This will make you smile. Rain Wilson shares his observation of returned missionary reunions at the SLC airport.
Mystic Observes Book of Mormon Promise https://t.co/C5XGBTu7An via @YouTube
My neighbor finished paying off her house in 2024.
She bought it in 1994 for $78,000. Thirty years of payments at $593 a month.
She's 74 now. Social Security pays her $1,910 a month. That's $22,920 a year.
The place two doors down sold for $615,000 last spring, so the county reassessed hers to match.
Her tax bill this year: $8,100. That's $675 a month.
She paid $593 a month to buy the house.
She pays $675 a month to keep it.
Thirty years of payments ended and the bill went up.
The deed says she owns it. The county bills her like she's renting.
Congress should be forced to retire at 70. Salaries should be $60K, the average American salary. They should pay a minimum of $300/month for healthcare with a $1,000 deductible, like we do.
To represent us, they should live like us.
For the next 90 days… check your labels.
Buy beef marked "Product of USA."
300,000 tons of tariff-free beef is incoming, and nobody will say where it's actually from (best guess is Argentina, not confirmed).
Since there's no name on the label, that means no one has to answer for how it was raised
or how fast.
Why does this matter? The timeline.
Ask any real producer what "cheap and fast" means:
•Hormones for speed growth
•Antibiotics for rushed, crowded conditions
•Corn-fed instead of pasture
Processed at scale, one pound of "ground beef" can come from a dozen+ cows blended together.
None of it traceable.
Not hypothetical.
A batch already hit US retail in TX and FL last month before completing safety reinspection, meaning it reached shelves without finishing the safety check. Not to mention: China rejected an Argentine shipment for a banned antibiotic, chloramphenicol, as recently as March 2026.
Under new 2026 USDA rules, "Product of USA" legally means born, raised, slaughtered, AND processed on American soil. This is the only label that guarantees those standards.
Buying American is also how you support American ranchers getting undercut by these imports.
Zooming out… this is the real state of beef in America right now:
•Untraceable imported meat from unknown conditions
•Lab-grown meat, already FDA-cleared, landing on shelves
•Domestic ranchers doing it right and getting squeezed from every direction
This is what a food system optimizing for cheap and fast over real and transparent looks like.
For the next 90 days, and beyond, find a local rancher and buy directly.
Vote with your dollars. That's how you actually know what's in your beef, and how you ensure the ranchers and butchers doing this right stay in business.
This Milton Friedman insight is brilliant:
“When you hear people objecting to the market or capitalism, you’ll find that most of those objections are objections to freedom itself.”
“What most people are objecting to is that the market gives people what the people want, instead of what the person talking thinks the people ought to want.”