Constructive Criticism

I've been picking on democrats a lot. They deserve it, but it's just too easy. They have been hacking away at the greatness of America for about sixty years. Today they have come up with many ways to weaken or even destroy the USA and I resent it. I can't help it really because this is the greatest nation in the history of the entire world. Democrats don't support religious freedom, God offends them. They don't believe in the sanctity of the family either. Since all parents aren't perfect we don't need families, in fact to the democrat party families weaken the American ideals. Government officials know what's best for America's children so the best thing for parents to do is continue paying taxes and trust the government to raise their children. 

And parents shouldn't ask so many damn questions. It's embarrassing. Honestly if parents cared about their children they'd leave the job of raising them to the professionals. Teachers who've been properly educated and will indoctrinate them correctly. When parents interfere with the 'education' of their children they mess their kids up. Too many parents believe in God and the Creation of the Universe over scientific unproven theories about things like the big bang theory or Darwinian theory. Some parents never even graduated from any university yet they think they are qualified to raise their children and direct teachers in the education of their children. Too many parents don't agree that we need a ministry of speech. They don't understand how dangerous freedom of speech is. 

I feel it is important to give a special thank you note to the many teachers with whom I am personally acquainted who are doing an outstanding job, and the administrators who do their best to support genuine education. Many school districts do take education seriously while some others do not. I have no idea what the ratio is, I just know that even within the education community there are serious differences of opinion. And to my dear friends who are doing a great job I appreciate and support you. Please do not become discouraged, just keep up the good work because the world needs you. I am a product of public education and I had teachers point me in the right direction in so many ways. I have nothing but good things to say about the teaching profession; I just wish very much that democrats would stop screwing it up. 

I could go on about democrat deficiencies forever. Some parents don't think it's a good idea to teach kids that people can change their gender before they even know what gender is. And some parents are careless enough to reject the idea that a ten year old should be allowed to make up his/her own mind when it comes to gender reassignment therapies/surgeries. 

"Look Jack, if a teacher agrees with your ten year old child that he or she is the wrong gender, and has the courage to do something about it, it's time for the parents to just butt out. And if any parent is so callous and mean as to tell the child to wait a few years before making such a huge decision then it's time for the teacher to just take over."

Yes there are many examples of educators actually taking children to clinics to begin gender reassignment therapies without the knowledge of their parents. There are even a couple of school districts across the nation being sued for sneaking children off to clinics to begin gender reassignment therapies and encouraging those children to hide the clinic visits from their parents. Any teacher wicked enough to interfere in a private family matter in that way should be fired immediately. I hope all of those lawsuits succeed. The insanity continues. In California, AB957 allows judges to consider what they like to call "Gender Reaffirming Care" in child custody disputes. If one parent doesn't agree to the procedure being proposed that parent could lose any custodial right to their child. In other cases if neither parent agrees to allow the child to mutilate him/her self the state can assume custody and remove the child from the 'offending' household. How's that for promoting family unity? I prefer to let mom, dad, and junior to work it out for themselves. I'll take freedom over government intrusion into my life every time. I'd make a truly lousy democrat. I'd like to talk to them, but they can scream for hours at a time without ever taking a breath. I didn't even know that was possible.  

And freedom of speech? Who was the fathead who came up with that beauty? In the good ole days, when parents were considered important to a child (another stupid idea) we used to teach children that it was impolite to call people fat. I have no idea how such asinine ideas ever took root. You cannot teach children things like that. They don't have the brain power to understand such concepts, besides they might do it anyway and hurt someone's feelings. And we can't have that. It will do no good to teach overweight children that sometimes some misguided fool will try to hurt their feelings by calling them fat. Don't teach children self esteem by helping them understand that it really doesn't matter what some misguided idiot calls them or even thinks of them. No, it's better to just start banning words. So we start re-editing books by such hooligans as Roald Dahl. We can no longer use the word 'fat', we cannot say 'small men', or 'witches wear wigs because they are bald'. Instead we say 'enormous', 'small people', and we explain that people wear wigs or a variety of reasons instead of using the 'B' word. Democrats engage in censorship all the time. They only complain about censorship when it involves something they care about such as turning children into sex objects instead of teaching them how to read and write, add and subtract, or multiply and divide. Who needs the 3R's when we can ask important questions like how come only boys have weiners? 

Such stupidity is the purview of the democrat party. I have no idea how the American people have become so ignorant as to elect people like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Alex is a member of the democrat party, and unfortunately has become part of the party leadership. She is arguably an attractive woman with some charisma, and a ton of ambition. Seizing on an idea from a different democrat from a different era, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, she came up with an idea she calls the Green New Deal. It is a list of rules and policies designed to stop the climate from changing. Incredibly a lot of Americans still believe that catastrophic man made global warming is the greatest threat we face. Each of the Green New Deal policies has had and will continue to have a catastrophic effect on our economy. There are punitive regulations imposed on businesses regarding what types of materials they can use, what types of fuel, she wants to ban gas stoves in favor of electric stoves, all cars must be electric by a certain date, farmers have to change the way they farm and even stop breeding cattle in favor of a synthetic meat.  Alexandria denies wanting to destroy America, she just wants to fundamentally change it into something entirely different and she hopes nobody figures out what that means until it's too late to stop it. When Alexandria speaks for some reason democrat 'leaders' are nodding their heads in agreement no matter what she says. She was elected to Congress when she was 29  

Democrats come up with silly words like 'woke' to describe a philosophy that is destructive of our system of government. Republicans generally are trying to honor their oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic, but Marge is an exception. No member of Congress should ever openly advocate violating their oath. If only democrats would be that honest about their ideas concerning the future of our Republic then perhaps even the 'sane' democrats, if in fact there are any, would know in which direction their leadership was taking them. I know that most Republicans are opposed to Marge's statement on the Red/Blue divorce decree, but I'm sure there is a small set of weirdos who will support her idea. I am not at all convinced that the everyday democrat opposes Alex's views on class and race warfare. The fact that democrats overwhelmingly continue to support the so-called Black Lives Matter movement, a group that has shown it has a goal of ripping the Union apart, and democrats' advocacy for cutting police funding, promoting same sex marriage, late term abortion, and gender reassignment surgeries, all point to a destruction of our social fabric. 

Democrats want to take away respect for police officers. They want to destroy the family by denying parents a voice in the education of our children. They talk about the homosexual lifestyle as if it were equal to a heterosexual lifestyle and don't want adoption agencies to give preferential treatment to heterosexual couples over homosexuals. People with any sense at all can see that a man and a woman are a better adoption fit for children over a man/man and woman/woman couple. I can't really elaborate further because it is as obvious as the fact that we need water in order to live. That doesn't mean I hate homosexuals. I've known a few and they've usually been very nice people to spend time with, but same sex unions are not natural or normal in any sense if either of those words has any meaning anymore. 

When you take away parental authority and destroy the family unit you are left with anarchy which is exactly where the democrat party is taking us. I haven't seen a single democrat speak out against the madness that is Alexandria Cortez, or Ilhan Omar, or Ayanna Presley, or Rashida Tlaib. The party seems to be in complete agreement with their anti America, pro communist, anti Semitic, and other anti decency views. Democrats in Seattle voted to outlaw the caste system. The only problem was there never was a caste system in Seattle. Like other cities in the United States they have wealthy people, middle income people and poor people. They want the world to think they are protecting everyone from the abuse of large corporations. Only a democrat could take credit for outlawing something that doesn't exist. They cannot explain what it is or how it works but none of that matters. President Biden has claimed that democrats believe in 'truth over fact', no one knows what that means either and it seems to me that they don't believe in truth or fact. At least now something that never existed is illegal in Seattle. Great job dems!

Something else democrats need to do is stop using the word 'woke'. It just sounds idiotic. What kind of an idiot goes around telling everyone, "Hey I'm woke man!" Apparently it means that you understand that white males, especially police officers are one of the biggest threats to our survival. Perhaps right behind so-called climate change. The democrat has been taken over by extremists who want to steer us away from constitutional law. People who think a monarchy is the best way to go. Right now they have a female presidential candidate who wants to have the federal government impose price controls on corporations. She wants to confiscate our firearms by imposing a 'mandatory' by back program. We will be ordered to sell our guns to the federal government for a fraction of what they cost and what they are worth. She wants to abolish our borders and invite people from all over the world to come here and stay as long as they want. No citizenship required. Everyone should be able to see a doctor at government expense and attend public schools. She says she will lower food prices and the cost of everything while at the same time stating that the United States will never be the biggest supplier of oil to the world. She wants to drive up the cost of fuel and lower the cost of living at the same time. No one knows how that is possible because everyone knows it can't be done. Donald Trump has real ideas that will put us on the right track to lower inflation and the cost of everything. Kamala Harris wants to give everyone twenty five thousand dollars so they can buy a house. Donald Trump wants to lower the cost of living, especially home mortgage rates, so every one can afford to buy a home. It's communism vs. freedom and it looks like the American people will vote for her not for her brilliant policies which everyone knows don't make any sense, but because it will be so cool to have the first female Black president. Americans have lost their way.

