socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Opens Fire on Firearms
socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden is expected to reveal his planned executive actions on firearms today. According to reports ahead of his announcement, socialist/scumbag/ liar-Biden will specifically take aim at requiring background checks for the sale of a new bogeyman — so-called “ghost guns,” or firearms without serial numbers that are often homemade. Is this just tinkering around the edges, or is he getting a foot in the door for something bigger?
The so-called “ghost guns” category is intentionally vague terminology that creates an impression of illegality, similar to the erroneous “assault rifle” designation. Biden’s order would classify 80% lowers, components sold separately without serial numbers, as firearms. By classifying them as such, a buyer would be subject to a background check. But socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden hopes for an essential ban on the sale of these “ghost guns.”
A socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration official claimed that “criminals are buying these kits, which contain nearly all of the components and directions for finishing a firearm within as little as 30 minutes, and then using them to commit a crime.”
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s order will also compel the Justice Department to come up with a “red flag” legislation model for all states. Furthermore, he wants the DOJ to come up with a rule regarding a pistol “stabilizing brace” in order to have them “subject to the requirements of the National Firearms Act” — a rule that will force gun owners to pay a $200 tax stamp on those firearms.
Meanwhile, what may be even more troubling is socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s choice for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — gun-control activist and former ATF agent David Chipman, whose understanding of the Second Amendment is wanting to say the least. “What I support is treating [AR-15s] just like machine guns. To me, if you want to have a weapon of war, the same gun that was issued to me as a member of [the] ATF SWAT team, it makes sense that you would have to pass a background check, the gun would have to be in your name, and there would be a picture and fingerprints on file,” Chipman stated in a recent interview. “To me, I don’t mind doing it if I want to buy a gun. These policies just protect the criminal. Like, I don’t think you should be able to anonymously purchase 20 AR-15s at one time, and the government shouldn’t know. I don’t think it’s unreasonable at all that you have to pass a background check to own a weapon of war.”
You know it’s bad when CNN praises Chipman as a “fierce advocate for gun control.”
While socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has backed away from attempting to order an outright ban on so-called “assault rifles” like the AR-15, he’s only doing so knowing that such an order would be immediately challenged and likely overturned. He and other Democrats want to get an “assault weapons” ban passed through Congress, where it would be much more difficult to strike down. ~The Patriot Post
United by Division?
Don’t miss the almost hilariously bad irony that an airline called “United” is now going to start dividing by race when it comes to hiring pilots. Apparently, this “woke” HR department run amok is what taxpayers get for last year’s $5 billion federal bailout.
The title of the company’s press release is “United Sets New Diversity Goal: 50% of Students at New Pilot Training Academy To Be Women and People of Color.” Out of a planned 5,000 pilots to be trained, United says its “plan is for half of them to be women and people of color.” The company’s current percentages are 7% women and 13% minorities.
It should go without saying that no one is clamoring to block women or minorities from becoming pilots. Nor is anyone insisting that 50% of pilots ought to be Republican so as to represent the nation’s political divide. The ultimate measure for any number of career choices, including pilots, is (or should be) qualification and expertise.
For pilots, this is even more important, as a commercial airline has one job: transport hundreds of passengers aboard a metal tube flying at 35,000 feet safely to their destination. Would you rather enjoy yet another routine safe landing in one of the safest industries on the planet or, as your plane plummets out of the sky, console yourself with thoughts about the glorious diversity of the pilot’s skin color or genitalia?
This is certainly not to say women or minorities are inherently less qualified to be pilots than white men. But it is to say that the fact of a white-male dominated industry doesn’t mean there’s systemic racism any more than the NFL or NBA are systemically racist because two-thirds and three-quarters of their players, respectively, are minorities. All players, by the way, are male. So far.
There are a lot of questions United must answer. What happens if its diversity plans yield less-qualified pilots? What if there simply aren’t enough women or minorities interested in becoming pilots to fill the quotas?
Moreover, is United admitting to having previously discriminated on the basis of race or sex so as to disenfranchise minorities or women? If so, it’s only tacitly with past actions to address it. In its current statement, the airline vaguely blames the “financial barriers that limited access to the airline pilot career path for generations of women and people of color.” So how will this airline discriminating against this generation of white men make up for someone else discriminating against a different generation of minorities or women?
Finally, will this blatant racial discrimination bring legal trouble? It certainly should, because it plainly violates the Civil Rights Act. Besides, it’s one thing to pull a baseball game from a city over deceptive mischaracterization of a voting law. It’s another thing to put people’s lives at risk with inferior pilots in the name of “diversity.” ~The Patriot Post
Mike Pence Makes a Statement
If Mike Pence isn’t planning a run for president, he’s got a strange way of showing it.
His launch yesterday of Advancing American Freedom, a policy and advocacy organization promoting “the pro-freedom policies of the last four years that created unprecedented prosperity at home and restored respect for America abroad,” sounds like the effort of a man with serious designs on 2024.
“It has long been clear,” writes the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, “that the Republican Party, after President Donald Trump, will not return to the political, ideological, and cultural place it had been before Trump. On the other hand, it will not become a carbon copy of Trump. The question is, who will lead the GOP to create some sort of post-Trump synthesis?”
And the answer could be Mike Pence.
“Advancing American Freedom,” the former vice president says, “plans to build on the success of the last four years by promoting traditional Conservative values and promoting the successful policies of the Trump Administration. Conservatives will not stand idly by as the radical Left and the new administration attempt to threaten America’s standing as the greatest Nation in the world with their destructive policies.”
This is all quite a reemergence for the fundamentally decent Pence, especially given what transpired at the Capitol building on January 6. At that time, he was vilified for having refused to snap his fingers and unilaterally overturn the 2020 presidential election — as if that was ever more than a fever dream.
“Hang Mike Pence,” the angry mobs shouted that day. Really?
“A Trump run in 2024 is highly, highly unlikely,” says York, “and Pence and all those Republicans preparing to run will have to do the work of creating a new Republican Party while Trump is being Trump. There will be a fine line to walk between acknowledging Trump’s accomplishments and their debt to him, and creating a Republican agenda going forward. It will be a difficult job, but somebody will figure out how to do it.”
Pence, it would seem, already has. He served for four years as the mercurial Trump’s steady and loyal number two, always supportive, always deferential, and always articulate when it came to promoting and defending the Trump record. And from a newly launched Twitter page, Team Pence appears poised to pick up where he left off three months ago.
As for Trump, Pence’s new organization appears to have his blessing, and the two have been in regular contact since leaving office. “It was the most successful first term in American history,” Trump said in a statement sent to the Washington Examiner. “Nice to see Mike highlighting some of our many achievements!”
“Aides shrug off questions about 2024,” as the Washington Examiner’s Rob Crilly writes, “but with a list of advisory board members that reads like backers, former Vice President Mike Pence’s new political group looks like a bid to position himself as Trumpism’s heir apparent and for a White House run. Advancing American Freedom’s advisory board includes Trump administration alumni such as Kellyanne Conway, former Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, and Trade Representative Bob Lighthizer, along with luminaries of the conservative movement such as Jim DeMint and David McIntosh.”
The 2024 campaign may be a long way off, but Mike Pence has clearly set down a marker. As he put it in an op-ed in today’s Washington Times, “The policies of the Trump-Pence administration set our nation on the path of freedom. With the support of patriots across this country, and God’s grace, Advancing American Freedom will help ensure that we continue to boldly forge a future of freedom for all the American people.”
~The Patriot Post
Thank You T/Sgt. Charles Coolidge
“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.” —Thomas Jefferson (1775)
This week, our community, our state, and our nation lost a genuine American Patriot hero.
The word “hero” is too often misapplied by today’s media outlets because most of those reporting don’t have any reference point for genuine heroics.
However, in the case of T/Sgt. Charles Henry Coolidge, the word applies in full.
Charles Coolidge was the last living WWII European Theater Medal of Honor recipient — survived by only one remaining WWII recipient, Hershel “Woody” Williams, who was recognized for his service in the Pacific Theater as a young Marine in the battle of Iwo Jima.
In 2015, I devoted my Veterans Day column to Mr. Coolidge, a quiet and unassuming man I have known for the last 40 years. He was a lifetime contemporary of my WWII veteran father, beloved and respected by everyone who knew him.
Mr. Coolidge was drafted in 1942 and assigned to the 36th Division, 141st Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Co. M. In 1943, his unit was deployed to Algeria for the North Africa Campaign. T/Sgt. Coolidge was awarded a Silver Star for valor in combat as his unit swept Italy.
In the offensive battles to capture heavily defended German positions in the Vosges Mountains, he received the Medal of Honor for his actions defending Hill 623 east of Belmont sur Buttant, France, near the German border. Between October 24-27, 1944, his unit faced overwhelming odds defending its battalion’s right flank, but he and his machine gunners and riflemen held that strategic hill through four days of relentless battle.
By way of inviting you to read about his actions, here is an introductory excerpt from that Veterans Day column: “On Oct. 27, 1944, after having pressed Germans in retreat for more than a year, Mr. Coolidge, then a 23-year-old technical sergeant, found himself staring down the barrels of not one, but two German tanks, 25 meters from his position.” When the first tank commander demanded his surrender, in what Mr. Coolidge described as surprisingly good English, he responded in his Southern Mountain drawl, “I’m sorry, Mac, you’ve got to come and get me.” The angry tank commander then fired five times at Mr. Coolidge, who dodged those near-point-blank 85mm rounds. (Watch Mr. Coolidge recount that confrontation in his own words here.)
Mr. Coolidge, as with every recipient I have known, was quick to declare that he accepted the Medal of Honor on behalf of the countless American demonstrations of bravery in combat in defense of Liberty, and the resulting casualties.
Mr. Coolidge was, above all, a model of integrity, honor, and determination. He was, first and foremost, guided by his Christian faith and devoted to his family. He conducted his small family printing business, from which he retired at age 95, with great character. He battled multiple sclerosis, a disease that he refused to allow to define him, for more than half a century.
His legacy lives on in the thousands of lives he influenced for good during his 99 years.
His name is memorialized at the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, commemorating the first Medals of Honor and all its recipients in the years since.
The Heritage Center is located in Mr. Coolidge’s hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, near the site of actions for which the first Medals were awarded to Andrews’ Raiders in 1863. It will honor his legacy through its mission of teaching and building character in future generations and inspiring young people to embody the values of Patriotism, Citizenship, Courage, Integrity, Sacrifice, and Commitment in their daily lives in order to make the world better for all.
Our board Chairman Emeritus, Bill Raines, Major General, U.S. Army (Ret), noted: “He was the embodiment of the Greatest Generation, and his legacy has and will continue to shape the lives of countless people and children in our state and across the country. Many people know Charles Coolidge as an American hero from World War II, but I believe he was much more. His legacy will continue to serve as an inspiration for all of us, today and for the future, on how ordinary people can face and overcome an extraordinary challenge in life.”
B.B. Bell, General, U.S. Army (Ret), a Patriot Post analyst who heads the Heritage Center’s National Advisory Board, added: “The passing of Charles H. Coolidge is an enormous loss for America, and for the world. All free people should mourn the loss of this great man. He, along with his fellow Service members, saved our Republic during World War II. I pray that we can live up to his magnificent legacy.”
Mr. Coolidge’s son, Air Force LtGen Charlie Coolidge Jr. (Ret), serves on Gen. Bell’s Advisory Board.
His family has asked that memorial gifts honoring Mr. Coolidge’s life and legacy be made to the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center.
Join us in thanksgiving for Mr. Coolidge and in prayer for his family. He will be interred at Chattanooga National Military Cemetery.
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” —John 15:12-14 ~The Patriot Post
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socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden hasn’t even reached the 100-day mark of his presidency, but the verdict is out on the world stage that he is a wet noodle when it comes to projecting American strength abroad. As Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani have no doubt already surmised, if socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden can’t (or won’t) even keep America’s southern border secure, what can he possibly do to advance American interests abroad? socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden, a lifelong politician who meandered his way through an unimpressive decades-long career as a senator and vice president, was never a strong thinker. His former boss, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, used to like to pretend that socialist/scumbag/ liar-Biden was the “tough guy” in the White House. “You don’t wanna mess with Joe,” he would tell reporters. But everyone from the president to the press corps knew that Biden was the living embodiment of what happens when a man rises to the level of his own incompetence.But now, for no other reason than the Left’s unshakable determination to get Donald Trump out of office by any means necessary, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is president of the United States. His shallow grasp of world affairs and his backward view of foreign policy have combined with his clearly diminished mind to put America into a precarious state on the world stage. It’s a good time for the dictators.
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden came into office signaling his desire to renew the nuclear deal with Iran, a foolish gesture that seems motivated by his desire to shore up scumbag/liar-nObama’s legacy, such as it is, and also because it’s 180 degrees in the opposite direction of what Trump did. There can be no sane reason for trying to rebuild such an awful agreement that was built on bad faith and a lot of U.S. cash paid directly to the biggest terrorist supporter in the Middle East. To top it all off, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has indicated that he’s willing to remove sanctions against Iran and unfreeze Iranian assets just to bring the mullahs to the negotiating table. In boxing, this strategy is mockingly called leading with your chin. And socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has what grizzled old pugilists would call a glass jaw.
Iran is obviously quite happy with this state of affairs. The country, which never really halted its nuclear weapons program, will be able to keep going, and it will be rewarded for destabilizing the Middle East. socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden seems unconcerned with what happens in that region, though, as the halting of military sales to Saudi Arabia and a planned withdrawal from Iraq indicate.
China is likewise pleased with the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration these days — and why not? socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s in Beijing’s pocket. As that country continues to aggressively expand its footprint in the South China Sea, intimidate its regional neighbors, and expand its presence in Africa and South America in its quest to corner world markets on precious minerals, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has yet to make any substantive moves to check China’s power. He hasn’t even confronted Xi over China’s role in the spread of the ChiCom Virus pandemic. China has deliberately blocked international efforts to investigate the pandemic’s origins and insists on blaming the outbreak on the U.S. military. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has sent the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group into the South China Sea. But even this show of force isn’t what it used to be when one considers the rapid materiel and technological growth of China’s military in the past two decades; growth that has gone largely unchecked by the United States.
Russia is also ramping up its territorial ambitions, leaning hard on Ukraine as Putin continues his private quest to rebuild the old Soviet empire under the flag of the Russian Federation. Putin has used political maneuvering to extend his term of office indefinitely, and we can be pretty much certain by this point that he fully intends to remain president of Russia until the day he dies. Xi has similarly removed pesky rules that could remove him from office through elections, and the two leaders have grown close in recent months, forging an alliance to position as a counterweight to U.S. power.
Sad to say, but with socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden as president, this will not be difficult. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden sorely underestimates the cunning and savvy nature of the adversaries the U.S. faces, and he also dreadfully overestimates his own ability to steer America through the tough times that are sure to come as our country’s enemies prepare to challenge America head-on in the international arena. Will someone please send some backbone and some brains to the White House? We will surely need both in the months and years to come. ~The Patriot Post
Following socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s retaliatory air strikes in Syria last month, Democrat members of Congress put forward legislation to repeal the existing Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) resolutions of 2001 and 2002. More than that, however, they propose to rewrite the War Powers Act of 1973, which would effectively take away authority from the president to engage in military action to protect Armed Forces personnel and interests abroad.
If Biden, who appears to agree with congressional Democrats, were to go along with this misguided and unnecessary effort, all under the guise of ending America’s “never-ending wars,” it would be a profound break with our nation’s long-running history while also severely handicapping the ability of the executive branch to act both quickly and covertly against terrorists and other foreign enemies.
As John Yoo and Robert Delahunty observe in National Review, “The U.S. armed forces have fought American Indians, Barbary pirates, and Russian revolutionaries without any congressional approval. Harry Truman did not wait on Congress to intervene in Korea in 1950; Dwight Eisenhower threatened nuclear war with Communist China; JFK imposed a quarantine on Cuba during the missile crisis; LBJ sent troops to Latin America; and Richard Nixon expanded the Vietnam conflict in Laos and Cambodia. President Reagan invaded Grenada and attacked Libya; George H. W. Bush sent troops after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait; scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton intervened in the Balkans. The 1991 Persian Gulf war, the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, and the 2003 Iraq war received legislative "authorization” but not declarations of war. The practice of presidential initiative, followed by congressional acquiescence, has spanned both Democratic and Republican administrations and reaches back to Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington.“
Representative Andy Barr (R-KY) contends, "Voting to repeal the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) without a replacement is voting to disregard the terrorist threats in Iraq. This decision also surrenders the role of Congress in consenting to the use of military force under Article I of the Constitution. Congress should instead reassert its role in the process of authorizing military force and examine ways to update the 2002 AUMF to better reflect the current national security threats in the region.”
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) offered similar objections, stating, “The terrorism threats that underlie those authorizations are still there. There’s clearly terrorist activity inside of Iraq.” And Congressman Jim Banks (R-IN) called repealing the AUMF a “dangerous mistake.”
socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden may not have trustworthy cognitive abilities with the nuclear button (or with much else, for that matter), but that’s not a problem of presidential powers to be solved with this Democrat effort. ~The Patriot Post
GARY BAUER
Punished for Compromise
As you know, Georgia Republicans are getting hammered by the left-wing media and corporate America for recently passing an election reform law. It is absolutely not a “Jim Crow throwback” as the left has labeled it.
But Donald Trump noted what I have been thinking for several days now: In many ways, it doesn’t go far enough. For example:
The law does not require signature matching. In fact, it eliminates the signature matching requirement entirely. Instead, voters are now required to provide their driver’s license ID number when requesting and returning an absentee ballot.
The new law does not eliminate or limit no-excuse absentee/mail-in voting. Georgia is now joining the ranks of dozens of states that have adopted no-excuse mail-in voting.
Drop boxes are limited under the new law, but they were never used at all before 2020. Why are they being allowed now?
I believe we need to get back to an Election Day, not an election month. But the new Georgia law actually expands early voting, giving big city Democrat machines even more time to drive turnout.
So why all the outrage over this particular reform bill? It basically boils down to the enhanced voter ID requirement for absentee ballots. That’s it. And yet Georgia Republicans are getting the snot kicked out of them.
As one columnist put it, if the left is going to scream “RACISM!” all the time, conservatives may as well pass stricter laws. But why would the left stop kicking us when it sees how effective its attacks are?
As is too often the case, Republicans are traumatized by the left, by its media allies and woke corporate CEOs, and they compromised too much out of fear. And look what it got them.
This gets us back to what Donald Trump was trying to teach Republicans for the last four years. I thought he was making some progress, but apparently surrender is ingrained in the GOP’s DNA.
And don’t even get me started on Gov. Asa Hutchinson!
Georgia vs. HR 1
Compare the Georgia experience to HR 1. There is nothing in HR 1 intended to make elections fair in America. There are no bipartisan compromises at all in that outrageous legislation. It is a left-wing wish list intended to guarantee that no conservative ever wins the White House again.
But Democrats are not worried about appearing too heavy-handed. There was no debate in the Democrat Party about how far HR 1 should go. It went for the jugular!
No one on the left was worried about potential blowback for nationalizing all elections. Ironically, some on the left are arguing that Georgia’s new election reform law takes power away from local officials. Well, that’s exactly what HR 1 does, but on a national scale!
It takes power away from your local elections offices, from your state legislators, and from your governors, and it concentrates all election authority in Washington, DC. Such a drastic assault on federalism is clearly intended to benefit the big government left.
What’s in a Name
Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted is in a heap of trouble for a recent tweet. After days of negative press, he’s agreed to meet with activists from the Asian American community later this week. Did he post something racist or bigoted toward Asians? Not at all.
Husted posted a link to an article about former CDC Director Robert Redfield expressing his belief that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab. Husted added, “So it appears it was the Wuhan virus after all?”
Lt. Gov. Husted has done nothing wrong, and under no circumstances should he apologize. He should take the opportunity of this week’s meeting to assure Ohio’s Asian American community that he has their best interests at heart, and that includes finding the true origin of the virus that so ravaged our country.
We have a long history of naming viruses by their origin, and we know that the COVID-19 virus originated in Wuhan, China. There’s no dispute about that.
No one is offended by “British variant” or “Brazilian variant” or “South African variant.” Nor is anyone offended by MERS, an acronym for another coronavirus known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
Conservatives have got to stop cowering over this nonsense! Here is what Lt. Gov. Husted and everyone else on our side should say:
“Why are you more angry at me for referring to the ‘Wuhan virus’ than you are at communist China for lying to us and the rest of world? They are responsible for hundreds of thousands of American deaths. And you want to argue over a name? I think you should apologize for not having the courage to confront the Chinese communists!”
Stop the Panic
I recently reported that American media’s coverage of the pandemic was overwhelmingly negative compared to the rest of the world. I suspect it was deliberately negative in order to damage Donald Trump. But the nonstop fearmongering has damaged many Americans, turning them into “COVID psychotics.”
For example, one recent survey found that nearly three-quarters of Americans plan to continue wearing masks in public even after the pandemic is over. Another survey found that 17% of Americans are “uncomfortable” attending an outdoor sporting event.
