Month: November 2016
Trump Wins!!
I was preparing for the worst, and hoping for the best.
Living here in the Peoples Republic of Vermont You know that your political views are in the very minority. While the results of the election is very gratifying to me they weren’t for one member of my family.
You try to instill your values in your children for 17 years. They go to college and the instructors destroy them within two semesters. Teenage rebellion, and that they believe they already know everything there is to know. Of course this is nothing new.
“If your not a liberal at 20 you have no heart. If your not a conservative at 40 you have no head” Winston Churchill
When I was in high school the indoctrination was just beginning. Teachers who had been working since the end of WW2 were retiring. They were being replaced with people in their late twenties, fresh from college.
Did a tern paper on Eugene Debs, Got an “A” on it. I guess he liked what I had to say about him. Socialism seemed very cool to me then.
Over the course of life you learn from your successes, your failures, things that might have been, and things that you would never change. And reading, lots and lots of reading.
My opinion, America has been granted a reprieve.
For now.
Decision day is almost here.
The Governor of Virginia has just pardoned 60,000 felons socially friendly persons. just in time to vote and possibly swing the election.
The criminal class is a very important voting block for progressives. To the very rich liberal democrats who inhabit Northern Virginia who the vast majority are employed by the Federal Government and depend on those fat paychecks and our looking forward to your fat government pensions, make sure that you have plenty of armed security guarding those gated communities where you all live.
Have you every noticed in traffic or in a parking lot when you see the rear of a car covered with bumper stickers that it is most always progressive/ liberal. Well Conservatives try to respect private property. Libs on the other hand are nothing but tolerant.
Vote as if your future depends on it. Because it does.
It’s the Ideology.
Times Argus is under new ownership but editorially it’s exactly the same.
Yesterday they endorsed Hillary Clinton for President. America’s version of Evita Peron.
Hillary Clinton is a liar, a crook, medically and mentally unstable, an absolute danger to national security, and an enabler of a sexual predator.
This is some of what the Times Argus had to say.
It would be laughable, if it were not so potentially dangerous, that Hillary Clinton’s supposed transgressions are measured on the same scale with Trump’s flagrant disregard for standards of decent behavior. She sent email messages on the wrong server. This does not even register as a venial sin when compared to the history of sexual predation, business predation, tax evasion and lack of experience, knowledge or learning that characterize her opponent’s life.
WTF!!!
and this:
It’s worth reminding ourselves of the program that Clinton hopes to carry out. Here is some of it.
— A simplified tax code for small business.
— Increased health care credits and expanded coverage under Obamacare.
— More money for community health centers and child care and for the financing of college.
— Higher taxes on high earners and steps to halt the abuse of offshore tax havens by companies.
— Major expenditures on infrastructure, adding jobs and rebuilding the nation.
— Training and apprenticeship programs to help workers displaced by new technology and trade.
And where pray tell is the money for all this coming from?
Oh by the way the “high earners”, the top 1% pay nearly 40% of the taxes. The top 10% pays nearly 70 %. The bottom 50% pays 2.78% of all income taxes. But if they agree to stay poor and vote democrat they can get “free stuff” courtesy of the people with paychecks.
But they must be talking about all those nasty billionaires, you know Mark Zuckerburg, Tom Steyer, Bloomburg, Buffet, and the one and only Dr. Evil George Soros. The ones who give generously to liberal and progressive causes, so no one questions wither you have too much money. No! they will feel no pain.
And certainly not the masses coming across our open border who will get welfare and free healthcare.
No, the people who will be screwed will be those in the middle.
A simplified tax code for small business? How about this, How much profit did you make last year? Send it in.
Government does not create wealth. It can only steal take from those who earn it.
But then it’s all about the ideology. Freedom be damned. unless it’s the freedom of a farm animal.
Of course this is only MY OPINON, but the Times Argus and the vast majority of media’s problem is obvious.
Trump has his flaws…but he’s preferable to the alternative.
If America choses wrong, it might be…
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAzTnsSgs2s
History and Future
History and future, what has been and what has yet to be.
Leftist, Marxist Communist, Socialist, progressives all concur on this point. The march of history points to the inevitable triumph of a Progressive utopia.
But if a certain change is truly inevitable, why is it important for human agency to lend a hand, indeed to struggle mightily on its behalf? Here we turn to the critical matter of timing. While a change may be inevitable, the intervention of man can and will speed up this most desired of happenings. Man can function, in one of Marx’s favorite obstetrical metaphors, as a “midwife” of history.2 Man’s intervention could give the inevitable a helpful push.
Progressives in the west and especially in America have been very patient. They dedicate themselves to a cause even though they understand that they most likely were not going to be alive when final victory was achieved. It is their religion.
But will it really be so? Is Socialism a historical inevitability? Well if “the intervention of man” can speed it up then the intervention of man can stop or at least slow it down.
Obama care, which was intended to fail from its inception was to be a stepping stone to single payer. “Free” healthcare the best avenue for big government to place a dog collar around the necks of the people
Sadly, we have had at least three recent examples where one man might have changed the course of history, but they turned out to be cowards.
Former Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, a “pro-life” democrat, who in the past had voted with republicans against his party leadership. He even had a favorable rating from the NRA. But on Christmas Eve 2009 his vote was what put Obama care over the top.
Question, How many thousands of pages of the Obamacare bill were there that Congress had no time to read?
One Vote. Party loyalty came first over his “principles”. He did not want to go down in history as the man who de-railed the first black presidents signature achievement and the goal of 100 years of “progressive” politics.
Next: Chief Justice John Roberts who decided that he did not want to go down in history as the man who de-railed the first black presidents signature achievement. He stated that the law was unconstitutional as written. So he took it upon himself to re-write it as a “tax” which made it constitutional. That made it 5-4 siding with the leftist on the court. then he wrote both the majority and minority opinions. Then he left town in a hurry.
I didn’t know that the Supreme Court was allowed to re-write legislation.
One vote Chief Justice Roberts did not want to go down in history as the man who de-railed the first black presidents signature achievement.
Finally we have the head of the F.B.I. James Comey. who gave a laundry list of why Hillary Clinton should be indicted then weaseled out saying that they couldn’t find intent. I guess that he did not want to go down in history as the one who indicted the potential first women president.
Hillary should be in prison for treason.
Update: Comey is perhaps trying to redeem himself, A revolt in the ranks of the F.B.I. may have persuaded him.
In Comey’s defense he is dealing with the most corrupt and politicized Justice Dept. that country has ever known.
Three men who could have changed the course of history (or future) for the better. And they decided to take a pass.
Inevitability ??
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deq6_p47g54