Those Damned Lefties are to Blame!

Those radical leftists have harmed our nation irretrievably. They, through the Democratic Party, passed laws that have given those poor stupid working class Americans benefits that have clearly harmed America in ways that cannot be appreciated. With the exception of President George W. Bush’s Medicare Modernization Act all those wild eyed commies are to blame for those legislative acts that have obviously destroyed this great country.

I did the research to learn of the laws they passed.

Under President Franklin Roosevelt.

Social Security Administration. That is the law that created

-Old age insurance for retirees 65 or older and their spouses

-Unemployment compensation funded by a tax on employers

-Aid to families with dependent children and the disabled

The Fair Labor Standards Act. That is the law that established a minimum hourly wage and maximum number of hours on a work week and set rules for the employment of those under the age of 18.
Established the National Labor Relations Board to hear testimony about unfair practices.
Created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)to provide insured loans for home buyers
Created the Securities and Exchange Commission to supervise the stock market.
Created the Food Drug and Cosmetics Act (FDC) that requires manufacturers to provide the ingredients of their products.
Created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) which protects bank deposits.

Under President Harry Truman segregation in armed forces was banned. Truman was the first president to propose that all Americans have health insurance.

Under President Lyndon Johnson three law were passed.

Civil Rights Act of 1964
1965 Voting Rights Act
Medicare and Medicaid amended to the Social Security Act on July 30, 1965.

In December 2003, President George W. Bush signed into law the Medicare Modernization Act, which added outpatient prescription drug benefits to Medicare.

Under President Barack Obama.

The Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Act (EPA) prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort, and responsibility under similar working conditions
The Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) providing health care for most American at affordable prices.

What do you suppose those lefties will do next? Are they likely to provide low cost college educations? Or even worse they might provide real re-training programs for those who have lost their jobs as the result of automation?

Damn those lefties. They keep trying to help their neighbors.

The difference between America’s aristocracy and British Royalty

There is no difference. We all just viewed a week long burial ceremony for a past president of the United States. Many of us, especially the media, treated George H.W. Bush like royalty. It should be important to note that the founding fathers of America abhorred the royalty of Great Britain. Terms like “your excellency” and “your highness” were specifically rejected by congress as words to be used in addressing the president of the United States. The title of “Mr. President” was decided to be sufficient.

Fareed Zakaria wrote an interesting opinion piece in the Washington Post about the things we all can learn from the WASP class that has managed the United States from its founding. In that article he pointed out that “the old WASP aristocracy did have a sense of modesty, humility and public-spiritedness that seems largely absent in today’s elite.”

For those of you not familiar with the term WASP. It is an abbreviation for White Anglo Saxon Protestant.

My answer is that in public America’s aristocracy (meaning the rich and powerful) takes the positon that they know what is the best for the rest of us mere mortals. Absence of that earlier more modest behavior does not make them royalty.

Zakaria did not grow up in the United States and is obviously blind to the fact that America’s aristocracy promised change for over 200 years but nothing changed. The rich stayed rich and the poor stayed poor. Non-white Americans continuously face discrimination as they have throughout the country’s history. That has not changed with the Trump presidency. The only thing that has changed is the names and faces.

The Bush family was and is still part of that WASP culture and so are the Clintons, the Bidens, the Newsoms (California’s next governor), the Garcettis (mayor of Los Angeles) and almost everyone else in leadership you can name.

Stupidly we, the proletariat, keep sending the same people to Washington and expecting a new outcome. Hillary Clinton seemed to think that just running for president would give her the job. Donald Trump simply saw the opportunity to convince voters that he would lead America to a new place.

Trump’s style has continued to convince Americans that their lives will be better under his leadership. He is just an outsider but is also among the rich that have no real concern for American lives or America’s place in the world. Trump is a WASP from a wealthy family who has done a better selling job of his brand of “he will be helping the rest of us.”

Trump’s midterm campaign of fear and lies

Will fear be the basis for your choices in the November election?

It should come as no surprise that Donald Trump is using fear as his motivating tactic to bring his supporters to the polls on November 6. As he descended his elevator at Trump Tower he warned us that the bad people of Latin America were coming to the United States.

The jacket cover of Bob Woodward’s book, Fear, has this quote from Mr. Trump, “Real power is-I don’t even want to use the word-fear.” The words of Candidate Donald Trump on March 31, 2016 in an interview while running for president of the United States.

Trump is now telling all who will listen that mobs of illegal immigrants are coming to rape your wives and daughters, create gang violence, and kill you.

At a Texas rally supporting Ted Cruz Trump said, “The Democrats have launched an assault on the sovereignty of our country, the security of our nation and the safety of every American,” He has even said that the Democrats organized the migrant caravan from Central America. . He has claimed without offering any evidence that the caravan includes criminals and “unknown Middle Easterners.”

Trump argues that Democrats want to create a socialist system of “gridlock, poverty and chaos” like Venezuela.

Trump has also warned of voter fraud, which doesn’t exist at significant levels, and claims the Democratic Party has been taken over by proponents of “unhinged” mob rule — even though his rallies are the ones where supporters yell for his political opponents to be locked up, and he praised a lawmaker for assaulting a reporter.

He said most Democrats opposed his opioid initiative, even though it passed 98-1 in the Senate and 393-8 in the House.

On Sunday Trump promised a new tax cut after the midterm election. Bloomberg reports, “Even if policy makers hastily pulled something together at the White House’s insistence, lawmakers are out until after the election. After that, in the lame-duck session, it would be tough to take up a bill if Democrats are poised to take over the House in January. The Senate has already shown reluctance to consider the House legislation, which would make permanent individual income tax cuts set to expire at the end of 2025.”

On Monday, in an exchange with reporters, he could not support his earlier claim that there were riots in California over so-called sanctuary cities.

As most people are affected by fear many Americans will vote to support the fear monger.

What Canada’s legalization of marijuana means for travelers

Bill Powers, a 57-year-old Canadian has a license for medical marijuana, and pot had been legal in the state of Washington for six years. Like that, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents turned him away with an extreme decree: He had been banned from the United States.

Lying to a border agent can result in a person being denied entry. But so too can being honest about past marijuana use. So Canadians will most likely lie when asked if they use marijuana.

As laws surrounding recreational marijuana slowly change state by state in the United States, Canada as a country has just legalized the substance. Adults 18 years and older in Canada can now purchase pot and and even grow it in their homes for personal use.

Fox News reports that Canadians could be banned from the US forever if they smoke legal pot. A Canadian citizen who drives from Vancouver to Seattle may be asked by a border agent if they have smoked pot before, and if they say yes, they could get banned from entry to the U.S. for life, even though pot is legal in Washington state. The Los Angeles Times has already reported on one man on medical marijuana was stopped from entering the United States.

Marijuana is illegal under federal law even in states that legalize it. Ten American states have legalized the use of marijuana.

So how did the ban on alcohol consumption by the United States (18^th amendment to the constitution) work out? The result was gangsters selling booze and evolving into an even more serious problems.

History.com reports the results of prohibition this was: “Under Prohibition, the illegal manufacture and sale of liquor–known as “bootlegging”–occurred on a large scale across the United States. In urban areas, where the majority of the population opposed Prohibition, enforcement was generally much weaker than in rural areas and smaller towns. Perhaps the most dramatic consequence of Prohibition was the effect it had on organized crime in the United States: as the production and sale of alcohol went further underground, it began to be controlled by the Mafia and other gangs, who transformed themselves into sophisticated criminal enterprises that reaped huge profits from the illicit liquor trade.”

Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions may oppose marijuana use but a growing part of society clearly does not agree.