Let's try to maintain our collective sanity and enjoy the greatness that is America. Say a prayer and thank God for the blessings we all enjoy. 

Democrats don't believe in God so just do what you can. In two years we will most likely save the nation by ensuring that conservatives win a super majority in the House of Representatives and two years after that there will hopefully be a conservative landslide and they will win the White House and the Senate. If we don't do that and allow her to have eight years we will be involved in a world war that will ensure there isn't another year for a thousand years. Check out how much fun the Japanese people had in Nagasaki and Hiroshima on August 6th and August 9th. Each city was wiped out by one bomb each and those bombs I'm told were nothing compared to the destructive power of nuclear weapons today. That seems to be what Americans want and they seem intent on achieving that goal. 

If they succeed they can forget about their need for a civil war because the country will be finished. We will rebuild with whatever people are left, dust off the Constitution and rebuild. As badly as democrats want to destroy America it cannot be done. We will defeat them in the end and rebuild stronger than before. As we rebuild there will be dissenters almost immediately and the cycle will repeat. Some will realize the greatness that is America, but there will always be democrats who'll believe they deserve what others have built. They'll sow seeds of discord and eventually provoke another war, but this time it will take thousands of years instead of a few decades or a century. 

State of the Union

 I'm still wondering why anyone votes democrat anymore. How does that even happen? Democrats say everybody lies so it doesn't matter which party you support yet they continue to vote democrat every time. Let me share a recent tale from Uncle Joe during the State of the Union address. I'm sure there were several lies told, but my favorite was when he said that Billionaires don't pay their fare share of taxes, which may actually be true, but he seemed to be implying that democrats wanted to do something about it, as if they had that kind of power. Then he said that Republicans in Congress wanted to stop Medicare and Social Security payments. 

I'm sure there are some people who believe that, I'm skeptical. When Republicans in the room shouted 'liar' and booed him Uncle Joe put his other foot in his mouth; he said he was willing to show us the proposal if we contacted his office and requested a copy. He also said it had the names of the Republicans who submitted the proposal. So ok, I'd like to see it. If he's telling the truth I'll know who to oppose next election cycle. If he's not, which is what I'd bet if I could find anyone brave enough to bet against me, then I'll know he's told just one more lie in a very long string of lies. You can't just stop paying people when they've spent years investing in it. Democrats have convinced at least half of the people in America that people who receive social security and medicare are getting some sort of government welfare which is a lie and once again they know it's a lie. Democrats thrive on internal strife. They love turning people from different races against each other and women against men and rich against poor, anything that divides Americans as a people democrats will do it. 

A unified America is a nightmare for democrats. How can they get black to vote for them if black no longer need government handouts? How can they get women to vote for them if women ever find out that they are not being cheated, that they are paid the same as men for the same work and what if women find out they do have a right to an abortion if they want that, just not while the baby is being born. There has to be some limits. I don't know this, but hopefully most women do oppose infanticide. A united America would create more successful people from all backgrounds. Successful people don't want the government involved in every aspect of their lives. Democrats need needy people. And democrats need to make sure that young Americans resent older Americans. Kids need to realize that they are paying social security taxes just like everyone else and someday they will also benefit from the savings. 

What Uncle Joe was suggesting is that in a plan that was proposed by a Republican from Florida named Richard Scott, and has been rejected by every thinking member of Congress, Senator Scott wants all federal laws to sunset every five years and reconsidered by Congress. Frankly that sounds stupid to me and according to him it is not targeted at Medicare and Social Security, which it looks like just about all of the members of Congress, regardless of political party, consider entitlements. An entitlement is something a person expects to get even if they don't do anything to earn, or deserve it. Americans have been paying for their Social Security retirement since 1935. They've been paying for Medicare since 1965. 

I have no idea how politicians become so stupid. If a person pays for something over a period of time had has been promised that at some point in their lives they will have earned a benefit for that payment, when the time comes for the entity that has been collecting the payment has to pay that is not an entitlement. That is paying a debt that is owed to the individual who has been paying a premium for years. Simple logic will tell even the dumbest democrat or Socialist that a person who has been contributing to Social Security and Medicare is not asking for an entitlement. They are demanding to paid what they are owed. It looks like most democrats don't even know how either program works. It is obvious that democrats hate social security and medicare. They want young people and immigrant to think it's something older Americans get for free so they promise young people and immigrants that, 'if you vote for me I will fight to make sure you receive the same free benefit as retired people get.' Then they start shouting, "Medicare for all! Medicare for all!" Never telling the truth about Medicare, that it costs retirees a lot of money, and even if a person is receiving Medicare they still have to buy a supplemental insurance policy to cover the things not covered by Medicare. And Medicare doesn't cover any dental needs. I really think they are lying intentionally when they make such claims, I don't see how they could be that ignorant of how the system works. 

In fact they keep robbing from people who are owed Social Security payments. They use Social Security accounts for whatever they want then promise to pay it back. When insurance executives do that they are sent to prison. And Medicare baffles democrats even more. They keep telling everyone that it's given to all Americans over 65 years old for free. I'm over 65 years old and I pay almost two hundred dollars a month for a government insurance plan that only pays eighty percent of my medical bills. I admit that sounds like a lot, but so is the twenty percent that is left so I purchased a supplemental plan to cover the twenty percent Medicare doesn't pay and hospitalization. Then to get the prescription portion costs another premium, so-called Medicare part D. So you have parts A&B, and part D. it is confusing and it is a government managed program, but it is not welfare for geezers it's something geezers paid into for years and finally get to collect. 

Somehow democrats have figured out that if I pay the government two hundred dollars a month for something that I'm receiving an entitlement. That I'm asking for something I didn't earn. I paid a Medicare tax every time I got paid, and now I'm paying almost two hundred a month to keep this 'benefit' that democrats claim I never earned, and the Medicare premium has increased a couple of times over the years. I'd love to hear Richard Scott and Kevin McCarthy explain to all of us how Medicare and Social Security are entitlement programs. And they are both Republicans. I expect democrats to lie in an effort to make themselves look better, but not Republicans. Uncle Joe did it when he claimed that Republican legislators wanted to Sunset Medicare and Social Security when in fact the proposal came from one of the dumbest Republicans in Congress, roughly equal to the smartest democrat in Congress. 

In my opinion any legislator, Republican, democrat, Socialist, Independent, whatever, who thinks Social Security or Medicare are entitlement programs should be fired, voted out of office, impeached, whatever is the quickest method of getting them out of office. I'd even force them to run down the streets of Washington D.C. naked no matter how old or ugly they are. Any legislator who thinks we need to raise the debt ceiling should be given the same treatment. Taxes are way too high. There is a lot of theft occurring through Congress. Government contracts are being handed out to friends of legislators and too often there is almost no oversight. I'm sure that Billions of dollars are wasted or stolen each year due to lack of government oversight.

Uncle Joe is possibly in the top two percent of the biggest thieves ever to work in the Federal government. Somehow we allowed him to rise to the highest office in the land. He bragged about withholding a billion dollars from a foreign government if they didn't fire a prosecutor who was conducting a criminal investigation of a company who was paying Uncle Joe's son millions of dollars. He was only the vice president in those days, but it worked. The prosecutor was fired and the investigation stopped. Too about half of country, including some Republicans, that sounds like corruption. We haven't usually condoned firing prosecutors for conducting criminal investigations even if we happened to like the person or groups who are being investigated. We used to be opposed to corrupt law enforcement practices now we reward them. And worse Uncle Joe has a drug addled son who has no known abilities at all other than he was able use his father's influence to get accepted to Georgetown University, and then Yale Law School and somehow he was able to stumble across those very prestigious campuses enough times to help them feel somewhat comfortable awarding him a degree. His father's influence has also allowed him to become a millionaire 'working' for foreign companies who pay him tens of millions of dollars for doing nothing other than provide access to the political operations in the United States. 

