The Biden administration, if that’s the name of it, “Soros Administration” being more likely, exposes its true nature daily, if not hourly, most exemplary in its attempts to prevent Cubans from fleeing Communism to enter the United States. Combined with dozens of nation-weakening moves Biden has put his name and pen to, this one middle finger salute to the premise and promise of the United States, shows how historically blind and ignorant one 50-year suckling at the federal nipple can be. It takes concerted effort to be so stupid. To protect himself from even his own party, he has also chosen a running mate, now Vice-President, who is less intelligent and less competent even than himself in his addled, doddering state. They will invoke the 25th Amendment before long, and then what? President Harris?
It is difficult to discern the motivations of this gang of proto-tyrants, at least at first, but examining each of the members reveals a fuzzy, frightening shape to all of their actions, not the least of which is a 50-year-old crackhead finding a market for his odd artwork that would never see the light of day were he not the son of Joe Biden. One wonders who cooked up (sorry) the scheme? The crack-head? If his “success” encourages numerous other drug-addicts to obtain space at other galleries, the crack-head art market could soften dramatically. There is no other administration imaginable where such a scheme could even be tried, let alone be protected from inquiry. Whatever else the Biden family dynamics may include, R. Hunter Biden has increased its net worth substantially through payments and bribes from oligarchs great and small, for years. There may be a certain wisdom to “going domestic,” as it were.
In Weimar-Republic Germany, the National Socialist party with Adolph Hitler as its leader, was voted into power. This might be an object lesson to those Americans, living and dead, who voted the Biden regime into power, but not too many parallels should be drawn, since the Nazis were much smarter than our erstwhile U. S. socialist tyrants. Hitler, at least, partnered with capitalists to rebuild his nation, to no good end, but, still. Biden is partnering with stateless oligarchs who give not a tinker’s dam about “their” nation; these are globalists who see national status as impediments to sales. Non-monopoly capitalism and competition are anachronisms best left to die, in their views, nor do they care who actually is in charge so long as all markets are within reach. “We don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution,” they may as well say. There is a perverse cheering section for these (crap)-heads, who celebrate free shipping on all orders… to get vaccinated, for instance.
How could their parents let them grow up in that frame of mind?
Back in government-town, Biden is taking direction as best he can. His first actions were to simply do the opposite of whatever President Trump had done. There’s a difference between remaining ignorant of how the world works and purposely refusing to learn much of anything about it; it’s called stupid. When what works is handed to you already working and you refuse to acknowledge the evidence surrounding you, it’s no longer a case of being stupid… it’s something else. The guiding force behind willful ignorance of reality seems to be Barack Obama, 44th U. S. president and Biden’s former “boss” during those years. President Obama promised – or threatened – to “transform” the United States of America. His whole background had been comprised of finding fault with everything America represented and promised through its Constitutional “We, the people” model of self-government.
Obama placed his trust not in the success of the “American way” but in the failure of socialism. His erstwhile protégé – perhaps puppet – the confused Mr. Biden, is hop-scotching as fast as his handlers can carry him into socialism without even knowing where he’s headed. It certainly isn’t to “America first” –land. God save us.
Vaccine is a comforting word… concept. Inject some serum, or drink it, depends, and one will become safe from a serious, if not existential, threat. What a concept. What could go wrong? Some of the most profitable industries in the world have accepted billions of dollars of “aid” from the federal government so that development of a “vaccine” that promises to protect everybody from COVID-19, could be accelerated. Numerous regulations were relaxed to permit development and testing to proceed together, there being no time to waste!
Miraculously, the first two, then three vaccines were all phenomenally effective and safe, safe, safe. Hurry, everyone, and get your shot or shots or jabs; they’re FREE! Oh, here and there some rare reaction or “allergy” to the serums was reported, but when you compare the millions and millions of doses, a few thousand hospitalizations, disabilities and deaths are a small price to pay to defeat the worst virus since the last one, regardless of how it was engineered or spread across the world in record time. Hurry! They’re safe, effective and FREE, say the pharmaceutical giants who produce the serums, as do the government functionaries and politicians that financed their development and rendered them available for “emergency” use, despite their connections to the very companies producing them.
“FREE” is a relative term in matters of emergency vaccines. Aside from the $billions to accelerate their availability, every single, damned shot and jab is being paid for by Uncle Sam, our benevolent government, on the arm, so to speak. Some of the top medical agencies of our friend, the federal government, helped to engineer COVID-19 both in this country and in China with our funding, to make it more communicable to humans, it being a virus in bats, after all and very unlikely to infect humans, it turns out, without the engineering. But, glory be, we have the vaccines! We’re saved.
Unless we aren’t. These vaccines are still experimental drugs that have received emergency-use authorization because there are no alternative treatments for COVID-19. Our thoughtful and benign government-types have made sure we are as safe as humanly possible by creating laws that protect us from being forced to take experimental drugs unless there are “no alternative treatments” available. How good of them. Not.
There are alternative, effective, inexpensive drugs available that have remarkably good effects on COVID-19 both in early treatment and even in preventive (prophylactic) uses. In many countries one or another of these drugs are readily available, even over-the-counter-available, and people have taken them and benefitted. Even some late-treatment uses have reversed “hopeless” disease trajectories.
“But, they can’t prescribe off-label!” critics and talking heads on television say. Well, duh, every friggin’ drug in the world is off-label for a brand new virus, now, isn’t it? When people are dying and standard procedures are failing to save them, why not try drugs that have worked for thousands of cases? Because it’s off label? No, because Donald Trump recommended that we try them. Shame on us. Doctors, actual practicing medical DOCTORS who had copious evidence of effectiveness of Ivermectin, for example, were not praised but cancelled. Twitter and Google suppressed their opinions. Why?
“We don’t know how safe they are!” worry the heads.
Let’s consider that we don’t know how actually safe the “vaccines” are, either, do we? In fact, let’s consider that thousands of people have died or suffered life-changing reactions to these experimental drugs – drugs the manufacturers are promoting for children and even infants! Some authorities are forcing children to be vaccinated, when there is no evidence that these vaccines afford ANY protection to people younger than 20 or 24, say, since they are at an infinitesimally small risk from COVID. Who takes a vaccine – an experimental vaccine – against the threat of a disease that is not a threat?
There are thousands of people whose effects from the vaccines will never be included in any database of pros and cons about these vaccines. As it is, if someone complains about a bad effect every medical effort seems to be to hold the vaccine harmless. Many people don’t register a complaint because they don’t connect the injection with a new physical problem. In Prudence’ case it’s shortness of breath, loss of endurance, poor sleep patterns because poor breathing interrupts sleep. After 76 years of quite good health, Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine has initiated an imPrudent slow, uncomfortable decline. We’ll find out if anything can be done, other than taking some other pharmaceutical(s) for the rest of Prudence’ life.
There is something – or many things – rotten about the creation of COVID-19 and these vaccines, while alternative treatments are suppressed. It is a billionaire’s game, led, in part, by the unusual Bill Gates, Dr. Anthony Fauci and others in the CDC, NIH and USAID, not to overlook the U.N.’s W. H. O. whose leadership helped Communist China suppress information about the new virus even while it was being spread across the world. Billionaires and would-be billionaires. Giant pharmaceutical companies and would-be giant pharmaceutical companies.
The formula is simple: create a worldwide health crisis and pop out serums that virtually every human will need to take… and damn the consequences for some. Let’s say four billion doses at $150 a jab… whirr, clunk, click, ding a ding-ding: $600 BILLION! If 5 or 10 or 50 thousand die from the vaccine, or 150,000 die from “lock-down” drug abuse and suicide, well, we’re overpopulated, anyway.
It is unhealthy, we might say, to lose trust in the medical establishment. The erosion began with the inception of Medicare and the federalization of welfare under Lyndon Johnson. Piece by piece, hospital by hospital, practitioner by practitioner, medical group by medical group, insurance company by insurance company, pharmaceutical company by pharmaceutical company, device manufacturer by device manufacturer, the entire industry/delivery system has adjusted to the political value of health care… and to the financial flows directed increasingly by government.
