lockdowns – Don Boys https://donboys.cstnews.com Common Sense for Today Sun, 05 Mar 2023 04:46:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.29 How Are Major Drug Chains Implementing the Non-Prescription Ivermectin Law? https://donboys.cstnews.com/how-are-major-drug-chains-implementing-the-non-prescription-ivermectin-law https://donboys.cstnews.com/how-are-major-drug-chains-implementing-the-non-prescription-ivermectin-law#respond Sun, 04 Sep 2022 22:57:29 +0000 http://donboys.cstnews.com/?p=3157 By Don Boys, Ph.D.

The Ivermectin haters are running for cover with recent study revelations; however, they will never admit culpability in the biggest medical and political con job in world history.

News reports of a massive study of Ivermectin’s incredible effectiveness saving the lives of COVID patients is sending the drug’s critics scurrying for cover. A study of 88,012 people “in a strictly controlled” program showed Ivermectin (when used as prevention) achieved up to “92 percent reduction in COVID-19 mortality rate.” It gets even better because there were 0 COVID hospitalizations in the group of regular Ivermectin users compared to 10 in the irregular user group.”

While absorbing the above exhilarating study, we discovered this week that official mortality figures for Europe show “there has been a shocking 691% increase in excess deaths among children since the European Medicines Agency extended the emergency use authorisation of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for use in children aged 12 to 15 in May 2021.”

Unprincipled officials have used their positions to manipulate free citizens into taking unsafe, unproven, and unneeded vaccines into their bodies. And even if you don’t believe they are so motivated, reasonable people will reject the forced vaccinations and national lockdowns.

Even the FDA and CDC have backed off their original Gestapo-like guidelines that proved to be unnecessary, unpopular, and unsuccessful. In the UK, “the effects of lockdown may now be killing more people than are dying of Covid, official statistics suggest.”

Wow!

The abundant positive evidence in the treatment of COVID-19 with HCQ and Ivermectin is thrilling, truthful, and troubling. It’s troubling because many federal health officials (who never treated a COVID patient) refuse to permit the drugs’ use resulting in needless deaths.

To control people and to sell billions of dollars of worthless vaccines, officials refused to look at the science supporting HCQ and Ivermectin, which, when taken early, will almost always save a patient’s life. There is abundant evidence to support that statement. However, a concerted effort has made it impossible for average people to purchase those drugs.

Maybe that’s the problem: they are cheap. Follow the money, honey.

All COVID vaccines were approved under the Emergency Use Authorization that makes distribution of the vaccines legal without being submitted to rigorous, costly, and time-consuming testing. However, FDA approval is not permitted if there is “available and sufficiently effective treatment” already on the market. If Ivermectin and HCQ are effective, then the politicians in bed with Big Pharma would not be permitted to peddle their vaccines. So, HCQ and Ivermectin had to be ineffective.

Those who demand safe, cheap, and effective off label drugs have affected the most sensitive organ of the human anatomy—the wallet. If vaccines are unused, the Big Pharma cash register remains silent and when politicians snort, push, fight, and grunt at the public trough, they come up empty.

No informed conservative would say an American does not have the freedom to decide what medical treatment is acceptable, and no far leftist would say one does not own their own body and therefore has a natural right to choose. You know, “my body, my choice.” Or a child has a “right” to decide if he/she/it pees standing or sitting.

Likewise, I have the right to choose a cheap, safe drug to save my life instead of being killed by medical personnel in a hospital that is paid extra if I die “with COVID.” Hospitals are paid $5,000 for pneumonia but “if it’s COVID-19 pneumonia, then it’s $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000.”

Say what! Now you know.

Some state legislators have introduced bills to make Ivermectin available in many states with Tennessee the only one to pass thus far. However, the big drug chains have chosen not to make the drug available per the Tennessee law. They are also part of the Big Pharma Mess.

If a cheap and readily available drug can relieve Covid-19 symptoms and shut down the multi-billion-dollar coronavirus vaccine industry, then the powers that be will use everything in their arsenal to stop it. And that’s exactly what they’re doing. They are denigrating, debunking, and discrediting Ivermectin as an animal dewormer because they are uninformed, mercenary, dishonest, and too busy stuffing their pockets with drug money from Big Pharma—the biggest, richest, most powerful lobby.

