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PRICES BEGIN TO RISE!
Rib-eye steaks and prime rib roasts climb up into the twenty-dollar-a-pound range at places like Daniels Foods in Walworth, one of the favorite grocery stores around Geneva Lake. Again, food prices are rising, even though most foods are not imported into American grocery stores. Retailers get a whiff of prices soon to rise and then make it all come true earlier than expected, or in areas that shouldn’t seem to be part of the tariff nightmare unfolding across America and the world. Supposedly, Captain Chaos, the leader of the U.S.A., is about to surrender and back off the outrageous 145 percent tariff placed on Chinese goods (he will, of course, declare this flag-waving run from enemy fire a great victory and triumph.
Why not? The media is as frightened as this ‘emperor with no clothes,’ or student of Lord of the Flies, just like most of the other citizens and businesspeople of the nation.
The only ships in America’s huge ports are those that were there before the tariff effects hit. Nothing else is coming in, and that means even if the awful tariffs are rescinded in triumph, the effects of no products coming in for sixty or ninety days from the relaxing of the tariffs will cause prices to skyrocket and for products to disappear off the shelves of most stores of every size.
Pesche’s Nursery on Highway is another case in point. They have raised their prices on everything, and it would not appear that their inventory is from either China or Mexico, and certainly not Canada. Small, planted tulips, in little bitty plastic containers, not even in bloom, are now seven bucks there. Last year, three. This is under the American system of economic presentation, so the only choice the public has is to buy or not to buy. Home Depot still has them for four dollars, and with ten percent off if you are registered as a veteran with them.
The nation’s leader says that gasoline prices are down, but that’s not true at all in Wisconsin or Illinois. $3.29 at Kwik Trip on Sunday in Lake Geneva and $3.59 just across the border in Illinois. “Drill, baby, drill” is merely an expression, as the price of oil is pre-set and not set because there is more production. That’s a common myth. Likely, the tariffs will soon be a thing of the past, at least the ones the country’s leader applied to get the attention of everyone. In the meantime, and with the hope that the president will be forced to back down once again, it is important to remain as calm as possible. It is vitally important to understand that the life expectancy of an American male in good health is only 76.4 years.
Time, and maybe the prayers of this new Pope Leo, will eventually resolve this issue of a populist leadership that has almost no clue as to what the lives of regular people are like, or even a care, as life at the ‘top end’ is so alienating and nothing even close to what a normal existence is like. Not only do all of today’s leaders live in chateau after chateau, move on highways in protected limos, fly only on private aircraft, but they also have servants and other billionaires for association. The servants tell them nothing about the real world just beyond them, or they are unemployed. Minimize expenses until this situation resolves itself, if that is at all possible. The United States of America will abide.
