It wasn’t through war or diplomacy or statecraft, or because of politicians like Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston or James K. Polk, or generals like Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor or Phil Kearny. The lands west of the Mississippi became American because they were settled by Americans. If you’re interested, the story is best told by the premier historian of the west, Bernard DeVoto.
On this date in 1843 a part of that saga began. Here’s the link to the story.
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t mess around with Donald J. Trump
And you never want to fight the Fed
If there’s one thing the Chinese can count on from their government, it’s theft. For millennia the unelected despots of China have robbed their people of their money. The communists are doing it today. There are four state banks in China, and there is no other place that is allowed to take money on deposit.
These banks pay virtually no interest, and no deposit in any bank controlled by communists is safe. If the government needs to, it’ll just take it. All this money is being used right now in service of whatever goal the communists choose. There is no independent business purpose for these banks. They are just agents of the party.
There is a lot of wealth in China right now. For thousands of years the ethnic Han have labored mightily, and to good effect. They are a hard working people, disciplined and smart. They make a lot of money, and they want to get it out of China. And there’s only one place they want to put it — into the safety and security of the US dollar, the world’s currency.
If you think federal reserve chairman Powell is going overboard with his pledge to print as much money as it takes to avoid a depression — think again. He knows exactly what he’s doing, and why. In order to stand strong against the Chinese communists this country must have a strong economy. It’s a question of national security and national sovereignty. Going into debt, under these circumstances, and for national security reasons, is our only way out of the hole Covid-19 put us in. Only once our economy is up and running can we take on the communist government of China.
It is strictly against the law for the people of China to export their money. But these are very clever people, and they’re finding ways to get their money to America. In that they are joined by the nervous rich all over the world, from the countless countries all over the globe where the economy is in big trouble, and the future looks bleak.
These enormous inflows of capital allow us to expand our currency without inflation. And the good people of China are doing their part. They are secure in knowing that their money is safe here in America, if they can ever get here.
It’s time for the people of this country to get ready to accept the influx of residents of Hong Kong that will come once the communists extinguish what little freedom they have. It’s just a matter of time, and it could come any time.
There are 71/2 million people in Hong Kong, and I believe we should be ready to take half of them. They would be the most talented and wealthy political refugees in the world. They are capitalists, and entrepreneurs, and this country will be more wealthy with them.
And like all the refugees who came before them, from German Jews to Hungarian freedom fighters, they will be more patriotic than most of the people born here.
(This post appears in today’sAmerican Thinker.
I had an interesting conference call today with the leaders of Wolf-PAC, which seeks an Article V convention to propose a campaign finance reform amendment. I took them to task a bit on their failure to pass their resolution in any state in the last four years. They have a lot more money than the BBA Task Force ever had, they have a real staff, they have thousands of volunteers, and their issue is just as popular, if not more so, than a balanced budget amendment.
After a lively exchange, the nature of the problem they’ve been having became clear. It’s George Soros. He, or his organizations, became actively involved in opposing any and all Article V efforts in 2015. They singlehandedly stopped the BBA in Montana in 2015, and they were behind the rescission efforts in Maryland, Delaware and New Mexico. Just as the BBA Task Force was getting some momentum, these three Democratic states, that had passed their BBA resolutions in the late 1970’s, passed resolutions rescinding the BBA.
There is no way Wolf-PAC should have failed for four straight years. The people I talked to today understand the whole process, they have worked their butts off, and they’ve come up with nothing.
Common Cause has been their most prominent opponent. Yes, the “good government” group is controlled by Dr. Evil, George Soros. Though Common Cause is a big proponent of transparency, they hide the identity of their big donors. They don’t want people to realize they’re a front for Soros. What a bunch of whores.
Soros and his Common Cause puppets need to be exposed, and it is my intention to do it. If they are not exposed, no Article V effort is going to get anywhere. It can’t be on this blog, its reach is too limited. I need to be on the radio again. I’ll ask all of you to listen in.
In 1982 I was going door to door, asking for votes for my state senate campaign. A guy asked me how I felt about capital punishment, and I said I was for it. Then he asked, “What are you going to do about it?”
I promised to introduce a bill, which I did at the beginning of the 1983 session. It had quite an impact. Alaska’s leading paper at the time, the conservative Anchorage Times, put out a banner headline on page one, publicizing the bill. There was a groundswell of support from across the state. Polls showed it had the support of 60% of the voters
This was the first capital punishment bill since statehood, in 1959. High profile hearings were held, not just in Juneau, but in Anchorage, in the chambers of the Alaska Supreme Court. People on both sides of the issue felt very strongly about it.
The bill never went anywhere, which is what I knew would happen. And some of my new colleagues were upset with me. They didn’t like being forced to take a stand on such a controversial issue, and accused me of showboating.
I explained why I did it. A voter asked me how I felt, and then challenged me to do something about it. It was that simple.
If you want to influence a state legislator, don’t show up at the capital to lobby them once the session starts. Instead, get voters in their district to ask them about your issue when they’re campaigning. Right now there are thousands and thousands of legislative candidates running all across the country, and they’re eager to please their voters. If a voter asks a candidate to support a certain piece of legislation, now is the time to do it, while they’re seeking votes, not after they’ve been elected.
The ideal voter you want for your cause is a supervoter, who votes in every primary, general and local election, going back multiple elections. The longer they’ve voted, the older they are. The older they are the more likely they follow local elections and state legislative districts, and quite possibly be personally acquainted with a candidate.
In many states, with small populations, legislative races are won with a few thousand votes. Every vote counts, and legislative candidates are eager to please. If you can get two or three voters to contact a candidate, and urge him to commit to voting for a piece of legislation, you will probably get a commitment.
This is all relatively easy to do, with volunteers, using inexpensive and the readily available phone numbers of the desired supervoters in key districts.
It’s Politics 101.
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