The politicization of medicine takes place to a significant degree by the direction and management of grant monies. Both “non-profit” universities, colleges and teaching hospitals, and for-profit laboratories and pharmaceutical manufacturers are very concerned to not buck prevailing politics. The research they do is often closely aligned with the opinions of politicians. While they may not publish “lies,” per se, they look only for certain truths – truths that keep grant money flowing. The increase in “billionaire-ships” over the last 20 years has created another source of grants aimed at fulfilling, often, a single person’s views of what is important research and what is not.
COVID-19 brings to light all of these weaknesses in medical science, as well as outright corruption, as private dollars sway the work and attitudes of “official” federal agencies that are depended upon for dispassionate truth. The World Health Organization division of the U. N. has also proven itself corrupt by kow-tow-ing to the Chinese Communist party in matters of truth about COVID-19’s origin and spread, helping to contribute to thousands of deaths, worldwide. To whom can we turn? The N.B.A.? NIKE? Not bloody likely.
There are truth-tellers out there. Hopefully, you are one, and so is your best friend and your significant other. There are a handful of people in office who are both truthful and unafraid of the truth – not always congruent conditions. Support your local truth-tellers and follow those who have the courage to proclaim and defend truth. Don’t fall victim to repeating the claims of suspected – hoped-for – truth-tellers, without confirming the truth, yourself. You will be challenged by people who believe things that aren’t so.
Truth is the right medicine for our health care and our health/medical industries. What else could be? It is the right medicine for our own health whenever we interact with those increasingly government-driven organizations. Is it not the right medicine for government and the law, too? Would truth work in government?
Is a COVID vaccine the right set of chemicals to inject into your only body? Find out the truth to the best of your ability, before you say, “Yes.”
A reckoning is surely coming. Hearing those words causes some listeners to imagine China being hoist on the World’s petard for causing so many deaths and economic losses. Won’t happen, it seems Prudent to say, at least not during the Biden-Harris administrations. They are long bought and paid-for.
No, a reckoning over COVID-19 could take the form of reduced health for millions around the world, due to widespread vaccination with serums that are effective against COVID while also being effective against good heart function, or against pregnancy and maternity. Such “side effects” have side-effected many thousands, including, as our friend, the global socialist movement in the persons of the U. S. government, God forbid, forces inoculation of youngsters. Not many have died, some merely debilitated at age 12 or so.
Volunteer “service” clubs are a crucial part of American exceptionalism. Whoops, these days it is imPrudent to describe the United States of America as exceptional in any way, yet it IS Prudent to so describe it and us, that way. Contrary to the outright lies and un-historic opinion contained in the “1619 Project,” the founding of our nation WAS exceptional compared to ALL other forms of greater-than-tribal governance ever tried in all of history. We were, upon our founding, an exception. Service clubs are not exceptional in and of themselves, but the American style of such voluntary assemblies is unique if, for no other reason, because of patriotism.
The United States was founded as an extension of the will of the God of Abraham, and of Christianity: the “New Jerusalem.” Carefully delineated in Ezekiel, the simple understanding of the new temple, the Holy of Holies and the city around it, was “Where the Lord God is.” Subject to Masonic interpretation, the much-sullied Jerusalem, stained by the conquest by Islamic armies, needed replacement on Earth and the “new world” of America looked to be the “clean” location for the New Jerusalem, ostensibly defined in the District of Columbia.
Distinction from Europe, and from England following the Treaty of Paris, led the “Founding Fathers” to create an exceptional set of premises to define the first populist, Constitutionally limited government. It was and is exceptional. Only fools and communists cannot admit the truth of that statement. That it was flawed cannot be argued, nor can the fact that the new structure of distributed powers contained the tools to correct those flaws.
Obviously those flaws, most intensely, that of slavery, neither faded away nor were resolved quickly enough. Yet, to keep its moral word, The United States took sides on the question of slavery at the most serious possible level: life or death… of the nation and of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and citizens. No nation, anywhere or at any time, has paid such a high price to adjust relations between races, ie. to end racial injustice. No nation. Lately, however, as leftists are wont to do, we have been rubbing salt in old, old wounds, racial and pseudo-racial, attempting to exhume the guilt of past generations so as to gain dominance over current ones. What a rotten process it is.
Those seeking political – or military – advantage, love conflict. Those are they for whom the suffering, even deaths of those enmeshed in conflict are of no moral or humane concern. For those, there is always some nebulous, overarching and much greater morality that magically forgives all injustices on the path to victory or revolution. The presence of conflict implies an eventual resolution of that conflict, wherein all the opportunities for drastic change resides. What sort of drastic change might be needed?
For those who have been busy tearing down our heritage, our Constitution, historical statues and election laws, the drastic change leads only to destruction of this democratic republic and its replacement with a fundamentally communist-socialist regime in concert with International Communism, but dominated by black and brown people.
For those of us who are not sold on that end result, what changes should we make and insist upon from OUR government? Should we insist on only truth being taught in our schools? All of them? This would eliminate race and racialism as “curricula.” There is enough negative, and positive, in TRUTH, to show the wrongness of slavery and racial discrimination, while showing the exceptional nature of the American model. Perhaps we could insist on the strengths of smaller government as part of “civics” education. Could we learn to be individually moral and responsible citizens rather than haters of one another? That would be a nation-strengthening change.
Could we create a plan to ease people OFF of welfare? The worst aspect of socialism is dependency and lack of growth as an individual. What sort of rotten philosophy would guide anyone toward that end? After 60 years of federalized welfare we have accomplished nothing as successfully as the destruction of the nuclear family, particularly of black and brown peoples. Who could be proud of that? Who could possibly proclaim that “accomplishment” as a reason to be granted more elected power? Who would “fall” for it?
What the past 60 years have done is prepare a failing nation for Communism, and 2020 is the year the Communists among us believed their time to pounce had come, and pounce they did. COVID-19 was their major ally whose only worldwide beneficiary was Communist China and a handful of multi-billionaire oligarchs for whom borders are mere address indicia. The longer we fail to recognize the source of COVID’s international spread, the sooner we will fall to China for lack of preparatory defense. Shame on us and on “our” media for whom facts are mere props or weapons in the battle to hide the truth.
During the COVID attack, Americans of all sorts were taught to follow the somewhat whimsical dictates of public “servants,” for whom Constitutional rights took a back seat, every time, to the fears mongered by elected and non-elected experts who, it turns out, were involved in the CREATION of the monster known as COVID-19, and, worse, creation in collaboration with Communist China’s military-dominated virology laboratory in Wuhan. Little by little we are learning about the fraudulent nature of how the COVID epidemic was being handled in the United States, largely by the deep state and the collusion between “big Pharma” and the CDC and NIH bureaucracies. Supporting their mis-directions were the cruel and mainly ignorant reactions of governors and mayors as they locked down economic and other activities on the premise of “slowing” the spread of the virus. It is far from clear that any of the lockdown actions were particularly effective except to ruin the best economy in the world.
Oddly, the same period of economic lockdown and breakdown was chosen for coordinated rioting and violent, even murderous protests of ostensible “systemic” racism. “BLM” and “Antifa” and most Democrats running large cities purveyed a grand lie of the historic upset over the death of George Floyd as adequate justification for destroying businesses and other properties, looting and violent attacks on municipal and federal buildings – particularly police/law-enforcement related. Immediately, national leaders had to explain away (lie about) the threat of COVID among irresponsible rioters while locking down churches, schools and a host of other business types and activities like weddings, funerals and graduations.
Amazingly, the state and federal politicians who forced unconstitutional changes in voting procedures across the country, and who lied about the nature and consequences of multiple protests and riots, are the same who charge anyone, particularly Trump, who might question the results of the oddest election in our history, an election replete with an incredible set of vote-pattern anomalies made astronomically less likely to be innocent by virtue of their simultaneous manifestation at a single historic point… all favoring the least-competent candidate to ever win a major-party nomination, with telling lies. We are still told that only that party can be telling the truth about the weird 2020 electoral processes.
Maybe a change we might demand would be honesty. Perhaps we could strengthen our body politic and our “united” peoples (“e pluribus unum”) by telling the truth about the nature of communist/Marxist front groups who led the riots of 2020. Maybe we could demand honesty from Congress about our budgets. If budget honesty is too much to ask, maybe we can get just the truth about January 6th and the involvement of undercover federal law-enforcement personnel on that day and the days leading up to the breach of the capitol.
