The World As I See It, September 6, 2021

Biden, Harris, Afghanistan, The Church of Wokeness in the Military, Economics and Regulations!

By Rich Kozlovich

I'm finding it more and more difficult to decide what to write about.  And it's not because there's nothing going on, it's because there's so much going on I'm finding keeping up with it and deciding what to say has become almost mind boggling.  

We have a President who clearly has serious neurological problems, corrupt to the core, dumb as dirt (and always has been), surrounded by traitorous leftist lunatics he's appointed to positions of power and his Vice President, Kamala Harris, is anxiously waiting in the wings, who also is corrupt, incompetent, clearly dumb as a rock, vicious as a viper, with the moral fiber of a goat, but hey.....no one's perfect.  Right? 

I recently received this e-mail from a friend, and while it's most likely not a true story, it is a true representation of Biden:

While suturing a cut on a hand of a 75 year old Virginia farmer, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Biden and his possible role as our president. The old farmer said, “well, ya know, Biden is a "Post Turtle”. 

 Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him, what a “post turtle” was? The old rancher said, “when you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a “post turtle’. 

The old farmer saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued to explain, “you know he didn’t get up their by himself, he doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there, he’s elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up their to begin with.

So what could possibly go wrong?  

Well, let's start with Afghanistan. It's a disaster, and day after day the story becomes more and more outrageous.  It is any wonder over 100 retired generals and admirals are demanding the resignation of the Secretary of Defense Austin and General Milley?  Both of whom have dedicated themselves to the Church of Wokeness while Afghanistan was burning.  

And now they're claiming it's a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for them to openly criticize the President, Sec. of Def,, or the senior officers in command.  Strange how none of them noticed that when they were criticizing President Trump.  A serious argument can made for treason in the upper ranks of the military, all branches, and the administration over this.  

One more point. I served and I can honestly say the Uniform Code of Military Justice isn't uniform, nor is it justice if you're from the enlisted ranks, as has been shown over and over again when senior officers commit serious infractions. 

I served with a few good officers I respected, but as a group, I despised the officers when serving.  I found most of them to be lazy, pampered, not all that bright and arrogant.   Is it different with combat officers.  I'm told it is, however, I wonder how true that is as I watch these self-serving invertebrates spouting nonsense,  All of which justifies my continued contempt for the officer corp as a group.  They're violating their oath to "defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic", and doing so for their personal benefit.  Is that treason?

The economy is heading for a serious downturn, with massive tax increases that will eventually fall on the middle class, all of which is bound to cause inflation, and no one can be sure how bad that will become.  As Lawrence Kudlow shows in his piece,  Democrats’ Vote-a-Rama Will Trap the Middle Class With Big New Taxes saying:

Voters correctly perceive that $3 trillion or so in higher taxes will fall on the middle class as tax hikes predominantly always do.......... More taxes on businesses will shrink profits. Which means less money to pay the workforce, less money to invest in new technologies to increase productivity and real wages, lower share prices for your 401ks and IRAs, and higher consumer prices to finance the tax hikes. Once again, corporations don't pay taxes, people do...........Incidentally the Bernie Sanders Budget Committee documents show a $17 trillion increase in publicly-held federal debt over the next 10 years as a result of these policies.

Let me state right now.  There should be no corporate taxes.................at all.  Why? First, because it's double taxation, but the real reason is because corporate taxes are a hidden tax on everyone, including that 45% of the population who pay no federal income tax, including the legitimately poor.  Taxes are a cost of doing business, ergo, corporations simply raise prices.  They may write the check, but that money is coming from you.  And me!

He goes on to say:

By the way, the Trump corporate tax cuts paid for themselves within 18 months, and his overall tax package of $1.5 trillion in tax relief was all but paid for on the eve of the pandemic. That’s according to the Congressional Budget Office. And here’s another bulletin: The Biden tax hikes are seven times the size of the Trump tax cuts. And here’s yet another bulletin: No country in the history of history has ever taxed its way into prosperity.

I receive John Mauldin's Thoughts From the Frontline free newsletter, and here are his views on inflation and stagnation:

 

The Return of Stagflation - On a quick note that deserves its own [news]letter. If the Federal Reserve looks at this lower unemployment data while not taking potential workforce shrinkage into account, they can justify (to themselves, at least) keeping monetary policy softer for longer than it should be, risking more extended inflation. 

 

Actually, it’s worse than that. They are risking stagflation.  I noted early in this pandemic era that, like the Great Depression, it would bring unforeseeable long-term changes. They are starting to show themselves, but only as fuzzy outlines. We know something big is coming. Exactly what it is, only time will tell.  

 

He ends by saying:

 

Hopefully you and I can put the pieces together. 

 

That is in my view wishful thinking as inflation creates a chain of events that leads to more economic uncertainty and a downward spiral that's hard to control or plan for.  Not only will we be facing huge tax increases, and the decreased value on our dollars with Biden and  his cabal of misfits in charge, we're going to face a lava flow of extreme regulations and the enthusiastic enforcement of those regulations.   These appeared on the American Spectator news site.

• EPA: Wrongly accusing mod-shops of modifying cars to defy air quality standards.  
• Biden's announcement to enforce unattainable emissions standards on all cars.
• In Michigan, nosy ninnies have been hired to go through people's recycling bins. because they're not being fastidious enough. That's tax payer money to root through trash.
• COVID: How can we count the ways of government interference? They are myriad. Vaccine passports in New York. Edicts from the CDC telling landlords that they're criminals for needing money to pay mortgages.

This doesn't include their abuse of the Clean Water Act or their push to support the greatest scientific fraud in the history of the world....Anthropogenic Global Warming, all of which is designed to give control over everything.  These misfits hate the concept of personal property, as James Bovard demonstrates in his article, More Wetlands Purgatory for American Landowners.

 

Finally, we have Social Security.  It's a disaster and both party's are equally guilty of the upcoming disaster Social Security represents, which I've written about for almost 20 years, and Dan Mitchell outlines in his article, The Real (and Growing) Problem with Social Security.

But our greatest fear?  The corruption of the young minds through our public and advanced education systems.   Richard M. Ebeling in his article, The Soviet Union Is Gone, but the Young Yearn for Socialism, states:

These attitudes and beliefs among the younger generations on both sides of the Atlantic do not bode well for the future of freedom. The ideas of one generation often become the implemented policies of the next one. 

If neither knowledge of, nor appropriate lessons from the reality of socialism-in-practice over the last one hundred years are learned, we may very well be condemned to repeat the past with all of its social, economic, and politically damaging consequences. (See my article, “Socialism: Marking a Century of Death and Destruction”.) 

Our system of education, from Kindergarten to advanced degrees is an all out effort by leftist misfits promoting national suicide.  Fixing that needs to be job one.