I do my best to be a non-partisan writer when it comes to politics, but at some point, one must stand for reason, justice, and reality. We can only spin ourselves into a fictional state of being for so long before it becomes exceedingly dangerous to ignore what is happening on our planet.
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Dignity
Biden Debate Accomplishment: Wrecks His Party’s Narrative About the Dignity of the Office
When President Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to be the next Justice on our Highest Court, he wrecked a Lefty narrative. That women need abortion to protect their careers or their future. Last night Job Biden wrecked another narrative. That America needed Joe Biden to bring dignity back to the office of the President.
BlogLine of the Day – once again, a Democrat led govt shows its favoritism.
NJ orders up to 1,000 inmates released to lessen coronavirus while left-wing governor threatens ‘action’ against residents who violate stay-at-home order “Democrat totalitarianism Up to 1,000 New Jersey inmates are being temporarily released by the state to stem the coronavirus tide, Politico reported, citing the American Civil Liberties Union, which campaigned for the move along with … Read more
Sell Don’t Tell… Part 1 of 2
People have all kinds of different preferences. We tend to like all kinds of different things. People do all sorts of dumb stuff. We want to share our passion with others sometimes. Sometimes we want to keep people from following in our missteps. It’s part of being human, right? Persuasion We should all work to … Read more
Quick Thought: Feds Approve NH Medicaid Expansion ‘Work Requirement’
Steve beat me to the punch on the announcement that the able-bodied recipients will have to work or be bettering themselves in order to continue to get free healthcare. The Hill added this:
The waiver program will also require co-pays for Medicaid recipients who make more than 100 percent of the poverty level.
“Work requirements help lift able-bodied individuals out of poverty by empowering them with the dignity of work and self-reliability while also allowing states to control the costs of their Medicaid programs. They help people gain the skills necessary for long-term independence and success,” New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said in a statement.
People don’t always value “free” when other people are paying for that “free” thing on an institutional things. I’ve seen it up close when running our daycare. When one has to put their own skinny into the picture,
A quick retort to Joe “two shotgun shell” Biden – no, it isn’t about “dignity”
From Big Government, we have these pithy words from Vice President Joe Biden:
There are a lot of tough decisions that have to be made. In some countries, that means, as we say in this country, that the elites have to pay their fair share, pay for the police in the streets and the basic services for the poor. In other places it means taking on corruption head on. In the United States, that means reforming our immigration system – 11 million undocumented men, women and children being able to come out of the shadows and be full participants in American life. Granting them the dignity — my father would say, “It’s all about dignity’ – granting them the dignity and respect that they deserve. Without doing that, it’s hard to make the case in my view to 600 million people in the hemisphere that we genuinely respect you all, but we do not show respect for 11 million people – people here in America who hail from the very countries we talk about… I don’t know how that’s done.
No, it is not about “dignity”! As the second highest elected official in the land, first most, it should be about honoring your oath concerning the Constitution and its values – one of which is The Rule of Law that sets us all Equal Before The Law. Which means that everyone in this land, the United States, needs to respect it, apply it, and live it. That has been one of our hallmarks as a country. Without it, we are just a throwback to the pre-Founding Fatherss times of Elite Rule (Monarchy, Royalty, Strong Man, or Mobs) to which Progressives wish to return us.
Madam Pelosi, a job’s “dignity” comes from doing it right.
Even after going along with President Obama and compromising on a deal to avoid the end-of-the-year “fiscal cliff,” Congress receives good or excellent marks for its job performance from just nine percent (9%) of Likely U.S. Voters. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 64% give the nation’s legislators poor marks.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she opposes a cut in congressional pay because it would diminish the dignity of lawmakers’ jobs.
“I don’t think we should do it; I think we should respect the work we do,” Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. “I think it’s necessary for us to have the dignity of the job that we have rewarded.”
As we in the private sector know, the amount of dignity comes not from what you do, but how well you do it. Not everyone can hold the “prestige” jobs even if they have the ability to do so. Dignity is not an attribute that is accorded to you just on your say so, Nancy Pelosi. If the level of pay (approx $174,000 / year) is the true measure of “dignity”, our Representatives have accorded themselves quite the allotment of dignity all to themselves by themselves. Dignity comes from a job well done – not mere words. Can she really think that the job being done right now is exemplary of the full definition of dignity?
Smoking Weed With Dignity
Chuck Weed is back again to take another shot at the death with dignity bill. This year it is called HB531 and according to this morning’s paper it is about to die without much dignity. I think we can call that smoking Weed. (Sorry medical marijuana advocates, this is not a story about pot.)