WHAT MATTERS TO YOU?

 We spent Sunday morning watching Fox TV- always a dangerous proposition that should be followed with micro-dosing of your favorite psychadellic drug of choice, 

Here is what we learned. The TV commentators on FOX cannot wait until Congress investigates Hunter Biden's laptop.  Is this important to you? What do they think is on the laptop? Why do we care? They keep mentioning the laptop; they mention how vital the investigation into the laptop is to the survival of democracy in 2023. But they never say what they think is on the laptop. Can someone clue us in. 

The border and immigration. FOX is also consumed with the border, which apparently Joe Biden is visiting this week. Here is what FOX viewers believe is occurring at the border every day:  a gang of drug dealers hauling 100 pounds of meth and fentanyl arrives at a border with a baby in tow and are immediately granted compassionate entry into the United States. They bring their grandparents who all get heart transplants for free, displacing Americans who were waiting months for a donor heart. They are all rented luxurious condominiums at taxpayer expense and given high paying jobs that Americans were applying for, along with tax breaks, rifles, and an aggressive LBGTQ ACLU lawyer who assists them for free and gets them bail for all the crimes they commit while in the US.  To the extent Joe Biden and the Democrats are concerned about this, it is only in making sure the ACLU lawyer has enough resources at her disposal to thwart the border agents who are trying to stop the gangs from entering the US. 

Are you as concerned with illegal immigration as FOX is? 

The deficit. During the prior President's administration, the republicans said nothing about the rapid expansion of the deficit and national debt (almost 8 trillion over four years). Indeed they supported a President who bragged that he loved debt. However, they were dead set against increasing the deficit and the national debt when Obama was president and they suddenly have the same fervor with the Biden Administration although this non-partisan tracking site reported the deficit was decreasing YOY. 

Are you worried about the deficit and the national debt. 

And finally, we all know the near tragedy that occurred during the MNF game a week ago. Thankfully Bills safety Demar Hamlin appears on the road to recovery. But the simple fact is that the professional football game has grown more and more violent and dangerous as young men train their bodies to become larger, stronger and faster than anything the human body was designed to do. Crippling knee injuries occur every week, as doctors and trainers have yet to devise a way to protect the knee from the force of collisions and stress. Players becoming paralyzed or nearly paralyzed is also no longer shocking news. Players who retire lose their mental acuity in their late 30s and early 40s because of the repeated hits to their heads which begin in high school or before. Miami's starting QB has had two serious concussions this year and is risking dementia if he continues his career. And now we had a player who got hit and his heart stopped. This was not unexpected because the NFL was prepared for this eventuality. 

Are you concerned about supporting a game that physically and mentally wrecks the lives of the young men who play the game? 

Just more uplifting news events for 2023. Enjoy.