Category: Politics and Issues

The deep state’s last stand (this term)   

                                                                          By Dr. Larry Fedewa (October 5,2019)The Attorney General of the United States is investigating the nearly successful coup d’etat 2015-17 which attempted to overthrow the President of the United States. Since there is evidence of interaction between the American conspirators and several foreign countries, including the United Kingdom, Russia, Ukraine, China, Australia, and perhaps others, the AG asked the President to help him open doors in these countries.

The President then asked for this assistance during his telephone conversations with the leaders of these countries. As in any such conversations, the two leaders engage in some bargaining – some subtle and some explicit. Both assume that their conversations are protected by Executive Privilege from public disclosure.

On July 25, 2019 the President talked to the new President of the Ukraine government. It happens that the $400+ million military aid grant from the US to Ukraine has been held up since the spring, presumably because of the Ukrainian election and change of administrations.

It also happens that former Vice President Joseph Biden, now running for the Democrats’ presidential nomination, has long been mentioned as having used his position to shield his son, called Hunter Biden, from investigation by the Ukrainian government for corruption. Since there is evidence of Ukrainian input to the American conspiracy, the US President asked the Ukrainian President for his cooperation in finding out the truth behind this story.

The case was centered on the younger Biden being named a Board member of a Ukrainian energy company with a handsome stipend (now reported as $83,000 per month), simply and solely because of his last name. The senior Biden has even bragged on television about how he succeeded in threatening to withhold US military aid to Ukraine – fighting the Russians in Crimea at the time – unless the Ukrainian government fired a prosecutor who was investigating the company which was paying his son.

Did President Trump do something wrong as the Democrats alleged (before having read the transcript)? Certainly he was not attentive enough to appearances – Mr. Trump is not known for subtlety. But a crime? Or a “high crime or misdemeanor” worthy of impeachment? That is pure fantasy.
Since it comes right on the heels of the failure of the Mueller Report to provide a credible basis for impeachment, these charges seem to reflect a last-ditch effort to discredit the President sufficiently to prevent his reelection next year. That interpretation also would explain why the hurry. Time is running out before the presidential campaign hits high gear. 
With a Republican majority in the Senate, it is extremely unlikely that there would be the 67 votes necessary to convict a Republican President. The current effort is therefore best understood as part of the 2020 campaign.
There are many extraneous charges, arguments, and issues being raised regarding the identity of the whistleblower, the House Intelligence Committee procedures, the House protocols, subpoenas, executive privilege, the role of the President’s personal attorney, etc. But the fact remains that the intelligence community, initially led by Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan and DNI chief James Clapper, have a long history of attempting to sabotage this President.

So don’t be fooled: it’s not really that complicated.

Ukraine scandal is collapsing even though you won’t know that by reading the media. https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/04/testimony-from-ukraine-envoy-kurt-volker-directly-contradicts-democrats-impeachment-narrative/

This story notes maybe Adam Schiff has a few questions to answer. https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/04/report-anti-trump-whistleblower-concealed-contacts-with-house-democrats-from-inspector-general/… ps Schiff has already been caught lying about contacting the whistle blower and even the Washington Post gave him four pinocchios.

americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/schiff_collusion_with_whistleblower_the_last_straw.html… Schiff own collusion has put questions marks about the whole story. But then honesty, integrity are two words not used in the same sentences. More on this later.

A few more thoughts on my tweet on eating babies. While the woman may have been a plant but what is more amazing is the reaction of the audience. The audience was not shock as much as accepting that many on their own side actually believe this to be a valid position.

As mention before, there are members of the environmental extremist have always viewed people as a problem and needs to be controlled including how many children parents should have. Population control has always part of the agenda.

Much of their effort directed at people of color. You can draw your own conclusion.

What is at stake

I have been asked, where is my moral compass and how can I support Trump even now?  My response is simple I am the man with the moral compass who understands that President Trump has been under assault since he ran for office and the impeachment proceeding is not about justice but the absent of justice.  As a person who did not support Trump in the 2016 Republican primary, I became a reluctant supporter in the General election and the reason was simple.  Hillary Clinton.  Hillary Clinton, who defended her husband even when he was accused of sexual assault and rape and who set up the Bimbo eruption team in the 1992 election designed to discredit any woman who came forward about her husband behavior. The same woman who managed to become worth nine figures while working as a public servant and who used her foundation as a pay to play scheme and whose carelessness with her emails threaten national security.  We know that Hillary Supreme Court appointees would end gun rights, cripple political and religious rights while cementing permanently bigger government for the next generation to suffer under. The choice wasn’t that hard on who to support in 2016.

Today the choice is even easier due to the present state of the Democratic Party.  Forget Joe Biden, he is done. I have liberal friends of mine who supported Biden a few months ago, now telling me they can lock the man up and his son too.  Biden will not survive Iowa if his candidacy is not finished before then.  Let look at some of the candidates.  Elizabeth Warren has adopted the hard-left Venezuela socialism platform so her economic plan ends America as we know it, nor should we forget that this is a woman who pretended to be Native American to take advantage of affirmative action that benefited her career.  Then there is Bernie Sanders, a man who honeymooned in the Soviet Union and whose own platform is equally as bad as Warren  You have Mayor Pete who managed to use the Bible to justify infanticide, These are your leading Democrats along with Kamala Harris whose record as Attorney General is littered with massive violation of civil liberties.

