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European politicians are panicking over the coming Winter because they are making a habit out of frequenting global Climate Change conference and giving excessive speeches about weather and fossil fuels.
Because of Putin, Europe won’t have enough energy derived from fossil fuels to stay warm, so it turns out.
Europe, according to these prophets of doom, without enough fossil fuels, it will become dangerously cold for millions of Europeans who’ll lack reliable and affordable energy to protect themselves from the cruelty of Winter. Many could die and will likely die from it, they predict.
What irony.
Biden was again tested positive for Covid. He has been hit twice by the pandemic of unvaccinated. Except that he’s been double vaxxed, and double boosted. Nearly all that we heard about Covid-19 were either a complete canard or irreconcilably incorrect and misguided.
In his campaign for the Presidency, Biden promised he would be committed to “working out” fossil fuels. This means removing fossil fuels from the earth by executive order and ending any subsidies. Except, of course, when he goes to the Middle East, and Venezuela in a “beggar thy neighbor” foreign policy stunt aimed at lowering the price of gas in time for the November election.
Maybe his foreign policies are on a better foundation?
Oops. Evidently not.
China has been actively and continuously threatening Nancy Pelosi (the U.S. Speaker of Congress) and the second-in line for the Presidency, if Pelosi takes a ride to Taiwan with her political cronies. And not only has Biden said nothing about it to the Communists running China, he also won’t say anything, for or against, to Pelosi herself. Not at least, not publically.
As I said, if we are going to war with China over Pelosi’s junket, a useless waste of time and taxpayer money, Biden has a duty to go on TV and announce that. Any less is a direct and immediate danger to our country and a violation of his Commander-in-Chief duties. Remarkably, it is an impeachable offense.
It might not be as impeachable as a perfect phone call to the “President” of Ukraine, but it’s certainly worse than Watergate, and also lying about sex with a White House intern. These facts are clear. We have one American political party and two insufferable cliques. Most of these are ineffective, weak and foolish.
America’s current situation in history is one of weakness and lackluster leadership. The days of Eisenhower and Truman are gone. I’ll give Bush 41 honorable mention because his presidency, while a complete economic disaster, at least their foreign policy was a tour de force.
Nobody Dares Call it Recession
But of course, the biggest news this week was that we’re not in a recession. Joe Biden, the President of the United States, a man who’s been in Washington D.C., for about 60 years, is refusing to or is otherwise unable to define recession.
But it’s like I was telling an interviewer a couple of nights ago. It does not matter how many angels are on a pin’s head. Meaning, irrespective of how a President, including this one, defines “recession,” as long as he makes every effort to avoid one, or end one if we’re in one, that is all that matters. The American people would be happy if he did.
Moreover, as I’ve also said too many times to recount, recessions are not borne of immaculate conception.
Bad policies are what cause recessions. It was bad policy in the present situation, including an economically toxic, socially corrosive, virus mitigation policy and an energy scarcity and a profligate fiscal policies, as well as an incoherent monetary policy.
Indeed, a cornucopia of policy failures plagues today’s economy. These policies not only led to the current recession, but made it worse. In other words, America didn’t fall into this recession, we were pushed!
Whether Biden likes it or not, the President’s main job at this point is to get the United States out of a recession, and back onto the path of prosperity. The widely-held bipartisan opinion that the Administration is in the grips of incompetence has to be challenged.
It brings back memories of Calvin Coolidge who was an outstanding president of the 20th century. Coolidge was leaving a Sunday church service when a reporter inquired about the sermon. Coolidge claimed that the sermon was about sin. And when the reporters asked him what the minister said about sin, Coolidge said “he was against it.”
The same applies to recession. As President, you don’t need to spend a lot of time talking about it or arguing over how you to define it. You don’t have to agree with it as President. Recessions, just like sin, are something you should be opposed. Recessions, like sin, are not the best solution for protecting the American soul politic or American economy.
A recession in the economy is unmoral and man-made. We all must oppose it at all cost and under all circumstances. Every time.
Happy Saturday. Go forth, prosper.
Joe Armendariz serves as the Director for Government Affairs at Armendariz Partners. Two-term former member of Carpinteria City Council, and former Executive Director for the Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Association and Santa Barbara Technology and Industry Association. He is the Chairman of California Center for Public Policy. You can reach him at 805.990-2494
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