Maybe we could change how we identify ourselves, not by discarding precise pronouns in favor of those that somehow validate self-declared, non-empirical feelings, but by celebrating the exceptional quality of citizenship in the United States of America. Maybe we could change the relative application of Constitutional rights to only U. S. citizens, relegating non-citizens to somewhat lesser advantage when residing in the U. S. Another change might be to relegate non-citizens who enter our nation illegally, to the most temporary residency status, including comfortable transportation back to their countries of origin, assuming they have completed their prison terms, if so disposed.
The “New Jerusalem” is a concept, not a place; a means of fulfilling a philosophy, not a myth. Jerusalem is “where the Lord God is,” which is to say, “Where the surrender to God’s will is.” To Masons, Jerusalem is expressible in a sacred geometry: sequences of geometric ratios and relationships that outpicture divine mathematics. Washington, D. C. is laid out in partial fulfillment of those divine patterns. The Constitution and other founding “scriptures” are laid out to enable religious men and women to fulfill their own divine geometries, as they fulfill the divine plan of America. It is not all an accident of architecture, but an intensely purposeful architecture. God is the Divine Architect in both physical form of the Universe, and in the spiritual design of His Laws for mankind: each fits and complements the other. The Universe for testing man’s mettle and faith; the Law for testing man’s faith and mettle.
The imperfect but perfectible architecture of the United States was entrusted to future generations. Our democratic republic was deemed suitable only to a moral and religious people, being inadequate to any other. To the best of its ability, the global, socialist movement to unseat God has inexorably pursued the removal of God, Christianity and (our) divine architecture of freedom and free will that is essential for the evolution of souls and the defeat of evil. That architecture was entrusted across the ages to the fledgling United States. Since the end of the Civil War Americans have done their best to shuck off this holy responsibility as we have shucked off holiness, itself. The left perceived and employed our weaknesses and struck in 2020. The hopeless Mr. Biden, ostensible president of the people to whom America, the “New Jerusalem” was entrusted, is our reward and his plans – or someone’s plans – are well underway to completing the undermining of the two architectures. Just read H.R. 5.
Even a jaded observer must consider that the U. S. of A. has been protected through divine intervention more than once, especially considering the boneheaded law-making we practice. The “work-product” of the Congress over the past 50 years, particularly the past 21 years, has been so mendacious and partially understood that we are now $30 TRILLION in debt. But our foolishness extends even to the amending of our majestic Constitution, and one of the worst of the twenty-seven such “improvements” is Amendment XXV, “Presidential Disability and Succession.” The warped geniuses of the 89th Congress passed this abomination in 1965 and had it ratified in 1967. President Johnson signed it, although that step has no meaning in the ratification process in fact – just political theater.
What does the 25th purport to do that is so crucial as to be part of the Constitution? Ostensibly, its 396 words resolves the problems that might occur should a president become disabled and be unable to fulfill the duties of the president. Unfortunately, it creates multiple gray areas that practically invite a coup d’etat. Let’s look at the text.
Section 1
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
No problem, here. This has always been so. “Removal” is the time bomb.
Section 2
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
This has worked well as when Spiro Agnew resigned and Gerald ford was appointed and confirmed as Vice-President, then again when Nixon resigned and Ford named Nelson Rockefeller to be Vice-President following confirmation. And, it’s ‘safe,” since a President is unlikely to appoint a political enemy to be Vice-President, although the 46th may have.
Section 3
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
This seems to cover the matter of temporary disability such as medical incapacity that is going to end as the President heals from the disease or surgery involved. In fact it is rather loosely thought through, potentially creating a problem rather than a solution. The president holds the power at both ends of the equation: he alone decides to transmit the written declaration that he is or will be disabled, and he, alone, sends the written declaration that he is no longer disabled. The assumption is that the president is an honorable person who would do what is right and best in both circumstances, but should that not be the case or in cases of mental slippage, Section 4 of the Amendment will apply; that section is a relatively dangerous assemblage of words that are very likely to yield the opposite of the intention of this amendment.
Section 4
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Trouble rests in these two paragraphs. In this case, the president’s disability, inability or, conceivably, unwillingness to perform the duties of his office, is a matter of the opinions and judgments of others. This implies a conflict of opinions between the president and either form of the committee of opposing opinions (The V.P. and Cabinet members, presumably, but described as the “principal officers of the executive departments,” which could include military personnel not of Cabinet rank – a bad idea, or some nebulous alternative “body” passed into “law” – how is not stated and questionable if the President refuses to sign it), and such a conflict could involve use of force to make the committee opinion effective. At that point, who in the Secret Service or White House guard contingent is loyal to whom? What forces would the committee of opposing opinions have at its disposal? What a mess.
The first paragraph of this section states that the Vice-President “shall immediately” assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. If the president is not in agreement with how that step is taken, can he transmit a written declaration to the President pro tempore of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House stating that he is no longer disabled? Now what?
Does the President’s written declaration dissolve the opposing opinions of either of the committees of opposing opinions? How quickly? Could the Vice-President “immediately” assume power at 1:30 PM, say, and give it up at 2:45 because of the President’s written declaration? Or, if the Vice-President is aligned with other powerful people who have been tolerating the President until a certain point is reached, would that group maintain a forceful restraint on the President, preventing such a transmittal as proposed in this Amendment? Holy cow!
We might think this is an impossible set of circumstances, except we are in the midst of all of them, right now.
The Vice-President and whichever committee of opposing opinions then has 4 days to re-state the supposed inability of the President. This causes the Congress to decide the issue if in session, or to assemble within 48 hours to decide the issue, BUT, Congress has 21 days to decide by 2/3 vote in both houses! During this period, is the President prevented from resuming his or her duties? All in all we’re looking at nearly a month of Constitutional leadership turmoil. If the Congress fails to rule with 2/3 majorities, the President can assume the duties of his office. Yeah, right.
Suppose the House and Senate create their undefined committee because of some dissatisfaction with the committee formed by the Vice-president; two committees of opposing opinions are extant. Nothing is said in the Amendment language about a “first-come, first-served” political courtesy that prevents there being two committees. Since the House and Senate have the roles of voting on either committee’s opinion of the President’s infirmity, one might assume that Congress’ committee would take precedence. They could simply refuse to vote on the Vice-president’s committee’s report, yet the Amend says they must take that vote with a certain period of time. Should they vote the V.P. report down by, in effect, vote for the result that matches their own report, what power does the Executive branch have to thwart implementation of the Congressional committee’s report? What power does the Congress have to enforce its report should it conflict with the V.P. report?
What a mess.
The whole process could be a bit more transparent and made medically sound. With hatred as a common political tool in the 21st Century, the numerous weaknesses of the current amendment simply invite political chicanery.
How much better it would be to obviate most of these problems. Suppose an amendment called for a periodically changing, confidential list of 20 or more medical and psychological doctors, well-recognized in their fields, who would be prepared to be called-upon in the event Section 3 or the first paragraph of Section 4 of the 25th Amendment were activated. A random selection of 5 from among these experts would be called to be a Committee of Evaluation regarding the President’s condition, and sworn to secrecy until 5 years following the President’s end of Presidential service. Those 5 would select one of the group to be a “Monitor” who would shadow the President for a period of time chosen by the group, not to exceed 5 days, in frequent consultation with the group. Such monitoring would be fairly intimate and include consultation with the President’s personal physician and access to all medical records and histories. This group, one hopes anonymously, would make its recommendation to a select, equally bi-partisan joint committee of the House and Senate, in secret. That committee would bring forth identical resolutions for both houses to vote on.
Only with a 2/3 vote in both houses could the Vice-President then assume the duties of Acting President. Should the President later transmit his or her declaration of ability to fulfill the duties of the office, the same Committee of Evaluation would reconvene and ultimately submit a second recommendation to the Joint Committee, in secret. Should the two Houses again vote 2/3 in the affirmative (within 5 days of receiving the second Evaluation) to declare the President still incapable of discharging his or her duties, the Vice-President shall continue as Acting President.
