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The world is back to business

In addition to unprecedented corruption and ineptitude
Along with more COVID-19 infection / spead / death. These are the people who continue to pretend the virus was fake, and vaccines are Chinese microchips.
 
Wrong. The supply chain crisis that still reverberates was in large part caused by people falling ill with covid-19.

As I recall the accounts were one-ofs, followed by small outbreaks becoming big outbreaks in record time. Small companies or departments of large companies lost staff in groups. That slowed things.

Then whole companies, schools, hospitals were hit....

Then the food stores were stripped of meat, milk & toilet paper.
 
As I recall the accounts were one-ofs, followed by small outbreaks becoming big outbreaks in record time. Small companies or departments of large companies lost staff in groups. That slowed things.

Then whole companies, schools, hospitals were hit....

Then the food stores were stripped of meat, milk & toilet paper.
We experienced severe shortages in truck drivers, dock workers, meat packers, etc due to covid outbreaks.
 
THE ADDITIONAL DEFICITS

There were going to be supply chain issues regardless, and the U.S. economy is growing considerably faster than it has in more than 30 years (which is contributing to some inflationary pressure):

However, had the GOP stuck to their ideology and cut government spending, the U.S. would face heavily elevated unemployment to go along with elevated price levels. Your post is based on partisan fantasy and ignorance of political economy

As I never tire of saying: Government Spending depends upon the reason for expenditure. In times of comparative peace the DoD is not a priority. It is an important Defense Mechanism but no continuous expansion is necessary since there is no world threat that would justify it. (Nope, not even shat-for-brains Putin. Unless he does something stoopid, which is always a distinct possibility because he is under developed mentally and he knows he cannot start a war without being himself a top-target for an atomic-bomb.)

Cutting government spending seems to a be an automatic response of the brainless GOP whenever there is a Democrat PotUS. Evidently, the mountain of moulah that Trump spent is not in question because, after all, he's an EX-PotUS. Of which, this can be said (from here): Trump's Fiscal Legacy

$3.9 Trillion in Additional Deficits

When President Trump took office in January 2017, he inherited a growing economy and budget deficits that had gradually fallen to 3% of GDP in the years since the Great Recession. At this time, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that the $585 billion budget deficit from 2016 would dip to $487 billion by 2018, before the baby boomer–driven rise in Social Security and Medicare costs would gradually push deficits up to $1.4 trillion by 2027. Overall, CBO projected that $10.0 trillion in deficits over the 2017–2027 period would drive the debt held by the public to $24.9 trillion (see Figures 1 and 2).

Yet while running for president, Trump pledged to balance the budget and then pay off the entire national debt. He boasted to the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, “we’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt … I think I could do it fairly quickly … I would say over a period of eight years.” Of course, doing so would be virtually impossible—politically, economically, and mathematically—especially given his promise not to cut Social Security and Medicare, which drove virtually the entire projected rise in debt.

So, egg-head Trump could do no better than his predecessors. Which is a political headache for both parties - Dems and Replicants. We elect people who talk one way to get elected and then spend four years having disregarded whatever originally they said or promised. THAT is the most grave threat of any Real Democracy. The candidates say one thing and happenstance-in-office forces them do otherwise. And the endless talk about Reducing the Government Budget goes on-and-on-and-on but gets nowhere ... !

PS: And then many, upon returning to a secular-existence, they write a book explaining why they were "forced by circumstance" to do whatever they did!
 
MORE THAN A THIRD ARE OBESE!

Except for the fact that China is going through flickering strobe shutdowns of their major cities, and we are on the cusp of a global famine in the developing world and a fuel crisis in most of the developed world due to Russia invading Ukraine...yeah. I suppose. We are almost back to pre-COVID levels, Lafayette.

From here: China's great famine: 40 years later

When was the last global famine?

Forty years ago China was in the middle of the world's largest famine: between the spring of 1959 and the end of 1961 some 30 million Chinese starved to death and about the same number of births were lost or postponed.

So this one is not just a "nothing panic" - it is truly international in nature. Which is why we should be concerned. It is upon-us now and not just waiting to arrive!

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ore than a third (36.2%*) of Americans are functionally obese ... !

*From here: Obesity Rates by Country
 
The economic downturn was caused entirely by idiotic governments forcibly shutting down private businesses, not by covid.
Only an idiot could believe businesses would have remained open in similar capacity in the absence of state lockdowns of dense population settings.

Restaurants, bars, offices, large format events (think sports and concerts) were going to close regardless, and the business that serve them would have still taken a hit.

Sure, a few MAGA did would have remained open, made some great money, infected / killed a lot more people... but the pandemic completely decimated consumer sentiment.

What kind of alternate reality are you trying to sell?
 
TEACHING THE POLITICAL-STRUCTURE OF AMERICA FROM THE BOTTOM-UP

What kind of alternate reality are you trying to sell?

It is endemic in the US, especially with the latest generations, that Uncle Sam is NUMBER-ONE and nothing bad could/should happen as regards Education. Which is probably the most important factor in our upbringing.

Which has also become also a sickness in the US and here's why: We have diminished the learning of what is Democracy and how it functions in America.

A long, long time ago (in secondary-school education) I took a course that in a small number of months explained how democracy works in America. There was no mention whatsoever of how only two parties determine who runs the country. Which has become a highly singular attribute in American politics. But, so be it.

From here: An Overview of the Funding of Public Schools

Where does the Money Come From?

According to Education Week, public school funding comes from a variety of sources at the local, state and federal level. Approximately 48 percent of a school’s budget comes from state resources, including income taxes, sales tax, and fees. Another 44 percent is contributed locally, primarily through the property taxes of homeowners in the area. The last eight percent of the public education budget comes from federal sources, with an emphasis on grants for specific programs and services for students that need them.

Only eight-percent of total funding comes from national-resources. (Namely, the Dept. of Education in Washington).

And I suggest that is the problem. Funding assures the quality of what is taught and for any subject as important as national/state governance it should be taught from prepared programs of education. Yes, even kindergarten should have a teaching-program, as simple as it might be. Moreover, there must be a policing of the subject matter at all levels of schooling.

And to get that information, go here: Everything You Need to Know About The American Curriculum

Otherwise, what you get in secondary-school education is the political-bullshat that infests many political-exchanges employed nowadays (to "win" an election). We-the-sheeple must know how the country/state/town are run technically (not politically) and that should be taught in high-school everywhere in the same manner ...

Education (and how it is managed) must become the primary-interest of all families as regards their children up to and including high-schooling ...
 
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