Breathe

Learn how to breathe. That sounds odd but it is true that most people don’t breathe the right way. They just do very shallow breathing.

What is much better is to do deep breathing where you emphasize complete and long exhales. With long exhales, don’t concern yourself with big inhales — they will happen very naturally.

The value of deep breathing is twofold: you get more oxygen, which is so essential for many body functions, including the creation of energy at the level of the cell, and you significantly reduce stress. Deep breathing and stress reduction go hand in hand.

So learn how to breathe. Practice deep breathing throughout the day. The more you practice it, the more it will become a habit.

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Tariffs

What is interesting about tariffs is that the federal government paid all its expenses with tariffs as the sole source of income until the income tax was introduced in 1913.

So Trump’s plan to use it as a source of income for the federal government is a very viable plan, and would allow him to lower taxes on Americans, including or specifically the income tax levied on Social Security payments — without worsening the national debt, which stands at 36 trillion.

So what would be the downside to this scheme? Tariffs lead to inflation because it would cut off inexpensive products from abroad, and replace some of them with more expensive products produced in the US, which is pro-growth for the US.

So there is a downside — there is no free lunch. But on balance, it is not an unreasonable strategy.

Abortion

Abortion

Those who are so adamant about their right to have an abortion rationalize the murder of the fetus. But murder is murder.

For a woman to be pregnant without a reliable husband to pay the bills is clearly a very daunting circumstance, and so you can see why young women in particular want to preserve this “freedom”. And I do think they should have this right and for that reason, but murder is still murder.

One wonders how many women who go ahead and have an abortion live to ultimately regret it, for they may reach the age without children when having one is no longer possible, and yet they now want one?

The abortion issue is probably the most divisive issue in the US with fanatics on both sides of the argument.

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Protein

Most people eat too much protein. A fairly large percentage of the population eats twice as much as necessary.

The food industry is constantly pushing extra protein in their processed foods, but this is quite unnecessary for the majority of people. And excessive protein in one’s diet can have very serious health consequences, including kidney stones.

Don’t believe the hype about protein from the food industry. More nonsense.

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Propaganda

No one actually believes the “news” from the woke media as anything other than propaganda, pushing a particular point of view that is highly questionable.

Gone are the days of Walter Cronkite’s “And that’s the way it is,” with unbiased news based on rational, good judgment.

That’s the way it is isn’t anymore.

I used to associate propaganda with communism in the Soviet Union. Now it is firmly entrenched in the US in the woke media. So don’t trust media in the US anymore. Trust your own common sense.

One thing you learn by the time you reach old age is that there is no limit to the number of fools. So there are many who still believe this woke propaganda.

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