Off To Pittsburgh. Where Has God Gone?

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 This is a LTE I sent to the local paper (Savannah Morning News Sunday op ed page) in response to two they published.

"Dahleen Glanton is correct in pointing out how Black Americans have been taken for granted  by Democrats and have little to show for it beyond their current state, ie. poor schools, poverty, a busted family, out of wedlock youth and unemployment among other tragic conditions.

However, I believe she is wrong to criticize Trump for not appearing before the NAACP which has become a shill organization for Democrats and liberal thought and generally embarrass any conservative who mistakenly agrees to appear before them. I used to be a contributor to The NAACP when the organization actually was worth supporting. 

In time I believe Trump will appear before black groups that are more objective and more widely embraced and respected  by the black community at large  If he does not then he will have missed a golden opportunity.

Meanwhile he is scaring the Bejesus out of Hillary and her liberal lackeys.

I seldom challenge people with vast military experience but Ed Conant is not an economist and has mistakenly allowed himself to buy into static growth predictions and statistics.

If Trump and Ryan are able to make the kind of fiscal and budgetary changes they envision and hope to accomplish, our economy will explode in growth, tax revenues will surge, government out of control regulations, red tape and corrupt and counterproductive welfare spending will decline and there will be available funds to improve the legitimate needs of our military.

Democrats always leave the military cupboard bare for Republicans when they assume The Oval Office. Reagan had to repair the paucity of prior Democrat Administrations as will Trump the bleeding by Obama.

It pains me to see Iranian boats taunting our ships .I assume Ed Conant , who is a  distinguished retired naval officer, must feel comparable pangs of anxiety and disgust. Ed is an unabashed liberal thus his incorrect assumptions and conclusions regarding Trump, should he become president, perhaps reflect his veiled desire to see Hillary become The Commander in Chief and allows him to ignore the disastrous 8 years of Obama who spent like a drunken sailor and put us in the position we are and about which Ed complains."

A response from a friend, outstanding business executive and fellow memo reader: " ---think you nailed Ed - liberals never think to cut give away programs, only defense."
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Once again I am on the road and leaving for Pittsburgh in a few hours to spend time with my son and his family. This will be the first time in probably 15 years we have had the opportunity to spend some truly alone time together though I also intend to  be with my daughter in law and granddaughter.

The purpose of my trip is to view Daniel's accomplishments regarding his group's redevelopment efforts to date, in the Beachview Community, he and his team have undertaken.  Daniel and his organization are trying to establish neighborhood redevelopment trends that, hopefully,  will become standards for the entire nation.  From our conversation, I am somewhat familiar with what they are seeking to do so now it is time to go on site.

When I return Friday, I hope to devote a memo to what I learned and saw.  While there, I also will tour the outstanding art museum  in Greensburg, where his team has already done some re-development and hope to do more.
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I posted this link in a previous memo and a friend and fellow memo reader must have just gotten around to clicking on it.

"This should scare the bijesus out of you if you care about the integrity of our voting system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t75xvZ3osFg

In my opinion the only solution to solving this problem is to require all States to go back to the "Lever style" voting machines, push the big handle the curtain closes and you push down the levers representing your candidates -- vote counted.  

The technology for "hacking" computer systems is only going to get better as time goes on, we need to disconnect the voting process from the Internet or any related computer generated system!  

So what if it takes any extra day to count the votes isn't an honest election worth it;  as it is there's enough individual voter fraud without someone being able to change thousands of votes with the click of a mouse!

This is not a partisan issue -- write to your State Legislators, they control the voting process."
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This was posted on my Facebook Page by a dear friend and fellow memo reader. (See 1 below.)

Liberal Jews is a sore subject with me because it is unnerving.  You really cannot be Jewish, considered to be bright and continue to drink the Liberal Kool Aid.  I understand the desire to be compassionate, to care for the unfortunate but after the destruction and dependency so much liberal legislation has caused those who embrace its inanity, I just shake my head in remorse and disbelief.  I too am liberal in some aspects of my political philosophy. You would have to be made of stone and heartless not to be but when I look at the results I just cannot fathom how one can ignore the tragic empirical evidence and statistics.
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Words from the past regarding tyranny. (See 2 below.)
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Comments from Aaron Hansom, Managing Editor, PJ Media, regarding college campuses. (See 3 below.)

