Claims And Issues

OKAY, MIKE. WHO'S GONNA PICK BIBI UP AT THE AIRPORT?

Mike Johnson, current speaker of the house, reportedly issued a personal invitation to Bibi Netanyahu to speak in the U.S.   Bibi, as many know, is currently the prime minister of Israel despite an almost complete lack of public support.

          He and Mike have that in common.

          The Senate is supposed to issue its own invitation if Bibi is supposed to address Congress, but I haven't heard that anyone who is authorized to issue Senate invitations to speak, has issued an invitation to Bibi to speak yet.

          President Biden hasn't invited Bibi here, so Bibi can't be making a State Visit.

          All that being so, Mike's invitation to Bibi to drop by was and remains a personal invitation.  If you or I had a relative or somebody coming to visit us, we would have to go and pick them up at the airport probably.  So, Mike, who's going to pick Bibi up at the airport?

          And while we're at it, I question allowing more guns to come into the country, plus whatever security guards Bibi can get to protect him while he's here are probably suspicious characters, don't you think?  So why should these people be allowed into this country with guns?

          And who other than the American Taxpayer is footing the bill for Mike's invitation?

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"Socialism for Investors, Capitalism for Everyone Else."

Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post writes a very informed column about the world of finance.  He knows more about finances and the people who live in the U.S. financial system than most people alive.  

    So it's worth listening when he says that it's time for the Federal Reserve to "fix" the financial system.  Fixing it, Pearlstein writes, is something that "surely the overpaid lawyers and investment bankers who created the shadow banking system are clever enough to figure it out."  

    See Mr. Pearlstein's proposed solutions here in his recent article, Socialism For Investors, Capitalism For Everyone Else in THE WASHINGTON POST.

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PRAY FOR THE ECONOMY?

At our televised Church services this Palm Sunday morning, we learned from the homily that one of our prayers is apparently supposed to be "for the economy."

The economy is people. People who have jobs. People who get paid for work. People who have to pay bills and who cannot pay their bills without their jobs.

I hope that we all think of people when we think of the economy.

And I hope that it's the thought of people that was in everyone's mind when they said that we should pray "for the economy" this Palm Sunday morning.

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FOR SHAME, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. STAND PROUD, TEACHERS.

There is a rally for Florida schools in Tallahassee today, Monday.

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The name of the rally is "Take On Tallahassee."  The goal is to march for education funding, for better pay for teachers in a State that barely gets by on the bottom rungs, and for the end of Tallahassee controls over local School Districts.

Frightened that many teachers in Polk County (think Lakeland) Florida might take their own Personal Time to march, the Superintendent of the Polk School District asked a lawyer to weigh in.  The General Counsel of the Florida Department of Education did indeed weigh in, in an Email he sent to the Superintendent on Friday night.

He said that if teachers got together to go to march in Tallahassee for money for students and books and classrooms, let alone for better pay for teachers, "children suffer as learning slows or even stops altogether."  Quoted by Leslie Postal, Lawyer:  Polk Teachers at Rally Could be Fired, ORLANDO SENTINEL, p. B1, Monday, January 13, 2020 (paywall for online access).

That was before he wrote that teachers could be fired for this.  The Polk Superintendent took the lawyer's Email and apparently posted it on her Facebook account later Friday night.  She says that she did not intend to threaten any employees, just to let them know that she could fire them if she wanted.  She makes it seem like kind of a public service, what she did.  Then she stepped back.

Mr. Lawyer, children are already suffering in Florida schools.  Your Education Department is satisfied with your salary, true, but it is also satisfied with what amount to starvation budgets for the minds of children in school.  Teachers and students cannot work with the proper equipment or enough of it when they do get it.  School buildings are unfit for education in many places in Florida.  Those are the things that make children suffer in Florida schools.

Rallying on your own Personal Time to march in Tallahassee to correct these wrongs is not among the things that make children suffer in Florida schools.

You should be ashamed of what you are doing and proud of what the teachers are doing.

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FLORIDA DISASTER RELIEF? IT'S BUYING CAGES AT THE TEXAS BORDER.

Hurricane Dorian is heading to Florida as I am writing these words.  What happened to the disaster relief fund?

The current regime is using it to buy cages at the Texas border.  See Caitlin Emma, DHS to Siphon $155M in Disaster Aid to Bolster Immigration Enforcement, POLITICO posted on Tuesday, August 27, 2019.

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THE SHAME OF THE UNBALANCED BUDGET.

Trump Administration Will Divert Disaster Relief Funds to U.S.-Mexico Border Enforcement, Prompting Outcry From Democrats, WASHINGTON POST online Tuesday, August 27, 2019, available to post in your web browser at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administration-will-divert-disaster-relief-funds-to-us-mexico-border-enforcement-prompting-outcry-from-democrats/2019/08/27/ba20dd30-c903-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html.

This is what comes of not putting limitations on your budget vote.

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