Did Mayor Pete Buttigieg Have Any Qualifications?

 For Transportation Secretary?  No.

From the past ten 'fillers' of the job.....did any of them really have the resume or background for the job?  No, not really.

I hate to suggest it, but this is usually where you offer up a job to some 'loser' within the party (Republican or Democrat), and it's just a 'honor' situation.  

I'd even go and suggest from the late 1980s....Neil Goldschmidt...was probably a more unqualified individual for the job than Pete Buttigieg.

But as you glean the past decade of accomplishments for Pete Buttigieg....he just hasn't done anything on paper that noted him as capable for an executive type position.  

The feeling that Biden just 'owed' him something?  That's mostly how you see this mess.  

Marginalized Comedians?

 Somewhere around a decade ago, I came to the realization that probably half of the people who were trying to 'sell' themselves as comedians (either on TV, radio or at clubs)....weren't that capable.  

Do we have an over abundance of comedians today?  Yes, I'd offer that observation.  Probably forty-percent ought to renew their resumes, and just look for real work.  From the remaining crowd?  Probably half of them are marginally cutting it....either improve or just preparing your resumes as well.

There's a Brit comedian who came out with a five-star response/explanation for BREXIT (comparing to a Burger King), who had one brief moment.  Ever since that joke.....he's gone back to marginal humor.  He still gets invites to comedy club routines, but it's obvious that he was just lucky for one four-minute routine for BREXIT, and the rest is history.

Late night TV?  It's mostly crap....with the exception of Gutfeld on Fox.

Would I go to a comedy club for an evening?  If I knew who was appearing.....yeah.  But if it's an unknown group, or two 'losers'?  No.....I'd skip it. 

Shutting Down Purchasing

 I sat and watched a economic news piece yesterday, and the advice given by one 'expert'.....just lessen your purchases, and things will improve.

Back around 2008 (the great stock collapse year).....Germany had a serious financial decline, and someone bought up the standard German dedication for periods like this....lessening purchases.  It quickly got brought up....this traditional remedy to German economic woes (historically)....also brought on an industrial 'mess' where factories went to 50-percent production (folks laid off) and a whole new problem was cranked up within months.  

The experts could actually go back over dozens of years and show the German standard of lessening purchases....was the wrong method for recession and price-issues.  

In this scenario, you'd wake up around April of 2022....where half the number of freighters were progressing across the Pacific, and there were truly less items on the shelves....because production went to a 50-percent level.  Then price-increases would occur on a weekly basis because of the shortages.  

If you use the history of recessions....at least since WW II....most recessions never last more than twelve months.  If you used the history of recessions.....prior to 1900....most recessions went on for two to four years.

The system normally improves the situation....unless you really 'toy' with it and create additional 'triggers'.