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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Clinton and Trump Embody Plunder and Paternalism



Whether it is Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump who stands on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C in January 2017 to take the oath of office as president of the United States, all public opinion polls suggest whomever emerges victorious will have among the highest unfavorable ratings for anyone beginning their time in the White House.

Both Clinton and Trump represent a failure for American democracy. According to an Associated Press poll taken in early July 2016, 57 percent view Clinton unfavorably and only 37 percent favorably. Sixty-three percent hold an unfavorable view of Trump, and only 31 percent are favorable. Of those planning to vote for either Clinton or Trump, only 26 percent, respectively, said they would be positively "excited" if their candidate wins. Plus, three quarters of prospective voters in the poll declared that they were making their decision based upon whom they wanted to vote against....... Read more

My Take - Although I agree with much of his analysis we come to the same problem with intellectuals answering the same question.   What would they do?  Almost every scheme and plan these people discuss are amazingly complicated and as a result - will not work.  I have the answer and none of it's complicated.  Repeal the 16th and 17th amendment.  Get rid of the FED.  Sell off the federal government's 150 trillion dollars in assets...or at least the approximately 25% owned by the "people"....read federal bureaucracies.  After that everything will naturally fall into place because the market place will control the direction we go from there on.  At least that's quantifiable!  Socialism has no economic touchstone for making decision, as a result it's an unending failure all over the world.  When you have a second.... and that's all the time it will take to show the disaster of socialism, check out Hollywood's latest love affair with socialism...Venezuela!

Oh, one more thing.  The author ends this article saying:
There is no escape from these types of candidates for political office such as the presidency of the United States until there begins to be a change forward to a vision of human freedom and peaceful and voluntary social and market relationships more consistent with the idea and ideal of the free and self-governing individual that inspired the founding of the American Republic.
Although I could agree if I had said that because I know exactly what I think - but I didn't - he did, so I have to ask....can someone explain to me what exactly he means and how's it to be implemented? 

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