Press praises Hillary's facile deceit

       That the press is in the tank for Democrats is undeniable.  A case in point is Saturday’s Associated Press summation of the Benghazi hearings (Yuma Sun, October 23, 2015).  Hillary Clinton “closed the book on the worst episode of her tenure.”  She “firmly defended” her actions…The probe cost the American Taxpayer 4.6 million.” The hearing was “political theater…   It gave her a high profile platform to show her self-control and command of foreign policy.  Clinton made no gaffs and the hearing “revealed little new about the attack.”

      I learned a lot from the hearings and learned there’s a lot more to learn.   I learned there were 600 separate and unanswered requests for increased security at the compound.  I did not learn why they went unanswered.  Did they want the ambassador dead?  Just saying.

I learned that Hillary didn’t see any of those emails, but she did see and respond to hundreds of emails from Sidney Blumenthal that dealt with the Libyan situation, although Blumenthal had never been to Libya and was not a member of her staff.

I saw a stack more than a foot-tall of emails that Hillary received with regard to a disturbance at the embassy in the previous year, but no emails regarding the disturbances that led up to the fatal attack.  Can’t figure that one out.

               I learned that, although Ambassador Stevens was a “close personal friend,” he had no way to contact her personally, did not have her email address or her phone number.  Hillary had no communications with Ambassador Stevens and had little knowledge of the situation in Libya.

I learned that she lied when she blamed the attack on the video.  I learned that she had sent cables out that night and the following morning asserting that it was a terrorist attack, not related to the video.  But they lied to the American People and they repeated that lie over and over again.  We always knew that, but now we know it’s undeniable.

She says she takes full responsibility and then she says tending and responding to pleas for extra security was “Not my job.”

 I learned that her lack of funding excuse did not hold water.  Congress had significantly increased her funding in 2009.

Commentators of the leftist ilk say that the committee’s revelations were “old news.”  I suppose Hillary’s credibility problem is indeed old news. 

What we didn’t learn was why Stevens was in Benghazi.  We know that a lot of military assistance was within easy striking distance, but no help was sent.  Why not?  Hillary gave a masterful performance, but it was the empty filibustering performance of “not my department" excuses we've come to expect from Her. 

The Unsinkable Hillary

       That the press is in the tank for Democrats is undeniable.  A case in point is Saturday’s Associated Press summation of the Benghazi hearings (Yuma Sun, October 23, 2015).  Hillary Clinton “closed the book on the worst episode of her tenure.”  She “firmly defended” her actions…The probe cost the American Taxpayer 4.6 million.” The hearing was “political theater…   It gave her a high profile platform to show her self-control and command of foreign policy.  Clinton made no gaffs and the hearing “revealed little new about the attack.”

      I learned a lot from the hearings and learned there’s a lot more to learn.   I learned there were 600 separate and unanswered requests for increased security at the compound.  I did not learn why they went unanswered.  Did they want the ambassador dead?  Just saying.

I learned that Hillary didn’t see any of those emails, but she did see and respond to hundreds of emails from Sidney Blumenthal that dealt with the Libyan situation, although Blumenthal had never been to Libya and was not a member of her staff.

I saw a stack more than a foot-tall of emails that Hillary received with regard to a disturbance at the embassy in the previous year, but no emails regarding the disturbances that led up to the fatal attack.  Can’t figure that one out.

               I learned that, although Ambassador Stevens was a “close personal friend,” he had no way to contact her personally, did not have her email address or her phone number.  Hillary had no communications with Ambassador Stevens and had little knowledge of the situation in Libya.

I learned that she lied when she blamed the attack on the video.  I learned that she had sent cables out that night and the following morning asserting that it was a terrorist attack, not related to the video.  But they lied to the American People and they repeated that lie over and over again.  We always knew that, but now we know it’s undeniable.

She says she takes full responsibility and then she says tending and responding to pleas for extra security was “Not my job.”

 I learned that her lack of funding excuse did not hold water.  Congress had significantly increased her funding in 2009.

Commentators of the leftist ilk say that the committee’s revelations were “old news.”  I suppose Hillary’s credibility problem is indeed old news. 

What we didn’t learn was why Stevens was in Benghazi.  We know that a lot of military assistance was within easy striking distance, but no help was sent.  Why not?  Hillary gave a masterful performance, but it was the empty filibustering performance of  "not my department" excuses we've come to expect from Her. 

Trump the Tea Party Favorite? Say it isn't so!

       Glenn Beck expressed disappointment in the Tea Party because of their support of Donald Trump.  Say it isn’t so!  He cannot be a Tea Party favorite.  I have never heard him speak about the constitution.  I have never heard him speak about limiting the power of the central government in the way the founders envisioned. 

       He is an advocate of the government’s using eminent domain to seize private property.  He has supported late term abortions and single payer health care.  He says the Democrats do a much better job with economic issues. Apparently he, like all Democrats, credits Clinton with the budget surpluses.  The rest of us remember the Gingrich/Kasich dynamo.

