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HAVING SEEN ONE OF THESE I UNDERSTAND THAT SPACE TRAVEL IS POSSIBLE. BUT THE USA’S MANNED MISSION TO THE MOON WAS A HUGELY EXPENSIVE FEEL GOOD PR PROGRAM. WE COULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THIS WITH AN UNMANNED EFFORT AT FAR LESS COST AND RISK. HAVING DONE THIS A FEW TIMES THE COUNTRY LOST COMPLETE INTEREST AND WE NEVER WENT BACK!
NASA WOULD THEN MOVE ON TO THE SPACE SHUTTLE WHICH NEVER CAME CLOSE TO LIVING UP TO NASA’S PROMISES AND WENT DOWN IN FLAMES IN ANOTHER FEEL GOOD TEACHER IN SPACE PR EFFORT. NOT ONLY SHOULD IT NOT HAVE BEEN LAUNCHED ON THE DAY IT WAS BUT IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE INCLUDED A CIVILIAN!
NASA IS NOW PITCHING AN EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS MANNED MISSION TO MARS! I THINK THE UNMANNED STUFF NASA IS DOING IS MONEY BETTER SPENT.

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SOCIAL ENGINEERING

I WAS IN SOUTH BOSTON ON THE FIRST DAY OF FORCED BUSING AND IT WAS AN ARMED CAMP! THIS WAS AN EFFORT TO INTEGRATE SOUTH BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL, MANDATED BY FEDERAL JUDGE GARRITY AND SUPPORTED BY TEDDY (BUS THE KENNEDY KIDS) KENNEDY AND THE BOSTON (SOMEONE IS SHOOTING AT THE BUILDING) GLOBE.
WHAT GARRITY, KENNEDY AND THE GLOBE COULDN’T DO WAS TO FORCE THE IRISH TO CONTINUE TO LIVE IN SOUTH BOSTON. THE END RESULT HAD A LONG TERM NEGATIVE IMPACT ON INTEGRATING THE CITY AS THE WHITE NATIVES MOVED TO THE SUBURBS.
SO WHAT I WANT THE INCREASINGLY PARTISAN FOLKS ON BOTH THE LEFT AND RIGHT TO KNOW IF THEY KEEP THIS UP IS SOMETHING JAMES GARNER ONCE SAID IN A MOVIE “BASICALLY I’M ON MY WAY TO AUSTRALIA!”

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Reconstruction 2.0

The Civil War initially was about preserving the union and with the issuance of the emancipation proclamation then became a war to end slavery. With the assassination of Lincoln the radical republicans would then attempt to impose equality on the South. This effort would end with the presidential election of Rutherford B. Hayes. Jim Crow would then impose a social enslavement on our black citizens. These citizens have never been fully integrated into our society and unfortunately the millions of illegal immigrant are impacting on our ability to accomplish this as much and as fast as possible.

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BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?

Western style socialist democracies are using increasing quantities of debt to sustain their citizen’s standard of living. In the USA we are running a huge deficit with Medicare health costs and even the interest payments on our national debt* could outstrip Medicare debt. If the West fails to fix this you should expect a global economic collapse within the next decade. This will be a long term depression as the West will be unable to borrow its way out of it as it did with the Great Recession of 2008. Banks and others that were saved by TARP will fail this time around exacerbating and accelerating this crash. Asia lead by China will then become the Economic world leader and as they say “He who has the gold rules”.  

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Pyramid Scheme

Beginning this year, Social Security will pay out more money from their trust fund than they will take in to the fund. Unless things change they will deplete this fund by 2034. What that means for people born after 1968 is that every single dollar YOU have put into Social Security for YOUR retirement will have been given to someone else*. Perhaps another reason why there is a pyramid on the US dollar….

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MAIN STREAM MEDIA

From the very first day of this country the 5th estate took a very partisan position favoring the Agrarian, Pro-French, and States Right political camp over the Mercantile, Pro-English, and Central Government camp. In the short term this was very helpful for the Jeffersonian (left) side in prevailing over the Hamiltonian (right) side. This would increasingly change after the Civil War when both big government and big business would emerge.
Today the left continues to enjoy a huge main stream media advantage over the right and in the age of the internet that advantage has only increased. The creation of the social media mob will increasingly drive the USA from Socialism towards Marxism!

