Why Not "Send In The Troops?"

Not Simple Facts But Simple Truth

Townhall Magazine

The failure of Democrat Governors and Mayors makes it very difficult for the Federal Government to help. The devil is in the details. 

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"Bottom Line: All in all, sending military forces into a non-permissive environment in a blue city is a recipe for disaster."

".......... What do the troops actually do [without local approval and support]? Patrol? Got to wait on our vehicles. Do they go arrest looters? For what? If the looters violate federal law – like crossing a state line to riot – that’s easy. You hook them up, turn them over to the federal cops and the US attorney prosecutes them. But what if they commit a state crime, which most routine crimes are? In LA ‘92, we grabbed a crook and handed him over to the LAPD and he went to jail and got prosecuted. But the Portland police will be ordered not to cooperate. Moreover, the Portland DA will not charge them, much less prosecute them. What do you do with them? How do the feds hold a rioter for a state crime that he is not charged with?........"

Post Office Facts - What’s The Hoopla All About?

So Trump is Closing the Post Office to Prevent Voters from Voting. NOT.

SIMPLE FACTS

• The US Post office moves 450 million pieces of mail every day. That is over 13 billion pieces of mail each month.
• The total votes cast in a presidential election are 125 million. If every vote in the United States was cast by that would be less than 2% of monthly mail volume. (Ballots are mailed mostly on same day, even though each state may be different, but are returned through several weeks prior to the election.
• Under NO circumstances, will every vote case be sent through the mail. A generous estimate would be 1/2 of all votes cast.
• The US Postal service has run substantial deficits every year for more than ten years and lost over $8 billion in last fiscal year.
• 1st class mail volumes have decreased over 25% in last nine years. Trump appointed an executive to right size the Post Office expenses.
• 14,000 mail boxes were removed since 2009 for reasons explained by President Obama in 2009. 
• Current financial shortfalls are not expected to impact operations until next year (after election.)
• Congress has repeatedly blocked efforts to address financial challenges (see below.)
• Democrats lie about everything. 

More facts from Liberty Laura:

https://www.facebook.com/1610844859198173/posts/2731647897117858/

The Post Office is an independent agency, managed by a board of directors, but subject to congressional control. There is a long history of attempted cost-savings measures, by Post Office executives, which eventually get blocked by lawmakers in Congress. Classic. 

Example 1: Whenever the Post Office tries to close rural office locations (an effort with potential cost-savings of $500 million/year), congressmen object. "If you want to watch a Congressman flip out, suggest closing a rural post office in his district," they say.

Example 2: In 2013, the agency tried to save $2 billion by adjusting its delivery schedule, yet Congress continued to mandate six-day service. 

Example 3: The Post Office cannot increase prices on letters and junk mail more than the rate of inflation, because of a law passed by Congress. Even the Post Office has complained about this one, saying, "Most of the Postal Service’s business is subject to a rigid price cap unlike anything faced by private companies."

Example 4: In 2006, Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which requires the Post Office to pay billions every year for future retiree health benefits (not pensions), something no other agency does.

Sources: 
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California to Pave Way on Highly Troublesome New Tax; WEALTH TAX

 This is deeply troublesome. California often leads other states with new "progressive" policies and taxes. 

All too often, if you see California do it, then other states follow like Colorado, Washington, Oregon, New York and New Jersey. That does not mean California ideas are good ideas. Often they are not. 

Over time California has established high taxes, excessive regulations, overbearing environmental regulations and restrictions on individual liberties. These California Policies almost always lead to an exodus of people from the California to other states that are more friendly to jobs, residents and businesses. 

Here come a new one: The Wealth Tax. This has been tried and failed all over the world. It appeals to some voters who want to "make the rich pay their fair share." But there are serious conceptual problems. These include:

• It encourages people to leave the state,
• It does not raise the revenue predicted,
• It is entirely unfair as most wealth was already taxed as income,
• It is very difficult to effectively measure without legal disputes,
• A modest wealth tax may be a significant share of annual earnings, and, 
• All new taxes lead to increases of those taxes on everyone over time.  

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Why Do Teachers Unions Want to Shut Down Schools? Easy Answer

Answer: Defeat Trump in Election

It is that simple. By keeping schools closed, Democrats and Teachers Unions are disrupting families, business, the economy, and, the election campaign. Democrats and their supporters will do anything to defeat Donald Trump.

A reader does not have to support Trump to recognize how insidious this effort is. Teachers unions have a long history of promoting their political agenda over the interest of kids and families.

Captive Mind And Resegregation; Wall Street Journal; August 3, 2020

Editor Comment - this is one of the more effective discussions about what is happening in America and why we need to stand up in opposition. I have excerpted much of the article below:

"Idol smashing and cancel culture are part of a broad ideological project to dominate society."

"Czesław Miłosz, a future Nobel Prize-winning poet who had just defected from Poland, began work in 1951 on a book called “The Captive Mind.” Even as Stalinist totalitarianism tightened its grip on Eastern Europe, many Western European intellectuals lauded the brave new world of Soviet communism as a model for overcoming “bourgeois forces,” which in their view had caused World War II. Living in Paris, Miłosz wrote his book, which was published in 1953, to warn the West of what happens to the human mind and soul in a totalitarian system.

Defunding, Dismantling, & Destroying America - Dan Crenshaw

This is a podcast from Dan Crenshaw, a Houston Congressman and ex Navy Seal. He is one of the more thoughtful and articulate leaders on the right. This podcast is an excellent recap of what is going on in America with lots of facts and not opinion or vitriol. In his words, he is not creating a straw-man. It is worth 38 minutes to listen to - link below. In his words the podcast is about Democrat intentions:

"Abolish the police. Take over free markets. End the Electoral College. Destroy our health care system. It's been a long time since Democrat leaders were this far apart from their Republican colleagues in either political or cultural perspectives. On this solo episode, Dan expands on his recent thoughts about the differences between the two parties policies, and what it all means for the future of America."

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