Monday, February 10, 2020

Capitalism Vs. Socialism

Today's debate seems to be whether socialism is superior to capitalism. This debate has been fostered because of the many socialist oriented professors in our institutions of higher learning have put a lot of effort into convincing the younger, inexperienced students in their classes that somehow there is a widening gap of disparity between the rich and poor in our world.

What these professors are not pointing out to them is that the same students who are being brainwashed about the supposed virtues of socialism and the evils of capitalism are living a life of prosperity like no other generations in history because of capitalism.

Should the reader disagree with this premise, I invite them to take a look at this PragerU video which explains how this is so. After viewing it, one will understand what the true reason is for these professors - who, by the way, are doing very well earning their capitalistic salaries - putting down capitalism. I believe it is because there's been a concerted effort over several decades by socialists, concentrated within our colleges and universities, to undermine the image of the greatness of our nation's capitalistic economic engine which has embarrassed Lenin and Stalin's failed Soviet Union model, which is gradually, but stubbornly, been dying out.

Here's information on Bernie Sanders to provide some historical perspective and illustrate just how our country's favorite socialist has established himself in the current campaign.
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"In all her years in congress Elizabeth Warren introduced 110 bills. 2 passed. 

Cory Booker introduced 120 bills. 0 passed.
Kamala Harris introduced 54 bills. 0 passed.

 
Then there is Bernie Sanders, he is truly special. 


He never held a job until he was finally elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, at age 53. He lived off of welfare and the support of four different women, had a child out-of-wedlock with one and the marriages to the other three did not work out.
 
In all his years in the Senate, he introduced 364 bills; 3 passed. Two of those were to name post offices.

 
If you want to know what kind of leader Bernie is, go to Wikipedia, it's a long report. The following is condensed:
Bernie Sanders' father was a high school drop-out, who tormented his family with rants about their financial problems. He blamed society and economic inequality for his plight, though as a white male in a middle class neighborhood, he was hardly among the downtrodden.

 
This was Bernie's inspiration to take up the cause of economic justice, though he would spend half of his life as an able-bodied college graduate living off of unemployment checks, and the women in his life, between odd jobs.

 
By his own admission, Bernie was not a great student, starting at Brooklyn College and transferring to University of Chicago, but his enrollment kept him protected from the draft.
He joined socialist organizations and dabbled in far-left communist politics, gaining national notoriety by petitioning the school to let students have sex in the dormitories.

 
This was before birth control and abortion were legal, when there were still very serious repercussions for women , but that didn't stop him from crusading against those silly rules that were an obstacle to his own satisfaction.

 
He participated in the 1963 March on Washington, a few other demonstrations, and was arrested once, but his activism for civil rights ended when he became obsessed with socialism. NOT "democratic socialism," but oppressive far-left Marxism.

 
Bernie married his college sweetheart, Deborah Shilling, and spent his small inheritance on a summer home in Vermont on 85 acres. The shack had a dirt floor and no electricity, maintaining his proletariat credibility, but not impressing his new bride.

 
He refused to get a steady job, so his wife didn't stick around long, she divorced him after 18 months.

 
The Viet Nam war was escalating, and when the next draft was announced, Bernie applied for a conscientious objector deferment.

 
His deferment was denied, so he dodged the draft by having a kid out of wedlock in 1969 with his new girlfriend, Susan Mott, even though he STILL wasn't working, and had no way to support the child. By the time his draft number came up, he was too old to be drafted anyway.

 
He continued to subsist on odd carpentry jobs and unemployment checks, and occasionally writing and selling $15 articles to publishers, including the one about how women fantasize about gang rape. He still refused to get a steady job to support his child. His girlfriend left him.
In 1988 he married Jane Driscoll, and took a cold-war era honeymoon in communist USSR.

 
His new wife supported him financially through his many attempts to win a public office, and shared his radical leftist political views.

 
They visited the pro-Soviet Sandinista Government in Nicaragua known for their human rights violations, support for anti-American terrorists, and the imprisonment and exile of opponents. Bernie blindly overlooked the carnage to stand with fellow socialists.

 
They traveled to Cuba in hopes of meeting Bernie's hero Fidel Castro, but access to him was denied.