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A REPUBLIC IF YOU CAN KEEP IT!

During the American Revolution the founding fathers watched the mob switch sides depending on which army was encamped nearby! Over the last 200 years we have stripped some of those republican protections away in an effort to become more democratic.
Increasingly today we are hearing calls to dismantle the Electoral College, to eliminate the US Senate and to stack or impose term limits on the Supreme Court! There are always two edges to every sword and while doing these things may make us more democratic the downside is that it can also empower the mob!
Remember the Democratic French Revolution decapitated the King only to eventually give rise to an even more powerful Emperor!
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BOILED FROG SYNDROME

IF YOU DROP TACTICAL AND STRATEGIC FROGS INTO A POT OF HOT WATER THEY WILL BOTH RECOGNIZE THE THREAT AND JUMP OUT. BUT IF YOU DROP BOTH INTO A POT OF COLD WATER AND THEN TURN THE HEAT ON IT IS LESS LIKELY THAT THE TACTICAL FROG JUMPS OUT AND SAVE ITSELF.
AS THERE ARE WAY MORE TACTICAL THINKING PEOPLE THAN STRATEGIC THINKING PEOPLE THAT MAKES IT MORE CHALLENGING FOR A DEMOCRACY TO FUNCTION SUCCESSFULLY OVER THE LONGER TERM. EVEN MORE DIFFICULT IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA WHEN STRATEGIC THINKERS ARE INCREASINGLY BEING DROWN OUT BY THE REACTIVE TACTICAL DRIVEN MOB!

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IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID

When the career politicians signed off on all of those free trade agreements they understood that all of those high paying manufacturing jobs they talk about were now going overseas!
In an effort to mitigate this they “encouraged” the quasi private/government Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to begin to loan money to folks at rates and down payments that were unheard of. No surprise then that this created the housing bubble that in turn would help to create the great recession of 2008. The bankers would take the PR hit for all of this but were rewarded by our POLS with tax payer funded bonuses! Not only should the bankers not have been rewarded but they should not have been bailed out either!
However, Washington would then move to “encourage” another quasi private/government agency the Federal Reserve to create quantitative easing which would once again drive the housing market. This would require the FED to borrow 4 trillion bucks. These irresponsible actions are killing the capitalist horse!
When the housing market crashes again it will be a very long time in coming back to where it was. For example in the Stock Market crash of 1929 it would take until 1956 for stock prices to come back to 1929 levels!

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AS COMPARED TO WHAT?

The great comedian Henny Youngman was once asked how his wife was and he replied as compared to what?
Over the last several years how we measure the rates of unemployment and inflation have been changed many times. The net effect has been to reduce these rates so as to mitigate any voter unhappiness with our career politicians!
Every year during this same period the media would also do stories about how our students SAT scores where declining when compared to their parents SAT scores. Eventually the way these tests were scored was changed so that no comparison could be made.
So the next time your career politician tells you that they are doing a great job be sure to ask them as compared to what? The UK Prime Minister Disraeli was correct when he said that there were 3 kinds of lies: “Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics”

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Presidential Pyramids

Just like the Pharaohs of Egypt we are building our version of the Pyramids. These Pyramids are getting larger and larger for Presidents who are accomplishing less and less. And we are literally burying our presidential pharaohs inside them as well. I can’t wait to see the Trump Tower Library!

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Einstein said that imagination was more important than knowledge. Over the next few years we are going to learn just how right he was with the increasing emergence of A.I.
Just like manual laborers being replaced by robots, knowledge based workers will be replaced by thinking machines! If you don’t think so than just ask Chess Grandmaster Kasparov who was replaced by IBM’s Watson.
How well and how quickly our government driven and teacher union monopolized educational system adapts to teaching our students to think more like Einstein remains to be seen. The truth is they’ve done a lousy job of just teaching knowledge!
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LEGAL MINUTIAE

In the 1970’s the USA began to see an explosion in the number of lawyers in this country. Today they barrage TV viewers with negative ads 24/7. It’s gotten so bad you can’t even wipe your own legal butt here without a lawyer Okaying the brand of toilet paper you can use!
For example in the 1970’s we had 600 lawyers at the Pentagon. 25 years later there were 10,000 of them there. Does make you wonder how many lawyers the Russian and Chinese military have to listen to. But hey if the Russian/Chinese military get to the high ground first very likely because our thousands of military lawyers were haggling over which legal I’s and T’s needed to be crossed before we can begin to defend ourselves!

