Undeniably Right

Left-leaning intellectuals and politicians who sometimes believe they are one and the same, like to tell you that poverty is a moral issue. I'm not sure how morality will solve the problem, but they seem to equate morality with spending government money on handouts. It also makes the assumption that the rest of us are an immoral people and don't really care about our fellow human beings.

The simple truth is that from the beginning of time, mankind lived in abject poverty. Our entire existence consisted of trying to find food and shelter. It often meant that we followed food sources as they migrated to follow their food sources. But interestingly, at some point some segments of the human race figured out how to get out of poverty.

I wonder why?

Carbon dioxide is the gas of life. The more carbon dioxide that we have in the atmosphere the more plants we can grow. Science has told us that at times when there is a slight increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, more plants grow. Because plants absorb carbon dioxide. And when we can grow more plants, we can grow more food. Vegans are happy because they can grow more corn, soybeans, squash. Carnivores are happy because when we can grow more grass, we can raise more cows, sheep, deer, and elk.

Science also tells us that carbon dioxide is a very small part of our atmosphere, less than 3%. Human activity contributes about 1/10th of 1% of the CO2 in the atmosphere. Yet the climate alarmist profiteers tell us that the carbon dioxide we emit from our activities is causing climate change. In an ecosystem that has survived and adapted to much more catastrophic occurrences. The active volcanoes on our planet put more carbon dioxide into our atmosphere in one day than all of the activities from human beings contribute in one year.

One of the undeniable truths of life in My World is that most problems have multiple causes and thus need multiple solutions. One of the reasons politicians never solve any problems is because they try and give you one solution. This is deliberate because if they actually solve problems, they are afraid they would lose their power. What they really like to do and do very well is make you think they are solving a problem; thus, they keep their power, get reelected and we keep on paying the price. It's one of the reasons the cost of living keeps going up.

California has led the way, setting an example for every other state and the federal government in how to play the game. Senate bill 753 is about to pass through the state legislature. It got through the Senate unanimously. The bill deals with the very serious problem of abandoned shopping carts. The mayor of San Jose has pushed the legislation due to the significant problem his city has with the homeless and them abandoning shopping carts that no longer meet their needs.

 Finally is correct!  

Not surprised, are you?

Pam Bondi and Kash Patel made an announcement this week about the infamous Jeffrey Epstein client list. Many of us were disappointed to learn that not only was the list not going to be made public, but now the list doesn't even exist. It's just another disappointment because we expected the big talk from the Republicans to turn into big actions. I still hold out hope that we will learn the names of people that visited the island and at least they will be judged in the court of public opinion.

But why after so much fanfare and promises did Bondi and Patel change their tune? I have often opined on the radio show that once a republican got into a position of authority where they could carry through on their promises, someone either came through with embarrassing pictures or enough money to cause them to compromise their principles. There might be another reason.

A new poll from YouGov found that Americans are less patriotic today than last year. I participated in that poll, and I can tell you the questions were a bit misleading but I believe some of the results. In general terms people over the age of 55 are more patriotic than those that are under the age of 30. Only 16% of respondents under the age of 30 said they were either very patriotic or somewhat patriotic. A little over 60% of those over 55 said they were patriotic.

There might be a couple of reasons that the younger people are not as patriotic as those of us in the older group. The indoctrination of our education system supported by the constant drum beat from politicians and propaganda media have told the younger generation that America is the cause of all the evils over the last 250 years. We are racist, we are colonialists, we promoted slavery, and so many other things that apparently no other nation or civilization did prior to our founding.