Politics has been raising ugly heads now for over a year and we still have three months to go. Wouldn’t it be refreshing to do as Canadians do, which is to limit all political campaigns to just 30 days? Everyone gets the messages within that time period, and the angst is limited to just 30 days!

Here we have unending lies and half-lies from both sides of our two major parties and a press corps similar to Dr. Geobble’s Nazi propoganda ministry dishing out false information and diatribes against one candidate, while the “Fair and Balanced” network tries to counter with scandals committed by the other candidate.

To give an example, sadly the Democrat published an article from Bloomberg News on Wednesday, Aug. 10 titled “Trump has a posture, not a plan.” Their basis for the article was Trump’s economic plan which was given in a speech to the Detroit Economic Council on Monday, Aug. 8. He offered a well-organized, coherent plan that would bring certain prosperity and growth to almost every American, bring back industry to America that had fled to China, Mexico and Bangladesh, bring back jobs for everyone wanting them, lowering taxes on the middle class and businesses and lowering real unemployment rate from 22 percent down to a real (not government hoax) 4 or 5 percent.

Bloomberg states that the tax proposal, though commendable, would cause great revenue losses for the government. They blast Trump for not stating what spending cuts he would create to offset the tax reductions. Trump had previously outlined many government waste provisions that needed to be addressed, some including whole government departments. He stated in his Monday speech that there would be new tariffs in place, that means new money coming into government coffers. Bloomberg says these will increase costs to consumers. What Bloomberg doesn’t say is that the new American-made products as a result of these tariffs will take the place of foreign-made products. Buying American provides jobs for American workers and normally provides a better product for the consumer.

Bloomberg states that Trump’s efforts to free up American businesses by eliminating costly regulations by each regulatory agency that will endeavor to weed out over-the-top regulations needs to be carefully justified. That is what Trump said he would have each agency do! On energy policy, Bloomberg is horrendously concerned that Trump will unleash more carbon in the air. “There are no trade-off mentioned!” So this is the crux of the matter: Bloomberg is worried about global warming which has been well-documented to not exist. There have never been any so-called scientists who have actually provided scientific evidence that global warming exists. The government has claimed it perhaps because they have forced their NASA and other scientists working for them to conclude that it exists, or if not, they may lose their jobs. Good reason to claim it, however when a number of them retire, they tell the truth, it is a huge hoax. Trump is a realist. He knows that global warming has never been proven.

On trade, Bloomberg says that his measures would disrupt global supply chains (oh my!), raise process for American consumers (see above) and stifle competition and innovation (just the opposite will occur!). Bloomberg summarizes by stating “his ideas don’t deserve to be called a plan,” which totally disregards what he stated in his Monday address. Bloomberg’s article is typical of the whitewashing of Trump and his plan to resurrect this country. Their alternative has to be a new Obama-Clinton administration that will never change anything except more higher taxes for everyone, more real unemployment, more illegal immigrants, more crime and less security for everyone. And to cap it off, a Supreme Court that will change its name to the Supreme Socialist Court. And won’t we all be proud to have a female president who some claim has aided and abetted more than 90 “accidental deaths” associated with the Clintons, reportedly five more in this past month.

 

Andrew Peabody is a Natchez resident.