Trump Road rally Sunday Nov. 1

 HUGE TRUCK, CAR, MOTORCYCLE OR ANY VEHICLE  RALLY IN NEW TRIPOLI THIS SUNDAY

MAY BE THE BIGGEST CARAVAN OF 2020

This Sunday November 1, will be a huge rally event beginning at 10:30 and the caravan is expected to get under way by 1.15 pm. Event will be organized in the vicinity of Feinour's Garage on Rt. 309 in New Tripoli. There is going to be speakers and the national anthem preceding the Caravans departure. The link for this can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/events/687489245201203?active_tab=about

All Trump supporters are encouraged and welcomed to participate in this 2 hour tour of Lehigh County.

Buckle your seat belts, Post election likely to be a rough ride.

NO MATTER THE WINNER, CHAOS WILL REIGN

POLITICAL WAR WILL CONTINUE

No matter who the winner is on November 3rd. or whenever this election is finally settled it is just another battle in the continuing political war. The problem is there is no unity or consensus in regards to the future direction of the country. The two competing faction have diametrically opposite visions for the country. There is virtually nothing that these two sides agree upon. 

Besides that reality, a new crisis has been created. While the Covid-19 pandemic is still with us, the day will come when it will be brought under control. It will have little to do with government action, but likely will be a problem until a viable vaccine is made available to most of the country. The virus will go away, but the casualties of political war in the inner cities will fester for years to come.

Many governors and big city mayors were willing to allow rioting, looting and general mayhem to reign in their cities in an effort to stimulate minority voters to vote for the democrats. They also were willing to shut down their cities in mass, rather than targeting the most vulnerable populations in another hope that economic hardship could be blamed on Donald Trump. When the election is over they will be left with huge deficits, a loss of economic activity, and an exodus of wealth out of their cities and states. Some of these cities will likely go the way of Detroit of the late 60's. Some may very well never recover. It is likely that federal government will not have the wherewithal to rescue them.

Those are realities no matter who the winner of the election. If Donald Trump wins the election you will likely see social unrest in much of the democrat controlled cities and states. It will be interesting to see their response now that the election is not in the play. Especially since their police departments have been decimated by retirements and resignations. Recruitment of qualified good candidates may become a near impossibility. I do not see any solution to these problems. Many states and cities that have not been decimated will likely return to prosperity, but it will likely be an urban vs suburban and rural economic divide. 

If Joe Biden is elected you can expect a flight from paper assets into hard goods and assets. A virtual shutdown in business spending and likely the beginning of a cycle of massive unemployment. An intensified flight from the urban areas by citizens of means and business. This will likely be followed by authoritarian government measures to tax and restrict the flight of capital and possibly assets, which will result in a further escalation of flight and avoidance. The preppers could now look like true prophets and may be finally vindicated.

I don't think there will be any softening in the position of the Marxist revolutionaries in either case. Many of these activists will view either reality as a political opportunity. The rest of the citizens will likely be hardened in defense of their liberties, assets and property. At this point only a peaceful, amicable divorce will restore peace and tranquility. It is the Marxist revolutionaries who cannot exist without the production and assets of the other side. Only a miracle will allow all this to end well, and any such belief is not politically correct.

Democrats promise; Give us power and we will abuse it.

 DEMOCRATS NOW THREATEN AMERICA 

 THEY PROMISE IF GIVEN POWER, THEY WILL ABUSE THAT POWER

Democrat whining over the confirmation of Amy Barrett to the supreme court has now descended into threats to the country. They openly threaten America that they will take vengeance on the citizens of this country by using that power to solidify their control of the government forever. This is not a surprise, after watching their abuse of power for the last 12 years.

You could say that much of this division started with the passing of the Affordable Care Act. This bill, which affected the health care of everyone in the country, was passed without one republican vote. They had to change the rules of the Senate and publicly bribe many of their own democrat senators to pass this law. They knowingly lied to the people that if they liked their doctor, they could keep their doctor. If they liked their insurance, they could keep their insurance. It was all about political power and control of the health care industry. They used the plight of those who were uninsured to disrupt the health care of the whole country in an effort to move the country to a national health care system. A system that did not pass muster with the constitution, but they were able to keep it alive by a convoluted ruling by the Republican appointed Chief Justice himself. 

The uprising that resulted led to the democrats losing 63 seats in the house and the majority and losing 7 seats in the senate which gave them a slim 53-47 majority. 

They could have taken their time and worked for a bi-partisan effort to address the problems with healthcare, which was high quality healthcare, but a continually rising cost. Instead they used the problems to push a partisan ideological solution.

In the election of 2012 Obama was reelected, but the republicans held the house. It was obvious that the people were afraid to give them that power again.

In the election of 2014 the Republicans won 9 senate seats and now controlled the senate and the house. A Democrat state senator from California and a Democrat state representative from Connecticut were arrested and convicted for voter fraud. Voter machine irregularities occurred in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Illinois. The Affordable care act was still a major issue in this election.

On February 13, 2016 Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia unexpectedly died. On Mar. 16, 2016 Obama nominated Merrick Garland to replace him. The president nominates and the Senate give advice and consent. The republican senate refused to put the nominee up for a vote. They had the constitutional right to make that decision, but the animosity over the partisan passing of ACA weighed in the decision.

During the presidency of Obama every part of the Federal government was politicized. We had the IRS use their power to restrict political organizations. The ATF engaged in gun running to Mexican cartels to create a climate for gun control that resulted in the death of a Border control officers. We saw his Justice department refuse to hand over subpoenaed documents.

