Musings
Musings on the
Week
March 23, 2019
Courage – "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on
imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." Harry S. Truman.
Politics – Despite all the evidence of economic
success, Democrats are convinced we’re living in
a depression and the economy has been in a nosedive since Trump took office.
Politics – Democrats are
proposing changes to the Constitution,
such as voting age, voter qualifications, electoral college
process, and expanding the size of the Supreme Court as
long as it benefits their political party, irrespective of impact on the
nation at large.
Politics – The political
narrative is stark with the extensive media coverage of the massacre of 35 at a mosque in New Zealand by a white fascist,
but no coverage of the massacre of 201 Christians in
Nigeria by Muslims or the killing of 3 people by
a Muslim in the Netherlands.
Politics – The Republican
2020 political strategy should be to debunk the socialism myth and expose each program
in the Democrat “Green New Deal”
as ineffective, unachievable and unaffordable, and then reveal next steps in the MAGA plan to “Build on
America’s Success.”
Government – “A
government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the
morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.” Grover Cleveland.
Economy – According to CNN, 70% of Americans believe the economy is in “good shape” due to President Trump working overtime to deliver results
for the average American.
Jobs – The Jobs
Report was the 11th consecutive month with more job openings then unemployed
workers, with 1.35 million more job openings than unemployed workers.
Income – The Dallas Federal Reserve
recently stated the "average individual wage growth" is currently 5%,
about 2.1% higher than the commonly reported growth rate.
Healthcare – Abolishing private insurance
and forcing everyone into a government health insurance
plan, ala Medicare for All, wouldn't necessarily
improve patients' health care.
Environment – The recycling mania
is a giant placebo,
making us feel good but not financially viable or
environmentally beneficial, as many cities abandon their programs,
Elections – Texas leads the
nation in prosecutions of election fraud:
Since 2018, 33 people have been convicted of
election crimes in cases brought by the state attorney general’s office,
and 13 more have cases pending.
Elections – If Democrats are successful
legalizing illegal aliens to vote, how long before
voter registration forms are handed out with customs forms to passengers at
international airports?
Elections – Children can’t buy or drink
alcohol until 21; can’t join the military
service, buy a firearm, buy tobacco products, be prescribed health medications,
or sign a legal contract until 18, but now they want to lower the age to vote for President and
federal offices to 16.
Education – While the number of high
school graduates who begin college has increased in recent years, the percentages graduating with a four-year degree have not risen much.
Civil Rights – Democrats have shown it is all right to be openly anti-Semitic or anti-Catholic,
which should mean it is all right to be openly
anti-Muslim or anti-anything, Right?
Civil Rights – Rather than using Martin
Luther King Jr admonition to judge people by content
of their character rather than the color of their skin, Democrats
use intersectionality to score depth of identity
politics, with a hierarchy of victimhood and grievances against society.
Religion – The true
Islamophobia in America is the fear of speaking
against bigoted expression from a Muslim, lest one be falsely accused of
being a bigot.
Drugs – Politicians are pushing to legalize recreational marijuana, but they are not
telling us that adolescent pot users are having trouble
in school suffering memory impairment, loss of learning ability and reasoning
skills, and possibly a permanent decline in IQ,
Peace – “Peace is not absence of conflict; it is the ability to
handle conflict by peaceful means.”
Ronald
Reagan.
GWOT – As long as
terrorists such as ISIS believe that they do God’s work by killing infidels, and are
able to attract disaffected Muslims to fill their ranks, the ISIS menace will continue.
GWOT - it’s
hard to feel sorry for Muslims killed in an attack, after thousands of
such attacks by Muslims against Christians, Jews, Yazidis and many other
non-Muslim groups over the past.
Europe – Britain’s
withdrawal from the European Union has been slow-stepped undermining UK’s
economic performance, with refusal to negotiate as the default
bargaining position.
New Zealand – What is lost in the media
narrative that the terrorist was a “right-wing white nationalist” was that his manifesto identified left-wing environmentalism as cause
célèbre’.
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocnnbbommonsensesite.com/
