Economic Prosperity Will
End Calls for Socialism
Newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez wants a number of laws changed that will ultimately redistribute
income away from people who earned it and toward people who haven’t earned
it. She says it is simply unfair that some people have so much and other
have so little.
Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic
Socialists of America (DSA), whose ancestor was the Socialist Party of
America..
The DSA has some very specific
goals. They want to end private ownership of a number of industries,
especially those industries whose products are viewed as “necessities.” In
addition, the DSA wants to “democratize” private businesses in order to force
owners to give workers control of the business.
Ocasio-Cortez has suggested that the
highest marginal tax rate should be increased from the current 37% to
70%. She says that the government can use those extra tax dollars to pay
for healthcare and higher education for all Americans.
Most Americans do not approve of these
actions. History shows why. The U.S. went from birth in 1776 to being the
most prosperous, most powerful and most advanced country in the world in about
150 years. This was accomplished because our capitalistic system encouraged
individual freedom and individual responsibility. It is a system that
rewards people who make contributions and does not reward people who do not
contribute.
The U.S. has generally had low
taxes. That changed somewhat in the 20thcentury when the U.S. imposed a number of
new permanent taxes including the federal income tax, the social security tax,
and the Medicare tax. Individual states added their own income tax,
property taxes, sales taxes, and special taxes on things like gasoline and
alcohol. Still, the U.S. income earner is taxed less that
income earners in most other countries.
Implementing socialistic policies would result in a slow growth
economy which would reduce the standard of living for all Americans. Most
countries that have implemented socialism, like Cuba and Venezuela, have very
poor living conditions.
Leftists cite countries like Sweden and
Norway as "socialist," but delude themselves that a generous welfare
state supported by a vibrant, globally competitive economy (Sweden) or
petrostate wealth (Norway) is an example of socialism working well. In
fact, Sweden has been cutting taxes and welfare spending so much that the total
share of the economy taken in taxation declined by 5 percentage points between
years 2000 and 2017 according to OECD figuresand complaints of welfare cuts are old hat. Further reform and "sweeping"
tax cuts are being proposed by the new coalition government.
In those Scandinavian countries, there is
a sharing culture where democratic socialism seems to fit. It is also
interesting to note that these countries are hundreds of years older than the
U.S. Their population base is relatively small with the total number of
people equaling about 27 million. The
U.S. has about 330 million people.
Despite socialism going against everything
that made America great, there are a surprising number of young people who
support Ocasio-Cortez, the DSA, and the concept of socialism. These
millennials want the government to raise taxes on those that contribute the
most and use the funds to pay for their healthcare, their higher education, and
an expanded welfare program.
Although there were periods in U.S. history
where the socialist movement gained some steam, never have we seen so many
young people supporting socialism over capitalism. Most Americans would
agree that socialism would be a complete disaster for the U.S.
The high taxes on marginal income would eliminate
the incentive to invest for high income earners and reduce capital
formation. In our capital-intensive economy, this would slow economic
growth. “Free” healthcare and “free” higher education in addition to a higher
minimum wage, increased access to food stamps and welfare and universal basic
income would destroy the incentive for lower skilled workers to seek employment
and improve their skills. This too would slow economic growth.
In fact, the way to reverse this trend and
move these “lost souls” from support of socialism to support of capitalism is
to do exactly what President Trump is doing. That is, bring back economic
prosperity. Once these people experience true economic prosperity,
socialism will lose its appeal.
Socialism has its appeal today because
the U.S. economy has been mired in slow growth for nearly two decades.
Annual economic growth hasn’t exceeded 4% since 2000. Growth of 4% or
more would provide opportunity for all qualified Americans. There would
be far less underemployment, and there would be higher wages with more
opportunity.
This long period of economic stagnation
has resulted in the problems we see today that make socialism seem favorable.
The slow growth of the past two decades did provide opportunity for those at
the top. But those at the lower income levels saw little or no
opportunity. As a result, they saw no increase in income. To
someone with nothing, Socialism is appealing.
President Trump quickly moved away from
socialistic behavior when he removed burdensome and counterproductive
government regulations that were designed to protect consumers, but really just
added to the cost to business and slowed growth. Then Trump lowered taxes for
all Americans, including the highest income earners and corporations.
Since then the economy has grown at more than a 3% annual rate.
President Trump is restoring freedom to
the economic system. He is trying to bring true prosperity back to the U.S. If
he is successful -- and that will be difficult because every Democrat, the
mainstream media, and even some members of his own party oppose him --
Socialism will lose its appeal. For the sake of the future of our
country, let’s hope he is successful.
Nancy
Pelosi Essentially Guaranteed Another Painful Government Shutdown When She Said
This…
Federal workers need to
be prepared for more pain. If President Trump and Congress cannot make a
deal, there will probably be another very painful government shutdown in just a
couple of weeks. Even though he agreed to temporarily reopen the
government, President Trump made it abundantly clear that there would be no
long-term deal without wall funding, and that wall funding is supposed to be
part of the current negotiation process in Congress. But according to Nancy Pelosi, that isn’t even on the table, and she
told a press conference on Thursday that there is “not going to be any wall
money in the legislation”…
“We’re not having a negotiation now — over this right now.