We saw the Obama administration engage in regime change and foment revolution in Syria, Egypt, Libya, Ukraine and interfere in the elections in Israel and Russia. They helped in effect to finance Iranian terror and destabilization in the middle east. Their policies resulted in the destabilization of much of Europe and greatest displacement of human beings since WW2. It has resulted in the death of 100's of thousands in the middle east.

Then during and after the election of Donald Trump the FBI, State department and CIA engaged in an effort to overthrow the election, to discredit Trump, drive his popularity down and force him to resign. The Mueller investigation went on for 2 1/2 years and when they finally gave it up, within a week the Democrat controlled house set out to impeach the President for inquiring about the true corruption engaged in by the Joe Biden family in Ukraine. They had the constitutional power to engage in that and they did. They did not receive 1 Republican vote. It was nothing more than a partisan abuse of power.

We have seen four years of Democrat appointees and bureaucrats leak misleading and dishonest attacks on the president. Undercut and attempt to hinder his presidency. All in an attempt to destroy and cover up their own corruption.

We watched a viscous, slanderous and perjury laden Senate hearing for the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a supreme court justice. A disgrace to the country.

Now they whine about the Republican senate actually fulfilling their constitutional duty to fill a seat on the supreme court. Not just whine, but threaten and promise, that if they regain power there will be no limit to the abuse of power they will engage in by enlarging the court, adding states to the union to control the senate forever and lower the voting age to sixteen so they can then politicize the public schools to win elections.

The last twelve years has shown the nature of this new Democrat party, it is a party of revolution and destruction. Their goal is to destroy America as we know it and replace it with some yet to be determined Utopian illusion. This is the most important election in the history of this country. Our very survival is at stake.

Pictures of Ballot harvesting in Northampton co.

 LOOKS LIKE ILLEGAL BALLOTS BEING DROPPED IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY

DOES ANYONE OVER THERE CARE?

There have been numerous reports of multiple drops of Ballots in Northampton county. It has also been reported that when complaints were made, no one cared to even make an inquiry. If this is the way ballots are going to be handled then I guess the only recourse would be for everyone to do the same. It seems it's alright to bring bags of ballots and drop them at the government center.

Below are photos of these activities. Is this alright? Do these people look familiar?

Why is there no security and monitoring at these drop boxes? Is this activity going on a massive scale.

Has the election already been compromised ? 

Finally, Trump rally in Lehigh Valley

HEAVY TURNOUT IN SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP

AMAZING JOB BY EVENT CREWS 

Yesterday we witnessed the first appearance of Donald Trump to the Lehigh Valley. Even with rain and drizzle it was a huge turnout in support of the President. The decision to come to the Lehigh valley was made hardly a week before the event. Gloria Lee Snover, Northampton county Republican  chair, has been lobbying for this event for 5 years. It finally happened after she did an interview with the Washington Times were she complained that Northampton county worked tirelessly for Trump and felt ignored by his campaign. Someone close to Trump heard the report and finally the decision was made to come to Northampton county. Some in the campaign felt that Northampton county, under the highly effective leadership of Snover, was doing OK without a visit from the President. It was a good move by the campaign to make this visit to the Lehigh Valley.

I got to the Unclaimed freight parking lot just before 8 AM. the lot was already filled and was told that there were 4 more lots in the area and supporters were being shuttled by bus to the event. I decided to park in a field right next to Unclaimed freight. The buses loaded and unloaded quickly and the event area was already overflowing when we arrived.

Line waiting to go through security

We entered the area of the event just before 11 AM start to the event. A very happy, positive group of people made the wait very comfortable.

 

I'll leave the estimating of the size of the crowd to others but it was in the thousands for sure and also exceeded the 750 recommended by Wolf. Masks were worn by everyone both at the event and on the buses. These people all came here to encourage and let Trump know they are behind him and support him and thank him for putting their hopes into action.

This event was not allowed at the airport or any other public space and was not chosen and finalized until midnight on Friday the 23rd. It is an amazing feat for these event specialists to bring in all the bleachers, the stage, the Jumbo screens, all the tents, fences, speakers, sound equipment and  lighting and have everything work flawlessly in 48 hours. Hats off to Hanover township and the Pennsylvania state police for a great job of traffic control. It was truly a job well done.

Biden vs Trump foreign policy

TRUMP FOREIGN POLICY COMPARED TO 40 YEARS OF CHAOS

MEDIA IGNORES HUGE SUCCESS OF TRUMP FOREIGN POLICY 

The foreign policy of Obama/Biden was a continuing policy that seems to have been orchestrated by the entrenched bureaucrats in the U.S. State department, the CIA and the Military Industrial complex. It was not much different from the policies that were part of the Bush, Clinton, Bush 2 administrations. It was basically a policy of regime change and destabilization in many parts of the world. It created a fear and distrust by many nations that they will be next on the list of nations targeted by the United States.

After the success of Ronald Reagan's foreign policy, when we were respected and trusted by much of the world, we seem to go into a strategy of using the fact that we were the only remaining super power and use that power to destabilize and rebuild the world to our desires. This began in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then under the Obama/Biden administration we saw the United States orchestrate and support revolution in Ukraine, Syria, Egypt and Libya and interference in the Israeli and Russian elections.. Whether this was the overt plan of the Obama/Biden administration or just a lack of control of the bureaucracy we may never know, but from the language of Joe Biden he would again turn foreign policy over to the geniuses who have had this country spending its youth and treasure on endless conflicts without end. 

