are moving back towards freedom in Virginia. I can lay in my bed and shoot deer and rabbits out of the bedroom window far more easily than I can fight for my daily breath through a covid muzzle. If you want to improve the economy and unemployment, then give folks the freedom to work. The only way to open an economy is to give it the freedom to breathe. Anything else is just more totalitarian bullshit.

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A good point.

Around me everyone is hiring but they say no one is applying. Then I hear it's hard to find a job. The two do not reconcile. 

As you point out, the governmental reaction to the C19 boogie man has really destabilized the economy. Normally if labor is scare, companies would offer better pay and benefits. Not happening at least as far as I can see. A few hiring bonuses here and there but that's it. Kind of anemic. 

As you point out, there is a social issue too. The information campaign really put the wet pants fear in a portion of the population. A lot of unclear thinking going on. 

POV Observation warning: I have noticed a lot more people around me going to, for lack of a better term, the individual or local network economy. People selling skills or stuff to other people directly. No store or third party. It's probably a very natural thing for humans to do. Not artificial. I could be wrong.

[F2d5thCav]

I've noted in Europe as well how some work from closed shops has migrated to the black market.  The services are still performed, but people come on house calls and it is on a cash-only basis only.

I was thinking today how that reminds me of the effects of Prohibition.

Cheers

[Ninurta]

POV Observation warning: I have noticed a lot more people around me going to, for lack of a better term, the individual or local network economy. People selling skills or stuff to other people directly. No store or third party. It's probably a very natural thing for humans to do. Not artificial. I could be wrong.

I think they may be falling back on the "barter economy", which is the natural outcome of governmental interference destroying a thriving economy. Individuals can, and will, create their own local economies, a sort of "black market" that bypasses governmental regulation and control entirely when they perceive that government interference is impinging on their own ability to economically survive and thrive.

It has happened in every instance of a socialist economy, when that economy collapses under it's own weight and poor management. Even the mighty, iron-fisted Soviet Union had a thriving black market. I can recall a time when American blue jeans could be bought for 8 or 10 dollars a pair here, shipped to Russia, and unloaded there for around 75 dollars a pair, for a handsome profit.

just as was observed in the movie Jurassic Park, "life will find a way"... and, likewise, economy will find a way, too. Even if it involves smuggling, barter, and a "gray" or "black" market to interact outside the scope of the officially controlled market. All it takes is for someone to have a demand, someone else to move the supply, and a level of ineptitude in government that precludes normal channels of commerce from happening.

This is why I have been advising folks for some time now to get in on the ground floor of the "barter economy". I can see staggering levels of ineptitude in our current regime, and that will lead, inevitably and inexorably, to a thriving black market and barter economy. The alternative would be extinction via starvation.

But life, and an economy, will always find a way - even if it's not a strictly legal way. Survival supercedes petty things like law in the final analysis.

ETA: And this - 

As you point out, the governmental reaction to the C19 boogie man has really destabilized the economy. Normally if labor is scare, companies would offer better pay and benefits. Not happening at least as far as I can see. A few hiring bonuses here and there but that's it. Kind of anemic. 

I think they are relying on the fact that many have been out of work for over a year now, so they think those hungry folk would jump at a chance for a job without the incentives. they seem to be finding out differently. What they are not accounting for, in my opinion, is that a year is a very long time to go hungry, and most folks will find a way to prevent their belt buckles from slapping the hell out of their backbones during that time. Employers will have to overcome the incentive of being able to feed one's self without having to punch someone else's time clock, so eventually, the incentives will trickle in, once they figure that out. In my opinion, they will have to bring them before BidenHarris' Marxist economic policies choke out their ability to do so, so it's a race they are currently losing.

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[Ninurta]

I've noted in Europe as well how some work from closed shops has migrated to the black market.  The services are still performed, but people come on house calls and it is on a cash-only basis only.

I was thinking today how that reminds me of the effects of Prohibition.

Cheers

Exactly!

It's happening here, too. people are starting to figure out that they can make more tax-free money "under the table" than they can by adhering to onerous government regulations and taxation.

Here, it may be laid at the doorstep of the BidenHarrisObamaCarter School of Marxist Philosophy that levies onerous taxation while ignoring the representational aspects of the will of the people, combined with that school of thought's other major platform, the thought that if you run out of other folks' money to spend, you can just print up another batch. That causes runaway inflation, and that, combined with dictatorial taxation rates induces people to find another, more private and less governmentally regulated way of doing business.

I recall the double digit inflation and astronomical interest rates of the Carter era, and it looks like BidenHarris must have told Carter to "just hold my beer and watch THIS!" in their recent meeting.

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[727Sky]

[Ninurta]

Oh my! Must have been a good video that hit the mark - they certainly snatched it off of the interwebs rapidly!

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[727Sky]