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From ‘Make America Great Again’ to ‘Cope With Being Poor’ in One Election Cycle
Bloomberg has some helpful hints for coping with runaway Bidenflation and Bidenfuelshortages. It basically involves cutting back on buying things that are getting too expensive. (Where would we be without experts, am I right?) And, strangely enough, the exploding cost of fuel under Biden should force us into driving less, getting rid of our cars, and switching to unreliable, union-staffed public transportation just like the environmental extremists have been pushing for years.
To deal with gas prices, it’s worth reconsidering public transportation if it’s an option where you live. Fares are up about 8% compared with 38% for gasoline. Now may even be the time to sell your car.
Also, hopefully, you aren’t too terribly fond of your household pets.
If you’re one of the many Americans who became a new pet owner during the pandemic, you might want to rethink those costly pet medical needs.
Also, switch from meat to lentils as an intermediate step between our meat-enjoying past and our bug-eating “you will own nothing and be happy” future.
Tasty meat substitutes include vegetables (where prices are up a little over 4%, or lentils and beans, which are up about 9%). Plan to cut out the middle creature and consume plants directly. It’s a more efficient, healthier and cheaper way to get calories.
The author probably doesn’t realize that beans and lentils depend on hydrocarbon intensive fertilizers and planting/harvesting machines. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from Berkeley and is on the Board of a Left-Wing Think Tank.
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Problem identified . . .
(I could have left off “from Berkeley” and still be correct.)
This is especially true when an economy gets to a hyperinflation. Choosing buses and subways over taxis is an important way to save, because the former modes of transportation collect fares at the start of the trip, and taxis collect at the end.
All bus and subway systems etc are subsidized, and fares will either go way high due to fuel/energy costs – which bus and subway systems also require – or they will end up being shut down due to cost.
Or, the subsidies will be vastly increased. ex-Mayor Pete B. thinks trains are romantic. Our president thinks he is riding Amtrak right now.
I expect they’ll try that at first, but I doubt it can go very far. They’ll get around to mandating that oil companies sell fuel to public transportation at ridiculously low prices, etc.
I think gas prices are up more like 50% to 100% or more.
Biden ’24–Learn to Love Lentils.
But who’s going to grow the lentils?
Soon leftists will begin stating fuel producers and store Owners are price gouging and should be punished.
Then come the price controls.
Followed by low price tags on empty shelves.
And people like Bernie Sanders consider the socialism situation better because the time of humans is worth less than the time of the bread.
I got your lentils right here, Bloomberg. And I’ll tell you where to put them.
Took me a minute :-)
I bet.
I have been told by the Biden administration that I should consider public transportation because of gas prices. While not thrilled by this option I understand I need to do my part. Strangely google maps transportation say I can not get to my work from my home.
That’s why they say everyone has to live in the big cities. Even the farmers, I guess.
It helps with the diversity project. Where they force non whites to live with whites that dislike crime.
No advice on how the government can get along with less money?
Next up will be exhortations on the health benefits of walking. Everywhere.
Our local TV news has a spot every day with these “tips” that you could not possibly come up with on your own. They say they get them from Nerdwallet. I would never think of spending less to save some money. That’s only for idiots.
So many of these leftist preachers exhibit no interest whatsoever in what happens even a step or two upstream from their consumer position in the supply chain. It’s not that hard to find videos on YouTube made by farmers who will show you how they put 150 gallons of diesel fuel into each of their various pieces of equipment to run them for a day or two, or talk about the impact of doubled and tripled fertilizer prices in recent months. Also videos by truckers who transport the agricultural product to the processor, then to the Whole Foods market where our intrepid Debby Downer author can buy it, with their 250 gallon fuel tanks that have to be filled about twice to take a load from the agricultural middle of the country to the coasts. Not a lot of lentils or beans being grown in Silicon Valley or in Manhattan or in the District of Columbia.
Of course they don’t believe that. Just ask Creepy Joe, who is still claiming – through Jen Psaki – that spending MORE is required to save money and bring inflation down.
I was talking to a Fed economist last week. I told him how I thought that dealing with the federal ARPA money was giving me Cipher Stroke, a nervous disorder first identified during the German hyperinflation, where accountants started writing long strings of zeros after numbers, and numbers lost their meaning to the point where some victims reported having 4,000 children. He reminded me of the above advice, and eating at cafeterias where you paid before you sat down to eat.
Public transportation around the Seattle metro area has become too dangerous. Not only are the
homeless“unhoused” sleeping across more than one seat, but now there are regular reports of riders smoking fentanyl and other drugs while in the buses or light rail. Contact high on narcotics, anyone? No thanks.Now THAT’S comedy!
Oddly I do live in a metro area
Well sometimes when I lived in the Phoenix area people would think “you can’t get there from here” but in fact you could, it might just take 2 or 3 hours each way with transfers, etc.
Actually the answer surprised me. When I checked COVID it was an 8 hour trip each way. I gather some connections no longer exist.