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“The devil’s strategy is not always to provoke, but to darken. He blinds the soul through pleasures, until what is sweet becomes bitter, and what is bitter becomes sweet.”
—St. Bernard of Clairvaux
They will know that we are Christians by our love…
That is part of a well known hymn that has been sung countless times in many churches across the world. Both Catholic and Protestant. It speaks of our unity and how we should love one another as Christ loves us.
However given the nature of the endless debates. It seems that some have neglected to follow that message. You see this play out all the time. Especially on social media. With the venom coming across as a toxic stew that is often worse t…
“To love is to will the good of the other” St. Thomas Aquinas
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For many years now I have been testing a hypothesis ( soon to become a theory ) that only 10-15% of people in any given profession really know what they’re doing
After dealing with theatrical producers this week, I’m beginning to think that their percentage is even lower
One, a possible producer for the musical of “A Fish called Wanda” , expressed concern about my lack of producing experience
Apparently he doesn’t realise that the musical is based on a very successful film that I produced 38 years ago
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Liberals have a classism problem, and nowhere does it show up more than the student debt relief bill that is going to drop (at least) $400B on less than 40% of the country who went to college and earn as high as $125k/year in personal income. We're essentially injecting inflationary spending into the economy at a time when we're trying to reverse inflation just so that the kids in this country who were gifted enough to attend college and then earn good money afterwards can get a fucking bailout…
Setting aside the equities of the partial student-debt cancellation (and whether it will survive; it likely won’t, much to my kids’ chagrin), it’s unlikely to be inflationary in any way. Borrowers aren’t currently servicing their debt and haven’t done so for years. That money is already being spent in the economy. It’s baked in. Also, it’s a tiny amount on an annual basis relative to the economy.
1) Postponing the debt payments itself was inflationary (rich kids spending more money on goods rather than their self-earned debt). This in turn produced more money chasing too few goods in the economy because that rich kid money was chasing more goods instead of paying down self-earned debts.
2) By waiving the repayments of a lot of those loans, we have extended the inflationary policy of letting rich kids chase too few goods with their money rather than using their money to pay off self-earned debts.
If the rich kids aren't paying down their debts, they're going to boozy brunch on Sundays and taking on bigger car payments and buying bigger homes. That's inflationary spending propped up by debt-waiving. That's the government sponsoring inflationary spending and fostering more wealth inequality because the rich kids made enough noise about their debt.