Trump’s MAGA Model on The World Stage March 3, 2020
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Politics, Politiocal Philosophy, Uncategorized.Tags: America first, DAVOS, Dr. Robert Owens, International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, KAG, MAGA, The World Economic Forum, Trump’s agenda
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We’ve all heard of the annual conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos. The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. It was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
According to the WEF website, “It is independent, impartial, and not tied to any special interests. The Forum strives in all its efforts to demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest while upholding the highest standards of governance. Moral and intellectual integrity is at the heart of everything it does.”
On the other side critics such as Michael Ivanovitch, an independent analyst focusing on the world economy, geopolitics, and investment strategy describe the yearly conference in less than glowing terms. In a recent interview Ivanovitch said, “The forum is a talking shop without any consequence for world affairs … On the economic front, you will just hear platitudes you’ve heard ‘x’ times already.”
Good or bad this is one of the major platforms in the world of international economics and finance. Most of us out here in fly-over country may ignore it what with the Super Bowl and all, but the movers and shakers on the world stage attend or at least pay rapt attention to who’s moving and what’s shaking. So of course, despite the ever-on-going slow motion coup grinding on in the Emerald City President Trump made his appearance as the biggest mover and shaker of all. And he didn’t’ disappoint those of us who’re moved when he shakes up the collectivists plotting and planning to micromanage our lives.
Holding up the accomplishments of his America First agenda President Trump spoke of the rebirth of the American dream pointing to the success of economic nationalism in front of the globalist elites gathered at Davos. The President cited the fact that since he was elected and thanks to his economic policies, America has gained over seven million jobs, currently has the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, and is experiencing rising wages and household incomes for the first time in decades.
At the annual conference in Switzerland according to the President it’s his economic nationalist agenda in a free market system that provides a successful model for the world not globalism. In his speech, which should be the center stage for forward thinking discussion, Mr. Trump said, “A nation’s highest duty is to its own citizens.” Trump also said, “Honoring this truth is the only way to build faith and confidence in the market system. Only when governments put their own people first will people be fully invested in their national futures.” And, “A pro-worker, pro-citizen, pro-family agenda demonstrates how a nation can thrive when its communities, its companies, its government work together for the good of the whole nation.”
Then getting very specific President Trump continued, “Today I hold up the American model as an example to the world of a working system of free enterprise that will produce the most benefits for the most people in the 21st century and beyond.” Speaking of how previous administrations negotiated we-lose-they-win trade deals that gutted America’s industrial base and impoverished our middle-class the President said, “I think it’s primarily the reason that I ran.”
Turning to those who tell us the sky is falling President Trump said, “We must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. They are the heirs of yesterday’s foolish fortunetellers.” Once again getting specific President Trump addressed the goals of their predictions of overpopulation, mass starvation, and an end of oil based on phony science and media hype saying, “These alarmists always demand the same thing, absolute power to dominate, transform, and control every aspect of our lives.” He went on to declare unequivocally, “We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country or eradicate our liberty.”
Highlighting who the culprits are our President took aim at the metastasizing legions of bureaucrats spreading like a festering fog around the world having the courage to say, “Today I urge other nations to follow our example and liberate your citizens from the crushing weight of bureaucracy.” Then in conclusion he let the world know America doesn’t want to control them instead he is shining a light on a successful way forward, “With that, you have to run your own countries the way you want.”
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The Trump Agenda What We Voted For September 6, 2017
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Politics, Politiocal Philosophy.Tags: America first, border wall, Dr. Robert Owens, immigration moratorium, Immigration Reform, Impeach Trump, Make America Great Again, Russian investigation, Trump’s agenda
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Remember the campaign? Trump leapt in front of a parade that began in 2009 with the birth of the TEA Party Movement. The Trump campaign embodied everything those who wanted America to recover from the Obama debacle desired. What it proclaimed, what we were promised was an end to open borders, a repeal and replace of Obamacare, tax reform, and an end to give-away trade deals that have impoverished and debilitated us. In other words an America First administration supported by a do-something Congress.
And what have we gotten for our vote? The RINOs led by Ryan, McConnell, McCain, Flake, and Graham continue to obstruct everything President Trump tries to do. No repeal and replace. No tax reform, no support on the immigrant ban, and no support in stopping the bogus Russian-under-every -table investigation.
The Republicans said they needed the House to stop Obama. We gave them the House and they said they needed the Senate too. We gave them both houses of Congress and they did nothing to stop Obama. They said they needed the Presidency and then they could do something to right the ship-of-state. We gave them the presidency and since then it’s become obvious these political hacks were stringing us along all along.
We need to hold their feet to the fire. Call them. Email them. Show up at their town meetings. Let them know we want them to make America great again. Let them know we want what we voted for. We want an America First government.
I doubt that any amount of lobbying by those of us in fly-over country will have any impact on the crooked lawyers and others who hold the levers of power no matter what political shell-game party they say they belong to. There is only one party in Congress and it’s a two-headed bird of prey out to eat our lunch.
Watch for an acceleration of the witch hunt. Watch for movement on the impeachment front. Watch for a complete sell-out of everything we voted for in the interests of what the special interests paid for.
The AntiFa Blackshirts and other bully boys who serve as the shock troops for the silent coup will not stop until there’s blood in the water. The ABCCBSNBCPBSNPRCNNMSNBC Cartel will continue to cover-up the truth and proclaim the lie. The Neocons have re-captured our foreign policy and are driving us towards the cliff.
It’s time for all of us who voted for President Trump to prepare for the counter-revolution. Like Charley Brown trying to kick the football we keep on trying and trying no matter how many times they move the ball. America, the greatest experiment in freedom in human history is worth trying to save from the statists and their collective fever dreams of utopia.
Now is the time for all patriots to come to the aid of their country. Make your voice heard. Raise your hand and vote by participating in the process for making America great again.
Keep the faith. Keep the peace. We shall overcome.
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Macroeconomics Should Be a Required Course March 17, 2017
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Politics, Politiocal Philosophy.Tags: Class warfare, Dr. Robert Owens, Obama economy, Obamanomics, Progressive economy, quantitative easing, Stimulus, Trump’s agenda
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People avoid silence because they’re afraid of what they might hear. Although we value our freedom of speech, polite conversation in America is subject to one crushing rule, “Don’t talk about religion or politics!” Most of us were raised with this stifling warning in our ears. The purpose was to avoid arguments at the dinner table but the result is a population unconcerned in the two subjects affecting life the most. I can only talk about the weather for so long which displays the wisdom of memorizing sports stats and watching American Idol. With the two biggest topics off the table we’re faced with either trivial pursuit or silence. Bored with the weather and having neglected my memorization and viewing options I propose a topic to stimulate vigorous conversation without causing any bickering: economics.
Barry, Harry, and Nancy knew they had to take us through-the-looking-glass in four short years. With no effective break on their power for the first two years, Congress moved so fast their yesterday became our tomorrow. That tomorrow is now today. The ruling party rammed their agenda through without one opposition vote. Every revolution needs an emergency to justify radical surgery and the economy is the emergency available. Consequently, these descendants of FDR and LBJ shoved a raw deal down the throat of a great society.
We have now exited the fog of Progressive economic “thought” and the authoritarian central planning that it requires. Hopefully we are now being led by someone who at least understands that you can’t spend more money that you make forever. As Margaret Thatcher once said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
Almost everyone is in agreement that the BHO’s stimulus failed. According to MSNBC, “In January, Obama’s economic team predicted unemployment would rise no higher than 8 percent with the help of $787 billion in new government spending.” However, according to the LA Times the unemployment rate in May reached a 25-year high of 9.4 percent. The President might have seen glimmers of hope. The administration which ran on the slogan, “The worst economy since the Great Depression” misread how bad the economy was. How bad was it? What’s worse than the Great Depression? What’s their answer to this baddest of bad economies? What was their Plan B? Try Plan A again, and again, and again?
