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MACDONALD: Income Up, GDP Up, Poverty Down …Trump is Doing it Again

September 20, 2026September 20, 2026 Steve MacDonald

When Mr. Trump took over the Oval Office in January 2017, almost everyone in DC was against him. He still managed to make moves that created one of the strongest economic recoveries for regular Americans in U.S. history. The plandemic stopped it in its tracks, and then Biden and democrats derailed it. Trump is back, … Read more

KLAR: How Good Intentions Inflict a Vicious Cycle of Poverty

February 28, 2026 John Klar

Both political parties have been signaling their commitment to addressing the so-called affordability crisis. A recent report suggests that well-intentioned initiatives to increase minimum wages, while supported by a majority of voters, generally have a negative economic effect on those most in need. Good, old-fashioned economics explains why supply and demand do not bend to … Read more

Progressive Trial Balloon: Ethicists Suggest Making it Legal to Euthanize the Poor

May 23, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The “no one would ever do that crowd” has been having a bad couple of years. It has become quite clear that, yes, a government would do that, that being an increasing number of things to which we can add using assisted suicide to euthanize undesirable populations.

Redux: “Conservatives Believe That The Best Form of Welfare Is A Job. Govt Thinks Otherwise.”

May 6, 2023 Skip

It was true back in 2011, and it is still true today. Conservatives believe in the honor and dignity in work. Progressive don’t believe in a hand-up and are willing to supply a hammock forever.

Inflation Reduction Act Will Hurt America’s Middle Class

August 27, 2022 Don

Democrats, including Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen, and Reps. Annie Kuster and Chris Pappas, apparently think that middle-income and poorer Americans are not suffering enough. Their votes for the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act will increase our suffering now; any benefits will be later. The IRA increases the spending that caused today’s painful 8.5% inflation. … Read more

NYT: Inflation is Not Yet High Enough to Reach “the scale necessary to bring needed change”

June 6, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The Left’s war on poverty was never about lifting people up. It was about pushing more people down. And look, it’s working. Between “pandemic,” energy, economic, and even international policy, more people are struggling than ever. But the New York Times says it’s not enough.

Ed Buck screen grab - fox news YouTube - at time of arrest

Wealthy Gay Democrat Donor Found Guilty of Drugging and Raping Poor Black Men

April 16, 2022 Steve MacDonald

When I read this story, I couldn’t help but think how it so perfectly represents what Democrats have done to African Americans in the United States under the guise of being their allies.

Data Point: NH Is 7th Best for Poverty – NH Dems Keep Kvetching All the Same

January 1, 2022January 1, 2022 Skip

Yet they’ve only moved the needle towards “Worse” and not “Better”

Black America – Democrats Are Not Doing This for You, They Are Doing It for Themselves

January 30, 2023June 15, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Aren’t the inner cities proof enough? Decades of Democrat rhetoric contradicted by decades of Democrat rule. Outcomes. Facts on the ground. The results of their policies in real-time. The Political Left is not interested in helping Black Americans, not even a little bit.

Biden Administration Says Highways Are Racist

June 3, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Whoever is Running the Biden Administration (WRBA) want’s to remake America’s Highway system in its own image. In search of holes to fill with your great-grandchildren’s freshly printed money, they propose removing some highways because they are racist.

Defense of Free Markets

December 16, 2020

There has been way too little defense of free markets. There are many ways in which business elevates humanity. Capitalism is based on doing things for others, things others find value in. Innovation and value creation are inherent in free-market capitalism.

UN Sustainable Development Goals – Determined to Stamp Out Free Will

December 10, 2020

Want to live under one World Government? The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are a bold attempt at just that. They aim at achieving equality on a global level. They are noble goals: Zero hunger. Zero poverty. But they would also mean zero freedom too.

“Your children’s children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible.”

September 16, 2020

Nikita Khrushchev was the leader of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s. According to Ezra Taft Benson among others, Nikita Khrushchev said, “Your children’s children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible.

Opportunity Zones Could Lift a Million People Out of Poverty

September 13, 2020

The Democrat Party has talked about lifting Americans out of poverty for over a half-century. Democrat bills have mostly been social safety net programs. They do not attain the results they promise. Democrats are good at promises, bad at results, and follow through.

Republican for Congress Takes Maryland Democrat Politicians to the Woodshed on Black Lives

December 22, 2024August 18, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Kim Klacik is from Maryland, lives in Baltimore, and is a Republican woman running for Congress. As a Republican, you’d think her prospects dim (Elijah Cummings held the seat for 23 years until his recent death). But she’s not sitting on her hands. She’s taking it to the Left, and she is not taking prisoners.

Treating Disease as a War?

May 3, 2020

Should we be treating a disease as a war? Any serious war suspends liberal society. This means freedoms are lost or face restriction. Is it advisable to have a war on poverty or a war on drugs? If we are fighting a war how is confinement to one’s home honorable? If we are fighting a war aren’t there things for people to do?

Democrat Depression Is a Partisan Political Tactic

April 25, 2020

The Donkey Party is actively seeking to plunge the country into an economic tailspin. They do wish to maintain some level of plausible deniability of the point. That is important to their credulous suckers. They believe your poverty and misery serves them well.

New Hampshire Rated Best State to Live In (Again!)

January 8, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The Internet is full of sites that do “best of” data-crunching on crime poverty, overall health, the standard of living, jobs, wags, opportunity. When it’s those categories, New Hampshire always seems to do well.

If Socialism is the Cure are Prosperity and Freedom the Disease?

November 13, 2019

The Fraser Institute recently released its annual study “Economic Freedom of the World.” The report is prepared by professors James Gwartney of Florida State University; Robert A. Lawson and Ryan Murphy of Southern Methodist University; and Joshua Hall of West Virginia University.

Trump to Elijah Cummings – What’d Your District do with the 16 Billion We Gave You in 2018?

August 26, 2019 Steve MacDonald

It seems like just yesterday (it was about 24 yesterdays, now) that the Democrats thought they finally had Trump. He’d said unkind things about rat-infested Baltimore. The Left snapped their latest trap only to get caught in it again. Baltimore is a disaster.