GOP out performed Dems

An update on state unemployment numbers by states.  Just as previous 35 months, Republican governors outperformed their Democratic counterpart on lower unemployment and those states with both legislature and executive also have lower unemployment. 

65 percent of top half with the lowest unemployment have Republican governors and 63 percent of Republicans governor are at or less than national unemployment average. We compared four of the most Republican states with the top four populous Democratic states, the same results as Republican governors outperformed Democrats governors.    Three out of four Republicans are below the national average in unemployment rate compared to only one Democrat governor below the national average. This trend has been obvious since August of 2020 that Republicans have led in economic growth and producing jobs.

I wrote in a recent post, “The United States is in the middle of the tax-reduction revolution on a state level and as Jared Walczak of Tax Foundation, observed, “The past three years have seen the largest wave of state-tax cuts in the modern era, certainly since income taxes were created over a century ago at the state level. We have seen more than half of the states with income taxes cut their top rates. We have seen trimming of rates in other taxes, including thirteen states with corporate-income-tax cuts, a couple of states with sales-tax cuts, and trimming other taxes as well.” And these states are enacting real tax reforms.”

Who is to blame

Our politics is poison but there are three people who have played a significant role in this poisoning: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama.  Hillary Clinton, who managed to get away with compromising national security with her personal server, also invented the Russian collusion hoax.  Her campaign set up the false story that Trump was a tool of Putin, even though she began the infamous “reset” which reversed the tougher Bush’s policy.    Most have forgotten that Obama did truly little when Russian invaded Ukraine in 2014 and Obama/Biden administration view was that Ukraine was vulnerable to Russia and in an interview, Obama stated, “We have to be very clear about what our core interests are and what we are willing to go to war for.”  Nor did Obama/Biden administration provide lethal military assistance to Ukraine. You can argue that Obama administration was correct in their analysis but what you can not argue is that Obama administration was tough or even tougher on Putin than Trump administration proved to be.  As for Biden, we know that he got a prosecutor fired who was investigating Burisma, a company paying his son about million dollars a year.  Biden family got their cut from Ukraine. 

Hillary Clinton fake dossier became the basis of Trump prosecution and everyone in FBI, CIA and higher ups in the administration knew that this was fake but yet no one came forward and stated there is no evidence that Trump was a Putin’s puppet.   This was known in 2016 during the election but yet neither Obama nor Biden stated it was not true. 

For past seven years, Hillary Clinton has still lied about the Russian collusion, but she yet been called out.  Biden DOJ goes after Trump on everything, Biden has failed to tell the truth as well about the Russian collusion hoax or his profiter as a public official. Obama could easily have stopped this by simply saying, “there is no evidence that there was collusion between Russian and Trump.”  He refused to do so and, in the process, the Democrats and the left began a campaign to undermine Trump administration with special council investigation.  Many Democrats still to this day believe the Russian collusion hoax and much of the media spent the entire Trump administrating feeding the lie and many members of the Obama administration appeared on television repeating the same lie.

What if Obama told the truth?  The environment would be less contentious, and Trump would have been more willing to collaborate with the Democrats on issues. Issues like the border wall might have been solved or dealt with as many Democrats during the Bush administration actually supported a wall.  Politics has always been contentious, but we have gone beyond the contentious stage and moved toward the outright hatred stage where half of American hates the other half and now the other half is returning the hate.  The fall out of the 2020 elections is a direct fallout of the 2016 Russian collusion hoax as many Republicans now view the 2020 election as illegitimate and there is certain more evidence that 2020 was rigged than 2016.  We now know that FBI pressured social media and the general media not to publish information about the Hunter Biden laptop which provided evidence of Biden’s corruption that reached to his father.  Voters were denied access to information as the FBI hid this evidence and many in the “retired intelligence” declared any mention of the Biden’s laptop was Russian misinformation.   One survey done showed that many voters were not aware of the laptop and enough may have changed their vote had they known.  There were enough voter irregularities to be concerned including stopping counting voters in the middle of the night only to resume it later. (Note that this doesn’t mean that Biden did not win the elections or what voter irregularities exceeded the margin of fraud. I have seen numbers to indicate that what voter irregularities that did exist did not exceed the margin of Biden victory even in battleground states.  There were enough irregularities to be concerned about election security.) 

