A little bit of everything
Newly elected Congressman George Santos is clearly a pathological liar and yet he remains in office. Not only has he not been sanctioned and tossed out of Congress as he should be, but he’s getting support, in a manner of speaking, from Speaker McCarthy who has his own issues with the consistency of positions he has taken.
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Surviving COVID has awakened and emboldened us. There’s a palpable sense, a natural consensus forming that we can do better – with the confidence to motivate us to take risks that, before COVID, were beyond what our naturally conservative nature would have tolerated. Change is in the wind, a reality that has not gone unnoticed by our representatives in Annapolis.
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I’m just on the tail end of recovering from COVID. Yes, I finally got it. The good news is that I managed – through luck, thoughtful masking and crowd avoidance – to put off getting it until science gave me the vaccine and boosters to keep me out of the hospital, off the ventilator and, thank goodness, on the right side of the grass.
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In 2021, Homicides and non-fatal shootings in Baltimore’s Western District totaled 168, then 111 in 2022 down 34%. These numbers support the claim the Mayor makes in his tweet, but let’s look at the data – for all nine Police Districts – from a less politically prejudiced point of view.
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The Fed is raising interest rates to suppress inflation. Republicans in the House want to use a chainsaw to cut
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Congress tends to be a reactionary body in which members respond to legislation instigated by the President or introduced by a handful of their colleagues. Do they even bother to debate all this legislation in public, on the floor of the House or Senate?
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The Presidency is a physically strenuous job. Even more importantly, it is a stressful, potentially overwhelming intellectual challenge that is not without its implications for personal well-being and for the quality of multi-tasking decision-making under pressure.
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Increasing interest rates is making matters worse and hurting the real families who, collectively, comprise the economy we’re always talking about. What can we do about it? Congress needs to modify the language of the Fed’s independent agency status and rescind the Fed’s authority to make economic policy outside of representative government. Take the Fed out of business of fighting inflation.
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Why won’t the Post Office replace my cluster mailbox and others without a fight? Without a call from our Congressman’s office? Because they can’t afford to replace all the damaged cluster mailboxes they own. There’s no law – certainly not one passed by Congress – mandating that we pay for the maintenance and replacement of the cluster mailboxes that the Post Office owns and insists that we use.
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The city’s a mess and, understandably, still losing population at an alarming rate. Unfortunately, your senior elected officials don’t have the time to fix any of that, but plenty of time to pad their own wallets at your expense.
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