tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post7662776958495724683..comments2024-03-28T19:58:31.110-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: More evidence of how inflation is destroying America from within. Is it deliberate?Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-5797276007634211932022-08-26T03:51:21.931-05:002022-08-26T03:51:21.931-05:00Peter.
Those strategies you list aren’t limited t...Peter.<br /> Those strategies you list aren’t limited to the National Socialists.<br />They are SOP for all forms of Socialism.<br /><br />I get very tired or the myth that the NAZIs were somehow uniquely different from the International Socialism of Soviet Russia and China.... and which is still being espoused today by a plethora of academics and power-hungry politicians.<br />The differences are trivial. Once you get past the symbols and slogans it is obvious that they are anything but opposites.PeterWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05484260991125772787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-30878244678996858362022-08-25T18:09:27.557-05:002022-08-25T18:09:27.557-05:00I am with MS Power Co. a part of Southern Co. mine...I am with MS Power Co. a part of Southern Co. mine comes in at about .14/kw average use 63kw/day.What was it last year kw/hr no idea ATTM the bill is not off enough to make me question it.This is all by design by what I call the Evil Cabal POS of our elected officials in tandem with WEF/WHO. KevinMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13968286036447412300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-90917636129134624942022-08-25T17:25:09.572-05:002022-08-25T17:25:09.572-05:00Peteforester our July statement broke down our usa...Peteforester our July statement broke down our usage to an daily average use to 85 kWh per day with an average cost of $7.90 per day. This area in the mountains of NC has many and the small local electric co-op is just one of them. Good folks who mind their own business but keep an eye out for their neighbors is another. That's a big plus when your nearest neighbor is a half mile to one and a half miles away.<br /><br />I'm glad we totally heat our house with wood and have plenty of wooded acreage to harvest that wood from. It can get cold herein the mountains during the winter and it looks like a long hard winter ahead.Michael Downinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15337073997302676770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-87879401032316884142022-08-25T16:31:23.843-05:002022-08-25T16:31:23.843-05:00Makes me glad we payed off the house, owe no one a...Makes me glad we payed off the house, owe no one anything, and we have a huge garden (mostly due to my wife's efforts...she loves gardening) with quite a bit of food stored away.<br /><br />And yes, I think this (inflation, energy shortages, etc) is all a deliberate tearing down of the USA by TPTB. Grind down, isolate, offer relief...lather rinse repeat. Brother PIlothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12684845882970696363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-89682149390730551072022-08-25T15:02:46.175-05:002022-08-25T15:02:46.175-05:00WOW! .09/KwH??? Mine is .21/KwH SUPER OFF-PEAK. ...WOW! .09/KwH??? Mine is .21/KwH SUPER OFF-PEAK. Peak, hours, which run from 4:00pm to 9:00pm, that's right, the time when you CAN'T HELP but use electricity, cost .51/KwH!!! Everything was less than HALF this last year. Newsom waved his magic wand and POOF! 60% increase!!! Of course, this "legislation" went on in the dark in Sacramento, not seeing the light of day until it was on Newsom's desk. THIS is the Pelosi legacy at work...Peteforesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00702888855868877243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-7988433289530060532022-08-25T13:18:22.922-05:002022-08-25T13:18:22.922-05:00I actually just went online to check my electric u...I actually just went online to check my electric usage and cost over the past year and I was mistaken earlier. My bill has gone up just over 5% this August compared to last August but my cost per kilo watt hour has come down. I paid last August a cost of $0.0992 per kilowatt hour and this month's bill reflected a cost of $0.0922 per kilowatt hour. Which if my math is correct is approximately a 7% decrease in electric cost per kilowatt hour so the increase in cost comes not from an increase in cost but an increase in usage. We not only get excellent service from our small mountain co-op but seems reasonable pricing all things considered.Michael Downinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15337073997302676770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-12238769205235009452022-08-25T13:11:14.135-05:002022-08-25T13:11:14.135-05:00I'm honestly confused about how this debt forg...I'm honestly confused about how this debt forgiveness is going to cost taxpayers anything.