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Politics-AB-AG

03 Dec

I find it interesting how far Democrats are willing to go to get their way. They are willing to alienate the military personnel and federal workers who wouldn’t get paid during the shutdown. When Republicans offered amendments to allow those workers pay, the Democrats turned them down. Those workers have always been the Democrats biggest supporters. They are also willing to alienate those getting federal benefits who they pressured into voting for them by telling them that Republicans would cut their benefits if they got in power in order to retain their votes. They are now willing to throw away that support by refusing to approve the budget just to get the subsidies to insurance companies extended. Democrats thought they could win in 2016 by smearing Donald Trump with false accusations but underestimated voter rejection of Obama’s policies They were able to win in 2020 amid widespread evidence of voter irregularities but they never allowed the irregularities to be investigated and redid the 2020 Census to allow millions of illegal immigrants to be counted. It switched eight seats in the House from conservative States to liberal States but voters so rejected Biden’s policies that it wasn’t enough to win control of the House. They thought they could win in 2024 with a bait and switch play pushing Biden then suddenly switching to Harris. They knew long before the election that Biden was not capable of serving another term, but hid it from voters. However Biden was able to get the needed electoral votes to win the nomination because his name was the only name allowed on the Democrat primary ballot in many States. When he dropped out, Harris was nominated even though she was never on any ballots and received no votes, completely cutting Democrat voters out of the primary election. Yet they still thought they could get enough votes to win. But again they underestimated the American voters. Now they are alienating their three most powerful support groups to benefit insurance companies but it will not benefit consumers. Yet they feel thy can still win the 2028 election. They are either very stupid or very sure they can rig the 2028 election so they will win it.

 

 
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Politics-AB-AG

20 Nov

I find it interesting how far Democrats are willing to go to get their way. They are willing to alienate the military personnel and federal workers who won’t get paid during the shutdown. Those workers have always been the Democrats biggest supporters. They are also willing to alienate those getting federal benefits who they pressured into voting for them by telling them that Republicans would cut their benefits if they got in power in order to retain their votes. They are now willing to throw away that support by refusing to approve the budget just to get the subsidies to insurance companies extended. Democrats thought they could win in 2016 by smearing Donald Trump with false accusations but underestimated voter rejection of Obama’s policies They were able to win in 2020 amid widespread evidence of voter irregularities but they never allowed the irregularities to be investigated and redid the 2020 Census to allow millions of illegal immigrants to be counted. It switched eight seats in the House from conservative States to liberal States but voters so rejected Biden’s policies that it wasn’t enough to win control of the House. They thought they could win in 2024 with a bait and switch play pushing Biden then suddenly switching to Harris. They knew long before the election that Biden was not capable of serving another term, but hid it from voters. However Biden was able to get the needed electoral votes to win the nomination because his name was the only name allowed on the Democrat primary ballot in many States. When he dropped out, Harris was nominated even though she was never on any ballots and received no votes, completely cutting Democrat voters out of the primary election. Yet they still thought they could get enough votes to win. But again they underestimated the American voters. Now they are alienating their three most powerful support groups to benefit insurance companies but it will not benefit consumers. Yet they feel thy can still win the 2028 election. They are either very stupid or very sure they can rig the 2028 election so they will win it.

 

 
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Politics-AB-AF

20 Nov

Democrats continue to blame Republicans for not giving in and passing the budget, yet they have rejected every proposal Republicans have offered. In the past they have been able to force Republicans to give in to massive new spending by holding the budget captive and blaming the Republicans for not giving in, but the Republicans are tired of taking the blame for the shutdown by trying to limit spending. Republicans have offered several bills to limit the suffering of federal workers, Air Traffic controllers, military personnel and those receiving federal assistance by providing temporary funds to provide them with paychecks until the budget can be settled but Democrats have continually rejected them because it would destroy the leverage they have to get a continuation of the Obamacare subsidies. The subsidies were to help insurance companies during the pandemic because members could not pay premiums but the pandemic is over. There is no need to continue it.  It went to the insurance companies and did not include any requirement to reduce member premiums. In fact, the companies piled up big profits and paid big dividends to stockholders but did not give members any break. It did not help families struggling to pay the cost of insurance which insurance companies inflated once Obamacare passed. Most members saw their premiums double on the day Obamacare took effect. Its main advantage seems to be in swaying public opinion because the media is not reporting on resistance by Democrats but continues to blame Republicans and that is all the public is hearing. It also benefits Democrats who are receiving campaign funds from the insurance companies.