Uncle Joe also wants us to believe he has created tens of thousands of high paying jobs. Too many politicians want us to believe they create jobs. I'm not sure how that is even possible. They award contracts to people who then hire other people to do jobs that need to be done. So if we are paying people to do work that doesn't need to be done I guess that could count as 'creating' a job, but I'm not sure that is a good way to spend tax money. There could be times when that is necessary but any job like that should definitely be Sunsetted. Democrats have perfected the art of creating problems and then solving the problem they either created themselves or helped to create.

We were just the target of a massive worldwide pandemic that most people won't acknowledge came from a laboratory in China. Wuhan China to be precise. The lab is called the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus Lab. Democrats won't even consider the possibility that the virus spread from there. That simply is ridiculous according to them because there are bats in Wuhan that can spread the virus so that's where the coronavirus started; it started in an open air market down the street. They don't even want to consider the possibility that it came from that lab and eventually thanks to Rand Paul, Republican Senator from Kentucky, we got a glimpse of the reason why democrats are so scared of investigating that lab. 

The United States of America has been spending who knows how much money creating viruses in that lab supposedly in an effort to create vaccinations for those viruses. That sounds a little bit stupid to me. In fact it sounds very suspicious to me because viruses can and are used as weapons to deliberately infect large populations of people. And we were and probably still are spending an unknown number of millions of dollars to create viruses that can be used as weapons in a war, then trying to create a vaccination against it, and we are doing that in the middle of one of our most dangerous enemies. Smart. This points to the greatest weakness of Donald Trump's presidency. He retained people who work for the Deep State in America. No one talks about the Deep State anymore, but it still exists and it is just as dangerous as ever. I doubt that President Trump even knew about the work our country has been paying for in that lab. If he had known he might not have allowed Dr. Fauci to shut down this entire country.

For two years nothing moved in America. Store shelves were empty. Very few people were allowed to go to work and the few who did had to wear a mask over their faces covering their mouths and noses. It didn't matter that no one knew if the masks were effective, and it turned out that they really weren't. Traffic was a breeze because everyone was afraid to leave their homes. I travelled the country during the pandemic. I practically had the freeways to myself. There were a few hotels that remained open and they were empty. And everyone was scared. It was like, "Please don't come too close to me, I don't want to die!" Meanwhile people were dying in pretty impressive numbers, but we'll never know the real count because the overwhelming majority of people who supposedly died  from the coronavirus already had a terrible disease that was going to kill them in a short period of time anyway. The coronavirus just speeded up the process a little. And that is not a callous description of people dying, it is an accurate picture of what was really happening; healthy people were not dying of Covid, people with compromised systems were. And democrats were locking them up in retirement homes and hospitals completely isolated from family and friends, left alone to die in a terrible situation. 

Healthy people weren't dying from the virus. Sick people were. I know dozens of people who survived the virus and for many of them it wasn't that bad. And I'm talking about old people. Old people were supposed to be the people who were dying the fastest, but not so. The only old people who were dying were sick old people. So anyway the country was shut down. Restaurants were closed, many small markets were closed. Lots of other types of businesses were ordered shut down and guess what? Unemployment skyrocketed. 

Funny how that works. Democrats weren't worried because all they had to do was pass a law prohibiting apartment owners from evicting people who could no longer pay their rent, the same went for anyone who rented any dwelling so a potential housing crisis was kicked down the road for awhile. Then they probably started mailing vouchers to people who had been laid off to help them feed themselves and their kids. The American economy was getting wrecked. We had to stand six feet apart in any public place. And wear masks over our faces or risk being arrested or cited for a violation. Most county sheriff's refused to go that far, but a few did actually arrest for refusing to wear a mask in public places such as grocery stores and gas stations. Since the police didn't know what section to arrest them for most of the arrests were for trespassing. I have no idea what the conviction rate was. Dr. Fauci's specialty seems to be infectious and imune-repressive illnesses, especially HIV/AIDS. He has shut down the most influential country in the world and nobody understands why. During that time the United States spearheaded an effort to produce a vaccination in record time to be used on everyone in the world before anyone knew how safe it was and there have been some serious and real safety concerns. How effective is it? Nobody knows. I took the first two doses because without it there were some places of entertainment we weren't allowed to enter with proof vaccination, some restaurants had the same rule, and no one without proof of vaccination was allowed to fly commercial carrier. 

Fauci himself has stated he has no idea where the virus came from or how it spreads, if it is always fatal, what groups of people are at the biggest risk? He doesn't know any of that, but we just let him stop all commerce. Kids could no longer go to school. Teachers could only teach online. Resorts were closed. Most hotels and restaurants were closed. Novelty stores closed. Even Hallmark! No more cards sent to people we care about. Except for Amazon. What a lucky break for Jeff Bezos! Democrats constantly claim that they hate billionaires who don't pay their share of taxes, which is a bogus claim, they pay enough in taxes, and possibly the wealthiest man in the world gets a gift from Covid-19. It was just about the only way to shop for necessary items for over a year. Grocery stores were open, but there was very little in them for anyone to buy.   

Jeff doesn't pay his people very well, but he pays enough tax I'm pretty sure. Rather than pick on Jeff for not adequately pay his employees, the poor guy is rumored to only be worth $120,000,000,000, I want to get back to the imaginary democrat solutions. Now that the pandemic is over and Anthony Fauci has given the green light, guardedly, to get back to work, people are going back to work and unemployment numbers are looking good finally. So Uncle Joe stands in front of all of us and claims he has created 800,000 thousand "good paying jobs" in the two years since he became president. I don't know what a democrat considers a "good paying job" for one thing, but how is allowing people to return to work after ordering them to stay home even considered creating jobs? 

And just to prove that the Deep State is still alive and well, Uncle Joe reminded us all that he ran for President to 'fundamentally change things'. King Barry said he wanted to fundamentally change America as well. How exactly do you define 'fundamental change?' Wait a minute!! Why do we need 'fundamental change?' That phrase should at the very least cause every single adult person in the country to ask the question, "What is he talking about, we should always be looking for reasons to improve, but what does he mean by making fundamental changes?"

I haven't heard anyone ask that question and it's an important question. Barak Obama wanted to redefine what the United States of America stood for. He thought Americans had too much freedom. He complained that the Constitution put too many constraints on government authority and said the government should be more involved in our lives. Democrats don't like the concept of the sovereignty of the individual, preferring that the individual be obedient to the government bureaucracy. For them we weren't endowed by any Creator with any rights because there is no Creator. Everything we have is a gift from other men who have formed governments to rule over people and provide for them and in return for the 'gifts' provided by the government we give to government leaders whatever they require because it is through their wisdom and benevolence that we are provided for.

They want a king or queen to rule over us. King Barry worked toward that goal and via Executive Orders was getting closer to achieving that goal. He would have succeeded if the American people hadn't come to their senses and realized what he wanted to do was take America apart. Bloody Hilary was supposed to complete the coup, but luckily Donald Trump spoiled that plan. By any reasonable standard the United States of America is the greatest nation in the world so making 'fundamental change' shouldn't be on any person's mind. King Barry admitted that he wanted to fundamentally change America and now Uncle Joe is saying the same thing. 

And no one seems to care. Uncle Joe said he wanted fundamental change to ensure that the economy works for everybody, but he didn't specify where it needed improvement or how he envisioned making those improvements. His statement is actually scary to me. I don't want to fundamentally change this country. I want to make improvements wherever we can, but to tear down and start over just doesn't make sense. When Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House spoke of fundamental change he was careful to define what he meant. Democrats are always eager to increase spending and increase the tax burden on the American people if necessary in order to achieve their goals, but they never want to talk about spending cuts. And sometimes spending cuts are necessary. To Kevin McCarthy that represents a fundamental change in how we view the budget and put certain constraints on spending in order to reduce the tax burden on Americans. The sad truth is that neither party is willing to admit that we most likely need a combination of spending cuts and increased taxes for a couple of years. From what I can tell the biggest financial burden being carried by this country is the interest on the debt, and I don't pretend to understand who is owed the debt. What I do understand is inflationary spending and the importance of avoiding drowning in debt. Fifty years ago a gallon of gasoline cost about thirty five cents a gallon. Now it is many multiples of that and the same goes for everything else. One thing Kevin McCarthy is right about is the need for reduced spending. Republicans don't want to admit that we probably need at least a modest increase in taxes. If McCarthy ever finds the courage to propose meaningful budget reform it will be entertaining to hear the lies from democrats. "Republicans want to raise taxes on poor people! Republicans want to eliminate Social Security and Medicare! Republicans want to..." It will be the first time anyone will ever hear democrats claim that they are opposed to raising taxes because there won't be a corresponding wasteful spending plan to go along with it. 

