BEHIND THE MASK

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One Of the first things I learned in my college psych class: the face we show others, the who we want them to see is our persona and it is kinda like a gilded Lilly or in truth speak its misrepresentation. The persona of a political party is much the same except it consists of a whole bunch of contributing prevaricators.  (def. prevaricator= noun. a person who speaks falsely; liar. a person who speaks so as to avoid the precise truth; quibbler; equivocator.)  The sad part about this group is that they, for the most part, are not even aware of what they are doing.  In their quest to be loved by all, to seem kinder, gentler and smarter than the average bear. The law of unexpected results eventually wreaks havoc.  This tendency is not prevalent in one party more than the others, but…

Here are some ideas that were put into practice in the last fifty or sixty years and these are just the few that my ol’ mind is able to recall.

·       Let’s make it easier for people to own homes: lower the credit history requirements for home loans, let’s make the loans with an adjustable rate and longer term.

·       Let’s make college and university educations available to more people by offering loans to pay for the education.

·       Let’s stop keeping folks with diminished mental capacity and those with chemical imbalances in those wretched asylums.

·       Let’s show the world that we are a nation of kinder, gentler warriors that will allow our enemies to fire upon our military first and only then will we fire back.

·       Let’s provide those addicted to drugs with drugs and the freedom to self-medicate.

·       Let’s show our enemies that we trust them to hold true to treaties if we pay them enough.

·       If we treat our enemies and our friends “nice” they will in turn be nice to us.

·       If we open our borders, we are showing the world that we really, really, care about other people.

·       If we make regulations to protect our environment, reduce carbon-based fuels, raise taxes on businesses, collect from the rich and give to the poor we are better people.

Those are just a few of the things that come easily to mind. We should have learned that moderation is a better rule than shut your eyes and believe your persona’s mirror.  The examples of the unexpected results are scattered across our landscape and across our history.  The majority of these misplaced intentions have actually harmed the folks that were the targets of them.

·       The housing bubble, the ruination of individual credit, cost our population billions of dollars in loss of our national output because the banks loaned money to people who did not have the sufficient means to pay the debt.

·       The education loan program buried many of our students economically for years after their graduation, the costs charged by the universities and colleges took advantage of the large increase in dollars available to make their own bank accounts larger.

·       The dislodging of the mentally ill filled city streets with people who needed the help that was no longer available. 
This has cost, many of our larger metropolitan areas, the loss of business and revenue.

·       The limitations and rules of engagement which hand-cuffed our military in the middle-east conflicts prevented our warriors in prosecuting the war.  This caused the expense of blood and treasure to continue for many years longer than needed.

·       Preventing guns has prevented safety in our schools, our places of worship and is even now hindering our basic rule of law.

·       The current defunding of law enforcement, sanctuary cities has escalated violence across our nation, cost our taxpayers millions and assisted mob assaults on both large and small family business’s.

We all need to look past the proposals of well intentioned, misled and misguided politicians and those who are in it just to win it.  As long as we allow ourselves to vote for promised potential we will forever be enslaved to our greed.  Our country, our people, were once driven by the potential of achievement.  We were motivated not just by riches but we were pushed by curiosity, by inventiveness, and by our quest to become better.  Today we have allowed ourselves to be motivated by anger, distrust, and the feelings brought on by a constant barrage of discontent as a weapon of political choice.  We need to look at what our politicians are actually doing for us, what they are producing in actual positive result.  It’s not about how nice we feel, how much we will get for free or how much of what we get will be paid for by someone else, it is about our society’s future existence.  It’s not about how we appear to others, not about our mask, not about what we hide.  It is about what we will leave as fact.

OUR HISTORY OF ACHIEVEMENT AS A NATION IS A STORY OF DOING BECAUSE WE CARE

GOD BLESS THE USA

FOR WHO OR FOR WHAT?

Here we go again. It’s time to stand up and be counted.  It’s time to decide what’s really best for me, for you and for our children and their children.  Like it or not we have a responsibility to do this based in fact and truth.  Like it or not we need to vote not for someone, but for the resulting impact of purpose.

In today’s climate of propaganda and miss-direction, information being fed to we the people, for the purpose of selfish self-interest, it is our personal responsibility to seek fact.  Fact is not a feeling about an individual it is about what history has proven in the form of result.   We can’t really rely on how we feel about someone because the human in us is to easily swayed by gossip and innuendo in sync with our individual personalities.  We tend to judge others in agreement with our herd associations. 

