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Newsom’s High Inflation Remedy $400

$400 checks exclusively to car owners as the governor’s high inflation remedy benefits those who don’t feel inflation at the pump and excludes those who do not own vehicles.

Newsom Speaking on the Budget
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – MAY 10: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at The Unity Council on May 10, 2021 in Oakland, California. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $100 billion economic recovery package for the state that would include a new round of $600 stimulus checks for low-income residents making up to $75,000 a year. An estimated two out of three Californians would receive the check and families with children would receive an additional $500. Newsom also announced a projected $75.7 billion budget surplus compared to last year’s projected $54.3 billion shortfall. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Governor Newsom,

A $400 check for all car owners? I do not currently own a car. My car was totaled in January 2020. Due to Covid, when I got the insurance check, dealerships were closed, we were expected to remain home. I learned how to use delivery services. Since February 2020, I have used Uber and Lyft rides to get to destinations. Yet, I will not get relief from gas cost inflation? I am paying the surcharge on these Uber and Lyft rides! Will you demand that I get a credit on these costs? I pay daily for wherever I go.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Newsom-proposes-inflation-relief-checks-17170996.php

A High Inflation Remedy for Gas Powered Car Owners

Governor Newsom, you have already suffered the indignity of a recall election. You need this benefit check to create supporters. The announcement through the media sounded like you are blatantly pandering to gas powered car owners while rewarding electric car owners, too. Let me offer better options to aid Californian voters as you address the pain of inflation. Biden is getting a bad rap for what Trump set in motion.

Offer a car purchase incentive that allows gas powered car owners to purchase (or lease) a hybrid or electric vehicle. Develop a loan program for lower income car owners, so they could afford to purchase a new hybrid or electric vehicle. Design an effective car replacement program where car owners can replace their gas guzzling vehicles (the worse the gas mileage per gallon the higher the credit?). Support it by helping institutions offer great interest rates, even for the credit challenged. Roll out a monetary credit program! A program that matches half of the monthly payment for a hybrid or electric vehicle the first year and reduces over the next three years. Settle up through our income tax filings each year.

Governor Gavin Newsom announces largest state budget surplus in American history (msn.com)

Newsom Speaking
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – MAY 10: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (L) speaks during a press conference as Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff (R) looks on at The Unity Council on May 10, 2021 in Oakland, California. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $100 billion economic recovery package for the state that would include a new round of $600 stimulus checks for low-income residents making up to $75,000 a year. An estimated two out of three Californians would receive the check and families with children would receive an additional $500. Newsom also announced a projected $75.7 billion budget surplus compared to last year’s projected $54.3 billion shortfall. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Dilute the pain of upgrading to the vehicles that are not fossil fuel powered. Address the pain at the pump in a powerful way. Help us reach our climate goals, too! The Tesla owners aren’t being hurt by the gas cost increases, why would you give them a $400 credit? Focus on Californians who need help in switching away from fossil fuel.

You have to get this right. Choose an Inclusive Inflationary Relief Check!

Not ready for a complex program or have the time to roll that out this year? There are only two ways to promote this $400 check to California voters without getting smeared by different groups. Select a benefit that can reach every Californian and relieve OUR inflationary pain. For example, every Californian will get a $400 relief check who is:

  1. Over the age of 18. This would include family members living with their parents, and
  2. Whose primary home is in California. (Let’s not give this to those who have second homes here.)

CAREFUL!

Do not give this to only car owners – it is the wrong message.
Do not eliminate the benefit for people earning over a certain income. They feel inflation, too. We must recognize the pain of ALL Californians.

Be Inclusive! Include Everyone for Inflationary Relief.

Everyone is suffering from inflation, be generously inclusive. It only makes sense if you give every person who is in the state, whether they drive or not monetary inflation relief. No matter whether they drive or someone they know drives them, we all feel the impact of the increase in the cost of gas. Uber riders have seen fuel surcharges and those add up, too! We all need that support of $400. If someone doesn’t drive, I bet someone they know drives for them. They can willingly hand their inflation check to someone who helps them as appreciation. You can easily address how it is paid back through the income tax. Obviously, to All Californians is my preferred option.

Option 2 With Exclusions. Keep the Budget Down.

