Category: Political Perspectives

Mike Bloomberg as the Democratic Nominee

Mike Bloomberg would probably be a pretty good prospect for The Democratic Party as the nominee if it weren’t for two things: The first and biggest problem is that he thinks that the system is so corrupt that he can just buy the nomination. The second and pretty ugly truth is that through all his corrupt actions in the past, as mayor of New York City, he drags a ton of baggage with him.

Does anyone remember that as mayor, Mike Bloomberg changed the law that stood for at least a century, that instead of serving the standard two terms as mayor; he decided that he was deserving of three terms, and he changed the law to make it so. Needless to say, at the time, this infuriated both Democrats and Republicans.

There were some candidates that were looking forward before that happened, to run for mayor, and unseat him. So, the policies like “stop and frisk” and the targeting of predominantly poor black neighborhoods are really small potatoes in comparison to this dictatorship move.

 The other problem is that Bloomberg is apologizing for what successfully reduced violent crime in the city by seventy percent. All just to appease those voters on the left that if not for anything would find some identity political thing wrong no matter what someone does, less so with Democrats, but there’s no getting away from that. His flip flopping is so obvious. 

Trump may be a lot of things, but at least he, if nothing else, is principled. Bloomberg also boasts of creating five hundred thousand jobs, but in a city of twenty million, that isn’t a very high percentage. I’m sure if someone was to do some research about Donald Trump, as a businessman created far more, and comparatively many more of those jobs went to minorities in construction not in the financial sector of Wall Street, like Bloomberg.

The ‘Good’ Kind of Socialism

As Bernie Sanders gains traction, in the preliminary stages, a new narrative seems to be emerging from The Democratic Party. The narrative is “when Bernie talks about Socialism, it’s not the bad kind”, like Cuba or Venezuela. That’s like saying “while I do have cancer” it’s not the bad kind.

 Adolf Hitler started The Nationalist Socialist Party with all the best intentions and with great success at first, especially for the working class. This is the very same working class of people who Bernie Sanders espouses to want to help. Unfortunately, like all well intended Socialists, something inevitably goes very very wrong with the whole thing. The whole premise of creating an equal living wage doesn’t sit well with those that simply put, are more capable or smarter than others. In a Democracy those individuals are revered and rewarded and usually it is to the benefit of the rest of society.

 In a Socialist Society, the playing field is leveled, so those more capable are stifled with the lack of financial incentive creating jealousy, and greed, from the very top of society all the way down to the lowest wage earner. Acts like bribery thrive in that environment, and as the government tries harder and harder to maintain order, it resorts to more violent and restrictive measures for containment.

The same inevitable outcome has been repeated several times throughout history, so don’t take my word for it alone. Germany, Italy, Cuba, Russia, and Venezuela have all tried and failed to make it work, and they worked very hard at it all ending with failure. Crime spikes in the Socialist environment like mold in damp dark places, as those who feel they are more deserving try to achieve a better life through illegitimate means. The whole idea is flawed. It may function in small communities, cut off from the rest of the globe, but with trans-global trade, and boundless financial opportunity, the idea fails miserably.

There is no “good kind of Socialism” it’s all bad, just like Cancer and S.T.D.s.

If Bernie Sanders wins, America loses

Bernie Sanders has eked out a primary win in New Hampshire edging out Butegedge by a point and a half. If Bernie Sanders were to win the nomination and by some miracle defeat Donald Trump for the Presidency, with a favorably controlled Congress and Senate America, could kiss our Constitution goodbye. 

Bernie has vowed to wipe out student debt, free college tuition, free health care, eliminate the fossil fuel industry, and cap corporate salaries at one million dollars. These are just the tip of the iceberg for Bernie. Has anyone actually considered the logistics of any one of these proposals? 

Let us start with the salary caps. In order to accomplish this feat the Federal Government would have to take control of all the corporations. What happens to the owners of those corporations, and the property they own, never mind the loyal employees, if they refuse to hand over their jobs, deeds, and businesses to The Socialist Government? Does Bernie Sanders order them to concentration camps or firing squads? This is exactly what Adolf Hitler did. Adolf Hitler ordered his government takeover of all the country’s businesses, but could only accomplish it by those very means. The same would apply to the hundreds of fossil fuel companies. What does Bernie do to force compliance?

Then you have The Health Care Insurance industry. What would justify cutting out of some businesses, but making a huge carve out for the insurance businesses? Is this the “equality” that Socialism promises? 