          We believe the government is the problem.  He believes the government is the answer if it is properly run.  That’s a totally progressive idea.  He is a progressive.  He expresses admiration for Democratic politicians and disdain for conservatives.  Have you ever heard him disavow any of these former progressive stances?

       The Donald plays on our emotions, stokes the xenophobic impulses, feeds off our frustrations, but he lays out no solutions.  He says he’ll make America great again, but he provides no rational blueprint on any issue. He rails against imports.  Does he remember that the Smoot-Hawley Tariff drove the country into the great depression?  He supports a flat tax, a fair tax and he supports maintaining the current progressive tax system. 

His name calling illustrates that he plays by the playbook written for the left, Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.  Those who disagree with him are dogs or losers or stupid. morons, lightweights, or zeroes. 

      Donald Trump is not a man of principles.  He is a megalomaniac, an arrogant blowhard.  He brags about how he screwed over other businessmen. President Obama abused executive privilege.  Trump would ride rough shod over everyone.

     Liberals are having a heyday because Trump is helping them discredit conservative principles.

            Will I vote for Trump if he becomes the nominee?  Of course.  Democrats drive us over the debt cliff full speed ahead.  Even the Donald is less of a death threat. 

President Obama is Disturbed

     At an Easter prayer breakfast our president said, “And I have to say that, sometimes when I listen to other less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.” He is bothered by less than kind comments by Christians, bothered when Christians are less than loving.
      Did he express concern that members of Islam were less than loving when members of ISIS beheaded 21 Coptic Christians in February? Did he express concern about Islam when al-Shabaab terrorists slaughtered nearly 150 students at a Kenyan university on Holy Thursday? Does it bother him the al-Qaeda-affiliated group warned that they were not through, that cities in Kenya will “run red with blood?”

     On March 15, Fulani terrorists massacred nearly 100 Christian villagers in Egba, Nigeria, mostly women and children. On that same day Jamaat-ul-Ahrar suicide bombers attached two churches leaving 15 worshipers dead. Did you hear our president express disappointment in Muslims who were less than kind?

     By my count, in 2015 alone, there have been 30 acts of terrorism on innocent Christians targeted solely because of their faith by Muslim groups who cite their own religion as motive. But President Obama is bothered by less than loving comments by Christians?

Rubio’s response gains respect

     Marco Rubio has gained my undying respect by his gutsy handling of Mike Wallace’s grilling on Fox News Sunday, May 17. Wallace insisted that Rubio “admit” that “based on what we know now” it was a mistake to invade Iraq. Rubio refused to play the game. Presidents have to make decisions based on what they know at the time, and based on what he knew then, Rubio insisted, Bush made the right decision.

       What people seem to forget is that Resolution that Congress made regarding the invasion of Iraq cited many factors that justified the use of military force. The issue of Weapons of Mass destruction was only one. (If memory serves me, there were 23.) First off, Saddam refused to comply with UN Resolution 1441, the conditions of the 1991 ceasefire, and for 12 years refused to allow U.N. weapons inspectors access to crucial armament facilities.
     Other reasons listed were the attempted assassination of President George H. W. Bush, the firing on coalition aircraft enforcing the no-fly zone following the Gulf War, Saddam’s paying bounties to the families of suicide bombers, his using the proceeds from the “oil for food” program to purchase long range missiles.
      Many people will say now that they disagreed from the get-go with Bush’s decision, but that is simply not true. His approval rating hit almost 90 per during and shortly after the invasion. Bush’s success was a political disaster for Democrats in this country.
     The real disaster for world peace was President Obama’s refusal to negotiate a post-war alliance. His political base was intent on one thing: destroying George Bush’s legacy, so they intentionally abandoned Iraq and the Middle East to chaos.

The 16th Amendment Poisons the Broth

       When Benjamin Franklin left Constitution Hall the day the work on the Constitution was completed, a woman asked him what kind of government he had given them. “A Republic,” he said, “if you can keep it.” The framers knew well the dangers of liberty. They understood the fragile character of the American experiment. Democracies of old inevitably fell into tyranny and anarchy. Thomas Hobbs had warned that human beings are not capable of self-government, that despotism was a necessary evil. However, the framers put their faith in Montesquieu and established a federation of small republics bonded together for the purpose of national defense. They established a national government wherein the departments of the federal government itself as well as the governments of the individual republics were all pitted against the others to prevent any government entity from satisfying its natural lust for power
      It might have worked if we had worked to keep it. But we have allowed the federal government to morph into a gigantic leviathan that deems itself lord and master, not just of the United States, but of the entire world. The root of the evil is complex, but most of the damage can be traced to the passage of the 16th Amendment.
       Article I, section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to “lay and collect taxes” to “provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare of the United States.” Promoting the “common welfare” to the founders meant to provide stuff from which everyone benefits, that improves the welfare of everyone.

