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Maybe This Is A Good Thing
My head is into Christmas and good wishes for the new year. My hands are busy with novel rewrite and keeping to my diabetic diet. There is no space left for contemplation and picking apart tax relief for the most wealthy among us. Well, apart from us - I don't hang out with a lot of billionaires. Still, there may be something to be said about pushing through bills without opening it up for debate, for the opportunity to tack on other expensive item to the legislation (as is the rule with most legislation). This one was a foregone conclusion: the wall, a new health care bill, and some loopholes closed in the 2018 tax codes. No one is looking at the big losses/gains later, but getting back money from a favorte Uncle will be nice, for a while. Like bundling mortgages, eventually the bill comes due when the low rate shift to very high rates indeed. Cutting the purse and the pork belly buffet may ultimately be the goal - that has merit. The states will rebel and the people will no longer enjoy the benefits of a fat Santa government, but it will handle less cashflow, a plus or a minus, we (you younger folks) will see. As for me, I just took down the decorations in the sunroom and put the little white tree in the front door window. So Santa won't miss my house this year.
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The housing bubble did not deliver. The automobile bubble is not moving fast enough, and so a tax bill that is more air than substance is a promise fulfilled. This may be a good thing, the method and the trickery is killing local election results, but still tightening the belt and shrinking government will result. It has to. Hint hint, the wealthy run the country and pay for it willingly because of all the perks they get doing that. Unpolitical operatives in powerful places do not understand the magic of cash flow in a Republic. The government can not go broke, but the money promised to all fifty states can be withdrawn or defaulted. Social Security will go broke, after I'm dead, so good luck with that for those born after me. Money must be made available so that we can: 1. keep the military in ready made meals, 2. build a wall, 3. not lose the midterms, 4. shrink government, 5. pay for infrastructure, 6. end entitlements, 7. break as many agreements as possible, 8. destabilize the middle east, 9. diminish or end dues to the United Nations. and 10. nuke N. Korea. The plate is pretty full. The highest courts, the appelate and supreme, will be with us for the next 10-40 years. Damage or progress: either way, it's cheaper or more expensive (depending on your side of the bench) over the lang haul.
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I am not going to live to see the affectations of this Presidency; I'm hoping to see the impeachment, at least Pence knows how the cookie rolls. That would be a good start for 2018. It will take a lot to heal the wounds created by electing the not so great businessman, Mr. Trump. We will learn our lessons which is to keep billionaires out of the big chair, and forget again when the next black president is elected. I saw Mr. Obama on Saturday Night Live Halloween episode and Barak was on - disguised as Mr. Obama. He looked rested and had touched up the gray on the sides of his hair. He looked good and well. But then, to me, he always looked good.
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Historians are going to grin a lot writing down the last four presidencies and the aftermaths of their legacies. Dragging the country into bankruptcy will not come as a surprise to anyone. We will have earned it by our decision at the voting booth. A fresh start for the entire world - and we get to divide up the spheres of influence again -- possibly including Russia this time. (Ha!) Russia does not honor it's international agreements; they turn predatory and need to stop doing that so they can enter the big circle. Made in Russia on usa shelves could happen. China is kicking up sand in the South China Sea - so losing open access to usa markets will probably be the next bid international deal broken. Perhaps cooler heads will prevail and the threat of nukes flying everywhere may be avoided. The logic goes like this, United Nations will tighten it's belt, cut costs, and nations on the dole will resume poverty status. The test of real power lives in giving or not giving. Not giving is going to be our national posture for a few decades. Republics, misnamed democracies, will fall. The Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders will always be there along with various international charities, but the big usa bucks will vanish until those countries align at the UN with usa. Power. Join us or die - and don't tread on my right to bear and sell arms. A policy shift. Nations will fall like dominoes.
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Keep watching as wealthy and famous men tumble from high posts and popularity for rape, child solicitation, and wagging the wagger in front of starlets. Damn, a no fanny patting Christmas. Women want equity - I won't live to see that either. It goes like this in A-mer-IKa; get everyone updated on the problem, let it stew with big publicity and marches, become a voting bloc, while running mail (e-mail) campaigns and then: after the in-fighting and television show appearances, some consessions and token gifts, then someone mistakenly mentions it on the floor of the House of Representatives. Now, it's a national problem and the earnest work begins. Twenty to thirty years later (as with civil rights and gay rights) it becomes the law of the land. Like abortions, women's rights will be defunded and still there will be no pay equity, just a lot of Phd females out of work because they are smarter than any of the men in all the Corporations. Then it occurs to start building business and corporations run by those who want equity in the first place. Low and behold, Time Magazine puts more women on the front cover. Grabbing market share will create stars in the field and they can ask for whatever they want to be paid throughout the USA economy and the world. How many female Senators do we have? Any body? I'm just sayin'.
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Merry Christmas
Stella L. Crews
12-24-17
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