 

 

 

 
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Politics-AB-AE

20 Nov

Democrats have been crying about how President Trump has refused to release the Epstein files implying that he doesn’t want to because it would incriminate him and destroy his support. That is interesting because if his name was on the list as they imply, they would not have had to spend five years creating fake charges against him to discredit him and impeached him twice, once without formally charging him with any crime, and a second time despite all the evidence pointing at the Democrat leadership who refused to allow President Trump to call out the national guard to protect the Capital building and evidence that the CIA was involved with agents dressed as Trump supporters. They now claim that Republicans have scrubbed the list to remove any Republicans. If there were Republicans on the list, they would have been actively prosecuting them during the four years that President Biden was in office and if the list didn’t include a number of top Democrats, they would not have fought so hard to prevent it from becoming public while President Biden was in office. President Trump said he did not want to press the issue since there were so many other pressing issues and that makes sense. It would tie up resources needed to investigate real crimes like Democrats who have made millions of dollars while in office on a $400,000 salary through illegal inside trading, Hillary Clintons abandoning American embassy personnel allowing them to be killed rather than allow it to become known that the terrorists were using rockets sold to them by President Obama, Hillary Clinton selling American uranium to Russia to help them bolster their nuclear arsenal, her involvement in the Russian hoax claiming Donald Trump was dealing with the Russians to influence the election, so Trump would not be elected, and covering up the Hunter Biden laptop story to prevent it from influencing the election and hurting his father’s chances of winning the election. There are more continuing to be revealed. Congress has finally pushed through legislation forcing the FBI to turn over their files and President Trump has agreed to sign it. It will be interesting to see what happens when the list is published and a number of top Democrats are exposed.

 

 

 
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Economics-A-T

12 Nov

Democrats continue to try to blackmail Republicans to give in to Obamacare subsidies. It is a tactic they have used in just about every budget since Obama took office. They demand massive new expenditures for worthless programs to benefit their supporters and then force a government shutdown and hold the American people for ransom until the Republicans give in. They don’t care how many they hurt as long as they get what they want.  Republicans have tried to hold out to maintain a balanced budget but eventually give in to save the people hurt by the shutdown. This time the Republicans have refused to give in to blackmail and are refusing to budge. They care about the people who are hurt but know we can’t go on giving in to blackmail because every time we allow massive new spending it pushes the country that much closer to bankruptcy. The issue is the same old one Democrats have been pushing since the housing crisis. Then the banks and automakers were faced with closing. Now it is the people without health insurance. The Democrats put the money into the banks to keep them afloat and they paid big dividends to their stockholders. That does not help because the people still owed the money to the banks so the businesses stay open but have to be continually subsidized until the people are able to pay back what they owe. If the money went to the people in the form of vouchers, they could pay off the banks so the banks could stay open and the people could still support the banks. The money went to the car manufacturers so they could still pay the workers but there is no work because the people couldn’t afford to buy cars. If the money went to the people in a voucher, they could buy cars and the workers would have work and get paid. In the first instance only the companies benefit but in the second, everyone benefits. It is the same way this time. The subsidies were to help the insurance companies through Covid. The Covid shutdown is over but they still want to continue the subsidies draining billions of dollars from the treasury to help the insurance companies. The subsidies have no guarantee that the companies will lower insurance rates and they have not lowered the rates. Obamacare was supposed to help people that could not afford insurance but it only made things worse. For instance, if a family paid $200 a month for insurance, the government offered a $200 subsidy so the insurance companies jacked the price up to $400 a month and the government paid $200 to the insurance company and the people still paid $200. The insurance companies have been raking in massive profits while the people still suffer. The only difference is that everyone’s taxes went up to cover the subsidy  so they are worse off then before. If the money went to the people, they could bid among the insurance companies who would have to keep their prices low or lose customers. It is all about power. The rate hikes drove those people who could not afford to get insurance to apply for subsidies making them dependent on the Democrats to keep the money flowing. The more people dependent on the Democrats, the more votes they can count on in upcoming elections.