       The progressives of the early 20th century managed to convince the public that that clause allowed them to plunder the property of some to provide for the welfare for others. They, of course, knew better. The founders feared nothing more than a powerful, intrusive national government.

Refueling the Fires of the Founding

       Early American settlers had a unique opportunity to create a different form of government. The kings of Europe were busy fighting one another, so the settlers were pretty much left to govern themselves for the first 200 years. They developed an appreciation for living independently, which led them to devise a government that protected those rights. They recognized that the most dangerous force in the world was government. They compared it to fire, necessary but a treacherous hazard. They had no confidence in man’s ability to resist the lure of power, so they designed a constitution that would, as Thomas Jefferson said, “bind him down from mischief.”
       Each branch of government was designed to check the power of the other, and the theory was that the sovereign states would jealously guard their powers as expressed in the 10th Amendment. Integral to the design were the differences in the houses of Congress. The House of Representatives was to reflect the passions of the people, members being elected by popular vote. The Senate was to be the more deliberative body, cooling the passions and providing stability. Members were appointed by legislative bodies of the various states and were to represent the interests of the state, keeping the power of the federal government in check.

       Electing senators by popular vote as a result of the 17th Amendment created two problems. First, the Senate loses its deliberative quality, the members now having to spend their energies responding to the passions of the masses, buying votes with our tax dollars. It also changed the allegiance of senators. They are no longer the voice of the state. They are the voice of the federal government. The power and significance of the Sovereign States is lost.

       We didn’t notice the danger at first. Montesquieu was right: “A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.” It’s been a century. It’s time for us all to join the bucket brigade. Or better yet, fight fire with fire. Lovers of freedom must be vigilant, read, study, research, and debate analyzing history and current events according to the principles of liberty. We need to rekindle the fires that fueled the founding.

Obama: Christians less than kind

        At an Easter prayer breakfast our president said, “And I have to say that, sometimes when I listen to other less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned." He is bothered by less than kind comments by Christians, bothered when Christians are less than loving.
        Did he express concern that members of Islam were less than loving when members of ISIS beheaded 21 Coptic Christians in February?   Did he express concern about Islam when al-Shabaab terrorist slaughtered nearly 150 students at a Kenyan university on Holy Thursday?  Does it bother him the al-Qaeda-affiliated group warned that they were not through, that cities in Kenya will "run red with blood”?
On March 15, Fulani terrorists massacred nearly one hundred Christian villagers in Egba, Nigeria, mostly women and children.  On that same day Jamaat-ul-Ahrar suicide bombers attached two churches leaving 15 worshipers dead.  Did you hear our president express disappointment in Muslims who were less than kind?
By my count, in 2015 alone, there have been 30 acts of terrorism on innocent Christian targeted solely because of their faith by Muslim groups who cite their own religion as motive.  But President Obama is bothered by less than loving comments by Christians?

The 57 per cent

           According to a 2011 Health and Human Services report, of the 309, 467,000 people in the United States, fully 109,631,000 live in households that receive means tested welfare benefits.  There are an additional 55 million seniors who receive Social Security and Medicare benefits which brings the total of those who benefit from government largess to 164,000,000, 43 per cent of the total population.  Consider that the wage earners in the remaining 57 per cent of the population who work two and three jobs to support their families, are financially supporting the rest of us.

             The consequences go far beyond the unfairness of it all.  Nearly half of the population is not producing, not striving to fulfill dreams, not creating what they may have created spurred by want and need.  It’s a grand waste of human potential, and there is nothing more destructive to the soul than the waste of human potential. An Irish prayer says, “May there always be work for your hands to do.”  A Scottish proverb says, “If the Devil finds a Man idle, he'll set him at Work.”  Frederik Mises said, “Man can only derive life and enjoyment from a perpetual application of his faculties to objects, or from labor.”   We have unleashed demons onto the world. 

         But it gets worse.  Those 57 per cent are also funding billions of dollars in corporate welfare.  A $100 million for an airport in a town with 75 residents, 2 million for an internship program for one intern, $1.3 million to help Pepsi Cola build a yogurt plant in New York, billions of dollars to provide the pentagon with a biofuel that costs $424 a gallon.  And the list goes on and on and on.  Our founders are gasping in their graves. 

Disillusioned, but not Capitulating

        I am disillusioned.  Perhaps I have been on a crusade that’s going nowhere.  We worked diligently this past election to help turn the map of our country red, but recent news is taking the wind out of my sails.

        First Professor Jonathan Gruber admits that he relied on “the stupidity of the American voter” to get the ACA passed.  The news only served to substantiate what I already knew, that progressives throw the corn into the pit hoping to turn us into servile lapdogs.   

         But then I heard McConnell and Boehner already capitulating the morning after the election.  The conservative sweep should have shown them that Americans want to reassert their independence. They no longer want to feed at the public trough. They want to honor the 10^th amendment, turn most of those monstrous buildings in DC into homeless shelters. 

