Posted on 10/21/2016 10:57:41 AM PDT by pabianice
That a woman who has been politically active, her entire adult life, among a people with the most successful history of economic achievement over their first century and a quarter, of any people on earth, under a Constitutional Government designed to protect that people from a bureaucratic pestilence, which has been the bane of most nations; that such a woman has so missed the essential point of the American achievement, is staggering in its implications.
Mrs. Clinton claimed that a Clinton Government would rebuild the "Middle Class." Was she totally unaware that the American Middle Class clearly built itself? That the American Middle Class resulted from naturally energized individuals, aspiring to achieve the good life, who risked everything to first clear a wilderness, work hard, generation to generation, to save & accumulate the attributes of the good life; with the result that by 1913--the year that a graduated income tax first became Constitutional, this Settler built Federation of newly settled States, had already surpassed every one of the great powers of Europe in industrial strength.
To "rebuild" the "Middle Class," Mrs. Clinton vowed to make the most successful Americans--those who had achieved the most--pay increased taxes; she called it "paying their 'fair' share." But it was clearly to be a tax on success--a tax to fund a raft of new programs (a cancer or pestilence of an expanded bureaucracy). She was obviously indifferent to the fact that the biggest impediment to any poor person with ambition, actually launching a small business to improve his status, is an almost incomprehensible explosion in bureaucratic regulations, most of which premised on the same flawed understanding of how people actually advance, which Mrs. Clinton displayed, last night.
Americans used to learn by experience. What were the experience based lessons of what transpired from the drafting of our written Constitution in 1787, until the passage of the income tax amendment in 1913? Are they instructive or not, for what actually works for human advancement?
The Constitution prior to 1913, absolutely interdicted a tax driven war on the accumulation of individual wealth. Article I, Section 9, which Mrs. Clinton should have remembered from Law School, provided that no direct tax on individual Americans could be applied in any way but pro-capita. (That is Warren Buffet would pay the same tax--not the same percentage tax--but the same tax as Joe the Plumber. The Founders had no desire to limit individual success. They sought only to encourage it.
Under there experience based philosophy, there were almost certainly not even 1% of the bureaucratic regulations, with which Americans seeking to improve their lot, must face today. In place of today's pursuit of grievances, real or imagined, there was universal admiration for the high achievers! And the growth rate of a people freed to achieve, was the economic phenomenon of human history.
We do not pretend to know whether it was in her indoctrination by Marxist Pied Pipers, in her late teens, or pure confusion in whatever she is struggling with today. But Mrs. Clinton is utterly clueless on how a dynamic economy works; as she is utterly unaware of the dynamic, interactive factors, that drive or stagnate any human aspiration or achievement. What is absolutely clear, even if one ignores her lack of a moral compass in her political dealings; the woman is absolutely unqualified to be President of the United States.
This is one more reason why we must win this election for Donald Trump.
William Flax
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Looks to me like President Trump is being really smart bringing up this issue now. By raising it, he’s at least forced the DemonRats to take a lot more criminal precautions than they want to, thus reducing the amount of fraud. He’s also put them on notice that they’ll have a hell of a fight if they “win” the election and there’s any significant evidence of fraud.
So, log “carloads” instead of buses. ;-)
These carloads would probably look pretty odd.
That would explain no small number of black precincts going 100% for Obama against Romney.
I’m pretty sure you can’t do something like that on the territory of the voting station...but they can’t stop you if you are across the street.
There might be restrictions for inside a polling place, but I’m nearly 100% sure they can’t restrict cameras outside.
There is actually a GOOD reason to restrict cameras on the inside. IIRC, the union thugs used to require proof that you voted D or there would be hell to pay. Preventing cameras inside ensures that no one is intimidated into proving that they voted the way someone else wanted them to. It ensures the secret ballot. I actually favor this law.
But I would also be VERY MUCH in favor of making a photo record of the entire day outside of each polling place (including which buses and cars enter the parking areas). This would not by itself prevent someone from voting multiple times, but it would at least give us some strong evidence of what is going on. Possibly more importantly, we could trace the car/bus owners/renters to find out who is behind it.
When I was handing out R literature in 2012, we were told that we were not allowed to campaign within 50 feet of the polling place. (This may vary by state or county.) The Democrats consistently violated this law. Not by accident or by a few inches or feet. They were right up next to the door. I took pictures. There was a huge brouhaha when they realized I had pictures of them. A huge Democrat guy tried to intimidate me into deleting them and when I refused he personally threatened me. They tried every tactic imaginable. One was to claim that it was illegal for me to take pictures of someone without their consent, that the person in the picture was the legal owner, etc., etc., etc. In between bullying sessions, I emailed copies to myself and to several other people as “insurance.”
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