 
Bernie Sanders managed not to hold a full-time job his entire life or vote in a single election, until he finally ran for Mayor of Burlington at the age of 40. After several failed elections, he finally won the office of Mayor of Burlington, and eventually a Senate seat, which he has managed to keep off and on.
For all of his years representing Vermont, the U.S. Senate passed three of Bernie's bills, two of them were for naming post offices.

 
He's a draft-dodging, deadbeat dad, a globe-trotting communist dilettante, and a petulant detractor of hard-working honorable Democrats.

 
His one skill is yelling about how unfair the world is, and how everything SHOULD be. But he has no plans for how to make it happen, and no idea what goes on in the rest of the world or how to deal with problems overseas.

 
His excuse for not having a foreign policy or national security plank on his platform: "I've only been campaigning for three months."

 
His socialist friends are bitter about what they see as a betrayal of their values by Bernie's pursuit of the Democratic nomination.

 
His former wife and girlfriend run when they see reporters and will not speak to the press.

 
Bernie's past, including a brief stint living in a kibbutz in Israel, is cloaked in secrecy. (It worked for B Hussein Obama.)

 
Former employees and coworkers describe him as hostile and belligerent. All of the Democrats in Vermont's government endorsed Hillary Clinton.

 
The people who know Bernie best cannot stand him. His supporters can't explain how he is qualified to be president."

Friday, February 7, 2020

Why Paul Manafort Was Framed

Andrew Weissmann
 
For anyone who's paid attention to the "Russia Hoax" which was the left's first of many hoaxes to conduct a soft coup, it may have seemed a bit puzzling to learn about Paul Manafort being convicted, sentenced and going to prison for something which had nothing to do with colluding with the Russians.
 
Well, new information has surfaced which, if it gets to Pres. Trump, might result in an eventual pardoning of Manafort.
 
Here is the opening line of John Solomon's latest report...

One of Robert Mueller’s pivotal trial witnesses told the special prosecutor’s team in spring 2018 that a key piece of Russia collusion evidence found in Ukraine known as the “black ledger” was fabricated, according to interviews and testimony.

You may not remember, or ever heard about, the "black ledger" which was the core evidence for convicting Paul Manafort, who rots in prison today.  Andrew Weissmann - Mueller's right hand man leading the investigation team - used this totally fabricated evidence to convict Manafort, has convicted yet another individual * and sent him to prison in the past.

* You may recall that this same lawyer, Weissmann, is documented as having convicted another innocent man who went to prison for the Enron scandal back in the early 2000s. (Read "Licensed to Lie", by Sydney Powell... who's now Lt. Gen. Flynn's lawyer, defending him in his case.

Oh yea... you may not have heard, but Weissmann's now a legal consultant for CNN. Gee! Just like John Brennan did. Isn't if funny how these sleaze balls end up their? 

Thursday, February 6, 2020

The New Way Forward Act?

Just when we thought Congress would get back to work debating bills that would address the issues which need consideration, we learn of this "stealth" bill the media was too busy ignoring for the value of the Kabuki theater the impeachment trial provided them.

What, you haven't heard of it before? Well, neither has the rest of the country! But if you watch this whole piece, it should strike a nerve of concern about just exactly what the radical progressive left is attempting to propose for the future of our country. 
 
The only thing which gives me reason to not just throw up my arms and exclaim, "We're toast!" is that saner minds in Congress who understand just how absurd this bill is, will not allow it to even make it out of committee, let alone be voted into law.  

For the whole piece, and quality sound, try this link from Fox News

Skolkovo? What's That About?


Much of the public knows about the Clinton Foundation; how it was acquiring billions of dollars in donations. But what for? Had Hillary won the presidency in 2016, you can be certain that much of what's been discovered through actual investigative journalism would have been completely covered up, and we'd have no knowledge of it. Even with the outcome of Trump winning, the Media (D) which is well known for aiding the left those who watch their fake news has no clue, or believes it was perfectly legit for the Clintons to have collected so much wealth under a premise that it was going to benefit the poor and downtrodden.

Some of the public is familiar with UnraniumOne; the deal Hillary Clinton was part of that sold Russia 20 per cent of the U.S.'s uranium material for building nuclear warheads. That's only a part of the deals the Clintons had engaged in back then in exchange for hundreds of millions in donations.

What most of the public has not learned about is how, as the Secretary of State (S.O.S.) during the Obama Administration is her husband, former Pres. Bill Clinton, and the Clinton Foundation worked with the Skolkovo Project which was, as the U.S. Army confirms, helping Russia with developing hyper-sonic weaponry through the process of stealing military information for this project in Russia.