Just look at the money wasted on BHO’s green energy boondoggles:
The complete list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies:
- Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*
- SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
- Solyndra ($535 million)*
- Beacon Power ($43 million)*
- Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
- SunPower ($1.2 billion)
- First Solar ($1.46 billion)
- Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
- EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
- Amonix ($5.9 million)
- Fisker Automotive ($529 million)
- Abound Solar ($400 million)*
- A123 Systems ($279 million)*
- Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981)*
- Johnson Controls ($299 million)
- Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
- ECOtality ($126.2 million)
- Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
- Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
- Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
- Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
- Range Fuels ($80 million)*
- Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)*
- Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
- Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*
- GreenVolts ($500,000)
- Vestas ($50 million)
- LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)
- Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
- Navistar ($39 million)
- Satcon ($3 million)*
- Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)*
- Mascoma Corp. ($100 million)
*Denotes companies that have filed for bankruptcy.
I think what our leaders needed as they drove the largest economy the world has ever known over the cliff was Economics 102, Macroeconomics or how an economy works.
Most people, including the best-government-money-can-buy, look at the economy as if it were controlled by magic having no idea where the rabbit goes or where the doves come from, and since I doubt I’ll convince any of our all-knowing leaders to enroll in freshman macroeconomics I want to offer a crash course in Economic Reality.
- Government regulations distort markets and inflate bubbles.
- Every generation experiences at least one bubble and at least one bust.
- Every bubble bursts.
- Every burst bubble is followed by a panic.
- Panics inspire economic regulations.
- Economic regulations reflect political ideologies not economic realities.
- Economic regulations always regulate the excesses of the last bubble.
- Economic regulations are always blind to the excesses of the next bubble.
- Since consumption is the purpose for production any economic regulation that ignores this fact always leads to the misapplication of resources and the misdirection of effort.
- Depressions are recessions with government help.
- It is impossible to spend yourself into prosperity.
- It is impossible to tax yourself into prosperity.
- Higher taxes lead to smaller revenue and black-markets.
The BHO’s New Economy was leading us straight to the Second World, from freedom to conformity from capitalism to the stagflation and malaise of Obamanomics. Instead of a fair race with the rapidly transforming economies of Asia, America ran hobbled like a child in a three – legged race strapped to the stiff-legged ideas of collectivism.
Why did our leaders want us economically hobbled? What would they gain if we fall into the swamp of poverty engulfing most of the world? Wouldn’t they be right there with us? Go to any Second or Third World country and you’ll see the rich and powerful behind walls in gated-communities where they live in the First World while everyone else sits in the dirt eating leaves. Venezuela is a good current example.
In the old America, using capitalism to provide economic opportunity we avoided this fate with the growth of a massive middleclass. Under BHO that middleclass was under assault from stagnant wages, rising prices, and disappearing jobs the middleclass was being outsourced. How is this being accomplished?
Remember the mantra of the Clintons? “It’s the economy stupid!” That’s still the Liberal’s strategy, riding like a flea on a rat cradle-to-grave with social engineering in the guise of economic policy. The Progressives drive the economy into the ditch all the while saying it is someone else’s fault and shrieking that we need more of what is causing the problem: bloated government and runaway spending. A lack of basic economic understanding was destroying the greatest economy ever forged. A zero sum game causes divisions and arguments about who gets what when we used to all strive for the same thing: success.
Under the Trump Administration at least someone is making an effort to turn this around. Look at the first budget proposal The Donald has put forth. He is trying to return government to its essential purpose, defense and trade while leaving the social engineering of PBS and endowments for the arts to gain the private support which should be their bread and butter.
Look at his attempt to end the mass importation of possible terrorists whose presence provides the seedbed for a Trojan War. How about the idea of eliminating two regulations to impose one? How about cutting the US contributions to the UN? Asking our allies to pay their fair share? Standing up to the lying manipulative media? These are all things We the People out here in fly-over country have been asking our government to enact for years. This isn’t President Trump’s agenda. This is ours.
Now the Progressives of both the supposed Left and the supposed Right are for once out in the open in their alliance to do nothing more than maintain their own power. They seek to divide us. Divide and conquer is their strategy. We can’t let divisions divide us anymore. We must unite and demand that the only sane policy for us is America First.
America is splintering as the melting pot becomes a smelting pot. What is its cause? The divisiveness of class-warfare encouraged by the only people who win through America’s split between red and blue, rich and poor, us and them. Who are they? If it isn’t us I guess it’s them.
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