Posted on 03/19/2019 4:42:42 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Turns out, one outright commie in the race is enough, even for Democrats. – New York City Mayor Bill “Meatless Mondays” DeBlasio thinks he is cut out to be our president, oh, he really does. So, he ventured up to New Hampshire to test the waters there yesterday, and boy was that a bad idea.
DeBlasio was the lead “attraction” for an event billed as a panel discussion about healthcare. But it appears that no one in the Granite State much cares about healthcare, or getting up close and personal with Bill DeBlasio.
In total, just 20 people turned out for the event, which is really bad, but that becomes purely awful when you realize that 14 of the 20 people were sitting on the panel, with just six hearty souls serving as the “audience” for the event. Upon learning of the sad turnout, White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway hilariously tweeted that “There are more people than this in my house every night for dinner.” Oof.
These Democrat debates are going to be a hoot. – Don’t look now, but some guy you probably never heard of named Andrew Yang is the new Big Thing among the Millennial social media crowd that is always looking for a handout. Yang is…well, he’s uh…ummm…he’s a “tech entrepreneur,” which generally means he became fabulously wealthy creating some business that appeals to Millennials. Now, he’s basing a presidential campaign on the same concept, which in Democrat politics means that he’s proposing to give away a lot of money to Millennials.
So, a standard issue Democrat.
Yang has differentiated himself from the “forgive student loans,” “green new deal,” and “medicare for all” crowd by proposing something even more craven, what he calls a “Freedom Dividend” that simply gives $1,000 per month to … wait for it…EVERYBODY. Yes, that’s right: He’s just going to have the federal government write a check for a grand to 335 million Americans each month. For those interested in arithmetic, that comes to $335 billion each month, right at $4 TRILLION every year for a government that’s already running a trillion dollar budget deficit.
I swear I don’t make this stuff up. Who could?
When asked how he would pay for this latest Democrat money grab, Yang offers only a false analogy with Alaska: “What they are doing with oil money in Alaska, we can do for all of us around the country with advancing technology.”
Well, here’s what they do in Alaska: The Alaska government decades ago dedicated part of the money it collects from taxes and royalties from the state’s massive oil production (second in the U.S. only to Texas) and distributes an annual dividend to the state’s small number of citizens from the balance. But this is not a budget-busting handout – Alaska is able to do this only because it runs a significant budget SURPLUS almost every year thanks to its oil and gas industry.
The amount of this annual payment varies with the health of the oil industry, which determines how much the state is able to collect in taxes and royalties. During the depths of the oil price bust a few years ago, the state had to suspend the dividend for one year because paying it out would have thrown its budget into a deficit situation.
Being a standard-issue Democrat, Yang’s proposal makes no such consideration. Other than his vague reference to somehow funding it with “advancing technology” – an idiotic message intended purely to deceive idiots – Yang never even mentions funding it within some budgetary constraint.
Like the dimwit Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with her “Green New Deal” and Bernie Sanders with his “Medicare for All”, Yang’s plan is to simply have the Federal Reserve print the money every month and hand it out to everyone. The inevitable result of such a program would be a rapid devaluation of the currency and massive inflation, meaning that all you Baby Boomers who spent the last several decades carefully saving money and planning a modest retirement based on the expectations of semi-responsible government and fairly stable economy can all go back to work, presumably as greeters at all the rapidly-disappearing Wal-Mart stores.
A word of warning: Amazon does not need nor hire greeters.
Make no mistake about this: What the Democrat Party is engaged in right now, today, is an organized, conscious, generational war that pits Millennials vs. the Baby Boom generation. That Party has in recent years made the conscious decision to toss organized labor overboard in favor of illegal aliens, and tossed Jews overboard in favor of Islamists, based on the calculation of which group might bring them more future votes. The Democrats right now are in the process of tossing Baby Boomers and even Gen-Xers over the side in favor a larger and younger future voting bloc.
This is just the latest example of the reality that the Democrat Party’s overriding motivation is not to do what is best for all Americans, but the acquisition and maintenance of political power.
