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On Friday, Kamala Harris made her first statements about her own policy plans and ideology since a month ago when the Democrat party elites tossed the mentally declining Joe Biden under the bus and hand-picked Harris as his replacement in this year's presidential race.
It took, literally, no time at all before her ideas were condemned as "socialist" or "communist," by not just GOP presidential nominee President Donald Trump but economic experts, too.
Trump's campaign cited the analysis of a commentator from the leftist CNN, Catherine Rampell, who pointed out Harris's plans already have been tried in other locations.
"We've seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before, Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union. It leads to shortages. It leads to black markets, plenty of uncertainty."
Harris, as reported earlier, is opposed to "price gouging," by those involved in distributing and selling America's food supply. And she wants "price controls," a routine technic used by repressive governments to make their economies look better.
Rampell explained, "Well, first of all, nobody can explain what price gouging means. It's like that old line about pornography: I know it when I see it, in the sense that, what does it mean to have an excessive price or an excessive profit margin? That seems to be shorthand for a price or a profit margin that bugs me. That seems too high.
"So, you know, it's very hard to pin down what this would actually mean. If you look at the legislation that, as I mentioned, is already in the Senate, led by Senator Warren and Senator Bob Casey and a slew of others. The particular way that this is written, which is likely to be the template for any proposal that Harris would eventually embrace, is especially bad in that it just bans 'excessive prices, grossly excessive prices, grossly excessive profit margins,' and says that the Federal Trade Commission can use any metric it deems appropriate to decide what that would mean."
She noted that, basically, means "some bureaucrat in D.C." will be deciding grocery prices, not supply and demand.
She continued, "Which seems totally unworkable, first of all, for the FTC to be deciding how much Kroger charges for eggs in Michigan. But it also would be very bad for markets. … And beyond that, the specific way this bill is written might actually increase prices because of some of the other language in it, things like requiring companies, public companies, to disclose in their quarterly reports, the quarterly earnings reports, how they're setting prices, which is a great way to help them collude, which normally we don't want them to do."
A report as Fox Business explained Harris also has a "list of actions" to address affordable housing, including providing $25,000 down payments for first-time homebuyers.
The report said, "Alexander Gorlin, an architect who co-authored the book 'Housing the Nation: Social Equity, Architecture, and the Future of Affordable Housing' told FOX Business he likes the idea, but he and co-author Victoria Newhouse both said they would need to see more about the plan, noting that $25,000 might be great assistance in some areas of the country, but would not go very far in places with higher home prices, like San Francisco."
And Tony Fiorillo, owner of Asset Management Strategies, Inc., told FOX Business that Harris's ideas are "a perfect formula to create inflation."
"Providing this benefit from the government would increase demand for houses at a time when there is already a shortage of homes available for sale," he explained.
Elon Musk, in the Fox report, said yes, on social media, when the question was asked, "[W]on't that just increase the price of all homes by $25,000 while also increasing the deficit."
Wealth adviser Cody Moore of Alpharetta, Georgia, said, "In my opinion, it is just an attempt to garner more votes for the upcoming election by utilizing handouts."
Biden, while he was campaigning, multiple times promised to "cancel" the debt of student loan borrowers, in an obvious attempt to purchase goodwill.
The Supreme Court at one point said he couldn't do what he wanted, and the facts are that Biden wasn't "cancelling" any debt, he was just forcing taxpayers to pay it instead of those who borrowed and spent the money.
Another report at Fox explained that her policies "may be even worse than Biden's failed 'Bidenomics.'"
Those are the policies and practices that have imposed on American consumers inflation of well over 20% since Biden took office.
The Harris campaign claims it will stop "big corporations" from taking advantage if it is allowed to impose a federal ban "on price gouging on food and groceries.'
The Daily Caller News Foundation noted even Jason Furman, Barack Obama's top economist, was critical.
"The good case scenario is price gouging is a message, not a reality, and the bad case scenario is that this is a real proposal. You'll end up with bigger shortages, less supply and ultimately risk higher prices and worse outcomes for consumers if you try to enforce this in a real way, which I don't know if they would or wouldn't do."
