Project, Deflect, & Reject. That’s the liberals’ mantra. Project onto conservatives that which they themselves are doing. Deflect accusations and truth-telling to prevent being accurately accused of their wrongdoing. Reject the truth and whatever anyone says about their actions.
We’ve got two interesting counterforces coming together for a collision. First, the Democrats in Congress are threatening to shut down the federal government. Second, socialist Mandani may be elected as mayor of New York City.
I say – go ahead and shut down the government, and likewise, go ahead, NY, and elect a socialist. Americans could use a good dose of socialism stupidity to demonstrate to the American people, young people in particular, that socialism and its sister, communism, are the worst forms of government in history. Hundreds of millions of died under socialism. Worse, socialism’s fundamental tenement is that everyone must be poor to be equal, well, except for the elite (liberals in this case) in government who will enjoy the fruits of everyone else’s work effort.
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article on how some young people who were adversely impacted by the Great Recession of 2008-2012 are turning to socialism and people like Mandani and Bernie Sanders. Of course, while Sanders professes socialism, he practices capitalism. Publicist Paper estimates his net worth at $15 million and his annual combined income of over $2 million! For a good socialist, Sanders sure knows how to use the capitalist system to rack it in.
And of course, the staffers who work for Sanders are happy to accept payment for their services, like good capitalists. They aren’t doing the work for free. But unfortunately, like all good socialists, they want Sanders and themselves to have power over others, to waive rent, to provide an income for no work, to be able to use the power of the federal government to steal your entire income. (Remember, the highest income tax rate was 90% for many years.)
Socialist Mandani wants to open government-run grocery stores. Never mind that Mandani doesn’t consider that the for-profit grocery stores that will close will put people out of business, create food deserts (a term liberals love, like the lack of grocery stores is not their fault or the fault of their zoning regulations), and bankrupt other businesses and families.
I hope Mandani wins because it will be a good lesson for America. A lot of young people have had it comfortable their whole lives; most didn’t have to work jobs while in middle school or high school, while they played in sports. They need some adversity in their lives, something meaningful to challenge them. Don’t get me wrong, they’ve been suckered by the left to take on huge amounts of student debt to chase little-valued paper degrees, and fooled into supporting massive government spending, racking up massive government debt. But they didn’t have to go to war, they didn’t have to work 25 to 30 hours a week on top of school like I did, and they’ve enjoyed the fruits of computerization – reducing their work load compared to the manual work we did.
Mandani will remind America why we’re a democracy and a capitalist society, as he destroys NYC and trainwrecks businesses across the city, drives out high net worth taxpayers, resulting in a much larger tax burden being foisted onto the middle and lower income households in NYC. (As the larger taxpayers leave, that will mean higher taxes on those who remain, due to the lower tax base.)
Then you have the socialists in the U.S. Senate who want billions more in spending in exchange for voting for a continuing spending resolution. The Dems are threatening to shut down the government. I say, let them! A good shutdown is needed, but let’s not pay the federal government employees who get a free de facto vacation. The government always makes up the pay for employees who didn’t get paid during the shut down by paying them their back pay, so there is no real point to a shut down, but hey, we can always dream about a smaller government, and Trump can take advantage of the situation by firing hundreds of thousands of pretend workers who aren’t needed in the government. (Keep the military and the parks open, but there are many agencies and departments that we now see just aren’t needed.)
So, Trump, please, please, if the Dems shut down the government, take advantage and cut the size of government! Think about it. If the federal government were closed for just 3 months, the American taxpayers would save $1.5 billion!! In fact, what if we just shut the government down for one month every quarter so we save 25% a year, or that $1.5 billion?
This would reduce government borrowings, thereby lowering treasury rates, providing Americans with a rebate effectively, through lower interest rates on mortgages and businesses. Inflation would come down even more and everyone would keep more of their own money! Win-win.
The Fed
The Fed should be more concerned about the Democrats in Congress and their demands for billions in more government spending, which is what causes inflation.