This destabilization resulted in the refuge disaster in Europe and in much of the world. It resulted in the death of hundreds of the thousands and the displacement of millions. It has been a colossal failure of policy.

In contrast, Donald Trump engaged the Muslim world in his first major initiative in the Saudi Arabian summit attended by most of the Arab world. It resulted in Saudi Arabia cracking down on Saudi citizens support of Sunni terrorists. This began the eliminating of support for Al Quada and other Sunni extremists.

The Trump administration then worked with the Iraqis and Kurd's and cooperated with the Syrian and Russian forces to literally destroy the ISIS caliphate. While there may be small remnants, they are few, and do not hold any territory. It is a fact that these ISIS fighters have been exterminated by the tens of thousands. This was accomplished by a climate of trust with all those who cooperated in this endeavor. 

The Trump administration, then cooperated with Turkey, Russia and Syria to begin the policy of stabilization of Syria. There is a plan to bring about a constitutional government to Syria that is supported by those nations in the region.

Trump was opposed by many in the state department and other bureaucracies for his approach, but it has been successful and those Arab countries have more trust in the United States. The fear mongering about the destruction of the Kurds and other U.S. allies has not happened.

Then there was the withdrawal from the Iran deal, considered a good deal by the Obama/Biden administration. This cut off funding for Shia terrorists in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Lebanon and North Africa. It has removed the financing of Hezbollah in Syria and Lebanon and with the elimination of Iran's top foreign terrorist general and his staff, the ability of Iran to destabilize the region is severely curtailed.

In the last few months we have seen the normalization of relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and now Sudan. This is full diplomatic recognition and includes commerce and travel. It is the most significant peace development in 40 years. There are now negotiations going on between Lebanon and Israel. It is hopefully the beginning of a realignment of the whole middle East.

The United States has the fewest Troops in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan in the last 18 years. There are peace discussions now ongoing  between the Taliban and the Afghan government.

Trump has been criticized for his dealings with NATO, but he has pressured, with success, to force the NATO members to abide to there commitments for monetary support of the alliance. It is now a stronger alliance than in the past.

Trump has made overtures to North Korea and established a dialogue with Kim Jung Un. No one can expect a country with the history of North Korea to flip on a dime in their policy, but it is a better situation than before and in time may actually bear fruit.

Trump has confronted China on their unfair trade practices, theft of intellectual material, and military expansion that has most of our Asian allies living in fear. Biden has voiced that he does not consider China a threat and would likely not make changes to previous China policy. There are enormous corporate forces in this country who are willing to sacrifice american jobs and security for the opportunity to buy low priced products to sell at huge profits in this country. Biden is being financed by many of these interests.

In the last election, Trump voiced his support for improved relations with Russia, this brought about a huge push back by the entrenched bureaucracy who made it impossible for Trump to have any dialogue with this strategic country. It has set back out relationship to near a cold war result. This is the desire of many in the bureaucracy, the question is why? Hopefully in a second administration he would be allowed to stop our slide into conflict with Russia.

An objective look at the results of a Trump foreign policy and the foreign policy of the past is a no brainer. Sadly there is no objective reporting or analysis in this country, everything is about  political advantage and the reacquiring of power. It would be a very sad development to return to the policies of the past.

Will 2020 be a 2016 repeat?

BIDEN IS THE PREFERRED CANDIDATE OF MEDIA AND ESTABLISHMENT

TRUMP STILL THE OUTSIDER

It looks like 2020 will be a very similar campaign as we saw in 2016. Joe Biden will have the same appeal as Hillary Clinton. He is the ultimate establishment candidate. He will be favored over Sanders and every advantage will be given him by the Democratic establishment. 

He will be supported by those who oppose any changes in trade rules. The same rules that he voted for in the past. The rules that have resulted in huge profits for international corporations while putting working class citizens on welfare and food stamps, resulting in a permanent dependent class. 

He will tout the advantages of unlimited immigration as the standard of America. 

He will support the foreign policy of the geniuses who have controlled foreign policy for the last 40 years.

He is the same progressive ideology of the rest of the democrats, but he will attempt to be the candidate of the middle class, he will attempt to revert back to the old standby stealth candidate on most issues. You can expect many generalities and few details. 

He is running as if he has already won the democratic nomination, and in effect he has done just that, not at the voting booth, but in the back rooms and board rooms of those who control the democratic party. 

While he will embrace most of the social and redistribution policies of the left, his main function will be to ensure the status quo of the present ruling class. To insure that they stay in power for decades to come. He will have the support of both the republican and democrat establishment. You can expect that the media will quickly jump on board to make him look the savior of the country.

You can expect to see many of the 20 candidates begin to drop out and pledge support for Biden in the coming months.

It will be interesting to see if Sanders and his supporters will allow it to happen again. The establishment doubts it can control Bernie Sanders.

The question is, can he keep up with Sanders and then Trump on the campaign trail, after being on the shelf for the last 10 years, does he have what it takes to complete the coming marathon?

How will he explain the comparison between 8 years as vice-president to the roaring economy of today?

Originally published 4/30/2019,  

Is Hunter Biden a victim or a villain?

HUNTER BIDEN EMAILS REVEAL MORE OF THE STORY

CLAIMS TO BE BAG MAN FOR DAD FOR 30 YEARS 

There is much controversy about emails found on a lap-top owned by Hunter Biden and dropped off at a Delaware Repair shop. It seems the lap-top was never reclaimed and then became the property of the shop owner. It seems this lap-top was turned over to the FBI in December 2019. The owner, concerned about his safety, also made copies and forwarded one to Rudy Guiliani. It seems it has been verified that this laptop was dropped off by Hunter Biden and that it is verified that the FBI has this laptop. 