A report from the Federal Reserve of San Francisco release weeks ago, and apparently ignored by Harris, confirmed that "corporate greed" is not the main driver of inflation.
"This is economic lunacy. Price controls are a SERIOUSLY bad idea," Samuel Gregg, of the American Institute for Economic Research, said on X. "They lead to shortages, severe misallocations of capital, and distort the ability to prices to signal the information we all need to make choices."
Another foundation report said former Trump administration official Kevin Hassett blasted Harris's ideas as "absolute socialism."
"For an economist, this is about the most terrifying proposal I've ever seen. Because What Kamala Harris is saying is that the government needs to set the price of things and she's starting with food, but I guess if they set the price of food, they might as well set the price of everything else.
"They've also come out, you might recall, the Biden administration saying that they want to set rents, they think rents are too high, so they're going to have the government decide what the rent for your apartment should be. This is absolute socialism and it never ends well. If you go back and look at countries that have tried this, like Cuba, Venezuela, Ukraine back when the Soviet Union organized it, then it leads to famine and shortages."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
On Friday, Kamala Harris made her first statements about her own policy plans and ideology since a month ago when the Democrat party elites tossed the mentally declining Joe Biden under the bus and hand-picked Harris as his replacement in this year's presidential race.
It took, literally, no time at all before her ideas were condemned as "socialist" or "communist," by not just GOP presidential nominee President Donald Trump but economic experts, too.
Trump's campaign cited the analysis of a commentator from the leftist CNN, Catherine Rampell, who pointed out Harris's plans already have been tried in other locations.
"We've seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before, Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union. It leads to shortages. It leads to black markets, plenty of uncertainty."
Harris, as reported earlier, is opposed to "price gouging," by those involved in distributing and selling America's food supply. And she wants "price controls," a routine technic used by repressive governments to make their economies look better.
Rampell explained, "Well, first of all, nobody can explain what price gouging means. It's like that old line about pornography: I know it when I see it, in the sense that, what does it mean to have an excessive price or an excessive profit margin? That seems to be shorthand for a price or a profit margin that bugs me. That seems too high.
"So, you know, it's very hard to pin down what this would actually mean. If you look at the legislation that, as I mentioned, is already in the Senate, led by Senator Warren and Senator Bob Casey and a slew of others. The particular way that this is written, which is likely to be the template for any proposal that Harris would eventually embrace, is especially bad in that it just bans 'excessive prices, grossly excessive prices, grossly excessive profit margins,' and says that the Federal Trade Commission can use any metric it deems appropriate to decide what that would mean."
She noted that, basically, means "some bureaucrat in D.C." will be deciding grocery prices, not supply and demand.
She continued, "Which seems totally unworkable, first of all, for the FTC to be deciding how much Kroger charges for eggs in Michigan. But it also would be very bad for markets. … And beyond that, the specific way this bill is written might actually increase prices because of some of the other language in it, things like requiring companies, public companies, to disclose in their quarterly reports, the quarterly earnings reports, how they're setting prices, which is a great way to help them collude, which normally we don't want them to do."
A report as Fox Business explained Harris also has a "list of actions" to address affordable housing, including providing $25,000 down payments for first-time homebuyers.
The report said, "Alexander Gorlin, an architect who co-authored the book 'Housing the Nation: Social Equity, Architecture, and the Future of Affordable Housing' told FOX Business he likes the idea, but he and co-author Victoria Newhouse both said they would need to see more about the plan, noting that $25,000 might be great assistance in some areas of the country, but would not go very far in places with higher home prices, like San Francisco."
And Tony Fiorillo, owner of Asset Management Strategies, Inc., told FOX Business that Harris's ideas are "a perfect formula to create inflation."
"Providing this benefit from the government would increase demand for houses at a time when there is already a shortage of homes available for sale," he explained.
Elon Musk, in the Fox report, said yes, on social media, when the question was asked, "[W]on't that just increase the price of all homes by $25,000 while also increasing the deficit."
