Surely, anyone who observes and understands current events with a background knowledge of Progressivism, Socialism, Communism, and our own failed governmental system of Federalism can see with clarity that our current federal government since 1933 is progressing toward Socialism. Our country is a Warfare/Welfare State that is financed and heavily regulated on the backs of companies and citizen taxpayers. The Democrats (Socialists) import illegal prospective voters from south of the border who vote illegally and get paid by citizen taxpayers. While the U.S. fights the enemies of allies ostensibly to keep enemies from our shores, the U.S. should demand that allies defend themselves more—WWII is over. Sell U.S. weaponry to allies that is appropriate for their current disputes or skirmishes with enemies and provide training if necessary. See How to Make America Great Again.

Obviously, something must be done about:

• our CONgress' insolvent spending behavior, and
• our career politicians (limit 12yrs), lifetime court appointees (limit 12yrs), and
• after firing 50% of federal employees (without replacing) based on past performance and skill levels, future bi-annual performance appraisals determine who is promoted/terminated, limit employment to 20yrs, and
• require federal employees to contribute 65% with government 35% for retirement pension savings, 50%/50% for health insurance, and
• the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 didn't REFORM anything. It created the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), and the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), and all of these bureaucracies are corrupted by unions since most employees of bureaucracies are union members, and therefore, all venues for appeal of termination should be condensed into one, independent, non-government, private, non-profit organization that uses the very latest technology to evaluate all appeals of termination and renders a FINAL opinion. Politics, sexual or any other harassment, skills deficit, abrasive personality are all reasons for termination or not and would be considered in deliberations. Government CANNOT investigate itself objectively, and
• prohibit all government employee union activities on the job, i.e., if union activity, then must occur in union meetings off-site in union buildings only, and
• our southern border must be secured against the hordes of Illegal Aliens with an impenetrable WALL, and an Executive Order denying "Birthright Citizenship" to children born of Illegal Aliens (foreigners) (see 14th Amendment), and
• our bogus immigration laws, e.g., Chain Migration, Visa Lottery, Catch & Release, bogus claims of Entrepreneurship, and phony Asylum requests must be repealed, and
• our current Illegal Aliens should be arrested, photographed, printed, DNA-sampled, and deported. Two-time offenders should be incarcerated, and

  The propensity to violence is not caused by poverty alone, but, in the case of Mexico in particular and the Southern Hemisphere in general, there is a history of violence as far back as Cortez and the Spanish Conquistadores. Before the Spanish, Incas in Central and South America and the Aztecs in Mexico were very violent. With Mexico, in particular, the Aztecs and their religion were very violent. Today, Mexican drug cartels ravage Mexico with their lawless grip on Mexicans. It is no wonder that Illegal Aliens bring violence to America. Today and throughout history, religions of all flavors are the primary cause of violence throughout the world and its history.

• our INDEPENDENT agencies that generate freedom-restricting regulations, and
• our obsolete agencies that merely provide make-work employment, and
• our CONgress that created independent agencies but doesn't have enough power to oversee or change them, and
• our corrupt public schools (make them all tuition-driven private schools, eliminate school Boards, eliminate school taxes). See American Subversive Teachers, and
• our universities that allow students to violate the 1st Amendment must be sanctioned, and
• our universities' policies of tenure for professors should have an end-date for non-productive professors, and
• our "gun free zones" must be eliminated, and Concealed Carry Reciprocity (includes training) must be the law of the land so that "maniac shooters" can be stopped immediately, and
• our government(s) must fully support the Constitution including 1st and 2nd Amendments subject to sanction (California), and
• our Federal Reserve (Keynesian economics) that consistently causes recessions or exacerbates the normal boom-bust business cycle, and
• our Income Tax that should be replaced with a Sales Tax requiring a 75% majority in CONgress to increase the tax percent. Income Tax is PUNISHMENT for SUCCESS. A sales tax paid by consumers only taxes consumption. Since no citizen would pay income tax, then only consumption is taxed. Untaxed companies would have more money to lower prices. Citizens would have more money to pay the sales tax and school tuition. Maybe citizens would prefer saving over buying?

The list goes on...

