Category: Political Perspectives

I thought that The Supreme Court was supposed to be the last bastion of clarification for this country as far as legal challenges go. Why is The Supreme Court issuing vague obscure rulings, open to all kinds of interpretations? I thought that was the job of “the Fed ” Jerome Powell speaking in “tongues” and obscure gibberish to potentially avoid a stock market “sell off”. 

The Federal Government can go ahead and cut the wire and allow illegals to enter the country in order to “Secure” the border? Who’s paying for the heavy duty wire cutters? Are the Federal agencies given an obligatory expense compensation to go to the home improvement store of their choice, and buy “cutters” on the taxpayer’s dime? We have real problems, folks. How stupid are these Supreme Court justices?

 Heck, anyone can obtain a copy of The U.S. Constitution at Wal-Mart. Any idiot knows, without reading The Constitution, 5th grade American History tells us that The States have the right to their own security. Somehow these justices are under the impression that Federal Law trumps state law. Wake up you morons; The Federal Government only has the authority that The States, in other words, the citizens, “Grant” to it.

We supposedly have a “split” court between “Conservative” and “Liberal” justices. What does that mean? Depending on the meaning of “liberal” it used to mean “A Free society from government overreach.”  Now it apparently means full blown Marxism. Conservatism hasn’t changed much, just wanting Judeo Christian values to apply to all our institutions to assure the public of the rule of law, based primarily on the “Ten Commandments” as an equal administration to all. The fact that society knows, and accepts that there is a “Split” is beyond disturbing; it could mean the demise to our Republic.

You’ve just caught a supposed Republican Chairperson on a recorded call attempting to bribe a Republican Senatorial Candidate, to Kari Lake to get her to withdraw her bid. This has to be treated as if you were exterminating vermin. It’s not the rat you catch, or see. It’s the ones you don’t see. Obviously, there’s a flaw in the screening process for these people. This man is a Democrat Operative, who managed to rise to the rank of a regional “Chair” in the R.N.C. planted there to thwart Conservative efforts to save this country. I have two questions: Is this a Ronna McDaniel problem or is it a systemic problem that needs to be addressed immediately within all the ranks of The R.N.C? His resignation is not enough.

 All R.N.C. Chairpersons need to have a re-evaluation as to their backgrounds and potential liability to The Republican Party, right now, and those who screen them must be subjected to the same thorough review process! If there was reason to question Ronna’s leadership in the party before, now it is more questionable than ever. This could be a valuable lesson for The Republican Party: The party just recently reinstated Ronna McDaniel as head chair, but there were questions as to her ability to lead. Apparently, some have missed the boat on this one.

Who will Donald Trump pick for VP? IMHO there There are only two VP picks that come to mind, that could boost or propel Donald Trump to win in November  2024. First of all, the pick must be a person of color. Byron Donalds, with his experience in the financial field would be incredibly helpful to navigate and root out the swampy people currently employed in the federal government.

The second pick and perhaps more experienced in the political arena is Larry Elder. No one else that I can think of would be able to launch Trump more effectively into The Presidency! In a  VP pick, perhaps most critical, there’s no doubt that either Donalds or Elder would be able to effectively execute the highest office, should some unforeseen incident happen to Trump. Either one, I feel, are extremely qualified to step up to lead as The Commander and Chief!

There’s only one difference between the current administration and that of NAZI Germany in 1939. This administration hasn’t so far lined its political opponents up on the wall and shot them. Everything else is eerily similar. The opposition, Trump supporters have been singled out and persecuted, just as the Jews were made “the scapegoat”. The NAZI administration had employed the media as an arm of the NAZI’s to issue propaganda to gain public support to help accelerate the process. In the same way, Hitler was able to remove all political party opposition to insure his continued leadership and the destruction of most of Europe in a relatively short period. The same way, the current administration is tearing down the fabric of this Republic we, for now, call The United States of America to wipe it out of existence. There is only one difference from the NAZI’S of the past and the current Nationalist Socialist Party that is essentially, and politically, The Biden Administration. They’re not lining Trump Supporters on the wall, and executing them- Not Yet, that is.

The A.T.F., F.B.I. and the I.R.S. all raided a gun store in Montana in order to secure gun purchase records of plain ordinary American citizens. Why? The answer doesn’t take a genius to figure out. My suggestion to all the gun store owners in America; Either destroy all the purchase records for the past seven years, or have them securely encrypted, so that the rights of innocent American citizens can’t be trampled on by this oppressive overreaching tyrannical administration.

In order to understand just what D.E.I. means, all one has to do is open a history book. Turn open the book to the chapter that explains The Atrocities of Nazi Concentration Camps. Most notably The Auschwitz Camp. It was all three of the referenced abbreviations. It was Diverse, although most people held there were Jews. It was Equitable, as all were treated the same. It was Inclusive because there were many who shared the same living quarters, and subsequent conditions there.

