- Bruce Thompson was at the fannin county valentine party. He has only been on the job for 16 days. He is going through the building and he is changing the facility and has asked to meet with the facility director. He can’t meet the director because he works remotely. He is no longer the director. We still have people in GA working and getting paid remotely. 50.4% of US offices are more than halfway full for the first time since the pandemic. Companies are starting to say the employees are coming back in. Now the energy is moving and turning.Â
- GA county pensions are not keeping up with inflation. There is a bill to adjust the pensions.
- 166 million live paycheck to paycheck, including 51% making 100K are living paycheck to paycheck. Remember if you needed to buy a vehicle you paid sticker plus and used cars were through the roof. Inflation outpacing wages, gas prices up, retail spending is down and inventories are up. When they tell you inflation is down, they have distorted the numbers to make you believe inflation is down. In June inflation was 9.1%. Jerome Powell is increasing the interest rate so fast that our interest rate on our debt alone is higher than our defense budget. The ideal inflation number is 2%. The inflation number in December is 6.5%, but they pull out the energy, groceries, gas prices out of the formula. Most Americans are calling BS on the number.
- On top of inflation we have the debt ceiling. Have you noticed the democrats are saying casually that we are not going to risk the full faith in credit and we are just paying the bills. The Debt is $31Trillion, democrats are bringing down the volume and republicans are trying to slim up the budget. 61% of Americans say the economy is bad.Â
- US Credit card debt jumps 18.5% and hits a record $930.6 billion, the average credit card rate is 20%. On top of the credit cards they have the car payments.Â
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders to give the response to the State of the Union.Â
- GA house passes 32.5 billion budget. Charlise Byrd and Colton Moore release letter concerting the budget.Â
- Joe was on the move in Philadelphia where they were yelling for 4 more years. Wonder if they took Joe to Zombie Nation. Drug overdose deaths in us are staggering.Â
- Go check out Greater Idaho Movement 15 OR counties to leave for Idaho. It was introduced in the OR senate.Â
- We know the balloon didn’t happen during the Trump administration because we would have heard about it. Â
- Ukrainian troops being trained on tanks provided by the west. 82nd Airborne landing in Poland. What about our southern border?Â
- Federal judges get confirmed by a recommendation. The house handles the purse strings. The senate handles federal judges. It is Brian Kemp is the reason we have 2 democrat senators in GA. A blue slip is a piece of paper that the senate judiciary committee uses to solicit views of the home state senators after a person is nominated to be a federal judge in their state. The states that have 2 democrat senators are doing real quick for Joe to fill.Â