In our country today we are experiencing the results of herd thought, mob mentality in some, cowardice, greed and apathy in others.  Some of us have taken refuge in the title of the “silent majority” and in our silence, we have given approval to what-ever happens.  Our silence is a condemnation of what we have allowed to take place in our country.  Some of us have even chosen not to vote at all, some choose not to vote for someone we feel is not a good enough person to vote for.  It’s time to vote for what we want to see happen and against what we don’t want to see happen.

This election cycle is not just about a guy called Donald J. Trump, it is about a congress that has spent the last four years chasing a lie.  That lie was perpetrated by some who knew it was false and some who were complicit because of team mentality.  I, for one, would prefer a congressional body that concentrated on the purpose of best for Us.

I also don’t want a society that is ruled by poorly informed anger, a disregard for the rule of law, a lack of respect for our country, our flag, our history.  I don’t want a government that removes the word God from our people’s speech.  I particularly resent a government that dictates what is acceptable speech and what is not.

We need to have an honest look at what has happened to our country, to our large cities, to the increase in crime.  The why, what and who of that is important.  We need to take an in-depth look at our body politic and how it has served our people in the last fifty or so years.  It’s time that we put a limit on the term of influence any one individual can have on their influence on the direction of our country.

In the last three years of the current administration, we saw the greatest economic growth in the history of our country; the reinstatement of our military; the defeat of a murderous caliphate; a reduction of our military’s involvement in the middle east; the lowest unemployment percentages and the highest employment in all minority segments of our population.

We have listened to those who would divide us into every possible group and pitted one against the other just to gain some preference at the ballot box.  False promise and false blames have become a predominate method of reportage in our news media, the one place we have looked to for truth in the past.  That puts the responsibility on each of our shoulders to look at facts not rumor.  You may rest assured that some folks in the past hated the father of our country and Presidents throughout our history, but somehow our country survived.  History is how a President, how an administrations’ accomplishments and failures are judged and pragmatism is a tool of that judgment.

This cycle of choice, in terms of history, is important and the history of administrations is available to study.  We can pragmatically examine the result history of the current administration against that of those seeking to replace it.  We can see the results of the actions our governance, Senate, Congressional, and Judicial.  Do we want another four years of the debacle that has held our nation the captive to a false narrative?  Not I.  Do you want the loss of companies, the loss of jobs, the high cost of pharmaceuticals, the high cost of energy, the reliance on foreign energy sources that we experienced under the previous administration?  We have witnessed one of the greatest reversals of fortune, in our country’s history under the current administration’s leadership.  I, for one put more trust in the promise kept administration than the administration that boasted they were going to fundamentally change the United States of America.  I am more closely aligned to the administration that is proud of who we are as a people and what we represent in the world as country.  I am proud of our flag and our history and don’t consider either as something to denigrate.  I am proud to think that I belong to a culture that continues to march toward the brotherhood of mankind in one nation UNDER GOD.

GOD BLESS THE USA

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"SCUUUUUSE ME...

 So, the Democrats week of glory has been etched into the pages of history, for whatever history is worth.  I feel that we have fully immersed our people into a psychotic world of split personality disorders.  One planet made to give the impression of two completely different, mirrored, piles of rock in the middle of our galaxy.  Two years ago, almost to the day, my blog was addressing the same sentiment as today’s blog entry, “We miss the why because we always want to blame the other guy in lieu of seeing all sides of the matter, including our part (as in all contests) our side. Denial of history has one absolute result - it will repeat itself.

{December, 2016 http://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2016/12/a-difference-in-reality.html the other planets’ view.}

The principle speakers of this cleansing, blaming extravaganza, would have the Trump Presidency reaching back through time.  The distress of history is being bent, twisted, turned and changed by rhetoric designed to mitigate the actual failures of the past.

Believe it or not… Trump was not involved in: The slowest economic recovery, and the longest since the great depression of the 1920’s; the loss of manufacturing base and the jobs that were lost during the Obama regime; the strangling, job costing regulatory over-reach of government; the belief that our national GDP would never again reach over the .2.5% mark and would be our new norm; the Benghazi fiasco; the mass influx of illegal border crossing into our country; the loss of medical coverage for millions of people; the high cost of fuel that increased cost of goods across our country; the mistake of calling ISIS a junior faction and allowing the growth of their Caliphate ( and the subsequent horrors); the politization of our legal system; the divisive nature of racism interjected at every opportunity; and finally the illegal use of the FISA court, the FBI to spy on an incumbent President and his staff.  Did I forget to mention the lives lost in combat due to the restrictions placed on our military i.e., “not to engage the enemy until fired upon”, those restrictions allowed the mid-Eastern wars to continue far past what would have been possible and reasonable. 

