Buy now, Save later

 Wow!  the sun is shining brightly, that's nice, however the temp is a crispy cool 48 (F).  Clouds are going to be rolling in later this afternoon.  Hopefully, I'll be able to get my little lawnmower out and hit the front yard, otherwise the grass will be growing for another week before it gets a trim.

I found a dead mouse floating Howie's water bowl this morning.  This is the second time I've found one and for the life of me I don't know how they can climb up the sides of a shiny, porcelain bowl to take their final swim.

Work was interesting yesterday.  Mondays are usually a slow day, and we had steady foot traffic in the flooring department.  I got a measure, a credit card, and had over $5000 in sales, and I was not alone.  I have no idea why so many are having things done.  Perhaps it's because things are going to be getting more expensive.

In a way, I'm doing the same thing by buying a new printer.  Prices are going to go up and I don't want to pay a higher price.  Later this morning I'm going to be having 4 new tires put on my car.  I believe that May, 2025 prices will hurt my bank account less that July or August prices.  Since I'm going to need new tires for my car to pass inspection, I'm buying them now.  It's those stupid tariffs, you know?  The ones where the American consumer is going to be screwed over so the wealthiest people in the country can get a tax break.  And, in case you're wondering how many trade agreements have been signed since the tariffs were announced, I have a small graphic which will explain everything.

Of course, they do have concepts of deals, and concepts of frameworks for deals, but when it comes to the signed, sealed, and delivered, signature on the binding document deals there is zilch.  Nada.  Not a single deal.    At first Orangie was spinning the lie that countries would pay for the tariffs, but, after Walmart told the world they were passing those tariffs onto the consumer, he started shrieking how corporations, not countries, were going to have to swallow those extra charges.  Those prices should be apparent to his cultists by the end of the month, a short 11 days away.

Orangie's also going to push for the cuts in Medicaid because the 1% need a tax break.  Their belief is that because they employee so many others who are paying taxes, they, themselves should not have to.  I'm starting to see articles shouting out the warning that these cuts will be suicidal to the Republicans.  Instead of understand, however, they're hell bent on giving the 1% whatever they want.  Remember, the Republican party is the party of Selfishness and Greed.