We Demand: Take Care Of Our Own.
Freeze all foreign aid and take care of our own. We are not asking.
Which Candidate Will Shrink The Federal Government? Let's Take A Look.
As a lifelong libertarian, I've always felt that the biggest obstacle to a free and prosperous society is an oppressive and parasitic government. In the United States we have a federal government that began with good intentions more than 200 years ago, but has since become a hostile, angry monster that can never be fed enough. The size of the government is staggering: as of 2022, "the federal government employs nearly 9.1 million workers, comprising nearly 6 percent of total employment in the United States. The figure includes nearly 2.1 million federal employees, 4.1 million contract employees, 1.2 million grant employees, 1.3 million active duty military personnel, and more than 500,000 postal service employees." [source: The Hill] There are more federal employees than the total population of Austria. The federal budget for 2024 is $6.9 trillion, and that number is expected to grow no matter who is elected president in November. The national debt is currently more than $35 trillion [source: Statista] and that number rises by another trillion dollars every 100 days. The federal debt to GDP ratio is now at 122%, meaning we're broke.
The United States is a bankrupt nation that functions on debt and the intimidation of the world through our military. This is an unsustainable situation, and an economic crash is inevitable unless drastic action is taken to reign in the spending. Painful decisions will have to be made to ensure the long-term security of the nation. But politicians don't like to make decisions that cause pain. They'd rather kick the proverbial can down the road and hope someone else comes up with a real solution, after they've left office.
And beyond the financial woes, our monstrous government is a burden on society, imposing oppressive laws, rules, regulations, and red tape that cripple our ability to get anything useful done. Picture Star Wars' 'Jabba the Hut' sitting on a throne and eating everything in sight and you'll have a good idea of what our government has become.
It's critical that we reign in this obese monster before it destroys and consumes everything it can reach. But will anyone do it? Does anyone have the courage? I decided to take a look at the campaign platforms of the top four candidates and see if any of them are taking the situation seriously with plans to shrink the government.
Kamala Harris (and the establishment players she represents), offers little hope or change in the size of the federal government. She is the face of the deep state, the entrenched bureaucrats who remain in power for decades and run the nation un-Constitutionally via policies and regulations. Harris is the vice-president because of the deep state, so you can bet she won't do anything to upset them. One of the first items in her platform says she will "make affordable health care a right, not a privilege by expanding and strengthening the Affordable Care Act" (socialism). She claims she will "make millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share in taxes", although she doesn't say what a "fair share" is. She brags about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the American Rescue Plan, all of which combined added trillions to the national debt.
Unfortunately for us, Harris' platform contains very little other than references to things she did in the past. On issue after issue, her website talks about what she did as a prosecutor in California or as a member of Congress. There are no specific plans listed for what she will do in the future, except vague statements such as promising to work on the (alleged) climate crisis, or saying she'll end the fentanyl crisis by "signing the bipartisan border bill that will fund detection technology to intercept even more illicit drugs".
So we're left wondering what she'll actually do. But we know her ideology is rooted in Marxism, so it's a fair guess to say a Harris presidency will be one of taxing, spending, unfettered government growth, and more intrusions into our lives.
Jill Stein of the Green Party, starts out with drastic cuts to our military (50-75%). I applaud her desire to close military bases overseas, disband NATO, and stop military funding of Israel and Ukraine. But she then pledges those funds as a "peace dividend" to a number of spending plans, such as the bogus "climate change" agenda and "universal access to basic human needs for food, clean water and sanitation, education, and health care for every human being on Earth". Stein is promising to build 15 million green, union-built, publicly-owned homes, expand HUD and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Programs for first-time home buyers, guarantee lifelong free public education for all institutions of learning, including trade schools and Pre-K through college and graduate school, and guarantee free childcare.
In other words, Jill Stein loves a big government, as long as that government is administering far-left social programs instead of wars. Her platform doesn't mention the federal budget or the national debt at all, except to recommend that we "tax the ultra-wealthy and giant corporations heavily". Unfortunately for Stein, even if the government stole every penny of every wealthy person in the country, it still wouldn't make a dent in the $35 trillion debt.
