Federal government, purveyor of addictive dependence.

 FEDS CASH IS BAIT FOR SCHOOLS, LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS, BUSINESS AND EVEN FOREIGN NATIONS

TAXPAYERS AND BORROWED MONEY BUY VOTES AND INFLUENCE

The Federal government of the United States has developed a pattern of using money to overcome constitutional limits in its quest to increase its power. It repeatedly offers some cash incentives to schools, local governments or business subsidies to have them voluntarily accept Federal dollars and the strings that are attached.  Its the strings that increase the government's power over its constitutional limits. Once these entities are addicted to the federal money and have become dependent on it, they are reluctant to break away, even with increasingly repugnant strings. 

There is no constitutional provision for the federal government to be involved in education, yet they have been able to mandate much of what goes on even to the point of mandating cafeteria menus. 

They have no authority to mandate paid family leave. Are they going to manage and pay out this money?

We see money for child care. You can bet their will be strings on what kind of child care will qualify. It will be designed by the woke politicians in Washington. A blatant attempt to influence children at a even earlier age. 

The other part of this pattern is that they bait with an offer of money, often only for a limited time, then it becomes the responsibility of the state to fund and maintain an ever expanding program. Medicaid expansion is just such a program, after several years the funding becomes the duty of the state. These programs are all loaded with so called "Unfunded Mandates"

We see whole business's that would not survive without government subsides, much of the clean energy proposals are a perfect example. The solar companies actually advertise that a homeowner can often get it for free from government subsidies. It distorts the market and when the subsidies go away these ideas usually disappear.

While the politicians claim they are there to help, they are actually encouraging everyone to be addicted to the taxpayers and borrowed money, so that they can increase their power and threaten to withhold the money if you don't cooperate with their quest for more power.

We hear that the children of Afghanistan and Sudan will now starve if the U.S. stops the subsides. These subsides are all about control. With taxpayer and borrowed money. Biden is now on a world tour, you can bet he is handing out our money to whoever will agree to be our friend, even if it is just for the money.

States are often warned that they will withhold federal funds if they don't go along with unconstitutional mandates.

The constitution, the law for the Federal government, is very clear what the duties are for the Federal government. It is very limited and like immigration they are failing to obey the law. They have no constitutional mandate to be involved in education, healthcare and a whole list of things they have used our money to expand their power.

It is time for people to just say no,  no to the Federal government's addictive money and control.

Politicized DOJ should stay out of local politics.

COMING TO THE RESCUE OF WOKE TEACHERS UNION 

ALL ABOUT INTIMIDATION AND SILENCING

It seems the National School Boards Association and we can also bet the National Teachers Unions cried to Daddy Biden that there is opposition to their teaching social revolution to the children of America. Parents recently became enlightened to the fact the Education system is indoctrinating their children in not only Marxist ideology, that has been prevalent in higher education for decade, but to endorsing alternative lifestyles and even gender manipulation. Much of this is contrary to the beliefs of these children's parents. The left is not satisfied to sow division in race, they now want to destroy families from within. 

This is not a condemnation of teachers, I suspect and hope most of the teachers are middle of the road everyday Americans who sincerely are concerned about the best interests of their students. They themselves have been intimidated to be politically correct and likely punished if they step out of line. 

Take one look at the websites of the National Teachers unions and you will see it is full of Critical Race Theory ideas. While they don't mention Critical Race Theory, its tenants are there. They advocate for the introduction of homesexual lifstyle in early grades and advocatee for the right of underage youth to consider changing their sex, this is not what parents have been paying for through their taxes. 

Parents DO have the right to know and approve what is being taught to their children. Most just took it for granted that schools were their allies in raising healthy well adjusted children. Most likely many are still just that, but it is obvious that there are powerful organizations pushing social revolution from kindergarten on up. some even advocate lowering the voting age to 14 so they can enlist the teachers in partisan politics. If they continue on this path they will destroy support for public schools.

