No such thing as a free lunch

This upcoming presidential election promises to be a doozy:

The Orange Don (economic genius) who filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy six times between 1990 and 2009 vs. the Woman Who Promises All of Us a Free Lunch.

What a choice.

I think I’ll vote for Bambi the stripper. At least Bambi understands the meaning of an honest buck, hard work, supply and demand. If the strip joint is empty. Bambi’s not making any money.

Something I’m not sure either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris understands.

First thing that comes to my mind with only 11 weeks until the election is: “Woe is us” to quote a biblical phrase often used to convey deep distress, misfortune, or calamity.

Often used in prophetic books, the phrase highlights the dire consequences of disobedience or the sorrowful state of humanity. It’s a powerful phrase expressing intense grief, misery, and a sense of impending doom. (Source: Google’s AI.)

After four years in office, I already know all I need to know about Trump. Who else could have turned a pandemic, a public- health emergency into a political divide, which saw people fighting over a facemask.

Now we have Joe Rogan, the unfunny, shaved-head podcaster worth hundreds of millions doing a stand-up Netflix socalled comedy act actually joking about a pandemic that killed more than 1 million Americans. (Source: Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.)

By the way, Johns Hopkins quit tracking COVID-related fatalities back in March 2023, so how many Americans have died from the coronavirus since then, who knows.

Said Rogan on Netflix: “COVID was just so strange. And we lost a lot of people during COVID, and most of them are still alive.”

In today’s messed-up America, that’s supposed to be funny. How?

Hello, Kamala

Now comes Kamala Harris, who was either tough on crime during her stint as San Fran DA and California AG or soft on crime depending on which source you access.

By the way, she was never given the title “Border Czar.” That came from Greg Abbott and his minions who continue to claim that she refused to address the “border crisis” during her stint as Joe’s veep.

Actually, securing our southern border was never Harris’s job. Biden, in a brief fit of coherency, told her to go play nice with the politicians who run Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador and see if there’s not some way they can stem the tide of poor people from those countries migrating to the U.S.

Hint: It can’t be done, no matter how much money we throw at THEIR problem.

The real problem with Kamala Harris is that she apparently has no clue as to how economics actually works in the real world, and that should be of concern to every American, rich or poor, because we all have to buy food.

The other thing that should be of at least some concern is that Kamala’s dad is a PhD who has taught economics over the years at numerous universities, which wouldn’t be bad in and of itself if he didn’t count Karl Marx as one of people who influenced his work along with John Maynard Keynes who promoted the idea of deficit spending and increased government spending.

No doubt, some of her dad’s work rubbed off on the daughter.

In fact, it’s evident all over the place whenever Harris discusses her economic plans if she’s elected president this year, which seems almost a given at this point, based on how the numbers are polling, especially in the swing states.

By the way, for anyone who has never looked up just a brief, brief biography of Karl Marx, a derelict in all regards who sponged off of family and friends his entire life, never held a job that paid any real money, you owe it to yourself to at least get online and do a little reading about the guy. Then you’ll be left wondering, why did anyone buy into his Marxist philosophies, which ended up killing billions of people the world over.

Of course, now the communists in China manufacture most of our goods, but that’s another story. Simply put, their agents pumped tons of money into the pockets of our politicians in D.C., bought them off, and there went our factories, but who wants to talk about that?

Harris’s Economic Plan

I get it. People, especially lifelong Democrats and many independents, are now excited over the prospect of a Kamala presidency because Trump is the devil incarnate, to which Stormy Daniels would probably agree, and wouldn’t it be nice to elect a woman president?

Why not?

For once and for all, prove that neither gender is capable of running the country, both beholden to the special interests that place them in power.

Another presidential election when the American electorate is left to choose the lesser of two evils.

We don’t know a lot about how Kamala Harris would handle foreign policy.

We do know, however, how she would handle the economy, and so far, it’s not looking good.

For example, last Friday, she rolled out several economic proposals meant to address higher costs of living, which one can argue already has something to do with her former boss, Joe Biden, pumping $5 trillion in pandemic stimulus money into the U.S. economy as early as March 2022. (Source: NY Times.)

If you want to know why inflation is such a problem, that’s one place to start. You pump that much money into an economy, it’s going to heat up, supply is going to decrease while demand increases, and there go your prices. Simple Economic 101: Supply and Demand. I learned that when I was 20 taking a college economics course. Pretty easy concept to grasp, supply and demand.

Unfortunately, Kamala doesn’t understand that apparently, because she wants to pump more money into the economy, forgetting that the U.S. gross federal public debt is already approximately $28.2 trillion.

Meaning, the U.S. is stone, cold broke.

Bump that debt up to approximately $35 trillion if you include the money the government owes itself, such as the Social Security Trust Fund and other federal programs that were supposed to be protected from theft. (Didn’t work.)

For Fiscal Year 2024, the national deficit is $1.9 trillion while we send more money to Ukraine and other countries. (Source: Congressional Budget Office.)

The Trump supporters scream, “You see.”

See what?

Under the Orange Cheeto, the national debt increased by $7.8 trillion. (Source: ProPublica.org/ Fed Reserve Bank of NY.)

Point that most Americans don’t get, and I can’t figure out why, is that no matter who gets elected president, we fall further behind any semblance of a balanced budget. The interest American taxpayers pay PER YEAR (I hate allcaps, but sometimes they seem warranted) on that debt amounts to $892 billion for Fiscal Year 2024. That’s just the interest owed.

Kamala’s answer to rising inflation?

In her speech made last Friday about fixing our current financial dilemma (high inflation, interest rates, etc.) she wants to, get this: “Speaking in Raleigh, N.C., Harris promised to create an ‘opportunity economy’ through a series of bold economic measures including a first-ever federal ban on grocery price gouging, expanded down-payment assistance for first-time home buyers, and providing $6,000 per child to families for the first year of the child’s life.” (Source: time.com.)

I don’t even know where to begin with that brand of insanity.

For starters, the reasons why groceries cost more are mainly a result of supply and demand, (the pandemic wreaked havoc on the supply chain) and the fact that Russia invaded Ukraine, the world’s largest producer of wheat.

The grocery chains may tie a little bit more profit into the prices, but that’s yet to be proven as far as I know, and it hardly constitutes “price gouging.”

But it sells, and plays to the masses.

So let’s take the classic liberal stance and blame the free market.

Hello, Karl Marx.

Second, where is Harris going to get the $6,000 per child?

We’re broke.

Also, is that not going to serve as an incentive for poor people to have more kids?

Of course it is. LBJ’s Great Society Program got the ball rolling, and Kamala’s going to keep carrying the deflated ball to the goal posts already leaning over.

A patient in a mental institution without the capacity to think can figure that one out in no time flat.

So, this is where we’re at with only 11 weeks left until the November election: A choice between a woman who apparently has no basic concept of economics vs. a guy who declared bankruptcy six times, screwing the vendors he owed each time who built his casinos and hotels, and ran up a deficit of $7.8 trillion, with the help of the hookers in Congress, during his four years at the helm.

I think I’m going to just go bury my head in the sand.