Wednesday, October 29, 2014

BloggeRhythms

Less than a week remaining before the midterm elections finds Democrats scrambling to entice supporters to vote, whereas numerous polls show Republicans poised to increase their majority in the House, and likely take control of the Senate, as well.
 
One of those working hardest to drum up the numbers needed at the polls is Bill Clinton, who’s worth mentioning because of something he said while campaigning this week.
 
Following messages delivered last week by First Lady Michelle Obama and his wife, former Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton, he “urged voters not to vote their fears about ISIS or Ebola,” alleging that that’s what Republicans are encouraging them to do. And that’s something that needs to be read twice, or more, to be sure to fully comprehend what the former president is actually suggesting.
 
While the ISIS uprising is the direct result of the incumbent president’s misjudgments in foreign policy, fully supported by Democrats in Congress, and the handling of the Ebola crisis is fraught with administration mistakes, confusion, ineptitude and  inconsistencies, the former president is trying to convince supporters that Democrat incompetency doesn't matter.
 
And, obviously, as far as he’s concerned, Republicans pointing out the truth is far less important than continuing to vote for candidates who are incapable of fulfilling the responsibilities they’re charged with carrying out.
 
At the same time, an aide valiantly tried to undo the damage that Bill’s wife did to herself, and her likely presidential campaign, when she proved last week that she has no idea whatsoever about how the nation’s economy works.       
 
The aide claimed her remarks at a Maloney event, wherein she stated that “corporations and businesses’ don’t ‘create jobs” doesn’t make much sense as a concept. Instead, what she’d meant to refer to was “tax cuts” for corporations.
 
Now, considering that she’s been a political animal for most of her adult life, and an ardent Democrat as well, it makes perfect sense that she has no clue as to how businesses, or the entire US economy, actually work. Therefore, it’s also perfectly logical that she can’t grasp the proven concept that reducing corporate taxes frees income for reinvestment, expansion, growth, hiring and ultimately, a bigger pie for everyone. Including far more taxes paid to the government from the business expansion, more employment and rising payrolls.  
 
But what’s even more ridiculous about her lack of knowledge regarding basic business economics is that to date, “she and her husband have raised about $1 billion from U.S. companies and industry donors in support of various policy and political goals over the past two decades, according to a  Wall Street Journal analysis.”
 
So, what the evidence indicates is that, although she has no idea at all of where money comes from, or how a capitalist society functions, she’ll gladly take every penny ever offered to her, while remaining totally ignorant of how, where, or why it was derived.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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