What Questions?

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate — Captain.

Ivo Welch

December 31, 2021

Facts

Wrong Question

Right Question

Humanity

Can We Go It Alone?

Eu And Us And Oecd?

Pay For Non-Oecd?

Platitudes

Appeals don’t work. The US cannot even through appeals get its own citizens to take the safest vaccine in human history. There are things we can do, though—wait until later in the course.

Fun With Wellness

 

(Think Goop. And the following are the more PG-rated products.)

You Educated Folks…

Let’s talk magnitudes.

 

Infrastructure can be a great investment. However, it depends on the type and spending. Think $5m for 1 lane per mile. With 50 houses per mile, think $100,000 per house construction or asphalt highway. With 4-lanes, you can build full houses or just lanes for the same cost.

Does AOC understand before she votes? Does Tucker Carlson before he shoots his mouth off? I do not know.

Someone will have to pay for spending plans…think mostly you.

Think in terms of mortgage — how fast is your income still growing? If your income is growing fast, then your mortgage today can be bigger and it will over time diminish in importance. If your income is no longer growing but shrinking, your budget (i.e. the US budget) will hit a wall — unless you can bring in more money. This means primarily your taxes — upper middle income.

Estimated Cost Of War On Terror

War on Terror is not a substitute for War on CC. US won’t spend less on military. Eisenhower warned us. But “The US should…” is not how it works, either. Spending has a different dynamic.

Problem Of Magnitudes

Sidenote

Conclusion