Posted on 12/29/2016 8:11:51 AM PST by KC_Lion
Do you have as many "rights" as the average refugee? You know like welfare. food stamps, free phone, free housing, free education at choice schools? Didn't think so.
Anything that impedes on our unlimited sovereignty is to be not permitted.
Diplomatic immunity confined to the UN building and grounds. NYPD issue tickets galore.
Yes, but the reports were shaded to make it easy to come to that conclusion. I think it was not wise because people concluded exactly what you did.
We had a fine young solder destroyed for challenging that order. Forgot his name, which is a growing problem for me. Forgetting.
Great. What did she really say?
Gov. Sarah Palin
12:52pm December 2, 2016
I am ecstatic for Carrier employees! Their bosses just decided to keep shop onshore. What a relief for hundreds of workers. Merry Christmas Indiana!
We don’t yet know terms of the public/private deal that was cut to make the company stay, but let’s hope every business is equally incentivized to keep Americans working in America.
Foundational to our exceptional nation’s sacred private property rights, a business must have freedom to locate where it wishes. In a free market, if a business makes a mistake (including a marketing mistake that perhaps Carrier executives made), threatening to move elsewhere claiming efficiency’s sake, then the market’s invisible hand punishes. Thankfully, that same hand rewards, based on good business decisions.
But this time-tested truth assumes we’re operating on a level playing field.
When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent. Meanwhile, the invisible hand that best orchestrates a free people’s free enterprise system gets amputated. Then, special interests creep in and manipulate markets. Republicans oppose this, remember? Instead, we support competition on a level playing field, remember? Because we know special interest crony capitalism is one big fail.
Politicians picking and choosing recipients of corporate welfare is railed against by fiscal conservatives, for it’s a hallmark of corruption. And socialism. The Obama Administration dealt in it in spades. Recall Solyndra, Stimulus boondoggles, and all their other taxpayer-subsidized anchors on our economy. A $20 trillion debt-ridden country can’t afford this sinfully stupid practice, so vigilantly guard against its continuance, or we’re doomed.
Reaganites learned it is POLICY change that changes economic trajectory. Reagan’s successes were built on establishing a fiscal framework that invigorated our entire economy, revitalized growth and investment while decreasing spending, tax rates, over-reaching regulations, unemployment, and favoritism via individual subsidies. We need Reaganites in the new Administration.
However well meaning, burdensome federal government imposition is never the solution. Never. Not in our homes, not in our schools, not in churches, not in businesses.
Gotta’ have faith the Trump team knows all this. And I’ll be the first to acknowledge concerns over a deal cut by leveraging taxpayer interests to make a manufacturer stay put are unfounded – once terms are made public.
But know that fundamentally, political intrusion using a stick or carrot to bribe or force one individual business to do what politicians insist, versus establishing policy incentivizing our ENTIRE ethical economic engine to roar back to life, isn’t the answer. Cajole only chosen ones on Main St or Wall St and watch lines stretch from Washington to Alaska full of businesses threatening to bail unless taxpayers pony up. The lines strangle competition and really, really, dispiritingly screw with workers’ lives. It’s beyond unacceptable, so let’s anticipate equal incentivizes and positive reform all across the field – to make the economy great again.
-Sarah Palin
Damn shame as she helped him a lot, in Iowa, Michigan and in Ohio, I think.
She Trump about Crony Capitalism but did not include the deal Trump made in that category even though she mentioned them. Close parsing I know, but she cut a fine line. Most, even freepers, called her out on it.
I figured she hadn't been offered a job otherwise I had no idea why she issued the statement.
That was my thought too.
Sarah left a comment over at CTH where she said this.
Dear Sundance,
Did I call the Carrier deal “crony capitalism”? I did not – my comments to the Young Conservatives were the reminder that we don’t believe in crony capitalism, we’ve railed against it forever, and we need to make sure we’re incentivizing all American business via creating a pro-private sector framework that treats businesses equally.
She also said that She spoke with Trump and he had no problem with what she said.
Further – exclusive for CTH – Mr. Trump and I have spoken about my Carrier comments and he had no problem with them, he assured me. We both know coverage of my comments, reported as “turning on Trump” and “attacking Trump,” is fake news. We share laughs about the fakery.
You can read the rest of her comment here. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/12/09/president-donald-trump-is-the-revenge-of-john-galt-yet-few-can-fathom/comment-page-1/#comment-3344629
Great pic!
Thank you KC-Lion. Interesting piece. I learned things I didn’t know.
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