In his State of the Union address the only thing Uncle Joe addressed specifically was Medicare and Social Security and he said Republicans want to stop payments, which is a lie. The truth is that neither party cares much about the beneficiaries of either program. According to the Social Security Administration website Social Security went untaxed from 1939 to 1983 when Republicans and democrats held hands and voted to tax Social Security benefits. The move might have been necessary because at the time most self described experts were saying there was a real danger of Social Security running out of money in a couple of decades if something wasn't done to save it. As usual it is difficult to say if the tax actually saved Social Security, probably not. I'm sure they all felt good about the decision, but it was probably a mistake, and then ten years later when democrats finally controlled everything they engaged in a feeding frenzy of spending on anything they could imagine. Showing their true attitude toward helping retirees they increased the Social Security tax from the already too high fifty percent they settled for in 1983 to eighty five percent in 1993. This obvious power grab cost them dearly at the polls when they lost both chambers of Congress during the mid term elections.  

Democrats' lust for power and spending was so great that they overwhelmingly lost both houses of Congress in 1995. Interestingly it appears that in 1983 Republicans and democrats were able to talk to each other and agree to accomplish goals together. Democrats wanted a greater than fifty percent tax on Social Security and  Republicans wanted something less. In the end they voted on a fifty percent increase. It's no surprise that most of what Uncle Joe said in his speech was untrue. He didn't create 800,000 good paying jobs, they didn't create any jobs at all. He said the last Congress passed three hundred new laws and that is frightening all by itself. It is highly unlikely that legislators had time to write and understand all three hundred laws, who knows what those laws were or how they affect the rest of us. They had to be passed based strictly on a partisan vote most of the time. There are a few people like Mitt Romney and a couple others who regularly vote democrat, that's what allows Uncle Joe to call it bipartisan agreement. 

I looked and looked for some sign that Uncle Joe's administration was capable of openness and honesty and couldn't find any. Especially his claim that he had a proposal on his desk from certain Republicans claiming that they wanted to stop social security payments. There are two Republican Senators who have made suggestions regarding Social Security reforms in political speeches made more than ten years ago. Uncle Joe just plain lied. There is no Republican plan to cut social security, period. Democrats never trust us to know what they really want because they can't. Education will always be their enemy so long as they oppose the Constitution. They always resort to fear and force and misinformation. That is why they wanted the Ministry of Misinformation; so they could intimidate anyone who disagrees with them. And what they didn't count on is that even most people who vote for them never listen to them. They have always voted democrat and they always will and when the new king they finally put into office ties a noose around their necks before kicking a chair out from under them they will be crying and wondering what went wrong. Incredibly they will most likely be blaming Republicans for their plight.  

We are fortunate that Republicans now control the House of Representatives. I admit to being nervous about McCarthy and Scott. I hate it when Republicans refer to Social Security and Medicare as entitlements. Those are programs we paid for and the payments were promised to all of us and we have a right to demand payment, not beg. The Supplemental Security Income scheme (SSI) is a brainchild of democrats and was passed in an effort to get more votes from illegal aliens and it may actually impact Social Security in some way, it was passed in 1993 when democrats controlled everything. In the very next election cycle they lost their majority in both legislatures but since it was not a presidential election year they retained the White House. It was that Republican Congress that saved Bronco Billy's reputation. Given another two years democrats would have succeeded in turning America into a completely socialist country. Newt Gingrich saved Clinton's butt. 

There will never be a democrat Speaker that saves a Republican president. They appear to be genetically predisposed to destroying America. They literally can't help themselves. The idea of individual liberty is repugnant to them. Just like the Tory's during the American Revolution wanted to save King George democrats today want to dispatch the Constitution and enthrone a monarch in America once again. Hopefully that will never happen. 

DEMOCRACY

There are so many sub categories of types of government that it is hard to really identify government systems. We tend to think of Democratic, Socialist, Fascist, Nazi, and Communist, that's pretty much it. This oversimplification may be useful for elementary school children and possibly even into high school, but once we leave high school we should be able to learn the difference between how different governments work. Nazism, Fascism, and Communism always fail. Democracy and Socialism can work with a little bit of tweaking. Nazism and Fascism are led by military dictators who force the citizenry to conform to a narrow set of rules  and social norms. They are characterized by brutality and fear to keep a nation together. Communism is characterized by its class warfare which supposedly ends up with everyone in the country owning everything in common. Everyone does equal work and receives equal pay according to their abilities and needs; "From each according to his abilities; to each according to their needs." It assumes that everyone has the same goals and that everyone will contribute to the common good according to their abilities, and that there will be no envy or ruling class. Communism really makes no sense and will always fail.

Socialism is similar, but everything is owned by the government who then doles out jobs and businesses according to the desires of a ruling monarchy. When properly blended with a healthy capitalist system Socialism can work. Democracy is another form of government that cannot succeed in its pure form. When everything is decided by a strict majority vote the result will ultimately be a society where everyone will be ruled by a well armed class of people who will then always vote against the minority. 

What democrats seem to have a hard time with is the fact that the United States has some aspects of a democracy, we have public elections, but the elections are tempered by a brilliant system of checks and balances that are intricately connected. We are a Republican form of government. We hold public elections wherein eligible people are allowed to vote, but we don't elect a monarch. We elect a president who has carefully defined duties and wields limited power. We have representatives who represent the states and counties and ensure that the majority doesn't smother the minority. Each person living the United States has a set of rights that no governing body can violate without consequences. 

I don't know about everybody but in elementary school I was taught we are governed by a democratic form of government. I guess my teachers were confused by the fact that we all are allowed to vote, but that's just one component of our system of government. The president has very little actual power, the representatives have their well defined duties and the judges also have limits on their power. The most dangerous vulnerability to our system is the judiciary branch. They are supposed to study the Constitution and then write opinions based on what the Constitution directs us to do. 

And for a couple of hundred years judges had enough integrity to know that they had to make decisions based upon what the document actually says and even if they thought a law had been passed that made sense to them they had the ability to tell the legislators responsible for the law to make clarifications and corrections before writing a final legal opinion. This takes time, but it is worth it because it safeguards freedoms we need and enjoy. Over the past fifty years judges have been interjecting their personal opinions into their rulings and they've decided such things as a woman's Constitutional right to an abortion where it doesn't exist. The Supreme Court tortured one or more of the amendments to the constitution and decided that abortion was a privacy issue and therefore protected by the Constitution. Somehow the same law doesn't extend to my right to privately abort my neighbor who keeps parking his car in front of my driveway. 

And the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The Second Amendment is primarily meant to ensure that everyone living in this country has the right to self defense. Democrats have decided that since we have police departments and police officers carry firearms the rest of us don't need to be armed so in their opinion the Second Amendment should be repealed. And since America is generally a safe place to live there are a lot of people here who agree with that. Until someone comes at them with a knife or a club and stabs or beats them to death, then they think something like, "Gee if I had some sort of firearm right now I could be calling the police after I shot this guy who is stabbing me to death, instead of bleeding to death so someone else could sign a crime report assigning some police officer the responsibility of finding my killer." 

The Constitution works if we let it. It could have been amended to allow for the freedom of slaves if Democrats could have exercised some self control and engaged in a debate instead of firing heavy artillery at American military installations. Restraint has never been a problem for democrats; they simply don't see the need for them to control themselves. People who assume they are always right seldom see a need to discuss their position. If someone doesn't like it then democrats will find a judge who will allow them to turn law enforcement agency against the offending person. Once you've disarmed your opposition you can use your police officers and soldiers to beat them into submission. And it will all have been done constitutionally because judges who don't like the Constitution will have written so many unconstitutional rulings and passing their own laws that democrats will always get their way. 

And that is the fundamental weakness of the Republican party; they believe in the Constitution and they are willing to try to work within its parameters even when it doesn't allow them to have their way. Republicans will talk to anyone about anything as long as the discussion remains somewhat civil. And with some exceptions Republicans are honest. I can only think of one Republican president who actually lied to the people of the United States; George H.W. Bush promised to never support new taxes on the American people then he signed a bill that raised a variety of taxes including the income tax. He became a one term president. He should have vetoed that law. Live and learn. 