That was the photo of time during the Obama-Biden administration.  Want a rerun of those times?  Not I!

The accusations being leveled against our President are more like a list of what the Democrats wish he had done, and didn’t.  Since his election he has stood up for our country, our jobs, our manufacturing, our agriculture, our economy on every level.  He has brought our troops home while still achieving our goals; he has lowered drug costs; he has returned manufacturing and jobs back into our country; he untied the handcuffs of regulation and taxation that chased our companies to go elsewhere; he has restructured trade agreements in ways that benefit our employment and sector incomes; his policies brought about the lowest unemployment levels for women and all racial groups nationwide; brought our country back to a position of strength internationally; brought us into a never before position of energy independence.

A complete list of what really happened while under congressional resistance to his Presidency:                 https://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2020/08/what-did-he-do-this-time.html
History matters:
https://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2017/08/like-it-or-not-point-your-finger-at.html
https://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2017/01/2016-in-rear-view-mirror.html

GOD BLESS OUR COUNTRY, OUR SOCIETY, OUR FIRST RESPONDERS, GUIDE OUR VOTES LORD..

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WHAT DID HE DO THIS TIME?

You might not like his tweets, his hair, his exaggerations, his egotism, or you may believe what you see and hear from his detractors, BUT.. Our president gets things done. This list was provided by someone other than me me me. Quite long but is worth reading prior to November. Bear in mind POTUS did not have to plagiarize this list.

Kerry LeSaicherre   July 7 at 7:32 PM ·

Our President has been in office for 3 years.... what has he done? Other than dodging the darts the media and Pelosi have thrown?!? what have PRESIDENT TRUMP and his cabinet accomplished.....Here you go.

* Trump recently signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana. 

* Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch. 

* Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences. 

* Violent crime has fallen every year he’s been in office after rising during the 2 years before he was elected. 

* Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal. 

* Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan. 

* Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil. 

* Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information. 

* Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking. 

* Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms. 

* The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country's highest-paid workers. 

* Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and from corporations that are increasing entry-level pay.

* Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land. 

* Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean 

* He signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down. 

* Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can comparison shop and know how much less providers charge insurance companies. 

* When signing that bill he said no American should be blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance. 

* Hospitals will now be required to post their standard charges for services, which include the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept. 

* In the eight years prior to President Trump’s inauguration, prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year. Under Trump, drug prices have seen year-over-year declines in nine of the last ten months, with a 1.1% drop as of the most recent month. 

* He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans. 

* VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far. 

* Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life. 

* Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, In 2020, most federal employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% — the largest raise in more than 10 years. 

* Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers. 

* Trump administration will provide HIV prevention of drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years. 

* All-time record sales during 2019 holidays. 

* Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together when buying insurance to get a better price* President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans 

* In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill which enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society. 

* The First Step Act’s reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes.

* The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in the sentencing of non-violent crimes.

* Over 90% of those benefitting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans. 

* The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime. 

* Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%. 

* Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs. 

* New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one year ago. 

* Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs. 

* Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments. 

* The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment. 

* Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data. 

* President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 

* Trump’s USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure. 

* Consumer confidence & small business confidence is at an all time high. 

* More than 7 million jobs created since election. 

* More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history. 

* More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election. 

* Trump appointed 5 openly gay ambassadors. 

* Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe. 

* Through Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts. 

* In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet’s leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking. 

* Trump’s OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement officials to more effectively combat human trafficking. 

* Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking. 

* Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims the help they need. 

* The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases. 

* Trump’s DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims – serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018. 

* The Department of Homeland Security has hired more victim assistance specialists, helping victims get resources and support. 

* President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code. 

* The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased funding for school choice by $42 million. 

* The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education. 

* Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled. 

* ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.

* Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs. 

* Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers. 

* Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith. 

* Signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from college campuses deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail to combat anti-Semitism. 

* President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions. 

* Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens. 

* Finalized new trade agreement with South Korea. 

* Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe. 

* Withdrew the U.S. from the job killing TPP deal. 

* Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam. 

* Okay’d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation. 

* Has had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed. 

* Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades. 

* Trump secured Billions that will fund the building of a wall at our southern border. 

* The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment.

* Trump’s DOJ and the Board Of Prisons launched a new “Ready to Work Initiative” to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.

* President Trump’s historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low-income communities across the country.

* 8,764 communities across the country have been designated as Opportunity Zones.

* Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long-term private capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country.

* Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.

* Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.

* Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.

* Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed.

* Manufacturing jobs are growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years.

* Stock Market has reached record highs.

* Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.

* African-American unemployment is at an all time low.

* Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all time low.

* Asian-American unemployment is at an all time low.

* Women’s unemployment rate is at a 65-year low.

* Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low.

* We have the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.

* The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.

* 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future— the highest ever.

* As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.

* Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses.

* Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don’t have children to work or look for work if they’re on welfare.

* Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history.

* Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors 100’s of millions of $$$ this year alone.

* Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try experimental treatment that wasn’t allowed before.

* Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.

* Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.

* U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high so we are less dependent on oil from the Middle East.

* The U.S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.

* NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his pressure campaign.

* Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017 and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the largest reduction in Carbon emissions.

* Has his circuit court judge nominees being confirmed faster than any other new administration.

* Had his Supreme Court Justice’s Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmed.

* Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

* Agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico & Canada that will increase jobs here and $$$ coming in.

* Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.

* Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices, has agreed to a Part One trade deal with China.

* Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.

* Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.

* The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it.

* It also created a new tax credit for other dependents.

* In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total of $8.1 billion to States to fund child care for low-income families.

* The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care.

* In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families.

* In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs, as well an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding EVER.

* Another upcoming accomplishment to add: In the next week or two Trump will be signing the first major anti-robocall law in decades called the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence.) Once it’s thelaw, the TRACED Act will extend the period of time the FCC has to catch & punish those who intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also requires voice service providers to develop a framework to verify calls are legitimate before they reach your phone.

* US stock market continually hits all-time record highs.

* Because so many people asked for a document with all of this listed in one place, here it is. No links provided to remove bias as Google search is easy. Print this out for family, friends, neighbors, etc. I encourage you to drop this list off to voters before the 2020 election too!

*Trump did all of this while fighting flagrant abuse and impeachment charges.

——-please explain to me why you have a problem with OUR president? Because he has misspoken a few times? Tell me when you find a perfect person, please....I’ll wait! I’ll tell you why, because the media has skewed him in such a negative light and unfairly report his accomplishments to undermined those achievements! Why? Because the media is complicit in every single thing this man is trying to undo! Start thinking for yourself!

Are you tired of winning yet?

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IRONY: UNEXPECTED RESULTS

 IRONY: UNEXPECTED RESULTS

It’s the basic nature of irony to be humorous but when it comes to political purpose and result, it just isn’t the least bit funny.  One of our political party factions strives to portray the Elephant group as being uncaring, unsympathetic and its members as being incapable of empathy.  The Donkey group seems to extrapolate the Elephants immersion in reason and logic with a focus on actual results as being an indication of this cold-hearted beast.  The ironical part of this situation, from my viewpoint, is that the Elephant’s hard love approach and the Donkey’s buy the vote system, of promising the moon, places our country’s election season in jeopardy.  It is ironic that the system designed to give power to the people, freedom of speech has been allowed to deteriorate the safeguards our political guard dog, the free press, was expected to provide.  The power of manipulation and propagandic influence has been infecting our educational and media “mind meals” for far too long.  It is the time to bring back factual truth, country before party politic and the realization that our choices have decade long results.   

It's been one of the main sales techniques used since Oggh first wanted what Iggh possessed.  Igghs’ rock was bigger than Ogghs’ and the trick was for Oggh to come up with a way to posses Igghs rock.  Oggh thought and thought and then the light went off, he had the perfect thing to trade… fire. Oggh convinced Iggh that Oggh would give Iggh all the fire in trade for the big rock, and thus the first free for that act system was born.  The problem for Iggh was that Oggh did not actually own what he was trading, he could not control what he was giving and finally Iggh didn’t know how to control what he was getting in trade for his rock.  Some things never change.

Free is easy to sell, hard to provide, and often has unexpected results.  

Here are some of the Donkey’s wish list items.

·       FREE MEDICAL, one payer: U/R: less choice, fewer doctors, fewer hospitals

·       FREE COLLEGE:  U/R: higher taxation, less control over individual class choice

·       DEFUND POLICE: U/R… We are already seeing the sad effect this has on communities and cities.  Our neighborhoods that could actually benefit by increased police presence are being left without the protection needed to promote business growth.  This miss informed course of action puts families in peril. 

·       ELIMINATE FOSSIL FUEL ENERGY BASE: U/R…  This raises the cost of product in every spectrum of our society.  The cost of transporting product will rise exponentially.  The cost of residential heating and cooling will rise.  Costs thousands of jobs across all sectors of business.

·       SANCTUARY CITIES: U/R…  Uses resources that could be better spent on existing neighborhoods and citizenry.  Increases criminal potential in minority areas.

