{"id":4779,"date":"2024-11-05T09:06:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2024-11-05T09:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:06:05","slug":"5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/05\/5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Incredibly odd. I didn’t have anything in the draft folder for today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe I was going to write about my brother, and happy birthday to him, but I don’ know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously, today is Election Day. I did send off my absentee ballot on Saturday before I left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know what’s going to happen. I have a hunch, but I’m right there with a lot of the The Fifth Column<\/a> folks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issues the country is facing are incredibly deep. It’s not culture war stuff. It’s some really serious fiscal problems to which neither of the major candidates has an answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a lot that can be learned from Javier Milei, and Argentina<\/a>, but neither party is really in doing anything to address the problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bubuhbut Kamala is going to give first-time homebuyers a $25,000 credit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which will be a small patch to something that’s still a bubble. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is going to eliminate Income Taxes completely!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Income taxes that the majority of taxpayers don’t pay anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think there’s a strong argument that your “FICA Taxes” really aren’t taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess we’ll see what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From my archives, November 5, 2000:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really hate mainstream politicians.

<\/em>I don’t know that I’d throw around hate is readily today. But the overall idea really hasn’t changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps I was a bit more hopeful around 2012ish, but my underlying suspicions continue to ring true — government doesn’t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know what I’m going to do today. Might go do something for lunch\/dinner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ll see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is there something I can do to switch off the breathless coverage of the election?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Football might be as much of a disaster as politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will the Saints win another game this year after firing Dennis Allen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is there someone coming out of college who could be the next Jaden Daniels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t know that, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That’s about all the Good Morning America<\/em> I can take. So I’m going to move onto something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Incredibly odd. I didn’t have anything in the draft folder for today. Maybe I was going to write about my brother, and happy birthday to him, but I don’ know. Obviously, today is Election Day. I did send off my absentee ballot on Saturday before I left. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779","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=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}