I decided to research why Puerto Rico was such a financial mess before Hurricane Maria in 2017. I didn't do my usual careful 15 minutes, but spent about 3 minutes in Wikipedia, which would be a no-no if I were a student. Now I know. There are several roots to this problem--all white men, of course. 1) Christopher Columbus (1493), William McKinley (1900), Woodrow Wilson (1917), Richard Nixon (1973), and most recently Bill Clinton (1996), phasing out important parts of the favorable federal tax code over a ten-year period ending in 2006 (G.W. Bush). The U.S. did help make Puerto Rico weak, helpless and poorly run by making it a playground for the rich and providing billions to its corrupt officials, but Donald Trump was not part of that.
Friday, September 14, 2018
Is Kerry an Iranian spy? Jeffrey Varasano
"John Kerry advised Iran on how to thwart Trump administration policy.
How is Carter Page a Russian Spy and Kerry isn't an Iranian Spy? I want to see Kerry's bank accounts. Let's knock his door in at 4am, throw him in solitary, find out what he knows, if any money changed hands, if he paid all his taxes on it, if he registered as an Agent of a Foreign Power or lied in any way. Who is his lawyer? Raid his office too. Did his secretary's cousin's barber talk to someone with ties to an Iranian oligarch? Let's ruin his life, go thru his last 10 years of taxes and pressure him to flip on Kerry. I want grand juries, multiple courts, secret wire taps and updates hourly for the next 2 years on CNN with guest panels decrying the end of the republic.
Where is it? "Our Democracy" is at stake."
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Socialism in India
Amol Kaikini in the WSJ Best of the Web column wonders why journalists never mention that between 1947-1991, India was socialist. He comments on his life.
“Mr. Kaikini reports that after graduating from a top engineering school in India he landed what was considered a good job in the Indian economy of the early 1970s. But he and his wife could take little for granted. Mr. Kaikini writes that “when our son was born we increased our daily milk ration. We were spending 70-75% of our take-home pay for food. This is modest food, all cooked from scratch, maybe fish or meat once in two weeks.”
Mr. Kaikini recalls that “means of production, communication and transport” were government-owned and “operated with unfortunate outcomes. Everything was typically in short supply.”
He adds: “When I had the opportunity to leave India and live in the U.S. in 1976 I did and have no regrets.” Mr. and Mrs. Kaikini arrived in America with $8 each. “Our first year in the U.S. we worked small jobs until I finished computer school. We could afford to eat anything we wished. What a contrast,” he notes. “We now are happily retired in Brooklyn. Not too many countries reward talent as does the US.””
Alexander Ioannidis Walks away from the Democrats—Congratulations
Here is my #WalkAway moment. The top picture is one of me in April of 2016 phone banking for the Sanders campaign. I was a pro-life socialist because my faith tells me to care for poor people. The way Bernie pitched socialism was appealing. I agreed with him and I fell in love. I thought the left held a moral high ground.
One thing that struck me during that campaign was a comment someone made to me that she would never vote for me in the future unless I respected a woman’s “right” to have an abortion. That comment meant nothing to me at the time, though it should have been a red flag. I was as far to the left as it got and I was taking heat because I disagreed on one issue.
After President Trump won the election, I was hopeful. I was terrified of what Trump would do, but I hoped that his heart would change and he would be compassionate to people whom I thought conservatives wanted to oppress. I told my comrades on the left that I was hoping Trump would be successful, and they would lash out at me and attack my character because I was “helping empower a fascist.”
In 2017, I started my business major and I saw how businesses actually helped poor people by creating jobs for them. It made me think critically and for myself. I then saw a PragerU video in a YouTube ad about how socialism ruined Brazil. To this day, it is the only YouTube ad that I have not skipped. This got me more curious and I started reading more about poverty and socialism. As the year progressed, I began to see just how hateful the left was. They hated me because I did not agree with them 100% of the time. As I began to do more research, I got more and more hate from my former comrades.
Over the last year, I learned that the left just wants people to be dependent so they can stay in power. I learned that the left does not care about minorities, but they want to divide us by race and class to secure our votes. I learned that conservatives see past skin color and only care about upholding liberty and giving everyone an opportunity to live the American Dream. I became disgusted by the hatred the left espoused toward America. I became enamored with America and what a great country it truly was.
By 2018, I had taken the red pill. The best way to help people is to give them liberty and to invest in them rather than to use government handouts to keep them at the bottom. The left is devious, but I have seen the light. I am now a proud supporter of President Trump. I hope and pray for him everyday, especially that he will become a believer if he is not currently one. This millennial loves America and President Trump, and I am now trying to help others on my campus see the light like I did. I hope and pray that America does not get destroyed by socialism like my parent’s homeland of Greece! I am proud to have #WalkedAway
How Democrats change American English
Here's how it works, how the anti-American Democrats redefine our language and values.