Wealth adviser Cody Moore of Alpharetta, Georgia, said, "In my opinion, it is just an attempt to garner more votes for the upcoming election by utilizing handouts."
Biden, while he was campaigning, multiple times promised to "cancel" the debt of student loan borrowers, in an obvious attempt to purchase goodwill.
The Supreme Court at one point said he couldn't do what he wanted, and the facts are that Biden wasn't "cancelling" any debt, he was just forcing taxpayers to pay it instead of those who borrowed and spent the money.
Another report at Fox explained that her policies "may be even worse than Biden's failed 'Bidenomics.'"
Those are the policies and practices that have imposed on American consumers inflation of well over 20% since Biden took office.
The Harris campaign claims it will stop "big corporations" from taking advantage if it is allowed to impose a federal ban "on price gouging on food and groceries.'
The Daily Caller News Foundation noted even Jason Furman, Barack Obama's top economist, was critical.
"The good case scenario is price gouging is a message, not a reality, and the bad case scenario is that this is a real proposal. You'll end up with bigger shortages, less supply and ultimately risk higher prices and worse outcomes for consumers if you try to enforce this in a real way, which I don't know if they would or wouldn't do."
A report from the Federal Reserve of San Francisco release weeks ago, and apparently ignored by Harris, confirmed that "corporate greed" is not the main driver of inflation.
"This is economic lunacy. Price controls are a SERIOUSLY bad idea," Samuel Gregg, of the American Institute for Economic Research, said on X. "They lead to shortages, severe misallocations of capital, and distort the ability to prices to signal the information we all need to make choices."
Another foundation report said former Trump administration official Kevin Hassett blasted Harris's ideas as "absolute socialism."
"For an economist, this is about the most terrifying proposal I've ever seen. Because What Kamala Harris is saying is that the government needs to set the price of things and she's starting with food, but I guess if they set the price of food, they might as well set the price of everything else.
"They've also come out, you might recall, the Biden administration saying that they want to set rents, they think rents are too high, so they're going to have the government decide what the rent for your apartment should be. This is absolute socialism and it never ends well. If you go back and look at countries that have tried this, like Cuba, Venezuela, Ukraine back when the Soviet Union organized it, then it leads to famine and shortages."
Jamal Trulove, a film director and actor wrongly convicted by Kamala Harris when she was the San Francisco district attorney, has announced his endorsement of former President Donald Trump.
In a video posted to YouTube, Trulove stated, "In 2008, I was framed for murder and wrongfully convicted by the office of Kamala Harris, sentenced 50 [years] to life in prison." He would go on to explain the accusations against him and his decision to endorse Trump in November's election.
Thankfully, Trulove only spent seven years in prison as opposed to half a century but that is still the better part of a decade of life lost thanks to Harris and her shoddy prosecution.
Trulove was convicted in 2010 of first-degree murder with a firearm after being arrested in October 2008 for an October 2007 killing.
He also was hit with being a felon in possession of a firearm because he had a previous conviction for receiving stolen goods, a major escalation on account of a much less serious crime.
Trulove knew he was innocent but he still watched Kamala Harris smile and laugh when he was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison.
Harris was serving as San Francisco's district attorney, a position she held from 2004 to 2011, and was deeply involved in wrongfully convicting Trulove.
Trulove explained that she was in the courtroom for his sentencing saying, "When they came with the verdict guilty … I turned around, and I looked, and I saw Kamala Harris. We locked eyes this one time, and she laughed.”
After he was convicted, he appealed the conviction leading to California's First District Court of Appeal reducing his charge from first-degree murder to second-degree murder.
In the following hearings, it was revealed that Assistant District Attorney Linda Allen, who worked directly beside Harris, committed misconduct by claiming Trulove had intimidated a witness without presenting evidence.
This would lead to a retrial in 2015 where Trulove's lawyers demonstrated that the evidence did not convict him and he was finally acquitted.
Trulove blasted Harris stating that, "She was the head of it, she overseen it. She had to, it was a murder case, right? And at the end of my paperwork, it’s a stamp and seal, ‘Office of Kamala Harris.'"
