Posted by Tina
Liberals wag their fingers at their opponents for thinking global terrorism and the Presidents “signature” Iran deal are serious growing threats. They tell us this is nothing more concerning than petty crime. Their approach is to police the situation and blur the lines between radical Muslim terror and gang activity. They go so far as to change the language our security departments use to discuss terror activity; agents are only allowed the term violent extremism. The Obama administration, including Hillary, has given Iran funds for terrorists activity and enabled their nuclear capability but we shouldn’t be concerned.
Do the liberals who support Obama and Hillary buy this happy non-specific talk and the gentle appeasing approach to fighting ISIS? Do they buy the “progress” they say they’ve made with this approach? Do they think we’re better off now than we were eight years ago? Their actions suggest otherwise:
Given the increased frequency of terrorist bombings and mass shootings and an under-lying sense of havoc fed by divisive election politics, it’s no surprise that home security is going over the top and hitting luxurious new heights. Or, rather, new lows, as the average depth of a new breed of safe haven that occupies thousands of square feet is 10 feet under or more. Those who can afford to pull out all the stops for so-called self-preservation are doing so — in a fashion that goes way beyond the submerged corrugated metal units adopted by reality show “preppers” — to prepare for anything from nuclear bombings to drastic climate-change events. Gary Lynch, GM at Rising S Bunkers, a Texas-based company that specializes in underground bunkers and services scores of Los Angeles residences, says that sales at the most upscale end of the market — mainly to actors, pro athletes and politicians (who require signed NDAs) — have increased 700 percent this year compared with 2015, and overall sales have risen 150 percent. “Any time there is a turbulent political landscape, we see a spike in our sales. Given this election is as turbulent as it is, we are gearing up for an even bigger spike,” says marketing director Brad Roberson of sales of bunkers that start at $39,000 and can run $8.35 million or more (FYI, a 12-stall horse shelter is $98,500).
This journalist credits political division rather than the consequence of ignorant management and poor leadership over the last eight years. But there is no denying Hillary and Obama have created unprecedented chaos and danger with their policies and approach. The JV team may have been JV at one point but they were given all the room in the world to develop into a international threat of consequence and that Iran deal? Like giving car keys to a toddler and showing them the electrical outlets!
I might have guessed that climate change hysteria also drives this fear based phenomenon. Leave it to the privileged left to force their green regulation job killers on the masses while preserving their own luxury centered lives in lavish underground bunkers. Be sure to click on the link above for images.
Liberals are not reasonable people. Those in Hollywood and DC live in fantasy worlds. They don’t see the contradiction in their lives or their methods. War and climate change feature prominently in the politics of these liberals. They either want to go underground or into outer space to survive. Oh brother.
But if I suggest that these people should be taxed onto a more realistic plain, you pitch the most horrendous hissy.
Make up your mind. Either the obscenely affluent should be allowed to spend obscene sums on any scheme of gratification that comes into their pinheads … or … they should be taxed into universal health care. (The Donald can just suffer our scruffy airports.)
Libby, it’s the only the liberal wealthy that are bad. Conservative wealthy people are job creators whose profits make the world go round; liberal wealthy people are nasty “elitists” who think they know better than everyone else.
It’s a simple ideology. For simple people.
Did I say anyone was bad…or nasty?
NO!
This spending sustains jobs and growth. I have no problem with elitist spending regardless their party. I’m assuming they are leftists since climate change figures in. I think we can count on at least some of them being leftists.
When not oppressed by onerous taxes and regulations the middle class are also job creators as they invest their money in savings accounts, retirement accounts, and individual stocks and bonds. Anyone who saves is a potential job creator.
Profits do in fact make the world go round. The Democrat Party used to know this. They also used to have respect for private property, including wealth. It’s only since the rise of radical progressives that some Americans have bought into the notion that government should take wealth and redistribute it, according to their elitist vision of fairness. If they could be counted on to tell the truth, they’d admit they believe everyone should have the same money and the same stuff no matter their ability, drive, contribution, or ambition. (Libby does I believe)
Your reading of this post comes through your own biased filter.