The biggest lie ever told to the American people was from Barak Obama who said that we needed a law that would provide medical insurance for everyone in the United States. It was to be a government run insurance scheme that wouldn't cost anybody anything, and no one would ever have to pay for medical care again because the government would cover all of the cost. Half of the people in the country jumped for joy because democrats don't realize that the government doesn't have any money except for the money it steals from the people through 'taxes'. And they derive the power to steal money from the people. Of course democrats deceive themselves into believing that means only people like Bill Gates and Mark Zukerberg will have their taxes increased, but not so. In fact men in that category often don't pay any taxes at all. No, the money is extracted, at bayonet point if necessary, from the half of the people who  are jumping for joy as well as those who can think for themselves and say, "Wait a minute. This Free Health Care is going to cost me a lot of money and I already have good insurance." I'm not sure when it dawned on everyone that not only were they about to lose their medical insurance, but their doctor as well.

And that's why B.O. had to promulgate the Big Lie. "Hey! If you like your inadequate insurance plan you've been using for years you can keep it. If you like your old blind and lame doctor keep going to him or her. We're not takin' nuthin' from ya, we're just offering something better." 

Half of us knew that was a lie and another democrat promise that would be impossible to deliver and half of us continued jumping up and down clapping their hands, "Oh boy oh boy oh boy! The government is finally going to force greedy millionaires to take care of me!" The rest of us braced for a real shellacking and we all got it. As soon as the so-called, and badly misnamed America Care Act was forced on everybody by a midnight vote on a Friday night, just about everyone in the country lost their health insurance. 

"What do you mean my doctor isn't covered by this great new government paid plan?" And then, "Wait, what do you mean I still have to buy insurance the president said the government was going to pay for it!" "Oh yeah", the president chuckled, "I forgot to tell you, the whole thing was a lie." Welcome to affordable insurance premiums with deductibles and copays that are so high none of you are going to be able to use the new insurance, and each insurance policy comes with a list of doctors and hospitals so you will probably have to find a new doctor and the hospital you like is also off limits now. People who worked for large corporations like Citicorp and Toyota got to keep their insurance since large employers were allowed to subsidize great insurance plans for their employees. And most government employees enjoyed the same benefit. Guess who got screwed; the people who were jumping up and down smoking dope and clapping their hands for joy as well as those of us who actually can think for ourselves and knew we were about to get screwed by the government again. 

The reasons for the democrat inability to think remain a real mystery, but the inevitable results of that inability remain a fact. So what does all that have to do with Democracy? During Uncle Joe's State of the Union address he said our democracy had survived its biggest threat since the civil war. What was he talking about? a small group of unarmed people who stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, in an effort to express their dissatisfaction with the results of the recent presidential election. It was a stupid move, but hardly a real threat to our system of government. There was one fatality that day. A black police officer got scared and shot and killed an unarmed white woman who was also an Air Force veteran. Police brutality? Nope! He was just doing his duty and putting down a wild attack by an army of unarmed individuals who had declared war on America and were about to overthrow the government. Besides he was a black police officers and she was a white woman, just balancing the scales is all. 

Yes those who entered the Capitol building and committed acts of vandalism or other crimes should be prosecuted for their crimes. It was a bonehead move. There is a wrinkle however. It turns out that the FBI had paid informants who were hired to whip the crowd into a frenzy and lead them into the attack on the Capitol building. In the recent trials of the supposed insurrectionists none of that has been mentioned because at first no one knew about it. The director of the FBI made sure that was classified Top Secret information. We only found out because one or two brave FBI Special Agents came forward and told us about it. Of course they are not covered by the laws against  retaliation against whistle blowers and have been fired from their jobs, democrats aren't covered under our laws. They violate the laws whenever it pleases them and that's just the way it is. 

That's the way a pure Democracy works. The majority doesn't have to obey the law because they're the ones who write the laws and if they become subject to that law they find a sympathetic judge who will rule the law unconstitutional or they will repeal the law, or get the president to sign an Executive Order making a heretofore law inoperable for a period of time. And that is the main reason democrats insist our government is a Democracy when it isn't. And there are a lot of Republicans who seem to think we are living in a Democratic government as well. We aren't.

Our  system of government was threatened during the 2020 elections when democrats were allowed to throw away or refuse to count tens of thousands of ballots. There is little evidence of that because as soon as it was announced that any irregularities were going to be investigated democrats locked their doors and said, 'nope!' there is nothing here and there is no need for you to barge into our precinct and investigate nothin'. And when there is no investigation there is no evidence. And when the people under suspicion are given enough time to destroy evidence there really won't be anything to investigate. So I think democrats are telling the truth when they say there is no evidence. It is one of the very few times when they feel comfortable telling the truth. 

So no Joe, we did not survive a serious threat to our form of government, which is not a Democracy as I just pointed out, but a Republic. In his pathetic speech and I do mean pathetic, he claimed that he has created 800,000 new tech jobs, and that inflation is down. He also claimed that the price of gasoline is down a buck fifty from its highest cost, which may or may not be true, but he failed to state the reason gasoline costs more than ever is because of his stupid idea to fight climate change, which is a euphemism for American greed killing the planet, is to stop domestic production and ramp up foreign production. We can now purchase oil at inflated prices from governments who hate us, but will sell oil to us at inflated prices because they need the money and we are stupid enough to buy it from them. 

He took credit for low unemployment which he inherited from Donald Trump and incredibly hasn't been able to raise that number despite all of his efforts. Donald Trump inherited a 9.4 percent unemployment rate from King Barry and Uncle Joe. In less than four years he reduced that number to 3.4 percent and incredibly Uncle Joe has not found a way to get it back up to 9.4 or higher. In 2015 inflation was less than one percent. Now it is over nine percent. Interest rates in 2015 for housing loans was close to three percent, now it's closer to six percent. 

American Democracy is not failing. We have never been a democracy. Our Republic is weakening because democrats keep chipping away at it, taking away our rights. Creating problems then pretending to find 'solutions' for those problems like the America Care Act. Even now they have created a monster they call climate change which is a natural phenomena but they claim is an existential threat which is itself a misleading claim. Existential is an expensive sounding word, but it has more to do with a state of mind than anything rooted in reality, which is pretty much how the democrat mind works. Reality isn't important what's important is a persons state of mind and if you can scare people bad enough they will do anything you want. And that is what democrats count on more than anything else; fear.

Scare a population into doing whatever you want. They hate an educated public because educated people are harder to scare. Schools have become places of indoctrination and education has no place. 

If we ever do become a Democracy we are doomed. We must preserve our Republican form of government and protect the Constitution at all cost if we are to survive as a nation.   

End The War on Drugs

 Recently in Central California an entire family was wiped out, including a sixteen year old girl who was holding her ten month child. Of course the murderers also killed the baby. There are kidnappings taking place in the United States all along the Mexican border and now the Mexican cartels are operating throughout the United States. The main reason for this is sales of 'illegal' narcotics. The current narco boogie man is fentanyl. Thirty years ago it was PCP, then methamphetamine, rock cocaine, oxycontin and a few others until now fentanyl has taken the spotlight. Americans have been dying from overdose of narcotics ever since America began. Narcotics abuse is nothing knew yet instead of blaming the people who are dying from drug overdose we blame the drug.

And where are these dangerous drugs coming from? Mexico. And who benefits from that? The murderers who run the now legitimized drug cartels and corrupt Mexican officials. And who loses? The American public. I have read estimates that Americans spend over 150 billion dollars a year on illegal narcotics. And we still make it illegal. We support kidnap, murder, rape, bribery on a mass scale. Who can look at the photo of that sixteen year old holding her baby and then realize she along with the rest of her family was brutally murdered by cartel hitmen just because one of the family members was involved in the illegal narcotics trade and think it is still a good idea to support the drug lords? 

Not me. We should legalize all narcotics immediately. We never had the right to outlaw them in the first place. It should be legalized, regulated and taxed. Put the drug lords out of business. Make sure that anyone who applies or a license to open a narcotics store passes a thorough background check. Conduct a background check on any investors. Clean it up. Make sure the manufacturing locations are clean. Don't allow any manufacturing to take place outside the country. Tax it heavily and use the tax to treat people who become addicted to narcotics. Use some of it to run public service programs warning people that if they are using narcotics for recreational purposes they are making a huge mistake. Then let them decide. There may be a spike in use for a time, but it will be a short period of time and we will learn about the effects of recreational narcotics use.

It could be that in certain quantities it is relatively safe. As long as we continue to support the illegal narcotics trade we will never know. And now these cartels are infesting the entire country. As far north as Montana and many other states they are witnessing a rise in all manner of crimes and an increase in deaths from overdose. And the amount of money the United States on enforcing our narcotics laws is staggering. It's almost 100 billion dollars a year when you include the cost of criminal prosecutions and then incarceration. 