Following his acquittal Trulove went on to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and county of San Francisco over the misconduct of Harris's office. Two years later Trulove would be awarded $10 million and then win a settlement after an appeal for $13.1 million.
Trulove didn't hold back saying, "And if you’re wondering if I’m going to be voting for Kamala Laugh-a-Lot Harris, f*** no. I’m going with Donald Trump. Where’s my red hat at?”
Kamala Harris's past as a dirty cop is being covered up by the mainstream media but Trulove is doing his part in blowing her cover. The irony of the Democrat Party running a dirty cop who locked up innocent Black men is almost too unbelievable.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
An incident occurring two years ago, involving an interaction between President Joe Biden and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and his wife, should give us pause to consider amending the 25th Amendment of the Constitution. Lee shared that the incident immediately left him questioning Biden's cognitive health, long before it became a matter of public concern.
The senator explained the three of them were all in attendance at a reception when Biden repeatedly mistook Lee's wife, Sharon, for one of his White House staffers. Several times Biden asked for her name, inquiring if she worked for him. Efforts to clarify her identity fell completely on deaf ears.
It became immediately clear to Lee that, mentally, Biden just was not there. This was not a simple matter of Biden misunderstanding or focusing on something else at the time; this was a matter of the president being unable to grasp what was going on around him.
Lee found the experience most alarming. While the senator's interactions with Biden were infrequent, the incident provided him with concerned insight about the president's fitness for office.
An unspoken reality of Biden's steady cognitive decline is that those closest to him – not only family members Jill and Hunter – but his inner circle and staff as well, including his Cabinet, had to know what was going on. None of them felt a sense of duty to the country to take steps to insist the president seek medical attention or temporarily relinquish the duties of his office. Why?
Jill and Hunter's reasons for failing to do so were completely selfish. Both enjoyed the privileges coming to them courtesy of Joe's office.
While the failure of his staff to initiate action to address the situation can be dismissed by a bond of loyalty to Biden, a fear of taking on such an issue as a career-ender or gross naivete, they were not in positions of authority to act, and thus cannot be held accountable. But others were armed with such authority and should have acted, yet failed to do so.
The 25th Amendment of the Constitution, ratified in 1967 by the states, provides a comprehensive plan for presidential succession in the event of the president's death or incapacitation. Sections 3 and 4 of the amendment are most pertinent to Biden's deteriorating mental health situation.
Section 3, known as the "Disability Clause," states that a president, cognizant of the fact he is unable to or will be unable to perform the duties of his office, can voluntarily submit written notification to Congress. It was first used by President Ronald Reagan in 1985 when he underwent surgery and last used in 2021 by Biden when he briefly underwent a medical procedure lasting 85 minutes. That 85-minute gap in his presidency brought about by his incapacitation was all he was willing to surrender as he proved unwilling to voluntarily submit a declaration of his mental unfitness for office.
Section 4 addresses the involuntary removal of a sitting president from office due to some disability. It is a step that is to be initiated by the vice president and majority members "of either the Cabinet or such other body established by law (a presidential review body) acting jointly, to declare the President to be disabled." This process begins with the vice president and the majority of Cabinet members sending a written declaration to Congress, delineating the basis for the disability claim.
Thus, it was clear Vice President Kamala Harris and members of Biden's Cabinet had the authority to pursue the issue of his incapacity but failed to exercise it, ensuring a mentally unfit captain of our ship of state was left to command it.
What is missing from Section 4, however, is a specific mandate for these officials to act. Absent such a mandate, it is clearly in both their personal and political interests not to act, leaving the country at great risk. There is simply no motivation for these officials to take action for fear that it would embarrass their party despite the obvious risk to the country. A red flag to them should have been the fact, that while a president normally meets every week or every other week with his Cabinet, Biden had held his last meeting in October 2023.
Biden's mental unfitness is not the first time a president's inability to perform the duties of his office has been hidden from voters. It has occurred at least three other times as well. Interestingly, all four involved Democratic presidents.
