Truth

There is a lot of talk in the news these days about misinformation or disinformation and how difficult it can be to discern the truth. Most people search around to find their version of the truth. Often times this means just finding sources that will reinforce what the viewer already believes. If you dislike Trump you are ready to believe most any derogatory information and have little incentive to verify using other sources. You get more convinced that you have found the truth and it becomes more difficult for you to see things differently even when evidence contrary to your view is presented. This is why the phrase cognitive dissonance has come into the vernacular. Don't believe your lying eyes. People watched the cities on fire during the 2020 summer riots as the announcer said it was a peaceful demonstration. People watch illegals crossing the border by the thousands and Homeland Security head Myorkas says the border is secure. Many people will deny what they see and believe Myorkas. This is not a new aspect of human nature but it has become more common with all of the various news outlets that people have access to. If you look deep enough into the Internet there is a good possibility that you can find what you are looking for. It is a take off on the old adage that figures don't lie but liars can figure. Many people would like to have a place where they could go to find truth but humans have been searching for truth since recorded history. It is up to the individual to determine what is their truth and if they are wise they will take into account their personal bias.

Trump

Here are some typical headlines from Trump attending the South Carolina football game. Trump visit South Carolina with bill boards taunting him. Trump greeted with boos at South Carolina. Trump greeted by you lost at South Carolina game. Trump gets mixed reactions at South Carolina. Then if you go to any of the several Youtube scenes you get uproarious cheers. Here is one example from local news station WLTX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqy2U6Xk4Rg

Education

Following the old adage that even a broken clock is right twice per day the schools have stumbled into an advancement that will help students find good jobs in the future. A knew type board with touch screens has replaced the smart boards which replaced overhead projectors and students quickly learned how to operate. This is very similar to what will be needed in the new manufacturing plants being built across the country. Engineers will be replaced by technicians who can quickly learn how to operate a production line using these new boards. Students coming to work right out of high school will feel comfortable with the new systems. College will no longer be necessary to obtain a good paying job with benefits. College will still be needed for professionals like physicians, lawyers, engineers, teachers and business degrees but others will be better off just going to work right out of high school. For those with money who lean toward liberal and fine arts, college will help a lot but careers that pay a decent wage may be hard to find. Learning how to read and write will be all that is needed for most.

Covid

This is new evidence and must be checked out but if true opens the door to a whole rats nest. Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag report that multiple U.S. government officials have concluded that the first three people on Earth infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, were three scientists doing gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab suspected to have leaked the pandemic virus. When a source was asked how certain they were that these were the identities of the three WIV scientists who developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in the fall of 2019, we were told, “100%.” Reports in the WSJ in May of 2020 said, Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report.

China

Foreign companies are leaving China. They are fed up with China's insistence that they share their proprietary knowledge. This is information that they got by spending a lot of money on research and development and China wants that free. Wages in China have increased to where other countries are more competitive. This is especially true in Mexico. Average wage in China at $6.50 per hour and in Mexico $4.80 per hour. The supply chain from China is too far and unreliable. Shipping cost is too high. China uses child labor and slave labor. The whole of China's economy is unstable with big problems led by real estate

Moms

The unintended consequences of good intentions is an aptly named phrase that usually pops up when people try to help those in need. Here is one example of the results of the Great Society that was part of the civil rights movement of 1965. The single-mother revolution shouldn’t need much introduction. It started in the 1960s when the nation began to sever the historical connection between marriage and childbearing and to turn single motherhood and the fatherless family into a viable, even welcome, arrangement for children and for society. It shows less than 20 percent of black babies in the 1950s were born to single mothers and that rose to 72.3 percent in 2008. One of the reasons I voted for Bill Clinton was he said that welfare should be a helping hand and not a way of life. Any young single mom deserves a helping hand but when a girl has a baby at 16, and her mother had her when mom was 16 and grandma had mom when she was 16 it has become a way of life. This is not helping these young women. We can do better.

Leadership

The next president will be coming in at just the right time and if the right things are done the US will experience the greatest growth period in history and in the process improve the lives of millions around the world. A dozen policies can be implemented beginning immediately. Open the spigot on all forms of fossil energy. Stop all subsidies on Green Energy including wind, solar and EV's and use that money as incentives to bring business back home. Companies will build technical business in the US and other businesses like auto in Mexico. Begin sending illegal immigrants back to their country of origin which will allow the border agents to get back to patrolling the border and this will stop the flow of migrants. Offer incentives to local police to increase their staff and implement better training and better benefits. Stop putting up EV charging stations and start putting up natural gas at existing stations. Push auto companies to switch new cars to natural gas and move to natural gas for all transportation. Continue to build new liquid natural gas export facilities and send gas to Europe and other countries. Start the push for small thorium nuclear power plants using a warp speed program that provides low interest government loans. Put severe sanctions on Iran to cut the money from terror groups. Let it be known that if sanctions don't achieve the desired results then an oil blockade will be installed. Back Israel to remove Hamas from power. Lead the way with NATO to negotiate an end to the Ukraine War. Russia would get to keep the Crimean Peninsula and the Dumbas region and receive a promise that Ukraine would not join NATO and in return Russia would pull out. Encourage legal immigration using a merit based system with emphasis on speaking English. This could be done in the first 100 days with the proper leadership.