Schools should concentrate on those skills that will allow their students to become self-supporting and have a useful and rewarding life. Things like Math, English, Science etc. They should also be taught the working of our government, based on the constitution and bill of rights. After all that IS the law of the land.

Local schools and any problems can very well be handled by local law enforcement and the local legal system. It is obvious that this labeling of parents concern for their children by the Federal government as domestic terrorism is just an attempt to intimidate and silent any dissent. It should be made clear by all parents to the Federal government to leave the children's best interest to them.

Biden and his administration are guilty of Treason

ALL POLICIES ARE DESIGNED TO DESTROY AMERICA

ONE PARTY TOTALITARIAN RULE IS THE ONLY OBJECTIVE

Every act coming out of this administration, one has to debate whether we can actually call this a Biden administration, or the Democrat Revolutionary Committee, is designed to weaken America, both its national security and financial security.

We see his illegal immigration policy, enticing a foreign invasion with promises of free healthcare, education and all the benefits entitled to American citizens. There is no doubt that the goal is to dilute the voting power of American citizens and create a new large dependent class who can be intimidated to vote Democrat. When states issue drivers licenses, they are making them eligible to vote. California was the proving ground for overthrowing our democratic system. They have succeeded in making California a permanent Democrat state by allowing illegal immigrants to vote, even if they are living in tents on the sidewalks of their cities. This is were mail in voting, ballot harvesting and all those undemocratic voting practices were perfected and now they are spreading these polices around the country. This is all Treason plain and simple. 

Our Senators and Representatives who are not denouncing these policies are complicit with this Treason, no matter if the are Democrat, Republican or Independent. It is their responsibility to defend the constitution and rule of law. It is their foremost responsibility, not some party lust for total power.

We now see that China is tightening the screws on the supply of strategic metals and minerals. This is the beginning of  economic war. Our national security and industrial capacity is going to be diminished by having become dependent on China for strategic metals and other components. The Biden's were instrumental in using their contacts and influence to collude with China in purchasing the sources of these minerals in Africa and in other countries. Hunter Biden was entrusted by the Chinese communist Party to act as their agent to invest $1.5 billion. More Treason. We never hear one word from this administration concerning China, we can imagine why.

Of course, look at this administrations energy policy, we are approaching $4. a gallon gas and that is likely only the beginning. Every act has been to diminish our energy production capacity. It is intentional, to sow chaos and weaken America's financial stability, all in a lust to increase the power of the democrat party. These policies will destroy the citizens and our companies.Treason plain and simple. 

Then there is their unconstitutional mandates, where in the constitution was the president given the power to mandate anything to the citizens and companies of America by executive order. Why did he not go to congress to pass a law for these mandates, mostly because congress does not have the power to enact such mandates either. Executive orders were instituted to bring about enforcement of existing law, not to make the president a totalitarian dictator. He should be issuing executive orders to enforce the immigration laws on the books. We do not see any polices to strengthen America, only weaken it. More Treason.

We see proposals to gain access to all citizens financial transactions without warrant for probable cause. We see they now lust after the assets of Americans saved by sacrifice and hard work. Another unconstitutional  infringement on the right to private property. They have no limits in their lust for power. Are there only 2 democrats left that believe in the constitution and the rule of law?

Then we see the social experimentation, were we see the schools subverting parents and teaching children that they should feel guilty for those less fortunate, all based on race. Then they want to teach children to question the gender they were born with at time when children experience enough confusion and insecurity in their developing years.  This is worse than Treason, it is Child abuse of the worst kind. We see Joe Biden endorsing chemical manipulation of children to change their sex, an impossibility. I suspect this is an attempt to raise more dependent voters of the future.

Americans are running out of time to save this country as a country of opportunity and freedom. We are allowing our country to be subverted from within, while they keep harping that Trump was an authoritarian bent on destroying Democracy, those crying the loudest are the real enemies of the people and the country. 

Has Manchin just put a shot across the bow of the progressive caucus?