Americans are a fairly educated people, possibly the most educated fools in the world. And why do we do this? Nobody knows for sure. For thirteen years we tried prohibition and it was pretty much a failure. All we did was support a huge criminal syndicate. We supported kidnap, rape and murder and our society did not benefit from it. So why are we still supporting this madness now? It is nearly impossible to determine how many people die in the United States each year from drug related murder, certainly that sixteen year old girl and her baby were among the casualties, estimates run from 46,000 to 90,000. Opiate related deaths are estimated somewhere around 85,000. In addition to that we spend about 100 billion dollars to fight what law enforcement likes to call a 'war on drugs'. It is an immoral war. We have been engaged in this 'war' for over fifty years making it the longest war we've ever been involved in at a cost of over a trillion dollars and we continue doing the same thing over and over again with the same failed results. It's time we tried a different approach. One that costs much less both in dollars spent and lives ruined. 

The United States could all but stop the wholesale murder of people on both sides of the border by legalizing all narcotics and then regulating and taxing the industry. You can practically guarantee that so-called accidental overdoses will be much lower because of the quality control that can be imposed. I fail to see how continuing the flow of dangerous narcotics across the border is helping with what is being described by a lot of people as an opiate crisis. If so, it is a crisis that we created ourselves and the solution is fairly simple; legalize all narcotics immediately. 

Taking away the prohibition on narcotics probably will not make the problem go away, but it will slow it down substantially. If people insist on a perfect solution to the narcotics problem then we should get rid of all penal codes in America since none of our laws have effectively eradicated all crime. Use your heads folks we've spent trillions of dollars and suffered millions of deaths while claiming to be fighting a war anyone with any brains at all knows we can never win. It's time to stop the madness, legalize drugs and slow the drug smuggling trade to a mere trickle compared to the river flowing currently. 

Simply allow the drug cartel leadership to die on the vine. When we take away their most affluent customers they will have a lot less to do. 

Haughty Democrats

Fortunately I can use a Thesaurus so I don't have to keep saying 'arrogant'. Democrats are completely predictable. Unlike Republicans who may regularly embellish, but very seldom lie, democrats lie even if the truth serves their cause better. The lie du jour concerns the presence of a Chinese spy balloon over the United States. It's there alright and it was first sited by someone in Montana. This is important because now the Biden administration is telling us that it first entered American airspace over Alaska on Sunday, January 28th. 

Now for the hard part so democrats especially need to try to keep up. Five days later someone in Montana looked up and saw something strange floating lazily way up in the sky and wondered what it was. Chase Doak was in his driveway when he noticed something unusual at what appeared to be a very high altitude  so he used his cell phone to video record it and called a few of his friends in town and asked them if they could see it. One of those friends was a news reporter and apparently that's when the Biden administration's cover was blown. 

The Balloon was shot down on Saturday February 4th but was meandering around the country since January 28th. Uncle Joe and his court jesters apparently thought they could keep it hidden from the American people, but on February 4th some Montana trouble maker not only saw it, but blabbed to all of his friends about it. One of his friends was a reporter and it didn't take long for the whole world to learn about it. It turned out that President Biden knew about it since the first day it entered American air space. Or maybe not. Other reports say he found out about it the day before the Montana blabbermouth saw it. Most likely he found out about it on Wednesday. 

President Biden said he learned about it on Tuesday and he wanted it shot down on Wednesday but his advisers said it was too dangerous to stop it from spying on our military installations and they should wait until the Chi Coms had all the information they were looking for then shoot it down after it was safely away from land and there was no longer any further intelligence to be gathered. So they allowed it to continue its journey until they were certain that the Chinese government had downloaded all of the information then shot it down over the ocean where currents could scatter any useful intel over a hundred mile area making it next to impossible to recover. Great job Uncle Joe!

And now dems are saying, "Hey what's the fuss? The Chi Coms do this all the time, it's harmless. And they even did it when Donald Trump was president!" 

Of course it turns out that the Chinese government probably has been doing this all during the Uncle Joe administration, this was just the first time they got caught. Democrats just don't see the point in keeping anything secret from people who want to destroy us. Why should we be keeping secrets from China, they are not our enemy we have no enemies. Unless you count people who vote Conservative. According to many leading democrats the biggest threat to the American way of life is the people who believe in the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights. The Chinese simply are not a threat. 

Well, maybe they're a threat if someone sees their spy satellites flying overhead and a lot of people think it should be stopped. Democrats don't consider that a national threat, it is something far worse; a political threat. It could cost them the election if it isn't handled properly. And when asked about the importance of keeping the location of the balloon from Americans General Ryder responded that it was ok with him if Americans looked up to see if it was above them, but the Department of Defense sure as hell isn't going to tell them where it was. Who do the American people think they are anyway? Who put them in charge? Honestly I kind of have a hard time considering Ryder a general. He has no leadership experience, never piloted a plane, never been in a combat zone. He is a leader the same way the manager at a major newspaper is a leader. He gets to wear all those ribbons, living off the exploits of people who are actually brave enough to put their life on the line. As far as I can tell he's never commanded a missile silo or even been inside one. Has he ever been directly involved in any of our satellite programs? It isn't on his Air Force resume if he has. It looks like his career path is pretty much a secret. 

How incredibly lucky we are! Our government has given us permission to look up and see if the enemy is above us! They don't have to tell us about enemy movements because we have our own eyes. If the enemy is attacking we will see it for ourselves. That's nice. As near as I can tell, and there is no way to know how accurate this is since the most open administration in American history is riddled with secrets, this balloon entered American airspace a week ago and was ignored, or at least kept a secret from us until some guy in Montana did what the great swashbuckling General Ryder gave us all permission to do; he looked up. 

And looking up he said to himself; "What the hell is that?" when he saw a large white object floating at what appeared to be a very high altitude. He wondered if it was a UFO or something. Later we found out it was a spy device from China that neither government wanted us to know about. Apparently, if you can believe Uncle Joe, and that is a gigantic 'if', the president was not advised of its presence until Tuesday. It was detected the previous Saturday, if you can believe the Biden Department of Defense, which again is a stretch, and he either 'ordered' or gave them permission to shoot it down on Wednesday. That was a problem for the DOD. Perhaps they hadn't confirmed yet from Beijing that they had downloaded all of the information they needed and would rather wait until the spy balloon had completed its mission and they had captured all of the information from it. Then it would be ok to shoot it down if that would help with any public outcry now that it had finally been spotted.

So some general told the Commander in Chief that it would be safer to allow it to complete its mission then shoot it down several miles off the coast of South Carolina. Uncle Joe and his court jesters are claiming the water is fifty feet deep where the balloon splashed down, but it is likely much deeper than that and even if it's only fifty feet the currents are going to possibly carry much of the debris miles away. In other words whatever they salvage it probably won't be much. And how come senior officials are always anonymous? If they don't know the answer to something they should just say they don't know. If something is classified Secret or higher, then they can say that. But if the Chinese dictator knows then there is really no reason why we shouldn't know too. And most likely the Chinese dictator has downloaded a lot of Top Secret information. 

Is there such a thing as a haughty Republican? Of course there is only they don't give away military secrets to our enemies, they just refuse to prosecute those who do. They promise prosecutions then they allow entities to obstruct justice until democrats take over again. And of course Democrats no longer have to continue the investigations so they just get dropped. Half of the voters in America are knee jerk democrats who share the belief that American security is an outdated concept that too many people spend too much time worrying about.

I maintain my hope that soon a strong America Party will emerge and put one or both of the current major party's behind us for good. We don't need a Department of Defense that isn't concerned with enemies spying on us and we don't need any generals from any military branch giving us permission to look up at the sky. It truly is impossible to embarrass a democrat. 

The Homeless Solution

I haven't seen any surveys or studies to back this up, but I have noticed that people who are not education oriented are being denied a livable wage in the workplace. For years I have been listening to democrats rail that a family of four cannot live on the amount they earn working for the minimum wage. Duh! Yes that is true and hopefully it will always be true. Democrats have loused up the definition of 'family' to the point that it is difficult to know what a family is, so for the purpose of this discussion a 'family' of four is a mom and a dad, and in this example two kids. 