If you are hell bent on excluding everyone but “car owners”, I will urge my Representative and Senator to support an outline of necessary additional EXCLUSIONS. These exclusions should be applied to save Californians the cost of this very exclusive and special favor to car owners. I consider myself moderate politically. I do not want to give generous special favors for special interests unless it results in benefits for all Californians. I insist on exclusions if only car owners will receive the $400 benefit. These exclusions would extend to and include:

  1. All electric vehicle owners (they aren’t buying gas),
  2. Any Californians who make over $125,000. (They likely already own an electrical vehicle and benefited from previous tax incentives. They should or have solar panels on their roofs reducing the impact of all the energy related increases of the last couple of years),
  3. All adults who live in Long Term Care facilities or who are housebound. (If they own a car but don’t drive, their kids will be getting the benefit, no one should get two checks.)
  4. All teenagers (Their parents may be getting up to $800 already. They can convince their parents to share).
  5. Limit the $400 credit to one per household. (Why should some families who have multiple cars get multiple credits?).
  6. Limit the $400 benefit to one credit per residential address, exclude PO Boxes.
  7. Anyone taking the deduction for the heavy vehicles (over 6,000 lbs.). (These are business owners and already get deductions on their vehicles).
  8. Businesses should be excluded, only residential vehicles. (For the people, not business owners, they already get deductions).

All Californians should benefit from the Governors High Inflation Remedy.

All Californians should enjoy the benefit you are extending. Or in this case you are rewarding those Californians who have not upgraded to electric vehicles. You are rewarding car owners at the expense of those who use other means of transportation. You are excluding those who have chosen to use public transportation. You exclude those who voluntarily have reduced their fossil fuel use. Personally, I like the idea of incentivizing gas-powered car owners to change. They can receive a similar benefit as you have given homeowners adding solar panels.

Be the governor I want you to be. If you get this right, I plan on voting for you, again.

Consider me a Californian who cares about Californians and the Budget.

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28% of LGBT Community voted for Trump! Why?

You can apparently deceive some of the people all of the time. It is estimated that 28% of LGBT voters voted for Trump in 2020. My thoughts jumped to a phrase I have heard since living in La Grande, Oregon as a kid. Lambs to the Slaughter.

Why lambs? Why Sheep? Well, growing up, I had two lambs. I remember was how quiet they were when being sheared. I also remember them crying out when hungry. And, I remember crying loudly when they died. They weren’t slaughtered, they ate some hemlock or a grass that poisoned them. No matter, they died unwittingly from what they swallowed.

What Is the Origin and Meaning of the phrase “Lamb to the Slaughter“? The original use of “Lamb to the Slaughter” is found in the Bible. This phrase is written in the Books of Jeremiah and Isaiah. It refers to someone who goes innocently and unconcernedly into a dangerous or life threatening situation.

That is what I think of when I learned that 28% of LGBT voters voted to re-elect Trump. I had missed the poll in October reported by NBC that 75% of the LGBT Community supported Biden. I guess I hadn’t asked who did the other 25% support? Worse, what changed the mind of 3% of Biden voters who ended up voting for Trump? Actually, my first thought was that the person who wrote it was absolutely off his rocker and a right winger trying to justify his mayhem. Then, I dug into the analysis, and it seems every news organization was running a report on the 28% of LGBT Voters selecting Trump.

My next thought was what made them choose Trump? A death wish? or are they simply sheep swallowing the right wing media’s poisonous filth? Does our community truly have political sheep so easily led to the slaughter?

To the 28%… Jeez people, you really voted for this pompous, racist, hate-filled arrogant obese man when he has systematically rolled back protections we fought to put in place over the last 40 years? He has singularly destroyed most protections for the transgender community. This includes frequent harassments and demands from the State Department for files and records for a transgendered person to be justified by the State Department to approve a passport. He continues his assault of health care to bring back the nightmare of pre-existing conditions which for people with AIDS is already being terrorized by woefully low funding of Ryan White and other treatment, not to mention his killing off of promising research for curing AIDs which he knowingly did when he stopped the use of mice, and was building detention centers with your incarceration in mind?

Are you stupid, naïve, crazy, or just adore old male fascists? I’m truly stunned and curious for your answer. I ruled out smart, engaged, or clear-headed already. No arguing, only one short statement please. So, sheep, tell me without lots of hyperbole why you voted for Trump. If you had a death wish, that would make sense. But, if it wasn’t your death wish, I really must know your thought process. I’d have used the word ‘reasoning”, but that would be giving your thinking more value than I am reasonably willing to consider.

So, Mr, Mrs. and Ms. LGBT 28%, please provide why you voted for Trump. It is important that I learn. I may not seem real interested, but I really am stunned and want to know what possessed you to vote for Trump and for four MORE years of this assault on our rights and unrelenting political mayhem. (If you fear retaliation from those who might see your note, (which honestly I would think is logical – hence surprising why you would consider retaliation might exist) – feel free to privately message me your response. I will keep it to myself.)