WEST VIRGINIA SENATOR NOW MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN WASHINGTON

HE COULD WIN RE-ELECTION AS AN INDEPENDENT OR REPUBLICAN

Recent rumors have surfaced about Joe Manchin considering registering as an independent and caucusing with the Republicans. While he vehemently denies those rumors, it is likely that he used this avenue to send a strong message to his Democrat friends. While he may not be planning at this time on switching parties, the positiblity has always been there. He is very popular in West Virginia, at least for now, but if he caves to the left wing of his party he will be a whole lot less popular. If he stands up for West Virginia on energy he may be more popular. He does not have to fear a credible primary opponent from the left.

He may feel at his time he is more useful in moderating his party from going down a path of self destruction. He also may actually believe this reconciliation bill is bad for the country. Either way he has the hammer, he can make it or break it, he is the most powerful man in the senate.

He was visibly angered by Chuck Schumer's partisan attack on the Republicans concerning the debt extension. Then Bernie Sanders takes out adds in his home state attempting to pressure him into submission. Making it all the more difficult for Manchin to endorse the plan. I think you will see a real quick cooling of the rhetoric from the left, unless they are real stupid.

Manchin could win unopposed as a Republican or Independent in his state. If he would caucus with the Republicans he could demand and get any chairmanship of any committee he desires. He is the most powerful senator or maybe any politician in Washington. I am sure he knows that now. He may have other Democrat senators rooting for him, but fear voicing their support if they are in those real blue states.

The next few weeks will tell, can the progressive caucus wilt in their expectations and accept Manchin's demands or do they rebel and push him either out of the party or end up with no reconciliation bill at all.

It seems like "free college" is out, most green new deal items also dead. Maybe children tax credits in, raising taxes out, child care credits maybe in, college debt forgiveness out. Who knows, this bill has 2500 pages of left wing activist dreams, no matter how much it is trimmed, it will probably not be a positive for the country in the long run.

Will mandates be boon to red states.

 POLICE, FIREMAN, HEALTHCARE WORKERS MAY ALL BE OFFERED EMPLOYMENT IN OTHER STATES

AS LONG AS WE HAVE STATES RIGHTS WE HAVE OPTIONS

We can expect that there will be another drain of talent from northern states to the south and west. Some are now considering natural immunity from recovering from covid as equivalent to having been vaccinated. This could offer opportunities for police and healthcare workers who have routinely been abused by woke politicians in their present states.  Oh, the beauty of options in life. 

It is already been reported that Indiana state police are letting Chicago policeman know that they have opportunity in Indiana, they are hiring and vaccination is not required. They also may have the added benefit of RESPECT. Not to mention, lower taxes and a much more welcoming community. It may be a no brainer for some.  While it may be hard to give up pensions and seniority, quality of life for their family and themselves will likely be much better.

This will likely be the first new option for these oppressed public servants. It will apply to Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle and New York and other woke cities. I would expect there will also be jobs available in Texas, who should be hiring their own border patrol. Many states are growing and they need trained and experienced healthcare, police and other personal. They also offer low taxes, respect and possibly a much better quality of life, some things cannot be counted in dollars.

It will be interesting if this becomes a new exodus of folks from blue state to red states. While relocation is always difficult, sometimes it is just such an environment that will make it all look like a no-brainer.

You can also expect that it will be difficult for these woke cities to find quality replacements, they will have to lower their standards to attract replacements.

It will also be interesting what Old Joe and his woke administration will conjure up to discourage such moves, it is not likely they will rethink their policies.

Socialism always leads to oppressive governments.

ARE MANDATES JUST THE FIRST STEP IN PURGING REACTIONARIES?

NEXT FOCUS WILL BE ECONOMIC PURGE

We now see thousands denied the ability to work and earn a living if they refuse to submit their bodies to government edicts.  While this is supposed to be in the interest in health, it is becoming more obvious that this is actually part of a bigger plan of retribution for those who do not do as they are told and also revenge on those who may have another political view.

It is interesting that the lockdowns were more damaging to small business, many large enterprises were considered essential business. Those lockdowns also included outdoor workers, many of which are small business. It is no secret that the majority of small business supported Trump in the last election. This policy of retribution was openly voiced by many socialist activists even before Biden's inauguration. 

