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Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Friday, August 21, 2020
Watchdog Open Secrets Report DC Trump/Leaders Lobbyist
Ed.: When we VET candidates
we use Open Secrets for following the money. This is the new report on the
Lobbyist in bed with both parties. This is why for YEARS the Tea Party and
other grassroots organizations have tried to expose the money in the DC Swamp.
Many of you already understand this and have been fighting for a change.
Cynthia Lucas
A CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS REPORT
— By Karl Evers-Hillstrom and Dan Auble, Aug. 19, 2020
As President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) negotiated the legislative response to the COVID-19 pandemic, their former aides lobbied them on behalf of deep-pocketed companies.
Over 1,000 clients dispatched lobbyists with close ties to the White House or congressional leaders through the first half of 2020. About 40 percent of those clients reported lobbying on issues related to the pandemic.
Pharmaceutical companies that received massive windfalls from the federal government to swiftly develop COVID-19 vaccines deployed Washington insiders. So did firms tasked with producing ventilators, and businesses in hard-hit industries angling for government aid. Companies that had not lobbied during the Trump administration — or ever before — signed contracts with K Street firms.
The vast majority of these clients are businesses or trade associations, which make up nearly 90 percent of lobbying spending this year. The success of revolving door lobbyists indicates that powerful interests saw former aides to top officials as their best chance to influence high-level negotiations that mostly sidelined rank-and-file lawmakers.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Kimberly Klacik Runs for Congress in Baltimore
Democrats are terrified that I’m exposing what life is like in Democrat-run cities. That’s why I’m running for Congress
Because All Black Lives Matter, Baltimore Lives Matter. And black people don’t have to vote Democrat!
Sunday, August 2, 2020
Misis: From Lockdowns to "The Great Reset"
From Lockdowns to "The Great Reset"
The lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the implementation of long-held plans to establish a so-called new world order. Under the auspices of the World Economic Forum (WEF), global policymakers are advocating for a “Great Reset” with the intent of creating a global technocracy. It is not by coincidence that on October 18, 2019, in New York City the WEF participated in “Event 201” at the “high-level” pandemic exercise organized by the John Hopkins Center for Health Security.
This coming technocracy involves close cooperation between the heads of the digital industry and of governments. With programs such as guaranteed minimum income and healthcare for all, the new kind of governance combines strict societal control with the promise of comprehensive social justice.
The truth, however, is that this new world order of digital tyranny comes with a comprehensive social credit system. The People’s Republic of China is the pioneer of this method of surveillance and control of individuals, corporations, and sociopolitical entities.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Misis: When It Comes to Masks, There Is No "Settled Science"
When It Comes to Masks, There Is No "Settled Science"
As the “fifteen days to slow the spread” continues to extend indefinitely, the issue of mask mandates has become increasingly contentious. The debate has been exacerbated by the inconsistency of the recommendations of authorities (political, scientific, and imaginary). Early in the pandemic, both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) advised against the use of masks, except by those who are particularly vulnerable (the elderly and immunocompromised) and their caretakers.
Many of us with some understanding of economics made such arguments at the outset of the debate, not necessarily because of any epidemiological expertise. When you understand the principle of scarcity, policies mandating that healthy teenagers vie for medical products with their more vulnerable grandparents is a formula for exacerbating the most severe outcome of any viral infection. In fairness, many medical experts raised exactly these concerns, even if they did not enjoy the media attention of their more demagogic counterparts.
Regardless of whether or not you agree with the masks-for-all policy, it is heartening to see how well entrepreneurs adapted to the spiked demand...
Monday, June 8, 2020
OPEN LETTER to DONALD TRUMP: Former U.S. Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Viganò, Stands with President Against the Mob
OPEN LETTER to DONALD TRUMP: Former U.S. Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Viganò, Stands with President Against the Mob
Written by + Carlo Maria Viganò | Saturday, June 6, 2020
Please use the above link and read the actual letter.
Monday, May 4, 2020
America Is a Technocracy, Not a Democracy
America Is a Technocracy, Not a Democracy
05/01/2020 |
Perhaps never before in American history have the unelected technocrats played such an enormous role in shaping public policy in America.
In recent weeks, members of Congress have been missing in action. Late last month, the House of Representatives passed the biggest spending bill in history while most members were absent. Member votes were not recorded and the legislation was passed with a voice vote, which required only a tiny handful of members.