It is common knowledge that Hunter Biden has had a troubled past, including drug use and improprieties with women. His partners in business Devon Archer and Bevan Cooney have been convicted of fraud in relation to investments by an Indian Tribe to the tune of over 50 million dollars, so far Biden has escaped prosecution in this matter. Bevan Cooney has just turned over thousands of emails to a media company.

Archer was also on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma along with Hunter Biden. They were paid millions for serving on the board.  Archer was also part of the investment company that he and Biden were awarded the contract to invest 1.5 Billion of Chinese government money. Much of this money was invested in strategic minerals in Africa and dual military and commercial manufacturing companies. It has been reported that Biden won this contract after flying to China in Air Force 2 with his father Joe Biden.

It is reported that Hunter Biden has complained in emails that he has been supporting the whole family for 30 years. It is also reported to have complained that he has to give half his earnings to his father. If it is true that Hunter has been engaged in these activities for 30 years, that would mean he has been doing this since he was a young man. Is it possible he was instructed on who to contact and how to proceed and trusted that he was doing a good thing. As he grew up it could be devastating to learn that this trust had put him into a very vulnerable position that he would not likely be able to exit. While this is speculation it could explain the drug use and erratic behavior by someone who should have had a bright future. 

While we as yet do not know the whole story, it is obvious that Hunter Biden has been involved in corrupt dealings for a family member of a high government official. Can anyone believe he made these deals on his own? He had no skills in energy, did not speak Ukrainian, his only asset was his father, who claims he had no knowledge of his sons dealings. Why would the Chinese government award Hunter Biden the contract to invest $1.5 billion for them? Is he the most qualified investment banker available?

While the Biden's are now under the microscope, it should not be assumed that this just Democrat corruption. I believe that this is a symptom of wide spread third world type corruption engaged in by members of both parties, aided by government bureaucrats and often ignored by the media. The question is not if there is serious corruption in our federal government, but how widespread and how deep.  

Observations of Pennsylvania activists on both sides

 THREE MONTHS OF INTERACTION WITH POLITICAL ACTIVISTS

REPUBLICANS PRO TRUMP,  DEMOCRATS ANTI-TRUMP

For the last three months I have been able to be in a position to interact with political activists and supporters on both the Republican and Democrat sides. I admit, I have had more occasion to have personal contact with republican voters. The Democrat voters have been less, but no less informative to some dynamics of this election. My interaction with these voters has been mostly internet conversations, followed up with viewing the Facebook profiles of those with whom I had interaction. I had many face to face interactions with Republican, Democrat and Independent voters who are supporting Donald Trump. I have near 1000 interactions, skewed 10% anti-trump 90% pro-trump. I make no claim that my observations are in any way a scientific analysis.

First, in conversations with anti-Trump activists, they are clearly anti-Trump, not pro-Biden. I saw little if any clear support or proclamations to the virtues of Joe Biden. Many of the most vocal are clearly Bernie Sanders supporters. I took notice of the leading occupations and groups you could assign to these anti-Trump supporters. Also all these people on both sides reached out to me and volunteered  either their comments or conversation.  None of this is in any way connected to this blog.

Anti-Trumpers classified as the most virulent and also most in number.

1. College Professors

2. Musicians

3. Artists

4. Young white single females.

5. Immigrants, no way of knowing but appear undocumented.

6  LGBTQ  activists.

Interesting that hardly any responses by black voters or married white women.

Pro-Trump supporters.

1. Self -Employed

2. Small business owners and employees. 

3. Farmers

4. Married white women, many are also in group 5.

5. Christians and other people of faith

6. Constitution and 2nd amendment supporters.

Interesting that school teachers in elementary and high school were few and appeared in each group. Union members also few, but likely more in the Pro-Trump category from the trades and manufacturing unions.

Again, all this is unscientific and is just my personal first hand observation acquired in the course of my political activities. I see strong vigorous positive support from Pro-trump voters. I also heard from many first time voters and information concerning many signing up new voters. 

On the anti-Trump side I  cant say that I heard anyone extolling the virtues or positions of Joe Biden, it is all hatred of Trump. Also none of this suggests that this is a accurate cross section, but the most active who reached out to me.

I do see a large turnout, but we will have to see who turns out the most.

Media goes all in for Biden

BIDEN STAYS HOME, MEDIA CAMPAIGNS

DEBATE COMMISSION DROPS FOREIGN POLICY QUESTIONS

With two weeks left until the election the media has gone all in a coordinated effort to elect Joe Biden. They have dropped all pretense of any objectivity, even if there was very little left. It is hard to believe that the media will ever be able to recover their credibility after the last 4 years.

They only want to discuss the Corona virus, more case, more hospitalizations, more deaths, all because of Trump. The virus must be polling as the top negative issue for Trump. There is no mention of issues, like immigration, trade, foreign policy or taxes. The debate commission has dropped all issues to be discussed except the virus and civil unrest, which they are attempting to spin to be the fault of Trump and white supremacists.

This past week social media stepped up to protect Biden from any negative news. It has gone as far as to block Trump and members of his administration. Blocking of conservative commentary has been going on for some time, but now is near a total embargo. Even this blog, which is admitted to favor conservative positions has been totally blocked for months. It is blocked, by Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Mix, and Pinterest. The first occurrences were for several days or a week. This occurred with articles about Michael Bloomberg and Jeffery Epstein. Then several months ago it was totally blocked on social media. Any inquiry responds that site does not conform to community standards. There has never been any advocacy for violence, illegal behavior, porn or anything that is in their community standards guidelines. It appears they have also gone all in on censorship and effecting the outcome of the political debate in this country. It may be the biggest threat to self government this country has ever experienced.