Yesterday, Thom Hartman, a socialist activist talk show host on so called "Free speech TV", voiced his opinion that mandates are a perfect tool to purge the government, education, health care, police, firemen and the military of those who are unwilling to submit to societal edicts. He thought it was the best thing that could happen.

Socialism always leads to oppressive government action. In the Soviet Union anyone who questioned the government was labeled a reactionary and most likely ended up in a prison camp, where the majority of them died. They punished the independent farmers, the Kulacs, because they were just that, independent and replaced them with cooperative farms. Most were killed and their farms taken. Can we expect to see similar action taken when we have any sort of food disruption created by this bunch of socialist activists.

Many ask today, how did the citizens of National Socialist Germany allow the atrocities that occured in that country. In fact, they are now having trials in Germany of former employees and guards of Nazi camps. Many were teenagers who just did as they were told. They had been conditioned by society to do as they were told. Much like the conditioning going on in this country now.

Do we want the police and military purged of anyone who would question orders from the top, even abusing American citizens? It has publically been voiced by many in the Democrat party that the police and Military must be purged of any who have an opposing view of their policies. Do we want our military and police to have to a pass litmus test of socialist thought and the willingness to obey any order?

We have seen the fascist style cooperation by many big business's who crave the inside advantage of collaboration with government, even if it means censorship, discrimination by political view or whatever the ruling powers want. 

We see insurance companies are now denying coverage or raising premiums on the unvaccinated, even if they have already recovered from Covid. It is an opportunity for them and endorsed by a socialist inclined government.

We also hear of their plans to monitor the financial transaction of everyone in the country. If allowed, we can expect who will be targeted, the opposition. Just like many of political prosecutions we see happening in the federal government. This is not America, that has always allowed freedom of thought, expression, privacy of our finances, and the ability to pursue your future no matter your personal or political opinion. 

In the Soviet Union when their neighbors were taken away, they assumed they must have done something. People soon realized they needed to be careful what they said to anyone who could turn them in for reactionary thought. Is our country being conditioned today for just such a future? I watch with amazement on local social media how people are willing to label their neighbors as criminals if they are questioning edicts from the politicians. Even vehemently questioning school board policy is now labeled as domestic terrorism. 

This is always the result of socialist government, they ensnare the unsuspecting with promises of utopia, then when many question or oppose their policies they need to silence, punish and eliminate them from society in an escalating pattern of increasing oppression either by ostracizing them or other negative tactics to the point of prison camps and death. And their supporters will stand by cheering them on.

America was founded on freedom of the citizens to take many paths to success. Socialism always ends with submission or the bayonet.

More entitlements financially irresponsible.

COUNTRY CANNOT PAY FOR PRESENT ENTITLEMENTS

ALL ABOUT TRANSFORMING AMERICA 

We now hear that the democrats are proposing only funding their new entitlements for 3 years rather than 10 years. Once entitlement expansion is passed it is forever, if there is no money, just borrow more and devalue the currency. It is time that all these omnibus or large spending bills are eliminated. They should have to debate and pass each with separate legislation. Any bill that is 2500 pages, or any number like it  should never be considered. These large bills are always loaded with pork and other distasteful abuses.

Pelosi has promised her constituents, "Transformational legislation ", which in real speak means it is a socialist revolution in one big package. The whole idea of human infrastructure needs to be rejected in its entirety. Any one who votes for such a mess hates a free America and wants a new Socialist America. The only real government investments that I recall was the Louisiana purchase and the purchase of Alaska. 

We have been witnessing the real authoritarian ideologs of our country. They are democrats who have abused their power with lockdowns, mandates and other unconsititutional edics, most without the approval of the legislators either at a state or federal level. Now, they want to expand their power by implementing new entitlements to buy votes and expand dependency on the federal government. They hope that this legislation will seal the fate of our country. It will give the bureaucracy more power over our lives. They have proven that they cannot control their lust for power.