Do not try to convince me that I should have voted for Trump. I did not vote for him the last time. I thought he would be a nightmare President and in this he did not disappoint.

I am truly stunned any LGBT being in America would vote for Trump. I cannot even grasp it, unless you only listened to Faux News or read the New York Post (what a biased piece of crap that is) or had swastikas tattooed on your body. Then, I could see you voting for Trump. Not forgiven, just understood. But, I await your answer, Mister and Miss or Ms. 28%.

I must know! Please share. I want to learn about your thought process that led you to vote for Trump.

28% of LGBT Americans Voted for Donald Trump According to New York Times Exit Poll

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Nightmare or Dream November 3, 2020?

The nightmare scenario I dreamt on November 2, 2020

Trump wins and four more years which leads to a:

  • A US Supreme Court of Trump appointments. 
  • No news without State Approval,
  • Full detention centers of abused and battered protestors,
  • Western States under federal martial law.
  • Federal No Abortion Law – No exemptions
  • Elimination of all anti-discrimination laws due to religious freedom law.
  • Elimination of all privacy laws.
  • Federal control of the internet.

I would not be surprised when Trump appoints:

  • I would not be surprised when Trump appoints:
  • Ivanka Trump as Secretary of Labor.
  • Eric Trump as Education Secretary
  • Jared Kushner as Secretary of State
  • Don Jr as Housing and Urban Development.

I agreed 100% with my Facebook friend Walter Meyer who wrote:

For me, one of the scariest things about tomorrow is when we learn what a large percentage of our fellow citizens have completely lost track of their moral bearings. How many completely forgotten what it means to be an American and believe in the rule of law and democracy. How many have taken such a large drink of the Fox News Kool Aid that think Joe Biden–Joe Biden of all people, wholesome, devout Catholic, compassionate centrist Joe Biden–is going to lead us into a dystopian nightmare that is somehow a cross between Hitler’s Germany and Venezuela’s disfunction. When sanity wins tomorrow, I worry that I will never be able to look at friends and relatives the same for having supported this lawless, immoral, corrupt charlatan.

Yet, I expect the response to the Biden win to be Trump declaring martial law the next day.   Which is inline with what Michael R Brant wrote:

Trump is going to create as much chaos and wreckage as possible before January. And we will be powerless to do anything about it.

Even if he loses, I do not see his party holding him in check or standing up to him.  The US Senate will be led in lame duck session by McConnell who I expect will also have lost, and Lindsey (Loser) Graham, who also will have lost.  These rabid losers will oppose any House Measure to stop the President from outlandish behavior. 

It is hard to stay positive with four years of reckless leadership, self-centered daily promotion of a US President, with thin skin, reactionary responses, and the power to impact everyone.  It is not without grave concern that we vote with our hearts against this man who would be king of our land.  Especially since he has passionate followers of 40% of the populace.  Dictators have launched coups and taken over lands with a smaller minority of followers and succeeded at toppling the government of the people.  In fact, our own CIA has assisted in some of those kinds of coups.  May God have mercy on us all.

My dream.

Biden wins in a decisive election with a clear majority that no planned strategy of Trump could usurp, including taking it to the US Supreme Court.

Trump acknowledges Biden win.

Trump passes the largest stimulus package to Americans totalling $2.5 trillion dollars   The majority of it to respond to the crisis and to help Americans with $2,000 each without restriction to their income.

Trump attends the inauguration with Melania.

Trump never seeks the limelight again. 

Life returns to normal where the President is not on the news 15 minutes every 30 minutes.  We begin to address climate change, our economy grows, and diplomacy flourishes between our country and the rest of the world.

And, one day, decades from now, policy wonks record that we have paid off Medicare Option D costs, the Coronavirus Pandemic debt, the Wars on Terror, and we avoided a War over the South China Sea all without shorting Americans on their Social Security.  The only people whoever complained were the Pharmaceutical companies when the government made them negotiate directly with all insurance companies as one entity with the Medicare System which led to reductions in drug costs of 70%.  The government resumed research in Science and initiated College Education support for most Americans.  The government also increased immigration for refugees and those seeking access to America.  The following 30 years were economically robust.  The government started then expanded a new United Income for those making minimum wage or were unemployed which helped when unemployment went over 10%.  It continued through the AI and Robotics implementation era, protecting Americans from starvation, extremist politics, and helped Americans grow an economy where everyone pursued areas of interest and passion.

And, it all started with voting for Biden. Then I woke up to dread as the vote started to be announced. It was still November 3rd. We shall see which is more accurate.