My research proves the Tennessee law is being circumvented by the major drug outlets, Walgreens, CVS, COSTCO, and Walmart. Ivermectin without a prescription is only available at some independent pharmacies. A Walgreens in Chattanooga refused to speak with me after learning of this article. Senator Frank Niceley who sponsored the bill sent me a list of Tennessee pharmacies that sell Ivermectin as per the new law. That list can be accessed here. I paid $9.00 per pill at an independent pharmacy when the price should be about half that, but that was my decision.

Senator Niceley gave me a lengthy interview and deserves our gratitude for his important effort to make this harmless but effective drug available over-the-counter. Representative Susan Lynn introduced a companion bill in the House. They were ably supported by Dr. Denise Sibley who testified ten times at Nashville hearings at great professional cost.

Dr. Sibley is a COVID expert having treated almost 5,000 COVID patients. Dr. Sibley told me she only had four patients die with COVID and all four had waited late in their disease before calling on her for help. By that time, the Angel of Death was standing at the foot of their bed. The protocols for HCQ and Ivermectin require treatment within a few days of exposure.

Other COVID physicians had similar results. The big difference with Dr. Sibley is she did not charge for the treatment! (No, not a typo.) I had heard that but could not believe it; however, Dr. Sibley confirmed that fact. She also gives her time and experience to the less fortunate on various mission fields.

I thought almost all the old-time, altruistic physicians disappeared with the horse and buggy.

I was shocked to discover that Walgreens, CVS, COSTCO, and Walmart are refusing to make the drug available without prescription. After informing a Chattanooga Walmart pharmacist Ivermectin was now sold over-the-counter, he said, “They told everyone but pharmacists.” CVS told us, “I can’t speak to the media.” This week a spokesperson for corporate CVS told me they had no comment. Corporate Walgreens told me, “No comment.” COSTCO corporate office told me they did not have a policy, leaving it to local stores to decide. I called the Memphis store, and a very helpful pharmacist told me they sold Ivermectin by prescription only.

Why is everyone so touchy about selling Ivermectin without prescription? Me thinks it is all political and economic. Moreover, if the drug chains refuse to sell over-the-counter in Tennessee, you can be sure that will be their policy in more than 28 states where similar bills are pending.

Citizens in other states that are considering making Ivermectin (and HCQ) over-the-counter should research whether opposing politicians are in bed with Big Pharma through campaign contributions that are public record.

For sure, the battle will be fierce, and truth will be difficult to find.

One unqualified, unfair, and untruthful newspaper critic wrote, “High doses [of Ivermectin] can be toxic. Most importantly, there is no sound scientific evidence to suggest that it can help treat COVID-19.” Such specious arguments will only convince the flat earthers, Elvis Observers, and those who cruise around in flying saucers from time to time. The statement, “High doses can be toxic” is a nonsense criticism. He doesn’t know that aspirin kills 3,000 people each year! The title of an article in The Telegraph revealed the shocking news, “Daily aspirin behind more than 3,000 deaths a year.” I wonder if the Ivermectin critics will attack aspirin. After all, no one says Ivermectin killed that many people in decades after 4 billion doses were taken.

The Atlantic headed an article revealing, “150 Americans Die Each Year from Tylenol’s Most Active Ingredient.” No one suggests Ivermectin has killed that many people, yet anyone can purchase Tylenol at any drug store without a prescription.

It gets embarrassing when the newspaper critic added, “there is no sound scientific evidence to suggest that it [Ivermectin] can help treat COVID-19.” The writer should have called in sick instead of pursuing his hitjob on Ivermectin.

While ridicule can be useful, it is wrong to use it to establish a lie. One use of Ivermectin is to deworm horses and cows, so the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) tweeted in response to the rise of Ivermectin use, saying: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” Some desperate people purchased Ivermectin from feed stores and had a reaction. Of course, any intelligent person would know there is a difference in a 1200 pound horse and a 200 pound man. The people I know who used the animal version, adjusted for body weight, and had no problems overcoming COVID.

An interesting article in the National Library of Medicine titled, “COVID-19: The Ivermectin African Enigma” supports the use of Ivermectin! It was obvious that many nations in Africa had “low frequency of cases and deaths from the SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 virus.” They did a study comparing African nations that participated in “an intensive Ivermectin mass campaign” to control river blindness with those nations that did not. The conclusion: The incidence in COVID death rates and number of cases is significantly lower among the participating countries compared to non-participating nations.

So, while Ivermectin was taken to prevent river blindness, it also successfully reduced deaths from COVID. For a person gasping for breath, dying with COVID, he doesn’t need a double-blind study. Give him the Ivermectin. It is barbaric to not do so.