To now insist on keeping this legislation intact, but cutting the cost by only funding for 3 years is just another bait and switch. The present estimates of $3.5 trillion dollars are already a fake number, the real cost could be 3 times that much in 10 years. This whole package needs to be scraped and if there are any worthy parts, they should be voted on one by one in seperate pieces.

This country cannot pay for the benefits it has now. They could confiscate all the money from the so called 1 % and they could not balance a budget for 1 year. This situation will get worse even if no new entitlements are enacted. We need a fundamental change in the budget and spending excesses in this country. The country needs to live within its means, just like every family. 

More government programs means more government power and regulation. dependency and a further disincentive to work. We obviously already have more of this than we can handle.

Will new energy crisis lead to new debt crisis?

COST OF ENERGY SKYROCKETING WORLDWIDE

NOT CAUSED BY ENERGY SHORTAGE, BUT SHORT SIGHTED POLICY 

Filled my gas tank yesterday, gas now approaching $3.50 a gallon. Fuel Oil approaching $3.00.  It was in 2007 that gas reached $4.00 a gallon, it was not long until many who were living with a lot of debt were in trouble. The high cost of gas led to higher prices for everything, food, electricity, all manufactured goods, transportation not just for commuters but to get all our basic necessities to market. 

There is no energy shortage, just bad policy, not only here, but in western Europe as well. Natural gas prices have risen over 300% in Europe mostly because of their dependence on North Sea windmills which for some reason has had shortage of enough wind to make electricity. Now they have had to refire natural gas plants to make electric. This will result in higher heating cost and will likely last for at least a year. They may be saved by the new availability of Russian Gas.

We hear that Biden is proposing building windmills along all our coasts. Is he going to mandate that those states allow windmills everywhere?  Who wants to look out at their beautiful ocean view and see a forest of  windmills? How well will windmills hold up in hurricane prone areas? We also witnessed that Texas windmills did not operate in cold weather, who would have thought?

We will never run a modern industrial economy on windmills and solar panels! Only people with no practical knowledge or experience would believe in such a pipe dream. Pipe dream really has a new meaning in today's world.  Politicians, academics and those profiting from government subsidies love these unreliable alternative energy ideas. Do we have to only learn from self imposed disasters?

We need to find alternatives to fossil fuels if only because it is a finite resource that will inevitably become in short supply. Moving everything to electric, while not being able to provide the electric production is so very short sighted. They are either fools or liars, probably a mixture of both.

Instead of spending $3.5 trillion on social spending that will not create anything except dependence and poverty, we could start a new Manhattan project to find a replacement for fossil fuels. Nuclear fusion is just such a possibility, but it has the dreaded NUCLEAR word. That should be easy for motivated progressives. If a word is offensive, just change the language. Maybe they could call it Progressive Molecular Combining technology. That sounds so very non-threatening.

It is likely we will continue to see bad policy as long as we have people running the country who really have no practical common sense knowledge. The kind of knowledge that only comes from doing things.

Time for governors to exercise their 10th amendment rights.

 DEMOCRAT GOVERNORS HAVE BEEN IGNORING FEDERAL LAW FOR YEARS

REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS TURN TO PROTECT THEIR STATES

"THE POWERS NOT DELEGATED TO THE UNITED STATES BY THE CONSTITUTION, NOR PROHIBITED BY IT TO THE STATES, ARE RESERVED TO THE STATES RESPECTIVELY, OR TO THE PEOPLE"

This amendment was the great relief valve to insure that the elite bureaucracy in Washington did not become an oppressor to the people of the states. The Democrat governors have not been afraid to use this power to ignore immigration laws or Federal drug laws. It is time that Republican governors do the same by enacting and enforcing state laws that are in the best interest of their states.

We have seen Florida pass legislation to bar social media from discriminating against conservative speech. Texas has proposed finishing the border wall to protect the states citizens and property from being overwhelmed by uncontrolled immigration. It is their duty and right to protect their state when the federal government has not assumed responsibility for protecting the people of the country. 

States have also passed legislation to protect children from medical experimentation concerning gender manipulation. 

The federal government used the interstate commerce clause to impose many laws and regulations on the states.  They have also used withholding federal funding as a threat to insure submission by the states. It is time the states just stand up to these methods of extortion and do what is the best interest of the citizens of the states.

There is no reason that the states should allow the federal government to dump thousands of  illegal migrants in their states. Many of these persons will become a financial and social burden on the citizens of the states. Some states like California and New York are willing to accept unlimited immigration, so let them have them by busing them to nearest state with that philosophy.

The states are supposed to be the laboratory of freedom, democracy and opportunity. When some policy works, others can take notice. And when it doesn't, they can avoid making the same mistake. If we allow the states to represent their citizens, we will relieve much of the tension and division that we are now experiencing. 

We can lay much of the division in the country on inappropriate judicial and Washington overreach.

Under the Biden administration we can expect to see an intensified effort to control everyone and everything from Washington. 

The tenth amendment is clear, as is the constitution, that the federal government is given limited powers and those powers not specifically granted to the federal government are to remain with the states and the people. State governments need to re-examine the 10th amendment even if it means rejecting Federal funds in some areas.

originally published 6/15/21 

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Government debt, your savings and your money

WE ARE ALL PAYING FOR THE GOVERNMENT DEBT 

DEBT WILL NEVER BE PAID, WILL RESULT IN LOWER STANDARD OF LIVING FOR ALL AMERICANS

We again hear about the debt ceiling, this seems to be an annual event with all the drama that both parties can lay on the American people for political advantage. Talk of imminent destruction or long term consequences, it seems it easy to persuade people to go for the long term consequences over imminent destruction. 

Up until 1969 the Federal government mostly worked within a balanced budget. After the huge increase of entitlement programs in the 1960's they realized that they could not raise taxes high enough to balance the budget. While they could have, they knew that it would be so unpopular that they would be thrown out of office. This coupled by the disconnect of our money being backed by gold in 1971 has resulted in very little restraint in spending by the federal government. Most of this spending has been an effort to buy votes by promising free benefits that in the long run are unsustainable. So what has been the consequences of the government debt. Inflation for one thing, but also much more.

In 1972 you could buy a new ranch home in the $25,000 range, a new mid sized car for just over $2000. Gas prices were .39 cents a gallon. By 1975 gas prices were already up to .57 cent a gallon. Our unbalanced budget and the devaluing of the dollar brought about the creation of OPEC, because those countries were being paid $3 a barrel for oil and being paid in ever lowering of the buying power of the dollar. In fact the price of most items has not increased, the value of the buying power of the dollar has decreased. Gold was $35 an oz. today $1750.

That is not all that has happened, the unsustainability of entitlements was quickly becoming evident. Medicare for one has been continually expanded as to what it covers, this resulted in ever increasing costs. This was answered by the government setting the prices for services. After lowering reimbursements over and over, providers then engaged in cost shifting, by charging private insurance more and more to offset the low reimbursements from medicare. It is now to the point that many will no longer take medicaid patients and more are not taking any new medicare patients.

Social security has been around for a long time, originally it was a retirement supplement for the those over 65, but as time went on it has expanded and expanded to the point of including many other classes of people. In 1975 Social security was given an annual cost of living increase to offset deficit spending and inflation. It is linked to the consumer price index, this index is often recalculated to lower the true cost of inflation. Social Security cost of living increases have averaged 1.6% for the last 10 years, a total of  16% for 10 years. Medicare premiums, which rise much more than the CPI are deducted from these benefits, so in effect there has been little increase in the last 10 years.

Now the biggest drain on your financial health is what deficit spending has done to your savings and investments. There was a time, not that long ago, that  5% or 6 % interest on your savings was a normal return. It was 7.5% in 1960. and as high as 18% in the late 1970's.  This decline in interest rates is a direct result of the increasing federal debt and the need by the government to keep interest on their debt low. 

