badbobby wrote:
In the alternative universe that orbits around the Clintons and the establishment career, political cronies of Washington, D.C., the rule of equal judicial law does not apply. Allegations of pay to play have dogged the Clintons for years, reaching its zenith during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State. Along with numerous reports of other countries making sizable donations into the Clinton Foundation in order to receive preferential treatment with the Obama Administration. The biggest disaster from the viewpoint of national security was the Uranium One deal with the Russians, giving Russia a large portion of the United States uranium. A deal that had to be signed off by then President Obama and most of the Obama Administration’s state, security agencies and justice department directors.
You would think such behavior would be front and center in the news, but it’s not, the Press acts as an enabler by looking the other way or acting as a supporter. The press slobbers over all things Obama and Clinton but will snarl at anything that’s in the middle of the road or remotely to the right. The so-called Department of Justice also looks the other way, ignoring cover-ups, destruction of evidence and has been involved install tactics that have stopped Republican congressional investigations in their tracks. The old crony establishment politicians from both parties are doing their best to protect each other by sweeping things under the rug. During the ongoing Russian Collusion witch hunt that is going after President Trump, the Department of Justice leadership ignored all things Clinton but aided the witch hunt to depose the establishment outsider Donald Trump.
This kind of corruption festers among career politicians who entire focus is getting re-elected and what’s in it for them, the only way to curtail this behavior is term limits. They come to the Congress deep in debt owing to their big donors and they leave years later as multi-millionaires. Some of these bought and paid for denizens of the Washington Swamp have parked in Congress from 20-40 years, they live in the Washington D.C. area and rarely visit the districts that they are supposed to represent. When we get a politician who is really trying to do the right thing, they are alienated, crushed and finally spit out after a couple of terms by the establishment, good old boy politicians.
Buried underneath all of the corruption is the specter of socialism operating with the express purpose of establishing a socialist government in the U.S. Starting with former President Obama, who was raised in a family of communist revolutionaries and socialist. The former head of the C.I.A., Brennan supported communism and never should have had a security clearance. Then there is Hillary Clinton who embraced Saul Alinsky’s brand of Soviet Union Socialism as his college intern. And we can’t forget self-proclaimed socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, who is preaching socialist doctrine.
There are two camps of socialism vying for control of the U.S., those who seek international socialism that is controlled by the despots of the United Nations and those who want the single-party system of National Socialism in the U.S. They are able to operate virtually unhindered by corrupt politicians who could care less and are out to enrich themselves, enjoying all of the trappings of power of the office that they squat in has to offer. The only way to stop this behavior is to inform the public of the dangers of left-wing socialism, expose and throw out the derelict and corrupt politicians, and vote in those who will honor the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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FREE LUNCH!
For our defense, we need totally free healthcare for all and expense-paid education at all levels. Currently, over 75% of applications for military service are rejected for reasons of health and/or education. The cure? Finance patients and students exactly as we finance soldiers! It could well be part of the defense budget (where it may escape notice!), with an army of auditors and sheriffs to fight waste, fraud, and abuse. Of course, without question, every family should always be able to buy their own healthcare and education in a totally free marketplace!
Cost? Other nations have government-supported healthcare and education with lower costs than those now saddled upon our old and young. Anyway, our problem is NEVER availability of money but rather inflation, which the Fed controls. If necessary, Congress could increase taxes, which should not be our major concern. It’s after-tax earnings that matter most and that’s what “deficit spending” really is: the annual net increase in private savings, domestic and foreign.
And of course, after-tax earnings bring prosperity! World War II spending created our suburbs and gave us 30 years of prosperity. Spending on the Marshall Plan, the Korean War, Cold War rearmament, nuclear energy, NASA, Vietnam, etc., also contributed to our post-war prosperity.
Federal debt? As explained* by Ben Bernanke, Princeton U. economist and ex-Fed Chair, the Fed, with consent of Congress, can buy federal debt directly from the Treasury! No problem!
With Social Security numbers identifying all individuals, computers would manage everything with minimum personnel. Congress would negotiate prices and fees for all goods and services, pay everyone their just worth, and never ever send a bill for service to a patient or to a student!
Yes, there will be growing pains! The first “Free Lunch” problem will be the scarcity of physical resources, especially dentists, whom many of our poor have never seen. And there will not be enough rural hospitals and doctors. Until the system is fully grown, such scarcity will require a process of triage to set priorities. That is why “Free Lunch” would be implemented gradually!
Education now has or soon will have all the needed resources but healthcare will be lacking. In ten years or so, if we can teach doctors and build like China, there may be enough medical resources for slack to appear. By then, there should also be no more skilled labor shortages. And much of our huge prison population could and should be trained to care for sick and old.
Let’s start now by extending Medicare to children up to age 19 and to students up to age 30. We need only augment our current system. Annually, we should increase the entry age for Medicare one year (age 19 to age 20) and decrease the entry age for Medicare one year (age 67 to age 66). When possible, annually increase/decrease by two or more years, until EVERYONE has Medicare. Then, fire the health insurance industry and declare all healthcare and all education, including neighborhood nurseries, day-care, and pre-K to be totally free, cradle to the grave!
Totally free education at all levels and totally free healthcare for all with just enough taxation to prevent inflation will create high deficit spending (= high after-tax earnings!) and prosperity!
Fire the deficit hawks! Elect Social Democrats! Make America REALLY Great and Totally Free!
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https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-bernanke/2016/04/11/what-tools-does-the-fed-have-left-part-3-helicopter- money/
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