{"id":102444,"date":"2020-07-20T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=102444"},"modified":"2020-07-20T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:19:14","slug":"is-this-a-gotcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=102444","title":{"rendered":"Is This a Gotcha Moment?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stoopid D-Hoomans (snort!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Poetrooper sends us the following article from American Thinker.<\/p>\n

My only response to it is “Well, du-u-uh!”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/deferred_disease_disaster_dawning_on_democrats.html<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article:<\/p>\n

A huge problem is coming soon. \u00a0Authoritarian blue-state governors and mayors thought they could conduct lockdowns without dire consequences. \u00a0But all that these fools have done is deferred disaster. \u00a0That disaster is the reduction in city and state taxes due to the business shutdowns that they ordered.<\/p>\n

State and local government officials are starting to hear about this lack of income from their finance teams, and they are mighty concerned. \u00a0As a result, all across the country, panicked conference calls have been conducted and are probably still going on this weekend.<\/p>\n

Specifically, the problem is balancing state and local budgets. \u00a0Sales taxes from closed businesses are way down, and expenses due to precautions for the coronavirus are way up. \u00a0There is no way to make these numbers balance. \u00a0As a result, governments are burning through their reserves, safety funds, slush funds, and rainy day set-asides that they had managed to squirrel away in better times. \u00a0But within weeks, if not months, the situation will become dire.<\/p>\n

What will happen?\u00a0 – article<\/p>\n

Yes, what will happen?\u00a0 Did any of this occur to the state governments ahead of time, or did they think it would just “go away”?\u00a0 The recent spike in CV-19 down there in the hinterlands is the result of those southern “party states”, where the college kids go for Spring Break, not paying attention and thinking everything was okay.<\/p>\n

Well, it ain’t. Won’t be for a while. Vaxxes are still in the testing stage. And if you’ll recall those two financial projections that I posted links to a short while ago, the second financial projection indicated this recession (which had also been forecast in 2018) will stretch out to 2024 to 2025. How these losses will affect the rest of the world remains to be seen, but when our own political animals don’t “get” the connection between state and local taxes and the huge loss of those incomes due to this CV19 shutdown, the only finger pointing should be at themselves.<\/p>\n

And just to tell you how truly stupid political animals can be, Kamala Harris wants to give everybody $2,000\/month until the pandemic is over. Fine – but where is the money going to come from, Ms. Cheezwizz-for-brains?<\/p>\n

To be clear, there are still people working and businesses still open, all paying taxes, but they are those businesses that are considered a necessity (grocery stores, hardware stores, etc.) and people who fix broken stuff like refrigerators and stoves and air conditioners.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Poe.\u00a0 Please keep sending stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poetrooper sends us the following article from American Thinker. My only response to it is “Well, … Is This a Gotcha Moment?<\/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":[220,213,484,224,472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-covid-19","category-darwin-awards","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102444","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=102444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102449,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102444\/revisions\/102449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}