The Federal debt payment for 2021 is $562 billion, if they had to pay 6% it would be $1.5 trillion. Now keep in mind that Federal interest rates are .85 on 5 year, and 2.% on 30 year. Also realize that the Federal Reserve has bought $8.3 Trillion of assets and federal debt accounts for $4.5 Trillion. What are they paying for these assets with. Just book entry. This is an attempt to keep interest rates low, but how long can they do this? For seniors who saved for their retirement they have been in fact cheated out of any real return on their hard work and saving. According to the Congressional budget office, The federal government spent $6.6 trillion in 2020, and revenue was $3.86 trillion. It is unlikely that they could balance this spending even if they confiscated all the wealth of the 1%.

If you are receiving .3% on savings and inflation from deficit spending is 3%, you are losing 2.7% on your purchasing power every year. You are paying for the governments irresponsible fiscal policy.

Then consider the social security trust fund. There is no fund. The money has been spent by your politicians and government and bonds have been substituted. Which equal more government debt. Total Government debt is now $123 Trillion. With over $96 Trillion in social security and medicare liabilities. This amounts to $760 000 per household.

So, be prepared, you are about to be told that the debt is irrelevant and government can spend any amount and it does not matter. They will just tax the rich, don't worry, these deficits will cost YOU nothing. The federal government has locked up many people for telling much smaller lies than this one. 

Social media regulation, more government censorship.

 SOCIAL MEDIA ABUSES CAN BE ADDRESSED

ALLOW FREEDOM AND CHOICES BY USERS AND PARENTS

I suspect that recent political outrage with social media companies is mostly a smokescreen to institute more censorship and government control over what Americans see and hear. We continually hear about taking away protections in section 230, which makes Social media companies immune from liability for what its users say on their platform. Users are still liable for what they say or do if it breaks the law. Users should be the ones to be held accountable.

Very little is being mentioned about the collusion between social media and government entities both here and abroad. Nothing is being mentioned about political bias and collusion between social media companies and politicians. Nothing is being mentioned about the fact that the intelligence and security services pay these companies $Billions to collect and convey information that is likely being used to profile all Americans. Instead we are being distracted by stories of traumatised teenage girls and other things that responsible parent should be dealing with.

All these companies have rules forbidding content that is illegal, contains child pornoghraphy or drug trafficing and other like activities. These rules are good and easily enforced. As for their banning and adding disclaimers to other speech this should not be allowed as they should be considered public utilities. We have laws against all kinds of discrimination and any discrimination based on race, religion or political affiliation or opinion should not be allowed. It should be an open forum as they pretend that it is, if they are either pushing or restraining political speech then they are political activist and should be subject to election laws for in kind contributions. They should be able to be sued for discrimination. It is simple, allow freedom of speech that is legal without bias or restraint.

Collusion between these very powerful companies and the government or politicians should be punishable.

As for children, the addiction of children to social media is an epidemic. They are being deprived a full life of  a varied experience. They seem to be looking at this creen every waking minute. Again, I don't believe this is a government responsibility, but it is a parental responsibility. It would not be hard for tech companies to provide parents the ability to authorize activities for underage children. They would need to approve what their children watch and be able to have these devices automatically shut off when a pre selected user time is reached. 

Make it easy for parents to regulate what and how long they have access to these activities. Public services messag3s similar to anti-drug and smoking campaigns should alert parent to the long term dangers to their children.

We can make social media responsible and an asset, but freedom of speech and the ability of parents to control it should be the priority. Government will undoubtedly use any new power for its own advantage, without really making anything better for the people.

Censorship, all about political power.

 IT IS NEVER ABOUT DEMOCRACY OR PUBLIC SAFETY

LEFT REALLY FEARS OTHER OPINIONS

The 2008 Obama campaign was praised for using social media to be able to connect with large numbers of voters and motivate them to the polls. In 2016 the Trump campaign's similar use of social media was likened to criminal activity. 2016 was the pivotal moment that the media decided it needed to silence or at least limit the speech of the other side.

It is no secret that most of the media and particularly social media leans farther and farther to the left in their allegiance. They realized that they have the power not only to move public opinion but to go all out by limiting the speech of anyone who opposes their view. The major networks have been mostly bought out by media companies who view the news and politics as a spectator sport. But a spectator sport that they are increasingly rigging for their own benefit.

