Tuesday, January 2, 2024

"The uninvited caravan doesn't have a right to come to the United States. No one asked them to come up here. This is not their country. . . . They have no claim to come here" --Dave Smith

If they move to a place where there is so-called public infrastructure, without an invitation, they are squatting.  --Michael Rechtenwald, Libertarian Candidate for President in the 2024 Election.

End-of-Life Drug, Midazolam, Given During C19 = Euthanasia.

I know what we'll do.  We'll just bundle end-of-life drugs into the COVID protocol.  That way no one can know that we murdered millions of grannies.  

NCBI explains that

Midazolam is a commonly used benzodiazepine in palliative care and is considered one of the four essential drugs needed for the promotion of quality care in dying patients. Acting on the benzodiazepine receptor, it promotes the action of gamma-aminobutyric acid. Gamma-aminobutyric acid action promotes sedative, anxiolytic, and anticonvulsant properties. Midazolam has a faster onset and shorter duration of action than other benzodiazepines such as diazepam and lorazepam lending itself to greater flexibility in dosing than other benzodiazepines. The kidneys excrete midazolam and its active metabolite. Metabolism occurs in the liver by the P450 system. This article examines the pharmacology, pharmacodynamics, and clinical uses of midazolam in palliative care.

 

New York City is currently spending $394 per day on every single migrant. That comes to $144,000 per year per migrant, which is of course far more than Americans make with actual jobs.

Why are GDP and job number jobs numbers defying slow-down predictions?

Easy.

Because most new jobs are disguised government spending.  They don't create anything, of course, but they sure do spend and they are about to get a lot worse.  A few days ago The Wall Street Journal ran an excellent article on what they call the "Welfare Industrial Complex."  They kick off asking, "What's driving America's job growth?" concluding it's government social assistance and associated healthcare.  In fact, more than half, 56% of the 2.8 million net new jobs created last year, were precisely that--government social assistance and healthcare.  In Blue states, like New York and Illinois, those welfare jobs make up literally more than all the job gains.  So 113% in Michigan; the same in Illinois, and 121% in New York.  In other words, their real productive economy is actually shrinking.  Without those jobs from just the last year alone, nationwide we would be close to 5% unemployment; if you add back the millions of workers who dropped out during COVID, we'd be closer to 8% unemployment. 

Now, welfare spending is GDP.  To be sure, it will get Paul Krugman popping the bubbly but it is not economic growth; it's not making us richer.  In fact, it's economic deconstruction, converting formerly productive people into the permanent wards of society.  Indeed, if you go into poor areas in many of these states, you'll see literally nothing but welfare services, so nonprofits, Medicaid-paid health clinics, with a tiny sprinkling of gas stations, and takeout with bulletproof glass.  So the productive economy is actually shrinking, but the GDP numbers hide it.  All pretty dire but brace yourself because there's a lot more to come as literally millions of new welfare cases pour in wholesale from what was formerly known as the border. 

The Wall Street Journal reports that New York City is currently spending $394 per day on every single migrant.  That's the price of a nice Disney vacation.  That comes to $144,000 per year per migrant, which is of course far more than Americans make with actual jobs, possibly more since I can only imagine the games government activists play to hide the money they spend.  Add these imported millions to the hundreds of thousands of "drug-addled and mentally ill homeless living on the street," that is a quote from the WSJ, and you've got the makings for some very impressive consumer spending.  

Those nosebleed trillions are just the start since decades of experience have shown that the more government spends on welfare, the more people go on welfare.  In Joe Biden's first stimulus bill, for example, they poured out nearly $43 billion in housing subsidies to end homelessness as we know it.  

So what happened?  

Well, the homeless population shot up by 85,000.  While homeless don't cost as much as migrants, they're just $86,000 a year again per person, which is also a very respectable salary anywhere in America; again, that's taking the activists who run government welfare at their word.   As the WSJ notes, progressive government doesn't do anything on the cheap.  Indeed they don't.  Los Angeles is currently spending $837,000 per unit to build housing for the homeless.  So at $144k a year per migrant and $86k per ruined life times millions, you get the makings of some fantastic consumer spending numbers even as the economy and the treasury are gutted.  

Reframing Stress and Anxiety

 

From Scott Adams' Micro Lessons.  Find an index of his lessons here.  

One thing I heard last week about what causes stress is inaction.  Now, in some situations we are constrained to act because the losses from acting could be disastrous to yourself, those you love, and those in your cartel.  But if you've got items remaining on your "To-do" list, then get those done and that will reduce the stress caused by inaction.  Doing nothing can be stressful.  

Monday, January 1, 2024

BREAKING: New documentary "J6: A True Timeline" presents a never-before-seen timestamped blueprint for the events of January 6, 2021, as they unfolded in