My Gut Feeling Over Court-Packing

 When you gaze over this stupid topic....you have to wonder if the folks writing the Constitution (way over 200 years ago) could imagine the value put upon the Supreme Court today?  My humble guess is NO.....they just didn't see the court as a third part of the Republic....otherwise, they would have wrote five to ten additional pieces into the Constitution.

As for adding three or five additional members?  Once you do it, and the next new administration arrives....what would keep them from double-court-packing....adding three more members, or perhaps nine more members?

To be honest, with all the 'business' of the court....one might even talk over the subject and agree that nine different courts need to exist, and each have a different area of expertise.  

An example....just have one single court for privacy of data or technology issues.  Or having a court that only handles farm or agricultural issues?  Or perhaps having one single court which handles the entertainment and music industry?

The need for the court to be based in the District?  I don't see this necessity anymore.  They could easily be moved out to Colorado or Oklahoma.

As for Biden getting the Democratic support to change the number....in the Senate?  I don't see this happening.  They certainly don't want a hornet's nest of three months of highly aggravating Senate work going on daily....trying to confirm three new judges.  I would also add....if this were the gameplan....you need to start this by late summer 2021, and NOT in the spring of 2022 with primary elections underway in most states.

So I think it's mostly a doomed-to-die topic within the Senate, and likely to be one of the 300 promises of Joe Biden.....which never occur.  

How The Census Changed House Seats

 The smoke has cleared:

States losing one seat: California, NY, Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, Illinois, and Penn.

States gaining one seat: Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Florida and North Carolina.

States gaining two seats: Texas.

The enormous fight on redrawing districts in the thirteen states?  Well....yeah, this is going to occupy these 13 states, and consumer a fair amount of time of the Supreme Court in 2022.  

Alabama?  For the past six months, it'd been argued that they'd lose one seat.  Well....it didn't occur.

This being a top five political topic in the spring of 2022?  I would suggest that.  

Whats the Difference Between Inflation and Hyperinflation?

 Well, on the simple explanation....in a inflation period....you typically see  products/services increase at a higher rate (month by month).  An example, you mow grass at a regular rate of $10 an hour.  In a inflation period, in the second month of summer, you bump the price to $10.10 an hour, and in the third month to $10.25 an hour.  So by September, the end of your mowing season....you are charging $10.60 per hour.  

In a hyperinflation period, you start on day one of the mowing season with a fee of $10 an hour.  By the last day of the first month, your fee is now $12 an hour.  By mid-summer, if hyperinflation continued....you'd likely be charging $13 to $14 an hour.  By the end of the season, your charge would probably be between $16 and $18.

As you can imagine in your mowing empire....business slumps in the hyperinflation period and people skip a week or two on mowing jobs.  

Is there just normal, inflation and hyperinflation?  No.  The experts have five periods.  Normal, creeping inflation (which isn't much to worry about), walking inflation (where you probably need to start thinking about your job and stability), galloping inflation (things start to get rough), and hyperinflation (seeing a quarter of people dismissed from their jobs wouldn't be uncommon).

I should note that the experts have a phrase called 'stagflation' that exists, which typically means that the prices are rising while the economic situation is totally flat (unchanging). The last time we had stagflation?  In the early 1970s with the gas crisis period....where several parts of the economy were rising and several parts were worsening, and oil/gas went to outrageous prices.

Are we in a inflationary period?  In the last month, I've probably read a dozen financial pieces which suggest that we are in the begging stages of creeping inflation, and move to the walking stage inflation situation by late summer.  It's not a terrible or woeful thing....unless you skip a step and find yourself at the galloping stage or in a hyperinflation mess.  

What Joe Said

 There was an interview yesterday, between President Biden and NBC news.  So the topic of wearing a mask came up (as if we really needed a Presidential comment over the subject), and what President Biden said was:

"It's a small precaution to take that has a profound impact. It's a patriotic responsibility, for God sake."

I sat and pondered over it.  

In the same reasoning....I use toilet paper, because it's a patriotic responsibility.

In the same reasoning....I wear underwear, because if's a patriotic responsibility. 

In the same reasoning....I don't smoke menthol cigarettes', because it's a patriotic responsibility.

In the same reasoning....I drink only premium beer (not the cheapo stuff), because it's a patriotic responsibility.

In the same reasoning....I eat mostly beef, because it's a patriotic responsibility.

In the same reasoning....I don't listen to much of anything said by Senator McConnell, because it's a patriotic responsibility (and he's a nut anyway).

In the same reasoning....well....you know.

The problem with Biden's logic is that you'd have to get up each morning, and just feel awful patriotic.  I could go and ask a hundred working-class Americans and they'd tell you that their patriotism for the mask and ban-rules just isn't there anymore.  

This was the kind of quote you could have said in the 1960s and got away with, but in this 2021 era.....it just doesn't work.