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Aug 17, 2023Liked by John Hawkins

Oh, but John, don't you read the stories in WaPo, NYT, in Newsweek and the Nation magazine? Bidenomics is working great, you just can't seem to realize it! Sure Joe looks like a babbling, addled shell of a man, but he's actually an economic genius! If the inflation numbers look bad, why, we'll just change the way we calculate them, and problem solved. This pervasive practice of denying reality will send us over the cliff, and retirees and people who've aged out of the workforce will suffer the most. On the bright side, since most of these old folks have white skin, who, at least on the Left, would care? Thank you for posting this scary but informative essay.

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Aug 16, 2023Liked by John Hawkins

John we are halfway there.

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Apr 18Liked by John Hawkins

This is so right on. You don't have your blinders on. Far from it. Even us not economically savvy individuals can see this train wreck a coming. We as a country should be ashamed of what we are doing to ourselves. Unless this does turnaround and I don't have the answers we are in big trouble. "America Land of the Greed"

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Argentina is probably a closer frame. It was once the seventh wealthiest country in the world.

And now it's plagued by the many of the pathologies John describes in this post.

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There is no longer going to be anymore living happily ever after. I am truly afraid. For ALL of us.

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This is entirely a human-caused ideological crisis. We are suffering from bad policy ideas; the cure is good policy ideas. I learned that in the Reagan administration. Hopefully it can be relearned without bloodshed.

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For those who understand, we are witnessing the unfolding of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" right before our eyes, in real time.

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so essentially, we're becoming the Soviet Union

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"I can't afford to live like the wealthy on my salary!"

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Sounds like a book I recently read called “ The Mandibles “

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Your 20-point plan outlined above is the new Democrat-Communist plan from Cloward & Piven to destroy America. KEEP VOTING DEMOCRAT SNOWFLAKES! LMFAO YOU IDIOTS!!!!!!

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