~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
First elitist, Nancy Pelosi and now fellow Marxist elite, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, are attacking the bonuses that employees across the United States are receiving as a result of President Donald J. Trump’s tax reform.
Progressives believe, correction are denying that the wage increases, bonuses, increase in the 401k’s of Americans and new jobs resulting from tax reform are beneficial to working Americans who have been suffering after Barack Obama transformed America into a part-time nation. Another chapter in Obama’s legacy that has now gone up in smoke.
In the latest good economic news following the passage of tax cuts, Home Depot announced that it would be distributing up to $1,000 bonuses to hourly paid workers.
The list of companies now sharing the benefits of tax reform with employees is growing long.
In 2011, Democrats celebrated a temporary payroll tax cut that netted Americans about $40 per month. They even had a hashtag campaign on Twitter, #40Dollars.
But that was during the Obama presidency. Their tune has changed with Donald Trump in the White House.
Despite the sudden boon for American workers, prominent progressives are publicly pooh-poohing the new bonuses and salary increases as no big deal, mere “crumbs,” as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D.-Calif., said.
“In terms of the bonus that corporate America receives versus the crumbs they are giving to workers to put the schmooze on is so pathetic,” Pelosi said in early January.
The median household income in Pelosi’s home district of San Francisco, California, is about $100,000, so it’s natural a $1,000 bonus would seem like peanuts to her.
She may be surprised to learn that nearly 7 in 10 Americans don’t even have $1,000 in savings, according to a recent study. So one can fairly conclude that a sudden $1,000 boost in one’s bank account would be a big deal for most people.
Pelosi wasn’t the only limousine liberal to dismiss the good news about bonuses. At the same event in which Pelosi bemoaned “fat cats” getting more than average Americans, former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, said:
Frankly, if you look at the bonuses, which I haven’t heard of a corporate bonus more than $1,000 so far. Which, by the way, is taxed, so it’s not $1,000. And then you spread $1,000 over the course of the year—to think of about how much that is—of course they get it all at once. But I’m not sure that $1,000 (which is taxed, taxable) goes very [far] for almost anyone.
It’s an odd thing to hear Wasserman Schultz blame income taxes for diminishing the size of one’s bonus. After all, not a single Democrat in Congress voted in favor of tax cuts.
Certainly, this pessimism toward bonuses and pay raises can at least in part be chalked up to political partisanship. But there may be a deeper reason for their refusal to celebrate good economic news.
It’s the same reason that those who fiercely advocated a federal $15 minimum wage are now utterly dismissive of the significant benefits workers are now experiencing.
As The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas recently reported, at least 21 companies voluntarily decided to raise their minimum wage to $15 an hour as a result of the tax break. This too received no recognition from liberal minimum wage backers[…]
Their bitter reaction of these elitists show just how much Progressives are out of touch, their disdain for the American independence, the American workforce and American exceptionalism.
Who knew that Queens was just a half mile east of Dayton, Tennessee?
Christopher Hitchens (RIP) once said that the English wear their class on the tips of their tongues. That is also true about Americans, only, more generally our tongues revealed where we were from.
It was elitism that stigmatized American regionalism. At least that’s what justified Bob Beckel, formerly of FoxNews, to leap directly to the notion that racism was a uniquely southern sin, and there was no easier way to identify a southern racist than to listen to him talk. Bob Beckel was wrong, but hey, he was just a kid when Dr King was murdered, and never bothered to listen to Dick Gregory, who died only recently, as he tried to paint elitist northerners Yankees with the same racist brush as southerners, while Dr King was still alive:
(Don’t care how close you get so long as you don’t get too big, versus, Don’t care how big you get so long as you don’t get too close—Can you tell which is which in the regional world of racism? And which survives?)
I thought that stigma had been dead and buried by the mid 70s, when Jimmy Carter was elected president and Boss Hogg had become a comedic buffoon icon, much like Senator Claghorn had been in the 1940s.
Seems I may have been a bit premature.
I’m a little more sensitive about that tip of the tongue matter than most, for I grew up in Appalachia, a peoples who carried a twang around that separated us from mere “Ya’ll” southerners. “Appalatchy”, from West Virginia down to the Smoky Mountains, stood out alone.
Those of us who left home to seek educations and above-ground work outside the mountains were acutely aware of this infirmity…for within a week of taking a part-time job in a college bookstore I already had picked up a nickname.