In 1919, a stroke left Woodrow Wilson disabled, with both access to him, as well as subsequent decision-making, allegedly left to his wife. In 1944, the fact that Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was dying was covered up, enabling him to run for a fourth term he knew he would not complete. Not revealed as well was that John F. Kennedy (JFK) suffered from Addison's disease, causing him to consume a dozen painkillers daily, with some doctors believing if reelected he would not survive a second term.
As prime minister of England during World War II, Winston Churchill noted there were times a government needed to be less than honest, claiming, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." Democrats have historically embraced this justification to ensure their party remains in power despite the mental incompetency of the president occupying the Oval Office.
The risks and dangers to the country have steadily increased since the 25th Amendment was passed in 1967. Just like there was no mandate for other high-ranking government officials to take action to ensure that a serving president was mentally competent when Wilson, FDR, and JFK were all serving, neither did the 25th Amendment. This gap needs to be addressed to ensure that, in the best interests of the country, action is taken without fear of political retribution for doing so. The absence of such a mandate paves the way for another Biden.
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Famed Christian evangelist Billy Graham, one of the best-recognized names literally around the globe, also is known for his offering advice to a long list of presidents of both parties.
Those private conversations almost never made it into the public arena, but the public record shows every U.S. president since World War II met with him.
He was offered government posts by Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and politely said no.
Harry S. Truman not only met with Graham, he received him as his Independence, Missouri, home. Dwight Eisenhower asked him about sending troops into Little Rock during a time of civil unrest. John F. Kennedy met with Graham before he was inaugurated.
Graham was invited to the Johnson family ranch multiple times, and spent more than 20 nights in the White House during his presidency. Graham had known Nixon for years, and the president often asked Graham to pray with him. Gerald Ford explained, "I've heard the comments from some sources that Billy mixes politics with religion. I never felt that and I don't think that thousands and thousands of people who listen to him felt that."
Jimmy Carter was an honorary chair of an Atlanta Crusade by Billy Graham back in his day, Ronald Reagan once said, "It was through Billy Graham that I found myself praying even more than on a daily basis … and that in the position I held, that my prayers more and more were to give me the wisdom to make decisions that would serve God and be pleasing to Him." George H. W. Bush called Graham "an inspiration in my life."
Bill Clinton credited Billy Graham with refusing to racially segregate a crusade audience. George W. Bush said a turning point in his faith came during a private talk with Billy Graham in 1985. Graham said he was pleased to have had Barack Obama visit in his home.
Now a leftist organization called EvangelicalsforHarris is using an image of Billy Graham in an ad supporting the leftist candidate being supported by Democrats.
Which drew a pointed response from Franklin Graham, Billy Graham's son and now chief of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association as well as Samaritan's Purse.
He said, "The liberals are using anything and everything they can to promote candidate Harris. They even developed a political ad trying to use my father Billy Graham's image to help promote her—or rather to try to make Donald J. Trump look bad.
"They are trying to mislead people. Maybe they don't know that my father was a firm supporter of President Trump in 2016. He appreciated the conservative values and policies of President Trump, and if he were alive today, my father's views and opinions would not have changed.
"President Trump isn't perfect—none of us are—but I believe he has changed over the years. This recent assassination attempt has had a huge impact on him—and I thank God that his life was spared."
A report by Fox News said a statue of Billy Graham was installed in the U.S. Capitol just months ago.
The ad juxtaposes footage of Billy Graham with Trump's own comments.
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An investigative report from the Washington Examiner is revealing that an Al-Qaida-linked organization was awarded $2 million in grants from the government run by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
He's now Kamala Harris's pick to be her VP nominee as she runs in this year's presidential election, hand-picked by the elite of the Democrat party after they tossed the mentally declining Joe Biden under the bus, and off the ticket.
The report explains the state money went to an Islamic group "that fundraises for a charity linked to an Al-Qaida affiliate.
The details come from funding records reviewed by the publication.
It was the Islamic Association of North America that got state grants between 2019 and 2024. It now is fundraising after Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel last Oct. 7.