For Trump voters, if the left and Deep state were willing to ride a fake collusion to remove Trump, why would they not fix the elections or at least rigged it.  There are enough legal scholars just as Jon Turley and Alan Dershowitz have questioned the political case presented against Donald Trump. Alan Dershowitz went as far as noting that many of the things he did to help Al Gore in 2000 Florida recounting could have been prosecuted under the legal theories by Atlanta District Attorney.

Donald Trump could have pursued prosecution against Hillar Clinton but chose not to do that but maybe in hindsight, he should have.  At least the truth about the Russian collusion hoax and Clinton own abuse of handing classified information would have known then.  Barack Obama had the opportunity to simple say “No evidence of Russian collusion” but chose not to do that.  Joe Biden could have said a similar thing and decide not to go after Trump post 2020 election, but he chooses not to.  Hillary Clinton could quit lying about the Russian Collusion hoax and tell the truth, but she chooses not to.  History and America would have been better had these three admitted the truth to their supporters and say 2016 election was legitimate.

More on No Labels Impact

North Carolina has now accepted the No-Labels as a political party, and this now makes it ten states that the party is eligible for. North Carolina now joins Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota.    When you look at these states, Arizona, North Carolina, and Nevada are key battle ground states and even Red States like Florida could be changed and flipped to one political party over the other.

I have mentioned in a previous piece that No-Labels could hurt Republicans more than Democrats, “In a recent Arizona poll, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema independent campaign actually takes more votes from Republicans and a recent Emerson even noted that she takes 21 percent to 34 percent of GOP voters depending upon the candidate versus only 8 percent of Democrats.  As one news report observed, “One of the more fascinating elements of the polling is Sinema’s continued popularity with a sizable bloc of Republicans, a dynamic similar to her 2018 Senate victory when she ran as a Democrat. That year, she peeled off enough Republicans and independents to defeat then-GOP Rep. Martha McSally.”

Other surveys showed that if it was a Biden-Trump contest, that 63 percent are open to voting for a moderate independent candidate in key battle ground states. 

If you look at their proposals, they are reflective of what many Republicans believe and for many Republicans who are tired of the Trump drama, this actually gives them an option.   We are talking getting our border under control, combining voter ID and early voting similar to laws passed in Red States like Georgia.  Election security is important Americans and No-Labels promotes that.  Congress needs to get our financial house in order and  on energy, it is “all of the above” but they noted, “When Washington tries to prohibit exploration of America’s fossil fuel resources or discourage investment in the sector, all it does is weaken our country and strengthen other oil- and gasproducing countries like Russia that will gladly meet the world’s growing demand for energy. Meanwhile, neither Democrats nor Republicans in Washington have done enough to champion the expansion of carbon-free nuclear power, which is more reliable than wind and solar and cleaner than oil and gas. Despite the fact that US nuclear facilities are among the safest industrial facilities in the world—and newer reactor designs could make them even safer—the number of nuclear reactors in the US hasn’t increased in three decades.”

These proposals are attempted to be centralist in nature but in these days, being in the middle is still far to the right of the present Democratic Party, which has become the socialist party of the America, but the GOP is still trying to define itself, is it the Party of main street and the common folks.  Who will stand up for the middle class?     They also stand up for parents to be able to escape failing schools and protect citizens from criminals. 

I made the case that the importance of supply side economy and that its definition must be expanded in my book, “Americas at the Abyss, will America survive?” I made the case that government spending must be controlled, regulations burden reduced, and supply side had to move beyond just tax cuts. Trump did two of three, reduce regulation and tax reduction which benefited most Americans. The result was continuation of the recovery and more importantly the middle class, minorities, and lower income saw their income increase.  Economic growth matters but Trump failure to get government under control hurt his overall economic plan and the massive spending during the Covid pandemic along with the anti-growth lockdown hurt the economy in 2020 and ended Trump chances to win. 