There’re having a negotiation over it in there. There’s not going be any wall
money in the legislation. However, if they have some suggestions about some
localities where technology, some infrastructure, as I’ve said, about the ports
of entry, they might need some ports of entry, some roads — that’s part of the
negotiation.”
Pelosi’s
wall-money refusal comes just hours after Trump tweeted, “The Wall is getting
done one way or the other!”
Of course this is perfectly consistent with what Pelosi has been
saying all along. She has pledged to never give Trump a single penny for
a border wall, and she intends to never, ever move from that position.
But on Thursday she suggested that Trump could call Normandy
fencing a “wall” if he would prefer to do so…
“Three hundred of them are Normandy fences,” she said. “They go
like this, do you know what a Normandy fence is?” she asked, crossing her hands
to show what they look like.
“Three
hundred miles of this so that the cars cannot go by. If the president wants to
call that a wall,” she shrugged, “he can call it a wall. He’s referencing what
we already have.”
The Pelosi press conference was another glaring example of why we
need congressional term limits. Pelosi was incoherent throughout, and she
had many observers openly wondering about her mental stability. The
following comes from the American Mirror…
What’s wrong with Nancy Pelosi?
The
House Speaker spoke to reporters today for only about 21 minutes, but there
were plenty of strange moments as she botched words, suffered face spasms and
brain freezes as she attacked President Trump’s proposed border wall and his
leadership during the recent partial government shutdown.
If you have not seen video of her terrible performance yet, you
can view it right here.
But even though she can barely put two words together, Pelosi is
still definitely a tough politician, and now the ball is in Donald Trump’s
court.
He basically has three options. One option would be to
simply sign whatever deal Congress puts in front of him even though it doesn’t
have money for a border wall. Thankfully, Trump seemed to completely
close the door on that option during remarks to the press…
He again vowed that if there’s no money for his wall, there’s no
deal.
‘If they
don’t have a wall I don’t even want to waste my time reading what they have,’
he said of the bipartisan committee working on a solution for border security.
His second option would be to veto the deal, and that would set up
a very interesting scenario. There are some that believe that there are
enough Republicans willing to override the veto and keep the government
open. The following comes from Jim Newell…
Overriding
Trump on the wall is a place where congressional Republicans, who know their
base, are loath to go. But they also know that avoiding another shutdown is, as
Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts told Politico, an “absolute necessity.” Though
McConnell publicly played the role of lockstep Trump ally during the shutdown,
he has made no secret since it ended that he thought it was a dumb idea all
along. For years after the 2013 shutdown, for which Republicans took blame,
McConnell’s favorite saying when the prospect of another shutdown came along
was that “there’s no education in the second kick of a mule.” At his Tuesday
press conference, when asked about the possibility of a shutdown after Feb. 15,
he amended his statement, saying “there’s no education in the third kick of
a mule.” A Trump veto threat over a wall-less bipartisan bill might not be
enough to prevent it from getting the 67 Senate and 290 House votes to override
that veto—and Trump could then pin the blame on congressional Republicans for
being “weak.”
Lastly, Trump could declare a national emergency and use it to
build the wall, and on the surface that seems like a simple solution.
But as I have explained before, the Democrats would immediately
take Trump to court and the construction of the wall would be tied up in the
court system for years. For much more on this, please see my previous
article entitled “If President Trump Tries To Declare A National Emergency To Build
The Wall, The Democrats Plan To Use Lawsuits To Keep It From Ever Being Built”.
Unfortunately, it does not appear that Trump’s wall is going to
move forward any time soon, and that is just one of the reasons why the 2020
election is going to be so critical. We have got to get Trump some reinforcements in Washington, because otherwise
his full agenda will never be implemented.
And the hatred on the left for Trump and his supporters just
continues to grow. For example, one restaurant in California has
announced that it will refuse to serve anyone wearing a MAGA hat…
An award-winning cookbook author and California restaurant owner
says anyone wearing a red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap will be
refused service at his restaurant.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is a chef-partner of the Wursthall restaurant
in San Mateo and says in a tweet Sunday that he views the hats as symbols of
intolerance and hate.
The San
Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday that Lopez-Alt’s decision was met with
mixed reaction by restaurant clients.
When I read something like that, it makes me want to drive down to
San Francisco and walk in there proudly wearing my MAGA hat.
For the next two years there will be gridlock in Washington, and
we will just have to deal with that. But the battle is not over, and many
believe that the Trump revolution is just beginning.
Advanced
Social Decay: You Will Cringe When You Read What Has Been Going On Behind
Closed Doors All Across America
It is
difficult for me to write this article, and I will warn you in advance that
some of the things in this piece are going to make you cringe. Today,
there are an increasing number of signs that the very fabric of our society is
rotting away all around us. We witnessed a very clear example of this
last week when Kyrsten Sinema paraded around on the floor of the U.S. Senate looking like a hooker, but far more telling is what is
going on behind closed doors all across America. The stories that I am
about to share with you barely made a blip on the news, but they should have,
because they are all indications of how far our nation has fallen.
