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Hip Boots

14 Monday Jul 2025

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        There is an old saying my generation uses when the flip side of an issue occurs and the people who were against the first side are quiet after the flip. It is “The shoe is on the other foot now”. I remember the prime movers of Watergate were Democrats but many Republicans joined to oust President Nixon. That bi-partisanship was notable. I remember the Republican created scandals involving the Clinton’s and their finances. Another is the Billy Carter Beer endorsement. Recently it is the money the Obama’s has made selling their biographies after they left Washington. Of course, we can’t forget Hunter Biden doing the same thing the Bush boys did with their Daddy’s job. The other party usually made a scandal out of the situation real or created.

            Today’s antics, graft, and corruption in the Oval Office and in much of the administration is like hip boots to the bath slippers of past Presidents. We just heard the convicted and imprisoned leader of the gangster disciples was freed from Federal Prison after his sister donated $1,500,000 to Trump’s campaign fund. It is over $600 million now and he wants it to reach one billion. This isn’t the first time he has pardoned a felon for money. One felon pardoning another!

            The corruption in Trump’s business dealings is evident because they are usually announced by the White House Media People. The ear of the President can be bought by buying a million or two of his stable coin and attending the dinner for the big donators in the White House. The biggest buyers get face time.

            When will the cowered Republicans finally act? The scandals already require hip boots.
When will the Republicans need chest waders to wade in the Trump swamp? The order of this presidency has encircled the world. They know he can be bought and are doing it with a plane, loans, partnerships, or land. How far is President Trump willing to go?

Things Change

30 Monday Jun 2025

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Things are constantly changing for good or bad. Life used to be fairly simple compared to how we see them now. I was born and grew up in Southern Illinois in a town with only a 3,000 population. It wasn’t until high school I knew we had an extended family of ethnic Germans in the county. They were in a different school district for grade school. We had no non-white people living in the county and the only religious strife was Baptists sects against each other and both against the Pentecostal and Catholics. No fighting but lots of meaningless debating. It was a rare county to some extent because we had no non-white people in it. My family wasn’t racist because of my mother.

            At the time most of the names I knew were English so when I went to college I encountered other colors and saw nothing to be concerned about. They were just people like me. My first knowledge of racism in the Southern states was a girl who had moved up for junior college from a Jim Crow state. She had a huge inferiority complex and was uncomfortable around the rest of us and talking with us scared her. I hope she overcame it.

            My source of the wider world was the television and its programs. I had seldom watched the news so a university with Viet Nam protests and veterans, racial strife with Martin Luther King’s murder, studying population, food, and climate change was an eye opener. I started watching the national and international news and now I am a news junkie.

            Age old American Companies are now owned by foreign companies with CEOs who have distinct accents from the rest of the world. The internet companies have ethnic Asian Founders and CEOs. Oh, I have several Asian friends and my niece and nephew married into that ethnic German culture. Times have changed for the better for me but I still live in the good old days.

The bad is evident and I think the invention pushed by Al Gore is the basis for much of today’s problems. The newspapers and television were worried about not telling the truth about something and getting sued. Today we have media on the TV and internet that are so completely as to be propaganda status.

            Civility in politics has gone for the most part. Name calling and demeaning an opponent’s race and sex is now common. Having an immoral and despicable personality means nothing for millions of people. Lying has become an art form for some politicians. Religious people who run from any person wanting their vote now say they are not the second coming. What has happened to morals being their basis for supporting a person?

            Climate change has finally become evident with record high temperatures, and five hundred and thousand year storms are occurring every year. Home often are still in repair when another swamps it. Where I live in Northern Illinois a winter night reaching zero is extremely rare. Just a few decades ago that was a high temperature for days. Insects that burrowed down froze and died, but today the ground barely freezes.

Six Percenters

18 Wednesday Jun 2025

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        The six percenters are those people the government has given protective status and work permits to because they have fled natural disasters, criminal activity, or political conflict. They are most likely from Cuba, Haiti, El Salvador, and Venezuela. They are six percent of the legal American workforce.

            Many of those immigrants continued in the same professions they had in their native country. They have been educated and tested and given certification to continue in their teaching, engineering, medical, and other professions. Most of those professionals consider themselves and their families Americans. We need those people to stay here and continue in their professions, running their companies, and working in our businesses.

            A larger percentage of our illegals do work that most Americans of many generations consider too hard, too dangerous, too dirty, or doesn’t pay enough. They work in meat packing plants, construction, landscaping, maintenance, and cleaning jobs. As Americans age out of working and retire, many of those illegals will replace them or do the necessary work the retirees need done at home or retirement facilities.

            Traditionally, a much needed job illegals have done is to pick the fruit and vegetables our farmers grow. Without them the farmers would have to grow other crops and we would then have to import all of our food. Others work in restaurants and hotels, and we need them.

            Granted some of the legal and illegal immigrants commit crimes but studies have shown it is a smaller percentage than the average American population. They seem to get more publicity when caught to support political motives. By deporting those law abiding people we hurt ourselves. President Donald J. Trump now says MAYBE we shouldn’t deport the millions that work on farms or in restaurants and hotels. Trump’s policies are not dependable from day to day. 

The Real Trump Doctrine

12 Thursday Jun 2025

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        I watched an episode of Washington Week on PBS. The main topic of discussion was the Trump Doctrine and Trump’s transactional diplomacy. They used the right words but missed the real meaning of the words. President Donald J. Trump’s doctrine is to make as much money as he can out of his last term and it is transactional if people, companies, and countries can put money into his pocket through various ways, they will get his support.

            The list of bribes goes from his stable coin to a 400 million dollar jet. Those are multi-million ones that are obvious. Remember all the items he sold to supposedly finance his campaign but went into his pocket. He is putting his name on a new golf course here but the huge development in the U.A. E. and “financed” by that country and licensing of two new hotels in Saudi Arabia is worth millions more.

            How does that matter to the average American? If a country wants to lower tariffs, put money in his pocket. India is negotiating on a lower tariff. Oddly Trump Jr. just put together a couple of hotel deals in India where they had not been allowed to do before. Don’t forget his strong arming of Canada and Denmark. Remember tariffs are a tax we pay and not the foreign country as he says. Ukraine only got his support after giving up their minerals which I am sure he will be involved in what companies dig them up, transport them, and utilize them.

            When asked about his oath he said it is a question that his lawyers should answer. He has violated it many times and as long as the Republicans are scared of him, he will continue. An impeachment is sure to happen in 2027 when the House and Senate flip to Democrats. He can be tried for much of the corruption without impeachment as it wasn’t a Presidential duty. More to come!    


               

Oval Office is For Sale

09 Monday Jun 2025

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        When I was studying for my real estate agent license the instructor asked how to evaluate the worth of a property. He wanted the answer to be by checking its comparables but I said it’s whatever some fool would pay for it. My backup was many people want some property and will pay whatever they must to get control of it. He agreed but said the test wasn’t looking for that answer. Never has the Oval Office been For Sale before, but it is now!

            Now apply my answer to today’s presidency. Slap a big tariff on a country to force them to give the President’s companies a preferential deal on a property like Viet Nam did. Maybe to gain friendly influence for a royal family they give the President a jet plane or allow him to build several hotels and golf courses in your country like Qatar and Saudi Arabia have done. Let’s not forget India was pressured into a licensing of the Trump name on some properties. Back Israel and build hotels in Gaza.

            If you want a perfect example of bribery it would be the stable coin (same as the Bit Coin scam) that Trump did before taking office. It is in a non-revocable trust that hides the beneficiaries. It has sold over a quarter billion dollars worth do far. The biggest 250 buyers got a gala dinner in the White House with Trump where he pushed crypto currency and other topics for the wealthy. Interestingly he has commuted the sentence of some drug gang kingpin in prison. Is it a coincidence that the sister of one prisoner was at the gala, donating 1.5 million to his campaign with drug money?

            Did anyone notice all the departments and agencies were cut except the NASA Agency where Musk gets millions? Remember, Musk put a lot of money into the Trump campaign and pocket. Is it a donation to give money a Trump campaign and then it goes into his pocket? Is a donation to a Trump company or project just plain bribery? Funny all the Federal Law Enforcement Agencies go after people and companies that haven’t put money in Trump’s pocket and stop the pursuit when those same people pay him somehow? 

Anti-Semitic Versus Israel

24 Saturday May 2025

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        As much as Israel and this administration would like for the public to think, there is a huge difference between the two. I have friends and former clients in all the major religions and just like Americans they don’t always agree with what their government’s leadership is doing. If a person looks closely at some of the protest marches, one will see some Orthodox Jews in the crowd. Thousands of Israelis are and have been for more than a couple of years against Netanyahu and his government in Israel. Netanyahu and his media people and Trump’s P.R. people want Americans to think both are the same.

            Is it wrong to protest the indiscriminate bombing of the Gaza civilian population? Independent organizations agree the bombing has killed way over 40,000 civilians many of which died when their apartment buildings collapsed. Many have starved to death, couldn’t get their medicines, were bombed in Israel designated safe areas, or shot when the medics were rushing to help the injured.

            The history of Israel is one of killing the residents, taking their land, and forcing others off their land. They then razed the land and put kibbutzs on it. They ticked off the British and later the French. They have guilted the United States into giving them hundreds of billions of military and economic aid. We accept their misbehavior because not doing so would be called Anti-Semitic.

            How many more Jewish people are in those marches is not known because they look just like other white skinned Americans in the March.

            A Lebanese once told me all of the problems are caused by money. Both sides need money to get richer so the fighting must continue.

Deep Debt Problem

20 Tuesday May 2025

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        Do you remember President George Bush II saying something to the effect of “Who is better at managing your money, you or the government?”  He then cut income taxes causing a growing National Debt after President Bill Clinton had paid off the 30 year, 20 year and much of the ten year bonds. National Banks around the world were pleading with the Treasury to stop since they used the bonds as their financial reserve like they formerly used gold.