We are now in the decisive battle as a movement to identify what conservatism will be in the 21st century and be able to turn this nation around.  The future of conservatism is to combine Trump populism with Reagan conservatism.  The battle is between the populist conservatives and more traditional conservatives.   Dominic Pino detailed this recently, “For decades, tax cuts have been at the center of the conservative economic agenda. But some on the right want to deprioritize them in favor of other economic goals. Senators Marco Rubio, Josh Hawley, J. D. Vance, and others talk of the need for a new Republican economic agenda focused on things such as industrial policy or social policy. The Trump administration sought to increase tariffs, and conservative defenders of protectionism are being more vocal…Tax cuts seem to irk some right-wing commentators. In May 2020, writing for the American Conservative, Michael Cuenco bemoaned the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the 2017 tax-cut law that Donald Trump signed, and called for a “reformulation of fiscal policy along populist economic nationalist lines.” He wrote, “The reformist right should ask: is there any way to stand athwart the supply-side swamp yelling Stop?”

The No-Labels movement is a direct rebellion against Trump and the radicalization of Biden and the Democrats.  Joe Manchin, whose own political career as United States Senator will most likely end in 2024 and now is talking leaving the Party. While he voted the majority of the time with the Democrats and Biden, he represent a state that depends upon fossil fuels.  He has seen his constituents betrayed by the Party he served faithfully for decades.  Manchin is now running as quickly as possible to the center.

The little secret that needs to observe, the average Trump supporter would be supportive of much of the No-Labels movement and as Trump showed, Reagan conservatism and Trump Populism can be combined for effective policies.    The MAGA movement is not the radical movement, and the No-Labels has the opportunity to combine their ideas with Trump populism/Reagan conservatism in the post Trump era.   

We stand at the cusp of nation slowly imploding into camps but yet in reviewing the No-Labels movement one can see that there is movement that is not far different from the Trump populism/Reagan Conservatism.   

Royals

When I was a young boy, I was raised a Washington Senator baseball fan, and Senators were consistently one of the worse baseball teams with their last World Series appearance in 1933 and last World Series victory in 1924 but they disappointed me not once but twice by the ultimate betrayal, they left town.   The first version of the Twins went to Minneapolis and since then won two world series.   The second version of the Senators went to Texas and now the Texas Ranger, but they at least didn’t win a world series as they are zero for two in World Series appearances. (The present Washington National won the first world series in the city history since 1924 and came to Washington from Montreal, but I have long left town when they came to town.)

The Kansas City Royals is my adopted baseball team and followed them since I moved to KC in 1985 after they won their championship and stayed a fan.   This year the Royals team has become fun since the All-Star break as many of the young Royals players have shown potential.   Over the last 30 games, M.J. Melendez has hit .295 with 5 homers, Witt, Jr. is batting .354 with 9 homers, and Michael Massey. 248 with 6 homers, Fred Fermin .325 with 5 homers plus solid catching, Garcia .292 as the lead off man and solid defense and finally Kyle Isbel has hit .273 over his last 30 game.

Despite his recent bad outing versus Cubs, Brady Singer has pitched well in the second half as he has been 3-1 over his last seven games with 3.51 ERA.   What has worked for the Royals is that on the offensive side, we have found athletes who fit the stadium they play in.  Royals is one of the bigger stadiums with one of the larger outfields and they have outfielders in Isbel and Drew Waters who can cover the ground in the spacious Royal stadium.  (Note to new owner John Sherman who is desperate to leave one of the best stadiums in the Major league for a new stadium, make sure you build your stadium to the players you have.)