So, in closing, my hope is that when you hear about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, please think of The Auschwitz Concentration Camp! 

Somehow within the past few years, there’s been an outbreak of children jumping on the “Transgender” bandwagon. Even worse, a whole generation of parents is allowing their children to make adult decisions for themselves; because they have lost the ability to actually parent their offspring.

 Let me make this perfectly clear; no child under the age of eighteen should have any gender altering procedure, chemical, or surgical, with or without parent’s consent!

 The doctors that disregard this need to be arrested, charged with a class 1 felony, licenses revoked, and if found guilty, serve long prison sentences.  Any physician should have the good sense to stop a parent from harming their child in this manner.  Furthermore, any parent willing to submit a child to the transition should be charged with “child abuse” regardless of the circumstances they claim to be pertinent.

Just like purchasing alcohol, or getting plastic surgery, when a person reaches the age of 21, then they may consent, legally, to anything they wish.

THIS IS A FAD! Like Bell Bottoms, Tie dye shirts, eating Tide Pods, and all the other stupid stuff kids do. THESE KIDS ARE GETTING THESE IDEAS FROM social media WEB SITES LIKE FACEBOOK, TIC TOC, and others; don’t be fooled!  There is no other reasonable explanation that so many are committing this self destructive behavior all at once. Think about it! This was unheard of 10 years ago but now that social media sites are running LBGTQ++++ nonsense; it is all the fad rage for children to question their gender.

Former president Obama just couldn’t avoid making a fool of himself weighing in on the expulsion of the two insurrectionist legislators in Nashville. It seems that according to Barack, civil unrest is a “Democratic” process. If this is the opinion of the former president, then why are there people rotting in jail in The District of Columbia?

Let’s call a spade a spade! If the Democrats can call January 6th an insurrection, then why would the obvious violent insurrection be any different? Does claiming oneself is transgender exclude one from any legal repercussion for violence? Maybe all The Republicans that are unhappy with the downward spiral this country is headed in should violently protest and simply claim that they are transgender.

 According to Merrick Garland the law is applied equally. I mean, heck, those rainbow flags can’t be that expensive. All anyone has to do to get away with violent actions, it seems, is to just waive a rainbow flag the next time you storm a state or federal building in violent protest.

Last time I checked, Humans are living creatures with essential basic needs, just to stay living.

Humans need water, so much so that after about 3 – 4 days without it, they die. Humans can survive for amazingly long on just a few morsels for weeks, but without altogether a couple weeks – + or -.

My question is this; with people sending their kids to school and both parents probably working why is basic survival skill not a part of regular curriculum like reading, writing, and arithmetic? Humans need this in order to stay alive. Depending on the ambient temperature water, food, shelter, (warmth) are needed these to survive. Regardless of the current availability of the above essential needs, doesn’t it make sense to teach our children how to actually stay alive?

 At least a short discussion about “Worst Case Scenarios” would be wise. Perhaps exchange the time in the classroom that normally would have been delegated to discuss Critical Race Theory, this type of curriculum could be discussed instead.

 I don’t know, but I thought survival itself would be a little higher on the list.

HB321 is Governor Lee’s proposal to build extra vehicle lanes throughout the state, called choice lanes, with the intent of increasing the efficiency of traffic flow. HB 321 encompasses 32 pages of definitions, partial funding descriptions and supposed benefits to Tennesseans.

The largest part of this bill is purporting to use a totally new and different form of business to accomplish these goals which brings up many questions I hope can be answered satisfactory before the vote on HB321 February 28, 2023. This new construction and funding approach is called Public-Private Partnership, also known as PPP or P3. See HB 321 page 1 sect 54-1-119 Design-build and performance-based asset maintenance contracts.

What exactly is a PPP? Let’s first look at how our state government currently runs.

We the People elect those who will be public servants for US. This means we voice our needs, we determine where our dollars prioritized and spent and we look for our ELECTED officials to hire contractors to do the work to OUR satisfaction and then to pay them in FULL with our tax dollars for the work they have completed for US or with Bond funds our government is in control of.

If We the People are not satisfied with the work WE have options, and one of these options is to not RE-ELECT those who we feel have not performed their civic duties for US. If the contractors who did work for the state have grossly wronged our community, our state, by breach of contract, have legal standing. The state and the voters retain the freedom to fire the contractor and never use them again. These rights will be taken away if the Public-Private Partnership is used.