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KAVA YUP

WOULD HAVE BEEN A KAVA NOPE HAD FORMER DEMOCRATIC SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID NOT USED THE NUCLEAR OPTION TO IMPOSE OBAMA’S JUDICAL APPOINTMENTS! SO HAVING PAID THE SUPREME PRICE TWICE FOR BEING LESS COMPROMISING AND MORE PARTISAN THE LEFT IS NOW PROMOTING EITHER THE OLD FDR PLOY OF PACKING THE COURT OR IMPOSING TERM OR AGE LIMITS ON THE SUPREMES! ALL THE SENATE REALLY NEEDS TO DO IS REIMPOSE THE NUCLEAR OPTION. THE PRESIDENT THEN NEEDS TO NOMINATE PEOPLE THAT CAN GET 60 VOTES!

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THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY

VOTED FOR GAMPY BUSH TWICE BUT CAN’T HELP BUT THINK THAT THE FOUNDING FATHERS ARE SHAKING THEIR HEADS AT THE GRANDEUR, NEVER MIND THE EXPENSE TO SEND OFF A PERSON WHO ACCOMPLISHED WAY LESS THAN THEY DID!
WE ARE NO LONGER FOCUSED ON BUILDING OUR COUNTRY BUT RATHER ARE BUILDING MONUMENTS TO OURSELVES AND HOSTING SPECTACULAR EVENTS IN AN EFFORT TO FEEL BETTER ABOUT OUR DECLINING FORTUNES.
BUT WHAT A GREAT FREE AD IT MADE FOR THE BUSH PRESIDENTIAL BRAND! CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT WE DO FOR THE DONALD’S FUNERAL…
AND I ALSO NOW UNDERSTAND WHY THE PENTAGON HAS TO SPEND A HALF A BILLION DOLLARS EVERY YEAR ON MILITARY BANDS.

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PRESIDENTIAL BRANDS

The Camelot family would pin their future hopes on Teddy and then John John only to see both dreams end in tragic crashes! They are still hoping that someone will emerge from their 3rd generation.
Had 41 won a 2nd term would there have been a 43rd? Did this 3rd generation Bush politician kill the family business or will we see another George (Prescott) emerge here?
As for the Clinton’s maybe they will have more luck with Chelsea! Having unsuccessfully married into the Camelot family Andrew Cuomo would really love to outdo his father as perhaps Donald Jr would as well!
But Barbara Bush was correct it’s time for someone elses family to lead the nation….

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It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is

ONCE AGAIN THE US HOUSE OF REPS IS HEADING FOR THE IMPEACHMENT OF ANOTHER PRESIDENT. THE DEMOCRATS WILL BE LOOKING TO ENHANCE THEIR POLITICAL PROSPECTS FOR WINNING BOTH THE PRESIDENCY AND THE SENATE IN 2020! IN THE NEXT ELECTION THE SENATE REPUBLICANS CONTROL 22 OF THE 34 SEATS UP FOR RELECTION. YOU SHOULD EXPECT THE HOUSE DEMMY’S TO FORCE SENATE REPUB’S TO DEFEND TRUMP.
“IS” TRUMP GUILTY OF SPENDING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS TO SILENCE PORN STAR STORMY DANIELS AND PLAYMATE KAREN MCDOUGAL OR “IS” HE INNOCENT BECAUSE HE SPENT HIS OWN MONEY ON THEM?
EITHER WAY A POLITCAL WIN/WIN FOR THE DEMOCRATS BUT PERHAPS A LOSE/LOSE FOR THE COUNTRY IF SEX IS ALL THE DEMOCRATS HAVE HERE! WE DON’T NEED THIS ENDING UP IN ANOTHER BULL SHIT WHITEWATER INVESTIGATION OUTCOME. CLINTON SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN IMPEACHED (ON THE OTHER HAND BILL DID DESERVE TO LOSE HIS LAW LICENSE FOR COMMITTING PERJURY). IF WE ARE GOING DOWN THIS ROAD AGAIN LETS HOPE THAT RUSSIA IS IN THERE SOMEWHERE!

