there s a need for bold action to fight is pandemic. we re still facing a very dark winter situation and when it comes to gas prices, we re going through an incredible transition that is taking place and god willing, when it sng over , we ll be stronger w. the idea we re going to be able to, you know, quick switch, bring down the cost of gasoline is not likely in the near termik . we aren t likely to see the kind of blockbuster job reports month after month like we had over this past year. that s a good thing. yeah, that s a good thing. and remember, record high gas prices are good too because it means that more of you are going to be forced to take out a loan to buy some electricff car that you can t afford and you don t want the fact that americans are getting poorer under biden s kind of european style socialism. it s also a good thing as far as the elites are concerned. let s face it, they ve always preferred countries like france and germany over the united states an
three, four, five percentage points they would have caught this. and i, mean the banks ar cutting themselves, but they should ve caught it. you have to raise more capital shed some of your deposits maybe both and they want to be in the situation. so, this is directly due to th republican weakening the regulation that donald trump pushed in 2018 and that s why we re here. but it s not all republican that wanted to partially pul back some of dodd-frank. there is an argument to be made, and it s around somethin called regulatory capture, right? when there is a huge amount of regulation in an industry, you know who can afford that regulation big, big banks, right? you can say, you need 1000 mor compliance officers, and j morgan can say, check it, i ca do that in a millisecond a small regional bank cannot d that so, there s an argument to b made, you have to be mindful about the regulation that yo put on big banks and small banks. but in this case, they deregulated in a way that ha opened
Douglas County Board members P.J. Morgan and Mike Friend, who serve on the county budget committee, said the county is facing a shortfall of about $5.5 million going into the next year’s budget.