The 2024 Season For SEC Football Comes To An End.

 On Saturday afternoon the Georgia Bulldogs and the Texas Longhorns played in the very first playoff game for the SEC Championship in the expanded version.  And the Georgia Bulldogs defeated Texas 22-19.  Texas completed the regular season on top of the SEC, but lost twice to Georgia including once during the regular season.  

In the previous 10 years, Alabama and Georgia were the dominate teams in the SEC winning multiple SEC championships and National Championships.  Georgia's defeat of Texas Saturday keeps them the dominate team in the SEC and time will tell who the next challenger will be.  This writer had a kick out of a recently written sports story concerning Georgia not having the top recruiting class this year as if to say that makes Georgia's future look suspect.  

The writer forgot to mention that Georgia's coach Kirby Smart is probably the best coach in college football and that will make the difference.  In fact only the teams with the best coaches will survive, especially with the Portal, NIL, the money and free agency.  Quality coaches is the only answer with the new headaches, courtesy of the NCAA.  

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

The U.S. Economy, Job Creation and the Unemployment Rate for November 2024.

 The U.S. Labor Department announced that the economy created 227,000 jobs in November and that the unemployment rate came in at 4.2%.  It was the 46th straight month of positive job growth.  The job numbers surprised the negative voices who predicted after October's job report, the jobs market was in a slowdown.  They dismissed the fact that the Labor Department contributed October's job numbers were due to the Boeing strike and two hurricanes that hit the east coast.  

The Department also reported that wages were up 0.4% from October and that year to year wages were up 4.0%.  With only 33 days left in office, President Biden will leave office with the best job creation record of any Presidential 4 year term.  His administration will have created more jobs in 4 years than Bush 41, Bush 43 and Trump created in the 16 years they served.  After the job numbers for November were announced, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said the following:  The U.S. economy is in REMARKABLY good shape.  

PolitiDose commentary has told that success story since Biden took office, but the media has been more interested in publishing the negative voices of doom, gloom and recession and has paid little to no attention to the positive economic story of the past 4 years.  How sad.

Trump will be taking over a working economy with increase wages, more jobs than Trump ever thought creating in his first term and a strong America.  On the other hand when Trump left office, he bequeathed an economic disaster to Biden.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio