Welcome To A "Bright Future" (????)

By Effey

First of all, regardless of your religious affiliation I wish you greetings for the season.

The long outdated Electoral College has voted and given its imprimatur.  So now Pinocchio is officially our President Elect. 

Never before in the history of this country has a misogamist, a tax dodger, a thief and a liar been the president of this great country.  Shame on us!

What happens if someone dodges paying federal income taxes? How can the IRS enforce the law when the highest officer of the country dodges paying his federal income tax.

How will congress deal with him? Will they let him get away with it? Or do they impeach him?

At the time of this writing (12/20/2016 – 9 p.m.) the stock market’s Dow Jones Index is 20 points short of going over the top (20,000).  In the eyes of the FED our economy is doing better than ever.  This is a fata morgana (mirage), an illusion that the economy is doing well.  So it is time to raise the interest rates to keep inflation in check.  The prices for commodities will rise, but not the people’s salaries.  The millionaires are doing well, but not the Lower Middle Class.  The Lower Middle Class will once again get squeezed while the folks on the top, the very rich will get richer!  So what else is new?!

It reminds me very much of Germany after World War I.  The majority of artisans lost their jobs, the currency became hyper inflated to a point never seen before and a populist leader came along and promised the folks to cure all their problems.  Hitler (Trump) and Putin (Mussolini) became allies and in the end Hitler and Mussolini eventually destroyed their respective country.

Great prospects ahead for us all!

Our new President has tentacles all over the world but refuses to divest himself of his holdings.  He will not even put his assets into a Blind Trust as is Standard Operating Procedure for a President.  There are tons of conflicts of interest but I bet that his cronies, the Republicans in Congress will create new laws, which will let him get away with his shenanigans!  When Hitler and Mussolini ruled their respective countries all the politicians also got in lock step!  It's amazing how history repeats itself with different players!

The congress wouldn’t work with Barak Obama, a man of the highest integrity, but they will bend over backwards for this liar, thief and crook!

Welcome to the Biggest Show on Earth!

Here is a suggestion.  Let's create a grass root movement which will demand that the members of Congress get paid only minimum wage and by the hour. And give up all their perks including insurance. (put them on Obama Care) Why not?  Let them experience what the little guys suffer.  They haven’t really done very much to help the people they serve.  They have done everything they could to undermine the President.  We could be in a lot better shape than we are, had they done their duty to us, The People. 

Did you know that at one time it was a great honor to be elected to a government office without getting a salary?

Now our elected officials will line up in lockstep and destroy many of the regulations which have been put in place by previous administrations to protect our environment for the benefit of our children and grandchildren.  These laws and regulations had been put in place because previous conditions were doing damage to the environment and the society.  When politicians come along and claim that government is too big, they mean to say that they want to go back to the days of the Wild West.  You don’t like something or somebody, shoot them.  Boy!  Are we in trouble!

On Taxes, Pinocchio wants to lower the taxes for the Middle Class.  The Upper Classes will automatically benefit because their rates of taxation will also go down.  So if we lower the taxes, instead of closing most of the loopholes for the Upper Class, then how will we be able to pay for our infrastructure projects?  Gimme a break!

One thing I will say.  I agree with Pinocchio when he announced that we should increase our arsenal of Nuclear weapons.  I doubt that we have the money to do so, but at least it sends a message to Korea and to Vladimir!

I love Israel, but I do believe that the settlements are a huge mistake.  I have said this ever since James Baker, President Herbert Bush's Secretary of State, whenever he came back from Israel complained about the Israelis using American money and support to build those settlements.  I do not believe that the Palestinians are a bunch of angels, or even that they have the right to the West Bank.  But there will never be a peace between Israel and the Palestinians.  Both are radicals and neither will give in.  But unless there is a compromise both sides will lose a lot of young people in battles for the next thousand years.

I also believe that it is wrong under these conditions to move our Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.  It will be another Benghazi!

Stay tuned and forward this blog to like minded friends.

Red Beans and Ricely Yours

Effey.

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ONLY IN AMERICA!!!

By Effey

You know?  It is really disgusting!  We go around telling the rest of the world what a wonderful system of Democracy we have.  Look at us!  This system has served us well for 240 years! 

We had one of the craziest and I believe most dishonest elections ever, this year.  Hillary Clinton got almost 3 million more votes than Pinocchio, yet Pinocchio was declared the winner. 

Did he win the election fair and square?  I don't believe he did and neither do millions of other people.  For one thing, how come only the Democratic National Convention was hacked by (probably) the Russians, yet the Republican National Convention was left untouched?  And who hacked the Wicki Leaks?  Julian Assange?  Hacking into a computer system on such a large scale is not a job that can be done by one or even ten individuals together!  Assange was holed up alone in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.  Besides, there were so many documents, that one person alone could not have completed all the work necessary in such a short time!

We also have heard that Pinocchio is kind of chummy with Vladimir Putin!  Wonder what that means?

Now Pinocchio is interviewing all kinds of candidates for Secretary of State.  In my humble opinion, the only one capable of doing an excellent job as Secretary of State would be, believe it or not, Mitt Romney!  Not Gen. Petreaus, not Rudy Guiliani, or Senator Bob Corker.  Each one of them in my opinion would be a poor choice.

But much more important is his conflict of interests.  The New York Times showed that he has business connections in 25 countries, not so much as an individual owner, but as a brand name for other overseas ventures.

And, under no circumstances should his children be allowed to be in charge of his Blind Trust.

But here is the most galling part.  The taxpayers have to pay for his protection as the President.  But the guy has never paid a dime in Federal Income taxes!  Now he is freeloading from us, the taxpayers.  Such an ironic twist can only happen in America!

If you don't pay your income taxes, the IRS comes after you and penalizes you!  But Pinocchio is given all kinds of tax breaks because he is rich and therefore never pays a dime of Federal Income taxes!   And he called Hillary crooked!!

But he was right about one thing, that the system is rigged.  Except he thought it was rigged against him.  He didn't know that the Republicans have been rigging the system all along in their favor through voter suppression and redistricting!

Following is a section of a report in the Atlantic Monthly of November 8, 2016, reported by Chris Keane/Reuters;

What Early Voting in North Carolina Actually Reveals

Some counties succeeded in suppressing voter turnout—but there’s much more to the story.

North Carolina has been conducting a real-time experiment on the efficacy of voter suppression—and the results suggest both that it works, and that it’s far from the only factor at play in the state.

“Voter suppression” has become a watchword in the state after a multi-year fight against the 2013 HB 589 voter law, a law championed by Republicans that reduced the early-voting period for elections by seven days, ended same-day voter registration, and established strict voter ID requirements. Those provisions—which have been demonstrated to affect minority communities most—were struck down by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals this summer for naked discrimination. But data from North Carolina’s State Board of Elections on the early-voting period indicate that continued efforts by Republicans at the county levels are having real effects on the election.

You can check the entire article by going to

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/north-carolina-early-voting/506963/

Check it out for yourself.

Just look up in Google: Voter Suppression and also Redistricting.  Make sure you are sitting down while reading all te articles you will find there.

In God We Trust!

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By Effey

Red Beans and Ricely yours!

Effey