Inflation And Its Impact On Me And Others Poem by Gert Strydom

For I know what plans that I have for you,
"declares the LORD, "plans for well-being,
and not for calamity, in order to give you
a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29: 11.

""How blessed are those who wash their robes,
that they may have right to the tree of life
and may go through the gates of the city!
Outside are dogs, sorcerers, immoral people,
murderers, idolaters and everyone who loves
and practises falsehood." Revelation 22: 14-15.

"You must realise, however, that in the last days
difficult times will come. People will be lovers
of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant,
abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful,
unholy, unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous,
degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,
traitors, reckless, conceited and lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God. They will hold an outward form
of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people."
2 Timothy 3: 1-5


From when I was a twelve-year old child,
I remember how difficult it was with Jimmy Carter
as the president of the United States and right now
the White House do claim: "there is nothing we can do
about anything."

Where the policies of Carter were disastrous
but that peanut-farmer was much smarter,
much more coherent than the demented Joe Biden.
Carter was not up to solve the problems that his policies
brought to America and to the world

but he was present and not totally incoherent.
At times, as a nuclear-engineer he probably had some wit.
I distinctly remember those high fuel and living costs,
how we were not allowed to drive faster than
eighty kilometres per hour,

how mother battled just to keep us in school, for clothes of her own
to put food on the table, how our clothes had to be mended,
or came from those of other people and still in memory
it was a terrible time with a stupid smiling man a president
that had no real solutions.

Last night a former American university lecturer of mine
published a article on Facebook, not of his own writing
that stated that Joe Biden though being held responsible
for the current very high inflation is not responsible for it,
while high fuel prices are inflationary.

I responded that the moment Biden became president
he stopped the Keystone-pipeline, stopped oil exploration,
that his administration made it difficult for the exploration
of oil that was still being done, that he is going for renewable
energy at the cost of oil,

coal and nuclear power and fossil fuel where America was self-sufficient.
That this drives the prices of petrol and diesoline through the roof,
that most goods are being transported and thus their prices rise
and that right here cost of petrol and diesoline is based on the price
of American Brent Crude.

I said that printing money for more than the goods that exist
especially during the COVID-lockdown and handing it out
to the people who were forced to stay at home is inflationary,
those huge governmental expenditures which Biden enacts
is inflationary,

In Bordering Zimbabwe this printing of money has made
their Zimbabwean dollar worthless and at a time
Robert Mugabe tried to take any foreign currency
from businesses and from normal people
while famine did rage throughout the whole of Zimbabwe.

I said that the Russian war in the Ukraine is responsible
for only some of the inflation and stopping Russian oil,
that Putin did not tell the US reserve to print more money,
that Putin did not spend more money on behalf of America,
that Putin did not stop fossil fuel exploration

that the American Finance Secretary said this inflation
is only temporary where it is heading to stagflation,
that taxing the businesses more that pay a lot of tax already,
will only drive the prices of products up still higher
and in that way make the normal man pay more

and it seems as if the American Finance Secretary
is more into the climatic New Green Deal,
as if she has no clue of the effect of oil futures
or about inflation, finance and the effect of it
on living, on the person in the street.

I said that there is no economic theory
called trickle-down economics,
that it is a term invented by socialist
politicians to suit the way
that they do view life

I said that the with OPEC the Petro-Dollar
is not in place anymore and OPEC has turned
to China with its new Crypto-state controlled currency
while Biden begs the Mullahs and Iran for oil,
are even putting Israel in danger with a nuclear plant.

Right here in South Africa the only electricity provider ESCOM
has got a policy of switching the electricity off at times
as it is not up to providing power to all of the people
that it has connected in the past thirty years to its system,
or did maintain that system through those years adequately.

From theft of copper from a local electricity power-station
right here in Springs we were cut-off for six days without power,
with even mobile phone towers being down, without refrigeration,
electric stoves and had to live primitive after a power-plant
did explode and burnt down.

Now I wonder how Joe Biden do expect us right here
to buy the most expensive electric powered cars
while as it is we do not have electricity all of the time,
where no one has the money or ability to go the route
that he is trying to force America and the world to go?

I said that the globalist-socialist-fascist-communist
of economics by a crypto-currency that is stated controlled
and brought into existence by the Great Reset,
this thing from the ultra-rich World Economic Forum,
of the liberal international order,
like in communist China and Canada as a totalitarian
way of government has no possibility to work
and that greater state-control kills capitalism.

I said that Biden is trying to force America and the world
into the climate hoax and his New Green deal,
where at the end of winter a blizzard raged in America
with some states having minus seventeen degrees Celsius
and huge snowfall and here it is now a chilly winter.

I said that as Biden and Carter are great friends
probably the influence of Carter's way of thinking
and Woke socialism is at heart with Biden
where in a capitalist society with great freedoms
such things have no place.

I know that God only wants the very best as He states,
that people and an administration that distorts the absolute truth
and lie and lie all of the time do not go down easily
with the normal man in the street that has to pay and pay
and struggle just to make a normal life.

That American university lecturer retorted that I probably did fail
all of my economic subjects at university, if I had done any,
where in Micro, Macro and Meso-economics I did excel,
did with Calculus, Sociology and History do great.
As a socialist-communist-fascist democrat liberal
it seems that he has taken the conflict theory to heart
and in this I wonder how his Christian relationship with God is?
© Gert Strydom