Russ Peterson RIP. Max's 3rd Birthday. Crouere-Big Government Solves Nothing Nor Do Indians At The WSJ.

Another beautiful scene by a friend :

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We leave Thursday after a memorial service for a wonderful friend. Russ Peterson was special. He was involved and The Landings community and Savannah will miss his efforts to engage in good deeds.

Russ always put me on a pedestal and had an unrealistic view of who I was. I miss him already.

Russ and Louise were married 60 years. Russ, we will do our best to see Louise is taken care of.

After the Memorial Service,  we motor to Hollywood, Fl. for Max, our son's son's (our grandson's) 3rd birthday.

Prior written memos have been scheduled for mailing.

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Jeff Crouere - Big Government solves nothing:

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Big Government Solves Nothing

In today's new column, I investigate a new bill being debated in Congress. It is supposed to limit the reach of the big tech monopolies and limit their ability to squash the competition. Instead of creating a level playing field, the bill gives more power to government bureaucrats and does nothing to fix the real problem with big tech, the censorship of conservative content.

When has Congress fixed any problems facing America? Usually, Congress makes problems worse for average citizens. Sadly, Republicans are helping Democrats grow government. Why?

 

This is exactly what has happened with the American Innovation and Choice Online Act. While the bi-partisan sponsors may have good intentions, the result has been an unwieldly bill that limits the services big tech companies can offer such as same-day shipping or discounts and promotions for certain products. The bill will also punish small businesses that have partnered with big tech companies to increase their sales and stay in business.

 

Americans should make their own decisions about what services to use, not the government. Americans do not need our government picking the “winners and losers” in the private sector. Americans need the federal government to stay out of the private sector with as little regulation and interference as possible.

What is your opinion? Do you agree or disagree? Read my column at the top left of my website, RingsidePolitics.com; email me your views at jeff@ringsidepolitics.com

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After struggling for well over 3 weeks, speaking to a host of Indians who kept promising my WSJ delivery would be restarted, and after being a customer for over 50 plus years, and having written a letter to the Associate Editor, I reluctantly canceled my subscription. That a major corporation must outsource to people who I cannot understand and who, though courteous, are totally incapable of doing their job, suggests something is rotten but not in Denmark.

Not only does Big Government fails, Corporate America is also following in their footsteps.

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New York legitimate citizens flee only to be replaced by illegals who Biden flies in during the dark of night. 

Not a winning combination for America but then Democrats do not care about America, only power to control whomever resides in America.

In time, if this trend continues, even the radicals will be disgusted with what they have created because they will be ruled by the thugs they allowed to take over.

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The political class is shrinking NY on purpose

By  Post Editorial Board

Midtown ManhattanNew census data shows the population of New York City decreased by 300,00 residents from April 2020 to June 2021.  

By Paul Martinka

Call us the Not-So-Big Apple: Census data show New York City lost a staggering 300,000 residents from April 2020 to June 2021. 

NYC bureaucrats argue the 2020-2021 numbers are driven by the COVID response that shuttered schools and sent businesses reeling. Yes, this response was disastrous. People couldn’t shop, work or get their kids educated for months on end, so it’s a miracle more didn’t flee. 

And now a mainstay of the city’s life, office work, has changed. Gotham will be lucky to get back to 70% of pre-pandemic office occupancy.

But blaming only COVID lets the authors of the bigger catastrophe off the hook, as the pandemic only accelerated a longer trend. New York’s population has been shrinking for years, more so relative to the nation: We had 45 House seats in 1952, 39 in 1982; next year it’ll be 26. 

And now we’re headed off the cliff, as the Empire State has led the country in population decline at least since 2019, with a drop of 1.6% overall year on year as of July 2021. Net migration has since 2010 pushed us back below 20 million. 

Crime scene New York has experienced an increase in crime thanks to “progressive” policies. 

That collapse comes strictly by design, a result of “progressive” policies that drive up crime, wreck schools and crush small business and the middle classes with regulations, high costs and taxes. 

From the Climate Leadership Community Protection Act, which is making it impossible for New Yorkers to pay their electric bills and locking in future supply shortages (i.e., blackouts), to our disastrous Raise the Age and no-bail laws, which have fueled a statewide crime wave, to our bank-busting budgets and state education “leadership” that opposes excellence, progressivism tells anyone who can afford it to leave.

The silver lining for progressives: Those who flee tend not to be their voters, so the left gets to eat up an ever-larger piece of the pie that it’s inexorably shrinking. 

Mayor Eric Adams is a more-than-welcome exception on crime, schools and the economy. The opposition he meets in Albany and on the City Council is no coincidence.

The absolute population drop now underway marks a crisis point: Wall Street’s been moving back-office jobs out of New York for years, and now big firms are moving their entire operations away. The markets themselves may stay here, but with vanishingly few people and a lot of computer programs doing the trading.  

This fall’s elections may be the last chance to veer from the brink, if enough voters revolt. 

Otherwise, our legislative masterminds will keep on punishing the citizenry for their own benefit, until there aren’t any citizens left. 

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Will the secret New York migrant flights ever stop?

By Miranda Devine

As illegal migration at the southern border breaks new records, the Biden administration has upped the frequency of its secret flights to an industrial scale.

