Gift..

 

Boasting ..

 

Critics panned President Biden on social media for boasting about his 2021 economic record.

"We’re ending 2021 with what one analyst described as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years," Biden said on Twitter Wednesday. "Let’s keep the progress going."

"And at the end of 2021, with what one analyst described as the ‘strongest first-year economic track record of any President in the last 50 years’: nearly 6 million new jobs, a record number for a new President, because of my staff and my Cabinet.

is there any boasting Mr. President of the Gas prices that you personally shot it down, increased the prices worldwide and enabled the OPIC to get rich from the USA and other European Countries?

Is there any boasting Mr. President on the Build Inflation Back Better where employed people can't afford today's prices under your status?

Is there any boasting on your achievement on 2021 of managing and prevent the death from Covid which reached 800,000 plus, that you and the VP promised great actions similar to the Ebola Epidemic?   Just a "Basted" thought.

Fraud..

 

Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced a new office in City Hall that will crack down on waste, fraud and abuse in city government and his first targets will be the bloated budgets of the Department of Education, Department of Correction and New York City Housing Authority.

“We are not giving taxpayers their money’s worth every day and that’s what we are going to change. making sure our government is going to work for our taxpayers,” Adams said Tuesday in launching the newly created Mayor’s Office of Risk Management and Compliance.

“We’re going to be rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in our agencies,” Adams said from Brooklyn Borough Hall where he’s serving his final days as borough president.

That begins with rooting out the other guy who just waste it.  

Just a thought.

Crisis..

 

Fault..

 

Adam..

 

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. 

First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. 

By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets.^[1]

Failed..

 

Someone has to say it, and I derive no pleasure from doing so. But here goes:

The Omicron wave is exposing the limits of COVID-19 restrictions, which are clearly failing. These include ferociously debated vaccine passports and masking policies that have done little, if anything, to tame skyrocketing numbers throttling the Northeast. 

Hard-hit travel, leisure and small businesses — especially restaurants — are bearing the brunt of questionable protocols. 

And for the record, it’s not just America. China's aggressive zero-COVID policies that have exacerbated global supply chain problems aren’t doing much to curb the spread there, either.

“Policies, tools and communication must adapt to where we are now two full years into the pandemic. “Vaccines have been invaluable to bring us to this point, but mandating drives away customers, good employees, job candidates, and creates more division inside (and outside) of organizations.”

The preponderance of Omicron-fueled breakout infections, and the attendant shutdowns of (highly vaccinated) New York City venues, Apple Stores and Broadway shows, are undermining illusions of safety. It's also questioning an underlying premise that effectively cleaved society into castes of vaccinated and unvaccinated.

 With this fallure, there is something else not being done. Crowded offices, street, stadium, buses, subway system etc and the quality of life needs to be improved.  Just a "Dense" thought

Busyness..

 

Our jobs can provide us with a sense of competence, which contributes to wellbeing. Researchers have demonstrated not only that labor leads to validation but that, when these feelings are threatened, we're particularly drawn to activities that require effort – often some form of work – because these demonstrate our ability to shape our environment, confirming our identities as competent individuals.

Work even seems to make us happier in circumstances when we'd rather opt for leisure. This was demonstrated by a series of clever experiments in which participants had the option to be idle (waiting in a room for 15 minutes for an experiment to start) or to be busy (walking for 15 minutes to another venue to participate in an experiment).

Yet the researchers found that those who'd spent 15 minutes walking ended up significantly happier than those who'd spent 15 minutes waiting – no matter whether they'd had a choice or a chocolate or neither. In other words, busyness contributes to happiness even when you think you'd prefer to be idle. Animals seem to get this instinctively: in experiments, most would rather work for food than get it for free.

But even in the realm of leisure, our unconscious orientation towards busyness lurks in the background. A recent study has suggested that there really is such a thing as too much free time and that our subjective wellbeing actually begins to drop if we have more than five hours of it in a day. Whiling away effortless days on the beach doesn't seem to be the key to long-term happiness.

Just a "leisure" thought.

Mild..

 

Omicron is “not the same disease we were seeing a year ago” and high Covid death rates in the UK are “now history”, a leading immunologist has said.

Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University and the government’s life sciences adviser, said that although hospital admissions had increased in recent weeks as Omicron spreads through the population, the disease “appears to be less severe and many people spend a relatively short time in hospital”. Fewer patients were needing high-flow oxygen and the average length of stay was down to three days, he said.

“There is early encouragement from what we know in South Africa that you have fewer hospitalizations and that the number of days that they stay in hospital if they do go into hospital is also lower than in previous variants,” he told the BBC.

Unethical Bafoon .

 

Over the last decade, we voted him into City Hall twice, made him a punching bag on a regular basis and turned to him for leadership during one of the lowest points in the city’s history — the COVID-19 pandemic.

By now, almost everyone has an opinion of the Manhattan-born, Massachusetts-raised and Brooklyn-claiming mayor. He is, at turns, a progressive or an unethical buffoon, too anti-cop, a micromanager and just plain lazy. 

Still not entirely clear is how history will judge the man. Clarity on that may take several years or even decades to come by and even then, historians and political scientists will still debate the finer points.

However, the city is deteriorating. More towers are being built in favor of the builders who donate much to the politicians, streets are dug, sewar are old, water pipes and the belly of the beast deteriorates. Six inches of snow or rain will call for an emergency State of the city. Go figure. Not to mention the crowds, and Covid and the massive death.  Just a thought.