The influence and embrace of God in American life today is declining.  As I have pointed out time and again, America and God are intentionally linked.  Russia and God are not. 

Are we headed in the direction Soros would like to see and finances, ie tyranny and Godless chaos.?  (See 4 below.)
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Now for some parting sardonic humor. (See 5 below.)
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1) I read a headline yesterday that 90% of Jewish voters in Florida favor Hillary. This is absolutely pathetic, if even remotely true. They clearly are unaware of Hillary's VERY close connection with at least two individuals who hate Jewish people: George Soros and Huma Abadin. Soros is a self hating Jew who takes pride in having worked with the Nazis in Budapest and turned the  names and locations of Jewish people into them. He helped Nazis kill Jewish people. He is a major source of funding of J-Street a number of BDS operations in US and Europe, both of which seek the destruction of Israel.  He is a prominent and large funder of  The Sunlight Foundation, Common Cause,Campus Legal Career and, more recently, Black Lives Matter and the  March on Wall Street  crowd. That means they support efforts to kill more Jews. Soros is very close to Hillary in a multitude of ways, philosophically, financially, and operationally. 

The other person on Hillary's Hate the Jews Hit Parade is Huma Abadin. This woman, the wife of Anthony Wiener, another Soros-like Jew, is  the Saudi Arabian daughter of two high ranking officials of the Muslim Brotherhood. Huma's name was recently published on the masthead of the Brotherhood movement's newspaper. She was recently quoted as stating "Jews have too much influence in American politics." Huma has long been Hillary's "Chief of Staff." I have a very strong hunch some other kind of "staff" factors enter their "relationship." Just a hunch, that's all. 

 How can Florida Jews vote for Hillary with all we know about her? Wow. Just wow.
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2)A Message from Patrick Henry About Tyranny

 BY ROGER KIMBALL

There are, I fancy, few more avid admirers of James Madison than I. But reading through Bernard Bailyn’s extraordinarily brilliant The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, I have to admit that the anti-Federalists who opposed those, like the temporary allies Madison and Alexander Hamilton, who argued for ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1787, had a point.

Their basic argument was that the Constitution as framed by the Federalists would subordinate the rights of the individual states and impose exactly the same sort of tyranny that the colonists had rebelled against in 1776. “Examination of the Constitution revealed,” Bailyn noted, “a taxing power in the hands of the proposed national government that would prove to be as unqualified by the restraints of the states as Parliament’s had been by the colonial assemblies.”

Here’s Patrick (“Give men liberty or give me death”) Henry on what would happen should the Constitution be adopted:

the Senate would live in splendor and a “great and mighty President” would “be supported in extravagant magnificence, so that the whole of our property may be taken by this American government, by laying what taxes they please, giving themselves what salaries they please, and suspending our laws at their pleasure.”

The anti-Federalist “Brutus” (probably Melancton Smith) dilated further on the economic calamity that awaited. The government’s power to “borrow money on the credit of the United States,” he warned, meant that

the Congress may mortgage any or all the revenues of the union . . . [and] may borrow of foreign nations a principal sum, the interest of which will be equal to the annual revenues of the country. By this means, they may create a national debt so large as to exceed the ability of the country ever to sink. I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befal this country than to be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge.

It’s a pity that “Brutus” couldn’t meet Barack Obama. They would have had a lot to talk about.
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Dick:

On college campuses all across the country, the Class of 2020 is all set to begin a new phase in life. If the stories we’ve witnessed this past week are any indication, it’s only the beginning of what may unfold in the bubble of academia for them —in both the semesters and years to come.

Changing course from the political correctness embraced by today's campuses, theUniversity of Chicago surprisingly took the side of free inquiry and free expression over "safe spaces” and "trigger warnings.”

"You will find that we expect members of our community to be engaged in rigorous debate, discussion, and even disagreement. At times this may challenge you and even cause discomfort," wrote Dean of Students John (Jay) Ellison. Click here to read Tyler O’Neil’s take on the impact of this decision.