Here are some of the characters of the Party who stand in judgment of Donald Trump. These are men and women who will vote on impeachment and removal from office.  At least two Senate members had been accused of abusing their first wife and one even hit his first wife so hard, gave her a black eye.  You have the mod squad of hate including Representative Omar who allegedly committed tax fraud and immigration fraud, hangs out with Islamist radicals and has taken position that last year Chuck Schumer stated was anti-Semitic. She also told her husband that she was getting a divorce while having an affair with her fund raiser.  Just to cement what a great person she is, she even got her ex husband fired from his job working for the Minneapolis city council.  There is Representative Tlaib who single state proposal means the end of Israel as a nation, speaking of Anti-Semitism.  So much for moral compass.

There is Dick Durbin, Robert Menendez and Patrick Leahy who submitted a letter to the Ukrainian government last May to cooperate with Mueller investigation. As one pundit wrote, “The senators remind Lutsenko of everything the U.S. has done for his country and essentially tell him, it would be a shame if that were to end.”  John Solomon reported that Christopher Murphy told the Ukraine just recently, “Following the meeting, Murphy spoke to reporters. He said he pointed out to Zelensky that Ukraine currently enjoyed bipartisan support for its U.S. aid but wouldn’t it be a shame if something were to happen to it but if he chose to “investigate past corruption allegations involving Americans, including former Vice President Joe Biden’s family,” he runs the risk of losing Democratic support going forward…Murphy reportedly told Zelensky that U.S. aid was Ukraine’s “most important asset” and if he were to comply with Trump’s request, it would be “disastrous for long-term U.S.-Ukraine relations.” (The quote is from John Solomon article on the Hill September 23^rd.)  These Senators who has already done far worse in the past few months than Trump is accused of, will stand in judgment. So much for Moral compass. 

If it wasn’t for double standard, Democrats would have no standards. For the past two years, the Democrats have stood as the chief defender of the Me-too movement and defending women from sexual assault. They supported the election of a State Attorney General and a Virginia Lt. Governor who had significant evidence of possible sexual assault. along with the two Senators with history of abuse in their past marriages.  The State Attorney General is still in office and any investigation into the Lt. Governor has ceased. This is the Party in judgment of Donald Trump. So much for moral compass.

What we are witnessing is the criminalization of foreign policy.  You may disagree with Trump approach to the Ukraine but that is a foreign policy decision in which the voters should be in judgment just as Joe Biden should be judge in the Democratic primary for threatening the Ukraine loss of foreign aid if they don’t quit investigating the company his son had significant financial interest.  (Ever notice how some Democrats end up multi-millionaires along with their family after their year of public service.) 

What Donald Trump asked the Ukraine government was for help to investigate what occurred in the 2016 election. The Democrats are really punishing Donald Trump for seeking the truth about what truly happened in 2016. Maybe it is because the truth is that it was Democrats who colluded with foreign governments in an attempt to win the 2016 election. 

Here is what at stake. We have seen a constant smear campaign against Donald Trump that had nothing to do with policy.  Democrats seem to think if Republicans are elected, it must be by foul means and means necessary to remove Republicans is acceptable.  The Democratic left attempts to reverse the will of the people in 2016.  Nor is that all. Any institution they can’t control, they try to delegitimize. The smear campaign against Brett Kavanaugh is one example.  With absolutely no evidence, they put Kavanaugh through one lie after another with the final goal of making any decision dealing with Roe v Wade illegitimate in the eyes of the public or intimidate Kavanaugh to decide their way.  This has been admitted by one of the defense team of Christine Ford. In order to end the politics of personal destruction instituted by the left, we must defeat the Democrats so future Democrats will understand that these tactics will fail at the ballot box.

The Democrats are attacking the proven principles that make America great.  We know that proven principles of hard work, not showing up at work drunk or stone, waiting until you get married before having children, delayed gratification, and taking personal responsibility are a pathway to success in our society.  We know that private enterprise creates wealth and allows individuals to be best they can be and pursue their passion, but even this principle is under attack as the left want to replace our capitalist system with Venezuela socialism. Our opponent talks of copying Nordic capitalist country, but their platform goes far beyond what any Nordic politician would do.  Here are the proposals already discussed on the campaign trail and in the debates:

1. Free health care for illegal immigrants and open borders to allow more illegal immigrants to come in the country.
2. Medicare for all and the elimination of private insurance, patient ability to choose their plan and their doctors. The government becomes the Doctor.
3. Tax rates as high as 90% and wealth tax that most European countries have abandoned.
4. No fossil fuels or nuclear energy, no automobiles with combustible engines and Green New Deal that will control what kind of car you drive (provided cars will still be allowed) and the size of the house.  They have even talked of the evil of eating meat and having pets. Say goodbye to the family pet. (I will add that electric car has to be charged and without fossil fuels or nuclear energy, good luck with charging your electric car.)
5. Regressive tax system that will not only tax the rich but close to double the tax of the middle class
6. Government spending that will double or triple what we presently spend, and we are spending far more than we should now

Our opponent wants to transform America into a Venezuela socialist state and they are arrogant enough to believe that Venezuela will not come here to America under their leadership. It will.

