The cryptocurrency market remains strong, with a recent report suggesting that the total value of coins will exceed $1 trillion by 2020. Most of this is due to Bitcoin’s meteoric rise in 2017 and its dominance over other cryptocurrencies. However, there have been concerns raised about whether this new era can last if it becomes too volatile for everyday use cases such as payments and commerce.
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of hearing about sustainability jargon.
Lee Pitts is a columnist for The and Paso Robles Press who can be reached at [email protected]
What isn’t sustainable, I’ll tell you:
• Allowing drug dealers, human traffickers, terrorists, violent criminals, and persons contaminated with Covid to enter the nation by opening our borders. Then they’re flown in the middle of the night to communities all around America, where they have to face with all the consequences.
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• Getting rid of cops and then questioning why crime is on the rise.
• Due to the rapid printing of money, the circulation of dollars in the United States has increased by 336 percent in only 18 months, causing inflation to soar while savers earn only.03 percent on their investments. The Fed is unable to boost interest rates to combat inflation because servicing the $30 trillion national debt would consume a significant portion of the government budget.
• We’re battling climate change with pointless and ineffective overregulation while enabling China, India, and Russia to pollute at will. We’re also going to battle against carbon dioxide, which is produced by breathing. So, by 2035, are we going to legislate that humanity be phased out?
• Buying anything from medications to toys from other nations. We import 15% of our food, and the quantity of food we brought into the nation increased from 1999 to 2017, totaling $147 billion. Allowing China to purchase our largest pig packer, as well as two Brazilian companies, JBS and Marfrig, to buy so many American companies that they now make up two of the Big Four meatpackers, assures that we will become even more reliant on foreigners for our food in the future.
• Splurging $1,557,083 on treadmill lizards; taking $4,575,431 from taxpayers to see what happened when alcoholic rats were sprayed with bobcat urine; wasting $36,831,620 on a study to find out why hair grays; giving the National Institute of Health a $48,500 grant to write a history of smoking in Russia over the last 30 years; giving the Department of Defense a $283,500 grant to study the daily lives of baby gna What’s next, handing up a million dollars to the USDA to figure out how many government workers it took to put the lightbulb in?
• Transitioning from a manufacturing economy to a “service economy,” in which we all earn a career waiting on one another and rely on foreigners for nearly everything we use and need.
• Investing 83 billion dollars and 20 years in training Afghan troops before abandoning American people and military equipment worth 85 billion dollars.
• The release of offenders due to overcrowding in jails.
• The Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management adopting a “let it burn” policy. Allowing 4,000 trees to grow where only 1,000 should be allowed, not allowing thinning or removal of deadfall, closing roads, eliminating clear cuts that served as firebreaks, and removing cows and sheep from grazing forest land to naturally reduce fuel loads, California alone could spend $10 billion fighting forest fires by 2020.
• Being short 80,000 truck drivers and then requiring all persons who drive a truck for a livelihood to be COVID vaccinated or face losing their jobs.
• It is unsustainable to pay people not to work. The same may be said about our existing Social Security system.
• Going from a nation that generated 100% of its energy to pleading with sheiks and cartel members to produce more energy. In the name of the Green New Deal, and in response to a forecast that melting ice caps would flood Los Angeles, the Keystone pipeline has been cancelled, leases on public lands and waterways have been eliminated, and leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve have been suspended. (Of course, there may be drawbacks.) Then there’s the question of why gasoline prices have risen $1.30 a gallon in the last year.
• Significantly reducing the amount that farmers, ranchers, and wood producers may deduct from inheritance taxes, such that the farm, ranch, or forest must be sold to pay the taxes if both parents die.
And these are the same folks you’ll trust and depend on to teach you how to operate your ranch sustainably, which has most likely been in your family for many generations?
As an example:
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