Visions and Hallucinations

The flaw in the official poverty measure is that it doesn’t count most government subsidies, such as Treasury checks beneficiaries receive from refundable tax credits, debit cards loaded with food-stamp allowances, and Medicaid payments as income to the recipients. When all benefits are counted, the percentage of Americans living in poverty falls to only 2.5%.

So, why would the government want to increase the appearance of poverty in the country?

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At least eight cities—including Chicago, Newark, N.J., San Diego, and St. Paul, Minn.—are using leftover Covid relief money to finance guaranteed income experiments.

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There is a notion that the problem in Israel will be solved if everyone went back to where they came from. One observation was that the estimated 16 million descendants of Genghis Khan—who are now genetically identifiable—will have to “go back where they belong” and live among the current 3.3 million residents of Mongolia.

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Visions and Hallucinations

“Let me be clear: To any corporation that has not brought their prices back down—even as inflation has come down, even as supply chains have been rebuilt—it’s time to stop the price gouging,” Biden warned, imploring them to “giv[e] the American consumer a break.”

So inflation is caused by price gouging.

If this were sincere it would fall somewhere between whipping the rebellious ocean waters and sentencing gravity for the deaths in a plane crash.

But it is not sincere. Even Biden is not that dumb or impaired. This is mendacity, plain and simple. And lying is so commonplace and routine, it is becoming exhausting. People don't even respond to it anymore.