Start Talking.
George Soros, $25 million to HRC and other candidates and PAC’s who support Democrats.
Tom Steyer, $32 Million to Democratic causes, $74 million in the last election
Haim Saban, $11 million
Fred Eychaner, $11 million
Don Sussman, $13 million
Pritzkers, James Simmons, Herbert Sanders, many millions more
HRC has said she will work to take “big money” out of politics, that is after she takes it to get elected.
The definition of hypocrisy.
The Daily Signal reported the below today. 8 Democrat Senators wrote letters to non profits who put forth opinions opposing the consensus about climate change, demanding to know where they get their money from.
Well, the Supreme Court has ruled that non profits do not have to disclose their funding sources.
Will that also be in the first ninety days of a HRC administration, that if we oppose some government effort to spend our money, we will be a target for expressing our opinions? This is a slippery slope.
Senate Liberals, Targeting Climate Change ‘Deniers,’ Demand to Know Donors to 22 Think Tanks
I favor “..promoting choice among public schools, much as the Presidents’s Charter schools Initiative encourages.” “The President believes, as do I, that charter schools are a way of bringing Teachers and parents and communities together.”
Hillary Clinton in 1996 and 1998.
She spoke similar words to the NEA recently and was booed so she “evolved” to saying that “for profit” charter schools were bad. in 2005 Brooklyn started a charter school using union employees to prove it too could free itself from its’ own rules, it failed. The education planks of the Democrat party have been panned by Peter Cunning, an assistant secretary in Obama’s education department, saying, the platform “affirms an education system that denies its shortcomings and is unwilling to address them.” He called it “a step backwards that will hurt low-income blacks and Hispanic children.”
It appears she has evolved, pandering to the organizations that do not want to address the results our K-12 system is not producing. Does Trump have a better plan, I have no clue. But we know what HRC wants, more of the same. Shameful.
This information came from an editorial in the WSJ, August 2, 2016.
When the economy doesn’t grow enough, we can’t absorb new entrants to the workforce, it doesn’t provide a demand on labor greater than supply, we don’t create new small businesses who see customer needs more accurately than larger companies;… all of us are in trouble.
We tend to fight over the pie rather than growing it. Minimum wages that restrict new job holders from finding work, driving automation to eliminate employees (automated hamburger machines are coming, you can already order your food via Kiosk and go pick it up). Unions who demand more jobs than the company can afford and be competitive. Public associations that make firing someone overly difficult, thus reducing hiring and providing less than stellar service from the incompetents who stay.
The solution; reducing enough regulations and processes so that the U.S. returns to the top five of places that are the best to do business in, we have been sliding down that list for over a decade. Look to where public employees and the government have sat down to work out reasonable rules and pay that makes government efficient and a desirable place to work; and implement those solutions (see WSJ July 24, 2016, “Critics of Wisconsin’s Public-Unino Reforms Keep Firing Blanks.” CJ Szafir and Collin Roth). Ensure regulations have a cost benefit analysis completed before execution, Congress should cut off funding if the regulation doesn’t comply.
Both sides of the issues have valid points, stop yelling and calling each other names as though the other is the incarnation of the devil. Compromise, good grief, it is like 3 year old kids fighting over toys.
WSJ, July 27, 2016, Colin Powell.
The title of Secretary Powell’s article above drew me to read. He talks about his parent coming to America from Jamaica, and said that if they had gone to England he never could have become what he did, too much rigidity in the society. He praises immigration as part of the fuel that fires the American way of life. He praises education availability and quality as another fuel element.
I agree. We must continue to accept immigrants. We must accept those with skills. We must stop illegal immigration. We must encourage assimilation, not Balkanization as the French and Belgians have.
Our education industry has failed the country. Our educational performance continues to slide against our global competitors. We are short changing our kids.
Our polarization and name calling is a disservice to our forefathers and mothers, and especially to those who come after us. We must try new things and evaluate how they work.
WSJ 7/28/16, Karen Alderman Harbert.
The title says it all. HRC quotes, “I’m going to pledge to stop fossil fuels.” “I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place.”
The platform positions of the recent convention should be a warning, energy costs are going up. No alternative to fossil fuels, except nuclear and hydro, come in competitively.
I guess we need to go collect Bison paddies to burn in our wood stoves, and think of all the jobs we will create taking care of horses and cleaning up after them.
Can we not get real, please! The Germans are dealing with energy costs 40% higher due to no nuclear, and the high cost of solar, wind, burning animal gas, etc. Let’s transition towards lower emission energy so not to throw people out of jobs and honor honestly deployed capital based on the rules of the day.
Or let’s dam up every river we can.
WSJ, July 27, 2016, on the editorial page.
There are lots of theories about why anyone would walk into a church and slit the throat of an 87 year old catholic priest, and what to do about it.
The Catholic church where the murder took place donated the land for the establishment of the mosque where the attackers came from. (The very mosque that nurtured this murderous group of terrorists was built on a plot of land donated as a gesture of good will by the little parish of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray! Yes, the conciliar Catholics of that little parish donated the land for the mosque that their attackers attended. (source). https://www.returntofatima.org/2016/07/who-killed-father-hamel/). We should reach out to all people in love and not strike out in retaliation blindly.
My view is we are not fighting people, we are fighting an idea. We are not confronting the idea, we are afraid to offend 2 billion Muslims.
Well, the world doesn’t seem to have a problem of offending 13 million Jews, half of which live in the U.S. The Muslims don’t have a problem criticizing the 2 billion Christians in the world, driving them out of various Muslim majority geographies around the world.