Weeks later, the Senate refuses to even meet, and may finally get around to debating some legislative matters in May. As with the House, a handful of members assembled earlier to approve another enormous stimulus bill. Many Senators stayed home. This is "representative government" in modern America.
But if you thought this lack of congressional action means not much is happening in Washington in terms of policymaking, you would be very wrong. It's just that the democratically elected institutions have now become a largely irrelevant sideshow. The real policymaking takes place among unelected experts, who decide for themselves—with minimal oversight or control from actual elected officials—what will happen in terms of public policy. The people who really run the country are these experts and bureaucrats at the central banks, at public health agencies, spy agencies, and an expanding network of boards and commissions.
Read the rest: The Rise of the Technocracy...
Thursday, April 23, 2020
WALTER E. WILLIAMS: Benefits vs. costs and COVID-19
WALTER E. WILLIAMS: Benefits vs. costs and COVID-19
April 22, 2020
One of the first lessons in an economics class is everything has a cost. That’s in stark contrast to lessons in the political arena where politicians talk about free stuff.
In our personal lives, decision-making involves weighing costs against benefits. Businessmen make the same calculation if they want to stay in business. It’s an entirely different story for politicians running the government where any benefit, however minuscule, is often deemed to be worth any cost, however large.
Related to decision-making is the issue of being overly safe versus not safe enough. Sometimes, being as safe as one can be is worthless. A minor example: How many of us before driving our cars inspect the hydraulic brake system for damage? We’d be safer if we did, but most of us just assume everything is OK and get into our car and drive away.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 40,000 Americans lose their lives each year because of highway fatalities. Virtually all those lives could be saved with a mandated 5 mph speed limit. Fortunately, we consider costs and rightfully conclude that saving those 40,000 lives aren’t worth the costs and inconvenience of a 5 mph mandate.
With the costs and benefits in mind, we might examine our government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first thing to keep in mind about any crisis, be it war, natural disasters or pandemics, is we should keep markets open and private incentives strong.
Markets solve problems because they provide the right incentives to use resources effectively. Federal, state and local governments have ordered an unprecedented and disastrous shutdown of much of the U.S. economy in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
There’s a strictly health-related downside to the shutdown of the U.S. economy ignored by our leadership that has been argued by epidemiologist Dr. Knut Wittkowski, formerly the head of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at Rockefeller University in New York City.
Wittkowski argues that the lockdown prolongs the development of the “herd immunity,” which is our only weapon in “exterminating” the novel coronavirus — outside of a vaccine that’s going to optimistically take 18 months or more to produce.
He says we should focus on shielding the elderly and people with comorbidities while allowing the young and healthy to associate with one another in order to build up immunities. Wittkowski says:
So, it’s very important to keep the schools open and kids mingling to spread the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible, and then the elderly people, who should be separated, and the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet their children and grandchildren after about 4 weeks when the virus has been exterminated.
Herd immunity, Wittkowski argues, would stop a “second wave” headed for the United States in the fall. Dr. David L. Katz, president of True Health Initiative and the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, shares Wittkowski’s vision. Writing in The New York Times, he argued that our fight against COVID-19 could be worse than the virus itself.
The bottom line is that costs can be concealed but not eliminated. Moreover, if people only look at the benefits from a particular course of action, they will do just about anything, because everything has a benefit. Political hustlers and demagogues love promising benefits when the costs can easily be concealed. By the way, the best time to be wrong and persist in being wrong is when the costs of being wrong are borne by others.
The absolute worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, and possibly its most unrecoverable damage, is the massive power that Americans have given to their federal, state and local governments to regulate our lives in the name of protecting our health. Taking back that power should be the most urgent component of our recovery efforts. It’s going to be challenging; once a politician, and his bureaucracy, gains power, he will fight tooth and nail to keep it.
Walter E. Williams
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. This content is provided courtesy of Creators Syndicate.
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
GREEN NEW DEAL IS AGENDA 21: THE GROWING DRIVE TO MAKE IT LAW
GREEN NEW DEAL IS AGENDA 21: THE GROWING DRIVE TO MAKE IT LAW
21 APR | by Tom DeWeese
For more than 30 years I’ve worn a tinfoil hat because I, and a few others were able to read between the lines of the UN’s Agenda 21. Then, last year when the global forces used a nitwit bartender to launch their Green New Deal, the Republican Party laughed, but immediately I could see exactly what was happening. It was Agenda 21 all over again, but this time on steroids.