Those funds are going to Rahma Worldwide, "a Michigan-based charity that says it is shipping humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to flyers. In a since-deleted Facebook post in October 2023, Rahma Worldwide President Shadi Zaza revealed his charity was collaborating on an aid initiative with the Islamic Heritage Revival Society of Kuwait, a terrorist group sanctioned by the U.S. government for funding al-Qaida," the report explained.
The publication earlier had revealed Walz's ties to Muslim cleric Asad Zaman, who "shared a pro-Adolf Hitler movie on social media and defended the Oct. 7 attack," the report said.
The report said Harris's campaign continues to claim Walz has no personal relationship with Zaman.
But the situation has not gone unnoticed.
"Embracing and funding an imam that sympathizes with neo-Nazis was apparently only the start," Sam Westrop, a terrorism analyst at the Middle East Forum think tank, told the Examiner.
The IANA was formed in 2001, just as the Treasury Department's terrorist designation of the scandal-plagued Holy Land Foundation "sent shockwaves throughout the philanthropy world."
It has about a dozen centers operating in Minnesota.
The state money came through its health department, $238,000 in 2024 and $192,000 in 2023. That figure was over $1 million in 2022 and more than $612,000 between 2019 to 2021.
The money apparently was related to outreach and "community vaccinations."
"Yusuf Abdi Abdulle, IANA's director, said on Oct. 7, 'Palestine has the right to defend itself,' which prompted Zaman to reply to the director on Facebook with an image of a Palestinian flag. On Oct. 7, the Walz administration-backed IANA affirmed a statement by its partner group that said Israel was engaged in 'unprovoked' attacks in Gaza after Hamas killed 1,200 people in the Jewish state," the Examiner detailed.
Rahma, which is getting financial help from the Walz-backed IANA, has boasted of its participation in a pro-Palestinian aid campaign with Kuwait's Islamic Heritage Revival Society.
That group previously was sanctioned by the U.S. for backing al-Qaida.
Westrop said the support pathway is "a complete betrayal of all those moderate Muslim and Somali activists working to fight this extremism in their communities every day."
And he said the fact that state money is being used in this way is "reprehensible."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
President Donald Trump on Friday announced a team of close associates to smooth his transition into the White House, presuming his campaign defeats the word salad-unleashing leftist Kamala Harris in the November election.
The team members include co-chairs Linda McMahon and Howard Lutnick, as well as honorary chairs Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump.
McMahon is the former chief of the WWE and earlier was in Trump's first administration as administrator of the SBA.
Lutnick is the billionaire CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial company.
Vance is his pick for VP and Donald Jr. and Eric are family members who helped during his first term.
"The 2024 GOP Platform to Make America Great Again is a forward-looking agenda that will deliver safety, prosperity, and freedom for the American people. My administration will deliver on these bold promises," Trump said in a statement.
He added, 'We will restore strength, competence, and common sense to the Oval Office. I have absolute confidence the Trump-Vance Administration will be ready to govern effectively on Day One."
A poll released on Friday noted that independents, that group that almost always determines an election winner, were choosing Trump 49%-40% over Kamala Harris as earlier voting starts in multiple states in just a few weeks.
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If the federal government could balance the budget and just move in the direction of paying the FIRST DOLLAR on the principal of the national debt, it would mean that a tectonic shift in attitude had occurred, and the madness and momentum of out-of-control government deficit spending will have reversed.
You were wise to be scared by last week's stock market "wobble."
This graph illustrates our impending, predictable economic disaster, our about-to-explode Debt Bomb (read that book description). It's taken from this excellent article: "Cowards in Congress blame others for our national debt. Just fix it, already."
Notice how the yearly budget deficit (orange) doesn't look so bad until you see the years of deficits piling up as total debt (red).
See our $35 TRILLION debt exploding on this National Debt Clock as it plunges us toward a preventable economic and societal cataclysm like a "cartoon snowball" gathering size and speed.
It was a mere $10 trillion in 2008, and $20 trillion as recently as 2017, 68% and 104% of GDP, respectively (GDP = Gross Domestic Product, the value of America's entire yearly economy; debt-to-GDP ratio explained here).