 

 

The Courts-B-L

07 Nov

We are seeing courts that are way out of their jurisdiction. Courts are to mitigate disputes and enforce laws, however courts are taking upon themselves to try to run the government. We saw it before  when a district court claimed it had jurisdiction to  halt acts of the President. The Constitution only authorizes one court to have jurisdiction over the President and that is the Supreme Court. District courts are restricted to their district and cannot make rulings that apply nationwide. Other district courts may cite their rulings in cases applying to their district but are not compelled to. The Supreme Court reprimanded the district courts for exceeding their authority but it has not stopped them from trying. Now a district court has ordered the President to pay SNAP benefits during the government shutdown. First of all, the President is a higher authority then the  District court and doesn’t have to take orders from District courts and second, the courts can’t just tell him to pay the benefits without legislative approval. The courts cannot authorize government expenditures. That is reserved for Congress.  President Trump worked out with the Dept of Agriculture to pay the October benefits from their emergency fund and secured private donations to pay partial benefits during November in the hope that the Democrats will end their childish refusal to approve the budget until they get the added funds they want. The President can’t just authorize expenditures without Congressional authorization though President Biden did it openly in clear violation of the Constitution which is why we are in the financial mess we are in. The courts have no authority to force the President to solicit private funds to pay the governments bills until the Democrats give in. The  benefits have to be authorized by Congress and there is no authorization until Congress approves the budget or an emergency authorization. Republicans have  floated bills to pay the armed services, the federal employees, the air traffic controllers, SNAP recipients and others until they can get the budget passed but Democrats have refused  to approve them because it would weaken the leverage they have to blackmail the Republicans into approving  vast new expenditures.

 

 

 
 

Economics-III-C-C

27 Oct

We saw the same thing with welfare. When I worked for the welfare department back in the 1970’s, many of those on welfare did not want to go to work because most jobs available to them paid less than they got on welfare. I encouraged them to get starter jobs which would reduce their welfare check but their pay plus the remaining welfare assistance would be more than the welfare alone. However, the other welfare workers discouraged them from getting low pay starter jobs because the workers had to refigure the client’s checks every month which was a lot of extra work. When politicians realized that people were making no effort to get off welfare, they realized they had to limit the time that clients could get assistance, or the clients would never make any effort to get off welfare. Now Democrats are pushing for a guaranteed minimum income. It would encourage those earning under the minimum amount to quit work since they would still receive the income which would be more than if they worked. It would also  increase the control of Democrats who continually tell those receiving government subsidies that if Republicans get in power, they will abolish the program so the people receiving subsidies will continue to vote for Democrats.

 

 

 

Economics-III-C-B

27 Oct

During covid, we saw in a small way why socialism is attractive and why it is destructive. The government expanded unemployment to help those out of work. That is a noble gesture designed to help people. The government also extended small business loans to help businesses continue paying the salaries of their workers while laid off, however there was a very angry reaction of workers against those businesses that got the small business loans because the workers could receive more from unemployment than they were making while working and they didn’t have to work for the unemployment. Socialism creates the same problem. Why work if you get paid anyway and if you have to work, there is no incentive to work longer hours because you do not receive anything extra. Therefore, the first do not work at all and the second work only as much as they are required. That is why socialism always fails and results in poverty for everyone. Everyone wants to take but very few want to give and those willing to give don’t give anymore than the minimum required.

 

 

 

Economics-III-J-H

27 Oct

President Biden pushed financial institutions to support investments that promote Social and environmental programs rather than picking investments that show a solid base with good promise of being profitable. This is risky because many such investments are new and do not have a solid track record. Many of those investments were environmental companies owned by Democrat lawmakers or ones that they had major stock holdings in. Since those stocks would ordinarily be very risky, they would not have much value and could be bought cheap. Since Democratic politicians knew ahead of the announcement, they could  have bought up additional stock in them. By directing financial institutions to support them, it drove the value of those stocks up and enabled those lawmakers to profit from it. That is called inside trading and is illegal. There is increasing evidence that such risky investments may have led to the failure of the Silicon Valley Bank which in turn led to the fall of a number of other major banks and set off a banking crisis. While President Trump canceled that order and allowed banks to return to choosing investments based on sound business procedure, the threat remains if another Democrat President is elected.

 

 

 

Politics-I-AY

25 Oct

Democrats are attacking Republicans for trying to repeal the Voter Rights Act which would prevent a lot of people from voting. Republicans want to remove dead people from the rolls so a party can’t hire people to vote in the name of the dead people. They also want to reestablish the voter ID requirement so people can’t vote who are not eligible to vote like illegal immigrants and people can’t vote multiple times under different names, using the names of those who have died. They also want to ban mail-in voting since there is no way to verify that it was sent by the person whose name is on it. It would prevent someone from intercepting the ballots and substituting ballots that support their candidate. They also want to prevent the counting of votes that come in after the election is over so a party can’t check to see how many votes they are losing by and suddenly discover (manufacture) enough ballots to help them win the election. By repealing the Voter Rights Act, it could prevent a large number of people from voting illegally. Maybe it is time we repealed the Voter Rights Act and only allow people to vote who can vote legally.