I like everything here except the idea that a $7,500 government subsidy for EVs should still exist. Imagine if government got out of the subsidy racket, along with the tariff, regulation, tax, and asset forfeiture rackets.
It took awhile to get around to the real issues facing American business, and their workers too… taxes, compliance, regulations, and inflation. These are the real reasons that businesses headed for the exits marked, “China and the Little Dragons,” as far back as the late 1970s and early 1980s.
I remember, I was there, and I remember the deals cut by Reagan and his nemesis in name only, over in the House, Tip O’Neil. I remember the deal that was struck to pay for Ronnie’s military, by agreeing to borrow even more fiat, to fund every single pet project that democrats could dream up to fuel the largest increase in social programs since the mid 60s, and LBJ’s great society. That program, ‘The Great Society,’ which wasn’t actually all that great, but was very socialistic, combined with LBJ’s penchant for lining his pockets with laundered money from government contracts to stop dominoes from falling in S.E. Asia.
That combo; undeclared war in Vietnam, and the Great Society, was just the kind of economic one two punch, (a combo that could make even Muhammad Ali flinch like a third grader,) that put America on the road to financial ruin. Only Paul Volker had the kind of cajones necessary to raise interest rates to the Moon, and get Americans to start saving their money in banks again. Without it, America would still have been on the skids to this day, and Tip O’Neil would have never gotten monthly checks into the hands of alcoholics, and Ronny Raygun would never have had an aircraft carrier named for him.
Ending the Fed just isn’t enough, lowering taxes on Americans and their businesses just isn’t enough, cutting out regulations and the bureaucratic malcontents who staff their offices just isn’t enough either.
A dagger needs to be plunged through the heart of every intelligence agency that has ever crawled out of foggy bottom, been created to take liberties with our constitution for the past 75 years, that’s what needs to be done. Maybe then it will be enough. Maybe then, when Americans can sleep assured again, with a wall safe full of gold backed currency, (electronic fiat or paper, it doesn’t really matter,) in their bedroom, with a 9mm under their pillow, and the knowledge that whether they book their vacation today, or in three months, the cost and the amenities will be the same, can we finally get back to a semblance of rationality.
Hell, maybe they’ll bring back the big block V-8s again, now that the helicopter mommies over at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the EPA, have been kicked out on their collective fat asses, (without a pension for ‘serving,’ the American people for a few, very few years, and when you and I don’t have to know beyond a doubt that every breath we take, or story we tell, isn’t downloaded on a water cooled, security locked, petabyte, crystal storage array, located just outside downtown Provo, UT., or Foggy Bottom is just another neighborhood with lots and lots of vacant lots.
“Wanna Make America Great Again?” Then Make Foggy Bottom Flat Again.
I like everything here except the idea that a $7,500 government subsidy for EVs should still exist. Imagine if government got out of the subsidy racket, along with the tariff, regulation, tax, and asset forfeiture rackets.
It took awhile to get around to the real issues facing American business, and their workers too… taxes, compliance, regulations, and inflation. These are the real reasons that businesses headed for the exits marked, “China and the Little Dragons,” as far back as the late 1970s and early 1980s.
I remember, I was there, and I remember the deals cut by Reagan and his nemesis in name only, over in the House, Tip O’Neil. I remember the deal that was struck to pay for Ronnie’s military, by agreeing to borrow even more fiat, to fund every single pet project that democrats could dream up to fuel the largest increase in social programs since the mid 60s, and LBJ’s great society. That program, ‘The Great Society,’ which wasn’t actually all that great, but was very socialistic, combined with LBJ’s penchant for lining his pockets with laundered money from government contracts to stop dominoes from falling in S.E. Asia.
That combo; undeclared war in Vietnam, and the Great Society, was just the kind of economic one two punch, (a combo that could make even Muhammad Ali flinch like a third grader,) that put America on the road to financial ruin. Only Paul Volker had the kind of cajones necessary to raise interest rates to the Moon, and get Americans to start saving their money in banks again. Without it, America would still have been on the skids to this day, and Tip O’Neil would have never gotten monthly checks into the hands of alcoholics, and Ronny Raygun would never have had an aircraft carrier named for him.
Ending the Fed just isn’t enough, lowering taxes on Americans and their businesses just isn’t enough, cutting out regulations and the bureaucratic malcontents who staff their offices just isn’t enough either.
A dagger needs to be plunged through the heart of every intelligence agency that has ever crawled out of foggy bottom, been created to take liberties with our constitution for the past 75 years, that’s what needs to be done. Maybe then it will be enough. Maybe then, when Americans can sleep assured again, with a wall safe full of gold backed currency, (electronic fiat or paper, it doesn’t really matter,) in their bedroom, with a 9mm under their pillow, and the knowledge that whether they book their vacation today, or in three months, the cost and the amenities will be the same, can we finally get back to a semblance of rationality.
Hell, maybe they’ll bring back the big block V-8s again, now that the helicopter mommies over at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the EPA, have been kicked out on their collective fat asses, (without a pension for ‘serving,’ the American people for a few, very few years, and when you and I don’t have to know beyond a doubt that every breath we take, or story we tell, isn’t downloaded on a water cooled, security locked, petabyte, crystal storage array, located just outside downtown Provo, UT., or Foggy Bottom is just another neighborhood with lots and lots of vacant lots.
“Wanna Make America Great Again?” Then Make Foggy Bottom Flat Again.
Dollar go poof! Economy go poof! Poofs are everywhere in the San Francisco Bay area.