Musings on the Week
Musings on the Week
March 12, 2016
Liberty
- “I would
rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those
attending too small a degree of it.” Thomas Jefferson.
Politics
– The one clear message
from the primaries is that voters are furious with Washington, Wall
Street, hedge funds, big banks, lobbyists, fat cats in
corner offices, all of them cutting special deals for themselves while average
folks are left out.
Politics
– Democrats are campaigning on divisiveness and
redistribution of poverty, while Republicans are campaigning on a return to
economic growth and American greatness.
Politics
- This week’s
distractions from the economy, ObamaCare,
and terrorism: social justice takeovers of liberal
campuses and Netanyahu refuses to meet with
Obama.
Politics
– Hillary
Clinton
must be charged with multiple felonies that would prohibit
any one of us any possibility of government service,
or trust in government would be irreparably lost!
Politics
– Hillary
Clinton must be charged and acquitted prior to any election otherwise
we have a risk of an elected President presiding over
the United States from behind bars!
Politics
– The longer we see policies that impede recovery and
give us a stagnant economy, the less likely voters will prefer
Hillary Clinton to continue these
policies for four more years.
Politics
– Hillary
Clinton proclaimed herself the “most transparent politician” in modern history, which is true
in one sense – the most transparently corrupt
politician since Boss Tweed.
Media
– The mainstream media tries to select the Republican
Presidential candidate, then proceeds to
attack them with all the vitriol and ad hominems they
saved in the primaries.
Politics
– Donald Trump is a narcissist who loves himself first, last, and in between,
and he puts his personal interests as he perceives them at the time ahead of
the pesky Constitution,
Politics
– Based on the abysmal Obama record, Republicans
should win the election in a landslide, except for Donald Trump who can lose to an equally untrustworthy Hillary Clinton, since both share negative favorability
ratings with unfavorable outnumbering favorable, in a
campaign avalanche of mudslinging and personal attacks by both candidates.
Liberty
- “The true
danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.” Edmund
Burke.
Manufacturing
– Even while shedding jobs, manufacturers
have significantly increased output shifting to more automated factories and
focusing on more sophisticated products.
Income
– Census
Bureau reported that income inequality rose (Gini Index and Theil Index) more under Bill
Clinton and Barack Obama than
under their Republican predecessors.
Healthcare
– The only ones benefited
from ObamaCare are those who implemented it
and those who administer it, since no promises
fulfilled and insurance companies lost money.
Healthcare
– Not one of the co-ops under ObamaCare has
repaid any of the $1.2 billion in federal loans they received, including all 11 still
operational and the 12 that have failed.
Immigration
– In the last 30 years, how many billions squandered
by politicians to “secure the border” with physical fence or “virtual fence,”
or by “rigorous
enforcement.”
Immigration
– According
to updated Census data, a record-setting 61 million
immigrants and their American-born children reside in the U.S., of which 15.7
million are illegal aliens.
Immigration
– According to Rasmussen, 67%
of likely U.S. voters say illegal immigrants should not be allowed to vote,
even “if they can prove that they
live in the country and pay taxes.”
Transportation
– Without
government mandates and massive taxpayer subsidies, “green” energy requires $350 a
barrel before electric cars are more economical than gas-powered!
Energy
– Wind farms and solar farms don’t
make money by generating electricity, but instead by generating government
subsidies, since they have never been self-sustainable,
Environment
– The problem with environmentalism is that when science is funded by the government, it becomes less
scientific and more political.
Environment
– Less developed countries signed the Paris treaty to get trillions in
climate “adaptation” and
“compensation” funds; with no intention of
curbing CO2 emissions.
Environment
– Contrary
to catastrophic warming, hysterical predications by NOAA and IPCC, there have been no upward trends in hurricanes,
tornadoes, floods, or droughts.
Elections
– True the Vote (TTV) has found over one thousand duplicate voter registrations in Ohio’s
Cuyahoga and Franklin Counties, uncovering intentional forgeries in the
last election.
Justice
– Islamic Sharia law is the combination of religious and secular laws,
and just the opposite of our Constitution’s
intentional separation of church and state.
Civil Rights – President Obama’s civil rights legacy is that of a rigid ideologue
who believes the government should dispense favors to blacks and other
non-whites, and refuses to prosecute any so-called hate crimes committed against
white Americans.
Liberty
- “Let every
nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price,
bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to
assure the survival and the success of liberty.” John F. Kennedy.
Military
– Less than half of the military age
population is qualified for service, because many
are unable to pass the basic military entrance exam, even many high school
graduates.
GWOT
– President
Bush’s “axis of evil”
is alive and well in North Korea and Iran, as both countries demonize the U.S. and work to develop nuclear
weapons and ballistic missiles.
GWOT
– Now that President Obama has declared his intention to close Guantanamo prison, there is no facility to hold and
interrogate high value ISIS prisoners to avoid future
attacks.
GWOT
– For the first time, the number of Gitmo detainees who have re-engaged
in terrorism has climbed above 30%, and the rate has been growing steadily
under President Obama.
Religion
– “Islamic extremism” is the main source
of persecution in 41 of the top 50 countries, 82% of
the world’s persecution of Christians, and the rest done by
atheistic communism.
Israel
– Since October 2015, 29
Israelis and 4 foreign nationals have been murdered using guns, knives,
hatchets and motor vehicles and 170 Palestinian Arab terrorists died in
attacks.
Cuba
– Obama’s original
precondition to not visit Cuba until the Castroites
improve the rights of Cuba’s citizens, dissident arrests
have risen fivefold since the normalization of ties in 2014.
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/