Musings on the Week
Musings on the Week
March 10, 2018
Leadership – “Conservatives
spend an inordinate amount of time trying to explain what they really want to
do to the general public while liberals spend an inordinate amount of time
trying to hide what they really want to do from the general public.” Thomas
Jefferson.
Politics - Leftism centers on
a deep hatred of individual autonomy, national pride, and faith in God, and is an aggressive
mutation of radical liberalism that has escalated its Marxist demands on the
country, but ignores the detrimental consequences it produces.
Politics – Progressivism is
the philosophy of perpetual grievance
that keeps people angry in order to keep them in line and not distracted to not
consider any alternative points of view.
Politics – Liberal government in the name of order,
control, efficiency, organization, and the greatest good for the greatest
number, solidarity, social justice, and safety is
ruling over a society that is increasingly disordered, crime-ridden, unjust,
and disturbed to an extreme.
Politics – Liberals are
creating a nation of social activists
who complain about everything but have no clue what the
end result should look like or consequences of the desired change.
Politics – Republicans
feature a culture of responsibility learning from mistakes, while Democrats demonstrate a culture of blame “throwing
underperformers under the bus.”
Politics – The Heritage Foundation
calculated that the Trump administration in the first year has already fulfilled close
to 64% of his campaign agenda.
Media – Since the mainstream media
has shown themselves to be partisan and biased, why
does the Trump administration continue to support them by appearing on
their programs?
Leadership – “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask, act! Action will delineate and define
you." Thomas Jefferson.
Economy – Democrat’s hysterical fears about Trump’s
steel and aluminum tariffs are as believable as their hysterical fears about Trump’s
election prediction of economic doom.
Entitlements – The $82 trillion avalanche of
Social Security and Medicare deficits that will
come over the next three decades is the “Most predictable economic crisis in history.”
Healthcare – Foundation for Government
Accountability report found that at least 21,904 people
died while waiting for Medicaid coverage, victims of Obama’s Medicaid expansion.
Immigration – Bobby Jindal said “Immigration without assimilation is invasion”
because immigrants undermine the host society and
weakens the social safety net.
Immigration – Sanctuary city
mayors should be prosecuted for breaking federal immigration law and recklessly endangering
their citizens by harboring illegal aliens who are criminals.
Judiciary – Senator Chuck
Schumer is a racist partisan politician
who openly voted down a federal district court judge purely on racist, sexist
criteria which is discrimination.
Infrastructure – The U.S. already spends $400
billion a year on infrastructure, but which ignores how much is wasted on
political earmarks.
Energy – The U.S. will
overtake Russia to become the world’s largest oil producer by 2023, accounting for most of the
global growth in petroleum supplies.
Education – Lax school district
discipline policies enabled a violence wave against teachers and students, which has resulted in mass
resignations of teachers after escalating assaults.
Education – The Spring
of 2017 hosted 2.4 million fewer college students than did the Fall of 2011, a
12% decrease that reflects downgrading of the cost benefit of a college
education.
Marriage
– Divorce is destructive:
kids need dad’s time more than they need dad’s dime, so require dads to contribute time first, and punish moms who
prevent dads from giving time.
Disability - Special blue parking placards
are an effort to help the disabled, but these days, the definition of "disabled" has so expanded that a large
percentage of the population can qualify for special parking privileges or cheat in order to qualify.
Civil Rights – “Disparate
Impact” starts with an unfortunate result and asserts unproven causes, but only root cause
analysis can uncover issues that must be changed for results.
Civil Rights – Google’s
YouTube instructed staff to stop hiring white and Asian men in an attempt to improve
corporate diversity, setting quotas for hiring minorities.
Civil Rights – Feminists, who claim to fight
discrimination based on one’s race, gender, ethnicity or other aspects of
a person’s identity, are willing to associate
with crude anti-semites like Louis Farrakhan, leader of the black
separatist movement, the Nation of Islam.
Drugs – Demographics of the opioid crisis show us that perpetrators are disproportionately men (67%), never married or divorced
individuals (71%) and least educated (68%).
Crime – Broward County Public Schools
implementation of the PROMISE Program “no arrest” policy in 2011 helped
Nikolas Cruz to stay “in the
classroom and out of the courtroom.”
Gun Control – Under-reported and
under-appreciated are the numbers of lives saved by
defensive use of guns, estimated to be 1.2 million times each year.
Peace – “Peace is a journey of a thousand
miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” Lyndon B.
Johnson.
GWOT – During 2017, 3,066 Christians were killed, 1,252 abducted, and 1,020 raped
or sexually harassed on account of their faith, and 793 churches were
attacked or destroyed.
Germany – Milton Friedman warned that “open borders
and the welfare state are incompatible” and Germany, following
Angela Merkel’s disastrous open border experiment,
is proving the wisdom of this admonition.
Chile – Last year, Chile held a presidential election which dumped its
corruption-plagued, soggy socialist government to return
to a free market economy.
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocnnbbommonsensesite.com/