A world traveler by the 80s, I still had words I knew were dead giveaways of my origins, so sequestered them in safe places, never to use except among folks back in the hills. My most damning giveaway was “far”, only not taken from Dickens’ “a far, far better thing I do”, but “far truck”. I nearly cleared a conference room in Cincinnati once in 1992 with that unscripted, open mic outburst, the audience likely wondering how I’d gotten across the Ohio River without having my visa stamped.
The Mason-Dixon Line of American culture has existed since the very beginning and it largely ran only one way.
There was Yankee culture and there was Southern culture and that divide wasn’t rent solely by the racial divide defined, well into my high school years by separate facilities, “separate but equal” school segregation, the KKK and a general sort of racism about where people were allowed to sit in a diner, and words (names) people could call other people out loud without getting their blocks knocked off[…]
America’s Leftist elites use their power to stroke their egos and, like Pharaoh, are unconcerned when ordinary people suffer from their hypocrisy.
One of the (many) good things about the Trump era is that Victor Davis Hanson seems to be on a perpetual roll, swatting away both the #Resistance crowd and the #NeverTrump crowd. His latest offering points to the epic hypocrisy that characterizes Leftist elites who have control over our schools, our media, our entertainment empire, and our bureaucracy:
So perhaps what drives proverbially average Americans crazy is not the success and money of others, but the condescension and hypocrisy of what a particular elite says contrasted with how it lives: The disconnect recalls the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart, the televangelist who on Sunday mornings three decades ago used to break into tears as he loudly condemned the sins of the flesh, while he privately indulged his worldly appetites.
[snip]
Wealthy white college kids chant about the demon white privilege, going so far as to help demand racially segregated safe spaces, dorms, and, in one case currently in the news, temporary expulsion of white people from campus. They rage against a privilege that they enjoy and that their perceived targets — the unenlightened middle of America — do not. Yet one easy way of ending white privilege, to the extent that it exists, among elite enclaves would be to send one’s children to public high schools rich in diversity[…]
Bookworm is a fellow council member and author at Wow! Magazine. Feel free to check out the archive of essays written by Bookworm at Wow! and at her website, Bookworm Room.
There are some things that even for a die-hard Progressive is should be too much. Enter Jon Ossoff, human trafficking, illegal immigration. To Georgia’s 6th district, the clock is ticking. WAKE UP!
Jon Ossoff, who might take the House seat for the Democrats in Newt Gingrich’s old district in Georgia [Tom Price’s former seat], managed a film company that paid human smugglers operating across Europe nearly $2,000, Got News reported.
Ossoff is running in a special election and polls say he’s leading.
Ossoff, who won’t move into the district he will represent, has been the CEO of the film company since 2013. He gave cash to smugglers to make their way from Morocco to England in the making of his 2006’s “Living with Illegals”.
It is a sympathetic, pro-illegal immigration film, and serves as a how-to guide. The film doesn’t make the trip look easy, however.
“Living With Illegals” is for sale, through U.K. film distributor SWPictures.
To begin with, let’s go to Progress Rose blog post entitled, “LOOK WHO ARE JEB BUSH’S BUDDIES” filed under recent items at NY Ice.
August 2015. The Photo above depicting Jeb Bush with media monopolizer Murdoch and Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett is making the internet rounds.
With a smile reminiscent of those plastic “Chucky” diabolical dolls, Jeb Bush sits nice and cozy to eat with Murdoch and Jarrett.
A picture is worth a 1000 words, and this everybody-is-smiling Photo says that he is very friendly with the Obama debacle, as well as the mainstream media manipulator….
[NOTE: Not throwing caution to the wind, rather than just posting the photograph referenced in the above article here which by the way is all over the blogosphere of Jeb Bush, Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett enjoying each other’s company at what is labeled by others as the 2014 Chamber of Commerce Dinner, I opted to use another image.
You can view the subject image at NY Ice, here , other blogs (just Google the image) or where I believe it may have originated, i.e., in a tweet dated December 1, 2014 @JohnBussey of WSJ #WSJCEOCOUNCIL, here. I agree with Progress Ross, after last week’s Fox News GOP Debate, correction dog and pony show, the subject photograph tells a story.]
THE FIX:
Fox News, the GOP leadership, Progressive establishment of both parties are colluding to bring forth the candidate ordained worthy by elites and not the American voter to run for president in 2016 wasting no time to send the message is, “you will vote the way we tell you.”
Delivering the message as witnessed last week during the Fox News GOP debate (dog and pony show), were the Fox News moderators whose made it obvious that their goal was to eliminate Donald Trump.