         The lackluster response of the Republican leadership leads me to think that Alex Jones’ rants might not be so farfetched after all.  They’ve all sold out to the Bilderberg Group.  I’m reading The Creature from Jekyll Island again, this time with eyes wide open.

         Perhaps the “illuminati” story is real. Perhaps we are all managed by a small group of elite families who control the world leaders through blackmail, bribery and ruthless tyranny. That would explain John Roberts’ sudden reversal.

         That would explain why they waited until night to announce the findings of the grand jury in Ferguson.  They want race riots. That would explain why, with the war virtually won, they abandon Iraq to the radicals. They need terrorism.  It provides them with all kinds of excuses to limit our civil rights.  We know we were sold out to the big banks after the crash, sold out to big insurance companies with ACA.  Was Bush responsible for 9/11?  Oh my, I’m going insane.    

         I do agree, however, with Phyllis Schlafly.  A third party alternative entrenches the progressive agenda. Republicans at least pretend to believe in the limits of the constitution.  Our only hope is to concentrate all of our energies on bringing the Republican Party back to its conservative roots. 

         I may be disillusioned, but I’m not capitulating.

Who is stoking the fires of discontent?

           Some questions have plagued me ever since the Ferguson riots. 

Why are so many of the powerful stoking the fires of discontent?  Certainly tens of thousands of people cannot afford to leave their families and jobs and fly coast to coast to participate in demonstrations? Who is financing the chaos? 

          Last night I heard a chilling comment, a young man making a plea for the federal government to step in and overturn the jury verdict. Is that the object, to give the federal government an excuse to step in?  To create national police force?

 Who wants to destroy the jury system that has for centuries worked to protect the innocent from a tyrannical government, a system that provides stability to our republic that stands in the way of federal intrusions?

And then I remembered something George Soros said years ago.   “The main obstacle to a just world is the United States.“  George Soros knows that  in order to achieve his lifetime goal of world government he must first destroy the American republic, and he has been working diligently toward that goal for years. 

He’s also been practicing. In 1992, Georgie brought the Bank of England to its knees. In 1997 he destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia, and when interviewed on “60 Minutes,” he said, “It was fun!”  Think how much fun he‘s having now.  He calls it “Accelerating history.”

         George Soros invests billions of dollars into left wing foundations, Open Society, Democracy Alliance, Move On, Center for American Progress, The Tides Foundation, Media Matters, La Raza and the American Arab Anti-discrimination Activity Research Institute, to name a few.   If I were a news reporter I’d investigate the degree to which he finances  “We beat this, we will be the biggest N****** in New York" Al Sharpton, “We’ve gotta teach our kids to kill” Louis Farrakhan and the demonstrators.

Follow the money.  Someone is manipulating the masses. 

Slouching towards Bethlehem

 Now Obama wants to raise the taxes on investment income in order to subsidies the middle class.  They’ve already brought 47 per cent of Americans to their knees feeding at the trough, but they’re not satisfied until they have us all of us bowing to Washington. There was a severe recession in 1921. Unemployment soared to 12 per cent.  All the government did was cut federal spending. In one year the rate dropped to 6 per cent.  By 1923 it dropped to 4 per cent.

Government intervention invariably has huge negative consequences.  Look at the recent housing crisis.  Government forces lending institutions to make questionable loans which causes a huge housing bubble.  The loans go belly up, the bubble bursts and we have another economic crisis.  Ironically enough, the two politicians who are most responsible for the fiasco, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, push through legislation to prevent that from happening again and now the feds are back to making loans, this time with only 3 per cent down.  When do you predict the next crash will be?

We are all brainwashed to believe that government intervention dragged us out of the depression.  A big lie.  The market crash of 1929 caused unemployment to rise to 9 per cent, but by January of the following year things had begun to stabilize. Unemployment dropped to 6.3 per cent. Unfortunately, after the 1921 recession Hoover had convened conference between business and government officials which ended with a call for more government planning to avoid future depressions, so later that month the federal government stepped in to save the day. Within 6 months Unemployment surged to double digits and stayed there for nearly a decade, peaking at 24 per cent.

Several millennia of history repeats the mantra:  Government IS the problem. When the Israelites wanted a king, Jehovah said no.  He destroyed the Tower of Babel and scattered the people. We are all built of faulty timber.  Not one of us has either the wisdom necessary to be a king.  Even King Solomon, the wisest man in the world, screwed things up. By now every reading of history should remind us that governments of men will turn into tyrannies. 

            So what’s wrong with taxing investment income?  In the first place it amounts to double taxation.  Investors pay taxes on profit at the corporation level and then are taxed again on what’s left over.  It also strangles the economy.  The corporate profit that would have been used to invest again in business and hire more of the unemployed is confiscated by the government and flushed down the toilet. 