Let’s start in Colorado. A 27-year-old man named Christopher
Wayne Cleary was just arrested on terrorism charges after he threatened to
shoot “as many girls as I see”…
Authorities said Christopher Wayne Cleary, of Denver, posted on
his Facebook page that “Theres nothing more dangerous than man ready to die.”
“All I
wanted was a girlfriend, not 1000 not a bunch of hoes not money none of that,”
he wrote, according to a probable-cause statement cited by authorities. “All I
wanted was to be loved, yet no one cares about me I’m 27 years old and I’ve never
had a girlfriend before and I’m still a virgin, this is why I’m planning on
shooting up a public place soon and being the next mass shooter cause I’m ready
to die and all the girls the turned me down is going to make it right by
killing as many girls as I see.”
Thankfully authorities were able to arrest him before he was able
to carry out his threats, but the sad truth is that there are thousands upon
thousands more young men out there just like him.
These young men feel like failures if they can’t get young women
to sleep with them, and this message is reinforced by popular culture over and
over again.
But that isn’t what “being a man” is all about.
Unfortunately, the only values that many of our young men have are
the values that they have been fed by Hollywood, and Christopher Wayne Cleary
was so frustrated with his inability to live up to the Hollywood ideal that he
was ready to go on a mass shooting spree.
Next, let me share a story with you about a young mother in
Florida. When police recently arrived at the home of Angelica Crites, she
didn’t respond. So they entered the home and when she still didn’t
respond they had to pry her bedroom door open.
But she still didn’t wake up when they did that. In fact, it
took authorities several minutes to finally wake her up.
And when they looked around the house, what they discovered was like something out of a horror movie…
There was an “overwhelming odor of ammonia and feces,” and large
spider webs were along the ceilings and door frames. Food and dirt was all over
the floor in the living room and dining room. A mop bucket filled with dirty
water and food pieces was in the dining room, the report said.
The
dining room had a large amount of trash in the corner and underneath a table to
make food. The refrigerator was unsanitary with food, dirt and stains all over
the inside and outside. Numerous insects were flying around the house.
The condition of her children was even worse. They were
filthy dirty and their teeth “were black and gray” from a lack of care.
On top of everything else, animal feces had literally been smeared throughout the house…
The floor leading to the bathroom had animal feces smeared on it.
Mold and animal feces was in the corner of the hall by the bathroom door.
Crites and her children shared a bedroom, where there was a large
pile of clothes in the corner, dirt on the floor and several red cups on a
shelf containing an unknown black liquid and cigarette butts, the report said.
In her
bathroom, there were several piles of animal feces on the floor and in the
bathtub, and some smeared on the floor, the report said.
It is easy to criticize anyone that lives like that, but the truth
is that what we are doing to ourselves as a nation is even worse.
We need to be praying for children all across America, because so
many of them are living in absolutely horrific situations and they have no way
to escape.
For example, consider what recently happened to one precious child in Indiana…
Back on January 14th, a young child was taken to Union Hospital.
That’s according to court documents.
Police, DCS, and emergency room staff say the child had a split
tongue, several bruises, and other injuries.
That child was later transported to Riley Hospital in
Indianapolis.
While
there, hospital staff determined an object, most likely scissors, were used to
split the child’s tongue.
How evil do you have to be to do something like that?
But this is who we have become as a nation. And things like
this happen so frequently that this story barely made a blip on the national
news.
Almost everyone can put up a pretty decent facade in public, but
it is the things that happen behind closed doors that define who we truly are. And what one man in
Arizona recently did is almost too sickening for words…
A nurse has been arrested in the sexual assault of an
incapacitated woman who gave birth at a Phoenix nursing facility, Arizona
police said Wednesday.
Nathan Sutherland, 36, was a licensed practical nurse at Hacienda
Skilled Nursing Facility, where the woman gave birth.
The
female patient had been in a vegetative state facility for at least 14 years
after a near-drowning incident.
Some of you may be thinking that “this is just one guy”, but the
truth is that there are more than 850,000 registered sex offenders in the United States
today.
And that is just the people that have been caught. Imagine
how many more there are that have not been caught.
So no, this is not just “an isolated incident”. We are a
nation that is literally teeming with sexual predators.
Lastly, I want to share with you the story of Logan and Daley
South. They both wear fangs and they both drink blood, and they opened up
about their relationship with their “girlfriend” Ilona on a recent episode of Extreme Love…
‘I don’t like the way blood tastes. I find it inconvenient to have
to do regularly,’ Daley admits. ‘I’m someone that needs it, but I’m not a big
fan of it. For Logan, it can be very sexual for him.’
Although Logan and Daley both wear fangs, they don’t need to bite
into Ilona’s neck and gorge on her blood like a scene in a horror movie to feel
satisfied.
In the
clip, Daley uses the same tool that diabetics use to prick their fingers to
draw Ilona’s blood before she and Logan begin hungrily sucking on her fingers.
If you took Americans from 200 years ago and showed them this, how
do you think that they would react?
Needless to say, they would think that we have completely lost our
minds.
And the sad truth is that we have definitely lost our way as a
nation. Our lack of values is producing absolutely horrific results, and
it is getting worse with each passing day.
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