Guest: George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative.....Austin chaos and defunding the police.....GOP presidential contest.....Marching in Mexico.........and other stories......
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Sunday's podcast: A chat with George Rodriguez about Texas politics
Guest: George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative.....Austin chaos and defunding the police.....GOP presidential contest.....Marching in Mexico.........and other stories......
Sunday's video: A chat with George Rodriguez about Texas politics
Guest: George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative.....Austin chaos and defunding the police.....GOP presidential contest.....Marching in Mexico.........and other stories......
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Another bad day for the Inflation Reduction Act
(My new American Thinker post)
We are not sure about Senator Manchin's 2024 U.S. Senate plans. We did hear that Senator Tester of Montana is running for re-election. In fact, Senator Tester said that he is running because "Montanans need a fighter holding Washington accountable and I'm running to defend our Montana values."
Well, I hope someone will ask both men about the Inflation Reduction Act in light of the new inflation concerns. This is from The Wall Street Journal:
This measure of inflation, a favorite of the Federal Reserve, accelerated in January at the fastest monthly pace since June. The PCE index is worth following because it offers a view of price changes from business sources and takes into account the substitution of goods and services in a way the consumer-price index doesn't.
PCE inflation overall rose 0.6% for the month, up from 0.2% in each of November and December.
The PCE index over the last 12 months is up 5.4%, which was up slightly from December after several months of decline. Inflation in services drove much of the increase and is up 5.7% since January 2022.
The story here is that inflation is proving stickier than many expected.
Don't you hate it when things prove stickier than expected? I think consumers shopping for food can relate to that. The Biden administration keeps telling you that inflation is dropping, but the prices of food and lots of other things are not.
The new report means that Chairman Powell may have to tinker with those interest rates again. The new inflation concerns mean that Mr. Manchin and Mr. Tester will get questions about their votes that made the infamous Inflation Reduction Act possible. I think a lot of good people in Montana and West Virginia will ask these gentlemen why they voted with Senator Schumer.
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President Reagan and the lies of communism
A few days ago, I had a conversation with a college student who did not remember the US beating the USSR in the 1980 Winter Olympics. He could not relate to the story off the ice or what the world was like when that game was played. So I told the student to read a bit about President Reagan and get back to me for more conversation about communism..
Like many of his generation, President Ronald Reagan was a strong anti-communist. He understood the evil empire and knew that you have to negotiate from a position of strength rather than weakness. Over the Christmas holidays, I found this from the late President Reagan:
“How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
In my life, I have found that this is true. Most people who favor communism in polls do not really understand what it means or have lived under it. They see it as some romantic idea based on false promises of equality and justice. On the other hand, we Cubans, along with others from who experienced communism directly, see it for what it is.
Communism was, and is, a great lie. We need to keep teaching that to the new generation.
Happy # 76 Sandie Shaw
We remember her for a hits on the radio back in the 1960's, specially "Girl don't come" from the early days of Beatlemania. Her songs were part of The British invasion!
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