Well, get ready because they are about to launch an all-out drive to impose the Green New Deal at every level of American government. Their inspiration for this new game plan is from the lessons they’ve learned from the Coronavirus lock-down. Fear is the key. The new urgency will be climate change using the pandemic tactics
Ironically, the policy designated to save us all from this very old, but renewed crisis is their thirty year old solution – Agenda 21, now renamed the Green New Deal.
READ this important article at AmericanPolicy.org...
TOM DEWEESE
Living and Dying in Bill Gates’ Fish Bowl
Living and Dying in Bill Gates’ Fish Bowl
As the virus takes its toll, those of us still in good health and with the ability to think clearly have the duty to explain to our fellow citizens what is really going on. We are living in a global experiment in which “health experts” such as Bill Gates, previously known for software development, have decided to treat us as specimens in a giant fish bowl for study and observation. Many of us will get sick. Many won’t survive.
Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the recipient of an academic award from Chinese communist authorities, has emerged in recent weeks as an “expert” on coronavirus when just a few months ago the media were starting to pay attention to his sleazy involvement with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Even the New York Times was on to the story, digging up photos of Gates and Epstein at his mansion. One of Epstein’s associates had been placed at the Gates Foundation.
Epstein was among a group of global elites who shared an atheist belief that scientific advances could help them live forever artificially. It’s not exactly clear what Epstein, Gates, and others were contemplating. But Gates’ relationship began after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes.
Cliff Kincaid, a veteran journalist and media critic, Cliff concentrated in journalism and communications at the University of Toledo, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Cliff has written or co-authored nine books on media and cultural affairs and foreign policy issues. One of Cliff's books, "Global Bondage: The UN Plan to Rule the World" is still available. Cliff has appeared on Hannity & Colmes, The O’Reilly Factor, Crossfire and has been published in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Chronicles, Human Events and Insight. Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. E-Mail: Kincaid@comcast.net
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Davos Forum: Stuck On Stupid Over “Climate Action Failure”
Davos Forum: Stuck On Stupid Over “Climate Action Failure”
This year’s World Economic Forum Davos convention of global elitists drew 2,782 registered participants representing 117 countries and 121 nationalities. In a micro-sense, it resembles a United Nations meeting but only for plutocrats: rich, famous and powerful.
For all of the economic problems facing the world, the Davos leadership saw fit to have 17 year-old Greta Thunberg come and give them a tongue lashing for not living up to her expectations of climate change hysteria.
She duly scolded them on every front, but mostly for listening to her while subsequently doing nothing about her demands.
Sunday, December 29, 2019
These companies helping Obama Foundation ‘transform’ America
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Billionaire Leftist George Soros Bought America's Media. Why Hasn't Anybody Noticed?
Billionaire Leftist George Soros Bought America's Media. Why Hasn't Anybody Noticed?
October 17, 2019
Clenched-teeth presidential debaters unloaded Tuesday night on Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big-Almost-Everything -- any industry that pours Big Bucks into influencing American politics. Yet, they skimmed right over the scariest and most sinister big sell-out of all: Big Media.
Where during the CNN/New York Times Democratic debate was the crumbling Fourth Estate, whose downhill slide in the 21st Century has sent it on a desperate treasure hunt for sugar daddies to prop it up?
Why didn't the name George Soros pop up?
Democrats don't talk about Big Media's influence because they're the ones who benefit from it. With the exception of FOX, every one of the most influential national news outlets are campaigning -- I mean really flagrantly campaigning -- for far-left liberal candidates and causes.
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Why the Worldwide Left Is So Opposed to Donald Trump
Rush Limbaugh has finally said the words...
We who have been listening to Rush Lumbaugh through the years have known that his dialog often describes the threats from the Left in such general terms that it is impossible to convict Rush of rash, unfounded accusations. This week, however, he has been building up to a crescendo that resounded on Thursday to expose the true nature of the threat to our Republic from Transnationalism. On that occasion, he used the words of a speech by John Fonte to expose the "big picture" workings of both foreign influencers and domestic activists toward the destruction of Constitutional government in the United States.
Rush then explains that he believes that President Trump is well aware of these existential threats and his every move is designed to slow or halt their progress against your national interest. If you take the time to read the entire transcript, you will reach the part where Rush explains that the Left's twisted accusations against Trump's "nationalism" are designed to obscure the real nature of this Administation's struggle to regain the sovereignty that has already been eroded by the Transnationalists. - ed.
