Trump Bombs Pearl Harbor

[Flanders]

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March 27, 2020 is another date that will:

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Freedom-loving Americans have a lot more to fear than fear itself.

House Passes $2 Trillion Emergency Relief Bill by Voice Vote After Hostile Debate
Cortney O'Brien
Posted: Mar 27, 2020 1:42 PM

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortne...-vote-n2565857

Parasite Democrats got more out of the bombing than Japan ever got after Pearl Harbor:

What do you do if you want to create a new dependency class in America?

Well, you can do what the leftist progressives have done since the "Great Society" of Lyndon Johnson and his "War on Poverty."

You simply pay people not to work. You offer up assistance programs that, over the years, grow into entitlement programs.

The people then get conditioned not to work while still collecting a check, so they begin to feel "entitled," rather than thankful to receive the "free" money.

And after a period of time, you have what you wanted – a class of people solely dependent upon the beneficence of the government.

And, by the way, Johnson was able to do this by creating a "crisis" and calling the crisis a "war" on poverty.

There was no actual crisis in the '60s, other than the angst over Vietnam, but that had nothing to do with "poverty." Johnson, being a sycophant of FDR, just wanted what all progressives want – more power and control; so he and his people created a phony crisis, and then declared war on it.

Now we have a real-life crisis at hand, and finally one of the idiot leftist Democrats admitted as evidence what we have been shouting about for so many years.

Shit-for-brains should have co-signed the bill:

Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., finally committed the cardinal sin of saying aloud what has gone unsaid yet we all knew to be true – that the Marxist Democrats really do want to use any and every crisis, regardless of the pain and suffering it causes their fellow citizens, as "An Opportunity to Restructure Things to Fit Our Vision."

And of course that vision isn't one of freedom and liberty. Quite the opposite. It is, and has always been, an all-powerful central authority that controls every facet of our lives and charges itself with the care of its people, a la King George III.

In other words, the polar opposite of the founders' "vision" of a small, relatively insignificant national government with a largely self-reliant citizenry.

Part of the Democrats' vision is creating yet another layer of dependency on government.

And what is more perfect than this current scenario? You couldn't script it better.

First, by sheer happenstance, a crisis, in the form of a horrible affliction, drops out of the sky, as it were. Then it's perceived to be so bad that our government orders public and private businesses to close – you know – for our own safety.

Agree or disagree – that's not the point.

Then the government steps in to save the day. They get together and come up with a brilliant plan to pay the people they just forced into layoff not to work.

The "unemployed," will now not only collect their full unemployment benefits they would receive under normal conditions, but an additional $600 per week from the federal government for the next four months.

Now, if that's not an incentive NOT to work, please tell me what is. Once people discover this, there will be a growing portion of our society that will ask to be laid off.

It's like déjà vu all over again! (h/t: Yogi Berra) We're replaying the beginning of the socialism of the Plymouth colony before William Bradford got wise.

The feds have taken away any incentive to work for a huge swath of society, by literally paying people not to work. And not just the relative pittance that is welfare. This is real money we're talking about for a great many people. And four months may be just enough time for some otherwise productive citizens to get used to this "new" lifestyle. One might even call it a "new normal."

Old sayings become old and oft repeated because they are true. And this old saying fits the bill: "If you want more of something, subsidize it …" (Ronald Reagan).

America may regret this drastic action – and not just because of the massive additional debt it will accrue.

Congress just created a brand new dependency class
By Brent Smith
Published March 27, 2020 at 7:20pm

https://www.wnd.com/2020/03/congress...endency-class/

[Tacomaman]

Ahh. So ONLY the Dems are at fault......lol

My guess is that you never read the original Republican version....)

[Flanders]

Ahh. So ONLY the Dems are at fault......lol

To Tacomaman: Democrats are always at fault because they always work for this country’s enemies, and against the U.S. Constitution.

My guess is that you never read the original Republican version....)

To Tacomaman: You guessed wrong. I object to every bill that gives tax dollars to the parasite class regardless of which party writes the original version:

You can bet your ass Trump will sign the bill now that socialized medicine is being sold as unemployment benefits for workers in small businesses. Naturally, Republican and Democrat scum in Congress will toss a few billion tax dollars to workers ordered to stay home —— knowing the benefits will end after they return to work in a month or two. Scum in the House and Senate also know that TRILLIONS will go to medical industry parasites ad infinitum, as well enrich Wall Street sharpshooters trading medical industry stocks.

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[Flanders]

I object to every bill that gives tax dollars to the parasite class regardless of which party writes the original version:

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To Tacomaman: This satire from the Babylon Bee sums up Democrat & Republican douche bags:

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WASHINGTON, DC—Members of Congress told reporters Friday they can’t wait to read through the massive economic stimulus package they passed earlier today in response to the Coronavirus crisis.

“As with other important legislation, we have to pass the bill to find out what is in it,” said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Other lawmakers voiced similar sentiments, telling sources they were excited to learn about all the wonderful, economy-altering mandates contained in the bill they voted on and supported.

