The Real Job as President?

I know some of you won't agree with this 'thought'.....but I tend to see the President's chief function/job.....as just persuading on 'something'. 

It doesn't matter if it's a war in the Balkans, or punishing the evil Russians, or suggesting that taxes have to creep up to pay for stuff we are giving away, or making you feel good over achievements to defeat racism, or giving you a hyped-up feeling over downsizing the nation's drug problems.  

 Probably since the 1920s....we've been dealt a thousand problems, and Presidents size up the mess....give speeches or gear the nation for a persuasion situation.  

So, we come to President Joe Biden.  

On some weird persuasion 'index' (one to ten).....Biden is marginally delivering at two or three on just about every single topic.

I just can't recall a President stumbling around at this level.  Maybe Carter gave several crappy speeches and just walked around with a successful speech one day.  Then he'd do a crappy no-thrills speech the next day.  

2021?  It's been a full year of comical persuasion.  For me, it was like a used-car dealer talking up a 1970 AMC Gremlin.  Two minutes into the Gremlin chatter.....you just want to leave the sales lot without being hindered by the sales guy.

Was Joe Biden always a dismal persuasion guy?  I sat and thought about this.  From the 1990s, there's nothing to really indicate he had persuasion talents.  Even as VP for Obama.....he never gave a 4-star performance for persuading people.  In 2020?  It was a choice of Joe Biden's dismal persuasion factor or Bernie Sander's crappy persuasion capability.  You picked the lesser of two evils.

So here we are.

2022?  I'd expect more of the same.  Maybe it's time that Joe hires up a sign language gal like the Latin American dictators use.....swinging her arms, body and boobs around......captivating you more than the clumsy dictator himself.  

The Student-Loan-Hysterical?

 With the 80-odd million votes in 2020....I would personally take a guess that 10-percent of these votes came from Republicans, Independents, and Democrats for Joe Biden....because he 'guaranteed' that student loan debt would be massively cut (some people felt 50-percent would be likely).  

If you were standing there in 2019....owing $80k and barely making $35k at your start-up profession after college (age 24), the debt thing was a constant problem for you to handle. Voting for Joe Biden made sense....he'd dissolve half of that debt and you'd feel better.

For some folks, the sales pitch was that $50k of debt would dissolve away.....so those owing $25k, $35k, or $45k....it was an enormous 'weight' lifted off your back.

President Biden did one single thing for you....he stalled the debt payments (no interest, no payments).  It was all figured that this would eventually evolve into a large sum of money forgiven.

Well.....it didn't happen.

In fact, presently, the new executive order says you have a grace period of no payments up to May of 2022.

Come June 2022....you will have to start making payments.

Anger and frustration?  I'd guess and say more than forty-million Americans are pretty negative about Biden and his fraudulent promise. Whoever is running for the Democrats in 2023's 'build-up' to the primary.....will go and repeat the Joe Biden promise....dismantling the college loan debt.  It's virtually guaranteed.

I certainly feel sorry for these folks and realize that this 'anchor' is screwing people over....limiting their home-purchase ability, and their contributions to their retirement.  But, I generally ask.....why did you go and borrow $50k for a crappy degree which only leads to a starting $30k a year salary, and limits you to probably $45k at age forty?  Why were you that stupid not to grasp the sequence of results?

Blame at the university system for having so many burdens upon them with almost no value for one-quarter of their college staff work-force?  Yeah.  I also blame state legislatures for not tackling the issue and asking for audits of their own public colleges.

This Biden 'joke' just sinking away?  More or less.

Someone will come along in 2023 to promise a massive give-away deal, and half your debt to dissolve if you just vote them in.  Another massive push that fails in the end?  Absolutely.

The only way to fix this?  I'd go to each kid applying for massive student loans and just tell them.....the max you get for a non-engineer/non-medical loan per year....is $8,000.  Either you accept this and just go to school part-time (making this a 8-year degree process)....or you settle on Community College (for lesser cost degrees).  Once you decrease the 'herd' entering universities.....the college will have to react, and lay off one-quarter of their employees (the non-productive folks).  The system will clean itself up in just two or three years.  

This Idea of a Vax-Status to Travel By Air?

 The White House is studying the idea that for all internal flights in the US.....you could not board unless you had a vax-status.

Odds of this order being issued?  I'd give a 30-percent chance of occurring.  So several observations:

1.  Even if you were quintupled-vaxed (five times).....it simply doesn't mean that you are 100-percent immune to Covid.  No one will sign their name to any statement like that.  So if you forced this order....vaxed-up people would show up....board a plane legally, and still pass the Covid virus around on the plane.  

To be honest, I'd have ten times the fear of Omikron being 'stashed' on the plane after a flight, and I'd be less than thrilled to board the flight leaving.

2.  Fake vaccination slips showing up?  More than likely, but this would just invite more cops to stand by and detain you at the airport.  Some might even accuse you of having a fake vax-slip, when you have a legit vax-slip.  

3.  I would suspect that even vaxed-up people would stand there for a minute....do some critical thinking, and ask the question....if this is so bad for people....isn't this the same for getting into a taxi, riding the subway, or entering a city bus?  

On fear status, I could see this quickly flipping public opinion and asking why schools are open....why you allow unvaxed-people into grocery stores, topless bars, and NFL stadiums?

4.  Finally, it just seems logical....the next step is to limit people coming to talk with President Biden....that only vaxed-up folks should be allowed into the White House, and that non-vax folks should be kept at the gate.  

My suggestion...if it's this bad to make a vax-status and forbid air travel....maybe it's time to just give up flying in general (crashing modern air-travel) and turn airports into Blockbuster 'fronts'?