            Then President Trump came along and wanted to cut his taxes even more putting America even farther in the red. Now he is telling Congress and the Senate to not only renew his old cuts but cut them even more. He just said these additional cuts would be paid for by his tariffs. He says his taxes are going to be fairer to the poor (who don’t pay taxes) and the middle Class (which is getting smaller). Think about it. A Tariff is just another tax and raises the cost of living more on the poor and middle class than the wealthy because the wealthy can better afford it. That is a back door or a great sleight-of-hand tax on the average American. Remember Trump’s famous quote on the wall “Mexico will pay for it,” now it’s “China will pay for the tariffs.”

            The point is we are supposed to be the American Government and spend the money we give it to benefit us. We elect people to have the government do what we need done and they are failing to do that. They are cutting programs the people need and running us into a disastrous debt that they don‘t have the guts to fix. They could take us back to Clinton’s taxes and end the exemptions that reduce the taxes even more on the rich.

            Remember the famous mechanic saying, “Pay me now or pay me later!” Well, it is later.

Replacement Rates

02 Friday May 2025

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        The American administration and others have suddenly started talking about our low birth rate. A 2.1 is supposed to be an equalized and balanced population. I think that is an old ratio since Americans are living several years longer than when that number was made. The reasons are many around the world. Some parts of the world are two and three times the replacement number. Most African countries are well over. Israel is 2.89 and Russia is supposed to be getting smaller and the war should be making the gender ratio greater.

            One reason for the change is the ratio between men and women. Decades ago more males were produced than females but for some reason genetics has changed causing more females. The United States ratio of women to men is 100 to 97. In China with their old one child policy (it’s 100 to 112) causing their ratio to be 1.18. Mao’s policy has been replaced with Xi’s two kids but couples still favor one child.

            President Trump suggested a bonus would help so he would like to give the parents $5,000. My hospital said the pre, post and delivery costs would be about twice that amount and much higher in big cities.

            President Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk have been talking about the problems of a declining birth rate when they are pushing to bring manufacturing back. If you listen carefully to Musk (a South African) and Trump (a closet racist) they want more white babies instead of black or brown. Of course Musk says his robots will be the needed workforce.

            The problem is traditionally those jobs whites don’t want are done by those brown people they are exporting. They have made up for the falling birth rate by increasing our population.

Mt. Rushmore

12 Saturday Apr 2025

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        President Donald J. Trump has always thought of himself as one of America’s greatest men. His father or someone else he greatly respected probably told him so. He lied, cheated, or bought his way to where he is today. Even as President he cons people into buying his company stock or soon his private crypto currency saving all the money to his family company.

            He believes, and his sycophants tell him, he is the best President ever. They have even talked about Mt. Rushmore again. They compare him to some of history’s greatest men to curry even more favor.

            He is using Wilson’s and Roosevelt’s failed attempts to get Greenland so if he can coerce the people of Greenland into becoming an American State, he will be greater than both of them. He says he doesn’t want to use force but doesn’t rule it out.

            With Panama, a few ultra conservatives thought we should have overridden the lease termination and kept it. He is going to use every threat to get it or as a last resort force. The act, which may will lead to war, and probably the loss of the canal, as well as the last of our few remaining friends. The canal is easily put out of operation.

            Annexing Canada is an old, old dream by a few people but doing so, Trump thinks would make him the greatest ever. History seems to define the greatest presidents as ones that won a war or acquired more area. Some of those Presidents are Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase, Polk with the Oregon Territory and the Canadian Boundary, Tyler annexing Texas, and Polk goading Mexico into attacking to get the Southwest.

            Imagine Trump’s ego if he got the Canal, Greenland, and Canada, no matter what he did to make it happen.

Millions of Blind Mice

27 Thursday Mar 2025

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        How can so many Americans be so naive? During President Donald Trump’s first term he said he was going to build a wall across our Southern Border and tens of millions believed Mexico was going to pay for it. After a few years many saw it was a lie. That lie and many others was a part of his loss in his next election.

            Millions more were sucked into the vortex that the 2020 election was rigged even though his own people and their contractors could not find any fraud committed by Democrats. All the criminal offenses were committed by Trump’s own people as in Georgia and Arizona.

            Once the greatest American and perhaps the world’s greatest con man got into the brains of so many Americans he couldn’t help but suck money from them to buy junk. They thought the proceeds were going into his campaign as the usual practice but the money went into his pocket. Poor people were actually giving their money to a self-proclaimed billionaire.

            Today Trump is slapping tariffs on our friends and trading partners while telling Americans the other country is going to pay the tariff. The truth is the product comes into the country and the buyer must pay the tariff to get the product. The producer then passes the additional cost on to the American consumer. The producer pays nothing of the tariff so how can Trump still blind so many people?

            Elon Musk and others have followed Putin’s strategy of faking admiration to curry favor. Musk put up to a hundred million dollars to help Trump get elected so they could get the opportunity to destroy the agencies they had been fighting with on taxes and regulations. Musk just said he would donate another hundred to primary any Republican that stepped out of line. Oh, notice Musk is into cutting all agencies except NASA. Isn’t NASA where Musk gets his big money to run his Space X programs?