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TRICKY DICK AND SLICK WILLIE

We’ve had two lawyer Presidents who faced impeachment in the last century. Perhaps this should not have been a complete surprise given that one was considered tricky and the other slick by their peers! The Tricky one would be pardoned by another lawyer President, while the Slick one did a super job of convincing the country that it was only about sex and not that it is was about perjury. Willie of course would never have gotten away with his it’s about sex ruse in today’s me too environment. But even worse was one Republican Presidential lawyer pardoning another Republican Presidential lawyer. Sorry folks but Dick really should have done some jail time! Is there any wonder why respect for law and order has declined in the country? header-logo_bronze-resized-5-2.png

Canary in the Mine

The EU is the USA’s canary! This is because EU debt is higher and the fortunes of their native populations has fallen even further and faster than the native US population has.
For example first there was Brexit which was then followed by Trump. The left and their media allies have been working diligently to reverse both of these votes over the last couple of years. They may well succeed but unless they have a very convincing argument for doing so, the right in the UK and USA may well strap on their yellow jackets in protest! Will see…

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RESTLESS 3RD LEG SYNDROME

Whether it was JFK* or Bill Clinton there are still no medications to effectively treat this problem. Perhaps somewhat ironically the pharma companies instead focused on developing medications that actually facilitates this dysfunction!
Over the last year or two we have seen Entertainment industry titans lose their jobs while allegedly seeking a temporary treatment for what ails them. Even Roman Catholic Priests are experiencing some of these same issues as well! Until big pharma can find a fix for this, the only sure cure is to perform a radical circumcision otherwise known as a Lorena Bobbitt!

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* According to the legend he came a lot!

The Countess

Bela Pelosi the once again speaker of the house wants to teach America how to count. READY?
1 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 2 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 3 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 4 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 5 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 6 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 7 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 8 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 9 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 10 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 11 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 12 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 13 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 14 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 15 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 16 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 17 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 18 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 19 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 20 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 21 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 22 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 23 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 24 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha, 25 trillion in debt ha ha ha ha ha.

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Unequal Pay for Unequal Work

The better class uses the sport of Tennis as a wonderful example of equality between the sexes. However at the US Open women only have to win 2 out of 3 sets while the men have to win 3 out of 5 sets. Not only that, but women never play against the men so their quality of work is not held to the same level of performance. A great day for Karl Marx if this same standard is eventually applied to golf, basketball, and hockey!

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BUTT CALL

BACK IN THE DAY MINE WERE USUALLY SILENT BUT NEVER DEADLY. TODAY THEY COME IN VARIETY OF RING TONES AND ARE CAUSING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ON OUR ROADWAYS. PLUS NO ONE USES THEIR TURN SIGNALS ANYMORE DUE TO THE FACT THAT WHILE ONE HAND REMAINS FIRMLY ON THE STEERING WHEEL THE OTHER IS NOW GRIPPING A CELLPHONE. WHAT TODAY’S DISTRACTED DRIVERS REALLY NEED IS A MAJOR BUTT WHOOPING!

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#PEEPOOH MOVEMENT

Used to be that polite society shunned both actors and circus people. Today the clowns are no longer performing under the big top but rather holding office in Washington DC instead! As for actors the pendulum has swung completely the other way and everything these folks now poop out, is being viewed as smelling like Chanel #2. The biggest benefactor of all of this are the PT Barnum family of the 21st century; the Kardashian and Jenner clan. In today’s social media environment a sucker is now born every second!

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PARIS DISCORD

Well past the time that the world take climate change seriously. Unfortunately recent rioting there over diesel fuel taxes will likely have the reverse political effect in France. All well and good to have 140 nations signing on to a voluntary climate change treaty but when the world’s number one carbon polluter exports coal burning technology to other countries it’s time to try something else! Frankly would rather have 40 countries signing on to a mandatory accord who then impose a carbon tax on the 100 countries who don’t sign on? But will the K cup generation be willing to pay more for their cellphones and video games?

