Posted on 10/27/2016 6:51:07 AM PDT by detective
That a woman who has been politically active, her entire adult life, among a people with the most successful history of economic achievement over their first century and a quarter, of any people on earth, under a Constitutional Government designed to protect that people from a bureaucratic pestilence, which has been the bane of most nations; that such a woman has so missed the essential point of the American achievement, is staggering in its implications.
Mrs. Clinton claimed that a Clinton Government would rebuild the "Middle Class." Was she totally unaware that the American Middle Class clearly built itself? That the American Middle Class resulted from naturally energized individuals, aspiring to achieve the good life, who risked everything to first clear a wilderness, work hard, generation to generation, to save & accumulate the attributes of the good life; with the result that by 1913--the year that a graduated income tax first became Constitutional, this Settler built Federation of newly settled States, had already surpassed every one of the great powers of Europe in industrial strength.
To "rebuild" the "Middle Class," Mrs. Clinton vowed to make the most successful Americans--those who had achieved the most--pay increased taxes; she called it "paying their 'fair' share." But it was clearly to be a tax on success--a tax to fund a raft of new programs (a cancer or pestilence of an expanded bureaucracy). She was obviously indifferent to the fact that the biggest impediment to any poor person with ambition, actually launching a small business to improve his status, is an almost incomprehensible explosion in bureaucratic regulations, most of which premised on the same flawed understanding of how people actually advance, which Mrs. Clinton displayed, on the 19th.
Americans used to learn by experience. What were the experience based lessons of what transpired from the drafting of our written Constitution in 1787, until the passage of the income tax amendment in 1913? Are they instructive or not, for what actually works for human advancement?
The Constitution prior to 1913, absolutely interdicted a tax driven war on the accumulation of individual wealth. Article I, Section 9, which Mrs. Clinton should have remembered from Law School, provided that no direct tax on individual Americans could be applied in any way but pro-capita. (That is Warren Buffet would pay the same tax--not the same percentage tax--but the same tax as Joe the Plumber. The Founders had no desire to limit individual success. They sought only to encourage it.
Under there experience based philosophy, there were almost certainly not even 1% of the bureaucratic regulations, with which Americans seeking to improve their lot, must face today. In place of today's pursuit of grievances, real or imagined, there was universal admiration for the high achievers! And the growth rate of a people freed to achieve, was the economic phenomenon of human history.
We do not pretend to know whether it was in her indoctrination by Marxist Pied Pipers in her late teens, or pure confusion in whatever she is struggling with today. But Mrs. Clinton is utterly clueless on how a dynamic economy works; as she is utterly unaware of the dynamic, interactive factors, that drive or stagnate any human aspiration or achievement. What is absolutely clear, even if one ignores her lack of a moral compass in her political dealings; the woman is absolutely unqualified to be President of the United States.
This is one more reason why we must win this election for Donald Trump.
William Flax
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Trump supporters don’t read The Washington Post.
That numb-nut, Rich Lowry, was glowing that Hillary & Wikileaks were MAKING FRONT PAGE NEWS! I picked up yesterday’s NYTimes this morning and there wasn’t anything about Hillary on the front page. It was all Trump-bashing.
Defile and flout Law and then expect me to submit? Nope. Sorry. It’s on. Saw it coming a generation ago.
Yeah... keep telling us that MSM..... you only make us want to make sure we get out and VOTE to prevent Hildebeast from even coming close..... all they do is empower us, not weaken us...... *uck the media......
The voters this time cannot be fooled.
Vendettas and power, that’s what the MSM is all about.
Kelly is on the hunt for Trump because he humiliated her at the first primary debate. The Washington Post is after him for throwing their reporter out of a rally.
They try to ambush him, he fights back, and they get an attitude.
Actually, lies and spin is all they’ve got left. Their tricks that have done always worked on politicians, aren’t working on Trump. They’ve run clean out of ideas, so now they’re just jabbing at shadows.
On the evening of the Reagan victory over Carter I was scheduled to bartend a party at a nearby restaurant, as a favor to the manager with whom I had once worked. Doors were to open at 8 PM, service to start at 8:30, an open bar and buffet. I was set up by quarter after eight, and waited...and waited...and waited...9, 9:30, quarter to ten, ten fifteen...not a soul.
Long story short, it was a Democrat victory party. He paid me the shift pay and sent me home at 11:00. I hope he got a deposit and a guarantee! (I never thought to ask him)
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