Even if both parents are working the minimum wage will be inadequate. What democrats seem oblivious too is the fact that no one working for a minimum wage can support him/herself, let alone a family of four. At least not where I live. Minimum wage in California is $15.50 an hour. A full time employee is anyone working thirty hours a week. That works out to about $2015.00 a month. Just to rent a room in the area where I live costs $1200.00 a month and that's if you share a bathroom with another renter in the same house. And it doesn't include meals or a kitchen. Rents can be about two hundred dollars less if one shares a room with another person and fortunately usually the room is furnished. 

Maybe a single person can live on that while they work their way up the ladder if they are allowed to work full time, but there are no employers here that will give an employee a thirty hour schedule. Some people work two jobs to make up the deficit, but a lot of employers don't even care about that. They won't allow an employee the flexibility to let them know what days they are available to work so they end up losing one job and keeping the other, and sleeping in their worn out car.  

So what is the solution? The most obvious solution is to encourage employers to pay people at least enough money that they can afford to rent a one bedroom or studio apartment close to the location where they work. One possible roadblock I found is the so-called America Care Act. This cruel joke of a law forces employers to provide insurance for anyone who works thirty hours in a week. Democrats! Want to make sure everyone has health insurance? Simple; just force someone barely getting by himself to pay for it. Of course there is an alternative, employers can just hire more people and make sure they don't make the thirty hour threshold. That way employers can keep more of their money to be used to comply with government regulations that are required in order to operate a business. There isn't a greater job killer than a government bureaucracy. 

Why should men and women who are vastly underpaid be forced to live in their cars while they eek out a bare subsistence? Before Obamacare, when Americans were allowed to work a forty hour week without anyone being forced to pay a government imposed penalty, an individual could earn enough, even on minimum wage to pay for a small apartment. And why do people continue to vote democrat? First of all, probably just out of habit and we all know that a bad habit is hard to break, and second because people believe the lies they are told by democrats because it all sounds so wonderful. Lots of people believe it when some candidate promises to take care of everyone's needs from the day they are born to the day they die. Nancy Pelosi even advocated that we should pay people a couple of thousand dollars a month so they could pursue their dreams of becoming an artist or a writer. She's got hundreds of millions of dollars why doesn't she open a facility for people with those aspirations? Probably even she doesn't believe the garbage that falls out of her mouth, but it gets votes. I haven't attempted to navigate the health insurance exchanges but I'm reliably informed that they are difficult to understand and untangle. 

Do you want a high premium and low copayment, or low premium and high copay and just hope you never get sick? And which one covers the prescription your child needs? And since we are over regulating the industry why don't we pass a law requiring all insurance carriers to cover whatever prescription a person needs? Who even knows which illness is going to find them and which prescription they will need? 

I have an idea. On the day Obamacare was scribbled into law millions of Americans lost their health insurance and that is not propaganda from Fox News it is the whole truth. Of course you never heard that on the other so-called news channels, those who are actually in the propaganda business, because they are hard core democrats/socialists. And every American became subject to a fine for not signing up for one of the insurance frauds offered by the Obama fanatics on that day too. And now we are experiencing an explosion of homeless people on the street. Many of them are in dire need of medical attention due to genetic mental illness and they should be institutionalized for their own good as well as the safety of the general population. Others are drug addicts and alcoholics. Let's put drug addicts on the back burner for now. Then there is another portion who are homeless because although they are willing to work, and there are jobs available, they cannot even afford a studio apartment to live in. Why don't democrats find a way to persuade employers to give their employees more work hours. Let's modify the ACA so people can earn a good living. Let them work a forty hour week if they want. Give them their dignity back. Keep the minimum wage the same, just tell the boss to let his people work enough hours so they can afford a place where they can go after work, take a shower, cook a meal, watch MSNBC so they can see how bitchin their democrat rep is, get some sleep and get back to work? People would stay on the job longer because they wouldn't keep getting fired for being late or missing a shift altogether. Or even a Republican. Somebody could do something to help homeless people earn enough money to live in a decent home. We used to do it and we should learn from that. Let Americans work and it is amazing what they will accomplish. 

In many cases they cannot even afford to rent a room in someone else's house. Why don't they live with mom and dad? Who the hell knows, and why should a healthy adult be forced to do that? 

SOLUTION?

Why not scrap the thirty hour work week and the fine for not carrying health insurance and allow Americans the basic and necessary opportunity to earn enough money to at least provide themselves the minimum type of housing? We shouldn't allow the government to dictate to us how much money we can earn or to force our employers to provide health insurance. Yes medical needs can be and are expensive, but another fact about living in America is that we all have to opportunity to work, earn and live. Supposedly we are to be free from government interference in our lives and that is a good thing. In the United States of America we pride ourselves on our own abilities and don't want any government official telling us what we can or cannot do as long as we aren't harming other people. 

And another truth that democrats hate to admit is the fact that Obamacare began as a lie and remains a lie. I personally know people who are stuck with Obamacare and are still paying as much as a thousand dollars a month for life saving medications for their children. Some pharmacies will subsidize those medications for awhile, but the term always expires even though the illness remains. Democrats are so compassionate that they can accept a certain built in mortality rate as long as they can claim that they are 'helping' people find health insurance. 

Getting the Feds out of our lives would solve a lot of our problems. Letting Americans be Americans would solve a lot of our problems. People need to stop worrying about who is going to pay for their expenses and spend more time thinking of ways they can pay their own expenses and government should be encouraging that. 

If we want to relieve some of the stress of homelessness we would encourage companies to pay their people full time pay for full time work. Allow Americans the opportunity to earn a good living and get off their back. If government would simply step aside and allow people room to breathe we could solve so many more problems than are solved by over zealous officials. Forcing Americans to do things they shouldn't need to do, and enforcing those ridiculous laws at bayonet point is wrong, counter productive and stupid. 

People who work for a living should be paid at least enough for one person to be able to rent a small apartment they can call home and still be able to eat. State senators should tour the businesses in their districts and find out how employees are being paid before deciding how much a state minimum wage should be, if one is needed at all. There are some young people who no longer live at home and need to work to support themselves, there is no way a young person living in California can survive on the state minimum wage. The average rent in Los Angeles is over $2700.00. The California minimum wage is $15.50 and that works out to be just over $2,000.00 for a person working full time which democrats have decided is thirty hours a week. Even a democrat should be able to see that a person cannot rent an apartment and have money for groceries at that rate. 

So where do they end up? In fifteen year old Nissans that barely run or tents on the sidewalk when the Nissan gets towed for a parking violation because it stopped running. The owners of companies claim they cannot afford to pay their employees a livable wage while they sit in their mansions and collect paychecks in the millions of dollars. Those men and women need to think about where they would be if people stopped working for a pauper's wage, which many have. 

REVOLUTION

Most people don't want to fight a revolution and it shouldn't be necessary. The most recent news item I read dealt with the CEO of McDonalds who is paid a mere seven and a half million dollars a year. He said that paying their employees would impose a substantial hardship on the company. The people who work for McDonalds should at least be paid well enough to be able to afford a small apartment instead of being forced to live in their cars or on the sidewalk. 

In the eighteenth century in the United States unions organized workers into collectives that could force employers to pay them a dignified wage. Few people if any are saying the head of the company shouldn't be well compensated, it is the boss that is claiming that the people at the bottom should be happy that they have enough to eat; who really needs an apartment to live in anyway? I suppose people who don't have the ability to become corporate bosses deserve to live in tents on city sidewalks. The first labor strike that I can find was in New York in 1794 when a group of tailors rejected a decrease in their wages. Since then there have been many labor unions that sometimes were forced to turn to violence to get what they deserved. 

During the Industrial Revolution some industrialists hired their own security forces who would beat striking employees with clubs, sometimes beating them to death and some of the security forces actually used guns to kill people on strike. Today union bosses seem to be a little too friendly with the CEO's of large corporations, largely ignoring entry level laborers. In the good old days some union bosses provided clubs and even firearms on occasion to even the playing field with the security forces of the big companies. Now the union bosses rarely seem to even know how much an entry level employee is paid. To be fair to union bosses there are still a lot of businesses that haven't unionized. I don't know what it takes to form a union, but people who want to be treated fairly and maintain their dignity should look into it. And bosses who don't like unions need to find ways to allow their employees the opportunity to live a decent life. They don't have to buy them houses, but how about allowing them the opportunity to at least live in a small studio apartment with a kitchen and running water instead of a tent or a cardboard box on the sidewalk?

