Top Three Takeaways – July 14th, 2021

Top Three Takeaways – July 14th, 2021

1. Reckless government spending = inflation. That’s a quote from Senator Rick Scott which nails it. 5.4%.That’s how much more money you must be earning today, compared to a year ago today, to simply break even. To have the same buying power. While the Biden Administration and the Federal Reserve continue to say inflation is “transitory”, or temporary, it’s very real for regular Americans and especially South Floridians every day. Not that you need to hear it from me. You feel it anytime you buy anything. And like last month, it’s not just about food and energy prices. The core CPI rate, at 4.5%, is the highest recorded in nearly 30 years – September 1991. Last month the excuse was a temporary increase in energy prices – well you might have noticed gas prices are even higher today. So much for temporary. That’s what happens when a day one priority of the Biden administration was to reduce and, in some cases, eliminate American energy production while subsequently allowing adversaries like Russia and Venezuela to produce more. Anyway, the excuse this month is a steep increase in the costs of used cars. So again, just ignore the fact that every time you go to the grocery store or the gas station it costs more. It’s just temporary after all. Maybe when you can’t afford to pay your bills you can tell your creditors that Biden said it was temporary. Maybe that’ll work? But back to Rick Scott’s brilliant point. The government is debt spending your money, which must be paid back by you with interest, which in turn is aiding to drive prices artificially higher which you must pay for right now. That’s getting screwed coming and going. That’s Joe Biden and the Democrats at work. But thank god for no more Trump tweets, right? Record jobs, record incomes, record prosperity and low inflation just wasn’t worth those uncouth Trump tweets, was it? 
2. Corruption. Joe Biden went to Philadelphia, aka, a city that’s corrupt, to talk about election integrity, or more appropriately, to advocate for it never again to exist. How corrupt is Philadelphia when it comes to elections? Consider this. Next Tuesday, July 20th, Domenick Demuro, a Judge of Elections in Philadelphia and a Democratic ward leader, will be sentenced for the following: Having accepted bribes to add fraudulent ballots to voting machines and falsely certify election results for Democrat candidates. Via the Heritage Foundation’s Voter Fraud Database: According to the DOJ press release, Demuro “admitted that a local political consultant gave him directions and paid him money to add votes for candidates supported by the consultant, including candidates for judicial office whose campaigns actually hired the consultant, and other candidates for various federal, state and local elective offices preferred by that consultant for a variety of reasons. Demuro pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to deprive Philadelphia voters of their civil rights and one violation of the Hatch act. But there’s no voter fraud, right? And everything that happened in Philly last fall was on the up and up, right? There remain two sides to stories and one side to facts. Philadelphia, where ironically, or appropriately, President Biden traveled to trash voter integrity laws like Florida’s, is corrupt. So too is the news media that fails to report the truth.
3. Educate the educators. Recently I’d addressed the question as to if there was a need to educate Florida’s educators. Specifically, if Florida’s educators were actually equipped to teach Florida’s new civics education initiative. The answer was a resounding no. With 78% of Florida’s public school teachers members of a teacher’s union pushing for Critical Race Theory in the classroom, with 86% of teachers being Democrats and with only 36% of adults being able to pass a basic civics test with a passing score of 60%,the answer is rather clear. That’s why it’s news to my ears that Governor DeSantis has announced a plan to educate Florida’s educators. Called the Florida Civics Seal of Excellence, the program is a training initiative for Florida’s educators which results in successful participates being certified by the state for civics education complete with a $3,000 bonus. In many ways it’s sad that this is necessary, but sadder would be the status quo. So yes, educate the educators.