It's taken just seven years to go from $20 trillion to today's scary $35 trillion, a 57% increase and an amount that's 122.8% of GDP (currently $28.5 trillion). Our 2028 debt nightmare is estimated to be $46.7 trillion. That'll be a millstone on the U.S. economy at 147% of an estimated $31.6 trillion GDP!
This national debt crisis is a massive crime against our people because it causes an illegal "inflation tax" and "taxation without representation" on generations yet to be conceived.
Anyone who downplays this danger is a deceiver.
The next civil rights movement
Taking a stand on this issue will rank with the abolition movement leading to the end of slavery and passing/enforcing civil rights legislation. Whoever starts this much-needed conversation will make headlines and create a history-making political movement.
It's our "debt abolition movement"!
But how will paying the FIRST DOLLAR of principal ever happen when there is so little support for or interest in this issue? "We the People of the United States" are ignorant or in favor of this massive ticking Debt Bomb – or it wouldn't be happening! Most in public office aren't even lying about it except by omission.
Read this excellent article by President Trump's former chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney:
"As a leading Republican senator once told President Trump: 'No one in this town has ever lost his job for spending too much. People have lost for spending too little.' Candidates for office talk about what people want them to talk about … and right now, voters don't care about spending."
Another high-ranking Republican remarked, "Nobody votes for Scrooge."
In other words, dear reader, we are to blame.
The numbers in a historical and global context
The table on this page shows the national debt within 1 percentage point or having exceeded GDP since 2012.
The last time the U.S. had a balanced budget was during the Gingrich/Clinton era (1998-2001).
The last time the debt was reduced was 1956-57 (previous link).
Recent deficit spending has been massive, increasing the national debt by $9.5 TRILLION:
Our lopsided debt-to-GDP ratio will depress the economy, cause a severe recession or depression, and likely trigger a devastating worldwide depression because the rest of the world depends on America and has as bad or worse debt-to-GDP problems. Leading in the wrong direction, America is No. 1 for total debt.
But it gets worse …
Consider this "debt synergism":
Not counting No. 4, the total of all public debt is $38.7 trillion (No. 1 + 2) while our GDP is only $28 trillion. That's a 138% overall debt-to-GDP ratio, which is how America's debt debacle should be calculated.
Really scary is the $315 trillion global debt and 333% debt-to-GDP ratio. Don't look at this terrifying world debt clock.
'Unconstitutional' is how we got here
The Constitution doesn't authorize the opposite of the preamble's stated goals: "… to establish Justice, [and] insure domestic Tranquility. …" But across-the-board injustice and domestic disorder are exactly the predictable effects of massive deficit spending and the resultant inflation crime against humanity.
As in other cases, the Supreme Court invented something not in the Constitution, a power to "create money." Described as "evil" by Justice Stephen Johnson Field (below), it's an unchecked power, easily abused, resulting in massive injustice.
Like medieval alchemists, the federal "sorcerers" turn a negative, debt, into "money," a positive, albeit a counterfeit positive. Read at least the description (and click, "look inside") of money by Steve Forbes before reading this Federal Reserve hocus-pocus explanation.
This quotation is the concluding paragraph of Justice Field's lone dissenting opinion (8-1) in the last decision to uphold the 1871 Legal Tender cases, authorizing paper money. Prophetic about today's crisis, it's a great education about the nature of money and why the Constitution prohibits fiat currency, aka government-issued "blarney notes." Justice Field exposes the faux federal money-creating "power," that it's unconstitutional because it's as absurd as it is unjust:
"From the decision of the court, I see only evil likely to follow. There have been times within the memory of all of us when the legal tender notes of the United States were not exchangeable for more than one-half of their nominal value [during the Civil War]. The possibility of such depreciation will always affect paper money. This inborn infirmity no mere legislative declaration can cure. If Congress has the power to make the notes a legal tender and to pass as money or its equivalent, why should not a sufficient amount be issued to pay the bonds of the United States as they mature? Why pay interest on the millions of dollars of bonds now due, when Congress can in one day make the money to pay the principal? And why should there be any restraint upon unlimited appropriations by the government for all imaginary schemes of public improvement, if the printing press can furnish the money that is needed for them?" [Bracketed comment added.]