Dr. Haruo Ozaki, Chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association recommends Ivermectin for use with COVID patients. He noted that those parts of Africa that use Ivermectin to control parasites “have a COVID death rate of just 2.2 per 100,000 population, as compared to 13 times that death rate among African countries that do not use ivermectin.”

Many countries are now using Ivermectin against COVID-19; fifteen of them country-wide with official endorsement according to the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development (BIRD) panel, March 25, 2021. Yet, US health officials ridicule Ivermectin as a “horse dewormer” while they seek to hawk their hastily produced experimental vaccines. Those vaccines have resulted in over 16,000 US deaths yet they are still being peddled by federal health officials and flaky politicians. Interestingly, in 1976, when 32 deaths were attributed to the swine flu vaccine, the US government halted the mass vaccination campaign. Note, that was only 32!

That was more than 50 years ago, and this is now. Corruption and incompetence have multiplied over the years and unsafe, unproven, and unnecessary vaccines are still being pushed on a thoughtless public for massive profits. Somebody needs to go to prison.

Interestingly, over 100 members of Congress with Covid 19 were treated with Ivermectin! The animal version of Ivermectin is used to eliminate pests so it is appropriately being widely used in Washington. Maybe this November’s election will prove again Ivermectin’s effectiveness.

I have always thought most of Congress needed deworming, but I never expected it to happen. It’s also interesting that they have no trouble getting the drug, and you and I must almost bully our way to the prescription counter to get it.

Liberty Council, involved in passing the Tennessee law, declared, “According to a June 2020 study published in the Antiviral Research Journal, a single dose of Ivermectin can kill 99.8 percent of the virus within 48 hours. A meta-analysis in the American Journal of Therapeutics showed the drug reduced infection by an average of 86 percent when used preventively.”

Sounds good to sensible people but medical fanatics at the FDA and the CDC require a double-blind placebo-controlled study, costing millions of dollars before dying people can purchase a safe and approved drug that everyone knows is very effective for other diseases. They tell us the astounding success of thousands of doctors who have cured thousands of COVID patients is anecdotal.

Hey, an older person with COVID doesn’t care about all the circumstances, controversy, or cost—just let him have any medicine if it has helped save other patients. After all, they will probably die without it and if the medical thugs have their way, they will die alone while their angry, saddened family watches them through glass doors as they pass into eternity.

It seems to me federal health officials must be dumb as a box of rocks, dishonest as a medieval snake oil salesman, and have a conscience like Ted Bundy.

(It should not be inferred that anyone quoted in this article agrees with the author in any or all respects.)

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 20 books, the most recent, Reflections of a Lifetime Fundamentalist: No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets! The eBook is available at Amazon.com for $4.99. Other titles at www.cstnews.comFollow him on Facebook at Don  Boys, Ph.D., and visit his blogSend a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles and click here to support  his work with a donation.)

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Over 6,700 Doctors Sign Letter Rejecting Coronavirus Tyranny! https://donboys.cstnews.com/over-6700-doctors-sign-letter-rejecting-coronavirus-tyranny https://donboys.cstnews.com/over-6700-doctors-sign-letter-rejecting-coronavirus-tyranny#respond Fri, 15 Oct 2021 18:27:16 +0000 http://donboys.cstnews.com/?p=2935 Tyrants are alive and well during these Covid days. If you tremble with righteous anger when tyrants raise a clenched fist to crush the innocent and helpless, then you and I can become friends, even if you’re a Liberal.

Yes, I’m getting mellow at my advanced age. But then, mellow is only one stage from being rotten, so we can at least be friendly.

Righteous anger is producing stirrings of courage, convictions, and commitment around the globe.

A few days ago, thousands of physicians told national governments they are resisting their totalitarianism and will not take it anymore. They declared government officials are not in charge of health care, and in attempting to control it, they are tyrants and totalitarians.

Such officials would also be ordinary thugs.

It was September 29 of this year that more than 6700 physicians threw down the gauntlet and demanded an end to the medical tyranny that national and international health officials had forced upon them. The concerned physicians are weary of being bullied, browbeaten, and bludgeoned by political physicians and restricted on how they treat COVID-19 patients before they are hospitalized in a life and death position. Often the mandatory unsuccessful treatment fails, ending with death.

I think death would indicate the treatment was unsuccessful.

