U.S. Gets Ready To Go Full Venezuela On Economic Policy

U.S. Gets Ready To Go Full Venezuela On Economic Policy

"It was in 1998 — a mere 23 years ago — that Hugo Chavez first got elected President of Venezuela. 

...In the early years, things seemed to be going swimmingly, at least if you believed the official statistics put out by Chavez’s government...Today, eight years later, it continues to fall apart.  

...Yesterday, the Biden White House put out what they call the “American Jobs Plan.”  

It’s $2.3 trillion of new government spending, on top of the $1.9 trillion just passed, and several trillion more to come, all on top of a $4 trillion or so annual level of baseline federal spending.  

Yes, it’s blowout government spending, on the usual issues pushed by advocacy groups, which supposedly will shortly achieve all the usual promises of the left:  economic growth, increased economic fairness, and social justice.  

In other words, it’s the Venezuela economic program, blown up to U.S. scale and then tweaked a little here and there to buy off the squeaky wheels of the moment. Read all...while you still can!

#1 This day 1955-----Bill Hayes - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett

Why are we the people paying for this?-----Campus Reform | WATCH: Purdue paid Robin DiAngelo $7k for virtual event discussing the 'racism and manipulation of White people'

Campus Reform | WATCH: Purdue paid Robin DiAngelo $7k for virtual event discussing the 'racism and manipulation of White people'

• Purdue University paid scholar Robin DiAngelo $7,000 for a two-hour virtual event.
• During the event, DiAngelo said that Justice Clarence Thomas is an example of a Black person who “helps enact policies and practices that are racist or have racist outcomes.”
• She also explained that she tries to “be less White."
  

Watch those who hate our police!

 

Florida Governor DeSantis issues promised executive order banning vaccine passports in Florida - TheBlaze

Florida Governor DeSantis issues promised executive order banning vaccine passports in Florida - TheBlaze: 

As promised, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has issued an executive order banning any Florida government agency from issuing a so-called "vaccine passport," and banning any Florida business from requiring customers to display such a passport before entering.

Bipartisan worry grows over national debt, which now totals $85,210 per person | Just The News

Bipartisan worry grows over national debt, which now totals $85,210 per person | Just The News

• "We will be in a boatload of trouble when we see interest rate spikes," Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips says, referring to the interest costs on the national debt

"A bipartisan group of lawmakers is warning that the national debt –– now estimated to total $85,210 per person –– poses an imminent threat, especially if interest rates spike.

The U.S. government has spent around $6 trillion during the coronavirus pandemic, in addition to regular government appropriations. 

The $6 trillion figure does not count the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed a few weeks ago. 

The deficit set a record in FY2020 at $3.13 trillion...

Maine Independent Sen. Angus King, a member of the Senate Budget Committee who caucuses with the Democrats, said that

"we've got a problem" as a country with the rising deficit and national debt, particularly around the interest on the debt...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for April 5

History for April 5 - On-This-Day.com

Thomas Hobbes 1588

• 1242 - Russian troops repelled an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
• 1614 - American Indian Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.
• 1621 - The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, MA, on a return trip to England.
• 1869 - Daniel Bakeman, the last surviving soldier of the U.S. Revolutionary War, died at the age of 109.
• 1887 - Anne Sullivan taught Helen Keller the meaning of the word "water" as spelled out in the manual alphabet.
• 1951 - Communist, Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for committing espionage for the Soviet Union.
• 1985 - John McEnroe said "any man can beat any woman at any sport, especially tennis."

CBS News drops pretense of objectivity with headline: '3 ways companies can help fight Georgia's restrictive new voting law' - TheBlaze

CBS News drops pretense of objectivity with headline: '3 ways companies can help fight Georgia's restrictive new voting law' - TheBlaze: 

It's not an op-ed or a commentary piece. It's not even packaged as "analysis," the favorite term far-left "news" company CNN uses for opinion pieces. It's a straight up news piece on CBSnews.com, and the headline openly takes sides, offering suggestions to companies on "3 ways [they] can help fight Georgia's restrictive new voting law."

The way we were-----Only Yesterday: The Carpenters' Story

Boob-tube-----The Monkees Behind The Music

Only 5%?!!-----Businesses anger grows at Biden's infrastructure plan | Daily Mail Online

Businesses anger grows at Biden's infrastructure plan | Daily Mail Online

"Business anger grows at Biden's 'infrastructure' plan: 

Top firms criticize 'dangerously misguided' $2T plan pouring billions into fixing racial inequalities, climate change, electric cars (with only 5% set aside for bridges, roads and trains)

• Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, and other business groups have gone after the bill's tax hikes
• Biden wants to raise corporate rate to 28 from 21 per cent
• Chamber had backed Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus law  
• Some powerful Republicans blasted programs as
  'social welfare'
• Biden cited Moody's report on potential job gains 

Must read!-----Chamberlain Syndrome - Unlicensed Punditry

Chamberlain Syndrome - Unlicensed Punditry
"History is replete with people who, in word and deed, proposed that acquiescence with an enemy will lead to peace. 

Perhaps the most memorable was Neville Chamberlain – and his “Peace in our time” statement after meeting with Hitler in Munich.
...Congress of 1878 saying to the crowd below, “My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time.”
To jubilant applause and cheers, Chamberlain then added, “Now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds.”