As also pointed out by The Conservative Treehouse, Murdoch immediately after the debate dispatched the following tweet:
Katie Couric (yes, Katie Couric) did the same, attaching a photograph for good measure as provided by Conservative Treehouse in their post:
Question: Why did Couric resend the tweet without the photograph?
The fact that Progressive media outlets were thrilled sends a message to Conservatives that something stinks.
Dredging up old misstatements. Questioning someone’s temperamental fitness to be president. Suggesting that someone else might let a woman die rather than allow her to have an abortion.
The Republican presidential candidates’ debate on Thursday night was notable for its pointed accusations, and for the sometimes-awkward glowering and silences that followed.
And that was just the moderators.
The triumvirate of Fox News anchors who ran the two-hour event — Chris Wallace, Megyn Kelly and Bret Baier — seemed to have one mission above all else in questioning the 10 would-be presidents they faced across the stage at the Quicken Loans Arena: Make them squirm…..
Again, if Progressives are loving it, it can’t be good.
Did the GOP leadership believe that voters would not see through their shenanigans which by the way, gave Progressive media outlets plenty of ammunition to assist in the elimination of not only Donald Trump but other candidates that the GOP leadership intends to eliminate?
Not to mention, Hillary Clinton who defended Megyn Kelly as “Incredibly Impressive” opening the door for a Fox interview with Clinton, no doubt by Kelly.
When called out, Erickson employed Alinsky style tactics against opposing Conservatives, many of whom are not Trump supporters as claimed by Erickson, Fox News and other so-called Conservative media outlets in the pockets of the Republican Party leadership.
Bordering paranoia and/or guilt, Erickson speaking before the crowd at the RedState Gathering ridiculed and demeaned disapproving Conservatives at outraged his actions against Trump as he read aloud their social media messages.
RedState’s moderator even inadvertently exposed Erickson’s hand when responding to a commenter under an article at Redstate replied, “We need Donald Trump to disappear.” (Screenshot below)
What should be the final nail in RedState’s coffin and a revelation to Conservatives is that when it got too hot in the kitchen, a RedState moderator closed the comments section thus ignoring Conservatives pretty much like the Republican establishment does to those they have labeled “wacko birds” and “right wing extremists.” (Screenshot below.)
Comments were shut down Saturday during the RedState gathering. Today is Tuesday and comments remain closed.
The fix is in just as it was in 2012 and 2014.
In 2012, the GOP leadership at least waited a few weeks before betraying their voters.
In 2014, the betrayal came about only 24 hours after voters delivered the House and the Senate to the Republican Party.
Enter 2016, correction 2015 and the GOP leadership in collusion with Fox News and so-called Conservative media sites using the same playbook/timeframe to eliminate candidates are laughing in our faces.
They are hell bent on getting Jeb Bush into the White House by any means necessary and the voter be damned.
One more thing: About Megyn Kelly, not every female is buying it….
Bending over backwards on the dump the Donald train is TheBlaze.
Case in point, Matt Walsh, whose piece, “I’m Not Angry At Donald Trump, I’m Angry At His Supporters“ attacks and denigrates not only Trump supporters, but those who oppose the actions taken by a so-called Conservative media as if we’re one of the stupid American voters churned out by the left demanding that voters just fall in line and let the elites make all the decisions because well, you’re just too uncivilized to make decisions about who leads the nation.
Speaking of demands, then there is George Will who insists that Trump supporters are “marginally connected’ to politics.”
Trump’s popularity is in part a revulsion to political correctness. He is definitely not PC but people don’t want him attacked unfairly because of it.
People have had it with the media, the political class, and the mess of a country that used to be a Republic. Does anyone really believe we live in a Republic right now?
NBC conducted a scientific poll which showed that Trump was in the lead and Cruz and Carson are surging. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why.
These are people who are not going along with the establishment….
The GOP leadership and their sock puppets in the media have the audacity to ask voters: “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
Source: Cropped image of Cain by Henri Vidal, in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, 1896 – Wikimedia Commons.
Video Rebel’s Blog Paul Volcker wants a new Bretton Woods agreement to replace the old one which Nixon broke in August of 1971 when he refused to redeem dollars for gold at $35 an ounce. Henry Kissinger took us onto the Petrodollar standard in 1973 after the Arab-Israeli war. The Gulf oil monarchies agreed to sell oil only in dollars. These dollars bought US Treasury bonds and helped fund America’s perpetual budget deficit and to pretend it had also solved its trade imbalance. Some have mistakenly accused America of fighting Oil wars. We have been fighting wars to defend the Petrodollar […]
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