For some reason, this graph ended up in drafts. Then it was discontinued. The bottom falling out was just too much! Recent news is good. Federal tax revenues are up and economic growth is exceeding pre-pandemic predictions.

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I cut the grass.
Over night I was thinking about the words Conservatives really do not like.
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To get formatted for the web, the VHS video had to be digitized for a disk that could play on a computer and then to access the files to edit a portion, I had to run it through Handbrake and then reassembled the images with iMovie. Now it can be uploaded here, on FB and on Youtube.

Both the federal union and all the states, counties and municipalities are corporations, artificial bodies created according to laws passed by legislatures. Also, because of the principle of comity, corporations organized in one state are allowed to operate in all others. Delaware, South Dakota and Georgia are favored because their operating standards are almost non-existent. Georgia only requires the payment of a regustration fee annually and a street address. New York, apparently has many more standards which enable the Aattorney General to seek relief for malfeasance in court. Corporations with nationwide operations should be supervised by Congress. That is why they have lobbyists to argue for favors and intercept restrictions whenever they cannot get one of their own people elected, as the drug industry did with Earl Leroy Carter in Georgia. Commerce has always had influence and argued for monopolies. The electric utilities agreed to have rates reviewed by legislatures in exchange for territorial monopolies. In Georgia we cannot have proper health care because the insurance industry objects to having their premiums cut.

The Republican genius has been to promote the myth that the executive has charge of everything and downgraded attention to legislators, which van get changed out every two years if they do not meet expectations. It is not entirely fair to blame commercial enterprise for demanding service because that is how the framers set it up. He who asks gets. What commerce can be blamed for is the fiction that the market, not government, responds to demand. If the market were demand-driven, we would not have starvation or advertising. There are likely some old laws on the books which the federal executive can employ to rein in abusive enterprise, if Congress does not become more attentive to people’s needs. Competition is a good principle, but not when it is redefined as a contest in which entrants are to be destroyed.

Does the U.S.have a cult of personality because the rights of persons and their privacy are ignored? Are personality, celebrity and popularity compensatory responses? Where does the suffix -ity come from? Is university in the same category
diversity
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/09/was-it-just-america-and-her-suicidal-combat-veterans/

The effect on the military personnel of killing, not in self-defense but on the order of superiors, was predictable and predicted. The military was unprepared to deal with mental and psychological trauma because the brain is not an organ subject to physical repair. Still is.

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