The brave physicians declared, “this is not medicine. This is not care. These policies may actually constitute crimes against humanity.” It must be remembered that these physicians work on the frontline in the COVID battle, not sitting in ivory towers pontificating their wisdom to the unwashed masses in the streets.

Others have made similar comments about “crimes against humanity.” That is not hyperbolic but real. Health “experts” at the CDC, NIH, FDA, and WHO have been accused of dragging their feet in restricting and refusing (even ridiculing) the use of common, effective drugs to cure patients in early stages of COVID. It is alleged they are doing that to guarantee the financial success of quick and questionable but expensive vaccines. If so, that is “crimes against humanity.”

I hesitate to use the Nazi comparison at any time, but it is appropriate here. Twelve Nazi officers were sentenced to hang at Nuremberg for the deaths of innocent people, and the guilt of some officers is in doubt. IF the allegations against federal and international health officials are true, it is far worse than those Nazis, and there will be many physicians in court who sold out for 30 pieces of silver—or the hope of a Nobel Prize.

Even if all the charges against public health officials are untrue, the accusation of tyranny is clearly valid. Without seeking information from all sources, politicians took the word of people with doctorates but who had never treated a patient. Furthermore, some of the health officials had conflicts of interest—financial, political, and economical. Or egotistical.

Furthermore, no honest person would disagree that much political reaction was prompted by hatred of Donald Trump. Such politicians made decisions not based on science while they talked about following the science!

The lockdowns are unprecedented, and it’s unbelievable that so many allegedly independent-thinking Americans would obey such dictatorial mandates. How did these political tyrants— mayors, governors (and president), think they had the authority to force a businessperson to close their business after putting their life savings and sweat into it? Moreover, it is shocking that so many obeyed and thus were forced out of business.

However, this has been going on for decades since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, when the feds took freedom from everyone with the pretense of helping minorities have more freedom. If the state or federal government can tell you that you must serve certain people, then they can tell you what hours you can open, how much you must pay, what pension plans you must provide, rules about overtime, workplace regulations, and on and on and on. Political totalitarians should have been stopped at the first intrusion into a business that was not their own. Businesspeople don’t work for themselves anymore but for the government.

Lockdowns forced churches to close while strip clubs and similar places remained open! I suppose there may be a feeble argument for a businessperson to make about caving to officials but not for a church. The church must obey Scripture, and it has first amendment protection. Yet, church leaders permitted elected officials to decide whether the church could be open, how many people could attend, how they were seated, and the duration of services.

The early Disciples would reply, “We ought to obey God rather than men.”

Many, maybe most, of the submissive pastors were simply trying to be obedient and wanted to help, not hinder, the community. Some pastors compounded their compromise by paying a fine. For others, it was cowardice and capitulation to secular authority. That will be revealed in eternity and not before a human tribunal.

We were told that masks are required, and one could not enter a business without a mask, but that mandate is not science-based. Masks are not capable of or made for preventing the spread of any virus. Proof of that fact is printed on the side of every mask box.

Is this a dry run for the time when one cannot buy or sell without a mark? Not much difference between a mark and a mask. Both mean subservience. But then, a businessperson can set any qualifications he chooses within very narrow guidelines since 1964. I would support a business owner’s right to require a Goodyear tire around each customer’s neck.

The governor of Texas has forbidden any business to forbid masks in the state, but a businessperson should have the right to set his own requirements for those he serves.

A medical doctor or nurse is different from a businessperson. First, he probably had a huge student loan guaranteed by the federal government. However, he took an oath to help the sick and to “do no harm.” When a physician refuses to see a patient or do early treatment, he breaks his oath, and the patient should remind him of that. A non-mask-wearing patient should not be denied treatment.

The Washington Examiner ran a story about the effectiveness of masks protecting wearers from COVID. They asked, “Do masks actually work? The best studies suggest they don’t”! A 2020 study in Denmark with 4,800 participants found that “1.8 percent of those in the mask group and 2.1 percent of those in the control group became infected with Covid-19 within a month, with this 0.3-point difference not being statistically significant.”

Reports of toxic mold and bacteria can harm your lungs and immune system as you also inhale synthetic fibers from the masks. Only the special N95 masks that few people have might be somewhat helpful.

Now the tyrants tell us that two-year-old children must be masked. Have these people lost their minds? They must not have children because small children will not wear a mask all day. Or an hour. It should be remembered that children have as much chance of getting COVID as being struck by lightning in an Iowa lake while fighting off a monster crocodile.