It’s business as usual at other universities.

The State University of New York named an event "Stop White People 2016," which is focused on "diversity, privilege, and the society we function in.” The vice president of student affairs eventually apologized for the controversial name. Read the updated story by clicking here. 

Meanwhile, University of Texas at Austin students protested the lawful carrying of concealed weapons on campus…by carrying around sex toys. Click here to sound off on the “C*cks Not Glocks” campaign. 

It gets even worse. The taxpayer-funded Northwestern State University has imposed a speech code on students that requires an application and limits public demonstrations to “one, 2-hour time period every 7 days.”

At Virginia Tech, students are locked out of registering for classes unless they complete an online course focused on “diversity" — in addition to ones on sexual assault and alcohol.

But the real story is the “contributing scholars” with the for-profit DiversityEdu, the company that produces the program. Click here to get a taste of its agenda and to meet the multiculturalist activists.

Lastly, there’s the University of California-San Diego, where one student appears to be guilty before being proven innocent, all at the mercy of a professor. Click here to read the shocking case. 

Stay tuned to PJMedia.com for more outrageous stories brought to you from the nation’s college campuses this year.

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Aaron Hansom
Managing Editor, PJ Media
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4) Pew: Americans giving up on God, miracles
By PAUL BEDARD (@SECRETSBEDARD)

Half of Americans who have left their church no longer believe in God, leading a surge of nearly one quarter of the nation who have no affiliation with any religion, according to a new survey.

Pew Research Center said Wednesday that 49 percent of what they term "nones" left their church and religion because they "don't believe." Another 20 percent said they don't like organized religion. Other reasons included "common sense" and a lack of belief in miracles.

The survey is the latest from Pew that demonstrates a growing trend in America: more and more people are junking religion and many are giving up on God.

Pew interviewed several respondents to try and find a reason. Pew Said for example:

"About half of current religious 'nones' who were raised in a religion (49%) indicate that a lack of belief led them to move away from religion. This includes many respondents who mention 'science' as the reason they do not believe in religious teachings, including one who said 'I'm a scientist now, and I don't believe in miracles.' Others reference 'common sense,' 'logic' or a 'lack of evidence' – or simply say they do not believe in God."

See the full survey here.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com

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5)Go Maxine!……………...

Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in this country lately -- illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida ..  ... Not me -- I concentrate on solutions for the problems -- it's a win-win situation. * Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.  * Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levees.  * Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border. Any other problems you would like for me to solve today? Yes!

Think about this:  1. Cows  2. The Constitution  3. The Ten Commandments   COWS Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 12 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.  THE CONSTITUTION  They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq .... Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.  THE 10 COMMANDMENTS The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this -- you cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians ... It creates a hostile work environment.

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Partial Review Of Kim Strassel's: "The Intimidation Game" Plus Other Commentary. A Must and Chilling Read!

 Liberals who use intimidation and federal agencies
 to exploit and corrupt our freedoms. People like
the Clinton's, Obama, Soros, Sen's. Durbin and
Schumer and Rep. Cummings, Lois Lerner among
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A very interesting article sent to me by a dear friend and fellow memo reader.  (See 1 below.)
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I am still reading Kim Strassel's: "The Intimidation Game."  Kim is not only a gifted writer but she also is an excellent investigative reporter.

The IRS scandal is chilling and reveals how a powerful government agency not only threatened average citizens, depriving them of their constitutional right to protest their government but also then proceeded to lie about their dastardly actions.

I have several liberal friends who berated me about, what they called,  the Republican IRS witch hunt. I never convinced them Lois Lerner was a liar and that the entire episode went right to the top and had the thumb print of Obama along with his thugs in the White House who were engaged up to their arm pits. Kim lays out what happened in detail and with clarity. And hopefully the full story will eventually unfold as it continues to wind through the courts etc..