Then there’s the academia debacle. In order to give free college to students, the same “takeover” tactics would be necessary. These colleges are owned by one or several people or are actually operating as businesses. Now what does Bernie do to force these businesses to give him their corporate seals and deeds? Imprisonment? Fines? Concentration Camps? Gas Chambers? Mass firing squads?

Put yourself in the shoes of any kind of business owner that Bernie feels is too profitable, and you are told to simply hand over your life’s accomplishments for “the greater good”. What would be The Socialist Government standard as to the tolerated level of profitability? Would it be a million? Five hundred thousand? What happens when The Socialist Government can’t make its financial goals? Does the standard then go down to fifty thousand? Ten Thousand?  Would you simply sign over your deed and corporate seal to The Socialist Government in exchange for “a living wage”? 

Bernie also promises to eliminate student debt. Again, the banks are not simply buildings full of money sitting there for the taking. They are owned by people or businesses. It would be like reaching directly into someone’s pockets and robbing them at gunpoint, all just to keep people from meeting their financial obligations and the life lessons of responsibility. Not only would it involve “taxation without representation”, but would be flat out criminal. All kinds of laws would have to be stripped from the books. Oops, there goes the Supreme Court and all the other judicial institutions. The Socialist Government would have supreme authority to make laws as it saw fit.

Like I stated in the opening, does anyone realize how many of our revered laws in The Constitution that would have to be shredded to accomplish these promises? You can forget about “The Bill of Rights” also, at least the first two, “liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, and possibly the third “life” for those upstart non-conformists.

 If no one else had the balls to, I personally would start another Revolutionary War to get our Constitution, and The Bill of Rights reinstated, and, if necessary, I would even symbolically break out the old muzzle loader rifle and fire the first shot, like the patriot that laid down his life two hundred and twenty five years ago for the hopes of being free from Socialist oppression!

Bernie Sanders Democrat?

As Bernie Sanders gains traction, in the preliminary stages, a new narrative seems to be emerging from The Democratic Party. The narrative is “when Bernie talks about Socialism, it’s not the bad kind”, like Cuba or Venezuela. That’s like saying “while I do have cancer” it’s not the bad kind.

 Adolf Hitler started The Nationalist Socialist Party with all the best intentions and with great success at first, especially for the working class. This is the very same working class of people who Bernie Sanders espouses to want to help. Unfortunately, like all well intended Socialists, something inevitably goes very very wrong with the whole thing. The whole premise of creating an equal living wage doesn’t sit well with those that simply put, are more capable or smarter than others. In a Democracy these individuals are revered and rewarded and usually it is to the benefit of the rest of society.

 In a Socialist Society, the playing field is leveled, so those more capable are stifled with the lack of financial incentive creating jealousy, and greed, from the very top of society all the way down to the lowest wage earner. Acts like bribery thrive in that environment, and as the government tries harder and harder to maintain order, it resorts to more violent and restrictive measures for containment.

The same inevitable outcome has been repeated several times throughout history, so don’t take my word for it alone. Germany, Italy, Cuba, Russia, and Venezuela have all tried and failed to make it work, and they worked very hard at it all ending with failure. Crime spikes in the Socialist environment like mold in damp dark places, as those who feel they are more deserving try to achieve a better life through illegitimate means.

The whole idea is flawed. It may function in small communities, cut off from the rest of the globe, but with trans-global trade, and boundless financial opportunity, the idea fails miserably. There is no “good kind of Socialism” it’s all bad, just like Cancer and S.T.D.s.

Cuomo Prime Time

Although I consider myself a conservative, I do watch the Liberal newscasts (I use that term lightly) to gain perspective. I was watching Cuomo Prime Time this week and it infuriated me as to how utterly racist the two African American guests, one was a woman and one a man. I don’t know their names, and it really doesn’t matter. Both of them insisted that President Trump is a racist based on some off color remarks made when he was first in office. One was pertaining to a remark that he made with regard to immigration about accepting those from the underbelly of society from as he put it “s#%* hole” countries. The remark as I remember it was in reference to The South American Triangle as it is referred, but the male guest seemed to think it was about African Countries. If, by the way, we go into that, what has Somalia contributed to the world, other than piracy in The Mediterranean Sea? How about Nigeria, another shining gem of corruption? How about Rwanda, where genocide is a way of life for those who are unlucky enough to live there?

I just wish people would think about the insensitive racial blabber that they are about to spew before they speak. Just because they are black or brown, it doesn’t give them a free pass. I wonder what the threshold of time must go by before any white person, never mind The President, can be forgiven from these racists for any verbal transgression, intentional or otherwise?

