Duele Mucho

I filled up my car with gasoline yesterday.  The price of the gas that I use was exactly $2.00 more per gallon than it was when President Joe Biden was sworn in. 

At the grocery store, a gallon of milk costs about $1.34 more than it used to.  A 45 oz. tub of the margarine we buy is up by over $2.20.  Even the ground beef that we buy from our local meat pack is about $1.35 per pound higher than it was. 

I am all in favor of multi-variate analysis.  I understand that all sorts of variables are at play driving higher prices for the average American consumer.  Fundamentally, there is always more than one reason for things.  However, the fact remains that the radical policy changes imposed by the Biden administration and excessive government spending are the prime movers in the inflation that is impoverishing us all.  Honestly, I don’t know how people with kids are making it. 

Fellow citizens!  How do you screw up baby formula?  When the Abbott formula factory shut down, why didn’t some genius figure out that removing up to 40 percent of the baby formula from the market would cause shortages?  Why wasn’t an emergency plan put in place immediately to help mitigate the shortfall?  Incredible! 

I have news for all who will listen.  It doesn’t have to be this way.  Everybody who is eligible to vote must turn out to vote the Democrats, Progressives, Liberals, Socialists, and their ilk out of office in November and again in 2024.  Only close elections can be influenced by special interest groups and by eccentric billionaires like George Soros and Mark Zuckerberg.  If there is a landslide for conservative candidates, the elections cannot be manipulated.  If we take victory for granted or treat it as a forgone conclusion, we will lose.  Then we will be reduced to poverty.  To paraphrase Winston Churchill, Socialism seeks to make us all equal – equally poor.