Dear Third Way centrist Clinton-school lawmakers who voted for NAFTA and MFN status for China,
You are staggering idiots. I hope the rust that haunts every hard-working, honest town in the Midwest attaches itself to your hands and your foreheads like a Biblical plague.
That is all.
Your nemesis,
Ben Phenicie
P.S. I now have evidence from your precious academic think tanks. Don't you dare bother driving around our ruined towns to take an actual look. Just read this, it's safer.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-01-26/free-trade-with-china-wasn-t-such-a-great-idea
Monday, April 25, 2016
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Stop Bashing Trump, You Fake Republicans
In a weirdly suicidal move, Republicans are now attacking their one great hope, Donald Trump.
I'm aware that Donald Trump is not perfect. In his frankness he can be abrasive. And lately, his campaign has not been at its most disciplined. Grouchy, sour grapes "Republicans" have emerged from the woodwork to attack him. The liberals who control the government propaganda apparatus, education, and most of the media, have come to pile on, distorting Trump's statements and making him appear foolish.
Donald Trump is under attack because he is not part of the traditional Republican Party political establishment. However, the traditional Republican Party political establishment has been ineffective at combating Democratic ideas for over a century, and does not deserve to continue steering the party. Trump, by speaking his mind and actually formulating policies designed to benefit the majority of Americans, is a breath of fresh air. He far more genuinely represents the party's base, and election results, before the Brutus-like knife Trump has gotten in the back in Wisconsin, have proven it. Republicans, like pharisee priests, hate him for it.
I don't want to vote for Ted Cruz, whose campaign lied and said that Trump's and Ben Carson's campaigns had been suspended on the day of the Iowa caucuses. Kasich seems like an honorable man, but has not done the heavy lifting of generating the name recognition and national exposure needed to take on Hillary Clinton. Of the remaining Republicans, Trump has the best chance of winning - but Republicans it seems have a bizarre desire to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by trying to either force a Cruz nomination through a - no doubt legal - machination of the delegate selection and convention process, or by running an oddball candidate like William Cristol or Paul Ryan after a brokered convention. However, Cruz, Cristol, and the rest of the establishment have overseen a regime that brought about the disastrous Affordable Care Act, vast welfare dependency, and the oncoming end of education as we know it with the advent of Common Core.
"Wait," you say, "those are mostly Democratic policies." Precisely. The Republican establishment made an Obama presidency possible by foisting ideas that drove George W. Bush's approval ratings below 30%. In this environment, it was impossible for Republicans to win. Those same steersmen are still at the helm, although the struggle to regain control continues.
I urge anyone reading this to vote for Donald Trump. I am aware of his faults. The political process is not always pretty, but our nation is at stake. Four or eight years of Hillary Clinton will continue our slide into mediocrity, dependency, irrelevancy, malaise, and ultimately, subjugation.
I'm aware that Donald Trump is not perfect. In his frankness he can be abrasive. And lately, his campaign has not been at its most disciplined. Grouchy, sour grapes "Republicans" have emerged from the woodwork to attack him. The liberals who control the government propaganda apparatus, education, and most of the media, have come to pile on, distorting Trump's statements and making him appear foolish.
Donald Trump is under attack because he is not part of the traditional Republican Party political establishment. However, the traditional Republican Party political establishment has been ineffective at combating Democratic ideas for over a century, and does not deserve to continue steering the party. Trump, by speaking his mind and actually formulating policies designed to benefit the majority of Americans, is a breath of fresh air. He far more genuinely represents the party's base, and election results, before the Brutus-like knife Trump has gotten in the back in Wisconsin, have proven it. Republicans, like pharisee priests, hate him for it.
I don't want to vote for Ted Cruz, whose campaign lied and said that Trump's and Ben Carson's campaigns had been suspended on the day of the Iowa caucuses. Kasich seems like an honorable man, but has not done the heavy lifting of generating the name recognition and national exposure needed to take on Hillary Clinton. Of the remaining Republicans, Trump has the best chance of winning - but Republicans it seems have a bizarre desire to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by trying to either force a Cruz nomination through a - no doubt legal - machination of the delegate selection and convention process, or by running an oddball candidate like William Cristol or Paul Ryan after a brokered convention. However, Cruz, Cristol, and the rest of the establishment have overseen a regime that brought about the disastrous Affordable Care Act, vast welfare dependency, and the oncoming end of education as we know it with the advent of Common Core.
"Wait," you say, "those are mostly Democratic policies." Precisely. The Republican establishment made an Obama presidency possible by foisting ideas that drove George W. Bush's approval ratings below 30%. In this environment, it was impossible for Republicans to win. Those same steersmen are still at the helm, although the struggle to regain control continues.
I urge anyone reading this to vote for Donald Trump. I am aware of his faults. The political process is not always pretty, but our nation is at stake. Four or eight years of Hillary Clinton will continue our slide into mediocrity, dependency, irrelevancy, malaise, and ultimately, subjugation.
Minimum Wage is as Ludicrous as Taxing the People Who Make It
Today, millions of people will punch in for work at honest, simple, yet often-times challenging jobs in retail, restaurants, industry, and other places around the economy. They will be paid at least $7.40 per hour, as the Federal government mandates. They will be taxed at what the talking heads tell us is a reasonable rate. They will then, through a Rube Golberg morass of paperwork, "file their taxes" sometime next year, probably in February, March, or April, after the Internal Revenue Service mails them their W-2 forms. In the meantime, the Federal government will have held their money for the better part of a year - to say nothing of the taxes they paid in January, February and March, which will have been held for even longer. Even a bank would pay a tiny fraction of a percent of interest. Many investments pay even more. The Federal government will pay no interest whatsoever, and indeed, will deny these people, who work for a living, the use of their money. The Federal government will use this money for purposes ranging from the legitimate - the public defense and the several Constitutional things the government still does - to the ludicrous. This is a travesty and this practice, which denies an individual the use of their money that the government has no need of, and indeed, is planning to simply refund them, should be abolished.
A related evil is minimum wage, a grossly unconstitutional limit to what an employer can pay an employee. Minimum wage creates generational poverty by systematically locking inexperienced workers out of the best possible source of practical education - a job. The reckless and dangerous argument that minimum wage should be increased will only compound this problem. All work has dignity, and individual people should have the chance to work at whatever the best rate they can negotiate is. If it is below $7.40 an hour, then it is better for someone to get a job and work their way up then to languish on the patchwork of public assistance programs that the liberal establishment has cobbled together.
A related evil is minimum wage, a grossly unconstitutional limit to what an employer can pay an employee. Minimum wage creates generational poverty by systematically locking inexperienced workers out of the best possible source of practical education - a job. The reckless and dangerous argument that minimum wage should be increased will only compound this problem. All work has dignity, and individual people should have the chance to work at whatever the best rate they can negotiate is. If it is below $7.40 an hour, then it is better for someone to get a job and work their way up then to languish on the patchwork of public assistance programs that the liberal establishment has cobbled together.
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