We live in a place where rage has overtaken love and kindness. We also live in a place of low information of real facts and information.
Most of us do not have the ability to analyze and determine cause and effect because we do not have the information needed to do it.
For example: Why is there a dramatic hike in the price of eggs? Here are some reasons:
1. Birds have started contracting a virus that we named "Bird Flu." This virus is affecting wild birds as well as chickens and it is spreading.
2. Chickens have been contracting Bird Flu and dying--millions of them as a matter of fact.
3. This has caused a shortage of eggs due to a supply issue. The chickens need to be "replenished" in order to lay more eggs.
4. When there is a shortage of a commodity, the price will increase to the consumer. The bigger the shortage becomes, the higher the price of eggs becomes. The increase in price will not stop until we have enough chickens laying eggs to satisfy our consumption.
This further extrapolates to stopping the Bird Flu virus, which has already crossed over to several animals--including a handful of humans that have been handling chickens.
1. The US government started conducting scientific research to determine if current flu vaccines will also protect humans from getting this new virus. 2. Because it is contagious, if our current flu vaccine does not protect humans, then a new flu vaccine needs to be developed to stop Bird Flu from spreading in the human population; thus, preventing a pandemic that could kill many humans.
3. Now Trump, Elon Musk, and the installed Project 2025 people in our government are shutting down our government research facilities and firing scientists to "save money" so that they can give more and bigger tax breaks to the wealthy.
4. Ask yourself if you are in any way comfortable with having another COVID-19 type epidemic.
Another example: the Trump, Elon Musk, and other Project 2025 people installed in our current government have shuttered USAID because it "costs too much" and they want the money being spent helping needy people around the world to stop so that they can funnel the money to the wealthy in tax breaks. Ask yourself, how will this affect our economy?
1. Our government buys millions of dollars of wheat, corn, etc. from OUR farmers, which it ships to places in need across the globe.
2. What harm will shuttering USAID do to our nation's economy and our agricultural industry?
3. Ask yourself if you are in any way comfortable with helping to destroy our farmer's livelihoods and incomes in order to provide tax cuts to the wealthy?
4. Ask yourself who will grow the crops that feed US if we allow this administration to destroy our agricultural community.
5. Ask yourself how this will personally affect you and the cost of food when we lose the farmers that are providing the crops that feed you.
I could go on but what I am actually after is spreading the cause and effect far and wide to get people thinking about what is happening and how it affects each and every one of us. Please feel free to add more cause and effect to share. I am posting this comment here but I will finish by also posting it to my Facebook feed.
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