If this explanation isn't clear, just go to this Daily Caller link and read the article which spells things out clearly. 

Remember... everyone involved in the impeachment of the president - and don't delude yourself, it isn't over yet, even if he's been acquitted just yesterday - not only know each other, they all have something to hide regarding their involvement in illegal activities during the time they thought their reign of control and dominance would never end.

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

The Aftermath of the Iowa Hawkeye Cauceye

Chalk it up to incompetence - remember the Obamacare website fiasco? - but the outcome of the Iowa Caucuses has produced not only a massive embarrassment for the Democratic Party, but deepens the suspicions in the minds of those who were already skeptical about the integrity of our elections with a combination of voter fraud, accuracy, and reliability... and it's NOT because of the Russians!
 
This article in the Spectator does a great job of spelling out the ramifications of this outcome in this election; especially the implications going forward in the last part of this article.
 

Sunday, February 2, 2020

Fair? They Say We're Not Being Fair?

Let's review... then, a question and  an answer.



Hillary pays FusionGPS to dig up dirt on Trump during campaign.

FusionGPS hires a foreign spy to give the FBI garbage on Trump.

FBI Director Comey lets Hillary "off the hook" for her illegal private server, and destroying subpoenaed emails.
Trump wins election, Hillary loses.

The N.Y. Times, within 15 minutes of inauguration, calls for his impeachment.

FBI uses false information on FISA warrant requests.

Trump fires Comey, Mueller investigates Trump.

Hundreds of bureaucratic regulations are removed and better treaties are negotiated.

Mueller indicts and imprisons low level campaign team members on "process crimes."

Unemployment plummets and prison reform is passed.

Mueller's report reveals Trump is innocent of any collusion with Russians.

Trump later calls Zelinski and asks him to follow through with his corruption cleaning promise.

I.G. report reveals FBI and leaking bureaucrats committed real crimes.

The country is respected by other nations once again and Trump rallies overflow.

"Whistleblower" Ciaramella files false claim of Quid-Quo-Pro about Trump's call.

Two conservative Supreme Court Justices are appointed and the wall is being built.

Trump releases the transcript revealing no "this for that" is involved.

Pres. Zelinski and other Ukrainians assert no coercion about foreign aide funds.

In fact, funds and lethal aide are sent to Ukraine before deadline.

Speaker says no impeachment unless there's a bipartisan vote on it and undisputed evidence.

House impeaches Pres. Trump in December with no evidence of a crime.

Not one Republican votes for impeachment, but two Democrats vote with them.

Speaker sits on sending articles to Senate for over a month.

House also refuses to allow due process under law during hearings in basement bunker.

Democrat media continually - 24/7 - pounds impeachment drum while polls reveal no change by pubic.

House also refuses to call witnesses and presents only two "non-crime" articles of impeachment.

Senate finally takes trial while Democrats try to "strong arm" trial procedures to their favor.

Senate votes to not call for more witnesses during trial after Democrats cry unfair.

Now it is expected the Senate will vote to acquit the president.

During these three years the economy has skyrocketed.

Question: With the president impeached, will any who actually committed crimes go to prison, or will we have to wait until Pres. Trump's second term?(There are those who are more radical in their solution to remedying our current circumstance today, as the link above reveals.)
 
Answer: Something tells me that they're busy getting things ready down at Gitmo!

Thursday, January 30, 2020

I Wish My District Had A Senator Like Him!

This was a January 24th feature interview on ShiftWA:
 
This week’s Newsmaker Interview is with Senator Doug Ericksen who has represented the 42nd District (Whatcom County) since 1999 – first as a House member for 12 years, and as a Senator since 2011.  Ericksen is the ranking minority member of the Senate Energy, Environment, and Technology Committee, where he sees many of the misguided and ineffective climate change policies of the extreme left and big government liberals.  Ericksen talks with Shift about breaching the Snake River dams and the Ballard Locks, low carbon fuel standards, Governor Inslee, taxes, and out-of-touch Seattle legislators.
 
  1. Several of your fellow Whatcom County legislators favor a low carbon fuel standard – do they not understand how bad that would be for the county’s economy?
In Whatcom County we have 2 oil refineries.  We create great jobs locally and we produce the energy that powers the economy of the entire state.  When I fight to protect our state’s refining capacity it is not just about my area, it is about the entire state.
 