Andrew Yang is just the latest manifestation of this intentional political strategy by the Democrats, and it’s working for him. His event in San Francisco last Friday drew a crowd of 3,000, which is 2,994 more than Bill DeBlasio could come up with in New Hampshire, and 1,000 more than Irish Bob O’Rourke could attract to his competing border rally with President Trump in El Paso last month. In the past month alone, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that Yang raised $350,000 from 66,000 donors, which is enough to qualify him to participate in the Democrats’ upcoming first debate in June.
That debate is going to be little more than a competition to see which candidate can promise to print and throw away the most money America does not have on issues that Millennials care about. Because the Democrat Party is waging a generational war here, and everyone over the age of 40 is the enemy.
Wake up, people – this is deadly serious stuff.
That is all.
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Big Bird’s nest is a mess...where’s the $485 million mayor?
McGovern offered everyone $1000 in 1972. The price of Democrat votes has skyrocketed well past the pace of inflation in 2020.
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” ~ Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (alias “Lenin”)
The troika of academia, (broadcast, print & social) media and the entertainment industry has successfully cultivated a hive-mind of collectivist proxy warriors who are actively engaged in the suppression of free speech; the elimination of Constitutionally protected individual rights, liberties and freedoms; and, narrowing the boundaries of “permissible” discretionary beliefs.
Now they, on the orders of their totalitarian ideological masters have “moved all in” for the 2020 election, which will determine the future existence of our Constitutional Republic. Because of their unanticipated and unwanted public exposure by President Donald Trump, for both them, and the majority of a sane, rational and patriotic America -—,it’s now or never.
McGovern offered everyone $1000 in 1972. The price of Democrat votes has skyrocketed well past the pace of inflation in 2020.
Yes, but that was a one-time payment. Yang wants to do it every month into perpetuity. The price has indeed gone up.
Millennials need a good dose of hyper inflation to cure their foolishness. Actually an EMP attack would work just as well.
I happened to flip past CNN last night and saw Pocahontas rambling on and on about reparations.
Thee is no chance of hyper inflation. A better chance of deflation IMO.
We’re living in Dr. Zhivago, but without the love triangle.
However, we’re in a constitutional republic where a LOT of the people the kids are trying to defeat have a lot of guns and ammo.
It won’t go down the same way this time.
The left says the fed can print trillions to pay for their fantasy eco-welfare society. That will causes hyper inflation.
As a hedge, physical gold is too hard to trade for goods and services. How do you make change?
I am going to increase my hoard of .22 rounds. I think they will make a good unit of exchange.
It cannot unless you can get those trillions down to the lower and middle class. There is no mechanism to do that. EVERY PUBLIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY ENACTED OVER THE LAST 30 YEAR HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO KEEP WAGES SUPPRESSED. That's not changing.
Well, medicare for all, the NGD subsidizing non workers and the various guaranteed income schemes are gigantic wealth redistribution schemes. The inflationary mechanism is too many dollars pursuing too few goods.
Exactly, so giving a stipend is not going to be "too many dollars".
Spot on, Ancient Man.
Those that suppose any sort of ‘economy’ will exist in a SHTF world are being overly optimistic I believe, I am buying lead also, but only in anticipation of using it on dinner or to defend dinner from the hoardes of city millennial snowflakes that caused the $4!tstorm to begin with. I believe civilization will be lost like the dark ages of Europe before long barring the rapture of the Church and if that happens someone is welcome to my stuff.
Well you may be right. I would bet that a large percentage of the monthly stipend would be spent on drugs, vodka, in strip joints and gambling. In this case, there would be inflationary pressure on drugs, vodka and lap dances.
Wouldn’t it just be easier to cancel everyone’s debt? Tomorrow, Trump signs an executive order that zeroes out the national debt. Since every institution is waiting on that money and still operating, by cancelling it, the only thing that changes is it is no longer on anyone’s books and future profits from this will be unrealized. This would seem to be an easy accounting exercise.
We are kind of both right. There would be HUGE asset inflation, stocks, real estate etc. But those things are not counted in inflation statistics. It’s rigged system from top to bottom.
4.2 trillion a year. I’ll take 1 million now for my family and will opt out of all future payments.
It’s called “the Long March” - the gradual takeover of existing institutions until total control is achieved - and it’s standard practice for Communists.
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