Affirmative Action. Remember when Joe Biden passed legislation that put millions of black men in prison for low level crimes leaving black youth without father's around? Apparently people do not want to feel responsible for making that mistake again, instead they would rather see 4 officers go to prison because some black guy overdosed, so they let thousands of people riot, loot, and burn cities with out any recourse.

The US was worried about the cold war with Russia for decades, what happened with that? The US was in Vietnam fighting against communism and lost without a huge impact. In the late '80's into the 90's people thought Japan would own the US with all the money we were spending buying their crap, then their ecconomy took a hit. Many people said that Trump would be the end of America and possibly the world, didn't happen. So, yes there could be some changes that happen, but the end of the world as we know it? I'll believe it when I see it and by then it will be too late, however we can't get worked up at every little bump or curve in the road.

How many people here get a flu shot every year? They claim about 50% of the US gets a shot each year, which means about 50% do not. You can still get the flu, you can still spread the flu, if everybody got the flu vaccination there would still be the flu. The covid vaccine is similar, it lessens the symptoms of covid, but if people don't know they have covid they are more likely to spread it. The vaccines may make people safer, or a new mutation could form and things could get a lot worse in a hurry. The vaccine is generally given in 2 doses and they have taken their time to give it to children. Is this is because a single dose would be too dangerous? Or that the body needs to adapt? And after 8 months the effectiveness begans to fall and now they are talking about doing booster shots. Will everybody need 2 shots a year for the rest of time? This isn't the first Corona outbreak, the SARS outbreak in China is basically the same thing. China was very slow to respond and publicise that outbreak similar to the rest of the world to the covid outbreak. However the big difference was they were able to eliminate SARS by having testing stations and quarantines. Thus far we can plan on having covid around much like we have influenza around unless they come up with something much better then these current vaccines and this joke of wearing a mask. You understand if you touch your mask then the contaminates are now sitting right in front of where you breath and it incubates inside the mask? We have been able to for the most part do away with such things as small pox, polio, and other infections. But other things such as influenza and HIV we have only found better ways to live with them. So before people start praising the vaccine just maybe we should let things play out for awhile before we judge the importance of it?

The magnetic pole shifts from the North to the South over time and then back again, so next time the magnetic pole is South everybody can get new maps (and compasses) that are in that direction. Mean while I can't read the writing when it is upside down so it's easier just to get a globe and tilt it as I need.

They should just print everything from the equator up one direction, and flip everything from the equator South.

Sounds like you feel in love with a prostitute, she is using you, you are using her, but you need to separate business and pleasure.

It's easy to take somebody out of the ghetto, it's hard to take the ghetto out of somebody.

You may want to reconsider your math, if you bought a Bitcoin at $32k a month ago and sold it today at $49k you would be up $17k minus taxes and fees, but it's like the casino, most people don't leave while they are still ahead. Buying a dollar worth of Bitcoin is like buying a dollar worth of cocaine, it ain't going to do much for you. The old-timers used to call a quarter 2 bits, that means you would get 8 bits for a dollar, or a bit would be worth 12,5 cents which is about what a Bitcoin should really be worth, but it's a pyramid scheme and they have enough people to believe in it to drive the price til the smart people pull out and move on to the next pyramid.

Brothels were once common, nearly every little town had one. Now illegal in most places I feel there is still plenty of prostitution going on and I feel some of those who participate are often doing so with different people. There are also many who have affairs or just get around a lot. Its all how you want to play the game, what you can afford, what you can get away with. I do see how how morals and religion have done things to make people believe they have to live a certain way when things could be done differently as long as people could agree and set limits to what is or isn't acceptable. People are also very selfish and they want to be able to do as they please, but when somebody else does something it is not acceptable. I have had ex's that wanted nothing to do with me until I start dating somebody else, then they try to hook up or get back together as a jealous control thing. Most people have had at least a few sexual partners in their life, so why not have them at the same time as long as everybody is informed?

If you consider being on their phones and smoking weed as a work ethic many are succeeding. If you mean showing up on time, doing a good job and trying to make things better while taking pride in what they are doing without a concern for a need to make an unrealistic amount of money for completing simple tasks then I find most people have have failed at the work ethic portion. People are very selfish and they would rather freeload then to contribute. Just because they go to college doesn't mean they are not going to live in their parents basement til they are 40. Just because somebody learns a skill does not mean they are good at it. The union has become very weak, and for the most part is just used to over pay lazy and stupid people, it is not there to reward and promote hard workers. The government runs in a very similar way. Some kids now don't even want to get a driver's license because they have become so reliable on others. They have never been allowed to go out side and run free or create their own entertainment, so unless we can come up with jobs where all they have to do is play on their phones all day we are heading in a very bad direction. You know employment is a form of slavery, and everyone has some kind of disability that keeps them from working.