A Low Carbon Dioxide Fuel Standard is essentially a cap and trade system for liquid fuels.  If your goal is to reduce human based C02 releases into the atmosphere, the LCo2FS program is very inefficient.  The cost per ton of Co2 reduction is very high compared to other methods.
 
It is very hard to construct an effective LCo2FS program.  Under current proposals, consumers would be paying up to 50 cents more per gallon of gas for limited results.
 
This extra tax on gas would not go to roads.
 
  1. Do you think that Gov. Inslee actually believes his environmental rhetoric – such as saying his low carbon fuel standard would not raise gas prices – or his he just trying to fool voters?
This is a great question.  I am not a climate alarmist, but I am a person who supports new technologies and a cleaner environment.
 
Gov. Inslee presents himself as a true believer in a radical man-made climate change. I can never claim to get into our Governor’s head to know his true feelings.
 
However, I think that many people have a religious fervor with regards to global warming.  It is my view that Gov. Inslee wants to believe in global warming because he wants to implement a big government, high taxes, high regulations agenda.  The global warming agenda is a mechanism to implement the agenda that Governor Inslee wants.
 
So I would say that Governor Inslee believes his environmental rhetoric because he really wants to believe it is true as a means to achieve his agendas.
 
  1. If you were governor for a day, what state regulations would you eliminate – or add – to create jobs?
This is an easy one.   Number one—I would veto any tax increase that did not get a 2/3s vote in the House and the Senate.  I would veto any budget that grows government spending faster than inflation plus population.  I would require that for any new regulation put into place, two regulations would have to be deleted.
 
I would also create rules for economic empowerment zones in Washington to expedite permitting for high quality manufacturing jobs in all parts of Washington.
 
  1. Do you believe your Seattle legislative counterparts understand how their proposals will impact non-urban communities?
No.  I could stop right there. When you live in a concrete jungle, I think you lose some understanding about what is means to live on real soil.  The radical elements that currently control Seattle politics scream for the removal of the Snake River dams or for massive buffers on rural streams.  They really do not know the massive environmental changes that were made to the City of Seattle to create the lifestyles they live today.
 
I think the Ballard Locks should be breached before we even talk about tearing out Snake River dams.  Seattle City Light gets their power from dams in my district in Whatcom County.  Perhaps we should free the wild Skagit River by tearing out these dams and let Seattle find its power somewhere else.
 
I will not even try to explain the Denny Regrade—but those who know what it is know how much Seattle has altered their landscape.  I do not think the even 10% of the radicals in Seattle would even know what the Denny Regrade is without searching it on their phones.
 
  1. Many counties on the west side of the state have many jobs connected to agriculture. Are the needs of the farmers on the west side any different than those in Eastern Washington?
Yes and no.  We have similar issues.  But our water issues, the scale of our farms, the products we produce, and many other aspects are different.
 
What we share in common is over regulation, over taxation, and a lack of freedom to produce the local food stuffs that urban people say they want.
 
A great example of how out of touch Seattle legislators are was provided in the 2019 session.
 
The State Senate passed a bill requiring all dairy and berry farmers to report to the state the number of slaves they had on their properties.   This is insulting to farmers because we do not have slaves—obviously.
 
Here is the part you cannot make up—the prime sponsor of this legislation was from Seattle.  While there are no slaves on our farms, a law enforcement operation in the Seattle district of the prime sponsor freed several dozen young women trapped in the sex slave industry.
 
  1. You have made headlines for suggesting the state should study the removal of the Ballard Locks and the dams that provide power to Seattle.  Do you believe this has had any impact in the thinking of urban environmentalists who want to tear down the Snake River dams?
No.  The goal of this legislation is to highlight that all parts of Washington should have the chance for economic prosperity.   The goal of this legislation is also to educate people about the realities of what needs to be done to build big projects in Washington State.
 
I am not trying to alter the viewpoints of carbon jihadists, I am not trying to alter the viewpoints of radical deep ecologists.  I am trying to work with people who want to improve our quality of life, create good jobs, and build better communities.
 
I am an environmentalist.  I am working on positive solutions to protect our environment while creating more opportunities to enjoy our environment.  Current policies in Olympia are wasting limited resources to take us down the carbon rabbit hole, while ignoring policies that could create better communities.