Darrell Castle addresses the question of what happens now to our country assuming Joe Biden is inaugurated. Transcription / Notes WHAT NOW? Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 20th day of November in the year 2020 and today I will be attempting to answer the question that many people have asked me about the election, what happens now. The Castle family is fine this week although a little down that we will not be together for Thanksgiving. We have ch...
Darrell Castle addresses the question of what happens now to our country assuming Joe Biden is inaugurated. Transcription / Notes WHAT NOW? Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 20th day of November in the year 2020 and today I will be attempting to answer the question that many people have asked me about the election, what happens now. The Castle family is fine this week although a little down that we will not be together for Thanksgiving. We have chosen to not travel this season and we live in different parts of the country, so we comply with Dr. Fauci by accident. Speaking of Thanksgiving; next week there will be no Castle Report as Joan and I try to relax and give thanks as I trust you will also. Since I will not be talking next week, I will try to give you your moneys worth this week. What now? That is the question that I am often asked these days usually by someone who has no interest or experience in politics. People are worried, concerned, even frightened by the uncertainty in the country and they want an answer from someone they trust. I spoke to a family friend the other day who said she had been waiting to talk to me so she could ask me what is going on, what is going to happen in this country right now. OK if you put it that way, I’ll take a guess. I give them the only correct answer there is to the question; I don’t know. I don’t know for sure what is going to happen, but I can make what I believe to be an educated guess. First, let’s start by listing some things that I believe will not happen. I am going to assume that Joe Biden will be inaugurated in January and the Republicans will maintain majority in the Senate and they have greatly reduced the Democrat majority in the House. There will be no re-do of the census to increase the numbers of Democrats in congress. The filibuster will not be ended. There will be no statehood for Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico. There will be no court packing. Cabinet appointments will have to get through the Senate so each one will require negotiation. The Paris Accord on climate change will be back in force but will have no real teeth in the United States. The stimulus will pass but with far less than the 3.4 trillion described as only a starting point. Executive orders will be the rule of the day used to un-do Trump’s executive orders. The first to go will deal with the trade wars, especially against China and the second will be in immigration, opening the border completely. Now, I will tell you some things that I think will happen, some immediately and some over the course of the Biden/Harris term. First, the states and the Federal Government will rapidly encounter a debt problem that will require the rapid reduction of spending or the rapid rise of taxes or both. Some states are approaching catastrophe with their debt right now. For example, Connecticut now spends 31% of state revenue on debt service. This obvious problem will not deter Biden from forgiving student loans, which will force working people in red state America to fund the education of those in California and New York who chose a different course. Escalating violence will continue to plague our cities as Democrat politicians demonize and defund the police. Violence and war will continue and get worse in the Middle East. That section of the earth is an area where war is still economically feasible as is Africa, but China is interested in Africa so the US military will continue to fight endless, no-win wars across the Middle East. There will be more rather draconian measures imposed due to the virus. Vaccines should be available by April for wide use according the reports I have seen, and until then expect cases to rise giving the excuse for more lockdowns. The rising case numbers will also give an excuse for mandatory vaccine injection or very strong counter measures if it is declined. Authoritarians in and out of government will remain very busy with our permanent publ...
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