Even teenagers won't do yard work for $20 an hour anymore, and if they do I think you would be pretty disappointed in what they actually do, and how long it takes. People don't have Pride in their work, they are not willing to start at the bottom and work their way up. Everyone thinks they should get top pay even on days they don't show up, or even if they can not even complete simple tasks. It's like the Millennial population has spread to all generations. Shouldn't you get a participation award just for showing up? Or not even showing up, but just for being? It's been this way for a long time, but it's getting much worse. I've been saying for a long time you can fire half the people and double your production. If somebody F's up more than they accomplish it takes a lot of time to fix things, if somebody wants to sit and BS all day then not only do they not get anything done, but they also keep others from getting anything done. How am I supposed to get anything done if I have to hold somebody's hand all day? Most work is service based now, people feel obligated to tip waitresses because it's considered part of their wage, well I know some pretty poor excuses of waitresses that make $80k a year while the people who actually cook your food and are far more responsible for your experience most likely only make $25k to $30k a year and it's more demanding work. Government hand outs are definitely having an effect on work habit's, but it's societies attitude that has the biggest affect. People think they need the big house and nice car, that the should be able to go out to eat or get coffee whenever they want. They are not willing to work for anything anymore, while some people coming from other countries either legally or illegally are willing to work for low wages, or put it all on the line and start their own businesses because it's still better than where they came from.

I'm thinking when a person gets more than 5 cats they are pretty much at the stage it's over.

IT IS THEIR MONEY!!! If you don't like it go out and get your own money! They pay more money in taxes in one year then you will make in a lifetime. This is America and if I want to drive 200 miles turn around and go back home I can. If I want to fly to Mexico and turn around and go back home I can. If they want to fly to space and come back they can. If I want to make $10million I have the right to do so. Jeff Bezos took an 82 year old woman who trained for the original space program in the 1960's but was never allowed to go because she was a woman, it made her dream come true. Warren Buffet is giving all his money away. Bill and Melinda Gates have given away billions (getting divorced, but that's another story) Many rich people have given back besides paying way more taxes then all the poor people combined. Maybe people need to check out some of the other topics? If you want to complain about something then complain about the amount of pollution they create by going to space. But don't pull that give me, give me, give me BS.

You are the Dr. shouldn't we be asking you that? A depression in the ground is a situation. Being depressed in you life is a disorder. It's like it sounds "disorder" meaning something is not in the order it should be.

The last gal that did a reading for me picked the worst card in the deck, she was like do you really want to hear this? I was like sure, what bad can come from that? A couple years later a British guy said "I'm sticking needles in a little guy that looks like you at night". Not sure if that had anything to do with it but it took nearly 20 years to recover from all that, so I will be passing on ever having another reading done, but thanks for offering.

I will leave the people with this "Be careful what you wish for because it doesn't always turn out how you plan"

Here is the issue that many fail to see or understand and therefore become brainwashed in themselves without understanding the bigger picture. There is Trump the person and there is Trump the brand. Trump the person has a few hundred thousand people that follow him like a god, on the other hand millions of true Americans support the Trump brand. If you own a Tesla it doesn't mean idolize Elon, if you buy from Amazon it doesn't mean you think Jeff is a god, if you use Microsoft it doesn't mean you respect Bill, if you only buy Apple it doesn't mean you worship Steve. The Trump brand of make America great again (spin off Reagan) is about the American dream, good jobs, being able to pay your own way, patriotism, rights, and freedom. We have become too dependent on China and others, the majority of jobs in the US are now service based. The Trump brand wants to level the playing field so it makes sense to keep companies in America instead of forcing them to do business elsewhere. The Trump brand is more flexible as far as beliefs in being conservative, or religious, or confirming strictly to far right agenda's. It's kinda like the Tea party movement.
On the other hand the Biden and Democrats because for the most part Biden is just a puppet anyway, they are far more into pushing the propaganda for progressing their socialistic agenda in an effort to control the people. The Robin Hood approach to take from the rich and give to the poor knowing there are far more poor people then rich in order to grow their base and spread their agenda. Trump the person has register as an Democrat, Independent, and Republican, to say he is for just one side or the other contradicts the things he has done. The Democrats have continued to make allegations from election tampering, money laundering, ethics concerns, and so on from the time he was nominated as the Republican candidate in 2016. They spent so much time in doing so they accomplished nothing else, to many an allegation is as serious as a conviction, just another brainwashing tactic. The Democrats thought nothing about bring up allegations of election fraud, but as soon as Trump did so it was take him down anyway we can. Trump did not have to leave the White house when he did, Covid laws were still in effect to block people from being evicted. Now politicians are trying to take away freedom of speech by censoring the internet, once again to spread only their propaganda and blocking the views they oppose. You can even be charged with hate crimes for words you say, the lefties are going to continue to play every card in the deck in order to control the people, and so many of the sheep and puppets out there are going to play right into their trap.