<br /><br />The federal government holds the student loan debt.<br />The feds are the lender, the feds receive all payments and interest, with a cut for the companies that manage the loans.<br />If a lender suddenly tells a debtor, "You don't owe this part of your debt anymore", that mean that the debt disappears. It doesn't get paid from some other source. It just <i>goes away</i>, because the entity who is owed the money has decided to take the loss of any future repayments. It works that way at all levels.<br /><br />And then the amount forgiven gets counted as income to the former debtor and the IRS taxes them on it, because our government is asshoe. <br /><br />If anything, since the value of our money is based on how much debt the feds can issue without breaking things, reducing the outstanding debt that the feds are lenders for will reduce their ability in increase the money supply.<br /><br />Of course, I am aware that government entities, especially in this administration, are capable of screwing up even something as simple as this, but even so...Feather Bladehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16295997298154977506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-53268263391725558012022-08-25T13:07:17.338-05:002022-08-25T13:07:17.338-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Feather Bladehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16295997298154977506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-72286995814514007352022-08-25T12:51:14.002-05:002022-08-25T12:51:14.002-05:00If I may, as someone who is of the generation whos...If I may, as someone who is of the generation whose student loans are getting paid down...<br />On the one hand, this is beyond criminally stupid on a national economic level.<br />On the other, what I would LOVE to see--but of course will never happen--would be to see the *schools* lose out on that money rather than the American taxpayers. Make the schools actively invested in having their students get good jobs, in that they don't get paid unless/until the students/alumns are employed and so on, and...whoooeeee, methinks the grossly overinflated tuition bills would get trimmed. Because this student loan/overinflated educational cost situation is totally out of hand (as one could predict, given the essential .gov subsidization of higher ed at this point, who'da thunk?).<br />My father, born in the mid-40s, was able to put himself through a private college by working, and, I grant, working very hard, at a summer job, and graduated with no debt.<br />I put myself through mostly public college (last years at a fairly inexpensive private school due to proximity) by working 35-50 hours/week, every week, at a hodgepodge of manual labor/retail/work-study jobs. I lived off campus in the middle of Gang Central, drove a 15-20 year old beater, and ate mostly bean soups and homemade bread and such. I graduated with 30K in debt. Now, I took that on...but I couldn't have gotten a better job without the degree, even though I didn't need, on a practical level, the degree for my job. <br />When Baby Sis went to college some years after I did, she was in a similar situation of paying her way through while working. After doing all she could at community college, she transferred to an in-state uni. Got her first bill, found it higher than she expected by a good bit, and went up to campus to demand an itemized version. Among other fluff, there was a $1,000 "Student Fitness Center Fee" on there that was, you guessed it, a membership to the campus gym. Quoth she, "I don't want the damn thing. If I want a gym membership, I'll pay $10/month to Planet Fitness. Take. It. Off." Nope, it's mandatory, so just add another few grand to the total cos after all, it's "just" loans. *eye roll*<br />TL:DR version: paying down all those loans is stupid, appalling, and a great accelerator along the currency-to-toilet-paper timeline we're looking at. However, colleges and universities need to be held accountable and we need to stop subsidizing them so damn much, because at this point it's near-impossible to get through without a good chunk of debt if you don't have mommy and daddy paying or the GI bill (which I 100% support), and the catch-22 is, if you're unlikely to get hired in the trades (petite woman), you'll likely need to go to college to get a better-than-retail job. I didn't mind working so hard through school. I really minded working that hard, pulling a 4.0 many semesters, living as I did, only to *still* walk out with that much in loans to ensure that I ever could live at a better standard than I was. That's just obnoxious.