There’s no science to justify these fears.
Speaking of science, it was relatively clear from the beginning that this was an airborne virus. But a year later, the CDC has finally gotten around to letting us know that it was totally unnecessary to sanitize our groceries and let the mail sit untouched for days.
And while the CDC has deemed it safe for vaccinated people to travel (well, duh!), the airline industry is still demanding that toddlers wear masks even though the science shows that its air ventilation systems are far superior to most hospital operating rooms!
A return to normalcy would be nice. But what I really want is a return to sanity!
Bibi Tries Again
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has assigned the arduous task of forming a new government to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Likud Party emerged from the recent fourth national election with the largest bloc of votes in the Knesset, but the path to a coalition government looks difficult to say the least.
President Rivlin acknowledged as much, saying, “The results of the consultations … led me to believe that no candidate has a realistic chance of forming a government that will have the confidence of the Knesset.”
Nevertheless, Rivlin was obligated to let Netanyahu begin the process as he received the most support from members of Knesset. Netanyahu now has 28 days to cobble together 61 votes for a new government. But a fifth election later this year remains a real possibility.
Day of Remembrance
Last night, Israelis began to observe Yom HaShoah, a national day of remembrance for the heroes and martyrs of the Holocaust.
Fighting the evil of anti-Semitism has always been a major priority of my work, including at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. At my urging, the commission held a seminar and a hearing on Capitol Hill about the growing threat of anti-Semitism and how to combat it.
While we remember the first Holocaust, we must never forget that the Islamic Republic of Iran is insisting on another one. Iran’s leaders have repeatedly called for a second Holocaust through the “annihilation” of Israel and its eight million Jewish citizens. ~The Patriot Post
CAL THOMAS
I’m a Capitalist, Mr. President, but You’re Not
Back in the day when “Saturday Night Live” was funny, Chevy Chase would open the “Weekend Update” segment by saying, “I’m Chevy Chase … and you’re not.”
That line came to mind over President socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden’s massive tax-and-spend proposals, which are unlike anything since FDR, after whom Biden appears to be modeling himself. The president thinks he’s a capitalist … but he’s not.
In a very short time, we have regressed from Ronald Reagan’s “government is not the solution to our problem, government IS our problem” and scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton’s declaration that “the era of big government is over” to socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s belief that the era of big government is just beginning.
Let’s define two terms. First, capitalism: “an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.”
Now, socialism: “a theory or system of social organization that advocates the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, capital, land, etc., by the community as a whole, usually through a centralized government.”
The definition of what fits the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden tax and spending blowout is the latter. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is ratcheting up the notion that only government is the answer to every problem by proposing a global minimum tax. Axios reports what it concludes is the rationale behind her thinking: “Convincing other countries to impose a global minimum tax would reduce the likelihood of companies relocating offshore, as socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden seeks to increase the corporate rate from 21 percent to 28 percent.”
That’s got it backward, but it typifies the thinking of those whose faith is in ever growing, more expensive and intrusive government.
Former President Trump’s reduction in corporate tax rates persuaded some businesses to move back to the U.S. from overseas. They had exited because of higher taxes.
Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody Analytics, reacted to the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration’s tax-and-spend proposals when he told The Hill: “It takes a whole different perspective on government. … Ever since Ronald Reagan it’s been about government dysfunction, we need smaller government, less government. … This is the complete opposite. It’s saying government and only government can solve the problems we have because they’re so large and beyond any one of us. Infrastructure is a collective problem.”
The obvious question then becomes, if big government can solve our problems, why hasn’t it solved them by now?
In a 2018 article, Investor’s Business Daily quoted the Bureau of Economic Analysis: “…some $305.6 billion returned to the U.S. from overseas accounts (after President Trump cut corporate tax rates). That’s a $1.2 trillion annual rate, and far more than the $35 billion one year before.”
How is returning to the bad old days of higher taxes going to convince those companies that returned home to stay home? No reporter has asked that question and no one in the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration has voluntarily offered an explanation.
Speaking of Chevy Chase, the comedian once said: “Socialism works … [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it’s conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.”
Yes, and that level is mutually shared mediocrity and, in some cases, mutually shared poverty. Capitalism raises boats for those who play by its rules, accompanied by shared moral values, while socialism, especially when paired with communism, sinks too many boats and hopes.
~The Patriot Post
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