1) Proud American = xenophobic, Nazi.
2) Make America Great Again slogan = anti-immigrant.
3) Safe restrooms = transphobic.
4) MS-13 infiltrating junior high schools in DC suburbs = racist, anti-immigrant, xenophobic.
5) Merit promotion, hard work, skill level (except in sports) = white supremacist.
6) Male and female God created them = homophobic, transphobic, Trump voter.
7) Constitutionalist, textualist = anti-woman, misogyny.
8) Trump voter = deplorable, stupid, uneducated, hater, bigot, racist.
9) Pronouns he, she, his, her, him = transphobic, should lose job or go to jail
10) Western civilization is superior = white supremacist, bigot, nationalist, Hitler devotee, Nazi.
11) Hands on arm, fingers touching = white supremacist, bigot, Nazi.
12) 4% growth = racist--hates Obama's record
Why should we taxpayers support Planned Parenthood?
Snopes skids and slips on this one. Claims that Planned Parenthood Votes is not the same as the Planned Parenthood, largest abortion provider in the USA.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Millions of water bottles found undelivered in Puerto Rico
Michael Smith says:
“Puerto Rico is an island in the Caribbean. Islands in the Caribbean are statistically more likely to be hit by a hurricane each year than any other single location in the Western Hemisphere.
Puerto Rico is a self-governing island, a protectorate of the United States and receives $21 billion in aid each year and received $16 billion in disaster aid to cope with the damage done by Hurricane Maria.
There are 3.7 million people in Puerto Rico.
And yet, it is Donald Trump's fault that the Puerto Rican government was not 1) ready for the disaster, 2) had no infrastructure in place to deal with the aftermath and 3) failed at distributing donations and materials sent by aid agencies and the federal government.
This isn't a failure of Trump or FEMA, this is the legacy of a corrupt government made up of people wanting to be a big fish in a small pond at the expense of the people.”
The federal government is NOT a first responder. Democrats pretend it is when a Republican like Bush or Trump are in office, when in fact, it is the responsibility of the governor and the mayors. When a Democrat is in the White House, the media just looks the other way and finds something else to write about like racism, or homophobia.
Unhinged Democrats
The Left is completely unhinged, from shooting Republican baseball players, to stabbing Republicans running for office, to a professor shooting himself in the arm as a protest against Trump, to terrorizing a pro-life journalist and threatening rape of a staffer if Kavanaugh gets her vote. And remember how they blamed Sarah Palin for Gabby Gifford's shooting because she used the word cross-hair in a campaign ad? And Maxine Waters just continues to spew hate for Trump and Pence, encouraging the violence with no condemnation from Dem "leaders."
September 12
Today, September 12, marks the founding of a small but mighty organization that helped change the direction of our country--the Intercollegiate Socialist Party in 1905. http://www.marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/iss.html
It was created to change the trajectory of the U.S. from being Christian to being Marxist. The list of members is quite remarkable, although not all were at that first meeting at Peck's restaurant in Manhattan and in 1921 its name was changed to the League for Industrial Democracy. Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Clarence Darrow, Walter Lippmann, Walter Reuther, Eugene Debs, W.E.B. Dubois, John Dewey, Felix Frankfurter, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Franklin Roosevelt, Jr. and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
So don’t underestimate a small group of young people with big ideas. They’ve been very successful over the last 100+ years.
Notice the names of the authors of the LID propaganda. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05266.html
When powerful Democrats like President Obama talk about American values and morals, I think he’s talking about those of the ISP/LID, and not those taught by Christ.
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Murder as cause of death of pregnant women
During the Kavanaugh hearings you saw/heard unhinged women and even a few in Congress claiming women will die if Kavanaugh becomes a justice and SCOTUS is faced with interpreting the law instead of making it up or relying on feelings. Those women should know that pregnant women and new mothers are already dying--but it's from murder. And you don't hear a lot about it. (The article cited is from 2001, although there are newer ones from CDC.) First, most of these murder victims are young and black, and unless a policeman somehow factors in, you don't hear much when black men kill their pregnant girlfriends. Second, over 60% of women who have abortions are pressured or forced into it--obviously, not a good Planned Parenthood marketing slogan. And many who refuse, are killed.
"We found that homicide was the leading cause of death among women who were pregnant ... and accounted for 20% of deaths among that group, compared with 6% of deaths among nonpregnant women of reproductive age," says author Isabelle Horon, DrPH, from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, who conducted a study that looked at pregnancy-associated deaths from 1993 to 1998.
