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The Patriot Post Digest 12-13-2016
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The researchers' idea of fixing this income inequality is, of course, by redistributing wealth. That’s right — more of the same failed Obama policies.
Obama’s guise of “Hope and Change” resulted in despair and stagnation. Despite Obama’s and his media cohorts blubbering that the economy has recovered and is surging forward, facts and reality indicate otherwise.
A new analysis conducted24 by senior Gallup economists completely contradicts Obama’s delusional remarks. They state, “There is no recovery. Since 2007, U.S. GDP per capita growth has been 1%. The Great Recession may be over, but America is dangerously running on empty.” Granted, when Obama took office the economy was not doing well at all, but after many promises and nearly $1 trillion in “stimulus” spending, we are left with the worst economic recovery — if we can even call it a “recovery” — since World War II.
Gallup’s report further notes, “Learning has stagnated. Fewer new businesses are being launched. More workers are involuntarily stuck in part-time jobs or out of the labor force entirely.” Among other things, Americans' general health conditions are declining. In addition, total national spending on housing, education, and health care has increased significantly from 25% of income in 1980 to 36% last year with no appreciable gains and improvements.
The report also declares that the “deterioration in large, vital sectors of the economy is far from inevitable, but rather an entirely reversible outcome that can be linked to specific policies, rules and regulations that have arisen and accumulated after decades of weak political leadership — often at the state and local levels — and lobbying by interest groups.”
But wait — Obama repeatedly claims that under his administration 800,000 manufacturing jobs were created. Wrong. Even the Leftmedia flagship Washington Post fact checked this assertion as wrong25.
No doubt, the election of Donald Trump provides many Americans a new sense of hope at being able to achieve the American Dream. For that to happen, Trump must set out to repeal Obama’s damaging economic policies.
As for the rising income inequality that’s supposedly causing the American Dream to vanish, people need to be reminded that the promise of America is equal opportunity, not equal results.
National Review’s David French points to other reasons that the American Dream is dying, most of which are cultural issues that We the People, not the government, need to rectify. French highlights26 that most prosperous people have intact families who “delay childbearing until after marriage, complete their educations, get married, and stay married.” On the other hand, many poor families “have children out of wedlock, struggle to finish school, and divorce or remain unmarried at much greater rates.”
As French notes, kids who come from broken families experience trauma and “government can’t fix trauma. Government can’t make a man and woman stay together.” In economic terms, what does all of this mean? French says, “In real terms, it means that our nation is changing. We’re producing a generation of poor and working-class young people who are less equipped to take advantage of economic opportunity and a generation of upper-middle-class kids who are fully prepared to enjoy the fruits of the world’s most potent and innovative economy.”
So despite Obama’s eight years, the American Dream is still achievable — even for those born in the 1980s or later. But it will be achievable only if we strive to focus on our own families and teach our children how to become productive, upstanding citizens and to take nothing for granted.
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Trump’s Cabinet Picks Confound the Left27 — Real world competence doesn’t compute for statists.
Putting Energy in the Energy Department28 — Trump taps Rick Perry to forge ahead.
A Solid Interior Choice29 — Trump’s pick for heading the Interior Department makes sense.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Tony Perkins: Conservatives Drill Down on Exxon’s Tillerson30
Gary Bauer: The Left Blames Russia31
Stephen Moore: This Christmas, We Need the Gift of Humility32
For more, visit Right Opinion33.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Tony Perkins: “To hear that Donald Trump [is] appointing a man who not only led the charge to open the Boy Scouts to gay troop leaders but whose company directly gives to Planned Parenthood is upsetting at best. FRC knows [Rex] Tillerson all too well, having worked for years to put the brakes on his reckless agenda for a scouting organization that was already dealing with staggering numbers of sexual abuse cases. … Russia is just one hurdle Tillerson will face in his confirmation hearings with Senate Republicans. He’s also supported the carbon tax and, like President-elect Trump, has never held political or diplomatic office. For groups like FRC, who are tired of the State Department being used as a weapon in the global war on values, the problems run much deeper. The agency already has an image problem after almost a decade of failing to respect the traditions and beliefs of other countries. The last thing Americans need is a leader who would continue to advocate (however subtly) the leftist social policy of the Obama years.”
SHORT CUTS
Insight: “Newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff — and print the chaff.” —Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965)
Upright: “It is … reality, not an expression of misogyny, that men see the objects of their sexual desire as sexual objects. But this is too painful for feminists and other leftists. And it violates feminist theory, which says that men and women are essentially the same, and seeing a woman as a sexual object is misogyny. Therefore, this reality is rejected.” —Dennis Prager
For the record: “The White House’s outrage over alleged Russian influence in the election is ironic given all that the Obama administration did to interfere in Israel’s election and defeat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Political operatives connected to Obama’s campaign went to Israel to register Palestinian Muslim voters. And the State Department funded anti-Netanyahu campaign efforts because Bibi Netanyahu confronted Obama on a variety of issues, including the sellout to Iran.” —Gary Bauer
Non Compos Mentis: “We are no longer a sovereign nation, we are no longer a democracy, we are no longer a free people. We are the victims of a bloodless coup — so far — engineered by Russia with the traitorous indifference of the Republican Party.” —Keith Olbermann
Braying Jackass: “The Kennedy and King assassinations and the 9/11 attacks were crimes and tragedies. The wars in Vietnam and Iraq were disastrous mistakes. But the country recovered. For a democratic process to elevate a man expressing total disregard for democratic norms and institutions is worse.” —James Fallows, speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, on why electing Donald Trump is just the worst
Demo-gogues: “What is it about the state of our democracy where the leaks of what were frankly not very interesting emails [of Hillary Clinton’s], that didn’t have any explosive information in them, ended up being an obsession? And the fact that the Russians were doing this was not an obsession?” —Barack Obama
Braying Jenny: “Do we have to wait until the hammer and sickle is on the American flag before we stand up to this guy?” —The View’s Joy Behar, who also says Trump “has to step down before the inauguration”
And last… “Wisdom is knowing what you don’t know, which for all of us, especially the so-called experts, is a lot. This Christmas is a good time to remember that the only person who was ever flawless was hung from a cross.” —Stephen Moore
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson
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