Can’t Afford v Can’t Pay

Methinks I should fully acknowledge that without Half and steady income, homelessness (houselessness? unhousedness?) is a very real possibility.  There was some statistic somewhere that claimed nearly half of Americans are a single paycheck away from the street. Really?  Just one? Not quite there yet … got some assets to pawn, some goods to hock, …

OK, so …

Question: Wasn’t there, like, a pipeline planned to run from Canada to Mexico through ‘Murrica’s breadbasket, protested heavily by the Tribes, until Biden shut down the whole thing?  Ended up costing the fuel companies boo-coo (beaucoup to You) bucks? And then gas/everything prices skyrocketed for no discernible reason during his first (last?  We can only …