Obama also lied about what was going on at the IRS when he said there was not a "smidgen" of evidence. Obama has insured that some of the most critical agencies and departments have been corrupted and are purposely acting in ways that circumvent the Constitution as well as their statutory and moral responsibilities.  We know the Justice Department is corrupt, We know the IRS is corrupt, we know the FBI's Director was leaned upon to bend the way Obama , the Clinton's and Atty. Gen.Lynch wanted. We know the EPA has acted in ways beyond their authority and now The State Department is actively engaged in protecting Hillary. Lamentably,  I have only scratched the surface of how corrupt our government has become and many of those in Congress are no better. Rather than assist in pursuing truth they engage in partisan cover ups to protect their party against legitimate interests of our nation and its citizens.

Once it became evident the IRS was engaged in illegal activities Obama, Senators Schumer and Durbin and Rep. Cummings, along with  Commissioner Koskinen began orchestrating and co-ordinating their efforts to accuse Republicans of engaging in despicable  pre-election  activities.  The lengths to which elected public servants, along with a host of other bureaucrats,  proceeded to throw sand into the pursuit of truth is both amazing and, frankly, scary.  Kim reveals how the intimidating weight of our government was brought to bear upon every day citizens exercising their constitutional rights.

Long after Obama is out of office the revelations of how he implemented Alinsky (See 2 and 2a below.) and Ayer's playbook will eventually come to light. The effort to stonewall the IRS investigation, by slow walking the submission of documents ordered by Federal Judges, the destruction of e mails, the downright evasions and/or lying by witnesses and officials, and the inability of Congress to overcome these efforts, is beyond description. The Democrats were effective because the public's interest, in such investigations, is exceedingly short, concerted efforts to claim it was all partisan can be effective and sadly,  Congress lacks the power to enforce even though they can subpoena witnesses and the production of documents.

Why? Because when an agency and corrupt bureaucrats, Senators and Representatives want to be evasive they have the ability if they have the intent and guts.  The one organization that seemingly can pierce the veil of obstruction is Judicial Watch because of the Freedom of Information Act and their tenacity and zeal. There are other groups and lawyers like,  Jay Sekulow of The American Center for Law and Justice, who are activists in protecting citizen rights among others.

What is going on, and has been, regarding Hillary's e mails is following the IRS script.  We are witnessing the destruction of documents, interference by Hillary's husband, slow walking of demanded documents, lying and, because it pertains to the election of a president, you can be assured the stonewalling will be higher than any structure Trump has threatened to build should he be elected.

The IRS is simply one of the most powerful agencies in our nation but the Oval Office sits atop the IRS so if you think things will not get ugly, corrupt and dangerous you are simply naive, blind or beyond partisan. Obama has his legacy to protect and, being one of the most corrupt presidents in recent history, rest assured he will stop at nothing to see that Hillary wins and we know the Clinton's are his equal when it comes to being corrupt, willing to lie and do whatever it takes to retain power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t75xvZ3osFg

Let's face it, government will never correct itself, only active citizens will undertake this task.  This is why intimidating citizens is so dangerous.

In subsequent chapters we learn the IRS is not the only government agency seeking to curtail our freedom of speech.  Kim discusses similar efforts on the part of the very liberal minded staff of the Federal Election Commission and the efforts of one of the commissioners, Don McGhan, to curb their illegal actions beyond the scope of their statutory authority. (Chapter 12: "Waiting for Disco.")

Then in Chapter 13: (Government Shutdown) Kim discusses how Obama , working through the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC,) sought to manipulate the terminology and thrust of The Disclose Act (which has not passed) in order to force revealing names of donors to conservative organizations with the intent of intimidation.

Though I am only half way through"The Intimidation Game," several of my previous convictions have been re-validated. First, the federal government employs some 3 million bureaucrats and they are predominantly left leaning. Second, the power of these bureaucrats is awesome because they generally cannot be fired. Third, Congress' ability to monitor the activity of our enormous government bureaucracy is virtually impossible and even when it does its ability to compel law breakers and system abusers to change is extremely difficult - witness the ongoing IRS investigation. Fourth, and most important, liberals and Democrats work hard at manipulating our agencies and bending them to act in unintended ways.  Democrats are very pro-active while Republicans generally do not think about getting agencies to corrupt their activities.  The Tea Party members sought to obey the law, to fill out the forms and thus were trapped by IRS intimidation.  Conservatives believe laws are to be obeyed and liberals believe they are to be changed and always improved according to their philosophical dictates etc. Finally, one of the ways liberals and Democrats seek to accomplish their goals is by giving innocuous and benign names to legislation, ie. "The Coalition for Accountability in Public Spending."  This benign sounding legislation proposed by then public advocate and now New York Mayor, Bill de Blasio, was an attempt to force companies to disclose their political spending.  After all, who could possibly be opposed to a bill that is designed to protect our rights, our safety  when, in fact, the language and thrust (the devil is always in the details) is the reverse of the legislation's title.