Migrant flights into New York have ratcheted up in recent weeks to almost one per night, and now a new airport is being utilized to cater for the overflow, in an apparent bid by the administration to avoid images of border chaos before the November mid-term elections.

New York Stewart International Airport, in the Hudson Valley, is taking up the slack for Westchester County Airport, according to video provided to The Post by Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino.

“It’s just an expansion of this program and a second airport no one thought they would go through, either to be clandestine or because of a need for another runway,’ says Astorino.

The former Air Force base in Newburgh is a Port Authority airport under the control of Gov. Kathy Hochul, and is still used as a military airfield for the New York Air National Guard and the United States Marine Corps Reserve.

“This directly links to the governor,” says Astorino, one of the few Republicans sounding the alarm about the border crisis.

“She is not willing to do anything to stop these flights. In fact, she is encouraging them because she keeps giving money and goodies to everyone.”

The New York Stewart International Airport, in the Hudson Valley, has become a new hub for migrant flights. Rob Astorino

The Post has viewed video of two flights arriving at Stewart from El Paso, Texas, via Jacksonville, Fla., on May 17 at 10.59 p.m. and May 22 at 12.13 a.m., with about 100 to 150 migrants on each plane.

New video evidence.

The footage shows the same conveyer belt operation previously observed by The Post in Westchester, in which migrants alight from the planes late at night and are transferred to waiting charter buses to be deposited at residential complexes or highway rest-stops around the tri-state area.

As with the flights into Westchester since last summer, the majority of migrants appear to fit the cheap labor demographic: Hispanic males in their late teens or early 20s.

Astorino’s footage shows each passenger leaving the aircraft carrying large white boxes and strolling past parked Port Authority vehicles to waiting buses, which have had their company insignia covered over, although they appear to be the same charter operator that has been meeting migrant flights in Westchester.

The planes landing at Stewart were operated by an airline which hasn’t previously been associated with migrant flights, Omni Air International, which joins World Atlantic Airways, Avelo and iAero raking in millions of taxpayer dollars ferrying passengers into New York from the Texas and Arizona border, via Jacksonville and, more recently, Charleston, SC.

In recent months, The Post has tracked buses from Westchester to locations including The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Newburgh, and Bridgeport and Danbury in Connecticut.

In April, a bus was recorded disgorging migrants in Yonkers and The Bronx, including into an affordable housing complex owned by the city.

New York is just one piece of the vast operation conducted by the federal government to disperse illegal migrants from the southern border to a town near you. Under Joe Biden, every town has become a border town.

Gov. Hochul has laid out the welcome mat in New York, recently boasting that undocumented arrivals would be eligible for Medicaid: “If you’re undocumented… over the age of 65, we’ll pick up that tab regardless of your status.”

As if it were not obvious that Democrats have flung open the border in order to usher in millions of future supplicant voters, in January, the New York City Council passed a law allowing more than 800,000 noncitizens to vote in municipal elections.

Mayor Adams didn’t even try to veto the law.

This is despite an Atlantic-Leger poll in December which found most Americans are opposed to giving noncitizens the vote.

US Border Patrol reported a record 234,088 migrants crossed the southern border in April, up from 221,444 in March. Around half are released into the country, with few expected to be seen again.

Last month a federal judge blocked the Biden administration from ending Title 42, a pandemic-era border protection, which only would have made things worse.

The administration is appealing the decision, but the planned repeal already had lured an additional 50,000 migrants to the border last month in expectation of even easier entry into the country, according to Axios.

But the court decision was a blessing in disguise for Biden, preventing a surge of double or triple the number of daily border crossings expected after the repeal of Title 42.

Dems’ election concern. 

The border crisis has taken a back seat for voters who have become more concerned about inflation. But illegal migration looms as a problem for Democrats at the midterms.

A recent ABC News poll put support for Biden’s handling of the issue at 37% and a YouGov poll found 68% of voters think the country is on the “wrong track” when it comes to immigration.

That includes 45% of Democrats, 82% of Republicans and 68% of independents. Among Biden voters, 47% believe the country is on the wrong track on immigration, compared to 27% who are content.

It’s the same story with Hispanic voters.

Hence the superhuman effort to spirit illegal migrants away from the border as quickly as possible in the dead of night.

The Biden administration is relying on nonprofit organizations around the country, funded with Federal Emergency Management Agency grants, to manage the influx of migrants, in order to “stave off politically explosive images of chaos and disorder ahead of the November midterms,” The New York Times reported last month.

Out of sight out of mind, is the Democrats’ hope. But not if Astorino can help it.

Navarro is no threat, Dems are.

There was no need to handcuff former Trump adviser Peter Navarro and drag him off a plane on Friday, or shackle him in leg irons in John Hinckley Jr.’s jail cell. 

The cruel and disproportionate punishment was a thuggish display of unchecked power by goons in service to Nancy Pelosi and her band of partisan Democrats.

They treated the slight 72-year-old like a violent felon over a charge of contempt of Congress, because he has resisted appearing before the Jan. 6 committee’s star chamber. That’s all the Democrats have left in the toolbox — to demonize Donald Trump and his supporters.

But, on the bright side for Navarro, his upcoming book “Taking Back Trump’s America: Why We Lost the White House and How We’ll Win It Back,” soared in the Amazon charts on the back of his arrest.

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