Category Archives: The Economy

The Audacity of Trump

Posted on January 20, 2017 | Comments Off on The Audacity of Trump

The Wall Street Journal’s latest poll (in conjunction with the fake news leader NBC) showing Trump’s popularity underwater at just 38 percent is highly suspect. But they have a nice summary of all the things they hope he will be able to do, if he can work with Congress, as Barry Hussein could not.

“The new President will also have to reform a government that too few Americans trust, not least because of its indiscriminate intrusion into ever more of American life. This means fixing public services that people can see, such as an Internal Revenue Service that answers taxpayer questions, a veterans service that doesn’t kill veterans, and health insurance with more choices and lower premiums.”

But mainly they want and I expect most Americans who voted for Trump want a healthier, growing economy that brings more prosperity to more of us instead of just the Wall Street elite who kept Hussein rolling in the campaign dough and likewise took up what slack the Saudis didn’t provide the Hag of Benghazi.

“The White House should scrub every policy choice, first and foremost, against its impact on growth. Mr. Obama put his social and political preoccupations above growth, and the country and his Presidency suffered for it. The opening for Mr. Trump is that by removing Mr. Obama’s barriers to growth, he can unleash the business investment that has been so weak in this expansion.”

Do it, Donald. Keep the midnight Tweets, if you must, but get to work and Make America Great Again. Since you like to work more than you like to play golf, that shouldn’t be too hard for you. Show us what a man of action looks like.

Via WSJ

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Pop ups are getting out of hand

Posted on December 15, 2016 | Comments Off on Pop ups are getting out of hand

Like the Z Man says, the Web is becoming unreadable. Even the pop up blocker doesn’t work often enough to stop the onslaught of first one and then another, and then three more.

“Of course, it is not just ads or pop-ups. The proliferation of scripting has made many sites unreadable on a phone or tablet, unless you use something like ghostery. The Washington Times is a perfect example. It is more ad than content and the scripts never seem to load properly, so the site looks like a Picasso painting most of the time. I stopped going to the site entirely as it took too much effort to make it work. If I have to redesign my web browser to look at your site, I’m probably not going to bother visiting your site.”

Indeed. Sure they need money to operate, especially the Times which is second fiddle to the WaPo in ad revenue. But it’s a tossup. Blizzard me with ads (and auto video and audio I didn’t ask for) and I won’t stick around or come back.

Because anti-scripting programs are just ridiculous. I downloaded ScriptBlock for Chrome but it interfered with my WordPress administrative programs for this site. Had to cancel SB just to write this. Good grief!

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Fireside tweets

Posted on December 7, 2016 | Comments Off on Fireside tweets

“But FDR made people feel like he cared, even though he was a rich man from New York who had never been poor himself. Now another rich man from New York seems to be repeating the formula. FDR gave the Democrats two decades of political dominance. Today’s Democrats should be worrying that Trump could do the same for the Republican Party.”

Once he’s vetoed a few of their ill-considered bills and they’ve moved into cooperation mode. Although we can only hope Trump doesn’t turn into an FDR with a blizzard of new agencies. Seems unlikely for a man who wants to cut taxes and prune business regulations. Shoot, he might even cancel a few agencies.

But my favorite of his early policies isn’t the fireside tweet. It’s the way he’s turned meet the press into delete the press. They need him. He sure as hell doesn’t need them.

Via Instapundit.

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Thank you, white, working-class America

Posted on November 8, 2016 | 4 comments

Mr. Boy and I are excited. We didn’t think the Trumpet could win. We drank the big media’s Kool Aid. And the big pollsters. And so on and so forth. But we are so happy to have had our stomachs pumped by reality. (Disgusting metaphor. Sorry.)

And, apparently, we have America’s finally-angry white working class to thank. Way to go Deplorables. You won’t be sorry. Lots of goony Leftists and the rest of the PC crowd will be. But you won’t. If anyone can convince the Congress (and a Republican Congress at that) to lower taxes, and cut back on regulations, thereby boosting the economy into creating more jobs, the Trumpet can. Not to mention seriously quelling those waves of low-wage illegal immigrants and refugees. Will it raise prices for the rest of us? Probably. But that’s real equity for a change.