– Justice Stephen J. Field, Juilliard v. Greenman (1884), 100 U.S. 421, 470.
Our plan
Debt's HUGE constituency dooms us – unless we start a political movement and unite behind the moral goal of paying the FIRST DOLLAR on the principal of the national debt! Are you with me?
House Republicans are demanding answers about massive fraud in a Biden-Harris immigration program.
The scandal could further complicate the Harris campaign's already outlandish efforts to paint Harris as tough on the border.
Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee are demanding documents about the administration's decision to pause the CHNV program, which allowed 30,000 migrants per month into the United States from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
An internal report obtained by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found massive fraud by the program's sponsors.
The Biden-Harris administration had long touted the program as a "safe" and "orderly" way for migrants to claim asylum without crossing the border illegally.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela have been admitted through the program, which Republicans have long criticized as unlawful and a ploy to improve optics at the southern border.
An internal investigation by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) found that sponsors used the same 100 physical addresses for 19,000 forms.
Many sponsors used fake zip codes and Social Security numbers, including numbers belonging to dead people.
"Out of an abundance of caution, DHS has temporarily paused the issuance of advanced travel authorizations for new beneficiaries while it undertakes a review of supporter applications,” a spokesperson told the New York Post.
Reps. Mark Green (R-TN), Clay Higgins (R-LA), and Dan Bishop (R-NC) want to know exactly when the program was suspended, what the current backlog of applications looks like, and what internal process the Department was using to catch fraudulent applications.
The Homeland Security Committee is demanding documents after Department representatives failed to answer "even basic questions" at an August 5 briefing.
"The internal investigation also purportedly reveals that 2,839 sponsor forms contained non-existent zip codes and 4,590 forms were filled out with Alien file numbers that had never been issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)," they wrote.
House Republicans are ramping up investigations into Kamala Harris' role overseeing immigration, a top issue in the upcoming presidential election in which Harris is the Democratic candidate.
With help from sympathetic media, Harris has been posing as tough on the border, despite record illegal crossings under the current administration.
A number of violent criminals, including murderers and rapists, have been identified as beneficiaries of the Biden administration's mass parole policies.
Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly emerged from obscurity to trash former President Donald Trump's mass deportations pledge, calling the proposal "impossible" to implement.
In an interview with NewsNation host Chris Cuomo, O'Reilly claimed Trump's plan to deport millions of illegal immigrants would last "10 minutes" before getting blocked.
When Trump was president, his hardline immigration policies were frequently challenged by leftist groups like the ACLU.
O'Reilly speculated that Trump's mass deportation plan would meet the same fate.
“No, I don’t, because it’s impossible, number one. As soon as Donald Trump started to order federal marshals or whomever to remove people from their property, the ACLU and everybody else would fire lawsuits and the federal courts would stop it," O'Reilly said.
"It would take 10 minutes to stop it and it would never proceed after that. Even the Supreme Court would not go along with it,” he said.
President Trump has repeatedly pledged to carry out the "largest deportation operation in history."
His idea is popular with voters, despite the skepticism it has received from some corners.
Beyond the inevitable legal challenges Trump would face, skeptics point to the sheer number of illegal immigrants residing in the U.S. as an insurmountable logistical challenge.
The actual number of illegal immigrants living in America, while unknown, is commonly pegged at 11 million. The 11 million figure is probably dated, however. Under the Biden administration, there have already been 10 million illegal border crossings.
Trump's running mate J.D. Vance has emphasized taking an incremental approach.
“Let's start with the first million who are the most violent criminals, who are the most aggressive," he said Thursday. "Get them out of here. First prioritize them, and then you see where you are, and you keep on taking bites of the problem, until you get illegal immigration to a serviceable point,” he added.
President Trump has pointed to using local police or the National Guard.
“Our local police know everything about these criminals that have come into the country," he said Tuesday. "They know their names and their middle name, they know where they live, what country they came from," he said. "We’ll work with the local police and we have to get them out and you’re going to want them out and everybody’s going to want them out.”