Some wackos have required children at school lunches to keep the masks on while eating. They must insert the food, then replace the mask, and chew and swallow the food. Then remove the mast to insert the food, replace the mask and chew the food. On and on and on. My reply: Nuts.

Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, declared, “There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit.”

Health officials at the CDC, NIH, FDA, and WHO have flipped more than a gasping fish on a riverbank. And are shocked when we ridicule their “expertise.”

Masks don’t work and even do great harm; moreover, they are abnormal since one’s face is a significant part of ones’ identity.

God reminds us in II Corinthians 3:18, “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” Genesis 38:15 reminds us that when Judah saw his face-covered daughter-in-law, he “thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.”

In II Chronicles 25, King Amaziah of Judah went to see Joash, King of Israel, saying, “Come, let us see one another in the face.” The face is very valuable in communication, understanding, and making judgments.

The petty health tyrants get their jollies out of issuing lockdowns, masks, treatments, etc., but they are bags of wind and driven by ego. Those that are not, might be sincere but sincerely stupid.

The federal government is trying to sell costly vaccines, face masks, and lockdowns to a naïve public without any scientific or legal support. Medical matters are the responsibility of the state, not the federal government. That doesn’t seem to matter since the force of the federal government is often used illegally.

Moreover, the federal government cannot regulate each state’s health requirements since it is the state’s legal responsibility. Biden and his shysters at the CDC, NIH, FDA, and WHO can pontificate all they want, but the states are responsible. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, “Direct control of medical practice in the states is beyond the power of the federal government.” (Linder v. United States, 268 U. S. 5, 18, 45 S. Ct. 446, 449 (69 L. Ed. 819, 39 A. L. R. 229.)

Congress or the CDC, NIH, FDA, or Joe Biden cannot directly restrict a physician’s professional judgment or interfere with the free exercise in treating disease. Whatever power exists in that respect belongs to the states exclusively.

Political and medical tyrants have demanded masks and vaccinations but thinking Americans are saying, “no.” School teachers, bus drivers, pilots, police officers, firemen, and many medical personnel have refused the shot and masks. It tells the tyrants we will not be controlled.

With all the workers refusing the jab, mask-wearing, etc., it will break the back of the tyrants; or the workers will cave, energizing the tyrants. Our massive federal debt, bankrupt businesses, climbing inflation, and our refusal to stand will produce a total collapse of America. We can defeat tyranny again.

Tyrants are never impressed by cowardly compliance and craven capitulation; it only emboldens, empowers, and encourages tyranny. George Orwell reminded us, “All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force.” We are watching a demonstration of raw force in various nations. Thomas Jefferson opined, “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”

We live under tyranny if the people fear their government instead of government officials fearing the people. It’s time to stand. As Jefferson said, it’s your duty.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 20 books, the most recent, Reflections of a Lifetime Fundamentalist: No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets! The eBook is available at Amazon.com for $4.99. Other titles at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D., and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)

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Will COVID Push America Off a Financial Cliff? https://donboys.cstnews.com/will-covid-push-america-off-a-financial-cliff https://donboys.cstnews.com/will-covid-push-america-off-a-financial-cliff#respond Fri, 30 Jul 2021 18:27:45 +0000 http://donboys.cstnews.com/?p=2891 Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned in a Wall Street Journal article the coronavirus crises could lead to global economic doom. He wrote an opinion piece with a catastrophic proclamation that “failure could set the world on fire,” The elderly internationalist believes the Trump White House did “a solid job in avoiding immediate catastrophe.” He says the US needs to work quickly to find a cure, pitch in to rebuild the global economy, and protect the “liberal world order.”

Others express the same conclusion as expressed in headlines I’ve gathered: Complete collapse of economies’ ahead in Africa; Recession Bread Lines Forming; The evidence is clear: Democrats are pushing America toward economic disaster; and others.

If this economy brings America to her knees–it might be a good thing!

In an interview for his New York Times best-seller, Aftershock, Robert Wiedemer said, “The data is clear, 50% unemployment, a 90% stock market drop, and 100% annual inflation . . . starting as soon as next year.” Wiedemer has an outstanding record in that in 2006, he and a team of economists foresaw the coming collapse of the U.S. housing market, equity markets, private debt, and consumer spending and published their findings in America’s Bubble Economy. So, it would be prudent to assume he knows of which he speaks.

