Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
The spending bill doesn’t fund The Wall.
The Republican strategy appears to be “remove everything that might be objectionable to Democrats so we can get the bill passed and keep government running – otherwise, we’ll get blamed for the shut-down.”
That strategy is indistinguishable from “let the Democrats run the country.”
Look, there were a dozen Republican candidates. Trump won the nomination on a single issue: Build The Wall. That’s his signature issue and it’s the only reason he’s President today.
The spending bill doesn’t have to cover the entire cost of The Wall – a symbolic down payment of even a lousy $1 would be enough to show he was keeping his promise to his base while rebuilding the military and draining the swamp.
If the Never-Trumpers in Congress won’t fund The Wall, President Trump should refuse to sign the spending bill. Shut down the government and take the heat from the media. Tweet everyday “Democrats willing to spend your dollars to kill babies but not protect children.” “Democrats replacing Americans with Mexicans on your dime.” “Democrats, party of KKK, still keeping Blacks out of work.” “I earn a dollar, Democrats won’t let you earn that.”
Joe Doakes
All is proceeding as foretold.
Trump is no libertarian, not by a long shot. So why does Mises.org say so many measured things about him? Listen to the two podcasts of Hans Herman Hoppe. Weird stuff, but where is he wrong?
Listen to David Stockman on both of Tom Wood’s podcasts.
Then get back to me.
The natural deflation that human beings have lived under prior to the invention of the Fed is destroying inflationist statism the hard way. Globally. That is what is happening.
The USSR fell. NAFTA. China opening up. Deflationary stuff. Then they started lying about inflation via the Boskin Commission, to “save” social security. So the Fed pushes too hard —-> asset bubbles, chronic ***2%*** GDP, and social problems. Global war. This is just textbook Austrian stuff.
Do you get it? https://twitter.com/serpysoup/status/861728812089962496 Do you get what I’m saying?
I love myself LOL https://twitter.com/NARNfan/status/861938364228022274
Who knows everything? ***ME*** https://twitter.com/NARNfan/status/861954539548794880 LOL
Maybe get your own blog, TFS? I appreciate a lot of what you say and agree with a goodly portion of it as well, but you may be risking “Doggoneing” yourself if you use Mitch’s site as your personal platform.
(a risk I also have to heed here, as a regular….)
Plus, if you start your own site, you’re not limited in the length of comments you can make as much. Double bonus, no?
“You may be at the risk of “Doggoneing” yourself…”
Write as much as you want here – as long as you participate in a discussion. DG’s second-greatest problem wasn’t that she was long-winded; it was that she kept posting the same baked monkey doodle over and over and over and over, clearly without poking a nose in to see the response (which was, pretty inevitably, the complete destruction of her “case”).
I get frustrated because no one on the Right gets the ***root*** of the problem. These discussions prompt me to come up with better ways of explaining it. I really have said everything I hope.
Jason Lewis for Dictator Of Everything.
David Stockman could be the best thing that ever happened to the Right / GOP if they would let it happen.