DEJA VU, AGAIN A6b

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE DEJA VU, AGAIN A6b With just days left before the elections, you would think that the candidates will address the actual problems of the nation and offer some honest solutions. Try to get the populace together not divide us. But what if they don't address the real problems because they have no real solutions, what if they don't want you to even know the real problems and want you distracted? The truth is that the elite don't want us to know the real issues, that they don't want us to know how bleak the outlook is, and that we have been made a fool of all along? Not many of us really understand that we are facing existential crisis, in food, in climate, in jobs, in energy costs, in labor (we have either too many jobs, or too few jobs, for the various sections of the labor pool). Our lives ( at a very personal, individual and family level) are affected more by the economy than anything else, regardless of what else you may believe to be "MOST IMPORTANT", don't fool yourself into believing otherwise. Take a few moments, step back from all the hoopla and the noise. We are 35 trillion in debt, the interest payment alone reached a trillion this year and it will only get higher as we borrow more money, and the interest rates rise next year. And the markets tell us that even if we have two more drops by the inauguration the rates will rise again. How do I know? Look at the mortgage rates that are already going up, mortgage rates are based on the expectation of the future rises in interest rates. Inflation will not slow, as the gold and other commodity prices are going up. But no one is talking about that. There is no candidate that can control the market or the interest rates or has a magic wand that fixes it. Food prices are ready for a huge jump also, our crops are suffering droughts and hurricanes both at the same time. And then there are the recalls, the factories being damaged by hurricanes, it is not just one thing. Concentration in industry is another, we have one or two or just few facilities to make or process many items. Did we forget the baby formula shortage already? When we have almost daily recalls on different items, chicken, meats, cereals heck even frozen waffles for goodness sakes. If we take our eyes off of what really matters we become susceptible to any distraction that comes along, so focus. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON. M. N. R. 21 OCTOBER 2024

DEJA VU, AGAIN A6a

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE DEJA VU, AGAIN A6a There is an election in 17 days, so they say, it is the most important election of our lives, ( they always say that), makes you feel important, like you and I really get to decide what comes next. Another lie we are expected to believe. We know that we only get to choose from the candidates that are sponsored by the bankers and the industrialists, but we play along, as if one or the other is sincerely concerned about the welfare of the country or our personal predicaments. Nothing could be further than the truth. No matter who gets elected or what policies or promises are offered, the life of the average American will not improve. No matter what you have done, where you are in life, is the result of your own initiative and your own choices. Don't blame, and certainly do not give credit to the politicians. Now if you have done really well, thank the politicians you were able to buy and bribe, and your richer friends that helped you. "It is the economy, stup/d", it was said, but what about your own economy? We complain about inflation but fail to realize that the house that we bought for a 100k 40 years ago is now worth half a mill, good or bad? Inflation has been with us for a very long time, even we just now happen to notice. Gold was $280 per ounce in 2000, it closes the week at over $2700 , yes that is inflation that you don't talk about, the stock market has doubled in the last 4 years, did you miss the boat? No wonder you complain about inflation, economy is complex no matter what anyone tells you. Market keeps shooting up, it is saying that inflation will get worse no matter who is elected. None, don't bet your house in which candidate will save us. Inflation will get much worse yet, no policy of either candidate will help the working class. I will write more real soon. M. N. R. 19 OCTOBER 2024

INFLATION!

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE For those that do not understand how the economy really works, inflation was predicted before even the pandemic was officially declared, I wrote a whole two part article on my blog, as to what will happen to the prices as a result, every thing I had mentioned came true, similarly when we started the war in Ukraine, I posted again about its negative effects on the prices, the shortages and the deficits, nothing unknown, yes our own policies are to blame, but it is a shared blame, by the left and the right, then there is the supply chain problem with the war in Gaza. Still if we compare our inflation with the rest of the world we are luckier than many others, since our food supply is still mainly local. Much of the inflation here can still be blamed on price gouging by corporations that are boosting their own profits. We don't want the government to control profits and the government (both parties) is beholden to their rich donors. It is same people here that want the government to stay out of the business's business are the one blaming the government for inflation, get some knowledge about how the world, that we live in, actually works. Ofcourse there will be another bout of inflation as a result of recent hurricanes, no only in housing costs, but also in agricultural products, the interst rate may be staying up a while. M. N. R. 10 OCTOBER 2024

DEJA VU, AGAIN A5

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE DEJA VU, AGAIN A5 I feel philosophical, I philosophical means depressed or down. But I am not depressed or down, I am numb, like that Pink Floyd song, "Comfortably Numb". Just that though, comfortable, don't know really what that song is about. "Like a distant ship"! I decided that I would be detached, not like a hermit though, just detached, "Watching the wheels", but watching the wheels is not really "detachment" one is still involved "in watching", it is difficult to be a true "Stoic" even, much as one would hope. I thought about how people really think, how do we become "something", as in something "definable", ofcourse we only want to be defined as someone accepted by those around us, so we end up emulating those we keep company with. We don't choose to, but maybe we do exactly that. We do have choices, we say, but what if we, ourselves, limit our choices? There is a tray full of beads of many colors and you wish to make a necklace per se, and you wish to make a necklace of red beads, so regardless of how colors are available, you only choose the red beads for your necklace, disregarding all others. Same is true of our knowledge, we only choose what we like. There was a study of what people order at a restaurant, it was discovered that most people, often, ordered the same items, regardless of all the many other choices available. We are like that. It is said that America is almost equally divided, I don't believe it to be true atall, the fact is that we are only GIVEN two choices, take it or leave it. There is no way that exactly half the population has exactly the same preferences as all others in that group. We are not choosing, we are told what we must choose, take it or leave it, this is not how a "democracy" should work. M. N. R. 03 OCTOBER 2024