Posted on 11/02/2019 6:04:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
I was going to write part two of why California is burning. But that takes a back seat to impeachment and the latest economic news.
So I'll shorten the "why California is burning" story. California is burning and blacked out because of insane liberal policies. First and foremost, as I pointed out in my last column, hundreds of billions of dollars have been wasted over the past 20 years paying for the costs of illegal immigration instead of upgrading and modernizing the California electric grid. The chickens have come home to roost.
The secondary cause for California's nightmare involves environmental policies that won't allow brush clearing or cutting down dead trees. The third cause is climate change mandates that force utility companies to waste billions of dollars annually on green energy.
So California consumers get the highest energy bills in the nation, the highest taxes in the nation and blackouts when the wind blows. Congratulations.
I could solve California's problems quickly. Clean the brush and redirect all those billions of dollars to upgrading and modernizing your electrical grid. Simple.
Now, on to the two most important stories in America: impeachment and the economy. Both play right into President Donald Trump's hands. Both will lead to a landslide victory for Trump's reelection.
First, impeachment. The game is on. The House voted along partisan lines to open the impeachment inquiry. And Democrats marched in lockstep, like sheep off a cliff.
A New York Times/Siena College battlegrounds poll released last week found that the majority of voters in every important swing state oppose impeachment -- including many independent voters.
No big deal, unless Democrats have any interest in winning Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina and Arizona.
I've seen a half-dozen other polls with the same results. This impeachment witch hunt is the biggest mistake ever made by Democrats.
Now to the economy. More great news on Friday.
The Trump economy added 128,000 jobs in October. That number blew away the economists' estimate of 75,000. This was despite a massive General Motors strike. Take that away, and the number would have been in the neighborhood of 200,000 new jobs.
More importantly, the August and September jobs reports were revised dramatically higher -- which means the economy is much stronger than initially reported. September numbers were revised upward by 44,000 jobs. August was revised upward by 51,000 jobs. That brought the three-month average up to 176,000 new jobs per month.
The overall unemployment rate of 3.6% remained at or near historic lows. The number of Americans employed jumped to 158.5 million, an all-time high.
And average hourly wages went up, too -- a year-over-year gain of 3%. Everyone is working, and everyone's salary is going up.
To date, Trump has added more than 6.5 million new jobs, while Barack Obama had lost 2.3 million jobs at the same time in his presidency, according to the Gateway Pundit.
That's why impeachment is linked to Trump's economy. What can Democrats say in the face of these great economic numbers? They've got nothing. If I were a Democratic leader, I'd talk impeachment, too. It's their only card to play.
So, anyone want to play poker? I'll put the Trump economy up against the Democrats' impeachment inquiry all day long. I'll take the Trump economy and raise you 350 electoral votes. If I were you, I'd fold quickly -- before you get hurt.
vote for us and we will tax the evil rich and give you more free stuff and save you from bad weather
Poker?
Why play at all? Why not govern?
There is no upside to playing poker as an effectively powerless party and expecting to win.
A large part of poker is based on luck of the cards....not skill of the player.
“First and foremost, as I pointed out in my last column, hundreds of billions of dollars have been wasted over the past 20 years paying for the costs of illegal immigration instead of upgrading and modernizing the California electric grid.”
This is an issue in many dying metro areas where Third Worlders are replacing working Americans; the areas start to look like former colonies, with all of the long-term structures (streets, sidewalks, buildings, etc.) crumbling as the Westerners no longer maintain them. The underclasses we traffick here have no intention of contributing towards any maintenance of anything; they are here not to give, but take.
When Amazon would looking at part of NYC for one of its headquarters buildings, the news showed interviews with people gesturing towards vacant lots and a generally run-down area. The resistance sprung from the fact that Amazon wasn’t going to just give “free money” to the area; the benefit to the city would be payroll taxes (the city has an income tax) and discretionary funds in the pockets of workers. Many of the otherized dreck opposing the move didn’t want jobs - they wanted white people to simply come in and fix everything for them (with nothing in return). For this same reason, any jobs created in the Trump economy are bad news for these people; they don’t want to work, and they lost an excuse (availability of jobs) when they become available.
I’ve described before a TV show “Life After People”, in which people visit areas abandoned long ago and obsrve the changes. Nowadays you could film “Life After White People” in growing areas of this country; you’d see the remnants of the WASP superpower (including the power grid) intermingled with the modern day detritus scattered by the current Third World inhabitants. For example, I’ve seen the old posts that used to hold payphones jutting out of sidewalks; the phones have been gone for years, but the reminders are left - not just of the old technology, but that nobody lives there anymore that would ask the phone company to remove them.
A large part of poker is based on luck of the cards....not skill of the player.
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My mother is a compulsive gambler and poker was her drug before she lost so much she can no longer afford it. She had to admit gambling was not a smart retirement strategy.
Even slots players think there are strategies.
“A large part of poker is based on luck of the cards....not skill of the player.”
Just the opposite is true.
Yes, a very large part.
Vivid post. The worst part is that it doesn't stop there. The cancerous rot we introduce doesn't just die off when it has destroyed its feeding grounds - it migrates to "greener pastures" in search of easy pickings, invariably nudging out the residents in favor of the parasites.
They spread to greener pastures as the American population declines - and local governments look the other way because they don’t want to rule over empty housing and empty schools. Half the public schools in my town of 40,000 would close if immigration laws were enforced.
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