Conundrum “you gotta read this a couple of times, it really makes sense” “A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don’t have one, you’ll probably never need one again.” The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or confusing. Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America : 1. America is capitalist and greedy – yet half of the population is subsidized. 2. Half of the population is subsidized – yet they think they are victims. 3. They think they are victims – yet their representatives run the government. 4. Their representatives run the government – yet the poor keep getting poorer. 5. The poor keep getting poorer – yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about. 6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about – yet they want America to be more like those other countries. Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century. Makes you wonder who is doing the math. These three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our current government and cultural environment: 1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works. And here’s another one worth considering… 2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money? What’s interesting is the first group “worked for” their money, but the second didn’t. Think about it…..and Last but not least : 3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, no pay raises for our military and cutting our army but we are not stopping the payments or benefits to illegal aliens. Am I the only one missing something?
It has been said in many times that the last time Democrats were this upset with a Republican President’s election was Nov. 6th 1860.
The last time the fight was over “States rights” and a “peculiar institution”.
Now it’s between two political ideologies. Progressivism A.K.A. Socialism, and Free Enterprise Capitalism.
I wonder what Franklin, Harry, and John would think of today’s Democratic Party. There was no question that these men loved America, WW2, Korea, and Vietnam all started or escalated under their watch.
The Democrat party has morphed into something truly sinister. As the violence can attest. Most noticeably at Berkley, where a gay conservative speaker was denied his free speech rights ironically at the birthplace of the so called “free speech movement”.
But for the left it was always free speech for me but not for thee.
Those students were fighting the “establishment” then. Now they are the “establishment”.
Violence is becoming the go-to tool in the Saul Alinski toolbox.
Democrats pay lip service to MLK but apparently is brand of non-violent resistance doesn’t cut it anymore with today’s progressives. I could be mistaken, but I have yet to hear any condemnation of the violence from any prominent democrat. Nothing from Pat, Peter, Bernie or Phil.
But their hatred is not just of Donald Trump and his policies. Their hate extends to everyone who had the audacity to cast a ballot for him.
To paraphrase Sally, They hate us, they really, really hate us.
They Control the media, they control academia, they control the culture and thanks to living in such an evil capitalist country they appear to have plenty of disposable income.
A second Civil War is raging as we speak.
Why couldn’t Americans have done the right thing and put Hillary in charge. In a few years we could have been emulating that most progressive country Venezuela. The people in their wisdom swallowed the promises of the disciples of Socialism that said everyone would be equal, equally poor, exceptions being the leaders, the bureaucracy, and the enforcers of the law.
The Chi-Coms, Iranian Mullahs and fat boy from N.K. wouldn’t be angry with us. They would be to busy laughing.
Donald Trump is President of a country as fractured as the one Abe Lincoln had.
Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be quite a ride.
Trump becomes President in a nation perhaps more divided now then at anytime since 1861.
Ironic that the democrat party, once the party of slavery and Jim Crow and now the party of “progressivism” which is a nice way of saying socialist/slash communist is playing the same role as the confederates in 1861.
My hopes and prayers are with him. It will be a fight from the moment he is sworn in.
I’m thankful I’ve lived to see this day. But it’s only the beginning.
Sunday Jan. 15th was Martin Luther King’s birthday. Had a bullet from Democrat James Earl Ray not cut down the Republican Martin Luther King in 1967 the history of our nation would have been radically different. If King were still alive he would have been 87. Well within the possibility that he would still be with us today.
What would Dr. King think of how those who stood with him all those years ago, men like the Rev. Jessie Jackson, and Rep. John Lewis? They became democrats. They same party that was responsible for Jim Crow and the KKK.
What would Dr. King think of Narcissist in Chief Obama? One can only speculate.
Dr. King didn’t live long enough to witness the full effects that LBJ’s “Great Society” would have on the black family. Like most utopian dreams it came with loads of good intentions that always eventually pave the road to hell.