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THEY SHOOT HORSES DON’T THEY?

The USA the world’s most successful capitalist country is moving to become the world largest socialistic country. China the world’s largest socialistic country is moving to become the world’s most successful capitalistic country. As Winston Churchill once said “Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.” The Chinese are using their predatory capitalist tiger to fill their sturdy wagon in any way they can. In the USA we have chosen to milk our capitalist cow dry. The communist Chinese recognize what Churchill understood long ago “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” In the West the Natives are becoming increasingly miserable!

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SUPPRESSION VERSUS FRAUD

After the Civil War, southern white male democrats began to practice wide spread voter suppression against black male voters. With the 1960’s civil rights legislation these white democrats would then move on to the Republican Party. Over the same period northern white male democrats controlled the big cities like New York and Chicago where they practiced wide spread voter fraud with their calls to vote early and often! These big city white guys are still democrats and still leading the Democratic Party but what can be seen from the democrat primaries of 2018 is that these white guy days of leading the democrat party are numbered! And rightly so! As for suppression and fraud expect them to be practiced by one or the other party. We need the Freedom card NOW!
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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD (WHITE) MEN

SINCE ITS FOUNDING THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN RUN BY OLD WHITE GUYS. SOME DID A GOOD JOB WHILE OTHERS NOT SO MUCH. BUT EVENTUALLY ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HAS NOW BECOME A CESSPOOL OF LOBBYIST AND FILTHY LUCRE! VERY SOON THIS COUNTRY WILL HAVE MORE PEOPLE OF COLOR THAN WHITE FOLK. SO LETS BEGIN TO PASS THE TORCH TO ALL WOMEN AND MEN OF COLOR AND LET’S SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO WITH IT! BYE, BYE REPUBLICAN PARTY!
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I SAY ILLEGAL YOU SAY UNDOCUMENTED

Hillary Rodham Clinton was only half correct when she stated that Europe has an immigration problem. The fact is the West has lost complete control over their borders! In the USA this all began with Ronnie Reagan granting amnesty to 3 million people who came to the USA illegally. After that anyone with half a brain understood that it was easier to become a US citizen by illegal means then legal ones! Politically, this is a very difficult problem to solve as the Democrats get 70% of their votes, while the Republicans get 70% of the campaign contributions from the folks who hire them to flip their burgers and mattresses. Sorry but no Trump Tower wall is going to fix this either!pp.jpg

Fix Or Replace Daily

Power corrupts and Absolute Power corrupts absolutely. FDR would allow Unions to monopolize industries. Overtime the UAW would use this absolute power to effectively drive the Big Three into what has now become the Little Three. Yes, the political General Managers of these companies helped to accelerate the decline of the American Auto industry as well but the industry was doomed by the absolute power of a Union monopoly. In the 1960’s JFK would allow government employees to join Unions and we now have a largest Union in the USA doing the very same to our public schools. If you don’t think so then take a look at how the US ranks against the rest of the world in math, science and reading! t.png

Eschew Obfuscation

The Nobel Prize Winning Economist Milton Friedman considered himself to be a liberal in the classical meaning of the word. He would understand that today’s so called liberal is in reality a Socialist. What then is a conservative? A conservative socialist. For career Politician’s there is little advantage to being label correctly! In fact the so called liberal progressives are actually Marxist. As Shakespeare says a rose by any other name still smells….
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SILVER SPOON

They say that the 3rd generation is born with a silver spoon in their mouth. In that case the first generation is the greatest generation, this is the generation that did a great job of killing both Germans and Japanese. They would come home from the war to spawn the 2nd generation currently known as the baby boomer generation. The Boomers gave birth to latch key kids who spent weekends visiting Dad’s house. No wonder then that this 3rd generation has become the Entitled Generation. Entitled to be on the honor roll and with trunk loads of trophies for coming in last place! What will we be calling the 4th generation? The burger and mattress flipper generation! s.jpg

FOR BETTER OR WORSER

The world is undergoing another leadership change with power shifting from the West to the East. The better class of people in the West are moving to take control over their governments. The last time this happened you had the better class of the “peace in our time” crowd in UK and the American Firster folks in the USA. Had these two groups moved against Fascism and Herr Hitler sooner perhaps just 6 dead Nazi’s as opposed to 60 million dead. One hopes that the better class does a better job* this time around. As for the worser class they have no one to blame but themselves had they done a better job since the end of WWII maybe we would not have found ourselves in this kind of boat!

