op ed review 5/6
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize, says South
Korean President Moon for helping to broker an end to hostilities with North
Korea.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5673717/Trump-win-Nobel-Peace-Prize-says-South-Korean-president-Moon-Jae-in.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5673717/Trump-win-Nobel-Peace-Prize-says-South-Korean-president-Moon-Jae-in.html
House lawmakers formally nominate Trump for 2019 Nobel Peace
Prize
“A Rebirth Of Self-Reliance? Food Stamp, Welfare, Medicaid,
Disability Rolls All Dropping Under Trump”
Unemployment rates for African Americans and Hispanics have
fallen to the lowest levels ever recorded in the history of the report
Number of Americans receiving unemployment is the lowest
since 1973
Kanye West retweets Thomas Sowell quotes.
Black male support for President Donald Trump doubled in
just one week, according to a Reuters poll on presidential approval.
Trump addresses the NRA
One judge finally gets it: accuses Mueller's team of
'lying,' trying to target Trump.
Chicago doesn’t care whether you are a citizen anymore:
issuing new city ID cards. Can be used
for voter registration, no need to prove citizenship.
The
latest leftie "big idea" is the Universal Basic Income — a guaranteed
income for all. Progressives of course like the idea, but even some
conservatives and libertarians do, too. Only one problem: It doesn't work. Ask
Finland, a highly progressive Scandinavian country that has an ongoing
guaranteed income experiment, but is abandoning it.
It's been a bad couple of weeks for environmentalists who
want to force Americans into battery-powered econoboxes. First, the Trump
administration said it will likely freeze fuel economy standards. Then Ford
announced plans to drop most of its passenger cars in favor of trucks and SUVs.
Both are good news for consumers.
Since we are no longer allowed to celebrate the differences
between males and females, the Boy Scouts are set to admit girls into their
organization, and with the new moronic confusion between "equality"
and "sameness" comes a brand new politically correct name: Scouts
BSA. "We wanted to land on something that evokes the past but also conveys
the inclusive nature of the program going forward."
This should concern us all: 46% Favor Government Guaranteed
Jobs for All
Maybe this has something to do with it: Thanks to
the intrusion of far left ideology by unions and progressive "curriculum
experts" into our education system, we have turned our public schools into
academies of political correctness that poorly teach the tough subjects and
rigorous thinking that kids need to thrive in an increasingly competitive
world.
Meanwhile, 65% of Public
School 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading; 67% Not Proficient in Math
But there is hope: “Why Are Millennials Turning Against Democrats?
The Answer Is Simple”
Backlog of illegal immigration court cases over 1 million,
delayed deportations 684,000
Soros-Funded Group Launches App to Help Illegal Aliens Avoid
Feds
Governor Cuomo of New York is threatening to sue ICE to stop
its ongoing raids to detain illegal immigrants wanted for serious crimes like
assault and rape.
Since the 2016 election Facebook has been cracking down on
conservative and pro-Trump content…….Final Remaining Conservative Voices on
Facebook Will Be Eliminated by Election Day?
Hillary’s latest excuse: “Being a Capitalist ‘Probably’ Hurt
Me in Primary Because Many Democrats Are Socialists” ??
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
IBD 5/2/18
Nearly Half Of Americans Embrace 'Guaranteed Jobs' — An Idea
Straight Out Of The Soviet Union
"Guaranteed jobs" is fast becoming the latest
rallying cry for Democrats. And a new poll finds that 46% of Americans approve
of it. Don't read too much into that poll result.
Last week, we noted that a liberal policy group urged
Democrats at a leadership meeting to adopt "guaranteed jobs" as a pillar
of their economic plan. In short order, Bernie Sanders said he would soon
unveil his plan to achieve that. Under it, anyone who "wants or
needs" a job but couldn't find one on their own would be guaranteed a
government job paying $15 an hour and generous benefits. Other prominent
Democrats have latched on to this plan, including those with presidential
ambitions like Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker.
Maybe they are on to something? When Rasmussen asked about
the idea in its latest poll, it found that 46% favor it.
The idea of government-guaranteed jobs isn't exactly new.
The Senate proposed such a guarantee in 1977. The far-left Nation magazine
resurrected it in 2014, saying the country could "easily afford" to
guarantee every American a job. That same year, the Huffington Post ran a poll
and found that 47% favored the idea — with 22% strongly favoring it. The only
thing lacking here — besides common sense — is context.
Like, say, what would it cost those with actual jobs to
support millions of guaranteed-for-life make-work jobs? The liberal Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities figures the annual price tag at $543 billion —
roughly equal to the entire defense budget. That would be enough to fund
9.7 million full-time jobs, which would cover those currently unemployed plus
those "marginally attached" to the workplace.
That's almost certainly a lowball estimate. In addition to
the 9.7 million the CBPP counts as unemployed, there are nearly 10 times
as many people who aren't officially in the labor force because they aren't
looking for work. The prospect of easy money would no doubt bring millions, if
not tens of millions, of them back. Nor does the CBPP factor in the likelihood
of rampant waste, fraud and abuse. Yet the pollsters don't ask about cost, or
the massive tax hike required to finance it. No doubt that would push approval
rates down.
Nor do the polls — or the politicians pushing this idea —
mention how the Fed might react negatively to the sudden surge in wage
inflation generated by this jobs guarantee.