Blacks were once shackled at the wrists and ankles by democrats. Now they’re shackled at the mind. After fifty years of a “war on poverty” and eight years of our first black president, (at least on the outside) race relations in America are worse then ever. And a lot of black people are thoroughly content to stay on the democrat plantation. Because excuses are much easier then doing the hard work that can bring success.
The Democrat Party requires dependent people. That’s why they are given a lousy education in schools run by democrat teachers unions.
In Democrat run cities like Chicago blacks are killing each other in record numbers. Planned Parenthood is doing its part too.
Men like Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Mr. Lloyd Marcus , Milwaukee county sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. Col. Allen West, Sen. Tim Scott. and women like Rep. Mia Love and Condoleezza Rice represent who Dr. King had in mind as people “judged not by the color of their skin but the content of their character”. These people are accused by black democrats and the left as being “Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemima’s” but they represent the greatest threat to the left’s socialist agenda.
Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, John Lewis and the congressional black caucus long ago submitted to their old masters the democrat party in exchange for wealth and power
It’s much easer to sit around and bitch then do the work of trying to improve the lives of your people.
The Democrats just pay you lip service Martin. But you are sorely missed.
I was once a big fan, I listened to his music, I bought his albums. But I can no longer listen, when a song of his comes on the radio I change the station. Why? The man hates my guts.
I voted for Trump.
Our paths diverged. He became a mega-rock star, has earned his multi-millions. his mansions. He’s able to by the best horses for his equestrian daughter.
He produce a product that people wanted to buy. Thanks to good old capitalism.
He puts on quite a show. No doubt that he works very hard at it, especially that “working mans” schtick . Coming on stage like he just left the construction site. If from what I can recall about his biography I believe that this would have been his fate, joining a construction union and wearing a hardhat until you retire with no doubt a very nice pension.
But musical talent intervened. Not just a rock star but Bob Dylan on steroids. Blue collar roots but hasn’t been blue collar for a long, long time. Like a king walking in disquise among his peasants he hasn’t experience any economic hardship for a very long time.
My natural talents did not take me as far. Though I’m very thankful for what I have received.
Bruce Springsteen along with quite a few other rock stars (Springsteen is not the only one I personally boycott) do not like the fact that Donald Trump is going to be our next President.
America’s heartland voted for him Bruce. What you think of Trump is what you think of them. Nice to Know how you really feel.
Ageing rock stars have been dropping like flies lately. There will certain ones I will not mourn.
Lets start off the new year with this interesting post from American thinker commenting on this story from the old grey lady herself the New York Times.
Welcome to Rutland.
It was one of many preparations this remote city in central Vermont is making before 100 refugees from Syria and Iraq arrive here over the next year, with the first expected to come later this month.
The plan’s fiercest advocate has been the mayor of Rutland, Christopher Louras, who has cited not the moral argument for resettling refugees, but an economic one: This shrinking city, long removed from its heyday as a marble producer and regional railroad hub, needs every new resident it can get. Syrian refugees, he has said, are an opportunity “Rutland’s demographic condition right now is not just one of a declining population, but it’s also a graying population,” said Mr. Louras, who became the mayor about 10 years ago as a Republican, but has since become an independent. “We need people,” he added
Vermont has a declining and aging population. Gee it wasn’t that long ago when everyone was worried about overpopulation. Not long ago at all when you read article after article here,here, and here,here overpopulation was a very bad thing. Sir Paul McCartney even wrote a song about it.
So after years of liberals preaching about the evils of overpopulation. Creating an economy where people can’t find good paying jobs, the result of high taxes and overregulation. Turning the State of Vermont into the most carbon neutral of all fifty states. Creating a secular society where certain “mistakes” can be corrected by a trip to planed parenthood. Where public education has morphed in indoctrination, and opiate addiction has become an epidemic. Apparently local businesses can’t find enough decent employees. We just have too many old white people.
So Vermont, like the “progressive” countries of Sweden, England an Germany are going to import diversity, which means that they do not have to assimilate to there new home. You better assimilate to them. And the people who brought this about are more then likely not going to be living anywhere near them.
