Sunday 27 June 2021

Bum Versus Hobo versus Tramp?

For the record:

1.  Tramp usually means a guy who ONLY worked when there was no other choice.

2.  Bum usually meant a guy who doesn't work period.  This is the handout guy, or the guy who hangs around the 'missions'.  

3.  Hobo meant a guy who was fully able and willing to move/travel....to find work.

As you can guess....bums usually fell near the bottom, with tramps one step above them.

Is There Such a Thing as Bidenomics?

 No.

I saw the word used this morning....by a business analyst who was trying to get across how inflation is arriving, and how the plan ahead by the administration exists.

Personally, I think if you cornered President Biden and asked direct questions on the economy....you'd get a two-minute lecture about 'how money doesn't grow on trees', and 'how you redistribute the money that doesn't grow on trees'.  

Maybe there is expert within his inner circle who does provide advice, and they carry around a 700-page binder with ideas.....but getting Joe and his inner circle to all agree on the agenda....is near impossible.

So there is something called 'Bidenomics', and maybe a six-line description exists....just enough to put on a 3x5 inch index card.  But in terms of getting somewhere with it?  You'd be better off getting a policy started up by President Biden on duck hunting.

Paranoia Woke

 Generally, paranoia is defined as a ridiculous yet irrational feeling....always remaining in your mind that people are after you or out to harm you.  Naturally, this makes you think they are intruding or disturbing your landscape.

The typical end-result?  You have doubts of virtually everyone.

If you gaze at the news spectrum, internet and social network chatter, and the hyped-up nature of society....there's a fair portion of people running rampant with this paranoia level.

As much as you can make the case that this is irrational...then what?  There's no rehab or massive Doctor Phil-like character to take 100-million Americans in and straighten them out.

If you sat and watched six hours a day of network news, you sit there at 11 PM....unable to sleep, and having anxiety/stress that such-and-such political group, social group, etc....are out to get you.  It affects your sleep, your view of neighbors and friends, and might even develop fears within your mind that the entire 'Old Testament' of the Bible might be linked up to Donald Trump.  

The consequences of all of this?  What happens six months or six years in the future...when you finally wake up?  If I'd wasted seven or eight years of my life in this type of woke situation....I'd feel awful foolish having wasted so much of my life in this 'pit of despair'.