We live in a new era of baseball here in Kansas City in which we have a potential super star in Bobby Witt, Jr. who combine defensive skills, speed, and power in one package as he now has 36 stolen bases to go with 24 homers along with many young players who are showing potential to be starters.  We may be witnessing the 2011 and 2012 Royals, young teams with a core learning to win before Dayton Moore had his brief moment in Camelot as he made moves to bring in the right players to add to the mix and led Royals to straight World Series appearances before it went back to hell post 2015 World Series.  We will find out as I wrote recently, will Royals have a return to the Camelot of 2014-15?

I often listen to Royals on Radio and enjoy the trio of Jake Eisenberg, Steve Stewart and the Hall of famer Denny Matthew who has been with the Royals from the beginning of the franchise to the present.   Television features Ryan Lefebvre and Rex Hudler but I must admit, love the radio team which combines the youngster Jake Eisenberg who has pleasant voice and his knowledge of the game is that of a long time veteran and there is Denny Matthews, who now only does Royals games at home but still his distinctive voice rings out through the radio as he often produces his version of baseball wisdom like walking the lead off man in late innings often comes back to haunt you. (This year, that is certainly true as many of Royals pitchers will walk lead off man and often ends badly.)  Steve Stewart is that middle guy who is the man between the youngster and the old pro with his 16 plus year as a Royal announcer.

Rex Hudler is what you would expect from a local baseball broadcast, a colorful character who relies on his vast 40 years of experience but who leaves no doubt he is a Royal booster.   The real fun I have is reading the various Royals pundits and if anything, there are some very brilliant pundits including Kevin O’ Brien and David Lesky plus Anne Rogers of MLB.  Then there is the Royals Farm report in which you get the latest on Royals prospects and when your team is in last place and one of the worst, you start paying attention to the minor leagues just to see what the future may hold.  

O’Brien and Lesky often go deep into the data and give you analysis rarely seen on various national broadcasts and networks like Fox sports and ESPN.  Compared to other sports that I follow like NBA, NFL, and college sports, these two are among the best in dissecting the Royals and prepared to tell the truth about the Royals and their organizations.   In the recent games in which Royals defeated the Cubs 4-3, Lesky humorously noted he would be more comfortable after the Royals took the lead if they could score 11 more runs.  He added this gem past weekend about Bobby Witt, Jr., “Bobby Witt Jr. is on pace for 31 doubles, 9 triples, 31 homers and 44 steals. Nobody has EVER done that. He currently has 24 doubles, 7 triples, 24 homers and 34 steals. There have only been 14 seasons EVER with all four of those stats and he has 38 games to go.”

Kevin O’Brien made this observation about Bobby Witt, Jr. “I know that they had more history than Bobby but another thing that’s remarkable about his year is that he was absolutely buried on the bench in the WBC behind Trea Turner and Tim Anderson (and look how those two years’ have gone).” 

Yes, I wrote this after the Cubs defeated the Royals 6-4 but at one time it was 6-1 and the Royals kept crawling back into the game and even the Cub announcers were worried with Melendez single to open the top of the ninth and Witt who was already 3 for 4 coming to bat. But alas, the mighty Witt struck out. 

shows august 18th

Show At Rumble  —>  https://rumble.com/v38yheq-frontiers-of-freedom-weekly-report-august-18-2023.html 

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GL’s Twitter —>   https://twitter.com/GLandrith/status/1690118560138334210?s=20

FOF’s Twitter —> https://twitter.com/FoF_Liberty/status/1692654118651765219?s=20

GETTR —>   https://gettr.com/post/p2oi5sl5c58

Boxing weekend Joshua and Navarette

Anthony Joshua fought Finnish fighter Robert Helenius whose last big fight was a one round knockout defeat at the hand of Deontay Wilder.  Joshua last fight was a decision victory against Jermine Franklin, and it was hardly impressive even though he won an easy decision, but it was like he was satisfied to win by a decision.  In this fight, he proved to be willing to finish his opponent.  Originally scheduled to face Dillian Whyte who flunk a pre drug chase and then step in Helenius, who had fought and defeated follow Finnish fighter Mika Mielonen in three rounds, so Helenius was ready and in shape. 

With the exception of the first round, Joshua out punched Helenius in every round and dominated much of the fight as he outpunched Helenius 74 punches to 48 punches and his jab was accurate as he landed his jab 35% of the fight.   Both fighters landed similar number of combinations and Joshua landed 18 power shots to 12 power shots for Helenius, so the biggest difference was Joshua jab that set up his other shots.

. Joshua victory keeps him in the discussion of a heavyweight champion and the big fight that people talk about is Wilder vs Joshua.  This would be interesting but for a few things, Wilder has only one fight, a one round knockout of Helenius since his last defeat at the hands of Fury.  Joshua has been active over the last few years and would have the advantage in the number of actual rounds fought.  A few years ago, I would have favored Wilder but now the advantage lies with Joshua who is a better boxer and been staying active.

Also, this weekend, Emanuel Navarrette faced Oscar Valdez and he showed his muster as he won an easy decision over Valdez, 116-112, 118-110 and 119-109 and no one would disagree that he earned the victory.  Valdez right eye was swollen shut.  This fight was supposed to happen six months ago, but Valdez back injury didn’t heal in time and Navarrete had to come back from a knockdown to win the WBO 130-pound title against Liam Wilson.  After that fight, he became Mexico tenth three-division titlist.  The crowd were rooting for his opponent, Oscar Valdez, and at the start Navarrete was the busy fighter. Navarrete landed more than double the punches and threw more than double the punches, but Valdez was the more economical and accurate punches.

Both fighters landed sold left hooks in round two and Valdez connected on body shots and then hooks while Navarrete landed his own hooks. Navarette started to time Valdez lateral movement and started to land his right.  Throughout the fifth and sixth round, both fighters landed solid shots, Valdez landed a right and even briefly forced Navarrete to the rope.  Valdez landed a left hook that shook Navarrete, but Navarrete landed a right uppercut.

Valdez caught Navarrete with another left hook, but Navarrette greater activity took hold of the fight, and he threw nearly 130 punches in round ten and then he landed 89 punches to Valdez 46 over the last three rounds.  Navarrette thought he had a knockdown and a 10-8 round in the final round, but it was ruled a slip.

Valdez did not back down and fought with his right eye swollen and may have been due to a broken orbital bone. Navarette is now 12-0 in title fights over three weight divisions and defeated a great fighter in Valdez who has now lost both to Shakur Stevenson in a unification bout and now to Navarette, whose only loss was in his fifth fight. Stevenson has stated he be happy to fight Navarette after he wins his lightweight title. 

 This weekend, we saw Joshua solidify his place in the heavyweight division and several big money fights with the biggest being Wilder. Navarette showed he is a force to be reckoned with as one of the better pounds for pound fighters.

No Trump is not a dictator!

I recent read a piece about Donald Trump “might be our first dictator” and while there is strong opinion about Donald Trump, we saw that after four years of a Trump Presidency, being a dictator was not one of them. The Trump administration was full of chaos, hardly did we ever sink close to a dictator ship.  It can be argued that we have to fear the present administration more and its violations of civil liberties including working with social media to censor stories.  We saw during the end of the Obama administration, our FBI pursuing an investigation to keep Trump from winning the election and then later, uses the same false story of Russian collusion as the basis for impeachment.  The FBI continued the investigation despite knowing the story was false as did President Obama and Vice-President Biden. Of course, Hillary knew since she was the one who started the false stories.

In the Biden administration, we have seen pro-life arrested on the flimsy of excuses or parents viewed as domestic terrorists and of course the massive censorship efforts on the Covid.  I could go on, but you would be hard press to find a similar record during the Trump administration for it was Trump who was the victim of the Deep state machinations. 

There is the charge of cult of personality and while many Trump supporters are willing to back their candidate with all the indictments, but the reality is that there are enough legal thinkers including Jon Turley who question the validity of many of cases against Trump and certainly we have seen two tier system in which Republican are getting prosecuted for crimes that Democrats don’t.   Joe Biden abuse and mis handled classified documents since he was a US senator, and the Obama DOJ gave Hillary a walk on her internet server despite the fact that James Comey admitted that she violated the law, but she didn’t really mean to do it.  Yeah right.

Matt Margolis wrote that there is enough evidence that Joe Biden wanted Trump out as a candidate including stories from the New York Times and his own words.  Matt noted, “And yet this wasn’t the only time Biden has made it clear that his administration was going to go after Trump to prevent him from becoming president again. Biden told a reporter he would use “constitutional” means to “make sure” Trump wouldn’t return to the White House.” (This was after a reporter asked, “How do you reassure [world leaders] … that the former President will not return or that his political movement, which is still very strong, will not once again take power in the United States?”)  You can decide who is acting more like a dictator and who is not..  Is This Proof That Joe Biden Ordered the Indictment of Trump? – PJ Media and New Questions Raised About Joe Biden’s 2022 Remarks Regarding the Prosecution of Donald Trump – RedState

We are witnessing a government that has essentially declared war on the Middle Class in so many ways, beginning with the policies that denies them gas grills, poor water heater, outlawing their combustion engine car and authors like Carol Roth and Joe Kotkin had detailed the war on the middle class and small businesses in their writing.  Joel Kotkin noted, “Nearly two-thirds of Americans feel their economic prospects have diminished over the past two years. Housing purchases are suffering huge declines as costs have reached the highest levels since 2007, and that’s before the onset of what many predict could be a serious recession. Overall, in the six months from June (2023), American households lost a remarkable $2.3 trillion in value, according to Redfin.”  For Kotkin, it is about property rights and the Middle class has lost ground, “The key issue is property. The changing class dynamics are reflected by patterns of land ownership. House prices have grown three times faster than household income over the past two decades, as the OECD noted in 2019…These trends have been exacerbated by a climate-driven housing policy that seeks to pack people into dense urban areas. Such policies are reversing 75 years of expanding property ownership in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia as well as other high-income countries. Property ownership, widely seen as key to middle-class status, is morphing into a rich man’s game. In the decade from 2010, the proportion of real-estate wealth in the US held by middle-class and working-class owners fell substantially, while that controlled by the wealthy grew from 28 per cent to 43 per cent. In this period, high-income households enjoyed 71 per cent of all gains from housing wealth, while the shares of middle- and lower-income families declined precipitously.”

There is are reason to be oppose Donald Trump, but for many in the Middle Class and much of Middle America viewed Trump as the one politician who gets them and certainly they can’t trust the Democrats who have no interest in securing our southern border, or fights the left climate change policies  that have raised both food and energy prices and they are not sold on supporting Ukraine for they may  view another endless war. They wonder why we care more about Ukraine borders but not our own.  As Kotkin noted about the environmentalist movement impact on the average American and many of the younger generations, “The middle class is also under pressure from green ideology. Perhaps the once aspirational middle orders will resign themselves to renting – a future where they will ‘own nothing and be happy’, as the gnomes of Davos suggest. Maybe so, at least with sufficient drugs and videogames. But as the younger generations age, they won’t be able to fall back on their own assets, and instead will have to rely on the state…Nor can they count on a reliably growing economy, the traditional engine of upward mobility. Today’s green theology, adopted by both the bureaucratic clerisy and oligarchic elite, has little room for the robust economic growth that might sustain a comfortable middle class. Meanwhile, the elites’ wealth continues to rise regardless, thanks to asset inflation. In the US, recent impressive job-growth numbers came predominantly in lower-wage service professions like restaurants and hospitality. In the past three months, almost two-thirds of all new jobs occurred in historically low-paying sectors.”

One serous problem of Trump was his performance during the pandemic which crushed a growing economy and it was a disaster and he backed it.  What did he learn, and would he repeat it?  Certainly, his criticism of DeSantis pandemic response rings false and voters have to decide if his legal problems even if they feel that the charges are bogus will hurt his re-election changes.  The Trump is a dictator is pure nonsense since we have seen four years of Trump in action and can easily compare them to the present President, and a better case can be made that Biden is moving our country to a China style dictatorship. 

Michael Walsh

Do I believe that the climate is changing?  Yes, but that like saying I believe that sun will rise in the East and lower in the West or that the world is really round.   Climate has been changing since the time this planet was formed and will continue to change over the next millennium.  Here is what I do believe, first there is no climate emergency that needs to be addressed and the second, if we actually follow the advice of climate alarmist, humanity will be worse off.  Their cure for climate change is the end of civilization and the death of billions.  They want to destroy the planet to save it.

Michael Walsh in pipeline noted, “Only an illiterate or a fool cannot understand this elementary concept. There is no need to delve into any scientific studies based on wildly or deliberately inaccurate computer “models” to know this. There is no need to be emotionally stampeded by tiresome, and always wrong, Jeremiahs of doom like Paul Ehrlich. There is no truth in the statistical manipulation that proclaims a full 97 percent of “climate scientists” agree that changes in the climate are the work of mankind. You don’t have to worry about carbon emissions. The Last Days are not upon us.”   And what are the goals of the Climate alarmists? About their goals, Walsh observed, “But the “climate movement” bids fair to undo everything Western man has accomplished in the fields of science, technology, and religion and replace it with a savage new primitivism that is both inhuman and godless. It relies on the patina of science to promote a culture based on fear and guilt, with the goal of reducing and taming the human population under the aegis of a small group of self-appointed bonzes.”

As mention, they want to destroy civilization to save the Planet and somehow this doesn’t seem to be much of suitable option.  If your goal is to destroy your civilization to save the planet, maybe you might want to reconsider the nature of the problem and whether you will do more damage than good to deal with the issue.   

Consider what Walsh has noticed, “In Holland, the leftist government is attempting to forcibly seize farmers’ land in order to take it out of food production to appease this new Moloch. Meanwhile in Ireland its government of mediocrities has been captured by the Green Party, which now holds all its important ministries, and has decreed that some 200,000 heads of cattle be culled in order to meet its “mandated” emissions targets — a report that instantly made the poor beleaguered country a laughingstock around the world, and from which Éire now seems to be backing away. The fact that, historically, cattle have been integral to the country’s sense of itself — viz. the epic poemTáin bó Cuailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), which dates from the seventh century A.D. — and was the standard by which wealth was measured means nothing to the Eurocrats in Dublin who function at Brussels’ behest. Expect more of the same across Europe, which even now is struggling with soaring energy costs and reduced access to dependable sources of power.”  Seizing farms in order to reduce food production is suicidal for those who depends upon the Dutch’s exports and Irish sacrifice to the gods of climate change cult is to kill 200,000 cows. 

Carbon Dioxide is an important aspect of our life, without which we could not live.  We are carbon emitters every time we breathe, and plants take that CO2 and returns us Oxygen, it is called photosynthesis.  Most of us learned this in elementary school or used to. We are a carbon form based of life and Walsh observed, “Carbon is the graphite in our pencils, the diamond in our rings, the oil in our cars, the sugar in our coffee, the DNA in our cells, the air in our lungs, the food on our plates, the cattle in our fields, the forest in our parks, the cement in our sidewalks, the steel in our skyscrapers, the charcoal in our grills, the fizz in our sodas, the foam in our fire extinguishers, the ink in our pens, the plastic in our toys, the wood in our chairs, the leather in our jackets, the battery in our cars, the rubber in our tires, the coal in our power plants, the nano in our nanotechnology, and the life in our soils… Carbon is life. It exists in every organic life form. Life is impossible without it. When combined with water, it forms sugars, fats, alcohols, and terpenes. When combined with nitrogen and sulfur, it forms amino acids, antibiotics, and alkaloids. With the addition of phosphorus, it forms DNA and RNA, the essential codes of life, as well as ATP, the critical energy-transfer molecule found in all living cells. The carbon atom is the essential building block of life.”

