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Why you should vote for Democrats next Wednesday

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Rory Ryan-hcpress@cinci.rr.com
From the "in case you missed it file" this week, Federal Reserve Chairman (assuming he identifies as a chairman and not an actual chair) Jerome Powell announced yet another hike in interest rates.

That's great news for home buyers or electric vehicle buyers, right? Not so fast.

As reported this week, several Democratic senators have spoken out against raising interest rates – less than one week before the midterm election, the horror. The Dems say this will put more Americans out of work and result in a painful recession.

I thought the president's mouthpiece has insisted we are not in a recession. Why are top Democrats breaking from the team's talking points just before the general election?

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is not a Native American, tweeted on Nov. 2: “Throwing millions out of work without addressing key drivers of higher prices isn’t the solution to fight inflation.”

Also this week, Warren, along with Democrat Sens. Bernie Sanders (OK, he identifies as a socialist), Sheldon Whitehouse and Jeff Merkley; plus Democrat Reps. Sylvia Garcia, Jesus Garcia, Katie Porter, Madeleine Dean, Jamaal Bowman and Rashida Tlaib wrote to Powell: “Your ‘overarching focus’ on ‘using [the Fed’s] tools to bring inflation back down to our 2-percent goal’ no matter the cost is particularly troubling given the limits of interest rate hikes in addressing key drivers of today’s inflation, including lingering supply chain snarls, corporate price gouging, and the war in Ukraine.”

I find the Democrats' pushback on Powell priceless. Methinks it's the Fed's timing of yet another interest rate hike that has their hackles up. The Dems are worried about the so-called red wave. Maybe they are needlessly worried. After all, there are many reasons to re-elect the current crop of Democrats.

Here are just 10:

• If you enjoy high gas prices, vote for Democrats. During the 45th president's first four-year term, the average price for a gallon of gas in Ohio never topped $3. In fact, for many months, it was less than $2. (See the chart.)

• If you enjoy high interest rates for borrowing money for any purpose, vote for Democrats.

• If you enjoy paying 50-percent more for many groceries and staple items, vote for Democrats.

• If you agree that hard-working taxpayers who went to work after high school, should be paying for free college for wealthy Ivy Leaguers and their ilk, vote for Democrats.

• If you are happy with a wide-open U.S. southern border where millions have entered the United States illegally, vote for Democrats.

• If you are OK with illegal aliens attacking U.S. citizens like the speaker of the House spouse, vote for Democrats.

• If you are OK with an activist Ohio Supreme Court overturning two centuries of jurisprudence and not allowing local judges to consider a perpetrator's threat to the community when determining the perp's bail, vote for Democrats. (Forget about the victims' rights.)

• If you are OK with the federal government interfering with local school boards' decisions, vote for Democrats.

• If you are OK with a weaker United States on the world stage, vote for Democrats.

• If you are OK with Big Tech and the mainstream media that bowdlerized potentially incriminating evidence against POTUS 46 in October 2020, vote for Democrats.

For as many years as I have been voting – and that's quite a few – the old song-and-dance that's always trotted out by the Democrat so-called leadership is that the Democrats are always for something, and the Republicans are never for anything. It's a cute little dodge for the left. But on the previous 10 bullet points, I'll give them their due.

This Libertarian is not for any of them. In fact, I'm not for any of their agenda since January 2021. I am for gridlock in Washington, D.C. Sadly, it's the best we can hope for. See you at the polls next Wednesday or is it Tuesday for Libertarians?

Rory Ryan is publisher and owner of The Highland County Press, Highland County's only locally owned and operated newspaper.

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