The question that voters will have to ask is whether we will remain a free country or become like Venezuela. 

I wanted to get these thoughts down for the 2020 election has already begun with the first election test in North Carolina and the next one in the Wisconsin 7^th district in January.  Ronald Reagan stated it best, ““Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”  The choice is clear as Ronald Reagan also stated, “You and I have a rendezvous with destiny…We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.”  Do we fight for light of freedom or surrender to the darkness of evil?

By Aaron Fausz, PhD. and W. Terry Howell, EdD, 

Imagine moving from Sick Care to an ideal Healthcare System. The US healthcare system desperately needs radical reform to rein in costs, reduce harm, expand access and become customer-centric. Imagine a healthcare system where consumers are respected and in control. Imagine communities focused on prevention and health. Imagine a system where drugs and surgeries are more affordable and effective. Real change requires disruptive innovation. As citizens, employers, entrepreneurs, healthcare workers, elected officials, and patients, it is time for us to drive the change. 

In their new book, Healthcare is Killing US: The Power of Disruptive Innovation to Create a System that Cares More and Costs Less, authors Aaron Fausz and Terry Howell explain how we can disrupt, dismantle and rebuild. They ask the question, “Will you be among the daring disruptors creating the ideal healthcare system of tomorrow?” And they put forward a cogent pathway from a sick care system that is killing us physically, financially and spiritually into a compassionate, affordable and risk-free place for everyone to live longer, healthier lives. Don’t just imagine. It is time to do something.

Free Market Health Care: Summary     by Dr. Larry Fedewa (August 25, 2019)       
Key Points: The goal of any new health care proposal must be to develop a patient-centered system.That is, a system which provides the patient the ultimate power to make his/her own medical decisions, which can be matters of life and death.

A secondary goal is to reduce the 2/3 of medical costs the US spends today ($3.5- $4 Trillion) thereby reducing the cost to the consumer.The five major obstacles to these goals in today’s system are:
1. A critical shortage of medical personnel 2. Employers3. Federal Government 4. State Governments 5. Health insurance companies 

1. Solutions — Medical personnel shortage U. S. Public Health Service offers full cost scholarships to medical, dental, paramedics, nursing and similar degrees to any qualified American student who is willing to serve a 2-year term in designated practices where critical needs exist. 
2. Solutions — Employers are relieved from all responsibilities for employee medical insurance. 
3. Solutions — Federal Government Actions:                                                         a. Federal government maintains Medicare because of ethical and legal obligations.                                                                                                                            b. Federal government declares medical insurance to be interstate commerce, subject only to federal regulation, with one set of rules governing all health insurance. Eliminating a major cost driver for health insurance.                              c. Federal government sets limits on settlements for medical mishaps, ending need for “defensive medicine”. 
4. Solutions — State Governments S                                                                            a. State responsibilities limited to practitioner licensing for medical personnel and other specific responsibilities as indicated below                                                    b. Management of a pool of funding for indigent patients based on a small per capita tax of each buyer of health insurance – critical component to universal coverage. Perhaps a restructured Medicaid without federal involvement.               c. Oversight of standard business procedures governing organizations of private citizens designed to provide health insurance, whether church, credit union, cooperative, small business associations, neighborhood, or any other type of structure. This feature is the key to lowering health care costs by increasing competition for the patient dollar in the extended field offered by reduction of individual state requirements and the end to defensive medicine.           
5.   5. Solutions – Insurance companies                                                             a. There is still a place for insurance companies, albeit radically altered. The first factor to be considered is the new phenomenon of literally thousands of new organizations to emerge as the market for insurance carriers. This is a whole new opportunity for these firms — to seek out the new buyers, to develop new packages for buyers representing basically a new constituency – all anxious to maximize individual benefits to a much more vocal and demanding membership, and then to formalize the flexibility ceded to each member to choose treatments and decisions themselves rather than accepting bureaucratic stipulations blindly. Companies which cannot adjust to the new markets will not survive.                      b. Another opportunity will also arise, namely the custody and deployment of medical savings accounts. One of the first trends may well be the simple transfer of the new payroll income from health insurance premiums no longer deducted from payroll to a medical savings account. The recipient of these deposits may well be in a new branch of financial management. And who better to do so with high credibility than your familiar insurance agent.  

Finally, there will be some differences in how the average person deals with his or her health care, but not that many. The two most significant are 1) you will become the direct buyer of your own health care with the money you saved from your enhanced paycheck; 2) you will now be making the sometimes life and death decisions that now are made by budget-watching bureaucrats in the insurance companies or the government. That’s it!