“Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting people off. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around. Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension.
There is no getting around it, people are hard to live with.” Soseki,
Japanese novelist
September 6, 2023, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
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People are hard to live with. Some more than others.
Joe Biden isn’t playing with a full deck, yet all the Talking Heads keep talking about is whether he is too old to run for president, with nary a mention of his dementia.
But all of that is malarkey! Joe said so on Monday.
“The only thing that comes with age is a little bit of wisdom,” he told members of the Sheet Metal Workers Union in Philadelphia.
“I’ve been doing this longer than anybody. And guess what? I’m going to continue to do it with your help.”
Unfortunately, he means it.
But that’s Ol’ Joe. He has been “doing this” for a long, long time. And he’s continuing to do it. And so is his son.
It’s the reason why ordinary joes are using their 401(k)’s to buy diapers and struggling to pay rent.
And Hunter Biden isn’t.
So, what’s going on?
How is it Hunter can afford the California $15,800-per-month house he just moved into? In a gated community. Overlooking the Pacific, complete with the Secret Service living down the block from him, in housing costing $16,000 dollars a month, courtesy of American taxpayers.
When he claims he is too poor to pay child support.
The answer is, “Like father, like son.”
After a lifetime of jetting and living off someone else’s dime, Hunter probably believes he’s saving money, when he compares his current digs to the Malibu mansion he formerly rented for $20,000 dollars a month. In his laptop days.
The real answer is Joe and Hunter have never really had jobs, and have no idea how things work in the real world.
Like the law. And the economy.
Both of them are used to receiving a sort of “Universal Basic Income,” i.e., “a government program in which an adult receives a set amount of money regularly.”
The problem is it’s not from our government.
So how exactly does Hunter swing his pricey lifestyle?
Well, it’s not by learning to code, as Joe suggested to miners in Derry, New Hampshire, when he told them their mines would be closed.
“Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program, for God’s sake!” Joe told a silent audience.
No, Joe has more wisdom than that. He believes Hunter when his son says he’s paying his bills with his art sales. But neglects to mention he also has the help of his dad’s taxpayers.
Which would surprise President Lincoln.
There were no federal income taxes in the U.S. until 1913, except for a brief period in 1862 when Lincoln imposed a revenue-raising measure to help pay for the Civil War.
Little would Lincoln have imagined that in 2023, American taxpayers would be paying taxes to pay for a war in Ukraine.
And to support the son of a sitting president.
It’s hard for us to imagine, too.
But it’s up to us to do more than gripe. Because nothing is going to change until we stop letting this happen.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots.