In Response to Foul-Mouthed Ignorant Canadian

Dear Canadian Natalie-Ann,

Down here in the United States we have this document called "The United States Constitution" which helped a group of backwoods farmers create the most powerful country on the planet in less than 200 years. This document is based on maximum freedom, maximum liberty, and minimal government interference in the lives of its citizens.

For over a 100 years progressives have worked tirelessly to minimize our freedom and liberty and to increase the power of the government. Unfortunately for them, a slight majority of Americans know that the government is the problem not the solution.

See the thirteen colonies got together and created our federal government. In so doing, they granted said government with a few (what we call "enumerated") powers. Most of them had to do with foreign affairs and the military. Beyond those few powers, the states were free to do whatever the hell they wanted including offer healthcare to their citizens.

The beauty of this is, if your state is taken over by a bunch of whack-jobs who are hell-bent on bankrupting the state by buying votes through wealth transfers schemes (see California, Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts) you could move to another state. However, if the federal government starts messing around in areas of the economy or in social issues in which they have no power, most Americans cannot afford to leave the country.

In a nutshell, most Americans do NOT want to end up like you Canadians or like the western European quasi-socialistic nations that attempt to pander to every malcontent demanding free shit from the government. Nope! Most Americans (or at least the 60 million that voted for that dastardly man named Trump) believe in self-reliance, pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, ending government interference in every aspect of our economy (i.e. healthcare) and allowing the free markets go to work. Then when a little boy in Albuquerque needs open heart surgery or an elderly man in Nebraska needs heart medication, their respective health insurance policies - one that they or their family purchased in the free market, across states lines; one that meets their individual needs; one that they owned and paid on for many years; one that was not tied to an employer - might actually cover some or all of those expenses.

Legislating Morality

"I know healthcare is not in the Constitution but it is a moral issue."

The above quote is from a left-leaning friend of mine during a discussion of the repeal of Obamacare.

Question: Given the list below, is the federal government the best purveyor of morals?

• The federal government once endorsed and enforced slavery.
• It once required the return of fugitive slaves.
• It once invaded a part of the country that wanted to secede from the union.
• It once suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
• It once prohibited women and blacks from voting.
• It once forced Japanese-Americans into internment camps.
• It once confiscated the private gold of American citizens.
• It once ordered the slaughter of millions of pigs and the plowing under of millions of acres of cotton.
• It once endorsed and enforced segregation of public schools.
• It has sent hundreds of thousands of American soldiers to die in other countries.
• It has racked up over $20 trillion in debt.
• It claims that the killing of a baby in the womb is not murder but a "privacy" issue.
• It confiscates a portion of one citizen's earnings and gives it to another.
• It collects electronic communications of Americans without a warrant.
• It was maintaining kill lists of American citizens living abroad that are subject to targeted drone assassinations.

I, for one, do not want the federal government legislating morality.

The Obama Legacy - Part II

Today's departure of Obama, which provided many with a tremendous sense of relief, provided an opportunity to reflect further on the damage his policies have done to the country. I previously posted some of Obama's greatest hits in this blog post. This post serves as a supplement.

The Economy:

• In reality the economy has remained in a perpetual recession throughout Obama's eight-year reign. At best we have just lived through the weakest recovery in the post-World War II era.
• The number of young Americans living at home reached a 75-year high under the Obama economy.

Foreign Policy:
President Obama became the first American President to spend his entire two terms in office at war.

• Iraq - he promised to end the Iraq War; "the stupid war". He did not!
• Afghanistan - he promised to win the Afghanistan War; "the necessary war". He did not!
• The Arab Spring
• Syria
• Benghazi
• Picking fights with Russia leading to Putin's moves against the Crimea and Ukraine.

Race Relations:

The first black President in American history had an incredible opportunity to improve race relations in this country. Instead, the commander-in-chief became the divider-in-chief using every possible opportunity to drive a wedge between the races.

• According to a recent CNN/ORC poll, a majority of Americans (54%) say that race relations deteriorated under Obama. 

Social Issues:

• He was forced to all but defend the barbaric practice of selling aborted baby parts by the federally-funded abortion machine, Prevent Parenthood.
• He forced gay marriage down the throats of Americans.
• Obamacare's mandate forcing pro-life companies to offer insurance to their employees that covered abortions.

Presidential Election of 2016:

If Obama was a popular as he thought he was, his chosen successor should have run the table in the election. Instead . . .

• Hillary received a lower percentage of the Hispanic vote than he did in 2012 (65% and 71% respectively).
• Hillary received a lower percentage of the black vote than he did in 2012 (88% and 93% respectively).

The Democratic Party:

• Democrats lost over 1,000 seats at the state and national level. Democrats control 3,129 state legislative seats (an all-time low) while Republicans control 4,170 seats.
• During Obama's two terms Democrats lost 12 governorships, 13 Senate seats, and 69 seats in the House of Representatives.

Political Correctness Killed the Circus

Over the weekend Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced they are shutting down. The primary reason given for the closure is the decision to remove elephants from the show, which was the result of decades of criticism by animal rights groups and the paying of a $270,000 fine for violation of the Animal Welfare Act.

The business that survived 132 years, 24 Presidents, 15-20 recessions, 6 generations of evolving entertainment tastes and options, two depressions, and two World Wars is doomed by one short-sighted, politically correct decision.