It seems that even though Biden has been leading in most of the polls, there is a certain desperation in their behavior.  Memories of 2016 are still waking these people up at night. I recall exactly 2 weeks before the election in 2016, MSNBC was speculating that Trump may be the first presidential candidate to not carry a single state in that election. Trump is actually polling better this year than in 2016. 

Polling is to me now a questionable practice. Unlike the 70's 80's and 90's and even early 2000's many homes no longer have land lines. If they do, they have an answering machine and just return calls. Cell phone numbers often are not available, and if they are, again often screened by the owners.  In conversations with people doing polling and campaigns who make phone calls, they are lucky to have a 10% answer rate. Digging deeper it appears this is mostly elderly people with land lines, and possibly lonely, and willing to talk to anyone.

In two weeks maybe this election will be over. The repercussions will go on much longer. Things will never be the same. You can also bet we will not descend into an era of peace and tranquility, no matter the outcome. This election is just another battle in the war over the direction of this country. I suspect that unless you are relatively young, you will not see the final outcome.

Biden's trade policy vs Trump administration.

 LOTS OF RHETORIC ABOUT BUY AMERICA, BUT NO SUBSTANCE

PROPOSES LOTS OF GOVERNMENT TAX CREDITS AND SUBSIDIES BUT NO NEW TRADE NEGOTIATIONS

Joe Biden has routinely criticized Donald Trump's trade policies. He advocates that disputes should be handled at the World Trade Organization and that any trade negotiations should focus on labor and environmental standards. His main strategy in his "Buy America", program is to enforce labeling rules as to country of origin and encourage through legislation more union ability to organize. He believes that Trade agreements should be large international deals rather than one on one negotiations between the United States and its trading partners. His plans can be viewed here: https://joebiden.com/made-in-america/#

He also discounts the use of tariff's as a negotiating tool as costing Americans with increased costs of imported goods. While this could be true in some instances, most exporters have either adjusted their currency value or subsidized their products in an effort to avoid losing market share.

Biden was an advocate of the North America Free Trade Agreement, recently replaced by the Trump administration. He still defends that trade deal.

Biden is still an advocate of a large Asia Pacific Trade Deal. This trade deal was rejected by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Trump administration mostly because it takes the ability to control trade policy out of the hands of U.S. elected officials and places it in a international bureaucracy. Often these large foreign trade organizations take years to settle disputes and are often biased and open to the possibility of corruption in favor of those who offer the best bribes. The Trump administration has favored unilateral control of our trade policies.

Biden has been quoted as believing China is not an economic or military threat to the United States. His campaign has been financed to the tune of 100's of million dollars of corporate money by companies who favor the present trade policies with China.

The Trump administration has been successful in negotiating new trade agreements, with Mexico, Canada, Japan and South Korea also a partial deal with China. Negotiations continue with India, the E.U. Brazil and Argentina. It is expected that a deal will be negotiated with UK as soon as they have completed their negotiations with EU.

The policy of the Trump administration is Fair and reciprocal trade. This means if they have tariffs on U.S. products we will tariff their products. If they want complete tariff free trade we will reciprocate. Many countries have rules that protect their products, particularly their agricultural and food products. Most have tariffs on U.S. auto's but we have not placed tariff's on their auto's. These unfair trade deals were long overdue for renegotiation. Free but reciprocal trade will open up many opportunities for american companies and workers. One on One trade policies will give the United states quick and strong ability to control and enforce trade agreements.

Democrat senators worry Barrett will accurately interpret Constitution

 FEAR IMPROPER PRECEDENTS WILL BE OVERTURNED

CALL ACCURATE INTERPRETATIONS ,"JUDICIAL ACTIVISM"

It is clear from two days of hearings by the Senate Judicial committee that Amy Coney Barrett is well qualified to be a Supreme Court Justice. That has never been the concern of the Democrat side of the hearings. Their concern is that she will make her decisions based on the Law and the Constitution. That she will not allow emotions or her own personal feelings or inclinations to sway her away from the meaning of the text at the time it was written. It is as it should be. The Constitution is the law for the Government. It is a restraint on congress and the government. It is strictly and clearly written that the government and congress only have the authority to regulate what is clearly defined by the constitution. All other matters, powers and authority is to remain with states and the people.

For two days their inference is that even wrongly decided cases are now precedent and while possibly in error they are now the law of the land. Making any changes or interpretation that overturns previous precedent is not in the best interest of the country. While overturning previous ruling of the court would be possibly uncomfortable and require an adjustment by the country, so did judgments that were made without conforming to the law. 

Much of the division in the country has been created by judicial activism that have found interpretations that took on power that was not granted to the federal 'government. The Constitution has a provision through the amendment process to make changes to the constitution possible. It is a lengthy process requiring consent of the states by a 2/3 majority. It is as it should be. 

It is true that many things are different since 1781. It is possible that some changes will need to be made. Women won the right to vote by the amendment process, by the time of its passing it was accepted by a strong majority of the people. It ended there, there was not decades of fighting and controversy.