Ah diversity
I can see empty churches becoming mosques. with minarets to call to prayer
I assume schools and employers will provide pray rooms.
The local girls will find the Muslim boys fascinating. I know it’s winter girls but make sure your covered from head to toe this summer also.
It’s going to be a very interesting year in Rutland Vt. in 2017.
Thomas Sowell retires t the age of 86, enjoy sir. You will be missed.
Some quotes.
“Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.”
“The history of the 20th century is full of examples of countries that set out to redistribute wealth and ended up redistributing poverty.”
“[N]othing is easier than disarming peaceful people — thereby leaving them more vulnerable to people who are not peaceful, who can simply ignore the restrictions that others obey.”
“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
“People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for being ‘simplistic’ should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
“Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on ‘income distribution,’ the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.”
“Intellect is not wisdom.”
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”
“I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the Union, and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont.” Calvin Coolidge 1928
Calvin Coolidge is dead. Never in his wildest fantasies would he have anticipated what happened to his home state in just three generations.
88 years ago…Vermont was a very different place. Vermont and Maine were the only two States never to vote for Roosevelt. It was a bastion of the Grand old Party. The party of Abraham LIncoln. Vermont was the first entity to ban slavery in North America.
But starting in the 1960’s things began to change. Philip Hoff in 1962 became the first democrat to be elected governor since the Civil War. A lot of (relatively) cheap land went up for sale when a lot of family farms went under, and with the coming of the interstates Vermont was less the four hours drive from major metropolitan areas.
Vermont over the course of four decades changed from deep dark red to deep dark blue.
The old independent Vermonters died off.
Today Vermont is the Hippie epicenter. It’s been that way since 1968 when the back to the land movement invaded the state.
Silent Cal would not recognize his home state today.
I was mildly surprised that Vermont was solid blue, even the Northeast kingdom fell in line.
Now they are going to declare Montpelier a sanctuary city.
Councilor Anne Watson made the motion to accept the policy with the addition of protecting religious affiliation as well as immigration status. Earlier in the meeting Watson said when she first read the policy she thought it was great that they’d be protecting immigrants.
“But I couldn’t help but also think about other potentially threatened populations,” she said. Watson specifically mentioned Muslims.
The council unanimously adopted the sanctuary policy.
Even the Times Argus refers to them as illegal aliens.
When a president takes the oath of office he pledges to defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
The laws good and bad are supposed to be enforced until the bad ones are repealed.
One big difference between Progressives and Conservatives. A progressive President and his/her rubberstamp Justice Dept. will selectively decide which laws to enforce.
When a Conservative President is elected apparently progressives get to decide which laws to ignore.
I think that Calvin Coolidge would think that we are insane!
But this is what the majority of Vermonters voted for. We can’t just point to our major urban areas like other states where the blue cities outvote the red countryside.
Were not “independent Vermonters any more. We have to depend on government. And that of course means higher taxes. We have to take good care of our “guests” .
But of course we have a ways to go before we can even think to aspire to California.
Subject: LARGEST INSANE ASYLUM IN THE WORLD
California – largest insane asylum in the world Interesting that the LA Times did this. Lou Dobbs reported this on CNN and it cost him his job. The only network we would see this on would be FOX. All the others are staying away from it. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, this should be of great interest to you!
Just One State – be sure and read the last part… try for 3 times.
This is only one State… If this doesn’t open your eyes, nothing will!
>From the L.A. Times.
1. 40% of all workers in LA County (10.2 million people) are working for cash; and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.
(Donald Trump was right)
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals; they are here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in LA are Spanish- speaking.
10. In LA County, 5.1 million people speak English; 3.9 million, speak Spanish. (There are 10.2 million people, in LA County.)
(All 10 of the above facts were published in the Los Angeles Times)
Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States’ annual population growth, (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York), results from immigration. Also, 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
Born February 12th 1809