“Our goal is to beat them electorally — and then we have to break their spirit.”
Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader
Because so many things are happening, no particular topic caught my interest this week. So, I decided to take a different tack, modeled after two websites I follow and can recommend.
Rebecca Koefler and Don Surber write a free daily blog of news commentary. And each Saturday, Surber does a synopsis of events during the week. So instead of a topical focus, I thought I’d try this approach for May.
The Iran war continues, and Democrats whine about anything Trump does. Along with their media toadies, Democrats continue to misinform everyone because that’s what they do. Eight presidents tried to sanction the apocalyptic Iranian mullahs, negotiate with the terrorist regime or bribe them. Nothing worked, so President Trump said enough. He will not allow the Iranians to have a nuclear weapon or ballistic missiles to deliver death to Israel, America and the world. To repeatedly bleat that these national security goals were not clearly stated is just a lie and Democrat propaganda.
Wars are expensive. We spent $25 billion over the first 60 days of the Iran war. According to Grok, over the same time period, the war has cost Iran $270 billion, producing triple-digit inflation and devaluation of its currency. Since 90% of Iran’s trade is exporting oil, Iran is losing $100 million a day and therefore is unable to pay the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) or support their terrorist proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis. Estimates of $250 billion will be required to repair current war damage in Iran, which will be even more extensive if they don’t wise up and make a deal.
And yet Democrats and the media claim Iran has defeated us. All the while, our economy is growing at 2%. By comparison, the EU is growing at less than 0.4%.
We are told that Americans are unhappy that the price of energy has gone up, and I agree with the ever-frugal Becky that we would rather pay less at the pump. However, we actually paid more for a gallon of gas during the Biden years. And Iran, with a nuclear weapon and exporting terror around the world, is infinitely worse than temporary higher gas prices. Affordability is irrelevant if you are on the receiving end of a nuclear weapon.
Does anyone remember the OPEC oil embargo of the 1970s? We were held hostage by that Middle East cartel, which has recently lost the UAE (United Arab Emirates). America is now the largest producer of energy in the world. This lessens the financial impact on America, but doesn’t eliminate the strain because oil and LNG (liquified natural gas) are internationally traded commodities.
The ancient Roman world ran on the power of slave labor. Our modern world runs principally on fossil fuels. And any interruption in supply, anywhere, causes the price to increase since the demand is constant.
In the near future, I predict we will have technology to contain nuclear fusion of hydrogen in an electromagnetic bubble. We will then no longer need fossil fuels because we will have oceans (H2O) of energy. And some day we may extract hydrogen – the most plentiful element in the universe – from Jupiter.
Clintonesta James Carville is famous for his axiom, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Carville has subsequently lost his mind to TDS, so the current Democrat catchphrase is “affordability.” They talk about affordable healthcare, affordable housing, and I could go on. Mr. Webster defines affordable as “having a cost not too high.” This is just contextual and relative terminology. He qualifies affordable housing as “not too expensive for people of limited means.” Perhaps he should have included the example of the price of a glass of water in the Sahara Desert.
Our politicians have pushed the country into ruinous and generational debt. Our government collects $4 trillion in taxes every year, but spends $7 trillion. We don’t have a taxing problem; we have a spending problem, which seems insatiable.
Arthur Laffer is a celebrated economist, unlike the dingbat AOC, who graduated with a degree in economics from Boston University. (What an indictment of that bean town school.) Laffer proved that lowering taxes increases government revenue because people are allowed to keep more of their hard-earned money and then spend more, which raises tax revenue. Incidentally, there are 193 countries in the world, and 177 of them receive money from the United States government. Food for thought.
April 15 is just past, and 50% of Americans pay no income tax. My grandkids would say that is unfair, and they would be right. Too many have no skin in the game, so to speak. And Democrat socialists like Bernie Sanders and AOC scream “tax the rich,” but it’s a scam. The rich and corporations have tax shelters, and the poor pay nothing. So the debt falls on the middle class, which Democrats say they’ll protect, but that’s a lie.
The latest tax scam is the wealth tax, which is driving people out of New York, California and Washington state. But the Washington, D.C., shysters are angling for the wealth tax to be expanded to include the annual value of your home, bank account, property, etc., rather than just your income. This would be catastrophic.
JD Vance said that lawmakers “must serve the people who elected them.” The RINO Indiana state senators discovered this, as did Thomas Massey in Kentucky and Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. John Cornyn of Texas is next to be primaried.
I’ll close this stylistic experiment with the global warming/climate change ruse perpetrated by Al Gore and United Nations pinheads. Apparently, their computer-generated models of impending global destruction have not been corroborated by measurements. The United Nations Climate Committee admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) have not been verified by observational data. They can no longer deny that the sea levels have not risen and deserts have actually shrunk almost 10% over the last 40 years, with the so-called “green renaissance.”
Economist Milton Friedman once said, “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.” And I trust the UN less than our own government!