The hourly wage only tells a small part of the story. The number of hours people are allowed to work helps provide a more accurate picture. You cannot ignore housing costs when deciding how much entry level employees are paid. If a studio apartment costs two thousand a month the employee needs to paid a sufficient amount to be able to find a place to live and still have money for basic needs like food. When people realize they are not being treated with proper respect by the boss they need to organize and teach the boss how to act. If I were still at the entry level workplace position and I couldn't afford even a lousy apartment I'd be shopping around for unions to join. 

The millionaires and even billionaires will pay better if they are 'persuaded' to do so by the people who help provide the lavish lifestyle they enjoy. And if company executives don't want to have to deal with union regulations, which sometimes are burdensome, then they should take a closer look at the abuse they are heaping on their employees. Look at the tent cities and people living in old cars parked on the street. Those are your employees, the people who pay for your mansions and yachts and jets can't even afford to live in a 850 square foot apartment. American corporations can do better and they should do better. If their franchisees can't afford to pay for labor then the corporate structure is wrong. 

There are enough employers who do pay a livable wage that corporate execs should be able to figure it out. I know small business owners who take an interest in their employees and pay them enough to live in an apartment instead of the street. Those employers live a comfortable life, but they don't live in twenty room mansions and fly around the world in private jets. They are content with twelve rooms and flying first class. 

When looking for a solution for the homeless crisis it would probably pay to check with the people on the street and find out why they are in the position they are in. There are lots of businesses constantly looking for people to work, it could be that even the people they hire are living in tents along busy streets and public parks and if an employer doesn't care enough about the things his employees do for him he's going to lose them. 

Of seven 'studies' I just read about dealing with homelessness none of them included questions about what, exactly, do homeless people need to help them get back on their feet. What didn't surprise me was the fact that there are a lot of homeless people who are not strung out on drugs. Many of them were laid off from job that paid well and now they can't even find a job that pay enough to live in a small apartment. Many of them did report significant health issues and those could probably be addressed fairly simply, possibly by allowing doctors, nurses and other medical professionals including dentists, with significant student loans, to work them off by providing time one or two days a month to help people in crisis. There is a solution to this problem but it will have to come from the private sector and that is a challenge. Which billionaire will be willing to provide some long term assistance for these unfortunate people. They need to have a transitional place to live, a job that pays them at least well enough to rent a small apartment, and maybe assistance with filling out an application for a job online.  

With the planet supposedly about to explode from the pressures of man made global warming, in ten to three hundred years, or maybe never, no one seems to have time to solve a problem that is occurring every day right in front of them. I think of how much real good an RFK Jr. could do or a John Kerry if they put their minds to a real problem like helping homeless people get back into the work force. But if they 'wasted' their time doing that they might not have time to fly around the world socializing with the billionaires of Europe, Asia, and South America pretending to solve a problem that is well on its way to solving itself. What if the department of Housing and Urban Development took a serious interest in helping people in urban settings find housing? Their budget is almost two billion dollars a year and they can't figure out a way to teach businessmen why they should pay their employees enough to live in a decent apartment? 

We could reduce the number of people living on the street by just using our imagination a little more, thinking big, and getting American corporations to take a look at how they are paying their people. Fifteen bucks and hour might be a great wage in some parts of the country, but in Los Angeles you might as well just pass out tents and cardboard boxes because they sure aren't going to be living in a secure location. Bring  back the forty hour work week. It doesn't matter what works for Europeans, we live in the USA and we do things differently, we do things better. 

White Supremacy!

Well the inevitable has occurred, once again proving that white police officers go out on the streets of our cities after holding prayer meetings pleading for the opportunity to kill as many black men as they can. Yup! If you can believe it, five white supremacists armed with badges and guns murdered a young black man for no reason. This time there were a couple of minor deviations from examples such as the black hero, George Floyd, from Minneapolis. This took place in Memphis Tennessee, and the white supremacist police officers were all black, and the victim in this case most likely was truly innocent of any crime and he had no prior criminal history. Tyre Nichols was by all accounts an innocent black man who was severely beaten by at least four police officers. Unlike with George Floyd, a forever hero of the BLM mob and the democrat party, Mr. Nichols did not attack the police or resist arrest in any meaningful way. I have to be cautious with this because I know people think that when they have seen a video recording they've witnessed a real event when what they've really seen is the portions of a real event that the Newsies want them to see. 

In  1991 Los Angeles there was a scene captured on someone's video camera that showed four Los Angeles police officers wailing on a black man with their batons and using multiple taser darts on him. And that is all anyone saw. The original recording showed Rodney King attacking Officer Powell and throwing him on the ground. That was an important piece of the story that very few people were allowed to view. I think only one station showed that portion of the encounter and they only showed it one time. That was and important piece of the incident for people to see if we were to get a better picture of why the police did what they did. In the case of Tyre Nichols the video recordings I've seen only show the police shouting at him and ultimately dragging him out of is car and hitting him and kicking him. Nichols keeps insisting that he is cooperating, but it is hard to tell. At times it almost looks like the police are in his way as he attempts to roll onto his stomach, but he could be resisting since he does appear to keep sitting up. 

If he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs he may have thought he was cooperating. And we don't get to see the police car on board video camera that would show what the police mean by reckless driving which was the reported reason for the traffic stop in the first place. Because reporters are so completely biased against law enforcement and they clearly don't mind lying about the police, I need to see the recording from the police car in order to determine if he was driving recklessly. And we have to remember that when a person is under the influence of alcohol or drugs that can cause them to be lousy drivers, even dangerous to everyone on the road. 

However even if all of the things I just mentioned turn out to be true I'm not sure they can justify the actions of the police officers. There is one scene in particular under a streetlight where a police officer appears to be kicking him in the upper torso or head, then once he is standing up another officer strikes him apparently with is fist in the face. One of the hits to his face appears to knock him out. Whether or not what the police did was criminal a jury will decide, but clearly they were not acting very professionally. 

What I don't see is any white supremacists anywhere in this incident. I don't see any white people at all and yet that is what democrats are claiming. Tyre Nichols is the victim of white supremacist police officers. And they are claiming that we need stricter federal laws regulating police officers. And some people wonder why I believe very little of what democrats have to say. Democrats like to ignore important truths such as we've passed a variety of civil rights laws that protect black people and ensure that they are given proper access to all public services and that they are not discriminated against because of their race. 

Voting laws have been passed to ensure that black people have the same right to vote as any other citizen. All of those laws were passed over the protest of democrats in both houses of Congress. Now democrats claim that they are the champions of civil rights for black people. Nonsense. What have democrats ever done to help black people? Nothing. Democrats have created a welfare state they claim will help black people when the opposite is true. The fact is that the welfare state slows the progress of every population that falls victim to it. Today democrats claim that we are a racist nation for a variety of reasons; no one should be allowed to vote without a valid identification card. 

Now black people are being bombarded with statements like Tyre Nichols was beaten to death by white supremacists who hated him because of is race. Hilary Clinton once stated about General Patraeus expected her to 'suspend disbelief' when she was trying to make him look like a liar even though he was telling the truth. Hypocrisy is the defining characteristic of the democrat party these days. You really do have to doubt literally everything your senses are telling you if you believe racism played a role in the beating those four black police officers administered to Tyre Nichols that night. 

Democrats won't rest until they have succeeded in destroying America or they are soundly defeated at the polls by Americans. Not by Republicans, but Americas. We need an 'American' party to put the country back on track. A party free from even the appearance of racism. Incredibly a lot of white supremacists love this country and want to defend our Constitution even though they have a mental illness that allows them to hate some people because of their race. And I'm not going to tell them to vote democrat. At least most white racists love this country and accept the Constitution as the law of the Land. Most of them don't believe in protected classes of people such as members of certain 'minority' groups including black people. 

I would say that it's time for us to tell the world that America is not a racist country, but most of them already know that. Even a cursory glance at the history of the United States tells us that most of the people who fought for independence were opposed to slavery including those who owned slaves. Obviously there were a few boneheads who supported slavery, but the Constitution was written is such a way as to portend the end of slavery in a peaceful manner, not the civil war the democrats embarked upon when they opened the war against their own country. 

You have to be a real dimwit to believe that America is racist today. We have a lot of problems and we continue to make some mistakes, but racism is part of our past not our present or our future. There will always be some slobs who hate people because of their race, but they are a very small portion of our country's population. They exist in every race and nobody with any sense pays any attention to them except for democrats who are always on the lookout for ways to make us look like a racist society. It's the only way democrats can win an election. Most Americans believe in the entire Bill of Rights including the right to freedom of speech and the right to self defense. 

Don't believe it. America is a great country where all people are welcome regardless of their race and everyone gets an equal chance to succeed or fail.