The issue with low interest rates are it makes money cheap. Why would somebody keep their money in a bank at 1% (which is insured) when they could put it in the stock market and possibly make 15%-20% on that money? (Which comes with risk) Or crypto currency which is very high risk but has some very high returns. At what point do people refinance their homes at 3% interest to try and make money off their equity? Look what happened in the 1929 stock market crash that led to the great depression. There was a lot of money going around in the 1920's and the common folks were finally able to start and invest in the stock market. Wheat crops were not doing good so people were investing in futures. Then in 1929 it all changed and wheat prices fell starting the crash. People were borrowing money to invest because they thought the prices would never stop going up so it was a win, win for everyone til things went wrong. I would say the US government taking some action to correct some issues before they become a bigger problem is a good idea, especially if you look at how much the government had to hand out during the depression and all the programs they started during that time. But where the money goes and what it is used for is very questionable. Biden and the Democrats seem to be taking a Socialism approach to things. Have you ever wondered why so many from Mexico try to come to the United States? Mexico was doing great in the 1950's and 1960's but in 1970 a corrupt government got into power and decided to nationalize some companies, the companies began to fail and the government's solution was to throw more money after bad crashing the value of the Mexican Peso. That was 50 years ago and Mexico still has not fully recovered. Do people think the US dollar could not lose a lot of it's value due to our government's recklessness? People are living longer, health care cost are skyrocketing, energy cost are going to greatly increase as we shift from fossil fuels, and the government's piggy bank is supporting all these things. Europe has been becoming more energy aware for years, many people there live in small houses, some 200 years old, they drive tinny cars, and they live a simpler life style. In the US the bigger the better, people are building bigger and bigger houses, they drive SUV's and Pick-ups, they think nothing of getting on a plane and flying some where a couple times a year. Pretty soon over half the jobs in the US will somehow be connected to the government, at what point is this no longer sustainable?

What about Trump's Taj Mahal in Atlantic City? "the eighth wonder if the world" that has since been torn down and replaced by a Hard Rock Cafe.

How many people does it take to make a conspiracy? How many people can keep a secret? How many people would it take to kill off the people that know that it is a conspiracy and not get caught in doing so? I could go out and make a crop circle and most likely nobody would figure out it's me, but with technology it is becoming harder to hide things. If Jesus were to die today we could do a simple DNA test to find out who got Mary pregnant. 2000 years ago things were a little simpler so people could get away with pulling the wool over some bodies eyes. If we could find the DNA of Jesus today then we would have the DNA of "God" even if this "God" happened to be Mary's crazy uncle. Basically as the story grows it changes thru time and has things added to it, often this makes the conspiracy even more complicated and perhaps more interesting.

Well said John, and that did not even include property tax, sales tax, and other things they put back into the economy. I'm not a big JFK fan but when he said "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" I somehow think of people with their hands reached out for handouts saying the country owes them these handouts. If a top 1%er buys a $3million yacht that money filters back thru the economy, on the other hand if someone buys their neighbors car for $500 that just lessens the blow of what his neighbor paid for it in the first place. If a 1%er builds a $10million summer cottage that money filters down thru the economy, when somebody pays the lot rent on their trailer house a little bit goes back into property tax, but hardly enough to maintain the roads much less pay for their 4 kids to go to school. I suppose most of these people think that looting and stealing is acceptable too, basically if you are using your EBT you are not paying for your groceries, you are just walking in and taking them, free school lunches? Why would somebody be bothered by making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to send to school with their child? And it's not just about the 1%ers paying for this, it's about the hard working middle class that must not only burden their own share but also support the poor too.

The structure of the bank its self has changed, it used to be they made a lot of money loaning out money, with interest rates being so low the margins have become very tight, the banks are now making the money off credit cards and debit cards, they get a cut every time they are swiped. Housing is a very big part of the economy, for most people their house is either their biggest asset, or more often their biggest debt. When apartments are $1500 a month plus and you can buy a house for $1200 a month there is a reason why these substandard buyers are in the market. Also most loans that don't meet the 80/20 standard pay mortgage insurance which should absorb some of the losses in foreclosures. However the low interest rates have caused drastically inflated house prices. The rate inflation increases also affects how much debt to value a person has in their home. If someone is willing to buy a house and live in it their whole life they are probably sitting pretty good, however peoples need for change now days has gotten a lot of people in the refinance and flipping game. Sometimes this pays off, other times it does not.

This isn't just about the traditional banks, how can General Motors fail and need the government to bail them out? I know the answer is too much overhead, living in the past, the retirement fund itself was enough to bankrupt them as people live longer, prices of everything goes up, and they don't have the dominance in the market they once had. The 2020 bail out was not as openly talked about mostly because people were more focused on the pandemic, and money was being handed out to all sectors of the population. But is it going to become a trend that every bump in the economy requires a bailout? If interest gets any lower they will be paying people to take out loans, and some of the financial institutions are already living this. Is there a way to get back to "normal"? Will the United States lose its place in the world? So many others depend on the US so if that happens the whole world will suffer. Will China come in and take over?