Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "U.S. is only days away until an 'absolute explosion' on inflation: Pollster Frank Luntz" video.

  1. It's always a pleasure tuning in to CNBC and today's vocast with Frank Luntz is no exception. We live 2,000 kilometers from the war in Ukraine that has all of us losing sleep at night. Everything is costing more like for you in America. But let's be real: the culprit is how the lockdown has affected business. Sending out trillions of stimulus checks six ways from Sunday to help people suddenly out of a job was a noble act, but though it eased the pain, I think it was not efficient and even unnecessary. What should have been done was to guarantee every business' payroll. If pay checks were covered by the government, people wouldn't have suffered, busineses wouldn't have gone under and when lockdown was over, everything could simply have been re-booted and people would have gone back to a job---that was still there. Hindsight is always 20/20. The problem of course is printing that much money has caused your gasoline prices to double in a year's time along with most products. People vote with their pocket books and Biden gets the boot and loses popularity when things like gas increase wildly. Someone has to take the blame. What is needed is to look at your country now and see where the damage is the most obvious and see if it's possible to fix it so that the next time this happens, emergency measures can be put in place. I think we have to re-evaluate what we do about transporation and work. Why everything is so painful is because in your country---like in mine---people drive to work. Isn't it time to start re-thinking about why we have to drive so far to go to work? Why don't we look at the obvious solution: build our companies and housing units in easy-to-access areas by foot; idem with supermarkets. We should realize the day of the 2-hour drive to work and back home are over. Let's use our cars for Sunday drives. I'm exagerating in simplistic terms but you get my drift; we have to move away from owning cars. They make us into slaves. Cars shouldn't be replaced by feet; their use should be allotted to our free time i.e., Sunday drives. Walking to work and walking to by our food would make the next recession, high inflation or stagflation easier to deal with. I'm giving black and white examples that are of course not that easy to put in place, but we have got to re-think how we can distance ourselves from being dependent on energy and oil and transportation. Yes; I think that means dismantling the suburbs or repurposing them. We all know that we don't need these endless ups and downs about the economy; it's no fun and there's a better way to live.
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