{"id":4667,"date":"2024-08-03T13:28:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T18:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2024-08-03T13:28:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T18:28:35","slug":"lazing-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/lazing-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazing Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Writing because I have a few minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And refusing to work.  I really feel like there&#8217;s things I ought to be doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, no, I should be doing what I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at probably five straight twelve-hour days this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I think I&#8217;m ready.  TV viewing has kind of been offset by Olympics being on.  I watch a bit, but it&#8217;s really not something I&#8217;m terribly interested in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could dive deeper into the mess that is politics, but that might be more disappointing than many other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching the sputtering economics happening.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-au\/money\/markets\/what-s-behind-the-stock-market-s-brutal-2-day-crash\/ar-AA1o9lhU?ocid=BingNewsVerp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NYSE started deflating<\/a>.  What&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s solution?  Stop taxing Social Security income.  What&#8217;s Harris&#8217;s solution?  Tell the world that Trump is worse than Hitler because he doesn&#8217;t want to raise taxes on corporations.  (That don&#8217;t even pay taxes, anyway&#8230;..)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1-2-3 Plan.  Set interest rates to 1% above inflation.  2.  Halve discretionary spending.  3. Triple all tax rates and fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not Voodoo Economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Voodoo Economics\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X_wHBlouFSc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Anyone?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing because I have a few minutes. And refusing to work. I really feel like there&#8217;s things I ought to be doing. Actually, no, I should be doing what I&#8217;m doing. Looking at probably five straight twelve-hour days this week. But I think I&#8217;m ready. TV viewing has kind of been offset by Olympics being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}