The major concerns of the democrat senators is Roe vs Wade, legalizing abortion, which by the way had provisions concerning viability. They do not even want to conform to their own sacred precedent. Any overturning of this ruling will not outlaw abortion, but will take it out of the federal domain and put it were it belonged all along, with the states. We will then have different rules as we can imagine. The people of the states can sort them out and come to a peaceful satisfactory agreement for their state. It would be a blessing to get this out of the federal controversy.

Same for Gay marriage. The arrogance of 5 judges to redefine the definition of marriage that has been the basis of society for thousands of years. It could not even pass a referendum in California, yet 5 judges found a way to proclaim it a constitutional right.

There other concern is the Affordable care Act, again another sacred precedent without the foundation of the constitution, there is no provision in the constitution that gives the federal government the authority to impose a national healthcare system. If the citizens want a national healthcare system then start the amendment process and get the 2/3 of the states to ratify and it will be the law of the land. It will also have the support of the whole country not just one party.

The Constitution and the bill of rights are remarkable documents. They created a system with certain rights for the states and certain enumerated rights defined for the Federal government. It was the fear of the founders that a power hungry federal bureaucracy would expand its power until it became a all encompassing authority for the country. They were so right and so wise to understand this. The Federal Court is supposed to be a buffer between the Federal government and the states and people. To have a peaceful united country we need a strict solid system of law, that is not redefined by cause of the moment, but by a process that ensures the acceptance of the vast majority.

Barrett hearing all about affordable Care Act.

SO FAR, DEMOCRAT SENATORS RESTRAIN THEIR HOSTILITY

TED CRUZ SHINES

It is not clear as yet what the plan is by the democrat members of the Senate Judiciary committee. They have focused most of their time on preserving the "Affordable Care Act". They claim if this act is overturned at the supreme court it will wreak havoc on the lives of millions of Americans. 

They attempted to focus their emotional appeal on pictures and stories of people who are insured under the affordable care act. Not one word about the the Constitution and the law as a guide to this laws validity. Not one word about the chaos this law created for Small business, self employed and all those who had health insurance before the passing of the act. Not one word about all those who lost their health insurance coverage when this act made their policies null and void, raised their premiums to unaffordable numbers, forced them into ACA policies with poor coverage and high deductibles. Many small businesses and self employed had their policies cancelled several times since passing of the ACA. Many no longer have health insurance because they could no longer afford the new premiums. Young people had their premiums raised by over 300% and forced many to go without insurance. 

Since the passing of the ACA, healthcare has declined in this country. It has not gotten more affordable and has created confusion and a lack of service for all Americans. It has permanently created a decline in the quality of health care in this country. ACA was just an intentional plan to move this country into a National health care system by undermining the system we formally had. The problem with health care was not the quality of care, but the cost. Things are worse since the passing of ACA.

Ted Cruz went on to sum up the results of Democrat appointed members of the court. Their disregard for the constitution and the bill of rights.Their focusing on transforming America by decisions of the court rather than through the democratic process. Ted Cruz's monologue can be seen and heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFRIUwhKo7U   It is well worth the time spent.

The senators also voiced their concern concerning abortion, gun control, and gay marriage. These hearings will continue on Wednesday and Thursday. We will see if they will continue to be restrained in the treatment of this women. It seems they are somewhat wary of engaging in a despicable circus as they did in the Kavanaugh hearings. We will see if they can do it.

Biden's, "New green deal" energy plan.

EXPECT MILLIONS OF JOB LOSSES, EXPLOSION IN ENERGY PRICES AND POSSIBLE SHORTAGES

END OF ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

Like most of Biden's proposed policies there is either a lack of specifics or candor about what they would be and no analysis of the effects on American households and businesses. You can view his proposals here:

https://joebiden.com/9-key-elements-of-joe-bidens-plan-for-a-clean-energy-revolution/#

1. New tough regulations on oil and gas producers. Focusing on methane emissions.

2. Rigorous new Fuel economy standards on light and medium vehicles. With the goal of 100% of new vehicles having zero emissions. In effect eliminating access to vehicles to many parts of society due to increasing the cost of vehicles

3. Ban oil and gas production on all public lands.

4. Enact legislation to ban all fossil fuel use by 2050.

5. Rejoin Paris accords.

6. Target reducing carbon footprint by 50% by 2035, by re-fitting buildings and appliances on existing buildings.

7. Emphasis on environmental Justice because global warming effects minorities in a disproportional way.

8. Direst the EPA and Justice Department to increase accountability on fossil fuel producers for pollution.

9. Create 10 million Union jobs in retrofitting buildings and producing new clean energy jobs. Preference to be given to union workers.

These plans are the government take-over and control  of all energy production. This has been the goal of big government for years. While not exactly nationalization. In effect, it will be total control of all energy production and use. It will give the government the power to eliminate producers who are not favored. It will likely result in shortages, brown outs and a dramatic raising the cost of all energy. 

It will eliminate our ability to be energy self sufficient and we will likely be forced to buy energy from producers who are less likely to be clean producers. 

It will likely price out the lower income segments of society access to private transportation.

Methane emission regulations will likely also target meat producers and farmers, which could raise the cost of all food. Farming is very energy reliant. It will raise the cost of food dramatically.

This is a backwards plan. Instead of developing new clean sources of energy, this will never be able to replace fossil fuels with windmills and solar panels, It is eliminating fossil fuel without a viable replacement. It will raise the cost of electricity, as Obama predicted, by 200% or more. It will raise the cost of home heating. It will raise the cost of food. It will raise the cost of transportation dramatically.

In effect,it will make all  American's poorer and will force many into hunger and homelessness.It will allow government bureaucrats with little knowledge of energy production to become the overseers of the energy industry. It will be a disaster.

