Musings
Musings on the Week
July 14, 2018
Politics – “No one will really understand politics until they
understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are
trying to solve their own problems – of which getting elected and
re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far
behind." Thomas Sowell.
Politics – Republicans
must educate the voting public on the real world impact of socialism and
communism on its
citizens with examples of harm inflicted by other countries.
Politics – I hope
Congressman Jim Jordan is strong enough to withstand the character
assassination based
on 30 year old allegations and inferences
about a nearby crime.
Politics – Trump may
need his first term to reverse the damage done by Obama and to drain the swamp and
his second term to make changes needed to Make
America Great Again.
Politics – Democrats are
dismissing the #WalkAway
campaign as
a propaganda movement, but something genuine and significant is happening and
can’t be ignored by media elites.
Politics – The media
and the Left over-used phony outrage as a means of virtue signaling and
attacking President
Trump forfeiting any credibility as objective
public servants.
Media – One thing we learned from the
2016 election is that the mainstream media narrative is
repackaging of Democrat talking points and not a reflection of American
sentiment.
Politics – “Weighing benefits against costs is
the way most people make decisions – and the way most businesses make
decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is
any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.”
Thomas Sowell.
Demographics – Most large U.S. cities are Democrat-led for decades and have taxed,
spent and regulated on the “people’s behalf” with poor or even
abysmal results, driving middle-class and working-class
families out of the city to escape urban decay, poor-performing public
schools, artificially high housing costs, rising crime rates with no end in
sight.
Economy – History tells us that every
time Socialism has been used as a form
government it has been met with economic disaster,
fascist police state tactics and a form of dictatorship.T
Finance – Bitcoins are pure
speculation,
bought by fools with the hope they can soon be sold to even bigger fools, making this current investment scam more of a bitcon!
Taxes – The CBO reports that federal income taxes are 9% higher than last year
and the Treasury expects federal revenues will
continue to exceed last year’s for rest of 2018.
Jobs – Trump’s colorblind jobs boom continues, creating new jobs for
people of all races, ethnic groups and genders, increasing earnings, and
decreasing unemployment.
Pensions – Just like Social Security, state and local governments are not putting aside enough
money, or generating high enough returns, to
fulfill their future obligations.
Judiciary – The nomination
of a new Supreme Court Justice opens the floodgates of partisan political theatrics at confirmation hearings marked by ad-hominum attacks,
hysterical predictions, and hyperbole based on unanswerable hypothetical
questions.
Tobacco – The CDC estimates that the
states will receive a record $27.5 billion from
tobacco taxes and settlements, but less than 3% will be
spent on prevention or cessation programs.
Immigration – America is
actually a nation of settlers,
who have allowed others to immigrate and assimilate
into our American culture, not colonize and balkanize into ethnic enclaves.
Immigration – In low-skilled working
immigrant families in the country, 51% (76%
counting immigrant-led households with children) are
collecting check(s) from our welfare services.
Immigration – The Supreme Court must revisit the 14th Amendment to reserve birthright
citizenship to children of citizens, and eliminate this loophole for visitors
and illegal aliens.
Environment – For the last
10,000 years Earth has been in the Holocene Interglacial, the latest of many
warm cycles within the Pleistocene Ice Age,
which includes small warm and cool cycles within the Holocene, including today’s
Modern Warm Cycle (began around 1900).
Civil Rights – I applaud President Trump’s efforts to
begin to eliminate the affirmative action programs and organizations that
have out-lived their usefulness and have become divisive.
Education – Diversity is
justified based on an unproven hypothesis
that racial diversity raises the “level of academic and social discourse both inside and
outside the classroom” and helps students “sharpen their
critical thinking and analytical skills.”
Abortion – Contraception
is pregnancy avoidance
before conception (life begins), while abortion is pregnancy cessation after life
(conception) has begun.
Politics – “It would be hard to think of a more ridiculous way to
make decisions than to transfer those decisions to third parties who pay no
price for being wrong. Yet that is what at least half of the bright ideas of
the political left amount to." Thomas
Sowell.
Trade – The “trade
deficit” is not bad, in fact, not even a real problem because each
trade is based on mutually-beneficial cooperation undertaken voluntarily.
Defense – Nation-building is
not a military mission
so until the State Department ramps up to handle this requirement, the U.S. will continue to win wars and lose the peace that
follows.
Finance – It is time to stop funding ($1.8 billion) Multilateral Development Banks
that invest in projects contrary to U.S. priorities such as climate alarmism
and renewable energy fantasies.
Environment – UN Agenda
21 morphed into Agenda 2030, with 17
Sustainable Development Goals, is a stealth attempt to
implement global governance and redistribute wealth.
Great Britain – The British
“deep state” is doing
everything and anything to undermine BREXIT delaying, obstructing, and
clinging to European Union super-national governance.
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocnnbbommonsensesite.com/