The President may, within 30 days, appeal his or her Congressional “suspension” directly to the Supreme Court which may, upon full hearing and discovery of all pertinent evidence, including Evaluations, reinstate the President or find him or her unable to discharge his or her duties and leave the Vice-President as Acting President. The suspended President shall then vacate the White House while retaining the rights and privileges of any retired President.
If the next Federal Election is a “Mid-Term” election, every state shall include a referendum question on its ballot that will return the President to office with a “Yes” vote, or keep him suspended and effectively “retired” until the following Presidential elections at which time he or she may run for his or her party’s nomination and subsequently, if nominated, run for a full term as President.
These proposed changes make clear the medical/psychological bases for taking the drastic step of unseating a President, and temper the purely political forces that might attempt to subvert a President. Finally, voting citizens deserve to have the final say should a President appeal to the Supreme Court and fail reinstatement. Prudence recommends these improvements by amendment to the Constitution.
We, meaning the Exchange Club of Lawrence and the Andovers, and a bunch of wonderful volunteers and relatives thereof, installed the “Field of Honor” for the third time on the North Andover, Massachusetts Common, this past Saturday. It is a labor of love and patriotism and, in fact, a most serious community service, part of two of Exchange’s Four Pillars of Service. To do a lot of what a “full-calendar” Exchange Club wants to accomplish each year requires money, and mixed with our forms of service to our communities are some vital fund-raising events; the Field of Honor is a four-way winner on that calendar. With a single project we fulfill “Americanism,” we raise needed funds, we unify our Club and we provide “Community Service” for all of those who sponsor flags in memory of loved ones or in honor of them, who recognize first-responders, health-care workers, coaches, teachers and other personal “V.I.P.’s” in their lives.
Each sponsored flag has affixed a colorful, laminated “Tag” that names the honoree, field of service and heartfelt commentary by the sponsor about this very important person. The first time we “did” a Field of Honor we followed the lead of a nearby Exchange and tried to read all the dedications on the day of ceremony at the end of the Field’s term of display. We messed it up fairly well since we didn’t have a good database, but the hearing of one’s dedication was very important to the flag sponsors, a fact made abundantly clear to us by those who did not hear their own, or who missed the reading. That is when the nature of the service we were suddenly responsible to provide properly, became clear.
We’ve fixed that database problem. We’ve also fixed our lack of recognition among the communities we’ve served for, now, 75 years. Both our Club members and the Club, itself, can be identified with this beautifully visible display, now of three-week’s duration. But, the “Field” is still greater than the values already noted. It’s a unifier when Unity in these “United” States is under its greatest stress. This is the larger part of the story.
Dis-unity is the most potent weapon there is in the hands of an enemy of a democratic republic – a republic built on personal morality and personal responsibility and above and beneath all, FREEDOM. In the past dozen (or five-dozen) years, or so, we have witnessed the coalescing of “liberal,” socialistic tendencies toward dictatorial government, around the always-tender concerns about race and attendant hatreds. There is very little within the non-discussive discussions about race in the U. S. that involve truth. Among intentional, often political LIES about race or racism, exist often-repeated – shouted – non-truths that are based upon beliefs that are just not so. That is, many, mostly guilt-ridden liberals, repeat statements they believe are true, but the premises of which are false. They have no intention to lie, per se, but become greatly exercised as they parrot non-truths. We should stipulate some truths.
One – Different races are not limited compared to any other race in terms of ABILITY, only by BELIEFS. Within those beliefs are familial, parental and social expectations that are imprinted even before birth, as to what constitutes propriety and success for an individual.
Two – Mixing races together, including by force, as with slavery, ALWAYS carries the risk of continuing division because of conflicting BELIEFS, not because of mental or physical abilities. Humans are much more alike than not, despite oft-repeated untruths we may have grown up with. Diversity, in and of itself, is a weakening agent to the cohesiveness of a society, to a nation. Similarity is the great strengthener, and, when reinforced by diverse experiences, a tremendous strength to the United States nation. Diversity for its own sake is a source of social divisiveness, yet now governs our economic and social constructs, including valuations of one another as “sufficiently diverse” enough in our daily lives and actions. No nation can survive, no society can succeed if its interactions are biased toward the non-traditional beliefs of newcomers, rather than the newcomers being required to live by our traditional moral standards, no matter their personal beliefs.
Three – Shared morality is essential to social unity and to economic success. America’s economic success is based on fundamental honesty in contracts written and unwritten, from marriage to multi-year leases, commodity pricing and delivery, and in covenants between the people-formed governments and those governments, themselves, local state and federal. Together with honesty in contracting, our sense of – belief in – sacrifice for a better future for our children and for people unknown, made our phenomenal growth and wealth possible. Welcoming, or allowing establishment of, moralities alternative to the historical, traditional morality of a society, is a first step to social suicide. Americans, in our folly, are not merely tolerant of other beliefs, which is relatively harmless, but we fail to require all citizens to live by our own fundamental moral traditions. Indeed, we have managed to talk ourselves out of living by them.
Four – There are two genders: many feelings about one’s place and purpose and pursuit of happiness, but only two genders. That so much heat is generated over “trans-genderism” or “trans-sexuality” is based on those individuals who desire so much to believe in two contradictory ideas at the same time, that they will endure a host of suspicions and fears among “straight” populations. Others who desire acceptance of aberrant lifestyles, AND those who are mainly interested in the dissolution of the United States, seize upon those who believe in trans-genderism and employ their suffering – which is real – as a further wedge to separate the vast majority of Americans from their traditional morality. Sadly, ultra-progressive parents, themselves, are changing their own beliefs to accommodate the popularized mental incongruity that two diametrically opposed concepts may be true at the same time. Small children who claim to be other than their actual gender are encouraged in this incongruity even to the point of chemical – EVEN SURGICAL – modification of growth and maturation (with untold consequences, nearly all of which are negative). Supposed psychologists, scientists of a sort, including “child” psychologists, have bent their attitudes towards normality and no longer advise maintaining traditional roles for children until maturity. Most minors “grow out of” dyspohric fantasies. Unfortunately, a less and less morally constrained population has created political pressure sufficient to have draconian laws passed requiring society to accommodate these incongruities, to the direct affront of not only honesty, but of all traditional moral codes, including religious codes, and to our peril as a democratic republic, which, as noted, can function only amidst a population self-controlled by shared morality.
Five – Derek Chauvin did not kill George Floyd. Oh, he was “convicted” of murder, much like Joe Biden having been certified as President. The Chauvin conviction was mere confirmation of what weak, jittery politicians had agreed with mobs to do. The nearly sainted George Floyd was on an express bus to an early death that day, before his antics even gained police attention. Chauvin, not the brightest bulb in the string, could have feigned great concern and demanded that people taking videos go find a doctor instead. He could have laid George’s big head on his lap and tried talking to him while they waited for the EMT’s. He’d still have his job, Minneapolis would still be a city, and dozens of businesses and thousands of jobs would still be supporting families in Minnesota. No, Chauvin didn’t kill Floyd, but he caused the deaths of many others and many more to come as idiotic, fearful, politicians attempt to buy favor from Communists and fascists by weakening police departments.
Six – To say that “black lives matter” is to state an obvious fact; all lives matter in a non-communist society: our morality informs us of the sacredness and sanctity of human life. To adhere to the “Black Lives Matter” organization as some sort of leaders in the mattering of black lives, however, is to put the lie to every aspect of the sanctity of black and every other life. More than in any other “advanced” culture, lives matter most under a system of freedom and personal worth. Religion has a lot to do with that, Christianity most of all in this Prudent view. To latch on to anti-Christians for leadership in this area of humanity, is utterly nonsensical. Misguided blacks, in fact, are at the forefront of DISCOUNTING the values of black lives! Let us count the ways.
Blacks are solidly Democratic in their politics, evidently expecting expansive government to make their lives better. Yet it is they who have the most to say about the betterment of their lives and the lives of all blacks. After 60 years of federalized welfare and the concurrent dissolution of the black family, wise blacks can readily describe the negative impact on black lives, a gift from Democrats. The incessant turning away from success by so many black youth, consumed in hatred for anything “white,” like educational excellence and personal merit, is also a product of political divisiveness employed by the great protectors of blacks: Democrats.