 It’s not that they are insane: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It’s not that they don’t know the truth.  They are all of them students of history.  It has to be that they are deliberately leading us into slavery.  They give us bread and circuses and we follow them, dead eyed and drooling, into the pen.

Political donors who pick our pockets

        When we stick to the issues, we find that Liberals and Conservatives agree most of the time, we want the same things from our government:  less poverty, less crime, safer streets, but our emotional attachment to labels confuse the issue. 

        The movers and the shakers use their millions to make government bend to their wills.  Democrats are very good at demonizing Koch brothers hoping we will not notice the one- per centers who grease their palms.  

        Elon Testler spends millions of dollars on Democrat candidates.  He has already been given over half a billion in subsidies and those who can afford to buy one of his cars get $7,500 in tax rebates.  Those of us who could never dream of owning a Tesla help the rich buy them. 

         George Soros spends millions of dollars on Democrat candidates to insure that the Keystone pipeline project is squelched.  After all he makes millions of dollars every day shipping the oil on his railroad.   

          They saved the big banks and passed new regulations that put the small independent banks out of business. Tom Steyer, Mike Bloomberg, Amber Mostyn, Eric Schmidt, and Haim  Saban are just a few of the other excessively rich who donate millions to Democrat candidates in order to insure that their corner of the world gets a nod, gets permission to pick our pockets and line theirs.

          We have to recognize that it’s a problem on both sides of the aisle and direct our attention to solving the problem at its genesis:  There is too much money, too much power in Washington.   

Kiss your assets goodbye

I am probably too mad.  One should hold her tongue when her brain is exploding with disbelief.  

I turn on the radio after dropping my granddaughter off at school and hear our president scolding again, this time the country’s brokers.  “Because of lack of protection, you could end up with a situation where you’d lose some of your hard earned money simply because your advisor isn’t required to put your interest first.”

So President Obama rides in: “To the rescue!”  He has directed the department of labor to draw up new rules for brokers that would protect middle class families. 

He has to know, he is not a stupid man, that what is destroying the wealth of the middle class is his printing press. 

In May of 2009 they promised us, “We Will Not Monetize The Debt!”  Remember?  “We will not monetize the debt!”   The truth is they have been printing 85 billion dollars a month for 7 years, and every dollar they print makes that dollar in your pocket worth less.  My late husband described how his mother wept after the collapse of the German dollar, bags full of money that couldn’t buy a loaf of bread to feed her hungry family. 

They call it quantitative easing now.  Apparently that’s more palatable.  Well that quantitative easing has benefited the average person on the street not at all, and it has reduced the value of retirement accounts by multiples of a thousand. True, it has sent stocks soaring to record highs, but as soon as the printing press stops, and it has to, that market is going to collapse like a grass hut in a typhoon. 

The reason we are not earning what we should on savings and investments is because the Fed has kept interest rates to unnatural lows.  The reason we lost millions on our housing investments is that the Federal government screwed up the market. 

He is not a stupid man.  He must know this.

Watch out, folks. The federal government is riding in to the rescue. Grab your knees and kiss your assets goodbye,

What???

     We had a discussion of the 72^nd Psalm in Sunday school this morning. Sometimes those who writre the commentaries in our Sunday School lessons so completely miss the mark that I wonder if the writers understand what Christianity is all about.  

     This morning in our discussion of Psalm 72,  Beth Ludlum said that if heads of state want us to revere them, to “bow down before” them they should put an end to poverty, take care of the poor, have pity on the weak and needy.

     First of all, that’s our job.  We’re not to expect the government to do our job.  We are to take care of our neighbors.  From the story of the Tower of Babel right through the New Testament we should be aware that God’s message is that heads of state who have the power to do good always end up doing evil.  We cannot expect them to do our job.

      And is she suggesting that if they took care of the poor, she would bow down to them.  "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me."  

Government IS the problem, ALWAYS

Now Obama wants to raise taxes on investment income in order to subsidies the middle class.  They’ve already destroyed the noble poor. It makes no sense for them to get a job. They lose all their government benefits. But the elite are not satisfied.  They would have us all of us bowing to Washington. They spread the slop on the ground and hope our gluttony will belie our free will.

Several millennia of history repeats the mantra:  Government IS the problem. When the Israelites wanted a king, Jehovah said no.  He destroyed the Tower of Babel and scattered the people. We are all built of faulty timber.  Not one of us has the wisdom necessary to be a king.  Even King Solomon, the wisest man in the world, screwed things up. Every reading of history should remind us that governments of men will always turn into tyrannies. 

Government intervention invariably has huge negative consequences.  Look at the recent housing crisis.  Government forces lending institutions to make questionable loans which causes a huge housing bubble.  The loans go belly up, the bubble bursts and we have an economic crisis.  Ironically enough, the two politicians who are most responsible for the fiasco, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, push through legislation to prevent that from happening again, and now the feds are back to making loans, this time with only 3 per cent down.  When do you predict the next crash will be?