Corrupt contracts were signed during Susan Wild Tenure as solicitor

SUSAN WILD OK'D CEDAR BEACH POOL CONTRACT

CORRUPT DEAL COST ALLENTOWN MILLIONS

                             

Susan Wild has consistently claimed that the corrupt practices of the Pawlowski administration occurred before she was solicitor. This is far from the truth, several questionable deals were engaged in during her tenure. One was the restoration of the Cedar Beach Pool.

Susan Wild was confirmed as Allentown's solicitor in January 2015. the Cedar Beach pool was closed in 2015 due to leaks. A committee led by Christy Alvord, the city's recreation and events coordinator, was assigned to review the pool design proposals. The committee initially ranked MKSD architects first, followed by Integrated Aquatics and then Spillman Farmer Architects in that order.

Alvord while under oath testified that managing director Fran Dougherty, asked how the review was going and instructed her to take a closer look at Spillman Farmer.The committee had finally decided to go with Integrated Aquatics because of their experience with pools and excellent references. The references for Spillman Farmer were not positive.

Richard Holtzman, the city's parks superintendent testified that the committee had decided to go with Integrated Aquatics. He also testified that Dougherty had told the committee to take another look at Spillman Farmer. Holtzman also testified that Dougherty came up with better references for Spillman.

The FBI had tapes of converstions between the mayors office and Joe Biondo, head of Spillman Farmer instructing him to get new references, and telling him," I am looking out for you guys"

Joe Biondo testified that he had hired Fleck and Sam Ruchlewicz, Pawlowski's campaign advisers to help his firm make connections with developers in Allentown.

Eventually the contract for $1.8 million was awarded to Spillman Farmer Architects, in May 2015. This contract was approved by Susan Wild, the Solicitor for the city.

City Ordinance states,"All proposed Ordinances, Resolutions and contracts shall be submitted to the City solicitor for approval prior to adoption or execution by the City"

In July 2016, Allentown hired Keystone Consulting Engineers on an emergency basis to mediate ongoing issues with pool. It came to the conclusion that the pool shell was severely undersized.

In December 2016, Wild' s office approved a change order for $681,345.48 to repudiate structural issues with the pool.

In July 5, 2017, Wild's office approved another change order for $726,400 to correct mistakes made in the design of the pool. this was the sixth change order and drove the cost to $3.4 million.

The current engineer was questioned by a city resident, Don Ringer, if any provisions were made to  guarantee that the pool would not be flooded in the future. The engineer stated that that question was never part of the proposal to fix the pool and he could not guarantee it would not be flooded in high water.  note. the pool was closed in August 2018 due to flooding.

According to Assistant U.S. attorney Michelle Morgan, Spillman Farmer Architects and the disaster in renovating the Cedar Beach pool was connected to Pawlowski's pay-to play scheme.

So, Wild's assertion that no corruption occurred while she was solicitor is untrue. She was the Solicitor for the city and must have had knowledge of what was going on in these transactions, approved the contract, approved  six change orders that almost doubled the cost of the pool reconstruction to $3.4 million. The pool was closed for 2 years and still has more problems that will need to be addressed.

We may never know if she just looked the other way, or was she just incompetent. But to state that there was no corruption under her watch has been proven false.



Originally published 10/27/18

Biden's plans on immigration

 BASIC PLAN IS UNLIMITED IMMIGRATION

FAILING CITIES TO BE REPOPULATED WITH UNREGULATED IMMIGRATION

Like most policies of a future Biden administration, Immigration is hardly ever mentioned. If you want to look at his proposals they can be viewed here:   https://joebiden.com/immigration/#   To sum it up it is a recipe for unlimited open border policy, not only from the Americas but a lifting of all the bans on travel from unstable parts of the world put in place by the Trump administration.

The two public comments that I recall being made by Biden are:

 1. On the first day he stop all deportations out of the country.

 2. Both Biden and Harris have pledged to provide healthcare for all undocumented immigrants. This in itself will encourage a flood of people with health issues to pour into the country seeking healthcare.

He also has a plan to allow cities in the U.S. who are losing population, often due their mismanagement, to petition to allow as many refugees and immigrants to enter the country to maintain their population. This will qualify them for more government money based on population. It will also stress an already overwhelmed social services in those cities. It will likely turn these cities into enclaves of third world standards and conditions. This is not creating a melting pot of making more Americans, but an overwhelming of the existing culture for political purposes.

He plans on the legalization and full citizenship of all undocumented presently in the country.

The Biden plan is basically a reversal of all the initiatives of the Trump administration to control immigration. It will be truly an open border to anyone who wants to move to the United States. These plans will in a short time collapse the ability of our healthcare and social support services. 

We have seen no discussion or questions raised about Biden's plans for immigration. This is truly a stealth campaign with no issues, just hate Trump.

In the last election, Trump appealed to many by his willingness to take on controversial issues and offer a clear choice as to what he would do if elected. Biden is attempting to take no positions except to defeat Trump. It appears he realizes if Americans knew what he hopes to do to America he will be rejected.

Redistribution will not improve the lives of Americans

BIDEN ECONOMIC PLAN IS ABOUT REDISTRIBUTION NOT CREATING WEALTH

UNWILLING TO BE CANDID ABOUT POLICY

The parts of the Biden economic plan that he will admit to is really just another form of economic redistribution that will result in the decline of the American economy.