Just as was done in South Africa during apartheidt, unions have been strong promoters of unionization and minimum wage laws – the net effect of which have been to make it more comfortable to hire whites instead of blacks. Black youth, more likely to be lower-skilled, unfortunately, are denied their best marketable quality: willingness to work for less to get started up the ladders of success. We have made it illegal to work for less. Alternatives on the streets and gang associations where all the leaders are non-white, are made much more attractive to disaffected youth. Keeping blacks unskilled and inexperienced serves to make unionized jobs more white… just like in South Africa. Who are the strongest proponents of unionization and minimum wages? Democrats, who are trying their hardest to improve the lot of blacks, just ask them. Those are they who celebrate success of black Democrats while heaping scorn upon blacks of other political views. Black lives matter, so much.
President Joe Biden, race-baiter in chief… and great “unifier,” has authorized the flying of “Black Lives Matter” flags at American embassies around the world. It is a move so utterly offensive to so many, and so essentially diametric toward everything the United States has ever professed, fought-for or relied upon in its founding ideas and ideals, and so stupid, as to expose the rank folly of this man’s being president of this nation or of virtually any organization of alert humans. Nothing he does is to be trusted. Nothing he has done as president is pro-American… or anti-racist.
Seven – Education is the primary business of parents: not of the government at any level, or of teachers unions or of mediocrity contracts with arbitrary groups of teachers. Teachers are hired, fundamentally, to teach our children how to be honest, literate, knowledgeable about science, mathematics and the natural world, and knowledgeable about our culture and founding, governing principles. Educators need not teach religion, per se, but about religion as part of World History. Nor should they teach against it. They should teach common decency and respect for others, good manners and propriety in all things within the school campus/environment. Sports and other team functions and competitions are relevant for good health and good adjustment to the individual strengths and weaknesses of others. Exposure to the Arts is also essential for becoming well-rounded individuals, armed with some choices of direction to follow after the first 12 years of instruction. Elective courses should include “manual arts” and tool use, carpentry and basic trade skills. It is not the business of educators to expose minor children to unusual sexual practices or any sexual practices. The subject matter of any “Health” class should be vetted by the parents of children in the school system, else their children may not attend said class. Any school or “system” unwilling to collaborate with parents at that level about sexuality or any other area of controversy, perhaps with open petitioning by a certain percentage of parents, requiring such vetting, does not deserve access to students or to the tax monies that follow them.
Ideally, every school should be a Charter School, and every child should be expected to excel… and to behave.
Eight – The breaching of the Capitol Building on January 6th was not an insurrection. It was several things, but “insurrection” was not one of them. There was no attempt, or even hope, to overthrow the sitting government or our governing “system,” EXCEPT where said system was lying to the American people. The mealy-mouthed half-truths and outright lies tossed around in the hallowed halls of Congress, ostensibly to do “the people’s business” has become so offensive and off-target that people wanted to talk to their erstwhile “representatives” who were about to certify a most questionable election of one of the most crooked presidents-elect to ever reach that level. The actions of some who assaulted the building were clearly unrelated to the President’s words; those are they who entered the crowds at the Capitol and who had not attended the rally.
Capitol police, oddly, had not, despite advance notice for days, made any reasonable attempts to make such a breach difficult and, in fact, made the breach easier, even to helping people enter the building once the physical breaches had occurred. Offers of reinforcement from the Trump administration were refused because of “optics,” we’re told. Yet the entire period since the rather silly impacts of the vandalism and broken windows, has been nothing but “optics,” as conservatives and Trump voters, generally, have been branded as “white supremacists” and “terrorists” and greater threats to “democracy” than “9-11.” What hogwash. The greatest threat to “democracy” in the past several decades exists among those who engineered the 2020 Elections that led to certification of the electoral College votes that propelled Biden-Harris to be sworn in on January 20th. To say that the January 6th events were not a legitimate “protest” against perceived government mendacity is to rewrite history and word-meanings simultaneously. Long before the 2020 elections, sufficient reasons to protest the actions within the Capitol were accumulating: things like $27 Trillion in debts.
Breaching the Capitol was foolish, obviously, and illegal in its own right, from which a host of other crimes and misdemeanors flowed. The worst crime, committed by a Capitol Police officer, was the point-blank murder of Ashli Babbit, who was not assaulting any person or presenting a threat to the officer who shot her. Ms. Babbit was unarmed. Four months later we can finally identify the police officer at fault, despite video of the incident. He is a Trump-hater, reportedly, but not charged with this crime. Can we suppose that had the breach been the work of “BLM” that the entire congressional leadership would have taken a knee on their Communist behalf in the Rotunda? Fourteenth Amendment, anyone?
Back to the Field of Honor in North Andover: Exchange attempts to gather good people to a common purpose, much of which is helping, serving, others. Through scholarships, recognitions of excellence and of overcoming tough challenges, and through Americanism, we attempt to remind our fellow Americans of the qualities that are worth emulating, honoring and teaching. In our experience, people need that reminding; they need to remember or recognize and honor those who were raised with those vital qualities; people truly want the reminding: it affirms that the best of being an American is still true and worth emulating, including to whatever extent, in their own lives and in the lives of those around them.
To all those who, for whatever reason or untruth you are convinced of, teach our children, and who convey that America and its entire history and purpose is to be hated and discarded for a socialized, anti-Christian system that has failed wherever tried, stop! You have no right.
There is no solution or resolution to the new racism America is “enjoying” in 2021, unless we dramatically change course in multiple key areas: Education, Religious freedom, Health care, Monopoly capitalism, Municipal government, Police theory, Government budgeting, Taxation, Border integrity, Cabinet-level policies, Judicial theory, FBI/DOJ practice, Foreign policy, and, if current events allow, a few others. What constitutes this “new” racism?
To leftists the new racism is the same as the “old” racism, and, given that definition, is the “fault” of the descendants of “old” racists, back to 1619, if not earlier, like 1492, maybe. But, it’s not the same, is it? The United States has painfully advanced from white slavery of non-whites over a span of 200 years, in no small part due to the advocacy and non-violent protest-education that led to the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and Affirmative Action in all of its misguided intentions. The process cost many blacks in beatings and even deaths as the tentacles of “KKK-like” racism tried to cling desperately to the old ways and old hatreds. As a nation we have rejected those old ways legally, officially, judicially.
Unfortunately, under Lyndon Johnson, we created, simultaneously with the new legal civil rights platform, a federalized welfare structure that has most efficiently deconstructed black families and black success. As Johnson described the bill-signing, he remarked, “I’ll have those niggers (sic) voting Democratic for generations.” To that degree he was completely honest, unlike most of his political career. In fact, federal responsibility for family support is the basis of the “new” racism. Since federal checks follow, there has been a distinctly muted effort to reverse federal welfare despite decades of evidence of its worst corrosive effect: fatherless children.
The coincident weakening of religious teaching, especially of Christianity, even if only one day a week for a couple of hours, is a second, very large factor eroding our Republic. Our Constitutional system of, ostensibly, limited government, has worked, and can work, ONLY if the individuals who ratified the Constitution and who swear allegiance to the nation it defines, are honest, morally straight and responsible to themselves and their families. Without that quality of citizens, the U. S. of A. will not survive for long, something global leftists are working for.
U. S. leftists seem to be working for the same thing.
We cannot make much progress toward a more honest, more moral nation while the Congress and the bureaucratic state are the most influential liars. Here and there are some Representatives or Senators who appear to be somewhat honest, but they cannot stem the mendacity tide. Now Capitol Hill has joined its lies with the White House’s extraordinary disingenuousness, leaving honest citizens with nowhere to turn. The history of the 46th president’s public positions is disturbing enough; his abrupt change of beliefs – if that’s what has happened – is more concerning. Mr. Biden became a self-made Manchurian Candidate, yet lots of confused Americans are cheering him on. He has also adopted the new racism as he claims to be “uniting” the country. Most people who are really strong for Biden, are also those who were taught to hate Trump the most.
While Biden dissembles on virtually everything, especially on domestic and foreign policies, Trump, for all his braggadocio and embellishment – mostly to enhance his own image – never lied about policies he would pursue. There’s some difference.
