Musings
Musings on the
Week
December 7, 2019
Greatness – "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed
in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." Winston Churchill.
Politics – The Republican
Party has the once in a lifetime political opportunity to change its
perception and become the party of the working
classes, open to all people of every color, religion and ethnic
background, and to remain in power well into the
future.
Politics – Democrats have
surrendered to the extreme left and
impeachment is not only an attack on Trump, but also meant to dishearten and disenfranchise those who voted for him.
Politics – Democrats are still
in denial they lost the 2016 election
and the impeachment process has been a “verdict in search of a crime” to punish
and remove the President.
Politics – After hyping “no one is
above the law” but failing to uncover
any evidence of a crime being committed, Democrats and their hand-picked
liberal legal experts will pivot to a weak position that a president can be impeached without breaking a law!
Politics – A landslide
victory in 2020 by Trump and the
Republicans in Congress
is the single event that could be the impetus for the Democrat
Party to recover any sense of moderation, assuming the liberals have the
intestinal fortitude to divorce themselves from the
radical Left.
Politics – I believe the upcoming IG Horowitz’s report has been over-promised and will
under-deliver justice and understanding, falling far short of indicting
deep-state lawbreakers.
Social Media – Google and Gmail
are surveillance platforms,
with no product other than you, their customer, and they gather your information, monetize it, effectively
sell you.
Media – Broadcast networks NBC, CBS, and ABC have donated 75 hours of free air time to Democrats’
impeachment hearings, despite notably poor (and consistently shrinking)
ratings.
Media – The liberal media
is no longer believed
by most Americans because their sources are suspect,
their logic is faulty, their
conclusions are biased causing disappearing credibility.
Equality – "I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that
religious duties consist in doing justice, loving
mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy." Thomas Paine.
Social Security – Next year, the Social Security Trust Fund will shrink for the first
time since 1982 with depletion predicted in 2034,
and then if no adjustments are made, benefits would have to immediately shrink by one quarter to
align revenues and payments.
Healthcare – The U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services reports that, in 2019, taxpayers
paid out nearly $100 billion in improper Medicaid spending, including
more than $57 billion at the federal level, one out of seven dollars spent on
Medicaid was improper.
Energy – Wind and solar
aren’t competitive with traditional fossil fuels, and wouldn’t exist if
it weren’t for massive federal subsidies, and laws establishing quotas
for renewable energy.
Environment – The problem with most climate change warnings are that they lack historical perspective explaining past
performance which disproves environmental base assumptions.
Immigration – Immigrating
into the United States is designed as a privilege, not a right, and requires new citizens to
assimilate into the culture, learn the English language, follow the laws, and add
unique traditions to the “melting pot” of American pluralism.
Immigration – Many neighborhoods are
rejecting the federally funded refugee resettlement
programs that are stuffing legal and illegal Immigrants into unsuspecting
communities.
Education – Colleges and
universities have replaced their traditional core curriculum of English
grammar, composition, literature, foreign languages, philosophy, and history that sharpened reasoning,
honed written and oral expression, and provided the student with the
facts-based architecture central to fundamental education with all sorts of “studies”
majors: ethnic studies, peace studies, environmental studies, black
studies, Latino studies, Asian studies, feminist studies that created the next generation of jobless social justice
warriors.
Elections – Ohio is the latest state to
conduct their required annual voter database
certification and were surprised to find hundreds of non-citizens registered voters and many of these who
illegally cast votes in recent elections (voter fraud).
Justice – "For the sake of peace and justice, let us move forward
toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own
destiny." Ronald
Reagan.
Trade – It has been a year since President Trump
signed of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
(USMCA) , but ratification is stalemated in the
impeachment focused House.
GWOT - Law
prohibits anyone to hold any sworn office who does not swear full allegiance to
the Constitution, yet hordes of adherents to Sharia
are unlawfully permitted to hold sworn office, whose allegiance is to a set of
laws diametrically opposed to the Constitution.
Europe – When Trump took office, only three NATO countries were meeting
the agreed target of devoting 2% of GDP to defense, while today that
number is eight, and commitments are in place to take
it up to 18 countries out of 30 within four years.
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocnnbbommonsensesite.com/