[Editor's Note: I think, however, that AG Sessions, Rod Rosenstein, and former corrupt FBI Director Muellar should be FIRED !!! Muellar's investigation is NOT an investigation of probable cause that a crime may have been comitted based on evidence, it is a search for a crime, any crime, and the Deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein approves of the search which is a violation of the President's rights.

AG Sessions knew that this complete failure of JUSTICE was coming, so he shirked his duty and recused himself. The Rosenstein/Muellar legal disaster is not searching for "collusion" (a "fake news" term) anymore. So, Sessions could save himself by unrecusing himself and termnate the witch hunt.

Moreover, for a clean sweep, the President could fire current FBI Director Christopher Wray (and Rosenstein) who continues to VERY SLOWLY produce (or refuse) documents subpoenaed by CONgress, the Overseers of FBI and DOJ. I suspect that Wray is directing a massive shredding operation reminiscent of Nixon's 1974 Watergate document shredding party in the White House. A future investigation will probably find missing databases, files, and violations of security related to computer data similar to Hillary's missing emails and IRS' Lois Lerner's missing emails.

It is obvious that Muellar has exceeded the boundaries of his designated authority. Deputy AG Rosenstein and former FBI Director Muellar were part of the CFIUS authorized sale of Uranium One to Rosatom. The Dep. AG and Muellar hide behind their current power to cover-up their possible illegal acts with the aforementioned sale. The only "colluders" with Russia are a group comprised of Bill/Hillary, Muellar, Rosenstein, and 2010 CFIUS participants, et. al., at the time of the sale. A lot of money changed hands at that time. See this little ditty 'bout Hillary. ]

Special Counsel Robert Mueller�s �Russia Investigation� may be facing its most significant push-back yet Friday when federal Judge Thomas Ellis questioned Mueller�s prosecutors fundamental authority, motives, and honesty in a pre-trial hearing for one-time Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Further, Ellis demanded to see the unredacted �scope memo,� a document outlining the scope of the special counsel�s Russia probe that congressional Republicans have also sought.

According to the document that appointed Mueller as special counsel, he has authority to investigate:

• (i) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and
• (ii) any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; and
• (iii) any other matters within the scope of 28 C.F.R. �600.4(a) [a regulation that expands a special counsel�s jurisdiction to crimes, such as perjury or obstruction of justice, that interfere with his investigation]

—Breibart News

"You don't really care about Mr. Manafort,� U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III told Mueller�s team. �You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an impeachment, or whatever."
Federal Judge Ellis—FoxNews

FROM Why even Republicans embrace socialism

September 24, 2018 by Bob Livingston

Freedom is a black-or-white, yes-or-no, either/or, zero-sum proposition. There are no gray areas or lukewarmness when it comes to freedom.

But the concept of freedom of the individual, or individual liberty, has been shoved down the memory hole and replaced by a popular mentality of diminishing the individual and independent thinker to a collectivist mind (mentality) which can be esoterically swayed, directed and channeled against his own best interest. The virtue and sanctity of the individual person and ego is no more, and anathema to the state.

What does it all mean? It means that a state of mind is developed and nurtured that freely gives oneself and one�s production to the state. Each individual, in order to be a good citizen of the state, must contribute most of his means and be grateful for the services the state returns — whether they are necessary or useful or not.

The result is that even so-called conservatives have come to not only accept socialism but to embrace it in many forms. Oh, they�ll reject it when it�s called what it is, as conservatives have chimed in to reject and ridicule proposals by self-avowed socialists like Bernie Sanders and the new communist darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But they readily accept socialism in its many forms, especially when it�s proposed by socialists masquerading as Republicans.

FROM The Crux

A new Congress has been seated, and it brings the prospect of perhaps, maybe, potentially, in a possible way doing something about the runaway federal deficits. And in other news, several New York area bridges are for sale, which you can acquire at a bargain price.

DEBT PERSPECTIVE! Social Security (SS) monies flow into the Feds via paycheck withholding. The Feds buy US Treasuries and the Bond purchase money is deposited into the treasury. Benefit money must therefore be paid out of the Treasury. If there had been a SS brokerage account (instead of the Feds spending it), the monies could have been invested very conservatively to receive a modest 5-8% annual return on investment and the SS "Trust" Fund would be solvent even with retiring baby-boomers. Another mismanagement failure is SS Disability which has been defrauded by mendacious citizen malingerers especially from 2000 to 2016.