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Lloyd Ellis's avatar

Another indicator, and this according to some articles I’ve read, is that over 90 percent of Americans have some side hustle going on, and sure, some folks want to make a little extra cash but many others are doing it to pay the bills. My neighbor does Instacart to earn some cash to pay off her car, and she told me they are having a hard time getting new people to sign on right now because the profit margin is extremely thin and tips are drying up so the bottom line is that you’re barely making minimum wage.

But be of good cheer fine people of Illinois. Our wonderful benefactor-governor has approved every taxpayer in the state to receive $50.00 to help with this nasty inflation. Plus, and please hold on to your seats! They have suspended the 1 percent sales tax on groceries. Don’t spend all that extra wealth in one place.

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tps's avatar

Good post as usual.

I am a tad more optimistic, and I do not think housing is going to be unduly influenced in the economic issues especially with rents so high and climbing. Location, too, is important.

HOWEVER . . . I own and run a successful and robust military history publishing company. The world in which I swim in infested with left-of-center people. Some authors have become wonderful friends over the years, and they are nice folks, but we do not talk politics. Only books and history.

That said, many BELIEVE Biden. We have a robust social media program, and I rarely scroll around because I am so disgusted when I see what some of my authors and friends write and believe.

Do not be fooled by Biden's low ratings. A healthy number of these people may think the country is on the wrong footing, BUT they still blame the GOP, guns, Trump, Reagan, Coolidge, et. al.

We must work together hard and not get cocky and make sure this November wipes out the Left. And I no longer use Democrats. I call them what they are--Leftists, Socialists, Marxists, etc. They are not Democrats in the American sense of the word.

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