WHY DOES THE LEFT HATE LIBERTY AND STILL BELIEVE IN SLAVERY?
Sen. Bernie Sanders keeps repeating that “all Americans have a right to health care” — nice applause line, but what does it mean? There is no such right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. Health care is not a free good — someone has to pay for it.
Do you have the obligation to pay for someone else’s health care? If so, how much and why?
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution prohibits “involuntary servitude” and slavery. At what point does a tax on someone’s labor — where the proceeds of that tax are largely used to provide income or services to others — constitute “involuntary servitude”?
At various times, many countries, including the United States, have tried to place very high tax rates on the “rich” or others — and it always fails. The “rich” withdraw their taxable labor by taking more leisure time or move to the shadow economy, or to where they are more lightly taxed.
Those who think they have the right to the labor of those they revile, i.e., the “rich,” have the same mentality of the Southern slaveholder who also thought he had the right to others’ labor.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 06/30/17
Schadenfreudelicious. That’s what this week’s HFR is going to be. But before we get to the big stuff (per the NY Post above), let’s talk about a woman named Carina Driscoll.
Born in Virginia in 1974, the daughter of Dave and Jane Driscoll, she went to college in Montana, ended up moving to Vermont where she started a woodworking school in 2007.
It struggled until a tiny little college with an enrollment of less than 200 students and an annual budget of $4 million started giving Carina’s Vermont Woodworking School – with nothing written or contractual – hundreds of thousands of dollars starting in 2009.
To understand why, we need to go back to 1981 when her mother Jane started working in the office of the Mayor of Burlington. She started having an affair with the mayor, divorced her husband, and in 1988 married the mayor. His name was Bernie Sanders.
Welcome to the biggest and most exciting HFR ever. Here we go!
HIDDEN EASTERN EUROPE
Tsarevets Castle – Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
For some time now, you’ve been seeing our “Non-Existent Countries” in the left side bar with the picture of St. George riding a huge horse bursting out of the Caucasus Mountains.
Last week, however, our visa applications to visit two of them – Abkhazia and South Ossetia – were denied. We figured out the reason: Putin may be preparing another military invasion of Georgia from Russia’s occupied territory of South Ossetia.
He doesn’t want any foreigners, especially US ones, in the way.
The other two “countries that don’t exist” – Transnistria and Srpska – are fine. US passport holders don’t even need visas to go to either. Our itinerary to both remains unchanged.
So we’re making lemonade, going to places even cooler than where we were going.
Ever hear of the Painted Monasteries in the Carpathian Mountains?
Voronet built in 1488
Judgment Day fresco – Eastern Europe’s Sistine Chapel
Ever wanted to go to Dracula’s Castle in Transylvania?
THE SOROS STATE DEPARTMENT DESTROYS ANOTHER COUNTRY
Luli Basha Edi Rama
Tirana, Albania. Let’s say you’re an Albanian. You idolize America because Albania is the most pro-America country in the world.
You have a choice to vote for who will lead your country – a man whose hero is President Trump, or a man who despises him; a man who embraces America’s core values of individual liberty, honest work, and moral integrity, or a man who is corrupt to the core, who is deeply in bed with the drug-running mafias that control much of the economy, and whose hero and mentor is George Soros.
Look at the two pictures above. Who would you vote for?
The election was on Sunday (6/25). On Monday (6/26), the government here in Tirana announced that Edi Rama, the corrupt protégé of Soros, had won in a landslide, the voters humiliatingly rejecting Luli Basha, who embodies America’s values.
How could this be?
Because George Soros’ people in the US State Department enabled Rama to buy the election.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS DOOMED
- The Democrat establishment has vortexed the party's narrative energy into hysteria about Russia (a state with a lower GDP than South Korea).
It is starkly obvious that were it not for this hysteria, insurgent narratives of the type promoted by Bernie Sanders would rapidly dominate the party's base and its relationship with the public.
Without the "We didn't lose--Russia won" narrative, the party's elite and those who exist under its patronage would be purged for being electorally incompetent and ideologically passé. The collapse of the Democrat vote over the last eight years is at every level, city, state, Congressional and now, presidential.
Yet this narrative has reached a dead end – and thus so has the Democrat Party as a political institution.
TRUMP DERANGEMENT IS ALL THE DEMOCRATS HAVE
If they weren’t trying to destroy the president, Democrats would have to focus on an agenda most Americans don’t support.
By 1968, voters had tired of the failed Great Society of Lyndon Johnson. Four years later, the 1972 Nixon reelection re-emphasized that a doubled-down McGovern liberalism was even less of a viable agenda.
In that context, in 1974, obsessing on Watergate and a demonized Nixon were wise liberal alternatives to running on a positive left-wing vision, given the growing conservative backlash of the 1970s. After Watergate and the Ford pardon, Jimmy Carter squeaked to a close victory and a one-term presidency — before the country tired of his strident liberalism poorly cloaked in conservative clothing.
Given this historical reminder, the current efforts at Trump character assassination may be the best — or only — progressive pathway back to political power. Here is why – in excruciating (for Democrats) detail.
BERNIE SANDERS CAPITALIST PIG
When Bernie Sanders first came to Vermont, he bought a shack with a dirt floor with unemployment money. Last year, Bernie joined the company of Vermont’s 1% and bought his third home.
Nice to have a summer beachfront home on a private island on Lake Champlain, isn’t it? Along with your other two homes, in Burlington VT and Washington DC. The money that Bernie used his way to break the $1 million mark and buy his way into the 1% came from the $27 donors he touted during his campaign. Other campaigns were funded by billionaires.
But the folks paying for Bernie’s private Delta 767 with its menu of herb crusted lamb loin, chocolate ganache, fine cheeses and white wine were ordinary people who would never be allowed to fly on it.
Yes, last year (April 2016), Bernie chartered a Delta 767 to fly him, his wife, friends, and campaign staff – less than 50 total – to Rome and back. Bernie could live large on their donations, but he couldn’t directly pocket their money. Not unless he figured out how to sell them something of his own. And that’s how Bernie joined the 1%.
GOP RECIPE FOR SURVIVAL – NO SUMMER VACATION AND IGNORE THE CBO
The Republicans claim they are going to get tax reform done this year — but this is not going to happen unless they do two necessary things.
First is to extend their number of work days and forget Summer Vacation. Second is to ignore the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revenue forecasts from the proposed tax changes.
Congress has scheduled a July 4 holiday and an August recess. Members’ spouses have already made plans for August — trips to faraway places or to see relatives — and promised fun events for the kids.
But most kids know there is no TV until the homework is done. First responders, like policemen and firemen, do what they need to do before going home. Businesses with deadlines don’t stop at 5 o’clock.
Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are smart enough to know that without a tax cut this year, their control of Congress after next year’s election is only going to be a memory. Real leaders understand that making the troops unhappy in the short run is at times necessary to achieve victory in the long run.