Walsh concluded the real goal of Climate alarmist, “There is nothing urgent about climate change. The earth will continue to warm and cool until the day the Sun dies…Nothing bad will happen in either the short- or long-term if global temperatures rise by two degrees centigrade, the arbitrary figure of alarm for the cultists. Indeed, a slight warming will help all of humanity…Many of the people promoting the panic emerge from the malign precincts of the World Economic Forum which, under its Bond villain-in-chief, Klaus Schwab, is dedicated to the impoverishment and reduction of the human population. These are the same people who gave you the recent Covid hugger-mugger, which needlessly atomized the world’s economies and illegally locked down whole populations while cowering from a bug of next-to-zero lethality in the general population…When you have “net-zero” emissions, you are dead.”  

We have taken an essential block of life on Earth and turned it into a pollutant.  We are told by our “betters” to follow the science but the science they follow is absurd.  As we witness during the Covid pandemic, following the science of the “our scientific leader” including Tony Fauci and Debbie Birks, we engaged in vaccine mandates for a less than effective vaccine, mask mandates that did nothing to stop the spread, economic lockdowns along with shutting down schools had both economic and educational disastrous results plus hiding the real origin of the virus.  Following the science did not stop the virus but it did shut down much of the world economy for no real benefits.  The lockdowns outweighed any benefits, and the solutions of climate alarmist risk outweighed any benefit.  We won’t save the Planet by locking down our economy because of climate emergency that doesn’t exist, but we will kill billions and destroy civilization as we know it. 

RFK Populism

Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) economic plan can be described as a left of center populism.   He identifies the problem by noting, “Since then, rising interest rates have also put homeownership out of reach for even more Americans. In the last two and a half years, home financing costs have risen by 150% and the average cost of a home has increased by 23%. As more and more people are priced out of home ownership, rents have skyrocketed as well, rising 17% over the last year.”

His solutions are traditional old fashion liberal Democrat beginning with including raising the minimum wages, allowing students to declare bankruptcy and have college loan as zero interest rate and Medicare for all.  He also wants to renegotiate trade deals and put tariffs on lower developing countries.  His view on trade, “Free trade agreements have put American workers in competition with low-wage workers elsewhere in the world. “Free trade” sounds like a good idea, but it means that employers move production to places where environmental regulations are lax and where worker protections are non-existent. Companies in the US have to either offshore or extract concessions from their workers” and his solution, “Renegotiate free trade agreements and impose compensatory tariffs on imports from low-wage countries.” 

His goal is to strengthen unions as a counter to major corporations returning the days in which three out of every ten workers belonged to a union. Of course, today, the biggest problem is that while workers in private sector unions had declined, public sector unions have increased and, in the process, use their power to support the increase of government powers.  Many of the policies have led to the results he deplores including increase housing prices and college education going up. 

Here is what is missing in the RFK thesis, promoting economic growth, and expanding the economic pie.  Most studies show that raising minimum wages actually hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder and while RFK calls for a minimum fifteen dollars an hour but in many communities, fifteen dollars an hour is the reality.  Around Cedar Rapids, jobs are advertised starting at 15 dollars, showing that markets can adjust as right now there are not enough workers to fill slots and wages have gone up accordingly.

As previously discussed, we have seen many Republicans governors leading their own revolution of tax reform, spending restraint and economic growth producing lower unemployment and more growth than their Democratic counterpart.  RFK still believes in government directed economic strategy.

A few years ago, we did survey and found that many conservatives may be classified as populist capitalist and while they hate socialism, they view capitalist as benefitting the rich as the expense of them.  Over the years, many voters, right or left, have expressed in our polls the view that the system is rigged against them, and they may not be wrong.  Writers like Carol Roth and Joel Kotkin have made the case that over the past decade many in the middle class and lower class lost ground while the wealthy have increased their wealth. CNBC Jim Kramer declared the pandemic produced the greatest transfer of wealth from the main street, middle class, and small businesses to the wealthy 1 percent. This is why RFK populism will attract some on the right as he is making the case that they have lost ground and he will help them gain some of it back.