If these choice lane projects use a Public-Private Partnership model as described in HB321 section 54-1-119 of the description of “asset management maintenance projects”  the parties involved include the Tennessee government as the public entity answering to We the People and a private company who specializes in designing, building, and maintaining a lane choice project, who makes money (profit) from collecting user fees from those who use the choice lanes. The PPP gets to collect the user fees as they are the ones putting up the money up front to build these choice lane roads.  The choice lane land and infrastructure are owned/leased by the private company until the loan and interest is paid off decades into the future. The private company’s first priority is to itself, not We the People. The private company is in control of Tennessee’s roads infrastructures, not the Tennessee government or We the People. We will have no say about future construction, maintenance or re-financing and the private company has no accountability to us even though Tennessee is strapped with a huge loan and interest payments.

 These borrowed funds have decade’s long payback periods and usually higher interest rates for these loans due to the longer term and the increase risk of these borrowed funds. It is very similar to an individual borrowing a large sum of money over decades and making loan and interest payments to these private for profit companies. So in addition to those who choose to use these new lanes and pay users fees, Tennessee taxpayers will pay more in other taxes to meet the cost of carrying the loan and interest of these projects for decades in the Tennessee annual budget.  I can think of a few more expenses the Tennessee budget, i.e. taxpayers will be paying for such as higher fuel taxes for the increased highway patrol and their vehicles and vehicles maintenance and other emergency services to address accident and injury on this new choice lane. We may not be paying any new ‘gas tax’ to fund the annual budget but the money for the budget expenses has to come from one of the other tax revenues Tennessee has. Tax revenue is the only way the state government reports revenue, other than hand outs from the federal government.

What happens with land acquisition of nearby properties and farms? The increase to purchase these lands has been increased in HB321 from $75,000 to $250,000. (See page 32 Section 33) How is this huge increase going to be paid for?

 Our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will be paying for the user fees, the loan principle and loan interest and extra expenses way into their future.

Additionally, I’ve heard a lot of debate about using the word, Toll Roads. These new choice lanes will not be using a traditional manned toll booth, rather electronic devices drivers have to buy and keep in their cars so cars can be tracked and billed according to where we are driving, the day and the time we are driving on the choice lanes. Credit cards will be automatically charged for the user fees. Cameras along the stretch of roadways will monitor the traffic flow and time of day and how long the cars take to travel and the user fees will be adjusted automatically and displayed on digital signs. The price of the user fees will change and be reported on the signs throughout the day. Traveling these choice lanes during rush hour traffic will cost significantly more than non-rush hour traffic. This is how current lane choice user fees work in Florida, South Carolina, Texas and Georgia. This will be full tracking of people using these roads.

If our relations with China continues to be strained our electrical grids are at risk. The transformers used in our electrical grid all over the USA, which are currently supplied by China, are at risk.  We are at risk for not being able to purchase these transforms for our electrical grid. Will not the same scenario be true of our new electronically controlled choice lanes road infrastructures if foreign companies have long term leases on Tennessee lands?

 Governor Lee is appointing people who do not answer to voters. The Transportation Commissioner is also appointing 5 people to his staff. All are selected positions not elected and their salaries and benefits are paid for by the Taxpayer. It’s great that the new Transportation Commissioner has experience with Public Private Partnerships as the former founder and CEO of Infrastructure Corporation of America, but I wonder if this is the most budget conscience approach in negotiating an arm’s length transaction in negotiations with other asset management private companies? Is this in the best interest of taxpayer money?1

 I do not feel We the People have all the information related to this endeavor and hope the General Assembly will be able to address my questions and concerns. This is a huge a bill with a huge budget and I am by far no expert on these matters, but I do believe having all the information available so we can have our voices heard is imperative to the future of our State. Please stop telling us we have a choice not to pay the users fees; as the cost to Tennesseans for Choice Lanes encompasses so much more than a user fee.

Will these choice lanes discriminate from commercial traffic? If not, then arises, the statistical data that most, if not all, the worst traffic “tie ups” are a result of an overturned or disabled tractor trailer. Therefore, it defeats the entire premise that these “lanes” would be a good choice on any given day.

 Along with the fact that more enforcement and safety protocols will be required, at taxpayer’s expense, in the form of added patrol vehicles, officers to man them, and the added cost to maintain the fleets. There then lies the issue of jurisdiction for this. Will the individual counties be on the hook to increase the same things I referenced in the previous sentence?

Finally, there’s this big two part question.  Who picks up the tab for administrative and court costs to apprehend, prosecute, and fine the scofflaws that unlawfully use the roads, speed, and cause accidents? Second, who picks up the insurance costs? The State has to insure itself from liability by permitting a third party to maintain, construct, and acquire lands to do all of this even if the private company has its own insurer. I know if I were to provide liability insurance for some third party for anything at all, it’s going to be an expensive policy. Won’t all of this cost the taxpayers of the State of Tennessee substantially more than just simply building or adding State maintained roads or “lanes” as it were?

 Until we have the full picture of this project, I am asking to please vote NO on HB321 sponsored by Rep. William Lamberth.

Thank you.

1. “https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/12/22/public-private-partnerships-work-their-way-into-state-government/”