“We couldn’t waste time reading through the bill. We had to do something, Americans are hurting,” Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) told reporters, as he hung up the phone with his stockbroker after authorizing another lucrative stock trade.

At publishing time, members of Congress were lining up in front of network cameras to tell Americans how much they will benefit from the bill they have yet to read.

Congress Excited To Find Out What’s In Stimulus Package They Just Passed
March 27th, 2020

https://babylonbee.com/news/congress...ey-just-passed

[Tacomaman]

You must think that Republicans are Gods chosen political party...lol
Please feel free to NEVER accept Social Security or Medicaid.....)

[Flanders]

You must think that Republicans are Gods chosen political party...lol

To Tacomaman: Put some work in on your reading comprehension skills.

Please feel free to NEVER accept Social Security or Medicaid.....)

To Tacomaman: I was forced to pay for SS. Had I been given the choice I would have structured my life differently.

For you edification, Social Security is not an entitlement. SS is funded by labor performed. An entitlement is getting something for nothing.

In theory, if you do not pay into SS you cannot collect. In reality, elderly chain migration immigrants who never paid into SS collect a monthly check. Illegal alien children also collect SS benefits as though they were orphaned by American parents.

Social Security should have been a pension play

FDR Socialists were very careful to make SS a required insurance plan rather than make it a voluntary pension plan. Had they done it that way American workers would have the choice of paying into a government-backed pension plan, or buying a private sector pension plan.

A Social Security pension funded by voluntary donations instead of an insurance program funded by forced contributions is the way to go. The more the individual contributes voluntarily during his work life over and above the minimum policy the bigger the monthly payout after retirement. Private pension plans would remain the same.

Naturally, a pension plan cannot include free stuff for strangers as does Social Security Insurance.

Lending SS pension funds to banks at a minimum rate of interest would replace the Federal Reserve. The sheer size of such a pension fund, managed properly, would earn vast amounts.

Unlike Social Security Insurance —— SS pension funds would be untouchable.

History tells us that bankers could not be trusted to manage the savings of millions upon millions of productive Americans; so the Social Security Trust Fund was created during the Great Depression. One of Social Security’s objectives was to separate SS pay-outs from general tax revenues so that boom and bust cycles would not devastate low income Americans every time there was a bust.

NOTE: Corrupt bankers did more to cause the Great Depression than ever did Wall Street’s collapse.

SS would have been the first time in history where government tax revenues were earmarked to protect taxpayers. Instead of protection, the Social Security Trust Fund was eventually looted.

Incidentally, the lying sack of shit got away with stealing money from Americans who worked for their SS benefits:

Obama’s creative bookkeeping stole $800 billion from Americans who worked for Social Security so illegal aliens could get free healthcare from state MEDICAID programs. The Chicago sewer rat’s theft was pocket change compared to the amount of money Democrats have to steal to pay for free healthcare for all.

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This is the dirty little secret concerning Social Security.

In 1967, Democrat President, Lyndon Johnson, along with a large Democrat majority in Congress, took all of the money out of the Social Security trust fund and mixed it with income tax revenues. What replaced the stolen money? Answer: Nothing but IOUs called G-Notes.

Politicians in both parties saw nothing wrong in stealing the money. That is why they are all very careful to refer to Social Security as a promise to senior citizens without connecting that promise to general tax revenues; hence, SS has to be reformed in order to save it. That line of crap comes from the very people who looted the Trust Fund to begin with.

Unlike general tax revenues in every government throughout history SS was specifically earmarked for the people who paid into it. Ergo, the Social Security Trust Fund had to be looted, corrupted, and finally bankrupted in order to preserve the historical status quo.

Just a few words about the need to reform Social Security before it goes broke. The scam is that 17 workers contributing to one retiree’s benefits when Social Security began. Now there are only three workers ——soon to be two. I want to point out that those 17 workers were NOT supporting an elephantine Parasite Class; whereas, today’s two or three workers are forced to pay into Social Security as well as support an extremely well-paid Parasite Class that just keeps growing in number. The question is: Which group will take the hit when the bubble breaks?

Ask who was forced to pay into SS? Answer: Private sector employees.

Allowing civil servants to opt out of SS was essential when the day came that SS is deliberately bankrupted in order to protect government employees; i.e., civil servants must have their pensions guarantied by general tax revenues in one way or another. Regardless of the purchasing power of the dollar, government employees will always increase taxes on productive Americans so that parasites never miss a meal.

I suggested putting every federal, state, and local government employee —— most especially teachers —— into the current SS system with private sector employees. Take my suggestion and SS will be fully funded overnight.

Individual retirement accounts opened with Wall Street firms used to be touted as a good deal for SS recipients. It was called Privatizing SS. I did have one objection to the sales pitch.

If investing in the stock market was such a sure thing then a substantial amount of the money collected in FICA taxes should be invested in stocks by professional money managers employed by the Social Security Administration —— rather than put individuals at the mercy of Wall Street crooks who will churn millions of individual investor accounts into lucrative commissions.

Labor is converted to money. Taxes are paid with money. The wealthy pay their taxes with the labors of the many. Today’s wealthiest Americans supposedly pay most of the taxes. In truth they receive the most. When you hear a rich guy call for a tax increase he means increase the income tax on private sector working Americans. Proof: If the wealthiest Americans are hurt by taxes they would not call for tax increases.