How long was it before Al Sharpton was forgiven for perpetuating a lie to accuse two police officers of a racially motivated conspiracy, almost destroying their careers, based on the testimony of a crack addict that was left naked on the highway by her estranged boyfriend. How long was it before President Obama was forgiven for telling America that Republicans in rural districts are poorly educated and cling to “Their guns and religion”? How long did it take to forgive Eric Holder, a sworn public servant, as The Attorney General of The United States for saying he is more loyal to his race than his duty obligations as A.G.? 

You know what’s disparaging to blacks and minorities? It’s telling them they are too stupid to be given equal test scores in both academia and standard achievement tests.

A reminder for all these white people haters like Congressman Al Green, or Congresswomen Maxine Waters, Rashida Talib, Ilhan Omar, Mazie Hirono, and who knows how many others that are sworn to serve their constituents; it’s Black History Month and these public offensive displays are not what the great Martin Luther King envisioned for equality of the races.

 The Congressional idiots that came before them, mostly old white guys, creating “equal opportunity” programs giving people of color hand-outs, and special considerations on aptitude and achievement standards for everything from public servants to collegiate carve outs is primarily responsible for the generational racial divide. The Democratic Party, for decades has been bribing people of color for giving them their dignity in exchange for these hand-outs. Can anyone blame them for being resentful towards whites? But we need to move past that and forgive the transgressions and fix the programs that are responsible not endorse and expand on them as The Democratic candidates that are seeking the presidency are now proposing.

Pelosi’s Rebuttal to the State of the Union Address

Nancy Pelosi is flat out bat crazy! When her lips move, she’s lying. Her rebuttal to President Trump’s State of The Union Address was full of lies. She kept saying that Trump inherited momentum, not a mess. She boasted of all the so called success of the Obama administration’s accomplishments. What she didn’t say was that most of those accomplishments were done by infusing over a trillion dollars of taxpayer cash into the private sectors, like The Auto industry Bailout, The Insurance Industry Bailout, the failed Alternative Energy Bailout of $535 million (The Solyndra Corp), an illegal act, by the way, for government to invest in a private company, and let’s not forget Iran’s bailout of $151 billion plus $1.8 billion in cash to a terrorist nation.

She touted that Obama lowered the deficit by a trillion dollars, again not true. Obama raised the national debt by over $9 trillion! Pelosi also praised the failed Affordable Care Act boasting that twenty million people got health insurance that were previously unable to before. Not sure where she is getting her 20 million people number but the statistics on the https://www.census.gov/ website do not correlate with her number and many more lost their coverage, or could no longer afford it under the Afforable Care Act. A record number of hospital and health care facilities closed, and the promise that you can keep both your insurance plan and your doctor quickly became one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated on The American people, by any president. 

Pelosi said Obama was responsible for creating fourteen million jobs. Again, not true, check out the labor participation stats for the data. Most of the jobs were not “created” at all. These were all jobs that people were being rehired for when they returned back to work after losing them. All this was caused by another previous Democratic Legislation debacle, during the last two years of The Bush administration that caused the stock market crash and tons of other subsequent private sector job losses. 

Legislation written and introduced by Chris Dodd and Barney Frank was signed into law through a Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate, mandating that banks must give mortgage loans to anyone that wanted to buy a house whether the loan was secured or not. Most of the mortgages that were written were done so by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lending institutions, both of which are primarily taxpayer backed financially. Subsequently, the mortgages that were sold off and Mortgage Backed Securities were then written against them (a common practice by the banks). These financial instruments were then used to leverage investments in the stock market, by insurance companies and other investment firms sometimes up to a hundred times their value, again, a common practice, because the entire amortization value of the mortgage is considered. When those millions of unsecured notes became due, and were not met with the financial obligations of their holders, a cascade effect happened causing the crash because both the mortgages and the securities written against them became worthless. Any investor using that financial tool instantly went bankrupt unless they could back the investment financially. 

Anyone buying into Pelosi’s bull-crap and is considering voting The Democrats back into office, and returning the government back to this kind of policy insanity, needs to get their head examined. They almost bankrupted the country before, surely it will the next time, and given the chance, you can bet good sound money The Democrats will have their way.

President Aquitted

Finally, President Trump was properly acquitted of the two Articles of Impeachment. Both articles basically indirectly inferred that The President was trying to “fix” the 2020 election by “going after his political rival” candidate Joe Biden. How embarrassing will it be if Biden fails to become endorsed?