Our next Marxist candidate is Cornel West. His platform repeats the word "justice" 17 times just in the category list alone. This should give you some idea of where a West presidency would end up. His platform mentions universal basic income, an expansion of parental leave & disability benefits, "fostering businesses that embody the principles of collective ownership" (communism), a "vow to significantly amplify funding for maternal health initiatives tailored to the needs of Black women (racism), free tuition for higher education, "climate reparations to recognize the deep injustices of climate change" (fake science), on top of a number of other so-called "green" initiatives that you and I will have to pay for. Like Stein, West proposes cuts to the military, including "disbanding NATO" and closing overseas bases. But then he says we need to cancel the debts of developing nations, despite the U.S. itself being bankrupt. It's hard to make the math work on his Marxist vision for America.
Cornel West loves a big government that taxes heavily, spends freely, and imposes itself upon us at every turn. That's not much different than what we already have. The only real difference is what the money gets spent on.
As the MAGA Republican candidate, we should expect Donald Trump to be the candidate most likely to tame the savage beast that is our government. But what does he have to say about it?
He says he wants to "stop outsourcing and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower". Reducing imports and increasing exports would certainly help our situation, but Trump offers no details on how he will actually do this. Will it involve more government spending or the creation of a new trade agency? He doesn't say. Unfortunately he does say he will increase military spending, including by building a "great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country". Such a system, which has proven to be a failure in Israel, will cost us billions of dollars...possibly trillions, and isn't needed since we have no enemies with intercontinental missiles who are foolish enough to start World War 3. An iron dome is nothing but a hand-out to the military industrial complex, the same people who have helped to bankrupt our nation and have kept wars going throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
Trump also says he will "rebuild our cities", but again doesn't say how he'll do it. Is this another spending program? It sure looks like it to me.
I wish I could tell you more, but Trump's platform is completely lacking in details. It's a collection of grand words and concepts. But I can tell you there's nothing in it that mentions shrinking the government, cutting spending, or reducing the debt.
If you dig a little deeper, you can find the Republican Party's platform which is different in some ways than what you'll find on Trump's campaign website. There, you will see the Republican's promise to "rein in wasteful federal spending: Republicans will immediately stabilize the economy by slashing wasteful government spending and promoting economic growth." How will it be slashed? They don't say. They also promise to "cut costly and burdensome regulations: Republicans will reinstate President Trump's deregulation policies, which saved Americans $11,000 per household, and end Democrats’ regulatory onslaught that disproportionately harms low and middle-income households." That one statement alone is the most encouraging thing I've seen on any of the platforms. But I question why it's on the Republican Party's platform but not on Trump's website.
Another positive note on the Republican's platform is this: "Republicans will end Democrats’ unlawful and un-American crypto crackdown and oppose the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency. We will defend the right to mine Bitcoin, and ensure every American has the right to self-custody of their digital assets, and transact free from government surveillance and control." That's a huge statement, and I hope the Republicans have the guts to follow through.
While there isn't much in either Trump's or the RNC's platforms that suggest they'll cut spending, (and Trump's platform has the wasteful "Iron Dome" boondoggle) their agendas do appear to have the goal of stimulating the economy, reducing the trade deficit, ending at least some of the government's burdensome regulations, and protecting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. None of the other three candidates are proposing anything similar.
My reservation with Donald Trump and the Republican Party is we've had a lot of promises in the past and an equal amount of disappointments. We don't need four more years of excuses. We need results. And we need results that will last beyond the next election season.
And it's important to note that none of the candidates have said anything in their campaign platforms about reversing Joe Biden's massive funding increase to the IRS that would enable up to 80,000 new agents to be hired. None of the candidates mention eliminating or greatly downsizing any of the "three letter agencies" such as the CIA, the FBI, the CDC, or the FDA, that have done so much harm to the American people in the past several years. They won't even touch easy targets such as cutting funding to Planned Parenthood or NPR.
But after reading the campaign platforms, I can say without any doubt that the only candidate who has a chance of controlling the "hostile, angry monster that can never be fed enough" is Trump. The other three candidates don't even pretend to care about the problem.
Vote accordingly.
Who Will Rescue America?
Illegals get $1 Billion. Hurricane victims get $750, if they're lucky. Who will rescue America?
Not our government.
Twenty-Five Ways The United States Is Being Destroyed.
A warning to America: Twenty-five ways the U.S. is being destroyed - in less than two minutes.
Mark Zuckerberg Admits The Biden Administration Pressured Meta To Censor Truthful Content.
