A New National Debt Benchmark Reached

The following is an excerpt from a Senate Conservatives Fund email I received today:

Our country's national debt is now more than $20 trillion and the current Republican leadership in Washington doesn't care.

Senator Mitch McConnell has offered no plan to cut spending and has no intention of ever doing so.

Even worse, he told the New York Times this week that he secretly added a provision to the recent spending and debt deal that created not just one but two budget cliffs before the 2018 elections.

This would not be a bad thing if Republicans were willing to use these deadlines as leverage to pass conservative policies just as the Democrats have done in the past to enact liberal policies. 

But sadly Senator McConnell and other GOP leaders in Washington do not believe in our principles and certainly aren't willing to fight for them when it matters.

In December, they will surrender to the Democrats and fund everything from Planned Parenthood to executive amnesty to Obamacare. And next year when the debt limit is reached again, they will increase the debt and possibly even include other liberals policies too.

I can't help but believe the reason why there are two budget cliffs before the 2018 elections is to provide the media an opportunity to pin an government shutdown on Pres. Trump.

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Here's what I sent to my Circle of Friends list yesterday:

Subject: $20,162,176,797,904.13

What's with the dollar figure in the subject line? Oh, just the national debt breaking through the next significant level which, at this point, the nation will NEVER be able to pay off.

What do you say we make it a goal to shoot for $30 TRILLION by 2020? That aught to stimulate our economy!

Actually, consumer debt is the biggest factor in the instability of our national economy, and combined with the unfunded liabilities, such as pensions - where there are less currently working to pay into the fund than are collecting out of it - our economy is hanging by a thread.

The DACA Debacle Aftermath

I've long believed that the actions taken by liberal/statists have set the tone which our nation now is witnessing with nearly everything happening in society today. This was their objective and we conservatives have stood by for most of it; feeling we were demonstrating our forgiving tolerance as Christians, and those who aren't religious, indifferent because they believed it wouldn't impact them.

Now look at how things are going... free speech is being protested, Christians are being persecuted and harassed to the point of targeting their businesses by using the court system which is liberal leaning, professors at colleges being threatened and intimidated to the point that we are now seeing what it must have been like during Hitler's rise to power in Germany back in the 1930s.

This article points more specifically to the DACA issue which currently is the topic of news these days. The sad thing is, if one looks at the statistics of our society's makeup, only ~20% are liberal, while the rest are either conservative, or independent if you break it down to the three commonly recognized parties.

Explaining Our Homeless Epidemic

I recently talked to a to a homeless man this morning and asked him how he ended up this way. 

He said, "Up until last month, I still had it all. I had plenty to eat, my clothes were washed and pressed, I had a roof over my head, I had TV and Internet, and I went to the gym, the pool and the library.

I was working on my MBA on-line. I had no bills and no debt.

I even had full medical coverage." 

I felt sorry for him, so I asked, "What happened? Drugs?

Alcohol? Divorce?" 

"Oh no, nothing like that." he said. 

 

"No, no ... I was paroled."

This may explain the increasing number of homeless nation-wide with the liberals and their early release from prison program…

Undocumented Citizen or Illegal Alien?

The leftist/statists are now using words and phrases to push their agenda of subtle persuasion on those who've snuck into this country across the border illegally to take advantage of our largess here in the U.S. Note the subject title for this post. 

That's right, they're now using the phrase undocumented citizens. Just like Nancy Pelosi has used undocumented Americans, and others previously have used undocumented aliens, the purpose of these leftist/statists is to expose the ignorant, bleeding-heart public to identify these Mexicans who've entered our country illegally with a more sympathetic view; as though they've done nothing wrong. 

These leftist/statists always play on the emotions of those who do not understand, or see the value in, using tough love to teach natural consequences to those who feel that anyone's entitled to the same benefits that others who actually are citizens already living here. "Honor and obey the law? Are you joking?", they'll say.

When I was an elementary student living in Tustin, CA, my second oldest brother got my parents to house a high school student from Tijuana, Mexico for a foreign exchange program in our home. They eventually sponsored his whole family to become naturalized citizens of the U.S. and Alberto eventually became an employee with Delta Airlines. So, if anyone reads this and thinks they can call me racist because I don't agree with their ideology of the current situation with illegals, bug off!

There's either the rule of law, or no rules at all!

This Vote Will Be Pivotal

The case from Colorado dating back to 2014 is going to the Supreme Court. It is the issue of whether a private business owner - in this case a baker - should be forced to conduct business which is against his/her religious convictions and be punished as a result for discriminating. After all, is not forcing someone to do work that is not consensual merely slavery?

Read this article on the details of the case and what it means to those who are of like mind and belief as a Christian when it comes to baking a cake for a gay/lesbian couple's wedding. As you know, there are other cases of similar circumstance which are going to be impacted by this court decision, whenever it comes before the Supreme Court.

We Christians can only pray that their decision will be upholding First Amendment rights and preserve freedom of conscience when it comes to conducting our business.

Food For Thought

Losing Faith In Trump Over Immigration

The immigration issue, Trump's #1 issue of his campaign to get elected, is waning and Ann Coulter's latest article explains why she's not happy. Speculation by various key individuals in the national dialog wonders what impact this will have on the mid-terms of next year and Trump's re-election if he doesn't deliver.