 As of now, it’s not looking like he will be. So, The Democrats in Congress will have tried to impeach The President for using his authority to try to have a foreign government to investigate what amounts to be just another person who failed to meet the threshold of actually being nominated for anything. 

Impeachment Circus

After several excruciating hours of watching this “so called impeachment”, and I use the term in this manor because it is the best way to describe it; it is clear that The House of Representatives failed to follow the legal avenues given to them to take this action against The President. This Impeachment is illegitimate.

 The Congress failed to make resolutions by a vote to assign any one or more committees the authority to issue subpoenas in an attempt to resolve the dispute between The Executive and Legislative branches. Secondly, the Congress failed to bring those witnesses to bear through the courts (if they had properly authorized the subpoenas) from The Executive branch.

This whole process, if done properly, may have been enough to remove The President from office if two thirds of the senate could be convinced. Unfortunately, however, in Nancy Pelosi’s deluded mind she thought that all that legal mumbo jumbo was beneath her. This impeachment is no different than a false arrest where a suspect was not given their Miranda Warning. In all cases of the law procedure matters. This procedure is invalid, and on those grounds alone should be moved for immediate dismissal.

No court in the United States allows the prosecutor (District Attorney) to proceed with any case, unless they have followed proper procedure: In the arrest, the treatment, and the incarceration of any defendant. The President may not be “above the law” as The Democrats have so persistently argued, but neither is The President exempt from being afforded the procedural process that would come to any other defendant or accused. In this case The Senate has become, temporarily “the highest court in the land” with The Chief Justice of The Supreme Court presiding over its proceedings.

 If this case lacks even the most minor flaw in the procedure of the case brought before this court, it must reject it in its entirety, regardless of the severity of the crimes alleged. Even murderers are set free if the arrest procedures were not followed. What is really surprising is that the prosecutors, in this case, every Democrat in Congress, all are attorneys and are well aware of the rights of any accused person. If I were Chief Justice John Roberts I would be outraged that these prosecutors would dare to insult my intelligence by bringing this flawed case before me, and thinking that I would give it five minutes of my time before throwing it out of my courtroom on its merits alone.

If The Democrats want to remove this president, then they need to start all over. That means bringing the accusation before committee, voting on resolutions to validate the subpoena process, allowing testimony from all relevant witnesses, going through The Judicial to allow for witnesses that The President has afforded Executive Privilege to be given the opportunity to testify, rewrite The Articles, hold another vote to move forward etc… etc… etc… Then and only then can this hold the credentials to be reviewed by what is at this moment in time, the “highest court in the land”.

Senate Circus

The Senate impeachment circus is a culmination of what began in Congress as apparently the latest, and hopefully, the last of the many failed attempts by the Democratic Party to oust President Trump from office.

 As a whole host of guesses as to what the Democrats could hang their hats on of what this president could be charged with, it seems that the best they can come up with is “Abuse of Power”. This innocuous term can be used to cover a lot of ground. In this case, however, the supposition is that President Trump improperly used his office to get “dirt” on his political rival.

The rival they refer to is the former Vice President, Joe Biden, who has now thrown his “hat into the ring” to try to win the Democratic nomination to run for president in the upcoming 2020 election, along with about a dozen other folks. The problem that The Democrats have in making up these accusations is that Joe Biden is no more of a political rival than I am. Unless and until, the nomination for the candidacy for the office that Biden is seeking run for is secured, he is of no threat to The President. In other words no rivalry exists between them. So, regardless of what The President sought or didn’t seek at the time, it is of no consequence, no political fallout came to Biden, other than that of his own admission, and certainly, it would not be a criminal act even if there was, nor would it rise to the level of an impeachable act. No harm, no foul.

Qasem Soleimani Aftermath

There are concerns that the Iraqi government will vote to oust American troops in response to the air strike that took out the top Iranian general. Great! Let’s finally leave. In doing so, however, let’s not do what President Obama did by leaving all our logistics and weaponry behind. If we pull our troops from the region, every single piece of hardware must come back with them. There should not be so much as a laptop or gas can left behind! President Obama pulled our troops out and left I.S.I.S. all kinds of military equipment, even M-1 Abrahams tanks, that were then used by the enemy to kill Americans when we had to go back to engage I.S.I.S. Fighters.

This has been the problem with all of American engagements in the region; we keep failing to learn from history! Frankly, we are not welcome there and have no business being over there.