This is the letter written to members of Congress by Meta (Facebook & Instagram) Chairman & CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. In it, Zuckerberg admits that the Biden administration "repeatedly pressured" Meta to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire. He also says the FBI contacted Meta and warned them of "potential Russian disinformation" regarding the Biden family and Burisma. Meta demoted related posts while waiting for fact-checkers to confirm or debunk the story. If the public had been told of the Biden-Burisma connection, would it have affected the election?
I wonder how many lives were lost in 2021 due to medical censorship on Facebook and Instagram. Important, potentially life-saving information was kept from the public to satisfy the demands of an authoritarian political regime more interested in controlling public opinion than protecting public health.
It's a topic Mark Zuckerberg doesn't touch.
Notes From Clown World: August 13, 2024.
I start this edition of 'Clown World' with a meme about U.K. Prime Minister Kier Starmer, simply because in the short time since he began leading the country, it's already devolved into chaos and increased tyranny. Starmer is another in a long line of deep state globalists who don't seem to actually care about the United Kingdom or anyone who lives there. I suspect he's there to help destroy the nation and hasten its transition to neo-feudal slave colony that serves the international elites. Neo-feudalism is being sold to us as socialism with heavy doses of social control enforced by tyrannical laws and brutal policing. It's is poison, and it can quickly sicken the entire world. Let's hope that Starmer fails in all his endeavors and is exposed as a clown instead of a sociopath.
I found this scary looking map in a Telegram group. Allegedly it shows where all the Muslim terrorist cells are located. I have to wonder how anyone knows where the cells are. If we know, why aren't we doing anything about them? Then I began thinking about why the United States is at such risk of terror attacks. Like most people, I used to believe government propaganda about Muslims hating our freedom. George Bush said so, right? But now I see how the U.S. has spent billions of dollars over several decades overthrowing legitimately elected governments in the Middle East and starting wars so we can steal their resources. I've heard one after the other member of Congress pledge allegiance to Israel, a nation that openly talks about dominating the Middle East and destroying Iran in the process. The U.S. financially and militarily supports Israel's endless reign of terror, and the people in Arab nations can plainly see it. I hope there's never another attack inside America, but at the same time I understand the motivation. The citizens of the United States are at risk because of the foreign policies of our own government. Our leader's blind obsession with Israel combined with the theft of oil and gas for the benefit of big energy corporations makes us a target for retaliation and revenge.
Arab nations don't hate our freedom. But they do hate being bullied, robbed, and repeatedly kicked in the teeth. We needn't be surprised when our horrible actions create horrible reactions. Have politicians never heard of karma?
The bird flu scam just won't go away. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is going to expand bird-flu testing of cows in an attempt to destroy our food supply and make us dependent upon the growing authoritarian Marxist government. Well they didn't say all that but the end-goal is obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together. Just like with COVID, the virus that allegedly causes bird flu has never been isolated and proven to exist. But health officials, the same people who think children need more than 70 vaccines before the age of 18, are pushing the false narrative that a virus is flying around the world infecting birds who are then infecting cows. It's the stuff of science fiction, yet the government is putting its full weight and weaponry behind it. They've even got a new bird flu vaccine ready that promises to protect you from the virus that doesn't exist. If the bird flu vaccine as safe as the COVID jabs, the funeral homes are going to be really busy, really soon.
If infected birds and cows haven't scared you yet, the CDC has released this anxiety-inducing map showing where cases of COVID are the most active, based on tests of wastewater. Yes, they're testing our poop for that same old virus that has never been proven to exist anywhere in the world. But they think they can find it, or traces of it, in municipal sewer systems. Even if it's all a lie, they can still create maps like this to scare the most gullible among us into taking another depopulation injection.
My goodness. The myth of virology keeps on giving...to Big Pharma and the medical industrial complex. Now we have "slapped cheek syndrome", supposedly caused by...wait for it....a virus! Symptoms in the first phase are flu-like and can include fever, headache, malaise, muscle aches, cough, sore throat, and joint pain. In the second phase, a characteristic "slapped cheek" rash develops. Wow, those symptoms sound the same as a whole bunch of other things kids get. Sounds like just another detox to me, but we shouldn't rule out the possibility of it being a reaction from vaccines. In fact there are a number of environmental factors that could cause those symptoms, but none will be seriously explored as long as the cult of virology exists.
Finally, we check on New Zealand, where tasty pineapple candies have been handed out to homeless people. Did I say candy? I meant methamphetamine. Apparently someone donated the meth disguised as candy, not knowing that each piece contained up to 300 times the level of the drug someone would usually take. Luckily no one was seriously injured, and police are investigating.