NOTE: President Trump is full of crap when he says he wants to tax the rich. If he really wanted to tax the rich he would be pushing hard to repeal the XVI Amendment.

Before all of the pension ripoffs were known, I made this comparison to Social Security and parasite pensions. My numbers are close enough to make my case.

I made no allowances for the many parasites who retire years before the age of 65. (A substantial number of government parasites double-dip —— collect two pensions,)

A SS recipient who began work at age twenty and paid into the fund for the next 45 years might collect checks for 10 years before dying. For convenience, I put the payment at $1,000 a month which is higher than the average payout. That comes to $12,000 a year. $120,000 over ten years just to get back money that was worked for. Most people do not live long enough to collect for 10 years. Many pay FICA taxes for decades but die before collecting a check.

I think life expectancy for men is around 74. Slightly higher for women.

Now lets say that an unnecessary parasite dives into the public trough at age twenty, and retires at age 65; living for ten years before dying. I will put a parasite’s average salary at $40,000 a year paid from general tax revenues. Therefore, one unnecessary parasite feeding at the public trough requires more than three times the amount of tax revenues it takes to pay one SS recipient for one year. And the folks in Washington want to fix SS! The country would be better off if they fixed the public trough first.

Sticking with the numbers I selected randomly to keep it simple, the unnecessary parasite’s weekly pay check amounts $1,880,000 in taxes levied on the private sector. I will take a guess and put the parasite’s pension at $25,000 a year since government employees have been allowed to opt out of paying SS. Ten times 25,000 comes to another $250,000. Add that to $1,880,000 and you get $2,130,000. Figure in the lifetime benefits the parasite enjoys and the total will be closer to three million dollars paid from general tax revenues without a parasite ever creating an ounce of wealth.

The numbers holds true on federal, state, and local levels. The lifetime spread between what the parasite collects and what the private sector SS recipient is paid after retiring is approximately 18 times higher for the leech.

Now look at a cut in income. Lets say that two people who were born in the same year marry at age 20. They both work in the private sector at low-paying jobs for 45 years. At age 65 they retire in the same month. Their combined SS incomes amount to $24,000 a year. They have some savings and a modest home so they figure they will be okay if property taxes do not eat them alive.

One month after retiring one spouse dies cutting the remaining spouse’s income in half. Can you imagine telling a couple who feed at the public trough for 45 years that their retirement income will be cut in half if one dies. They need not worry because a survivor’s benefits take care of parasites to the very end. That is not the same as a widow or widower who collects benefits from a deceased spouse’s SS. The survivor can only collect the higher of the two pay-outs.

NOTE: A Social Security Card was never meant to be a form of identity which is what it has become short of a cop demanding “Show me your papers.”

p.s. Same sex marriage entitles those “couples” to Social Security benefits. That forces me to support a belief I abhor.

[Tacomaman]

Please brush up on your civics and legislative understanding before posting another long-winded "rant". You OBVIOUSLY have no idea what "Entitlement" means in a legislative context.

[Flanders]

Please brush up on your civics and legislative understanding before posting another long-winded "rant". You OBVIOUSLY have no idea what "Entitlement" means in a legislative context.

To Tacomaman: Try not to be an asshole in every response.

“Entitlement” is a Democrat Party buzz word bandied about at budget time to protect ——— and increase ——— every welfare state program.

You obviously have no understanding of the Constitution. Prove me wrong by showing me the word ‘entitlement’ in the Constitution, or in the Amendments.

On the other hand I have the Founders on my side:

In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. James Madison

With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. James Madison

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions. James Madison, “Letter to Edmund Pendleton,”

Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own. According to this standard of merit, the praise of affording a just securing to property, should be sparingly bestowed on a government which, however scrupulously guarding the possessions of individuals, does not protect them in the enjoyment and communication of their opinions, in which they have an equal, and in the estimation of some, a more valuable property. James Madison

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 19, 1787

When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. -Thomas Jefferson to Charles Hammond, 1821. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors, ME 15:332

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Thomas Jefferson, letter to E. Carrington, May 27, 1788

To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, —the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, & the fruits acquired by it. Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

Our tenet ever was that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated, and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action; consequently, that the specification of powers is a limitation of the purposes for which they may raise money. Thomas Jefferson letter to Albert Gallatin, 1817

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. Thomas Jefferson

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. Thomas Jefferson

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. Thomas Jefferson

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, September 6, 1824

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Cooper, Nov 29, 1802

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Spencer Roane, March 9, 1821

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Shelton Gilliam, June 19, 1808

They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please...Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect. Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on National Bank, 1791

I place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on will save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale. Thomas Jefferson

Taxation follows public debt, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. Thomas Jefferson

The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society.” John Adams

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free. John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787

The Utopian schemes of re-distribution of the wealth...are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the Crown. Samuel Adams

In the main it will be found that a power over a man’s support (salary) is a power over his will. Alexander Hamilton

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. Benjamin Franklin

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