Thank you for you expert analysis Maynard Keynes - it's not the only simple thing around here.

Personally imo it’s artificially inflated to cover the tax losses from sales of fossil fuels falling due to green implementation. In the uk tax is about 40 billion PA on petrol/diesel. I reckon they have lost at least 5 billion so far. That’s a big hit. Got to make it up somewhere. If the environment was that important we should all be given green this and that free. I mean “you’ve destroyed their childhood”

I’m apparently “far right” but people like Russell Brand, Jimmy Dore, Naomi Wolf etc are increasingly coming to exactly the same conclusions as I am to the point where there is pretty much nothing we disagree on.

It’s almost as if the left/right divide was always a bit of a lie.

I think when you factor in the covid economic reaction in the US....and there would have been economic consequences regardless of the approach....I think it's accurate to state that the economy would have been badly hit regardless of who won in 2020.

I certainly think Trump was far more eager to open up than Biden was but he could only have affected half of the country on that.

It's also fair to say that Trump was just as happy to operate the money printing machine as the Democrats are.

Still, under Trump the US was an energy exporter not an importer and I think they would be doing better on jobs and wages, simply because he isn't weighed down by ideology like the Democrats are.

So I think it's worse under Biden but it was going to be bad anyway.....I also think that under Trump we wouldn't have a cold war right now.....I think if Trump wins in 2024 the cold war ends and standards of living improve generally.

Though as I've said before Trump and all these guys are too fecking old.

Edited by Stirlingsays (17 Jun 2022 10.45pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

'The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Constitution gives people the right to carry a gun outside their home, in a significant new ruling for gun rights.

The decision is expected to allow more people to legally carry firearms in some of America's biggest cities - such as LA, New York and Boston - and is the court's first major decision on gun rights in more than a decade.

It comes as Congress is working on changes to gun laws following the shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were murdered.'

What a fun addition to the tinderbox. I'm sure nothing whatsoever will go wrong as result!

33 amendments over the years, plus several aspects of the constitution are open to anterpretation, but I certainly agree with you that it's clear on allowing gun ownership. It was a comment on what more people wondering around with guns might mean. Then again there are already so many shooting perhaps doing anything about it is seen as something of a lost cause already.