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— TheCapitolAdvisor (@AdvisorCapitol) September 7, 2024
The Culture
Is it Possible to Fix the National Debt?
Over on Zero Hedge, James Hickman via Schiff Sovereign has a piece where he discusses the question. He argues that the % of debt to GDP is the primary indicator to monitor and not necessarily the debt level itself. He also points out that the only bucket of spending that can reasonably be cut is discretionary spending. The other buckets, i.e. defense, interest on the debt and Social Security/Medicare, can’t be touched. He notes that tough decisions need to be made, but he also implicitly knows that politicians don’t make tough decisions; they just kick the can down the road. As Mr. Hickman notes, reducing the number of bureaucrats will certainly help the economy grow as the regulatory state would be constrained.
While I agree with Mr. Hickman, I think more needs to be done even tackling the biggest issues: defense, Social Security and Medicare. As someone about to hit the retirement ages for Social Security and Medicare, These programs must be reformed and begun to be wound down. They are not sustainable especially with the decreasing birthrates. Like most government schemes, it was not well conceived and contributions have been used to fund other vote buying schemes, which is really all social programs are.
Therein is the real rub in solving the debt crisis we are in. We have allowed the government to push “progressive” (i.e. communist, anarchist and authoritarian) into our educational system for the last 100+ years. While Reagan and a couple of others temporarily pushed back their progress, the progressives captured the educational system throughout the U.S. Want some examples? Just go read any of the textbooks used in public schools today and it will be abundently clear. While communism and authoritarianism have only led to the death and destruction of communities since its advent, that is not how this is sold to the “young skulls full of mush” as Rush Limbaugh used to say.
To get out of the debt morass we are in, we need a citizenry that is self-reliant, mentally tough and solutions oriented. Instead, we have an incresing number of people that rely on the government for everything. These individuals are promised everything by their masters (i.e. government) in exchange for their votes to keep the masters in power and building the master’s individual wealth. Just look at the members in congress over the last 50 years. Look at their wealth when they arrived on Capitol HIll and when they left. This concentration of power and control is what our founders warned us about oh those many years ago and why they designed the government the way it was. The progressive march to destroy the Constitution and remove from textbooks the reasoning behind founders’ structuring of government that way, has been the primary agenda of the progressives and the media (ah sorry for repeating myself).
Today, we are witnessing the progressives trying to destroy our country right in front of our faces. The endless illegal immigration balkanizes the country leading to further divisions. You can’t have a country without a border and you can’t have a functioning country without a cohesive vision and set of values binding you together. We don’t have that today, and the question is will we ever have it again? Unless we can come together as a self-reliant population that takes care of the few who really can’t take care of themselves, we will continue down the path of all other failed societies throughout human history.
Michelle Obama, the Savior?
Warner Todd Huston has a piece over at The Lid suggesting that Michelle O is angling for the Democratic nomination. I couldn’t agree with him more. Why not make history a second time with the same family, i.e. first woman president to go along with fthe first black president. In his piece, Warner points out the fact the DNC national nominating convention is in Chicago, it makes it a perfect backdrop of the O’s to ride in to make history and save the nation from Trump.
If she does run, I would expect her to win. Why? Well, most all women will vote for her which will give her a majority right there. Add to that, their men and you have a lot of people, and perhaps too big of a majority to overcome.
This is probably the one thing Dan Bongino and I disagree about. He believes she is a much too private person to run. I don’t know. I think she can be bought (e.g. her “no show” job at the hospital in Chicago as Rush used to say), so a nice fat donation to their foundation should do the trick. That money makes its way into the Obama family fortune after her term.
January 6th: The Day Government Came After Its Citizens
Many of us thought the way the government/media complex was covering the situation was extremely odd. Our suspicions have only increased over the last three years as bits and pieces of what happened have come out. Now, we know there is a lot more to this story that has been hidden from us by the Uniparty and the media. However, there are a few true media outlets that have continued pursuing the truth about J6.
One of the people who have been on this since the beginning is Darren Beattie of Revolver News (http://revolvernews.com). He has continued pressing on this, and a couple of days ago, put to bed something the media has steered clear from: the “pipe bombs” found at both the RNC and DNC on January 6th. In his article Secret Service Foreknowledge or Criminal Negligence? Damning New Evidence Surfaces In FBI’s January 6 “Pipe Bomb” Story, Darren uses video from the Capitol Hill policy to destroy the narratives put forward by the uniparty and the media complex about the pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC.
Everything points to a government that was intent on beating back questions about a stolen election. We have a state sponsored murder of a former military person by a DC policeman who actually received a promotion as a result. We are at the edge of the abyss. Where do we go from here?
We have Idiots and Losers for Leaders!
Random thoughts on the passing scene that is the U.S.A today:
- Our “leaders” are leading us down a path of doom and destruction. Over the last 150 years, these losers have infected every institution. They now control local, state and federal governments. They control the public school system in the majority of the states. They have imported over 20 million non-citizens in what I refer to as the Invasion solely to squelch the impact at the voting booth of US citizens who disagree with our “Leaders.”
