WELL - I was totally wrong. Vowing to not watch the Super Bowl because I disliked both teams - the Patriots because . .well . .they are the Patriots and the Eagles for a 4th and 28 a few years ago.
I DID watch the game and it was literally not only the best SuperBowl I have ever watched but the best NFL game I watched this year that didn't have green and gold in the uni's.
But more on that later - we have weather to talk about.
2-3 inches later today making drive time rush hour a bitch going home as roads will be cold, nothing is melting and it's just going to be slow.
We all know February is the snowiest month and we started with 4.3 inches Saturday, couple more today and THEN Thursday through Saturday we are looking at a possible 9 more inches. Models are still in disagreement but it looks, AT THE MOMENT, 1-3 on Thursday, 1-3 in Friday and 3-5 on Saturday. Certainly not a sure thing but if a few systems line up correctly 5-11 inches in 3 days.
In city news.
To stay with the historical nature of our city "we" are going to hire 15 student town criers to walk around the city screaming TWO INCH'S OF SNOW MORE YOUR CARS, TWO INCH'S OF SNOW MORE YOUR CARS in front of houses with cars parked in the streets.
Of course if you want to get an email BEFORE the criers are outside your door you can always go to our FINALLY functional City Website (don't get me started) and sign up for news alerts. Very functional and helpful. BRAVO finally.
The last time I complained about our website I was told to come in and do it myself (really, that happened with our old Econ Director). He was too busy to worry about websites it seems.
Back to football.
The line-makers have been busy. The Patriots are installed as the Superbowl favorites at 5-1 next year while the Eagles are 7-1 and Packers are 8-1. Bears, Jets and Browns are 100-1 to win.
Seems an average NFL player sweats 1.897.5 mL a game which means there are 11 gallons of sweat on to clean up every Sunday. YUCH
And did you see so many players kissing the Lombardia Trophy - NO NO YOU DIDN'T, that is for figure skating - the Lombardi Trophy was like a Petri dish of toxic flu germs being passed around and everybody was basically licking it. Let's see how many Eagles come down with the flu!
BTW - MVP? Doug Peterson!
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Trumps tax breaks for the rich are already having an effect. This year the US Government will borrow $955 billion this year to cover cost as opposed to $519 billion last year because of much lower tax receipts.
And now they are talking about fixing infrastructure. Great idea - horrible timing as it will not help the economy at all. Obama SHOULD have done this 7 years ago. The problem is if you invest in a massive infrastructure you will need to hire all sorts of contractors that ALREADY are working and thus, taking them away from the private sector.
Typically huge projects like this are double good as it hires out of work contractors, helps the economy in so many ways with peripheral hiring and job creation. NOW - infrastructure projects will raise interest rates, raise the cost of home building with the lack of workers which will raise wages for a group already getting paid well which in turn will raises inflation (one of the reason for the Trump selloff in the markets).
As Elwood said - "every time I get a raise it's bad news as inflation comes next which takes away from the raise ".
Having nearly full employment hurts the future economy as there is no room for growth. At least we are deporting all of these workers we need back to a country they have never even visited.
And at least we have another #Trumpshutdown in 3 days. Lets see if they can kick the can down the road a few more weeks just so we can deport Americans back to Mexico.
Have a great day
