Unemployment is low because that number does not include those who
have been looking for too long, or who have stopped looking, for a
job.

It's funny. Republicans only make that claim when there's a Democrat in the w
te house. When Trump was in the White house and Unemployment was low, before vid, Those figures provided by the BLS were ROCK SOLID and COMPLETELY ACCURATE
But now they "don't include those that gave up looking for jobs". The same arg
ent was made when Obama was president.

I learned that in school and it is always true. Now, the person teaching
to me at the time was happy to do so because a Republican was in office,
but that is how it works.

The problem with "green energy" is that it is not
really green -- the mining of the elements necessary for the high-capacity batteries is ruining the environments of the third-world countries where they are mined (and they use child/slave labor) -- and we will ultimately be trading one foreign dependence for another -- those elements are not mined in large quantities in the US.

Great, let's build a bunch of nuclear plants. If our electric grid ran entire
on nuclear, wind and solar that'd knock out a huge portion of the toxic crap at gets pumped into the air we breathe and the water we drink.

But that doesn't fix (at all) the issue of the EV batteries (and other
high-cap batteries) necessary, which pollute the ground and water of the countries the elements are mined by slave labor in, nor does it reduce our foreign dependencies -- it only changes them.

So instead of gas prices being dependent on some foreign regimes, the
prices of the elements for the batteries will be. I don't see long-range EVs ever being affordable.

Biden was not my first, second, or even third choice in 2020. But they were l better choices than Trump.

Biden was not a better candidate than Trump in 2020. However, as Trump has proven to be one of the worst ex-Presidents we've ever had, I would have to
say that neither is better than poo at this point. Neither are Kamala
Harris or Gavin Newsome.

I am absolutely sick of voting for the "least worst candidate" for anything an
everything, but that's the system we have. None of us has enough money to cha
e it.

Either the candidates have gotten worse, or we've just become more wise
with age.


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