I also should mention that Lois Lerner worked at the FEC before going to The IRS. Bureaucrats never seem to leave government they simply transfer to other departments so their ability to spread their infectious behavior can expand.

What Kim's book reinforces is the fact that politicians seek power and work through the bureaucracy to accomplish their nefarious goals.  Liberals, in my view, are more dangerous, are more likely to stop at nothing when it comes to employing intimidation and government is to be feared, not trusted. Though liberals profess their desire for power is always to accomplish what is best for our nation and its citizens, sadly the truth , once you dig below the surface of their disingenuous pronouncements, all to often, are the reverse.

Tom Fitton, of Judicial Watch, is one of the most dedicated and important persons in D.C. Why? Because of the FOIA, he is in a position to do more to protect this Republic and insure our survival as long as he and his organization are willing to pursue facts and bring the power of the Federal Judiciary to bear upon those who act outside the scriptures of the law and the intent of our Constitution such as Hillary and Bill Clinton, President Obama, and those who serve them and not our nation.

"The Intimidation Game" is a chilling must read. However, I doubt many liberals will spend the money, take the time or believe Kim's efforts and revelations. Therefore my distrust of government remains a belief in which I will continue to feel justified and that is the saddest story of all.
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Meanwhile, as our government imperils our right to free speech, Iran is working towards our military humiliation.  They did this in the Marine Barrack attack and the one on a Navy Ship in port and now are preparing to do so again but this time at sea.

I have read articles in The Naval War College Review, attesting to the fact that Iran's fast boats are a major threat and can swarm one of our ships and create havoc.

Is Obama about to allow this to happen? Does our Navy have the freedom to respond or are their hands tied as when Johnson micromanaged the Viet Nam War?

Top Iranian admiral: US lacks the power to confront Iran militarily By JPOST.COM STAFF Remarks come days after uptick in tensions between Washington and Tehran after US accuses Iran of harassing American warships in the Strait of Hormuz.

The United States does not have the capability to engage Iran in a war on land, air or sea, a top Iranian Navy commander charged Saturday night boasting of his nation's military prowess. "The US doesn’t enjoy the power to confront Iran militarily," Iranian media quoted Revolutionary Guards Navy Admiral Ali Fadavi as stating.  The remarks downplaying US power came days after an uptick in tensions between Washington and Tehran due to multiple instances of Iranian vessels encountering US warships in the Persian Gulf's Strait of Hormuz.  Actions by Iranian vessels in several encounters with US warships in the Gulf this week are cause for concern and increase risks of miscalculation, the White House said on Friday. However, in a speech to volunteer forces Saturday night, Fadavi claimed that Iran has confined the United States's maritime military abilities in the region, according to Iran's Fars news agency. In his boastful rhetoric, the Revolutionary Guards admiral also asserted that Iranian patrols have deterred US warships from approaching the Islamic Republic's territorial waters for years.  The comments came despite the easing of years of mutual animosity when Washington lifted sanctions on Tehran in January after a deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions but serious differences still remain over Iran's ballistic missile program, Syria and Iraq. Nonetheless, in May Fadavi also spoke of the US presence in the region as driving insecurity. According to Fars, he called on Washington to withdraw all its troops from the area, adding that the Americans "do not dare" attack Iran out of fear that backlash could hinder its interests in the Middle East.  "No one dares to give a dirty look at Iran let alone launching a war," he was quoted as saying. +++

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1)This is a frightening summation of the current global Islamic threat.  Given the current global leadership philosophy of liberalism and progressive government I'm afraid that western culture and democracy has less (probably much less) that 100 years until the whole world is in a jihadist cultural war....called Armageddon. 

