Remember Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Puritan society in his novel, The Scarlet Letter? Poor Hester Prynne violated the laws of the church, which meant that she broke society’s laws, too. At the beginning of the novel, the reader joins Hester as she leaves the safety of the town prison and makes her way back into the society that jailed her. Reading the book for the first time in the 11th grade, I had a hard time understanding how, in a free society, the religion of one group could also form its judicial system. That makes the laws of God the same thing as the laws of man. Separation of church and state was also an 11th grade U.S. history lesson, so we students figured no more Hesters could be jailed for breaking the laws of her religion . Or so we thought. We fought a war 250 years ago to separate the colonies from a king who was not only ruler of the government but leader of the church. A quick walk through British history shows what a mess that ideal leads to: remember Henry VIII
Do you remember the outrage and fury last year from Republicans about the inflation rate and the blame they cast on President Biden for this problem ?
Do you remember that the Republicans ran on a midterm election promise to focus like a laser (Jewish space laser ?) on inflation and save the American people from Joe Biden's mismanagement ?
Well, here it is !
H.R. 347 - Reduce Exacerbated Inflation Negatively Impacting the Nation Act
It is a one page bill with the following plan:
- For any Executive Order (from the President) that is projected to cause an annual gross budgetary effect of at least $1 billion, the Executive Branch shall prepare a statement detailing one of the following points:
- Whether the Executive order is determined to have no significant impact on inflation or
- Is determined to have quantifiable inflationary impact on the consumer or producer price index (including a detailed description of such impact) or
- Is determined likely to have a significant impact on inflation but the amount cannot be determined at the time the estimate is prepared.
- A report shall be prepared within the first 6 months then yearly on these items
Section 2(d) - (d) Rule Of Construction.—Nothing in this section shall be construed to suggest that the task of combating inflation and bringing down the cost of living is the sole responsibility of the Executive Office of the President, and not also a key pursuit of the United States House of Representatives during the 118th Congress through thoughtful, productive legislative action.
This means that they admit they cannot blame it all on Joe Biden !
Well it is lucky for the Republicans that the inflation rate has been coming down nicely.
The rate of inflation for the year ending:
- 6/30/2022 was 9.1%
- 7/31/2022 was 8.5% - down
- 1/31/2023 was 6.3% - down
Oh, and another tidbit of information, Ben Cline voted for this amazing bill !
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