Hidden in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is a new $570 million family leave account exclusively for federal workers. It provides a payment of $1,400 for a single taxpayer ($2,800 for joint filers), in addition to $1,400 per dependent. It provides National Endowment for the Arts $135 million; National Endowment for the Humanities $135 million, Institute of Museum and Library Services $200 million; Native American Language Preservation $20 million; Assistance to State Governments and District of Columbia $195.3 billion; Local governments $130.2 billion; to Tribal Governments $20 billion; and Territorial Governments $4.5 billion. There is over $166 billion to various boondoggles for public education; and much, much more.

I don’t usually write obscene statements, but the above paragraph is outrageously obscene. It is shocking that taxpayers have not flooded the Capitol and confronted the House and Senate and assorted bureaucrats. It seems Socialism is the drug of choice for leftist radicals in both parties.

Wow, in the past, such a spending bill would turn the town folk into raving anarchists rushing down the streets with flaming torches and pitchforks to tar and feather every Congressman and Senator who voted for such a monstrosity. But it was no big deal which shows how far we have traveled on the Road to Socialism.

We are almost there.

With the massive federal bailouts and loans to almost any entity, it is evident that we are slowly becoming a socialist nation functionally. The federal government is bailing out various cities and states that spent money like a drunken sailor. A good example is Chicago, where their deficit in 2019 was over 8 million dollars! Don’t you delight in bailing out cities or states that have been misruled by corrupt Democrats? We are also going to underwrite many insolvent pension funds and may forgive student loans.

But then, you paid your student loans, sucker. Or maybe you didn’t go to college, but you get to pay for those who did.

Of course, the money give-away is no surprise to many of us. After all, Socialists are in control. Obama told us he wanted to spread the wealth, and all informed people knew he was a Socialist. In fact, his talk and actions smell like old-fashioned Marxism! His former fellow comrade, Joe Biden is now Spender-in-Chief, and he is proving what we have always known him to be.

With the COVID lockdowns, hundreds of thousands of businesses have been permanently closed, while others are teetering on bankruptcy. Home foreclosures and job losses will continue in a free fall resulting in more business failures, and that will result in more job losses! Fewer autos, homes, television sets, appliances, etc., will be purchased, accelerating the slide into massive national and international chaos. Power bills and accelerating gasoline prices will push most suffering families over the edge. This will require families to live together, possibly even three and four generations.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the economic worth of all finished goods and services produced within the U.S. during a quarter or annually. With so many businesses and industries shut down or bankrupt, the GNP growth in the U.S. will increasingly look like other dying nations in Africa and Latin America.

The debt ceiling is the maximum amount of money the United States can borrow cumulatively by issuing bonds. It limits how much debt the federal government can carry at any given time but does not permit additional spending. Once the ceiling is reached, the Treasury Department cannot issue any more bonds to pay the national bills already incurred. The debt limit suspension expires July 31, and the debt limit must be raised (again) if federal obligations are to be fulfilled. However, raising the ceiling does nothing to address what caused the problem. Raising the ceiling in the past is the reason America is over 27 trillion dollars in debt! Consequently, Republicans are saying they don’t want to raise the debt ceiling again, fearful that the Democrats will show no restraint on additional spending.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke opined that not raising the debt ceiling is “like a family saying, ‘Well, we’re spending too much—let’s stop paying our credit card bill.’” How about cutting spending and paying the debts!

If you came home tonight and found your house full of sewage to the ceiling, would you remove the sewage or raise the roof? I would start shoveling the sewage and do whatever is necessary to stop the constant inflow. That means paying off our national debt, but that is like making payments on a new automobile you recently wrecked. Or making monthly payments on a dead horse. Moreover, raising the debt ceiling to get us out of trouble is like committing suicide because of fear of death!

This government is being run by Curly, Larry, and Moe resulting in all kinds of corruption and administrative failure. Moreover, it may become the most destructive, deceptive, and dangerous administration in American history. Biden’s star is fading fast, very fast, and he will be stumbling around in a dark White House long before his term ends.

If you are planning on Social Security or a corporate pension to support you, you may be standing on a bridge of mist.

With more masking mandates and more lockdowns, our economy appears to be blindly stumbling toward a precipice. It is so bad, big city businesspeople have restricted themselves to one, not a two-martini lunch, and big time CEOs are now playing miniature golf. And billion-dollar corporations cut their monthly bribes to various Congressmen; moreover, young Mormons are only taking one wife. But the worst is Motel Six won’t leave the light on for you.

The party is over, and you are in the dark.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent being Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! The eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D., and visit his blog. Send a request to  DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles and click here to support his work with a donation.)

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