BULLIES

Alligators and rainbows, I have no idea what Americans are thinking these days. Nothing? That's the kindest way to look at it. Shock is another. How do I put this mildly? Forget party affiliation for a minute, at least those of you who can think for yourselves. Violent crime is becoming a frightening phenomena across the country. Mainly in the big cities, but it is getting worse everywhere. I have relatives in rural America who almost never closed their garage door for over twenty five years. The hinges were broken for about twenty years and of course they never locked their doors. About seven years ago they had to start closing the garage doors due to increased thefts and at the same time they began locking their doors when they left home. And now they lock their doors even if they are home. Is that a step forward for this country?

Inflation comes and goes and now it is howling at us like never before. It's been at least forty years since we've seen an economy this bad and it's going to get worse. Then there is the rise in violent crime. People getting beaten on the street for no apparent reason and shootings are happening in the middle of the day. Shoplifters are ripping off stores without even making an attempt to hide their actions, walking out the door with bags full of merchandise. And half of the people in America are still clamoring for more controls over police officers. They claim that the problem is the police who are racist against black people. There is no reason at all to believe the police are targeting black people and abusing them. It doesn't even make sense, but at least you can have an abortion if you want. You may not have a place to live or a car to drive. You may be going to bed hungry. Tens of thousands of people are being laid off this year and just about all of the major employers are preparing for more layoffs for 2023. But that's nothing! Smile! You can still get an abortion. Even in the states where supposedly abortion is illegal a woman can still legally terminate her pregnancy. 

Those are bad signs. Very few people really understand the stock market, but it is down almost seventeen percent so far for 2022. And I know that nobody really cares about illegal immigration and that's also a problem. Democrats say we need the cheap labor and the easy votes, but the fact is that if we made them enter the country legally they'd still be here and they could provide the labor this country needs. Of course there is the problem of paying them. People here legally tend to be paid better and nobody wants that! What I don't understand is why not? What's wrong with paying people a wage they can live on? 

There are so many companies in the United States that are considered too big to fail that government welfare for them is just something they depend on. The only difference between the large corporations and the single mother in the ghetto is the corporations pay lawyers millions of dollars a year to make sure corporate welfare payments are huge and on time. The single mom who lives with the stigma of being a single mom, many of whom are undereducated and don't speak the language have to stand in long lines to be waited on by a surly bureaucrat who thinks they are better than her. And she will get the minimum amount allowed by the law. 

Corporate Big Shots walk around in $3000.00 suits not worrying about their welfare arriving on time because in a super weird irony they own the people giving them the welfare payments! It is possible that the global economy is destroying the American financial markets and not just the labor market. Technical companies purchase many of their components from third world countries. Until Donald Trump became president components for many items we need for national defense were coming from China. Too many Americans don't realize that China isn't just an economic threat, they are a deadly enemy that has not bought into the idea that the world is a safe place where everyone trusts everyone else and people who don't believe that are paranoid and just a little off balance. 

The world is a dangerous place full of despots like the dude in charge of China who want to kill people they don't like and crush countries that won't play by their rules. And certain politicians like to scare us into accepting China as the new world leader which is beyond stupid. They say 'China owns our debt' whatever that means. If Americans refused to give China our business they would fold in a frighteningly short period of time. And King Barry used to say that anyone with any sense could see that China should be the world's leader. Right, the country that enslaves tens of millions of its citizens and murders or jails certain minority groups and steals American technology should become the next world leader. 

I don't like bullies. I never have. Russia has a very long history of being run by bullies so does China. The United States has a long history of helping people all over the world and trying to make the world a better, safer place to live, but one of our major parties claims that we are bad people because we believe in capitalism and we think individuals should enjoy protections against a strong central government. We do need the Bill of Rights, every one of the first ten amendments is vital to our individual liberty. 

In so many close races all other issues seem to be trailing behind abortion. This election is going to be about abortion. If Americans care about having a strong and prosperous country they'll vote for the candidates who will stop the problem of runaway inflation and skyrocketing interest rates and energy dependence. It's hard to believe but it looks like even the hard core Chicken Little fanatics are more worried about getting an abortion than they are about the earth going up in smoke, possibly because they know when they are being honest with themselves that their global warming idols are lying to them. 

We don't need bullies on Capitol Hill. We need men and women with the courage to stand up for the great country we have, protect the Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights. No other country has the benefits we have. Anyone who says we don't live in the greatest country in the history of the world is wrong. One major party wants to take all that away so we can enjoy the benefits they have in Europe; small apartments, stupid small cars or buses, and an overall lower standard of living unless you are bringing home several hundred thousand euros a year then it's just like here except for streets that are so narrow it's all but impossible to drive on them. A good friend of mine was accidentally driving on the sidewalk in some European paradise because he thought it was still the street. He didn't understand why people were giving him dirty looks, just one more ugly American driving on the sidewalk. Here the difference is very clear, no one drives on the sidewalk by accident here. Ahhh! The joy of living in Europe!  

Of course even in the European Utopia, they have abortion restrictions. As near as I can tell the only country in the world where you can legally murder your baby after delivery is the United States of America. Most countries frown on that and so should we.