A pragmatic overview of what appears to be an insoluble problem affecting much of the world as we know it to day?

By Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.


Forget the Syrian Civil War for a moment. Even without the Sunnis and Shiites competing to give each other machete haircuts every sunny morning, there would still be a permanent Muslim refugee crisis.

The vast majority of civil wars over the last ten years have taken place in Muslim countries. Muslim countries are also some of the poorest in the world. And Muslim countries also have high birth rates.

Combine violence and poverty with a population boom and you get a permanent migration crisis.

No matter what happens in Syria or Libya next year, that permanent migration crisis isn’t going away.

The Muslim world is expanding unsustainably. In the Middle East and Asia, Muslims tend to underperform their non-Muslim neighbors both educationally and economically. Oil is the only asset that gave Muslims any advantage and in the age of fracking, its value is a lot shakier than it used to be.

The Muslim world had lost its old role as the intermediary between Asia and the West. And it has no economic function in the new world except to blackmail it by spreading violence and instability.

Muslim countries with lower literacy rates, especially for women, are never going to be economic winners at any trade that doesn’t come gushing out of the ground. Nor will unstable dictatorships ever be able to provide social mobility or access to the good life. At best they’ll hand out subsidies for bread.

The Muslim world has no prospects for getting any better. The Arab Spring was a Western delusion.

Growing populations divided along tribal and religious lines are competing for a limited amount of land, power and wealth. Countries without a future are set to double in size.

There are only two solutions; war or migration.

Either you fight and take what you want at home. Or you go abroad and take what you want there.

Let’s assume that the Iraq War had never happened. How would a religiously and ethnically divided Iraq have managed its growth from 13 million in the eighties to 30 million around the Iraq War to 76 million in 2050?

The answer is a bloody civil war followed by genocide, ethnic cleansing and migration.

What’s happening now would have happened anyway. It was already happening under Saddam Hussein.

Baghdad has one of the highest population densities in the world. And it has no future. The same is true across the region. The only real economic plan anyone here has is to get money from the West.

Plan A for getting money out of the West is creating a crisis that will force it to intervene. That can mean anything from starting a war to aiding terrorists that threaten the West. Muslim countries keep shooting themselves in the foot so that Westerners will rush over to kiss the booboo and make it better.

Plan B is to move to Europe.

What's This? 

And Plan B is a great plan. It’s the only real economic plan that works. At least until the West runs out of native and naïve Westerners who foot the bill for all the migrants, refugees and outright settlers.

For thousands of dollars, a Middle Eastern Muslim can pay to be smuggled into Europe. It’s a small investment with a big payoff. Even the lowest tier welfare benefits in Sweden are higher than the average salary in a typical Muslim migrant nation. And Muslim migrants are extremely attuned to the payoffs. It’s why they clamor to go to Germany or Sweden, not Greece or Slovakia. And it’s why they insist on big cities with an existing Muslim social welfare infrastructure, not some rural village.

A Muslim migrant is an investment for an entire extended family. Once the young men get their papers, family reunification begins. That doesn’t just mean every extended family member showing up and demanding their benefits. It also means that the family members will be selling access to Europe to anyone who can afford it. Don’t hike or raft your way to Europe. Mohammed or Ahmed will claim that you’re a family member. Or temporarily marry you so you can bring your whole extended family along.

Mohammed gets paid. So does Mo’s extended family which brokers these transactions. Human trafficking doesn’t just involve rafts. It’s about having the right family connections.

And all that is just the tip of a very big business iceberg.

Where do Muslim migrants come up with a smuggling fee that amounts to several years of salary for an average worker? Some come from wealthy families. Others are sponsored by crime networks and family groups that are out to move everything from drugs to weapons to large numbers of people into Europe.

Large loans will be repaid as the new migrants begin sending their new welfare benefits back home. Many will be officially unemployed even while unofficially making money through everything from slave labor to organized crime. European authorities will blame their failure to participate in the job market on racism rather than acknowledging that they exist within the confines of an alternate economy.