The new racism isn’t aimed at “solving” racism. The new racism is simply a crass, cynical tool for social destruction. White liberals… and brown liberals, actually think that by forcing whites to “admit” to racists attitudes and to berate one another for our unthinking, “systemic” racism, that every American will finally, regardless of ALL other efforts since our founding, become anti-racist. Since the underlying premise is false, most of what is said about it is also false. Racism is normal. What is not normal, or acceptable, is twisting normal suspicions into hatreds, unjust actions and, sadly, illegal actions.
America is founded on PERSONAL responsibility and personal morality. Our freedoms are INDIVIDUAL, not grouped. As John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people”. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
If for no other reason, Socialism’s first goal is always to separate people from religion and faith in God, thereby making government far more necessary to maintain order in society. Scottish historian, Lord Tytler, is reputed to have said the following:
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependence back into bondage.”
Books have been written on that very same theme. Some describe the phases differently, seeing a shift from liberty into a society dominated by “high priests, experts and judges.” In America’s case, Prudence can describe that phase as beginning about the time of World War II, simultaneous with the rise of data digitization. Many of the “high priests” were now identified – since Roosevelt – with government types, the bureaucratic state and academia. Then, with the foul-minded president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the explosion of regulation swamped the ability of individuals to manage their own affairs, their own families or their own businesses. Leftists, as part of the long, long march toward the emasculation of the United States and its eventual demise, saw doors opening throughout the 1960’s through which they could insert levers to separate Americans from the traditions that made the U. S. the strongest nation in the world, and the leader among nations. Separating us from our traditions has reached a fever pitch.
The new racism is similar in purpose to the old racism: keeping one group down and unable to affect the freedoms… or whims, of the dominant group. But, it’s not the same. The new racism defines groups not simply by skin color or other immutable traits, ethnic origin and the like, but by politics and economics; in other words, according to the tenets of Karl Marx. Lo and behold, the loudest agitators for the new racism are, in fact, Marxists. Many who join hands and voices with them are oblivious (one hopes) to the Marxist kernel. Like Joe Biden and some other Democrats, they repeat indefinable phrases like “social justice,” “equity,” and “systemic racism.” The only “systemic” anything is adherence to the founding documents like the Declaration of Independence and the ratified Constitution of 1789, the principles enumerated in the Northwest Ordinance, the Bill of rights and the best of Amendments to the Constitution. These same are the targets of the new racists: our Marxist brethren in “BLM,” most colleges and universities, the public education industry and unions, and the most “progressive” leftists in the Democrat party.
The simple view is that the new racism is anti-white, but it is even more virulently the enemy of blacks and other minorities who agree with whites or even any white, singular, based on what that white person THINKS. The new racism is based on hatred, not fear of difference or even economics, per se, although the current economics has to be destroyed in their view. Everyone who thinks he or she can state agreement with “Black Lives Matter” loud enough to be safe from their racism (Marxism), is deeply confused… for they are Marxists. And, they seem proud of that and, evidently, proud of their ability to use racism against the white majority. The latter requiring a special version of hate. We who are sympathetic to the plight of some minority citizens must be vigilant that we aren’t digging the grave of the United States with BLM shovels.
Along with the never-ending political hatreds associated with (ostensibly) slavery, today’s professional racists have gathered up the LGBTQ “community” as if those people were another “race” as well, equally discriminated against and equally prevented from pursuing happiness. The theory doesn’t hold water, of course, but it’s good politics… for both groups. The fear and guilt elicited by “Black Lives Matter” has enhanced the influence of “LGBTQ” demands far beyond simple numbers would indicate. White liberals can chastise themselves for almost anything brought to their attention.
“BLM” and other communist types don’t seem smart enough to have decided on the 2020 election year as the year they could shift the conscience of a nation using lies about racial animus among police. There are no statistics that support their hollow claims; indeed, they support the opposite. Trump, maligned for more than four years, was making progress on many fronts including the economy, defense of our borders and foreign policy. All indicators showed his popularity soaring and that he was likely to cruise to a resounding re-election. It would take a confluence of negativity to stop his momentum.
Democrats threw everything at him, including the kitchen sink and a baseless impeachment and he was still holding a substantial polling lead heading in to 2020. Moreover, his efforts were starting to dig deeper into the “deep state,” the depths of which few had grasped. The left and subservient media had to unsettle the American people and change the landscape enough to revamp all voting practices so as to mask the “greatest voter fraud operation in our history,” as Democrat candidate Joe Biden, himself, described it.
Enter Covid-19. There appears to be some history, including funding, between the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, under the direction of the renowned Dr. Fauci, and the Wuhan Laboratory for Viral Diseases. One might naturally question the value of researching “bat” viruses, but, far, far worse, why would an American lab PATENT the SARS2 coronavirus after having “engineered” it sufficiently that it was no longer a natural life form, which is legally unpatentable? And then, why would that same NIAID lab transfer the research to Wuhan when it appeared the American lab was skirting the laws against working with potential bio-weapons? Finally, why would China aggressively spread the “new” or “novel” coronavirus around the world at the beginning of 2020? Covid-19, in the eyes of this old conspiracist, was part of a perfect storm damaging the first non-deep-state President in a generation… and his nation, at the primary benefit of China, itself. What a horrible thought, given the history of civilization as a panoply of conspiracies. One would be stirred to question why any hint of “conspiracy” regarding the past 60 years, or so, is so abruptly shut down and ridiculed. Perhaps the anti-conspiracists protest too much.
Is the new racism a conspiracy? Since there is evidence of the most horrible coordination of bad events, it seems feasible. Proof? Not so much, but when multiple enemies of the same man and movement are at the hearts of multiple attacks against him… and us, one is entitled to wonder. Still, Americans are not used to such speculation; we have grown soft in our expectation of good in most people – even politicians. It is too much to digest the possibility that multiple anti-American forces worked together in our Covid-besmirched year of Marxist terrorism. To see that year end with a clearly questionable election, marked by the unlikeliest set of anomalies benefitting one candidate, has, at last, caused many Americans to go, “Hmmnnhh.”
In 2007 we were not a racist country. Since then one party and one global, leftist movement has worked tirelessly to turn us into one. They have had some success. May God forbid they have any more.
Who was that masked man? Why, he’s grown stranger…
President Biden is proposing to exceed the THIRTY TRILLION dollar debt level. What he suggests is not only partisan and disingenuous, but includes multiple effects that restrict and undercut capitalism. If he ever understood the relationship between debt, productive surplus and growth, he has forgotten it… along with Constitutional provisions and any semblance of American exceptionalism: down the memory hole.
Under his and other socialists’ direction, American will be exceptional again: among all industrialized nations we will lead the world in our concerted, legislated efforts to destroy our hard-won success and relinquish our sovereignty. Biden wants to “go big” – biggest fool, perhaps.
The only system that can both destroy debt and increase freedom, is free-enterprise capitalism. That is, NOT monopoly capitalism OR globalism, both of which concentrate money and power OUT of the hands of free citizens and OUT of the hands of their elected representatives – although not out of their pockets in many cases. Those must be stopped before it’s too late. Some serious trust-busting is essential to restoring America.
Practically, a clear course-correction would be to limit the level of corporate net-worths or levels of gross revenues that may donate ANY money to candidates or PAC’s – ANY money. Perhaps companies with $50 millions in assets or $25 millions in revenue or LESS, may donate, not larger. Also, companies that have government or military contracts may not donate. Then trust-busting could proceed.
Already we’ve experienced reduction in job and business growth – returning to pre-Covid levels – because excessive, socialist, “rescue” or “stimulous” payments are keeping people from returning to work! Work… where guided labor produces things, including taxes. We know where idiots… umm, ignore that… “progressives” think economic growth comes from: unemployment checks. Nancy Pelosi said so. Only as employment increases will freedom, independence and tax revenues increase.
People earning their own livings strengthen both responsibility and financial freedom. Having more taxpayers increases political freedom. 2020 has shown that weakening election laws weakens political freedom, and it disenfranchises citizens from our most fundamental and hard-won civil rights. Adding greater responsibility to the exercise of the franchise will clarify honesty in elections – a fundament of the American promise.
Back to what Biden has forgotten… if he ever knew it. Debt is a superb tool for growth, but not for maintenance – period.