Increase the corporate tax from 21%, which is now in line with most other countries in the world, to 28% which will make it one of the highest and noncompetitive with our competitors. This is a way of appealing to peoples envy by labeling this tax as a giveaway to the rich. A competitive corporate tax, will encourage companies to stay in the United States and entice others to shift their facilities to this country.This will create more jobs and more jobs raises the standard of living for all. Redistribution is just eating the seed corn and leads to decline in economic activity.

Eliminating the rest of the tax cuts will take money out of the private sector and place into bureaucratic black hole that will lead to a declining economy.  

Also a proposal to place a corporate minimum tax, which sounds a lot like an actual asset tax that will slowly lead to a decline of these companies.

These corporate tax policies will likely see a decline in value of 401K and even another crisis in public pension funds. The solution will likely be more taxes.

The Biden plan also plans to eliminate the step-up provision in estate taxation. This provision presently values estate assets at the value they are when death occurs rather than valuing them at cost of purchase value. This means that if an asset has grown in value since it purchase, which could be many decades,an inheritance tax will be levied on the increase in value. This tax would be at regular income tax rates which would make the tax 39.6% on over 100,000 value. this would virtually eliminate the  passing of a business and most assets on to your family. This would also encourage the shifting of assets from paper assets to hard assets. Many of the New Democrat party believe that all people should start with nothing and discourage passing on of assets as a symptom of the privileged. A society that discourages savings and a view to the future is a society destined to collapse.

While not officially admitted to, it is also a proposal to lower the threshold on estate tax from 5 million to $1.2 million. Today anyone who owns a home and accumulated wealth could pass this threshold.

Biden's treatment of capital gains is to eliminate the 10% and 20% tax on capital gains and replace it by taxing gains at the regular income tax rate. This of course could be as high as 39.6%. Again the discouraging of paper assets and the shifting of assets to hard assets and likely a decline in economic activity.

Another proposal is 12.4 % tax on all income over $400,000, this is addition to the 39.6% income tax. This will result in taxes near 65% . While envy encourages this kind of taxation, it will lead to all kinds of creative tax schemes that will lead to decline in economic activity.

All these ideas believe in creating a more equal society by redistributing wealth from those who produce and work hard to those who do not. It will, as history has shown, result in a poorer country for everyone.

TV doctors outraged at Trump treatment

MOST HAVEN'T TENDED A PATIENT IN DECADES 

CRITICIZE WALTER REED'S REAL DOCTORS FOR NOT FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

It is really with some amusement that we watch CNN and MSNBC medical experts critique the doctors at Walter Reed Hospital. First they insinuated that Trump was a lot worse than anyone was telling the public. Then they criticized the treatment that was revealed by the doctors at Walter Reed as being inappropriate. Then Trump was actually in critical condition and the White House was engaging in a cover up. I believe that if under the care of these TV doctors he would have likely never left Walter Reed alive.

They also insisted that they should be allowed to see all the x-rays and scans so they could give their diagnosis of the situation. You could only imagine the shit show that would have resulted. 

They criticized Trump going for a ride in his limo to wave at fans and send a message to the country, that he was not yet dying. Such a ride was only necessary due to the media misinformation that needed to be corrected.

And now Trump went home to the White House, which is his residence, much better than sending him to a nursing home in New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania. Again, Trump has escaped his imminent demise.

While Trump will need another week to be sure he will be in the clear, he seems to be recovering well.

The real doctors at Walter Reed, I would assume, are up on the latest therapies and the best practices in the continuing evolution of treatment for this virus.

The results speak for themselves, they did what they thought was the best treatment for the president and they should be applauded, not criticized, for not following the out of date guidelines.

Now you know why these TV doctors are not treating real patients.

Democrats know they cannot beat Trump on the issues.

THREE YEARS OF COORDINATED NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNING AND TRUMP IS STILL STANDING

WITH NO WINNING ISSUES, DEMOCRATS DOUBLE DOWN

The Democrats and the media have conducted the most intense and coordinated negative campaign in history. While it has had some effect on the image of President Trump, he is still standing and is still a viable formidable candidate to be re-elected. 

The biggest victim of this attack has been the country as a whole. With even some support from the media and the opposition we could have made serious reform to the immigration system. We could have finalized new trade deals that would have been good for the American workers and farmers. We could have possibly improved relations with our adversaries around the world. This opposition has given hope to our opponents that they might be better off holding off making any decisions until after the next election. The Democrats have adopted a policy of negativity that has not been in the best interest of the country. They realize that the issues they have adopted are not being accepted by the majority of the American people, yet they are willing to harm the country to increase their own political power.

They are on the wrong side of the illegal immigration issue, their open borders policy is a loser for the country.

Their tax proposals and asset taxes, will kill the sound economy we now have.

Their insistence on radical changes in our energy policy will raise costs for all and cripple business, but will have no effect on climate changes. We could likely cut energy costs and use by encouraging conservation by consumers, especially electric consumption.

Their continued attempt to run the health care industry by Washington bureaucrats has not lowered costs of either healthcare or insurance. There should be a bi-partisan approach to create an environment that lowers costs.

Fair trade will be in the best interest of all Americans, we need more job training by the private sector to raise the labor participation numbers and free many from dependency.

The media and some departments of the Federal Government have lost their credibility, this may take years to restore.

So, knowing that their policies are all losers, we can expect the socialists and their lackeys in the media to continue their negative attacks on the President and his supporters. It could be that the American electorate is now more sophisticated in recognizing this kind of misinformation and manipulation. That is one positive bi-product of this relentless negative campaign.

originally published 5/6/2019