Subj : Re: The US election
To : Dan Clough
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Thu Nov 07 2024 01:18 pm
Dan,
DC> I am happy to remain your friend, and would certainly not lose that over
DC> an election. Thank you.
Thank you we're on the same wavelength here.
You know, having your wife from over 46 years pulled from under you by a disease, sometimes inspires you to start thinking differently about life.
DC> said about the "other side". Look at what's happened to the USA in the
DC> last four years - record setting inflation,...
Even after 52 years of continued visits and stays, it is just this week, the day prior to the election, that I understood this. You see, inflation never bothered me ...
Our society is built as such that there's an economic basket with 20 or 30 representative products in to weigh the inflation which is expressed in a variable index. When that index passes a certain treshold wages and pensions automaticqlly go up, landlords are allowed once in a full year to adjust rents etc ... But as your income goes up along with certain prices, it sometimes is difficult to notice.
And then suddenly I understood this: what if the price of gas, bread, potatoes, flower, beer, anything ... goes up and your income stays the same. You understand here we are not so much concerned voting with our wallet in mind ... but in the US it's different ... If it were the same here then perhaps I would be willing to view politicians who are not dealing with it through different eye-glasses...
DC> Honestly, many people here think that it really doesn't matter all that
DC> much who wins. None of them are truly on the side of "the people" and
DC> we all know that.
100%
DC> Well, thank you, and the same to you. I'm mostly just glad that this
DC> whole election circus will be over soon, hopefully by the end of the
DC> week as they "count" the votes. At least then much of the BS will stop
DC> and we can get back to our lives.
We have just gone through 2 elections ourselves ... and the way it looks we may get anotherone in months to come ... the blessings of 12-15 parties running and 7 of 'm combined reaching 50% ... try to get some stability this way.