·       RAISE MINIMUM WAGE: U/R…  decreases job opportunity, increases cost of goods and services affect low income areas

·       INCREASE TAX ON BILLIONAIRES:  U/R… Increases cost of operating business and companies, costs are then passed on to consumers

·       GUN CONTROL:  U/R…  Erodes the second amendment to our constitution; gives illegal community dominance in weaponry

All of the above might sound like something you could advocate for or at least stomach if push came to shove but are the unintended results something you would expect?  Just about every one of the above items affects the minority members of our society in an adverse way.  The fact is that anything free has to be paid for by someone or some group.  Those costs are passed on to the end consumer.  In the case of the minimum wage those of less affluent means will be paying more for food, will find it more difficult to find employment.

Be careful what you wish for and make yourself aware of the logical consequence.

https://www.factcheck.org/   https://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2020/08/cause-and-effect.html 

HOW MANY TEARS MUST BE SHED TO GIVE VOICE TO COMMON SENSE? 

https://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-many-tears.html

HUBRIS/DENIED   https://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2016/12/hubrisdenied.html

Tuesday, September 27, 2016  THE COST OF DIVISEIVENESS 

https://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-cost-of-diviseiveness.html

IRONY, OUR HOUSE OF MIRRORS

 IRONY:a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.

The irony of today is in no way amusing

It seems that we are living in a world comprised of circus mirrors, a world where nothing is what we have hoped for and aspired to be. It’s as if our country and our way of life, once looked upon much as one would view a lush green landscape is suddenly recognized as ravaged by a slow insidious iceberg of hatred, mistrust, and greed. 

There are many, in our society that fill our streets with violence, crime and anarchy.  This state of ruination seems to have erupted like a volcano rumbling far beneath for so long and then breaking through the lush green of our country to spew dark ugly hatred over our land.

Those who would see our country, our great experiment of freedoms and opportunity destroyed in the name of control and power, have been allowed to exist much the same as the iceberg or the volcano.  We “the people” have chosen our leaders, (not all), because of what they have sold us, what they may give us rather than what they do for “the people” and the good of the country. 

Using the weapons of hatred, mistrust, and the partial truths of oppression to create the fire we watch destroying our streets, our prosperity, and most importantly, destroying our unity as a people.  Our words are no longer to be trusted as positive communication they are being used and miss-used, by some to magnify ills in our national body.  We have allowed propaganda to separate our “one nation under god” into “a nation divided into small tribes” pitted against each other.  I can guarantee that this nation founded under the God fearing and God loving tenants of our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution didn’t prevent Satan from helping with that divisive factor. 

We have allowed our good dog to be tethered and our bad dog to roam freely, how ironic that our good intentioned freedom of speech has allowed the tyranny of socialism and communism to infect our body.  Sadly, that is just a symptom, not the cause or the weakness that has allowed that to occur.  We have allowed a societal shift in values to creep through our population. It’s ironic that our desire to allow, anyone person, the freedom to be anything, anyway, anytime, anyplace has created so many more cracks and divisions.  Our desire to be loving, caring, charitable toward all people, we have allowed that to happen with all good intentions not necessarily with wisdom, prudence or in most cases logic.  Centuries of history have shown so many bad actors, literature and the arts have depicted villain after villain, adage has told us so many times “a leopard cannot change its spots” we have however seen snakes shed skin and acquire a new look. 

Even with all the warnings we have destroyed what were our family values with the desire to have whatever we want whenever (selfishness and greed).  We have been lulled to complacency with the bounty our nation has provided the majority ignoring, to some degree, the pain and festering anger of those in the minority.  That pain has been intensified by those politicians, race baiters, and educators who use that anger to feed their own purpose.   Not only is it ironic, that those who profess to be on the side of the minority, the poor, the infirm, the elderly, actually cause the most harm and that is much worse than ironic.

The Democratic party has shouted their own praises for representing the little guy by battling the big bad rich guy, for trying to raise the minimum wage, by spending more on education, and most recently for sanctuary cities and releasing those who have broken laws.  The really big one is their defense of abortion which has cost the lives of more under-privileged and minority lives than any other program in our history.  Democrat support of the teacher’s unions in lieu of school choice has been one of the major causes of poor educational provision in those communities.  Finally, they have decided that defunding law enforcement is a good thing.  Really? 

They blame our racial problems on systemic racism and I believe they are correct in that assumption, but they have placed the blame on the wrong carrier.  The carrier is not “white privilege”, it is not a corrupt law enforcement population.  Systemic racism exists throughout the rainbow of our country’s skin tones and it exists because of so many, many different reasons.  The main reason is learned reason to fear that have been passed down generationally.