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After all, she is running to be the Second Coming of Obama in being his third term.  So why shouldn’t she be following in his footsteps?

“You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”

But he did declare coal to be bad.  Have you ever known a President, once smack down by Congress by NOT voting for a Cap N Trade, just on his own try to put an entire industry out of existence on his (and his EPA’s) say so?  And now Hillary is going that one next step further – she has promised to finish off the proud people of coal country.  And her utterance couldn’t be any more full of irony with the question being asked at the CNN’s Democrat town hall event:

Make the case to poor whites who vote Republican why they should vote for you and your economic policies

Sigh…

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We’e had discussions with folks that have lived under real Socialism – almost all immigrated from the former Eastern Bloc countries.  In each and every case, they just could not understand HOW and WHY native Americans can even think about wanting Socialism.  They understand, all too well, that the blitherings of this doddering (but unrepentant) Socialist has no clue what happens to the people who are forced to live under a centrally planned and coercive State (which demands ALL is for The State) that treats its people as mere objects.  They understand that the rhetoric spewed by their countries was mere propaganda – but certainly appealed to those that hold the idea that it was truth – the Utopia promised by Marx and his ilk had come to fruition. Our friends knew the real truth.

Like Gary Kasparov – former Soviet Union citizen and world champion chessmaster:

I’m enjoying the irony of American Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means! Socialism sounds great in speech soundbites and on Facebook, but please

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“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small,but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)

Yes, all the dirt about a person gets thrown up during campaigns especially for national ones – each candidate’s live is going to get dissected five ways to Sunday.  And just during this Republican Primary campaign, much has been made about Donald Trump’s “problems”.  And yes, I know personally how it feels when somebody decides to vamoose and you get stiffed.  Yet, it was done legally and while you never want it to happen to you, that is part of the risk of doing business.  And you are lucky if you get cents on the dollar owed.

But what can we do when a President and Political Party decided that stiffing YOU for their insistence on implementing their ideology come hell or high water?  What is your redress?  In this case, nothin’:

DOCTORS, HOSPITALS GETTING STIFFED FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY OBAMACARE CO-OPS: A dozen of the 24 Obamacare health insurance co-ops established at a cost of $2.5 billion in 2012 have failed (and more are expected to do so). Now, hundreds of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers who served co-op policyholders are being muscled aside by federal bureaucrats claiming the government should be the first creditor in the bankruptcy line.

So, twice screwed over – once by taking taxes from you for purposes that the Federal Government should not be doing and then again when not only are you out the tax money, you ain’t getting paid either:

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I’m sorry, but teachers are OUR EMPLOYEES – this Mississippi House rep clearly shows that Government should be in charge, not of your kids, but you as well.  That’s right, you who pay their salaries, should now be able to be called onto the carpet.  This is an attempt to codify what I’ve been saying for years now: teachers believe they have more right to your kids than you do and now by making parents more subservient.  From Watchdog (reformatted, emphasis mine):

If a bill passed by the Mississippi House becomes law, students won’t be the only ones receiving grades from teachers. Under House Bill 4, also known as the Parent Involvement and Accountability Act, teachers would be required to grade parents’ involvement with their children’s education.

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(Data H/T: CNN Money)

And overall, what does it take to be in the top 1%?

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I remember people saying that back in 1968, too. Back then, it was the New Left radicals attacking (literally a riot) their “own” Party, the Democrats.  Now, the New Left (organized by MoveOn.org) is going after Trump – who breaks every conceivable Political Correctness out there.  And we are now seeing, outside of college campuses), what happens to those that violate their religious tenets.  There can be no dissent allowed from that Leftist orthodoxy (just look how many times the Left has tried to silence and diminish the ‘Grok simply because we hold different political and moral views.

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(and kill the Commies).  Bernie is certainly is someone that doesn’t trust the free market and the freedom it brings (note: his disparaging remark of having the ability to choose from among 23 types of deoderants).  At this point, it should be clear that Progressives / incremental Socialists / Commies NEVER trust the markets – they have the hubris to believe that they know what is best for (in this country) for 320 million people who have their own interests.  But that doesn’t seem to matter; they KNOW they are right and that they can “FIX it”.

One thing about Socialists is that they are incapable of learning from history.

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When I first started blogging, I discovered Paul Rahe and began to try to read everything I could that he wrote (and then add my pittance to it).  Alas, someone else thought much of him and behind paywalls he went (ah yes, folks like Bernie Sanders would judge this to be a failure of the free market – heh!).  But this writing is not, so go read the whole thing.  That said, this well sums up the attraction that the “little people” may have for him – the Republican Party have failed them (emphasis mine):

Then, in 2014, this disaffected electorate propelled the Republicans to a victory even more dramatic than the one that they had won in 2010, and they gained control of the Senate. But with this victory they did nothing. They had long before surrendered the law-making power to the executive agencies that Obama was employing to reshape American life, and they had also given up the power of the purse. All that the president had to do was to threaten a veto and threaten to shut down a variety of government functions, and they cowered. Never mind the fact that the Constitution gave Congress the power of the purse and that the shut-down would be the president’s work. They were too timid to fight the battle to the bitter end that would restore to them their constitutional prerogatives.

And certainly, my Senator Kelly Ayotte is part of that “they cowered” clan – I just don’t understand why she’s running for re-election for if you give up your Constitutional responsibility to legislate, why bother (Obama’s CPP, anyone for just one thing)?

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He was quoted on WMUR’s NewsNine on a piece on Medicaid Expansion and the money it will cost:

“It makes no sense to me to have us send our money back to Washington”.

I do wonder what that was bracketed by, as the quote WMUR settled for seems to be both disjointed and unfinished.  I do believe that it was on the line of “hey, we should do this simply to get our money back from Washington takes from our NH taxpayers.”

OH!  CAT OUT OF THE BAG???

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