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*If you’re looking for a more recent example, then look at how Obama handled Syria.

LEGAL CHOPPING BLOCK

Besides building pyramids and piles of debt we are burying ourselves under tons of lawsuits! The fact is we are using the legal system in much the same way the French used the guillotine during their revolution. This isn’t to say that the first 200 Frenchman didn’t have it coming to them, it’s the next 20,000 “off with their heads” that the mob demanded that is more difficult to justify! With the emergence of the social media mob the legal environment in the USA will become increasingly more challenging. It is one thing to drink justice from a glass, something else to drink it from the bottom of the Potomac. Unfortunately as 40% of Congress are lawyers you should expect no help from this quarter anytime soon…

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SOME (ORIENTAL) FOOD FOR THOUGHT

After World War II America’s track record in Asia was extremely problematic. For starters in China, the USA backed the wrong warlord. This would result in our “losing” China, which in turn would provoke our involvement in Korea, ending in a very bloody tie. JFK would then commit the USA to fighting in Vietnam by effectively “green lighting” the assassination of President Diem. Not to be outdone LBJ would then hamstring the military’s ability to fight ending in a humiliating defeat for the US. As China continues to emerge the reunification of its country will become an increasing pinch point for the West. To a lesser extent the reunification of Korea could minimize any potential pinch points in Asia as well.   

 

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EU NATIONALISM

French President Macron is correct that the EU needs their own national military! Unfortunately for Macron the EU is up to their eyeballs in debt and withdrawing from their international military (NATO) would require a nationalistic political will that does not exist. The EU can do one or the other, it can’t do both. Eventually the USA will come to this same conclusion. America can either defend itself in the East or the West but not both. Over time the US will continue to move its increasingly limited military assets to the Pacific. Ironically the sooner the EU embraces military nationalism the safer it will make the world for Democracy!

 

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WHO’S ON FIRST?

In the 19th Century, Europe lead by the British Empire was on first base. In the 20th Century, America lead by the US was on first base. In the 21st Century, Asia lead by China will be on first base. As the USA moves to second base WHAT kind of global role it plays remains to be seen but one assumes that it will be increasingly a Pacific driven strategy. As for who will be on 3RD base during the Chinese Century will it be the EU or will it be Russia?

                                                             I DON’T KNOW!

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PENTA GONE

Any future economic collapse in the US will drive the usual guns versus butter political debate. Only this time around we will have a much higher percentage of our population (60%) who will be largely dependent on government largesse. For the military this debate is made even more challenging given its conversion from a citizen soldier to a professional soldier. This disconnection of the armed forces from the vast majority of Americans who did not serve will make it even more likely that any future political decision will favor passing the fat* over passing the ammo!      pentagon.jpg

*If the voter’s choice comes down to Grandma living on her own (butter) or Grandma living in their basement (guns) then bring on the cholesterol

BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?

Western style socialist democracies are using increasing quantities of debt to sustain their citizen’s standard of living. In the USA we are running a huge deficit with Medicare health costs and even the interest payments on our national debt* could outstrip Medicare debt. If the West fails to fix this you should expect a global economic collapse within the next decade. This will be a long term depression as the West will be unable to borrow its way out of it as it did with the Great Recession of 2008. Banks and others that were saved by TARP will fail this time around exacerbating and accelerating this crash. Asia lead by China will then become the Economic world leader and as they say “He who has the gold rules”.  

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Pyramid Scheme

Beginning this year, Social Security will pay out more money from their trust fund than they will take in to the fund. Unless things change they will deplete this fund by 2034. What that means for people born after 1968 is that every single dollar YOU have put into Social Security for YOUR retirement will have been given to someone else*. Perhaps another reason why there is a pyramid on the US dollar….

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* Assumes you are not disabled during this time period.