ZeroHedge.com

For much of the past year we had been pounding the table on two very simple facts:  not only has the US labor market been appallingly weak, with most of the jobs “gained” in 2023 and meant to signal how strong the Biden “recovery” has been, about to be revised away (as first the Philly Fed and now Bloomberg both admit), but more shockingly, all the job growth in the past few years has gone to illegal aliens.

We first pointed this out more than a year ago, and since then we have routinely repeated – again, again, and again – yet even though we made it abundantly clear what was happening…

TheGatewayPundit.com

It’s one positive development after the other: economic improvements in a country’s economy are not magic, but rather the result of serious, unrelenting work.

It was just a couple of days ago when President Javier Milei told Argentines in a televised address the good and rare news: his government is successfully taming reckless public spending, which resulted in a rare – and welcome – first quarter budget surplus.

Thousands of jobs have already been eliminated by California's law
to raise the minimum wage to $20 for restaurant workers, which goes into effect April 1.

Fee.org

For eight years, Michael Ojeda delivered food for a Pizza Hut in Ontario, California, using the income he received to support his family.

In December, the 29-year-old received a letter from the pizza franchise informing him that his employment was being terminated in February. The news shook him. 

“Pizza Hut was my career for nearly a decade and with little to no notice it was taken away,” Ojeda said, whose story was recently highlighted by the Wall Street Journal.

Ojeda appears to be just one of the thousands of casualties of a new California law that will raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 an hour on April 1 for all restaurant chains that have at least 60 locations nationally.

Making $20 instead of $15 sounds like a win, but economics shows there’s no such thing as a free lunch. California lawmakers just proved it.

This video depicts what the US Debt would look like in stacks of physical cash in following sequence: $100, $10,000, $1 Million, $2 Billion, $1 Trillion, $30 Trillion The faith and value of the US Dollar rests on the Government's ability to repay its debt. "The money in the video has already been spent".

US Debt visualized info graphics article: http://demonocracy.info/infographics/...

The revelation that Argentina has done something the US government hasn’t done
in more than two decades—run a budget surplus—seems like a newsworthy event
So why the silence?

Fee.org

Argentines witnessed something amazing last week: the government’s first budget surplus in nearly a dozen years.

The Economy Ministry announced the figures Friday, and the government was $589 million in the black.

Argentina’s surplus comes on the heels of ambitious cuts in federal spending pushed by newly-elected President Javier Milei that included slashing bureaucracy, eliminating government publicity campaigns, reducing transportation subsidies, pausing all monetary transfers to local governments, and devaluing the peso.

CEI.org

In a vote of 221-to-197, the House today passed the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act (H.R. 4468). Introduced by Reps. Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Andrew Clyde (R-GA) and supported by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the bill would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing its proposed vehicle emissions rule that would limit what kind of cars Americans can buy. The CARS Act would also amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the agency from mandating the use of any specific technologies or limiting the “availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in such new motor vehicles.”

Following passage, Director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment Daren Bakst said:

“I applaud the House of Representatives for passing the CARS Act on a bipartisan basis. This commonsense measure would stop the EPA from moving forward with its tailpipe emission rule that would restrict the freedom of Americans to choose the vehicle that best fits their needs. The bill would also help block any similar efforts in the future.  Reps. Walberg and Clyde should be commended for introducing and securing passage of the bill, and I urge their counterparts in the Senate to swiftly pass the measure to ensure the EPA’s attack on consumer choice is killed once and for all.”

Final Vote Results for Roll Call 703 (house.gov)

Read more here: 

Infowars.com

"Somebody has to do something to change this because I make good money, he makes good money, we don't live above our means but we live paycheck-to-paycheck."

A nurse and mother’s rant about her financial struggle under Joe Biden’s policies is going viral on social media.

The full-time Pennsylvania critical care nurse and mom-of-two Mackenzie Moan described how her and her husband still lived “paycheck-to-pacheck”  despite “making good money.”

“I feel like my husband and I are doing everything right,” she said as she teared up in a video posted to Tik Tok. “We both have good jobs. I’m a registered nurse, I work full time, he works full time.”

Pennsylvania Critical Care Nurse's Video Goes Viral on TikTok for Calling Out How Hard Working Americans Are Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck

"Growing up, we were told, go to college, get a degree, work to support your family. Here we are. Did that. Now what? I'm not into politics. I… pic.twitter.com/UkjkqUVKLL

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"The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both." The desire to have more, to have what those who are better off have, is a powerful emotion. Friedman points out that the most governments can do is provide all citizens with equal opportunity to use their time and abilities as they best see fit, in pursuit of a better life.