{"id":100759,"date":"2020-06-10T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=100759"},"modified":"2020-06-10T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T12:49:56","slug":"reality-check-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=100759","title":{"rendered":"Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-70448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lightning-bug-and-beetles-on-coneflower-2006-08-13-e-mail-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lightning-bug-and-beetles-on-coneflower-2006-08-13-e-mail-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lightning-bug-and-beetles-on-coneflower-2006-08-13-e-mail-302x333.jpg 302w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lightning-bug-and-beetles-on-coneflower-2006-08-13-e-mail.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>AOC\u2019s brilliant plan to eliminate fossil fuels is not getting a good reception in the working classes. However, Biden appears to be floating over in that direction while voters are slowly oozing away from him, in the opposite direction.\u00a0 In fact, people who would normally vote Democrat appear to be moving to the right-hand side of the political fence, for good reasons: without the products coming out of an oil-based economic landscape, jobs will likely become scarce.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidesources.com\/climate-extremism-is-dividing-democrats\/\">https:\/\/www.insidesources.com\/climate-extremism-is-dividing-democrats\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now why would I say &#8220;oil-based&#8221;? Everything that you take for granted as being available requires production of some kind, usually in a factory or on a farm, which requires a fuel source of some kind to function, and transportation to get it to market, which also requires fuel to get the products to market.\u00a0 The use of petroleum could be somewhat reduced if the anti-nukes crowd weren&#8217;t so wigged out about how horrible even a small reactor is, unless it&#8217;s out of their sight. They must think that electric power falls from the sky &#8211; and, well, maybe it does, if it&#8217;s lightning or if it&#8217;s solar-based. But the detritus of broken and worn-out parts for solar farms and wind farms cannot be recycled. They end up in dumps, and take forever to break down, and they are huge contributors to soil pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, we&#8217;re in a nearly jobless economic environment. 2.5 million people went back to work a short while ago, but it&#8217;s a drop in a bucket compared to those other 36++ millions whose jobs have disappeared forever, or who have yet to be recalled to the labor force.\u00a0 Some jobs may be gone forever. Scarce jobs mean low wages and lower tax revenues, and more people on unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t matter to those in the so-called &#8220;elite classes&#8221;, because they think they&#8217;re up above it all while the rest of us are down here groveling in the dirt. They forget: we cough up the tax money, in every possible way from income taxes to sales taxes, that goes into their paychecks. They owe us.<\/p>\n<p>And that is behind this statement:\u00a0 \u201cPrioritizing the opinions of elites over the working class is beginning to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2019\/09\/03\/climate-change-democratic-candidates-2020-227910\">tear apart<\/a>\u00a0the Democrat party, as lifelong Democrats are moving toward President Trump and his support for cheap energy and American jobs.<\/p>\n<p>With the economy struggling and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/d83ae33742142af43dc48854ab97fd47?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=AP\">36 million<\/a> or more Americans filing for unemployment because of the coronavirus, liberals are recklessly advocating policies plunging the economy into a deeper tailspin. For example, the Green New Deal (GND), which Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/climate\/\">calls<\/a>\u00a0a \u201ccrucial framework,\u201d increases expenses by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cei.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Daniel%20Turner%20and%20Kent%20Lassman%20-%20What%20the%20Green%20New%20Deal%20Could%20Cost%20a%20Typical%20Household.pdf\">tens of thousands annually<\/a> **for an average American family.\u201d &#8211; article<\/p>\n<p>**The pdf document is above and also at this link: \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/cei.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Daniel%20Turner%20and%20Kent%20Lassman%20-%20What%20the%20Green%20New%20Deal%20Could%20Cost%20a%20Typical%20Household.pdf\">https:\/\/cei.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Daniel%20Turner%20and%20Kent%20Lassman%20-%20What%20the%20Green%20New%20Deal%20Could%20Cost%20a%20Typical%20Household.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I said yesterday, while all of you spent your time in useless bitching about Democrats while ignoring the actual subject of the post, this recession is NOT over yet. There is more of it ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Period.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d better let that sink in.<\/p>\n<p>Per those financial analysts who, in 2018, predicted a 2020 recession, this one isn\u2019t over yet and will continue into next year and beyond, into 2022, <em>no matter who is in the Oval Office<\/em>. In fact, if you had read what I posted, you\u2019d know that the forecast now is a continuing recession that will eventually equal the Great Depression and will last into 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Let me repeat that: <strong>No matter who is in the Oval Office, the recession will continue into next year, and further to 2022 and will last until some time in 2023.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AOC\u2019s brilliant plan to eliminate fossil fuels is not getting a good reception in the working &hellip; <a title=\"Reality Check\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=100759\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reality Check<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,11,98,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-economy","category-global-warming","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100760,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100759\/revisions\/100760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}