We’ve always suffered recessions, but left to regain its balance, the economy will heal itself. There was a severe recession in 1921. Unemployment soared to 12 per cent.  All the government did was cut federal spending. In one year the rate dropped to 6 per cent.  By 1923 it dropped to 4 per cent.

We are all brainwashed to believe that government intervention dragged us out of the depression.  A big lie.  The market crash of 1929 caused unemployment to rise to 9 per cent, but by January of the following year things had begun to stabilize. Unemployment dropped to 6.3 per cent. Unfortunately, after the 1921 recession Hoover had convened a conference between business and government officials which ended with a call for more government planning to avoid future depressions, so later that month the federal government stepped in to save the day. Within 6 months Unemployment surged to double digits and stayed there for nearly a decade, peaking at 24 per cent.

            So what’s wrong with taxing investment income?  In the first place it amounts to double taxation.  Investors pay taxes on profit at the corporate level and then are taxed again on what’s left over.  More important, it also strangles the economy.  The corporate profit that would have been used to invest again in businesses that would hire more of the unemployed is confiscated by the government and flushed down the toilet. 

 It’s not that they are insane, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It’s not that they don’t know the truth.  They are all of them students of history.  It has to be that they are deliberately leading us into slavery.  They give us bread and circuses and we follow them, dead eyed and drooling, into the pit

Marching for freedom or toward the Fourth Reich

The Staten Island and the Ferguson tragedies continue to plague our country, to what end?

          A guest on a CNN talk show yesterday harshly faulted the police for shooting “two innocent men.”  The moderator did not challenge the statement.  These were not innocent men.  They were criminals resisting arrest. We may consider the New York law silly, but it is the law, and police are sworn to uphold it.   It’s our duty to change it.

Not even Brown’s father supports the violence, so what generates the fury?  One irritated liberal, asked the conservative on the panel why Republicans wanted a “police state,” and it occurred to me:  That’s the goal.

There are powerful and influential people who see our Republic as a threat to their power.  If they can manipulate the masses to riot, the federal government will have an excuse to step in, and then we will have a police state, the third Weimar Republic. 

George Soros said years ago that the biggest obstacle to his lifelong goal, the formation of the world government, was the United States. He invests billions of dollars into a variety of foundations, all of which strive to undermine the public‘s confidence in our country:  Open Society, Democracy Alliance, Move On, Center for American Progress, The Tides Foundation, Media Matters, La Raza and the American Arab Anti-discrimination Activity Research Institute, to name a few.   I think we’ll find out eventually that these foundations are financing the demonstrations. People cannot afford to rush from demonstration to demonstration.  They’re getting support from someone. 

George Soros has been practicing ways by which to destabilize governments. In 1992, he brought the Bank of England to its knees. In 1997 he destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia, and when interviewed on “60 Minutes,” he said, “It was fun!”  Think how much fun he‘s having now.  He calls it “Accelerating history.”

If I were a news reporter I’d investigate the degree to which he finances Al Sharpton (“We beat this, we will be the biggest N****** in New York") and  Louis Farrakhan: (“We’ve gotta teach our kids to kill”).

Those crowds of protestors think they are marching for freedom.  What they’re really doing is helping the tyrants create the Fourth Reich. . 

What battle are we really fighting?

         I am disillusioned.  Perhaps I have been on a crusade that’s going nowhere.  We worked diligently this past election to help turn the map of our country red, but recent news is taking the wind out of my sails.

         First Professor Jonathan Gruber admits that he relied on “the stupidity of the American voter” to get the ACA passed.  The news only served to substantiate what I already knew, that progressives throw the corn into the pit hoping to turn us into servile lapdogs.   

         But then I heard McConnell and Boehner already capitulating the morning after the election.  The conservative sweep should have shown them that Americans want to reassert their independence. They no longer want to feed at the public trough. They want to honor the 10^th amendment, turn most of those monstrous buildings in DC into homeless shelters. 

          The lackluster response of the Republican leadership leads me to think that Alex Jones’ rants might not be so farfetched after all.  They’ve all sold out to the Bilderberg Group.  I’m reading The Creature from Jekyll Island again, this time with eyes wide open.

           Perhaps the “illuminati” story is real. Perhaps we are all managed by a small group of elite families who control the world leaders through blackmail, bribery and ruthless tyranny. That would explain John Roberts’ sudden reversal.

          That would explain why they waited until night to announce the findings of the grand jury in Ferguson.  They want race riots. That would explain why, with the war virtually won, they abandon Iraq to the radicals. They need terrorism.  It provides them with all kinds of excuses to limit our civil rights.  We know we were sold out to the big banks after the crash, sold out to big insurance companies with ACA.  Was Bush responsible for 9/11?  Oh my, I’m going insane.    

           I do agree, however, with Phyllis Schlafly.  A third party alternative entrenches the progressive agenda. Republicans at least pretend to believe in the limits of the constitution.  Our only hope is to concentrate all of our energies on bringing the Republican Party back to its conservative roots. 