But there's another bit of context that Bernie Sanders and
Co. would probably rather you don't know about. And that is the fact that the
idea has already been tried — in the Soviet Union.
In fact, the Soviets wrote a jobs guarantee into the USSR's
constitution in 1936. Article 118 said: "Citizens of the U.S.S.R. … are
guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance
with its quantity and quality. "The right to work is ensured by the
socialist organization of the national economy, the steady growth of the
productive forces of Soviet society, the elimination of the possibility of
economic crises, and the abolition of unemployment." When the Soviet
government updated its constitution in 1977, it moved the jobs guarantee up to
Article 40, and rephrased it a bit to make it clear that they meant a right to
"guaranteed employment," with pay at or above the "state
established minimum" wage.
We all know how well that experiment in guaranteed
employment turned out.
Don't get us wrong. We're not trying to be red-baiting
McCarthyites here. Everyone's entitled to their beliefs, even if they are
foolish. And, sure, just because something showed up in a communist country's
constitution doesn't make it a bad idea. But the sudden embrace by leading
Democrats of a huge new government-guaranteed jobs program is yet another
indication of just how far to the left the party has drifted. They're now
pushing ideas that even Finland has rejected.
It's also an unfortunate indicator of how many people in the
U.S. are ignorant of basic economics that — context or not — they'd lend any
measure of support to this idea.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Reagan never got a Nobel, but he is remembered as the
president who brought about the peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union and won
the Cold War. Barack Obama, by contrast, won a Nobel Prize just nine months
after taking office for doing nothing (except not being George W. Bush). Simply
by forcing North Korea to the negotiating table, Trump has already done more to
deserve the prize than Obama did.”
-Marc
A. Thiessen
“When Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards walked out of her
office for the last time Monday, fans gushed that her legacy wouldn’t be
forgotten. They’re right — because Richards’s legacy is the brutal slaughter of
3.5 million unborn lives. In her 12 years at the top, Planned Parenthood
destroyed a population bigger than Chicago’s — and somehow managed to convince
Congress to help.”
-Tony
Perkins
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GLOBALONEY
Another study has "substantially lower[ed]" the
U.N.'s forecasts of potential temperature increases, the authors of the study
concluding that climate change is "not as bad as we thought."
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LEFTIST WATCH
L.A. Antifa Group Hangs Trump in Effigy, Calls for
'Revolutionary Violence' Against 'the Capitalist State'
Protesters marking International Workers' Day hold rally in
London's Trafalgar Square - with some marchers holding banners of STALIN
Hundreds of masked and hooded anarchists smashed shop
windows, torched cars and hurled cobblestones at riot police in Paris,
In socialist Venezuela, inflation quadruples to 18,000
percent in two months, with no end in sight
How socialism ruined Venezuela.
Harvard Extension School Now Offers 'Social Justice
Certificate' Program
https://pjmedia.com/trending/harvard-extension-school-now-offers-social-justice-certificate-program/
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SAD DECLINE OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
“The
Boy Scouts of America has long been the target of leftists bent on reshaping
American culture. First, it was lawsuits to attack and obstruct the BSA. Then
it became a strategy to undermine the Scouts from the inside. The latter has
been far more successful, as the Scouts allowed homosexual boys in 2013 and leaders in 2015, and
it wasn’t long before the ranks were opened in 2017 to girls and transgender kids. Now, after 108 years, the BSA’s
Boy Scouts program is changing its name so as to eliminate “Boy” altogether. It
will soon be rebranded “Scouts BSA,” though the parent organization will remain
Boy Scouts of America. At least until rebranding as the “Social Justice Warrior
Scouts of America….the BSA’s transformation has been driven by its
National Board, which is “under the ‘leadership’ of wealthy corporate-types
completely out of touch with grassroots Scouting values.”
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ARTICLES
How political correctness killed the
dodge viper. “The Corvette now reigns as America’s only supercar. But
there used to be two American supercars — the second one being the Dodge Viper.
It was, arguably, more super. More outrageous, certainly….” Then along came airbag regulations.
There’s a big “God gap” between Republicans and Democrats —
70 percent of Republicans believe in the God of the Bible compared with 45
percent of Democrats — but there’s an even larger God gap
within the Democratic party. Only 32 percent of white Democrats believe in the
God of the Bible, compared with 61 percent of nonwhite Democrats — an almost
30-point gap:
Last week NeverTrumper David French scolded Christian
evangelicals for defending President Trump in a National Review article. This is Don Surber’s response to French.
Trump aide Michael Caputo: “In 2009, my wife and I moved to
my hometown of East Aurora, New York to have a family. Making far less money
back home, we had a far better quality of life. That is, until the Trump-Russia
narrative took off. Today, I can’t possibly pay the attendant legal costs and
live near my aging father, raising my kids where I grew up. 'Your investigation
and others into the allegations of Trump campaign collusion with Russia are
costing my family a great deal of money – more than $125,000 - and making a
visceral impact on my children..'Forget about all the death threats against my family. I
want to know who cost us so much money, who crushed our kids, who forced us out
of our home, all because you lost an election. 'I want to know because God Damn you to Hell.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/fb-5682671/TRUMP-AIDE-MICHAEL-CAPUTOS-SHOCKING-STATEMENT-SENATE-INTEL-COMMITTEE.html#ixzz5ERgdkU3e
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WISE
WORDS
“It is the duty of parents to maintain their children
decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to
the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a
judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and
happiness.”
-James
Wilson
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