Imagine a factory producing, say, refrigerators. Its lines are operating, workers are working and every unit that comes off the line is sold within days. In fact, there is a shortage of refrigerators; people are forced to devise meals for their families without foods that need refrigeration. People are denied good nutrition for lack of a high-enough rate of refrigerator production. Even if the government passed a law requiring more refrigerators to be made, only so many can be.
To upgrade the factory and machinery to produce a third more – a 33% increase – will cost $100 Million. Because the refrigerator company has made a profit over the past 15 years, of $30 Million after all expenses, cost of goods sold and payroll… and taxes, it is able to borrow, or gain a debt of $70 Million. They’ll be able to make a productive surplus of not $3 million, but $4 million per year at 133% of current production, since all costs won’t increase proportionately. Each refrigerator will cost a little less to produce with the new machinery and facility improvements. The $70 Million loan, combined with investment out of increased operating profits, will be paid back with interest to the lender, in less than 20 years.
The earning of profits – creation of productive surplus – enables “Refrigerators, Inc.” to become more productive and efficient, able to modernize, hire trainees who can become highly paid refrigerator builders, and pay taxes to support our civic institutions and even donate money to charitable causes. Productive surplus also enables the company to destroy debt – make it disappear – while increasing production, the only purpose of investment. That’s it. It’s NOT an investment to provide living expenses for people who do not work enough to support themselves or their families; it’s an emergency… it’s charity, not a way of life.
Meanwhile, everyone who wants a refrigerator can buy one – or, contrary to socialist dogma – go to work to earn enough to buy one.
Capitalism is the only process that can destroy debt or, in fact, make investments at all. All other bills incurred by a society that is complex, are paid, or financed, by the productive surplus of profitable, capitalist enterprises. All of government: schools, police fire departments, hospitals, military, public works… everything, is paid for from tax revenues that derive only from productive surplus in a profit-making economy.
The growing tragedy – growing weakness – is our habit of borrowing for current expenses from generations into the future, now to the tune of $28 Trillion. About one-third of our annual federal “budget” is borrowed, not paid from current revenues. This part of economics Joe Biden has not forgotten, even embraced: the lie of modern politics.
For a long time the U. S. borrowed real money… from banks, individuals and even other countries. The Treasury sold bonds: saving bonds, Treasury notes (“Treasuries”) of different maturities and yields. Investors used real money to “invest” in U. S. debt – one step removed from investing in future productive surplus, itself. This was bad enough; we lived beyond our means but we could afford the interest on those debts, not so much affording repayment of the loan principals.
Unfortunately we have worn out our welcome among real investors. Now we “borrow” from the Federal Reserve.
The “FED” is a private bank consortium that can legally “lend” us money they do not have – $Trillions of it. So, they lend us “air” and we pretend it’s money and pay interest on it. Oddly, the Federal Reserve is also granted power to set interest rates, which for a long time have been near 1%, God bless their charitable hearts. What will we do when they decide the rate should be 3%? On $10 Trillion? That’s $300 Billion in real money. That’s a lot of Meals on Wheels.
Wait a minute… wait a minute. Did I say, “$10 Trillion?” I meant $30 Trillion, if we fulfill Biden’s plans. Why, that would be $900 Billion… a YEAR… close to a $Trillion, itself – just interest! That’s a lot of everything, including our own defense. We literally cannot afford more multi-$Trillion spending plans; they are actually taxing plans.
Many in government believe these “air-debts” never have to be paid back! “We owe them to ourselves,” they think. Ooookaaaay… aren’t the UFO people going to usher in a new era of no worries? Oh, absolutely. And, Joe Biden is going to unite the country, end racism and borrow us into prosperity. And equity.
Finally, it has become clear. The apparent dichotomy of politicians getting elected in a capitalist-economy republic, who then appear to advocate and pass legislation that does severe damage to the economy as a whole and the to the economic freedom of voters, is actually completely logical, and not anti-capitalist in the slightest.
It’s a little brutal in terms of making economic, capitalist decisions, but one expects little less from avowed socialists. Unfortunately, American class socialists are about as aware of socialism’s impacts on people and history as, well… a crowd of fire hydrants. Plus, it turns out, they ACT just like capitalists. Funny.
Anyway, the “Green New Deal” has gained traction on the basis of saving the planet from, in order of importance, Republicans, industrialists, oil companies, gas companies, airplane companies, airlines, plastics manufacturers, Christians and most white people. Maybe.
Still the “Greens” are no longer small creatures from other planets, and they are very concerned about methane as a dangerous “greenhouse gas.” Along with decaying vegetation and white people, drilling for natural gas and normal releases of gas from Mother Earth, who makes oil and gas through tectonic subductions, which will be dealt with in legislation any day, now, cows… beef, dairy and sacred cows, are dangerous sources of methane! Farts! If we’d stop eating beef, cheese or drinking milk, we could stop raising cows and eliminate all that farting. Farts are destroying the planet! They certainly spoil a lot of social events and even some sexual activity, so you know what we’re talking about, only they also threaten the polar ice caps and cause polar bears to swim too much. (Secret news: Bears fart.)
Well, not to worry. The supposed socialists and communists who are opposed to cows and other Republican fart-generators, are simply playing the commodities market. The intention is beautifully capitalist: they are cornering the market on bullshit! Phew! Simple.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch: sounds Prudent – someone, somewhere, is paying for it. There’s no free racism, either, since someone is or soon will be, paying for it. Nation-wise, it’s damned expensive.
The ‘racism!’ accusation is pretty expensive, too, yet it’s tossed around like racism grows on trees. Wait, wait, wait… that advice comes from the old “… it’s not like money grows on trees, you know.” Usually it’s thrown up to someone who needs a lesson in economics. And, it’s good advice, too. Money has to be related to a value exchange; all it can be is a way to measure value, denoted in the fungible currency of the day.
Prudence advises us that racism doesn’t grow on trees, either, but it’s tossed around as if it does. Nothing backs it in terms of value except in the rarest of instances. Sadly, ‘Racism!” has become the currency of the day. It’s a little like the relative who opens every gift with the question, “How much did this cost? Do you have the receipt?” She (don’t ask, it’s always a she) also gives gifts with the price tag still attached or packed inside. The only way that person can judge or appreciate value is in terms of currency.
More and more, people – more and more people – cannot judge any other person without determining what level of racism, or anti-racism, adheres to that person. The value of the epithet is now so low that one might think that racism grows on trees. The trouble with racism, though, is that it’s a form of hatred: the more you give the more you get.
People who consider themselves “liberal” have suddenly become fully invested in racism currency, not because there is a tangible “R.O.I.,” but because the return is a thick coating of purity… of innocence. Those same declared “anti-racists” are, evidently, easily educated as to the widespread nature of racism among people who are not as anti-racist as themselves. In a mild form of “snitching” on racists around them, the anti-racists have begun to advertise their declared “anti-racism.” One can see the “Black Lives Matter” placards and the “Hate Has No Home Here” signs that imply that the homes without those advertised attitudes must be housing latent or actual racists.
The declared / advertised anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic, anti-Islamophobic attitudes are, in fact, an attempt at the fabled “free lunch.” Primarily posted by white liberals, they contain an unspoken hope that when riots reach their street, their house will be safe… or their business, or their cars. Little do they realize that the racism they claim to be opposed to with all their hearts, is already being directed straight at them: their skin is the wrong color.
“But, but… I’ve got a ‘BLM’ placard in my window! We’re of the same heart and mind as you. We hate whites, too!” What? Don’t they know there’s no such thing as a free lunch? Next thing you know, white liberals are voting for any politician with brown skin, donating money to “BLM” and other black/brown-centered charities, and holding signs protesting “systemic” racism that they knew was lurking out there, even on their own streets: look at all the houses that don’t proclaim anti-racism. Racism became a mirror.
Politically, and that is ALL that is truly on the table, here, “racism” means power. That is the currency that eventually exacts a very high price for the proverbial “free lunch.” There is no such thing as a non-racist society anywhere in the world. Actual racists, who have manipulated soft Americans into believing racism is rampant here, are holding out a gaseous premise that racism can be “fixed” or “eliminated” by a universal hatred of whites. In their view – we’re talking “Black Lives Matter,” here – any rules or standards that whites attempt to live by, are so racist that black and brown people don’t have to abide by them.
