Musings
Musings on the
Week
August 24, 2019
Patriotism - “Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.” Calvin Coolidge.
Politics – The entire Democrat
primary field of candidates is scrambling to renounce all their past identities
and agendas, hoping
voters will either identify as nonwhite or far left, or both and thus resent
deeply any who are not, or completely forget what was
said in the past.
Politics – Devoid of winning issues, Democrats want a recession that would harm thousands
of average Americans to win the White House, since better
to stagnate in Obama's America
than America healthy and vibrant with Trump's Keep America Great agenda.
Politics – The ruling elite of the Democrat Party is now dominated by supporters of BDS,
anti-Israel fallacious meme–throwers, and kindlers of a civil war
among American Jewish voters.
Politics – Trump’s promise of economic boom that won him the 2016 election was caused by the opposite of
Democrat policies that ruined America: tax
reform/cuts and deregulation.
Language – Political
correctness has
many definitions, but Americans increasingly see it as the
art of contorting every conversation into a reason to be offended.
Media – The more abuse from the
partisan liberal media, the more Trump’s base
is energized to turn out on election day, as evidenced by overflowing crowds at rallies across the nation.
Media – Trump is enjoying a dramatic increase in his approval ratings among
minorities, a trend
showing up in surveys early this year and appears to be gaining momentum.
Media – The public sees the
media for what they are: flagrant activists manipulating the democratic process and only 38% said national
political coverage is accurate and reliable.
Constitution – “To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
Economy – Current forecasts
for a recession
among pundits are not based on facts or real conditions but on a belief in self-fulfilling prophecies, that by predicting a
recession they can create one, and thus set the stage for Democratic
victory in 2020.
Economy – Socialism is a form
of government theft
since the government has no money of its own, so it simply takes from Citizen A to give to Citizen B and, or course, the government.
Income – The scarier claims about wealth
inequality stem from flawed data created by French economist
Thomas Piketty, while more
careful studies by other economists and the Federal
Reserve Board reveal surprisingly modest
changes in wealth inequality given the huge revolutions in globalization
and technology that have occurred.
Social Security – After ignoring Social
Security funding problems for decades, come 2035, this
program’s trust funds will be insolvent, and by law, benefits will
automatically be cut by 20% and requiring drastic program changes to
return to solvency.
Immigration – The
notion of public charge was first codified in 1882, and has persisted in all rewrites of
America’s immigration laws
including the current Immigration and Nationality Act.
Immigration – Time to force
the courts to repeal “birthright
citizenship” as a misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment,
and stop granting citizenship to illegal alien children born here.
Agriculture – Foolishly burning
food in our fuel tanks,
ethanol mandates, while the USDA reports that 42.7 million Americans are on
food stamps is cruel.
Energy – Natural gas plants cost about
$20 to produce a megawatt-hour of electricity, while wind or solar plants, unsubsidized,
costs about $80 a megawatt-hour to generate, so the
difference between $80 and $20 is the subsidy required to use wind or solar.
Energy – Burning trees to
generate electricity is probably the worst green energy stupidity, because it destroys
forests, creates its own pollutants, is less efficient than coal to harvest,
handle and burn and has a low heat value – why
does the government still subsidize it?
Elections – The Electoral
College attacks are motivated by the two electoral defeats by Democrats in 2000
and 2016, not by any desire to improve our Republic in a bipartisan way.
Education – Students have been deprived of genuine instruction in the
academic disciplines
such as grammar and style, writing coherently, and reading with comprehension
in history, literature, philosophy and politics and have become dead letters,
quite literally.
Abortion – The first step to reducing
abortions is to remove the stigma associated with
the responsible choice to give a child up for adoption and placing into
a loving home.
Religion – Since faith without reason
begets radical Islamism and reason without faith begets aggressive secularism,
the key then for the Judeo-Christian West is to
recover both faith and reason, properly balanced and integrated.
Defense – “No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.” Calvin Coolidge.
Israel – The boycott,
divestment, and sanctions campaign (BDS) is a 21st century iteration
of the age-old scourge of Jew-hatred, to target, delegitimize and
destroy the State of Israel.
Taiwan – President Trump continues to support an independent Taiwan,
maintaining close economic, political and security ties with this island
nation.
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocnnbbommonsensesite.com/