We have witnessed the false Russia collusion conspiracy, which they had the power and knowledge to reveal the truth, but aided and abetted for ratings and profit. We saw them bury the Hunter and Joe Biden corruption story and label it Russian disinformation when they knew it was all true. They claimed that $40,000 of Russian facebook public opinion surveys was an attempt to throw an election.  Anyone who is paying any attention can see the corruption either in false stories or omission of true stories. 

Now we see politicians claiming they are concerned about the influence of social media. Not likely, they are concerned that the influence of social media should be fashioned for their benefit and their benefit alone. Of course, we are told all this is concerning the preservation of democracy and the public good. 

Of course the social media bosses claim it is all a result of algorithms, actually most of these decisions are made when some operative informs facebook or other social media that these sites or writers are not to be viewed and they comply. The algorithm is actually people informing them to what they want limited or removed. It is just another way of escaping accountability. 

These sites all have rules listing content that is not in the, so called, community interest. But it is a fact that their focus goes far afield from any of these listed rules. They never actually inform anyone as to what rules have been violated. This would open them up to possible accountability. It is likely they probably don't really know why, just that someone in influence does not want the story.

Different opinions and views are the bedrock of democracy, not censorship. The market place of ideas should be a free market and ultimately the truth will be made clear. Censorship is the tool of those who fear their ideas cannot holdup in the light of day.

Next Biden created crisis to be economic.

EXPECT TO SEE HIGHER PRICES, LOWER GROWTH 

LESS JOBS, LESS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

We are still living in the basic economic environment created during the Trump administration. That is all about to change when the democrat "Social Infrastructure bill" is made law. It will have negative effects on the economy in numerous ways. First, it will likely further decrease incentives to work. It will create more dependence on the federal government. It will expand so called entitlements, entitlements that will never be able to be discontinued or limited. 

On the other side of the equation, they expect to raise taxes. First on corporations which will increase incentives to offshore production. This will slow job creation and eventually will slow tax revenues. The other plan is to raise taxes on the so called rich. These persons didn't become successful by being stupid. They will adjust their incomes  in many ways and again tax revenues may suffer in the long run. Of course the middle and lower classes will not be able to adjust their incomes or control their basic expenditures which will increase due to higher prices for food, energy and the basic necessities of life. We can expect a downward spiral of economic activity as more resources are shifted from the private sector to the government.

As upper mobility is restrained we will see more incentives to accept government programs for basic survival. The so called 3.5 Trillion spending package has no limits on these so call entitlements. When the economy slows we can expect these costs to increase dramatically as more people will qualify and accept these hand outs. The new taxes are supposed to pay for these new programs, but many experts predict that the actual increase in revenues will be more like $2 trillion. That is before taxpayers begin to adjust to the new taxes and regulations, which then will create huge government deficits which will erode the value of the dollar and increase prices for necessities.

We also hear that they want to increase the IRS by 70,000 workers to capture more revenue from the American people. They say this is to insure that the rich will pay their fair share. They propose that banks will report any transactions over $600 to the IRS. That any sales over $600 on ebay or any other web site will require a 1099 to filed with the IRS. They claim this will cost over $70 billion in new costs for the IRS to police. It will be interesting to see how much revenue is actually reaped. We can expect huge costs for sellers and also a predictable higher cost in paperwork for everyone. It is likely the only gain will be more government snooping into everyone's affairs, more government control and decreased economic activity.

With the inevitable increase in citizens changing their practices to avoid government scrutiny will require more scrutiny and enforcement. Maybe even incentives offered for people to report to the IRS if their neighbors are living better themselves. Also more taxes and fees when economic activity slows and revenue decreases.

We can see Biden and the democrats are actually using their decades old economic plan that has devastated the cities of this country. Raise taxes and fees and when revenues decrease, keep raising them until it all collapses.This time there will not be anywhere to flee to or escape their destructive policies.