Maybe that last paragraph got by you without a lot of reflection or thought. “BLM,” a communist-inspired, anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish and anti-family terrorist organization, is saying that any part of current social-cultural structure that is comfortable for white people, is so racist and foul, that it cannot be reformed and must be torn down – burned down if convenient – and replaced with the global communist dream, dominated by black and brown people. Prudence isn’t making this up – they’ve said virtually these words. There’s no free lunch, or anti-racism, in any currency.
All the placards and rainbow flags a house or yard has room for will not insulate any avowed “anti-racist” from that change. Moreover, since they are white, the spoils of “BLM’s” victory, should we stupidly permit it to come to that, will not be shared equally with anyone who is the wrong color.
Racism is normal. It’s not equitable, per se; “equity” is unrelated to racism. The only value a Constitutional republic can offer is equality: equality of opportunity. No one, as in not any person or official of any sort – no teacher, no coach, no drill instructor… not even any parent or pair of parents, can cause even two people to produce or earn or perform EQUALLY. No one. Equity implies that the results of equal opportunity are unequal because of racism, and not just crappy racism embodied in hatred of someone of one race by someone of another – bad enough – but, no, the results are unequal because of systemic racism, a blight that not only cannot be defined, but cannot be reformed.
Some truly innovative fantasies – lies, we call them – must be sold to a lot of people in order to even begin to approach the nirvana of a world without racism. Fantastic because such a world is impossible, has never existed and at the cost of millions of lives, has only been set aside temporarily except… except where people are free to worship as they wish and to perfect themselves as their individual happiness leads them. Only one place on earth has ever formed a government intended to create and maintain such a place of freedom and of equality… of opportunity.
The problem is, we haven’t fulfilled our own founding, at least, not completely. We were well on our way in the fities and sixties, but the rotten hand of leftism-socialism, often a problem for freedom in our middle century, but a threat to it only since LBJ, has almost completely shredded the fabric of freedom and responsibility, attainment and merit and even of morality. Certainly it has shredded Judeo-Christianity. Now it has weakened our ability to resist so carefully that the United States can barely afford to defend itself should it come to that. For shame, Nancy, Chuck, Barack and the rest of you, demons.
Has anything they espouse resolved racism? Not in the slightest, for they are employing hated-filled racism to fight unthinking racism. Not that racism can be eliminated. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said in a speech to the Massachusetts Great and General Court, that “…no law can make a man love me, but it can keep him from killing me.” He summed it up nicely. Government can enforce only civility, and it may adjudicate only injustice – it cannot “create” justice or enforce “fairness.” Nor are those its duties. However, an assault on one’s person, interference with his or her civil rights (including rights enumerated in the Constitution), theft or destruction of his or her property, various frauds, libels and so forth, provide a more than adequate basis for enforcing and protecting civil order. No American citizen, for any reason, should be made to bow down or kneel before anyone else, or be forced by threats of violence or loss, to swear to any idea he or she does not believe. How can people elected to lead in the United States, twist their beliefs to the extent that they can approve of or encourage the blatant subjugation of one race by another?
With hate now a political tool, principles and beliefs can be discarded, apparently. Ask our 46th “president.” Every principle he has espoused throughout his “campaign” and since winning the certifications by enough states to claim the presidency, is new. Over the nearly 4 decades he became wealthy in the House and Senate, Joe Biden stated, repeatedly, completely opposite principles to those he now governs by. It seems Prudent to wonder what sort of a man can completely change his beliefs after age, 60, say, or even after 50 years of age? An unusual one, to say the least, if not a scurrilous bastard.
Joe Biden embodies the high cost of anti-racism as government policy. Since it is impossible to achieve an anti-racist society, increasing levels of government are needed to pursue it and impose it. That is to say, fascist socialism, which has nowhere to go but to communism. Scratch an anti-racist agitator and the next layer reveals a fascist.
When Barack Hussein Obama entered the White House, millions of Americans were hopeful that a new chapter of the American story was being written: our first “black” president and his wonderful opportunities to heal old racial divisions and wounds. It didn’t work, obviously, but the hope was there. Obama’s foreign policy was sold as “minimalist,” or the harder to comprehend, “leading from behind.” The operating theme, though, throughout the West Wing, was summed up as “Don’t do stupid shit.”
Obama thought the war in Iraq, for example, was stupid, as were other actions in Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen, among others. One might speculate if his concerns were national or Islamic, but the directive applied: Don’t do stupid (stuff).
As cute as it sounded in its simplistic wisdom, the directive didn’t seem to take, generally. If the admonition were backed by real intent, it might be assumed that the new administrators were well-advised to not do stupid stuff anywhere, foreign or domestic. Yet, within a few months the somewhat narcissistic new President felt compelled to opine on the arrest of his friend, Louis Gates, in Cambridge, Mass. Although proper police procedures had been followed, including asking Mr. Gates to leave the house, a potential crime scene, Gates resisted sufficiently that he was taken into custody until facts could be ascertained. To some, particularly Gates, a Harvard professor, the arrest was racially motivated: white cop, black suspect. Obama, when queried by a reporter, declared that it was racial and that the “police had acted stupidly.”
Don’t do stupid (stuff), Mr. President. Hadn’t you heard that directive? Obama’s very thin veneer of racial healer dissolved, if it ever really existed in the heart of someone who didn’t respect the U. S. Constitution, to which defense he had so recently sworn. Along with dozens of Cabinet and other appointments, like Eric Holder as Attorney General, the ability of the chief administrator to do stupid (shit) was never again in question. From the A. C. A., to opening the southern border, gifting the Queen of England with a DVD of his own speeches, passing “stimulus” legislation to finance “shovel-ready jobs,” to making Hillary Clinton a Secretary of State, even his selection of Joe Biden as V. P., stupid stuff became the hallmark – if not the bulwark – of the Obama administration. The Paris “accords” and the illegal Iran Nuclear Agreement, never mind removing Muhammar Qaddafi from Libya, the “Arab Spring” and Benghazi, are levels of stupidity that we need not plumb to confirm our Prudent assessment.
Joe Biden’s only flirtation with executive authority was his eight years as Vice President with Obama. Contrary to the 2009 directive, Biden absorbed the active experiences of the Obama administration: do all the stupid stuff you can if it irritates Republicans and bitter clingers to guns and Bibles.
The miraculous victory of the Biden-Harris ticket in 2020, against all odds and voter registration statistics, simply unleashed a later version of the Barack Obama administration: Communism on the cheap, one could say. The utter stupidity pattern is freshly released upon an hopeful public, ready for a non-abrasive, non-Tweeting, insider-friendly, nearly non-verbal President. A few mistakes are expected of every new administration; signing 40 stupid, somewhat illegal Executive Orders is right in line with what millions of people were taught that Donald Trump had done. Hey, it’s old Lunch-bucket Joe’s turn to be stupid – he and Kamala “won” the election – or the certifications, at least – and “elections have consequences,” as Biden’s Constitutional Professor of Stupid once declared during an earlier Republican irritability phase. Joe has paid his dues, Democrats think, we think, for nearly 50 years, and he’s always wanted to be president, after all. So, it’s like, his turn. “C’mon, man.”
Given the inherent competition among politicians, there seems to be a race between Good Ol’ Joe and his nearly black benefactor of eight years’ duration. So long as invisible Rasputins keep placing executive orders beneath the Presidential pen in 2021, Joe will win the stupid-shit race he imagines he’s in. Among the 40 or so executive actions he’s already signed, Biden has reversed well over 100 policies that president Trump had put in place – policies that were working well and enabling a phenomenally dynamic economic expansion, while increasing national security: “America first.” There are barely enough electrons available to catalog the “stupids” that Ol’ Joe managed to effect in only two months. Congratulations, Joe! Looks like you won another election.
Just winning, however, is never enough for “progressives:” they have a need to rub their opponents noses in the stupid (stuff) they do. For his part, Joe is never to be outdone. Indeed, he has decided to lie about the stupid stuff he does, even if he’s not completely certain what that is. Do you suppose it’s his opinion that we’re ALL stupid? Maybe. Surely he wouldn’t appoint people to tell him to lie about stupid shit they talked him into, would he? After all, if HE believes what he says is true it can’t actually be a lie, can it?
