When government is limited people are free, free to live, free to pursue a life of liberty and justice where you can work hard & make it, or that such is a lie. Do we need sociology lessons from professional musicians who were lucky enough to get a lucky break & become commercially successful among a giant sea of other people try to become celebrities where less than 1% ever get there.
Many boomers & conservative talk show hosts call me & other people born in the 80's lazy children who want a lot for very little contribution, but I assure you that this is not true. I have busted my ass since I was 5 years old, from 5am to 10 pm every day, & never get a chance to rest in excess, & have a hard can do work ethic & get out of bed early & go make it happen because I have integrity & value the idea of being a maverick American hero inspired by fictional character MacGiver & James Bond, a spirit of anything is possible if you focus on achieving it, but you might have to recruit other talented driven people to make it happen since companies are rarely made of one person, but tend to be made of many groups of groups of people all working together more or less. This blog is a one man effort so that I can convey some of my thoughts, let's get into it.
Gasoline in 1999 King Country where I was living as a teen driver, only $99 cents per US gallon, now the same fuel with 10% ethanol content, noting ethanol replaced MTBE as a fuel oxygenator additive, fuel ethanol made from GMO corn on industrial farms owned by giant agrochemical companies like Monsanto, also called BT Corn, its not even edible & specifically grown & processed to make fuel additives ethanol to the tune of nearly 40 million gallons annually. America consumes something just shy of 400 million gallons of gasoline daily because of the car crazy culture of America, speaking of which my wife & I are about to go on a short road trip to go camping in the warmer sunny American Southwest desert environment :)
Homes or houses or apartments that sold for under $100K when I was a teen are now selling for over $1 million or more than 10X more expensive, while minimum wage went from $5.46 per hour when I was a teen to about $16 per hour recently, or 3X more, but fuel is 4X more expensive, the dollar has lost a lot of its buying power from inflation of the US dollar, homes are price inflated, rent prices are crazy nearby and in many other cities highly unaffordable, so the middle class of America has shrunk more than 15% since the 1960's, and much of the jobs & manufacturing that made the American economy brighter in the 60's has been progressively continually outsourced abroad, harming the US economy more this way.
My boomer adoptive mother purchased her first home with her first husband in Seattle for $6000 in 1961, a small rambler than costs over $800,000 in 2025. Her first car in $1960 was $1200 new, now ~$30,000 for the same model of Ford Mustang. She was able to trade up housing, buying the home cheap, living in it for 5 years, then selling it for 2X what she paid, then taking the proceed profits as the down payment for the next bigger nicer home, then repeat. That is unimaginable today with home prices requiring an annual income of $500K annually, & I don't know that many people who make $500,000 per year, even many surgeons & lawyers that work nearby barely make that much. Others who find a way to buy these overprices homes end up house poor, spending all their income on home costs unable to travel or save money to invest.
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