Can you say, as we should, all of us are made by the same creator, and the ultimate goal is for all people to live in harmony and love. Does it matter what each of us calls the creator, or how we worship? Would those Muslims that live in peace with others really object to pronouncing that those who kill to force others to believe the way they do should be denounced and prevented from killing? Well the literature seems to say they won’t be offended.
So, do we with force prevent people from killing us, with regret yes. But more important is we start talking about why it is wrong for people to accept the line that killing for Allah is a good thing.
Our laws allow us to put those in jail who advocate the violent overthrow of our government. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2385.
Does imposing Sharia in the U.S. and installing a mullah as the dude in charge qualify? Seems so to me.
Eric Metaxas has written a short, but noteworthy book on the state of our country. He tells the story of our founding fathers and their attempt to create a country governed in a totally new way, by those who live there. This was a startling new concept when compared to the monarchist models found almost everywhere else in the world at that time, and still is when compared to the totalitarian, dictatorships, empires, centralized,…types of governments today that do not deliver wealth and freedom to its’ people.
The qualifier about this system of government is the real risk that the governed may not realize their role in maintaining freedom by taking it for granted. Their role in sacrificing some of what they want to ensure all get something of what they want. That there is a larger force at play, God, or the supreme force, or whatever you wish to verbalize as your view of them, or it.
He is an apologist for God, as am I, and that God was involved in the creation of this country. He makes the point that even today the U.S. is different, in the midst of all our issues, still a place people want to come to. Pretty good evidence of the attraction.
But as Dr. Franklin said to Mrs. Powell that morning in Philadelphia, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
An easy read with regard to length, but a powerful message for all of us who live in the U.S., and elsewhere.
Our two political parties blather on about “fixing” the economy. They talk about helping the middle class. Both are talking about larger government to do so. Show me some data that says growing the government leads to a sustained economic growth.
Our $18 trillion economy has a great deal of regulation. The WSJ Journal estimates the cost as $1-2 trillion, AMAC at $1.9 trillion. That money goes to whom? Government! Inspectors, licensing personnel, tax recorders, inspectors, lawyers ( a bunch of them to create the rules and then a bunch to sue businesses when the inspectors find us out of compliance). You get the point.
Some regulation is important, for sure. We shouldn’t allow a bad actor to dump cyanide into the water table. We shouldn’t allow a pedophile to work at a day care center.
So the question is, what is the economic level of regulation that is needed so that opening a business is within reach of the average person? This is where we have gone astray.
Only Congress should be able to lay economic cost on businesses. Yet for every law passed, 30 regulations are put in place by the fourth branch, the bureaucracy! The Competitive Enterprise Institute calls this an “Unconstitutional Index.”
Some believe that growing the government is good, great jobs, great benefits, hard to get fired, lots of holidays, life is good. But as Margaret Thatcher said, paraphrasing, “The problem with larger government is eventually you run out of other peoples’ money.”
Even worse, the U.S. used to be the best place on the earth where hard work, desire and passion can get you into or above the middle class without permission from the ruling class. We are sliding down the scale of countries where doing business is the easiest, and other measure like opening a business. http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings.
Want to raise wages in the US? Make it easier to open a business and more will be hired. This is dirt simple! Think of it, if we could put economic sense to regulations and eliminate half of them, a $1,000,000,000,000 program to fund growth, with a single dollar of taxpayer money. Yes, there will some people no longer employed by the government and some of that money should be spent to help them find new jobs; like the money we spent to help coal miners find new jobs. OOOPS, never mind, we didn’t do that.
WSJ July 27, 2016, “Braids of Liberty”. In Iowa if you wanted to braid hair of others you had to spend $22,000 and go to school for 2100 hours to be a cosmetologist. The Institute for Justice, http://www.ij.org/, helped a woman successfully challenge this ridiculous licensing requirement. A small example of a huge issue in our country, protecting established concerns from competition, limiting personal and economic freedom for all. Think of Uber!
AMAC, the free market alternative to the AARP, published an article recently summarizing the outlook for Social Security. The Democrats want to increase payouts, Trump doesn’t want to touch it.
All of the “trust fund” is invested in government securities. So, as I paid in over the last 50 years the government put an obligation on it books to pay me at 66, $X per year. To fund that expected level of payout they bought government securities, bonds.
I am now 69 and have been drawing for three years. Where does the treasury get the money? It sells the bonds it bought as I aged and paid in funds. The government then gives the SSA the money. But there is less money coming into the SSA then they pay out (since 2010), so the government must then sell new bonds in order to pay SSA.
What exactly did Congress do with the money I paid in during my working life. They spent it! What would you and have done with the money? We would have had some common sense and invested the money in something that would have been there to satisfy the financial obligation 40 years from now.
Let’s see. What did Bernie Madoff do? He advertised that if you give me your money for retirement I will guarantee a certain return and when you retire you can draw down your account. Sounds like SS to me. But, BUT, he spent the money too, on himself!!!! Now that does sound like SS! He went to jail, Senators and Congress people have not gone to jail. SS is a Ponzi Scheme! And of course federal employees had their own retirement plan that actually did invest the money in reputable financial institutions that will pay their obligations without tapping the taxpayer purse until 1984. Now they must be in the same boat we are.
There is NO TRUST FUND that corresponds to a sound financial plan! The trust fund is part of the yearly deficit spending Congress puts on us taxpayers. There is no fund to pay benefits when SS has no money-bonds left.
The CBO estimates that in 2029 a 29% cut in benefits will have to be made to balance incoming and outgoing. We must address this without raising taxes on those still working. Which means reducing expenses somehow. COLA adjustments based on income, taxing SS if you make over X are two of the most popular.
DO NOT BELIEVE POLITICIANS THAT SS IS OK! I am not counting on it, I am blessed to have other income besides SS, many millions don’t.