            I may be disillusioned, but I’m not capitulating.

Bleeding the Middle Class to help the Rich

        When we stick to the issues, we find that we agree most of the time, but our emotional attachment to labels confuse the issue.  The movers and the shakers use their millions to make government bend to their wills.  Democrats are very good at demonizing Koch brothers hoping we will not notice the one- per centers who grease their palms.  

         Elon Testler spends millions of dollars on Democrat candidates.  He has already been given over half a billion in subsidies and those who can afford to buy one of his cars get $7,500 in tax rebates.  Those of us who could never dream of owning a Tesla help the rich buy them.  George Soros spends millions of dollars on Democrat candidates to insure that the Keystone pipeline project is squelched.  After all he makes millions of dollars every day shipping the oil on his railroad.   

         They saved the big banks and passed new regulations that put the small independent banks out of business. Tom Steyer, Mike Bloomberg, Amber Mostyn, Eric Schmidt, and Haim  Saban are just a few of the other excessively rich who donate millions to Democrat candidates in order to insure that their corner of the world gets a nod, gets permission to pick our pockets and line theirs.

        We have to recognize that it’s a problem on both sides of the aisle and direct our attention to solving the problem at its genesis:  There is too much money, too much power in Washington.  .  

Let the market work its magic. Take a lickin' and keep on tickin'.

Elizabeth Warren reminds me of that “Hang in there” poster of a cat clawing desperately at a ledge. Power is slipping from the claws of he left and she thinks she can fool us again with her save Dodd-Frank ploy.

  There is much to abhor in the $1.1 trillion Crimenobus bill, but we should celebrate any attempt to repeal that pernicious 2,000 page monster, the Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection Act. Don’t be fooled by the titles of bills.  They are purposely designed to mislead us.  Remember Gruber?  Consumer protection really means protecting my big pocket friends from consumers.

Dodd-Frank was supposedly passed to prevent another financial crisis. Because of Dodd-Frank regulations, this economic recovery has been the most anemic on record. It’s a typical government response.  Government causes a problem and then passes legislation that exacerbates the problem.

It wasn’t deregulation of the banks that caused the financial crisis.  Check your history.  There was no deregulation of banks during the Bush and Reagan years.  Even the Federal Reserve investigation showed that it was overregulation that strangled the economy. Dodd-Frank just made it worse.  Small banks were squeezed out of business because they couldn’t deal with it.  Large banks just hired more compliance officers.  J.P. Morgan Chase alone hired 10,000 of them to deal with the mess.

Over regulation put pressure on the economy and the Community Reinvestment Act blew it all apart. Banks were forced under CRA to make loans to “underserved communities” which inevitably included borrowers whose credit standing did not qualify them for a conventional loans.  By 2008 roughly 58% of all U.S. mortgages—32 million loans—were subprime low quality.  The action over inflated market and humpty dumpty had a great fall and all the kings horses….  

There was no evidence that banks trading securities had anything to do with the financial crisis but legislators had to blame someone for their crimes so they pounced on Wall Street.  Class envy makes the rich an easy target.

The solution is not regulation.  The solution is get rid of the notion of “too big to fail, and at least the Cromnobus opened the door on that issue by not allowing the government to bail out insurance companies.  The solution is let the market work its magic, take a hit and keep on truckin’.

Global Warming a Global Lie

                Mr. Francisco Villa must know that no one is disputing the fact of climate change.  Elementary knowledge of geology shows us that the earth has been subject to extreme variations in climate since its birth so many eons ago. The issue that Mr. Esch was addressing was the extent to which human activity influenced the phenomenon. You belittled the substance of his letter by suggesting that the ratio between those support anthropomorphic causes and the deniers is 97 to 3.  Some research suggests that there are 20 times as many scientists who question the science of man-made global warming as those who signed off on it.

                There were 52 scientist who authored the media hyped United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). I have identified more than a thousand scientists from all over the globe who take issue with that report including many current and former UN IPCC scientists.

                Princeton Physicist Dr. Robert Austin: “I view Climategate as science fraud, pure and simple,”

                Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook, Western Washington University: “The corruption within the IPCC… the doctoring of data and the refusal to admit mistakes have so severely tainted the IPCC that it is no longer a credible agency.”

                NASA Scientist Dr. Leonard Weinstein “Any reasonable scientific analysis must conclude the basic theory wrong!!” —

                Nobel Prize-Winning Stanford University Physicist Dr. Robert B. Laughlin: “Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself — Climate is beyond our power to control…Earth doesn’t care about governments or their legislation. Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something that the earth routinely does on its own without asking anyone’s permission or explaining itself.”

                Brazilian Geologist Geraldo Luís Lino:  “Hundreds of billion dollars have been wasted with the attempt of imposing a Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory that is not supported by physical world evidences…AGW has been forcefully imposed by means of a barrage of scare stories and indoctrination that begins in the elementary school textbooks.”