Hell, after the rioting Leftists get tired of being tear-gassed and arrested, the previously-Stupid Party might even be able to bring back some manufacturing, at least light manufacturing. It could be a good time to be only a high school graduate again.

Is that wishful thinking? That’s what the Ruling Class said about the Trumpet winning. And now they’re all crying in their chardonnay. Woot!

UPDATE:  Trump’s victory speech, a bit rambling, of course, but basically telling. He was always a better person than the snooze media gave him credit for. Wall Street, too. Stocks are down, sure. My 401K took a hit, I’m sure, but it’s going to be good for the people who don’t have one.

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Posted in Felonia von Pantsuit, The Economy, The Ruling Class, Trump

Drain the Swamp!

Posted on November 3, 2016 | 3 comments

That’s Trump’s excellent campaign slogan these days, added to his older Make America Great Again. More like Make American Normal Again, as gay Pay Pal co-founder, Silicon Valley billionaire, and Trump supporter Peter Thiel puts it.

Normal as in no more half trillion dollar trade deficit. No more NAFTA and other free trade putting 94 million American adults—almost half the adult population—out of work. And no more fighting five undeclared, simultaneous wars with no victory in sight. Fix those things and closing the southern border to cheap, unskilled illegals and ceasing the flow of cheap, unskilled Muslim refugees from the Middle East would be a piece of cake.

Well, I mixed some Rush Limbaugh in there with what Thiel says on this video which Limbaugh has on his site. Thiel’s trying to educate the Ruling Class. It’s well worth a listen. How many Silicon  Valley billionaires are backing Trump? Just Thiel as far as I know. And he’s angry. But very measured in his anger. He wants to drain the swamp before it’s too late. Too late to stop something worse than a controversial presidential election.

And here’s Trump’s latest summation of a speech on his issues: ObamaCare, Nafta, Common Core, high taxes and cuts in defense spending.

“I am not a politician,” he said. “My only special interest is you, the American people. The guiding rule of the political class in Washington, D.C., is that they are looking out only for themselves. They will say anything, and do anything, to cling to their power and prestige at your expense. I’m running to change and reverse decades of failure, and to work with the American people to create generations of success.”

Works for me. I’m more than ready for an outsider president. Drain the Swamp!

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The giant graft machine

Posted on October 28, 2016 | Comments Off on The giant graft machine

First up when the Hildafelon is inaugurated as president and gets her paws on the giant graft machine known as the federal government is a new scheme to control private 401Ks, hopefully not older ones like mine but only the newer ones to come. With a built-in skim for the benefit of the Ruling Class.

“You would be forgiven for thinking that this sounds a lot like organized crime. That’s because it is organized crime, except the criminals write the laws, thus legalizing their plunder. This is a feature of the managerial state. It is the big rake. Instead of the criminals eluding the state in order to plunder the people, the criminals acquire credentials, which are a license to skim off a portion of middle class wealth. The whole point of winning office or gaining access is so you can get a taste of the skim.”

Which is what would make a Trump presidency so interesting. And so threatening to what the some call the administrative state but here the Z man calls the managerial state. Not to mention the whole Ruling Class.

‘Cause the billionaire conceivably wouldn’t need the skim the Hildafelon and Slick Willie need so bad they salivate at the very thought. Trump very likely would not play the game. You see now why the system is rigged?

Via the Z Man.

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Party transformations

Posted on October 15, 2016 | 2 comments

I often quote commenters at the Wall Street Journal’s site because they are so good. Comes one Joel Lumer to outdo them all. He underscores the obvious (but rarely spoken) impending transformation of our major political parties.

“…the Democrat Party has become the party of the rich, financial elites, political and media establishments, nomenklatura and bureaucratic apparatchniks. What the pundits are missing is that Republican party is transforming into a party of the working class and [what’s left of the] middle class…

“The new Republican voter sees that the S&P 500 index went from 670 in March 2009 to 2100 in 2016, while the median household income remained flat – and says something is wrong. They no longer want the old pros. They want someone who can represent people who ride the bus, shop at WalMart, eat at McDonalds, and take their clothes to the laundromat.”

And, I would add, someone who sees that the system is rigged against them and says it loud and clear. We’ll soon see whether there are enough of them to make him president.

Via WSJ

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