Why the Worldwide Left Is So Opposed to Donald Trump
Aug 15, 2019
RUSH: So, I ran across this piece and I want to share it with you because when I was reading this piece, it caused a bunch of lights to go off. One of the things that I’ve been trying to figure out, even though those of you who listen will think I have it figured out, to me there’s always more than what I understand on most things. Even though I think I may have something figured out, there’s still more to learn about it.
And this opposition to Trump, it’s so irrational. It’s so obsessive that it puzzles me. And over what? Make America Great Again. Now, look, I understand the left hates America. The left hates the concept of capitalism and freedom. But they have never been anywhere near a majority of the population in this country. Never. They’ve always been fringe. They’ve been around since the days of the founding. Their strength has ebbed and flowed, you might say they’re 30, 35 percent, but I don’t even think that in terms of getting votes.
But yet they’re portrayed by a sympathetic media as being the majority of the country. If you landed here from Mars you would think the election of Donald Trump was some kind of real aberration because he represents 20 percent of the thinking and that the whole country is outraged every day because Donald Trump somehow shouldn’t be president. And, of course, the truth is over 65 million people voted for Donald Trump. He won the presidency fair and square. And yet this picture exists of something else.
And the opposition to Trump goes way beyond just Democrats losing. And it is the singular slogan of Trump’s that it’s not just a slogan, it’s an objective: Make America Great Again. The degree to which that has rendered his opponents insane has remained a big question. Even though I think I understand most of it intellectually, I’ve said to myself there’s got to be more to this. This is just irrational. It doesn’t make sense that this many people do not want America to be great.
So that remains a focal point, a frame of reference, as I go about my life living, learning, reading, this kind of thing. I came across something today that helped me understand it a bit more. It was nothing I didn’t already know. It’s one of these pieces, like Angelo Codevilla’s piece that we shared with you many, many moons ago on the ruling class versus the country class. It was like the revelation of learning what the current services baseline is in the federal budget and how that leads to what is called baseline budgeting. Those were light-goes-off moments.
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Trump was right to threaten Mexico with tariffs
Trump was right to threaten Mexico with tariffs
A (North) America First policy
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Patriots take a stand at the HQ of Fake News Ireland RTE (Representing The Elite)
Patriots,
This is our FUTURE, for we are fighting the same agenda. If we do not get engaged on the ground
local, state, and federal, this will be us! Remember, President Trump asked the
American people in a speech during his campaign, "...do you want GLOBALISM or
AMERICANISM?"
In the 1970's and 80's we spent time in Ireland. It was beautiful and
not spoiled at all. It reminded us of small towns in our Country. Watch the
video below and look what the Globalist have done.
The Smart Growth Socialist have already infiltrated the U.S. and put these policies into
our cities and towns. We stopped the Seven50 regional plan, but it has not gone
away. Watch our fellow Patriot in Ireland, Gemma O’Doherty, who is a multi award-winning journalist whose work has shone a
light on some of the darkest corners of Irish life. The video will open
you eyes and it will sound familiar to you. Please send this out to as many
people as you can. Gemma is running for office in Ireland - another Patriot fighting
for her COUNTRY.
A future Communist slum for the 'new Irish' on a historic Dublin hillside – Dublin Video
- Cindy,
Martin 9/12 TeaParty Committee
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Patrick Buchanan: Tariffs -- The Taxes That Made America Great
COMMENTARY:
Patrick Buchanan: Tariffs -- The Taxes That Made America Great
As his limo carried him to work at the White House Monday, Larry Kudlow could not have been pleased with the headline in The Washington Post: "Kudlow Contradicts Trump on Tariffs."
The story began: "National Economic Council Director Lawrence Kudlow acknowledged Sunday that American consumers end up paying for the administration's tariffs on Chinese imports, contradicting President Trump's repeated inaccurate claim that the Chinese foot the bill."
A free trade evangelical, Kudlow had conceded on Fox News that consumers pay the tariffs on products made abroad that they purchase here in the U.S. Yet that is by no means the whole story.
A tariff may be described as a sales or consumption tax the consumer pays, but tariffs are also a discretionary and an optional tax.
If you choose not to purchase Chinese goods and instead buy comparable goods made in other nations or the USA, then you do not pay the tariff.
Read the rest of the Commentary on cnsnews.com...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Taking Back ‘We the People’ From the Left
Taking Back ‘We the People’ From the Left
Constitutional populism, from Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump, built the modern right and changed the world.
Friday, March 22, 2019
All Aboard Florida's grade crossings compared to other high speed rail systems.
All Aboard Florida - is it really bringing more safety to our coast?
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