                Atmospheric Physicist Dr. John Reid “My skepticism about AGW arises from the fact that as a physicist who has worked in closely related areas, I know how poor the underlying science is. In effect the scientific method has been abandoned in this field.”

                Dr. David Deming, University of Oklahoma: “I write to expose the ignorance exhibited by WWU geology faculty, the most egregious example of pedantic buffoonery since the Pigeon League conspired against Galileo in the seventeenth century. Skepticism is essential to science.”

                I have a list of more than a thousand scientists who question the anthropomorphic theory.    Israeli astrophysicist Nir Shaviv mapped the path that our solar system travels through the spiral arms of the galaxy, and Canadian geologist Jan Veizer plotted 500 years of climate change. The pair of scientists discovered an exact correlation.  Apparently the inflow of cosmic rays affects variations in earth’s temperatures. 

                This little speck of cosmic dust called earth travels with its paltry star through an insignificant galaxy into a vast and glorious, endless universe of space and time.  What do we know, we who are the  “quintessence of dust" - William Shakespeare.

Mass Manipulation. The Aim: Totalitarianism

Some questions have plagued me ever since the Ferguson riots. 

Why are so many of the powerful stoking the fires of discontent?  Certainly tens of thousands of people cannot afford to leave their families and jobs and fly coast to coast to participate in demonstrations? Who is financing the chaos? 

          Last night I heard a chilling comment, a young man making a plea for the federal government to step in and overturn the jury verdict. Is that the object, to give the federal government an excuse to step in?  To create national police force?

 Who wants to destroy the jury system that has for centuries worked to protect the innocent from a tyrannical government, a system that provides stability to our republic that stands in the way of federal intrusions?

And then I remembered something George Soros said years ago.   “The main obstacle to a just world is the United States.“  George Soros knows that  in order to achieve his lifetime goal of world government he must first destroy the American republic, and he has been working diligently toward that goal for years. 

He’s also been practicing. In 1992, Georgie brought the Bank of England to its knees. In 1997 he destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia, and when interviewed on “60 Minutes,” he said, “It was fun!”  Think how much fun he‘s having now.  He calls it “Accelerating history.”

George Soros invests billions of dollars into left wing foundations, Open Society, Democracy Alliance, Move On, Center for American Progress, The Tides Foundation, Media Matters, La Raza and the American Arab Anti-discrimination Activity Research Institute, to name a few.   If I were a news reporter I’d investigate the degree to which he finances  “We beat this, we will be the biggest N****** in New York" Al Sharpton, “We’ve gotta teach our kids to kii” Louis Farrakhan and the demonstrators.

Follow the money.  Someone is manipulating the masses. 

The 'Affordable Care Act is Not Good News

       I was delighted to see James Sefcak use facts to support his assertions: (“American winners with Obamacare,” Yuma Sun, November 23, 2014). I would suggest, however, that he not rely on extremely left wing websites like politicus.com.  I recommend the less biased site of the actual CBO report at http://www.cbo.gov/publication/45010.

       Mr. Sefcak asserts that “12 million more non-elderly people will have health insurance than would have had it in the absence of Obama care.”  Perhaps he is right, but the CBO report says that according to their estimates and the estimates of JCT, when the ACA is fully functional “about 31 million non elderly residents of the United States are likely to be without health insurance.”  That’s exactly the same number as were without health care coverage pre ACA. (See Obama’s September 2009 speech before a joint session of congress.) So what have we accomplished, destroying the health care coverage that 90 per cent of us were happy with, raising our rates by as much as 300 per cent, (mine only went up 59 per cent), raising our deductibles by the same amount, forcing our favorite doctors to close their doors, and still we have 30 million un-insured. 

       Mr. Sefcak also includes data that suggests that the ACA will result in “lower costs to the government.”  I confess not to understand trillions at all, but when did government ever to something cheaper than the private sector? Insurance companies will be subsidized for any losses, so they’re grinning all the way to the bank, the IRS will spend “10 billion to implement the AFC,” and after 2017, “25 million more people are expected to leave the work force and sign up for the subsidized exchanges. “

       According to the CBO, “As a result of the ACA, between 6 million and 7 million fewer people will have employment-based insurance coverage each year from 2016 through 2024 than would be the case in the absence of the ACA.”  The CBO predicts “a decline in the number of full-time-equivalent workers of about 2.0 million in 2017, rising to about 2.5 million in 2024,” as a result of the ACA. 

       Fewer people working, more people entering the ACA exchanges, wouldn’t that mean higher costs?  That lack of productivity probably accounts for the huge deficits predicted for the future.  As a matter of fact that same CBO report predicts that the national debt will reach 79 per cent of GDP by 2024 due to “the aging of the population, the expansion of federal subsidies for health insurance, rising health care cost per beneficiary and mounting interest costs on the federal debt.”

Doesn’t sound like good news to me.