Wednesday, May 6, 2015

BloggeRhythms

There’s a follow-up to yesterday’s comment by Rush, regarding diversity in the Republican party. This one comes from Chris Stirewalt on FoxNews.com, who quoted a woman named Mary Heller saying: “Democrats have got to be confused. Running for President as Republicans are a woman, an African-American, and two Hispanics, constituencies which are supposed to belong to the Democrat Party. Maybe the Republican Party is more ‘big tent’ than some would have us believe.”
 
Other worries for Democrats can be found in article on wnd.com/2015 by Leo Hohmann who interviewed Steve Wynn,  the 73-year-old founder and CEO of Wynn Resorts, a very successful, well-informed, international businessman.
 
Calling the economic recovery purely fictional, Mr. Wynn said the economy has never really bounced back from the 2008 financial meltdown.
 
Adding detail, he went on, “Well, the idea that America is in the midst of a great recovery is pure fiction. It’s a lie. It’s a jobless recovery. Because recoveries are marked by the level of real employment. And if you count the people who have left the work force, real unemployment is 15 to 20 percent.”
 
And, “Not only is unemployment much higher than the “official” rate of 5.5 percent, but the Consumer Price Index, used to measure inflation, is also rigged in such a way that it doesn’t accurately reflect what real Americans experience on a daily basis.”
 
“According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. had -0.1 percent inflation for the 12 months ended in March 2015. Inflation doesn’t exist,” but Mr. Wynn says “that’s a sham.”
 
“If you take real inflation, and you’ve got to count energy and food and all that stuff, real inflation is much higher than they say it is,” he said. “My employees’ take home pay, in spite of the increases we give them, their paychecks are 90-cent paychecks, 90 cents on the dollar. It’s very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar.”
 
Then Mr. Wynn got down to one of the real problems for average Americans. Because despite the huge impact forced on their lives, the issues involved are too financially sophisticated and complex to be understood by those most affected, as follows.
 
Mr. Wynn said, “It’s very difficult to explain to a normal working citizen the implications of what $18 trillion in debt means, and what it means when the Federal Reserve buys the U.S. Treasury bonds to finance our loss every month. People think that is some abstract conversation in Washington, uh, for pundits.
 
“In fact it impacts every one of my employees, critically, every day,” he said. “They notice when they sit down at the kitchen table, that after they pay the necessities, there just isn’t any money left.”
 
In an interesting parallel, while Mr. Wynn was describing the austerity faced by typical Americans in the shrunken work force, who barely scrape by paying their bills, “Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that Michelle Obama’s weekend trip to Aspen, Colorado, in February cost American taxpayers $57,068.80 in travel expenses alone for the 7.4-hour round-trip flight. While President Obama flew to California to play golf, speak at a cyber-security summit, and headline a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee, the First Lady and her daughters spent Valentine’s Day weekend skiing in Aspen, returning to the White House on February 16.”
 
Which brings us to today’s updates on Bill Clinton’s wife. The first one coming from Rush’s show yesterday, where he discussed comments from another business leader, Boone Pickens. 
 
RUSH:  It was Boone Pickens, and I was reading the audio sound bite roster.  It's Boone Pickens that thinks Hillary will drop out of the race.  This was yesterday on the Yahoo website, the Yahoo Finance editor in chief Andy Sewer -- sorry -- Serwer -- spoke with T. Boone Pickens about the presidential race, and he said, "You've always voted Republican, Boone.  You're not gonna change in 2016?"
 
“PICKENS:  If I was gonna change, who are my choices on the Democrat side?  I don't think Hillary Clinton's gonna be a candidate.  I think she'll pull out of the deal.  She's got too much to explain, scrubbing the server like she did.  She may have been subpoenaed to produce some of that information on her computer, and now she's scrubbed it off. Her timing may be very bad.”
 
And, it seems there are now many other major entities helping to prove Mr. Pickens point, by rethinking their willingness to help her in the future. 
 
According to an article by Philip Rucker, Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger on washingtonpost.com, “An Exxon Mobil spokesman said this week that the company has decided not to be involved in the Clinton Global Initiative this year. The oil company said its decision was unrelated to recent scrutiny of the foundation, but this is the first year it has not been a sponsor since 2009. Other sponsors, including Monsanto, are reevaluating their partnerships.
 
“Monsanto, a multinational agricultural company, is weighing whether to continue to sponsor CGI. “As with all of our strategic partnerships and collaborations, we continually assess their value to ensure we are investing in opportunities that will have the greatest positive benefits for society,” Monsanto spokesman Tyson Pruitt said.”
 
So, like water dripping on a rock, with a year and a half still to go to the next presidential election, negative stories about the Clintons keep piling up, while poll numbers continually sink. And what’s worse for Bill’s wife, is that those leading the way against her aren’t simply loose cannon right wing political zealots, but the likes of household names such as T. Boone Pickens, Exxon Mobil and Monsanto.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
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