These really are five excellent sentences–for people who have no understanding of how the developed world became developed, and how the United States became the world’s super-power following the close of the Second World War.
High marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans and the corporations they control created a huge, well-educated, extremely productive and prosperous middle class.
Most of that is gone now. 40+ years of trickle-down economics has left the billionaire class with unprecedented wealth, and most common Americans living paycheck to paycheck.
This disease is almost entirely absent in the rest of the First World. It has virtually no bearing on how people live in Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, Oceana, and the other most affluent countries dotted around the remainder of the globe.
A couple of points to be made in response to the meme:
The major component of gas prices is the cost of crude on the world commodity markets, and U.S. presidents have a negligible effect on that.
The people who blame Joe Biden for inflation do so by virtue of the propaganda they receive from their “news” sources. If you think Fox News is going to say anythingwhatsoever good about Biden, you’ve obviously never tuned into this garbage. It may be worthwhile, if only to provide you first-hand experience.
Yes, the right-wing narrative on Anthony Fauci does seem a bit odd, but these folks are not backing down.
Fox News points out that Fauci has made a great deal of money over the years he’s been an advisor on COVID-19. Is it true? Even if it is, does that make him a criminal? Regardless, they and their followers demand to see him in prison.
The cartoon here reminds me of a similar one, in which a senior corporate executive is looking out a conference room window and sees flames everywhere. He tells the others at the meeting, “We have to monetize this. And soon.”
Here’s another reminder of the fact that not all the effects of global warming are harmful, and longer growing seasons in higher latitudes is among them.