It’s not only individuals or families who can pursue Plan B. Turkey wants to join the European Union. It’s one solution for an Islamist populist economy built on piles of debt. The EU has a choice between dealing with the stream of migrants from Turkey moving to Europe. Or all of Turkey moving into Europe.

The West didn’t create this problem. Its interventions, however misguided, attempted to manage it.

Islamic violence is not a response to Western colonialism. Not only does it predate it, but as many foreign policy experts are so fond of pointing out, its greatest number of casualties are Muslims. The West did not create Muslim dysfunction. And it is not responsible for it. Instead the dysfunction of the Muslim world keeps dragging the West in. Every Western attempt to ameliorate it, from humanitarian aid to peacekeeping operations, only opens up the West to take the blame for Islamic dysfunction.

The permanent refugee crisis is a structural problem caused by the conditions of the Muslim world.

The West can’t solve the crisis at its source. Only Muslims can do that. And there are no easy answers. But the West can and should avoid being dragged down into the black hole of Muslim dysfunction.

Even Germany’s Merkel learned that the number of refugees is not a finite quantity that can be relieved with a charitable gesture. It’s the same escalating number of people that will show up if you start throwing bags of money out of an open window. And it’s a number that no country can absorb.

Muslim civil wars will continue even if the West never intervenes in them because their part of the world is fundamentally unstable. These conflicts will lead to the displacement of millions of people. But even without violence, economic opportunism alone will drive millions to the West. And those millions carry with them the dysfunction of their culture that will make them a burden and a threat.

If Muslims can’t reconcile their conflicts at home, what makes us think that they will reconcile them in Europe? Instead of resolving their problems through migration, they only export them to new shores. The same outbursts of Islamic violence, xenophobia, economic malaise and unsustainable growth follow them across seas and oceans, across continents and countries. Distance is no answer. Travel is no cure.

Solving Syria will solve nothing. The Muslim world is full of fault lines. It’s growing and it’s running out of room to grow. We can’t save Muslims from themselves. We can only save ourselves from their violence.

The permanent Muslim refugee crisis will never stop being our crisis unless we close the door.

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2) There are 8 levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a socialist/communist State.  

  

 1.  Healthcare: "Control Healthcare and you control the People"

DONE !!

  

2  Poverty:  Increase the Poverty level as high as possible."  Poor People are easier to control and will not fight back if the government is providing everything for them to live. 

DONE!!!

  

3.  Debt: Increase the National Debt to an unsustainable level."  That way you are able to increase Taxes, and this will produce more Poverty. 

DONE!!!

  

4.  Gun Control:  Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government.  That way you are able to create a Police State - total local control.

ALMOST THERE!!!

  

5.  Welfare:  Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Livestock, Housing, and Income). 

DONE!!!

6.  Education:  Take control of what People read & listen to; take control of what Children learn in School. 

ALMOST THERE!!!

  

7.  Religion: Remove faith in God from the Government and Schools. ALMOST THERE!!!

  

8.  Class Warfare:  Divide the People into the Wealthy against the Poor.  Racially divide. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to Tax the Wealthy with full support of the voting Poor. 

DONE!!!

2a)

Another Obama Parting Gift

His final fiscal year federal budget deficit will increase by 35%.

As President Obama ends his second term, he’s leaving plenty of political parting gifts. The latest is a 35% single-year increase in the federal budget deficit, and a rising trajectory of spending and debt as a share of the economy. Hillary Clinton’s campaign promise of more “stimulus” spending next year suddenly looks a lot more politically problematic.

That’s the story you haven’t read from the Congressional Budget Office’s latest fiscal and economic outlook released this week. For the 2016 fiscal year that ends next month, CBO now forecasts that revenues will rise by only $26 billion while outlays will increase by some $178 billion. The federal deficit will therefore rise from $438 billion to $590 billion, the biggest deficit since 2013.

The revenue shortfall reflects the decline in corporate profits and slower economic growth; the second quarter was revised down to 1.1% Friday. Meanwhile, outlays will rise 5% thanks in large part to the automatic spending drivers of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (which has soared thanks to ObamaCare). Net interest outlays will rise 11% this fiscal year despite historically low interest rates as overall debt continues to increase.

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