Coming in second, heart disease was found to account for 19% of deaths during pregnancy.
https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20010320/number-1-cause-of-death-in-pregnant-women-murder
JAMA. 2001;285(11):1455-1459. doi:10.1001/jama.285.11.1455 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/193666
September 11
We all know what September 11 means, that scary day in 2001. It was sitting in my office of our home watching TV, and saw the second plane and listened to the amazing TV staff on duty that day. But in 1988, 30 years ago, there were millions of people who'd been led to believe that September 11-13 (give or take), Jesus was coming back to rapture the church. (And it was the month we settled our mortgage and bought our home in Lakeside which we've been enjoying for 30 years and since we’re not in the group that believes in the rapture we had pretty much ignored the warnings.) A retired NASA engineer, Edgar Whisenant, wrote 2 books predicting Jesus would return--he sold 4.5 million copies, and enterprising promoters were selling trips to the Holy Land with a beautiful view of the Eastern Gate and Temple Mount. And they ignored, or explained away, Matthew 25:13.
I fell on the treadmill at the gym, Lifetime Fitness, yesterday. I wasn't injured, just hurt my pride. Another woman, also in her 70s, a cute little brunette, stopped and jumped off her machine, and rushed over to stop mine so I could get off. Otherwise, I might still be dangling. If I hadn't been going there 6x a week, I wouldn't have had the strength to hang on; on the other hand, if I hadn't been going 6x a week, I wouldn't have even been on the darn thing!
Monday, September 10, 2018
Anon has been thinking, guest blogger
"I was thinking;
If only 11 million people have Obama-Care, how will 24 million people die if it is repealed? Will an additional 13 million people be randomly shot?
I was thinking;
If Donald Trump deleted all of his emails, wiped his server with Bleachbit and destroyed all of his phones with a hammer, would the Mainstream Media suddenly lose all interest in the story and declare him innocent?
I was thinking
If women do the same job for less money, why do companies hire men to do the same job for more money?
I was thinking;
If you rob a bank in a Sanctuary City, is it illegal or is it just an Undocumented Withdrawal?
I was thinking;
Each ISIS attack now is a reaction to Trump policies, but all ISIS attacks during Obama's term were due to Climate Change and a plea for jobs?
I was thinking;
We should stop calling them all 'Entitlements'. Welfare, Food Stamps, WIC, ad nausea are not entitlements. They are taxpayer-funded handouts, and shouldn't be called entitlements at all. Social Security and Veterans Benefits are Entitlements because the people receiving them are entitled to them. They were earned and paid for by the recipients.
I was thinking;
If Muslims want to run away from a Muslim country, does that mean they're Islamophobic?
I was thinking;
If Liberals don't believe in biological gender then why did they march for women's rights?
I was thinking;
How did the Russians get Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC to steal the Primary from Bernie Sanders? How did Russia get Donna Brazile to leak debate questions to Hillary Clinton in advance of the debates?
I was thinking;
Why is it that Democrats think Super delegates are fine, but they have a problem with the Electoral College?
I was thinking;
If you don't want the FBI involved in elections, don't nominate someone who's being investigated by the FBI.
I was thinking;
If Hillary's speeches cost $250,000 an hour, how come no one shows up to her free ones?
I was thinking;
The DNC is mad at Russia because they 'think' they are trying to manipulate our election by exposing that the DNC is manipulating our election.
I was thinking;
If Democrats don't want foreigners involved in our elections, why do they think it's all right for illegals to vote?
I'm going to quit thinking for a while..."
I haven’t been able to track down the writer of these—it has appeared on several websites.
President Obama returns
Obama raised taxes during a recession, imposed new regulations, spent billions on unworkable programs, ruined the health insurance of millions, racheted up racism like we hadn't seen in 50 years, paid off our enemies, stabbed our friends in the back, created a vacuum for ISIS, weaponized the FBI and IRS against the American people, turned a blind eye to riots and civil disobedience, sneered at our values and religion, created low expectations to guarantee his success, compromised the press, took over the job of Congress when he didn't like their inaction on immigration, and talked incessantly about himself for 8 years. I welcome him entering the race against Trump--it will remind everyone why Trump won.
Sunday, September 09, 2018
How Obama blamed backward and forward
Although President Obama complained for 6-7 years about President Bush and the economy he inherited, you didn't hear him mention the recession Bush inherited. Not the falling economy after 9-11, but the 2000 recession. The reason he didn't use Bush's method to restore stability was Bush had used a TAX CUT, not stealing from Peter the employed to pay Paul the unemployed. Bush’s method didn't give Washington more power over our lives. Democrats hate, hate, hate for you to keep more of your money to make your own decisions.
Specifically, EGTRRA of 2001:
*Increased the tax-deductible contributions people could make to their IRA accounts.
*Doubled the child tax credit from $500 to $1,000.
*Expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit.
*Provided greater tax deductions for education expenses and savings.
*Reduced the gift tax.
*Provided relief from the Alternative Minimum Tax.