- You got a small glimpes of what our country’s future looks like after the Invastion. In Chicago, there were videos on X (formerly Twitter) showing legal US citizens being pushed behind illegal citizens for food and other benefits. This will only get worse since th government blew its wad on COVID. Now, all the incremental purchasing of votes done by politicians will negatively impact their ability to do so in the future leading to another war between ourselves. Just as the communists, dictators, and collectivists have sought to do over the last 100 years.
- COVID really opened the eyes of many parents who saw first hand what garbage the curriculum of most public schools really entailed. Sowing division between the student and their parents; indoctrinating them into the collectivist mindset; teaching them about sex at an age where their minds aren’t capable of understanding;
- This is what communists, collectivists, facists, whatever you want to call them do. First, they need the young, so they take control of the educational system. Secondly, they need insulation from criticism and the “silent majority”, so they change the laws in a way to immunize themselves from criticism and firing. Third, they change the curriculum in the schools and change the language so that words, not actions, mean more. Fourth, they weaponize the language and use the courts to take out (i.e. cancel) people who disagree with them. Finally, with the country’s culture destroyed in the minds of the youth after teaching them that their country is horrible, they use the young to bring about a revolution that cements them in power and allows them to distribute resources in a way to maximize their power and wealth.
We have been led down a path of destruction. The country was founded upon the premise that humans are imperfect and more often than not use government as a mechanism to enslave the population to benefit the few. Our founders forwarned us about this centralization of power, but we refused to heed those warnings.
Two Worldviews
Konstantin Kisin’s article The Day the Delusion Died references a Thomas Sowell book from 1987 A Conflict of Visions in which Sowell provides a “simple and powerful explanation of why people disagree about politics. We disagree about politics, Sowell argues, because we disagree about human nature. We see the world through one of two competing visions, each of which tells a radically different story about human nature.”
Read the article to get a view on these differing visions and it will help you understand our issues.
Exit New York Now If You’re Not ”Progressive”
The Post Millennial has a story about Douglas McKay being sentenced to 7 months in prison for making memes on Twitter mocking Hillary Clinton. Forget politics for a minute, how is a disparaging meme any different than a negative campaign ad? Did this guy post some things that are horrible? Yes, but that doesn’t mean you lock him up.
As a Jew, there are many things online that offend me and perhaps other Jews (and non-Jews). Do I want them taken offline or de-platformed? No, I like it when the enemies of freedom self-identify. It allows me to make better decisions about which businesses to support and which to avoid.
Election interference claim? Really? Well, only a mentally incompetent person would think you could vote by text, so I’m not exactly sure how you say he interfered with anyone’s right to vote. Should votes by the mentally incompetent be counted? If these individuals can’t legally be held to contracts, how can they reliably be thought capable of voting? Oh wait, I’m talking about Progressives. It all makes sense now!
The ”Progressives” are today’s version of the Nazi’s of the 1900s. They have cooped the educational system (primary, secondary and post-secondary), the federal and many state governments. They are coming after you if you don’t drink their Kool Aid. So, if you live in New York and the other “Progressive” states, and you don’t subscribe to the Progressive’s regressive philosophy, you need to exit to a free state.
We know where you stand
The one thing that has become clear from the reaction to the terrorist attacks on Israel: many people have self identified as antisemites and supporters of terrorists. This clarity should stay at the forefront even when this crisis is over. Let’s defund them all, universities, NPR, all of it. There is no way our tax dollars should go to organizations that have proven to be evil. While I support their right to say what they want, it does not mean I have to listen to it or pay for it. If they cannot make enough money to continue without tax dollars, well too damn bad.
Hamas’ Terroristic Attack on Israel: This is what Political Correctness Gets You
There is a passage from the Talmud that says if you are kind to the evil, eventually, you will have to be evil to the kind. Over the last 75 years or so, the country has been slowing losing its moral grounding in the name of tolerance, being non-judgmental, open-minded, etc. The fact that we cannot all agree to condemn the indiscriminate killing of over 1,000 people by the Hamas terrorists shows just how dull our sense of morality has become.
For years, Hamas and other terrorist organizations have done horrible things to the people of the world including “citizens” of their own region. However, if you were to condemn the actions of these groups you would be called racists and a host of other names, ostracized from society, de-platformed and more. Instead of a civil society
Back to the Talmudic passage referenced above, over the last couple of decades we have responded to terrorist attacks with a “kill them with kindness” philosophy trying to change the savages and make them civilized. People are not allowed to disagree with this philosophy and/or call out the groups responsible for the attacks without facing a backlash ginned up by the media and the fascists of the Democrat party. One thing you can be assured of is our having been kind to the savages perpetrating evil around the world means that many innocent children, women and men will be killed as a result of savages, i.e. which is unkind to the kind.
Federal Student Loan Program Keeps Profs Employed
We’re coming to the end game from an economics perspective on college campuses. The universities are seeing declining enrollment, especially among men. The number of worthless degrees have multiplied as have the number of formerly disadvantaged students graduating with those degrees.
As more and more people find out how worthless their degrees are, a realization will hit these former students: I wasted my time and squandered my future away all to help a communist support him or herself.
The last 20 years of the student loan program have done nothing but grow the communist/authoritarian hold on education, especially in the social “sciences”. These programs have done nothing more than raise a victim filled culture that can’t take care of itself nor service the debt the student incurred to obtain the education.
One day, the country will realize that communists destroy everything they touch. They don’t care about you only about their power over you.