Category Archives: Economics

Gaetz On Fire

grampslcf September 30, 2023 Comments Off

A government shutdown is looming with October 1 as the deadline.

Democrats are attacking the Republicans over it. How dare any of the Republicans not want to continue the rampant spending we’ve seen from the Democrats and the Biden team? That same spending has helped fuel the inflation that everyone is suffering from now.

Matt Gaetz:

“We are devaluing American money so rapidly that in America today, you can’t even bribe Democrat Senators with cash alone! You need to bring gold bars to get the job done, just so that the bribes hold value!” Gaetz declared. ...

Gaetz vs Bartiromo

grampslcf September 26, 2023 Comments Off

I have a friend who has been extolling the virtues of Matt Gaetz, a House congressman from Florida. On Sunday, I had a chance to witness Matt in action as he battled Maria Bartiromo over the spending crisis in Washington. Before I delve into that let’s be reminded that, as the government funding crisis comes to a head, the media will paint any Republican who is opposed to unlimited spending as an extremist who is trying to destroy the country. Such a person will be depicted as attempting to undermine the foundations of democracy and would be literally trying to kill people by standing up for a budget.

Odds & Ends

grampslcf September 16, 2023 Comments Off

It seems like only yesterday that we were talking about the government taking over other sections of the economy now that the New Mexico governor went full Hitler last Friday. One area that was mentioned was food. Now the mayor of Chicago wants to open city-owned grocery stores. What could possibly go wrong?

Buttigieg and Communism

grampslcf September 14, 2023 1 Comment

Recently I had the opportunity to listen to an interview that was done a year ago with the ultra-leftist Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. This interview is remarkable. Buttigieg is interviewed on the smorgasbord of policies that the people behind the curtain propose to solve the inflation problem. In this eight-minute segment Buttigieg reveals that the administration plans are to take over much of the economy.

United We Stand

grampslcf September 8, 2023 Comments Off

Canadian Rapper Dax has released a powerful remix of Oliver Anthony’s hit “Rich Men North of Richmond”. While one may not be into rap, this work by Dax merges song and rap in a way that promotes the message that Oliver Anthony is getting out. This is an amazing song by an artist I never heard of.

This kind of effort helps to open people’s eyes and realize how great this country. It counteracts the relentless push by the Marxists to denigrate and diminish America.

Government Shutdown Coming

grampslcf September 7, 2023 Comments Off

It is September 2023. Our government is funded through the end of the month. The Republican rebels have made it clear that they are opposed to the practice of unlimited funding of the government with no practical way of paying for it. Changes wrought during the battle for the speakership state that there will be specific appropriations bills as had been done prior to 2008. No longer will there be an omnibus bill of thousands of pages that serve as graft for the evil people who feed at the public trough.

Trump Doctrine

grampslcf August 23, 2023 Comments Off

PDJT has announced that he will not be doing the first debate. And that may extend to all Republican primary debates. Murdoch of Fox News is furious at the loss of revenue this will entail. Fox is bleeding viewers since the ouster of Tucker Carlson. Ronna McDaniel is also upset since this will undoubtedly reduce the amounts of money coming into the coffers of the RNC. Let’s always remember that the RNC is a private organization. This private organization is beholden to those who fund it.

How Will We Pay For It

grampslcf August 16, 2023 Comments Off

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC-5) speaks for many Americans not just those in the House district that he represents. He is one of the 15 Republican House members who are trying to restore some sanity to the process of our government in Washington. He is one of the few House members who actually stands up and says “No!” to appropriations that do not have a funding mechanism that isn’t some pie in the sky projection put out by the Congressional Budget Office.

It’s The Message

grampslcf August 15, 2023 Comments Off

Last week I published a post on the fact that we are the majority in this country. This fact has been re-enforced by two songs that have riled up the music world. The first was Jason Aldean’s “Try That In A Small Town.”

“Try That In A Small Town” refers to the feeling of a community where neighbors took care of neighbors, regardless of differences of background or belief. Apparently calling out the leftist evil that is being perpetrated on the American public is now ‘violent’ and ‘hateful.’ Leftists have gone into screaming fits of rage over this music video.

A Simple Answer To The Fed Rate Question

grampslcf August 5, 2023 1 Comment

One of the things that I hear in many discussions about the economy is the one where the Fed is going to pivot. Pivot to what, you ask? Pivot back to a zero bound interest scheme that was in place for a long time. In Europe the government-controlled interest rate actually went negative for a decent amount of time.

The financial “pundits” have been clamoring for a return to such a fantasy land scenario to “save the economy.” It ain’t going to happen. And if it did, it would not save the economy. ...