~Katherine~https://www.blogger.com/profile/12138257993961072758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-29659739743284142322022-08-25T12:46:04.994-05:002022-08-25T12:46:04.994-05:00Your electric rates only went up 30%??? Our illus...Your electric rates only went up 30%??? Our illustrious "governor" Newsom decreed that half of all of California's power was to come from "renewables." This was, of course, impossible, so now over 26% of our electricity must be purchased from outside the state, at MUCH higher cost than our own clean burning natgas plants used to produce before the were summarily shut down. Ironically, much of that purchased power is coming from coal-fired plants! <br /> ...Our electric rates are 60% HIGHER than they were this time last year! This is the same idiot who decreed that all cars in California must be "zero-emission" by 2035, and outlawed the sale of all small engine-powered equipment... including generators... as of 1/1/23. Yup; it all has to be electric. The generators have to be propane or "renewable."<br /><br />Folks, "going green" means your "green is going."<br /><br />...Anyone thinking Newsom would make a good president needs to be tied down and medicated until after the 2024 election!!!!! I do not say that in jest!Peteforesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00702888855868877243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-83315223446314819172022-08-25T11:12:44.611-05:002022-08-25T11:12:44.611-05:00Our electric company is a relatively small local c...Our electric company is a relatively small local co-op and our costs from this year to last haven't increased more than 5-10% but we have made cut backs in usage and I haven't checked per kilowatt costs to compare. We did have our underground propane tank filled within the last month and the cost was around $3.59 per gallon. As long as we do not haven unusual prolonged electric outages which means the whole house generator takes over the propane fill up lasts approximately 18 months. Usual usage of the generator included in what is considered normal is 5-6 times at 2-4 hours usage and one time of about 10-12 hours. That means our average per month cost for propane will be about $66.00 per month over the next 18 months. Cost beyond that time is anyone's guess.<br /><br />As to your question: Is it deliberate? I surely take that as a rhetorical question. No one with eyes that can see, ears that can hear and a mind that can think would survey everything that has happened over the past 2 years and come to any other conclusion. We are witnessing the Cloward-Piven strategy in motion. Over load the system so it collapses and replace with whatever socialist utopia that is the current "this time it will work" socialist agenda you have in mind.<br /><br />Bottom line is that the crap has already hit the fan, the collapse is well underway and the best you can do is prepare as best you can for the final fall. We haven't hit bottom yet and there will be no soft landing. Buckle your seat belts...Michael Downinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15337073997302676770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-41946751336997396912022-08-25T11:06:55.333-05:002022-08-25T11:06:55.333-05:00Of Course it is deliberate.
All of this is planned...Of Course it is deliberate.<br />All of this is planned.Skwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08713580657743464156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-65292347833824224992022-08-25T10:54:10.497-05:002022-08-25T10:54:10.497-05:00Food and power deserts are coming... This winter m...Food and power deserts are coming... This winter may be 'extra' interesting.Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-54577030348268998802022-08-25T10:06:05.808-05:002022-08-25T10:06:05.808-05:00There has been food plants destroyed, higher costs...There has been food plants destroyed, higher costs for seeds, fuel, and less energy plants. This is all to increase costs to people and make everything harder. Less food will be available and likely less power will be available. This will make everyone upset. If the USA continues on this path CW2 will be on the horizon. JGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12316361340401600089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-48655214001304670382022-08-25T10:05:46.111-05:002022-08-25T10:05:46.111-05:00We are moving into a house with propane and got th...We are moving into a house with propane and got the flyer for our supplier's prepay program to lock in the price for the heating season. The price doubled from last year.Rick Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04748076795783834112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-83712945381142508282022-08-25T09:23:16.547-05:002022-08-25T09:23:16.547-05:00Yeah I'm already cutting back on discretionary...Yeah I'm already cutting back on discretionary spending in anticipation of higher propane costs for heating this winter. Hoping for only a 150% increase but given what Biden and the greenies are doing to fuel prices I don't want to get caught out if it's even more.TheAxehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04328271483659507053noreply@blogger.com