*Phased-out the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes so that they were eliminated in 2010.
*Reduced the “marriage penalty” by doubling the standard deduction for married couples. It also doubled the income threshold for married couples for the 15 percent tax bracket. *Those measures made the tax rates equivalent to what the couples would have had if they were single.
*Eliminated the planned phase-out of personal exemptions for those earning over $150,000, and the phase-down of itemized deductions for those earning over $100,000.
And the burst housing bubble of 2007-2008? You can thank the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. Our wise politicians actually believed that if you put a low income worker deeper in debt for a housing mortgage, you could lift the family out of poverty with just the appearance of affluence. They new better than local bankers. What? Require 20% down like our first home loan in 1962? You must be a bigot. And they invited speculators in. Sort of like the current education debt, which no one wants to examine, not even Trump.
Do you buy from a woke company?
It's difficult to make choices when private companies are using wokeness to market--like Target restrooms and Nike shoes--just like they've used the gluten free fad and organic label. It's just capitalism writ large. They know their market is the younger demographic who love to wear their politics on their over priced clothing label. But in the case of being woke, it means they are in collusion, not with the Trump administration, but the shadow government and powerful non-profits that have been at the beck and call of lobbyists and Soros' network for years--the Obama and Clinton holdovers, the lower level civil service who make 93% more than a secular job (at the high school education level). There's a lot of loyalty in that woke crowd and not much knowledge of history.
Saturday, September 08, 2018
NFL role model Warrick Dunn
Warrick Dunn explained why he started working to help families like Watson’s make a better life for themselves.
“My rookie year in the NFL, in Tampa, I was challenged by coach [Tony] Dungy,” Dunn said. He told us, ‘If you are going to live in this community, you want to be a part of this community and give back.’ From that challenge, I thought about my mom and her dream of home ownership, and that’s how it all started. We did three homes in 1997, and now we’re up to 159.
Now wouldn’t Dunn with winner be a better Nike spokesman than Kaepernick, the whiner?
https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/01/19/nfl-warrick-dunn-homes-holidays-habitiat-humanity-deshaun-watson
"Because I have been able to build a reputation as a talented player, I have been able to build futures. Because I am able to play, I am able to make a difference. Because I have been blessed with a talent, I also have been given a responsibility."
THE ECONOMY: The way to make it grow is really simple.
1. You create an environment where people have money to spend on goods and services.
2. You create an environment where jobs are plentiful.
3. To create jobs, you lower corporate tax rates and regulations to make businesses easier to start or grow and encourage them to bring back business they have taken to other countries because they could make more money there.
4. You equalize trade to also make it less lucrative to buy from other countries and more lucrative to sell to other countries, thus making AMERICAN MADE more profitable. This also raises the incentive to keep business in the USA and bring it back here meaning American jobs! (Think steel, aluminum, etc.)
5. When you make America more business friendly (and not via lobbyists buying self-serving votes from congress members for HUGE corporations, but for mom and pop businesses we all frequent daily), those companies can hire more workers, more people are working so there is more money to spend at the small businesses, thus the businesses grow and hire more people.
6. More people working takes them off government assistance which allows them to better their lives and work towards the American Dream.
7. Less people on government assistance and more people working brings in more tax money which can be used for what it SHOULD be for, not to keep the poor barely surviving.
SIMPLE! Takes someone who is a businessman to realize this and make it happen
Obama, as a community organizer, only knew to throw government money at things that needed money. The boondoggle giant Stimulus Program was just spending more and more money but little came back in. Hiring people with taxpayer dollars (shovel ready jobs) are not permanent and while those people are paying in taxes, their entire salaries COME from tax dollars. Thus the deficit grew like crazy and we were worse off. Jobs were temporary so people were back to unemployed, and on government assistance again. Government jobs are funded by taxes, while private sector jobs are funded by business owners. It is THEIR money backing it, and if they succeed, they do well. If they fail, only they lose.
Obama believed in subsidizing everything instead of fixing the problem. Solyndra should have been some PRIVATE OWNER'S dream and they should have been the ones to take the fall, not paid for by taxpayers. Supply and demand. Subsidies mean that business isn't working. To make them work, that business owner/board needs to make necessary adjustments to be prosperous, or shut down.
It's really simple. You bring jobs and business BACK to America. You make it easier to start businesses, not harder. THAT is why the economy, jobs, and the GDP are so good now, not because of Obama's ideas and actions.
Permission to share Jennifer Rymer Krawsczyn
Opinion on Obama’s speech
OPINION: "Labeling the 63 million Trump voters as 'deplorable' and 'irredeemable' didn’t work out for Hillary Clinton when she ran a failed presidential campaign against Trump in 2016. Labeling the same voters as divisive, resentful and paranoid will not work for Democrats in the November midterm elections."
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