As the British people slept, the German army rolled into Czechoslovakia in “peaceful conquest” of the Sudetenland.
America is surrendering today. 

Some examples:

• City officials have apologized for policing as their downtowns are occupied and burned (in 2018, the Baltimore police chief apologized for 200 years of policing).
• Starbucks apologizes to blacks and closes for a day of “unconscious bias” training.
• California cities apologize to illegal aliens for our laws.
• Universities apologize to student mobs for allowing conservative thought on campus.
• Critical Race Theory is adopted and hundreds of thousands of white people are taught they are “White Devils” and must surrender to blacks (not all minorities, just blacks)
• CEOs decry voter “suppression” without reading the laws.

No, we are not kowtowing to Nazi Germany for “peace for our time”, but we are cowering in the face of other dangers, our own subversive internal authoritarian movements seeking the power to shut down their opposition by making opposition illegal (including speech they do not like) – and in some cases, attempting to exterminate their opposition.
America is suffering from Chamberlain Syndrome...Read all.

Sen. John Kennedy gives CNN a quick biology lesson after network argues it's 'not possible' to determine gender at birth - TheBlaze

Sen. John Kennedy gives CNN a quick biology lesson after network argues it's 'not possible' to determine gender at birth - TheBlaze: 

After CNN ran a report on Tuesday about transgender rights in which it claimed it's "not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth" and "there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth," Republican Sen. John Kennedy (La.) decided to stop by Fox News's "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to elucidate the complicated matter. POLL: What scares you the most? "I can't believe we're discussing this, Tucker," Kennedy said before delving into a quick biology lesson. "The person who wrote that is entitled to his opinion, but in my opinion, I think he's been in lockdown too long.

The leader of the Western world is ‘cognitively deficient’

New York’s 13% cannabis tax may be too high, since state has ‘one of the most sophisticated’ black markets in U.S.,

New York’s 13% cannabis tax may be too high, since state has ‘one of the most sophisticated’ black markets in U.S.,

"... some experts say the state’s 13% tax may be too high to compete with New York’s robust black market.

...The bill is strongly focused on social equity, ensuring that communities and individuals who suffered the most under the years-long “War on Drugs” can and will benefit from legalization. 

...“That sets a new bar on social equity, and it’s an important part of eliminating the black market,” said DiPisa. “You need to provide an entry point for individuals that have been involved in the industry for years. Without that, the black market will continue.”

...“It’s a step in the right direction, but it (the 13% tax) may still be too high,” said DiPisa...Read all.

Lunch video-----Stories of Us: Rogan O’Handley

“It felt like a lot of TV and movies were actually created as vehicles for social justice propaganda, and it spread and intensified to where you couldn’t step out of line, or else you would be ostracized.”

Noon-toon

 

Wisconsin Supreme Court slaps down Democratic governor's ongoing mask mandate: 'Such unilateral, unchecked power was anathema to the framers of our constitutions' - TheBlaze

Wisconsin Supreme Court slaps down Democratic governor's ongoing mask mandate: 'Such unilateral, unchecked power was anathema to the framers of our constitutions' - TheBlaze: 

The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' statewide mask mandate Wednesday. The court said Evers overstepped his authority when he used back-to-back emergency orders to enact his ongoing unilateral mask mandate.

Soooo, EVERYTHING they told us to do has failed?

 

REAL Fascism descends upon America-----Clarice Feldman--What’s More American than Coke and Baseball?

What’s More American than Coke and Baseball?

"Until very recently, it would have been hard to imagine anything more iconic of American life than Coca Cola and baseball. 

Today both remind me of Benito Mussolini’s corporatist – aka, fascist -- game of merging of state and corporate power. 

The CEOs of these operations should hang their heads in shame and fire their public-relations teams. 

So should the CEOs of Delta and American Airlines, Black Rock, Cisco, American Express, and American Airlines, who have promoted President Biden’s false assertions that tightening election procedures to bring them back into line -- and in accord with those of civilized Western governments elsewhere -- is racist voter suppression. 

I’m fed up with this never-ending sham: partisan power grabs to weaken the most important features of American life being cloaked in virtuous anti-racism...Read all!

Big business getting payback.

 

The enemies of America have a voice on Twitter!-----Twitter bans Trump, but Iranian ayatollah, Louis Farrakhan, Chinese propagandists still active | Fox News

Twitter bans Trump, but Iranian ayatollah, Louis Farrakhan, Chinese propagandists still active

• Richard Spencer, O.J. Simpson, and Nicolas Maduro among those with active accounts

"Trump's ban from Twitter appeared to be part of what many have referred to as a "purge" of the social media giant's users, including former pro-Trump attorneys Lin Wood and Sidney Powell, as well as former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn. 

...However, Twitter's critics are pointing out the glaring exceptions the platform appears to have made for some of the world's most hateful and dangerous voices. 

Louis Farrakhan, Richard Spencer, Ali Khamenei, Maduro, O.J. Simpson have more freedom on Twitter than President Trump...Read all.

#1 This day 1965-----Freddie & The Dreamers "I'm Telling You Now" on The Ed Sullivan Show