Any thoughts about the way wealthy elitists claim one thing and do another? Examples ISIS is not a big threat but just in case I’m building a shelter…Climate change is a big threat but I’m justified in jet-setting around the planet, owning multiple energy guzzling homes and toys, lecturing others about climate change and supporting wasteful green energy politics.
“. Anyone who saves is a potential job creator.”
I don’t follow. Spending money, not saving it, is what creates jobs.
I haven’t heard liberals say ISIS is not a big threat. Do you have an example? Yes, Obama called them JV years ago which was wrong, but now he clearly regards them as a big threat.
Using a private jet doesn’t actually contribute a lot to climate change.
People without jobs do not spend. People worried about the future do not spend. People that have recently had to move onto food stamps do not spend. People that just graduated college or got married but are unable to get a good job do not spend. People still living at home with mom and dad do not spend. Small businesses who are seeing their profits dive and sales drop and who can’t see it getting better in the future do not spend! These people do not have the ability to discretionary spend:
Progressives thought they could solve Carters inflation problem by keeping interest rates low and pumping money into the market. This way they would get a great economic boom and justify their spending too. They wanted to become the authorities on the economy (Wishing to outdo Reagan). But their plan never had a chance; it was stoopid from the start.
People are not figures on a page and cannot be placed into even columns. Real world changes in affect them. Government policies also affect them.
Progressive economic policy makes life miserable for everyone…except rich elites like Hillary who lives well thanks to taxpayers and donors but does not have a #&%*ing clue!
Max (Chris?) I’ve explained to you why private sector investment (savings are investment) creates jobs many times before. I’ve explained in another recent thread.
NYT, “One round-trip flight from New York to Europe or to San Francisco creates a warming effect equivalent to 2 or 3 tons of carbon dioxide per person. The average American generates about 19 tons of carbon dioxide a year”
One person using a private jet make that footprint even more serious.
Well said
Libby…the money is their property and theirs to spend however they wish. Their spending is not the point of the article as you should know. The subject was the duplicity of thought. On the one hand there is no threat, everything is fine, just elect us…on the other the world is fast coming to a scary end! This is the mindset of control freaks who pretend they can manage problems in far superior fashion (Obama-Hillary and their tax, redistribution, and green policies) but are in fact constantly fearful that we’re all doomed.
The wealthy already pay the MAJORITY of federal taxes. 90% of taxpayers only pay about 30% of the tax burden…and a good number of capable citizens of working age pay nothing with some receiving subsidies. In terms of sales tax and property tax they pay exactly what the rest of us pay except when it comes to the high cost items and property they own and buy…they pay a lot more for that.
It should occur to you that covetous greed is the worst kind!
The realistic plan for our federal government is that it become financially responsible, trustworthy, accountable, and budgeted. The amount of money they waste could feed the world for decades and cure all diseases. All of that busy work, on top of the fraud and waste, offers no return on our hard earned money…stoopid, really, really stoopid. That is money that could be invested in expansion, innovation and good paying jobs. It’s money that could be donated and spent on charitable causes and cures. But as long as people like you buy their pleas for more money the fraud and waste will continue and no one will be held accountable.
Your big idea for healthcare is a failure. It leads to cuts in services and unsustainable debt.
Me thinks our new poster is yet another iteration created by Chris. I could be wrong.
Any thoughts ya’ll?
Yeah, that is Chris. His nauseating, specious attack writing style is stamped all over it.
Yup, it’s Chris again. His arrogant writing style is easily identifiable.
“Libby…the money is their property and theirs to spend however they wish.”
That’s not what you said a second ago. Trump-itis?
Or is Max right, and it is only liberal elites who may not be profligate?
In which case it would be partisan-itis, with which you were diagnosed years ago. Would that there was a cure?!
Libby you do not comprehend. You do not get it. That is not my problem. The key may be your propensity to think in terms of what we citizens are “allowed” to keep and “allowed” to do. We are not slaves…you know?
Ahem…we do not live in a Mother-may-I paradigm. The paradigm we live in is freedom backed by the rule of law. We enjoy certain property rights, the profits we earn from our labors being one of them.
Our government was formed to have limited purpose and power over our lives. People who think like you surrender your freedom and your power to the nanny state. You think you labor for the state. You are a but a slave.
The only money the government has is what it TAKES from the citizens.
Our leaders have been abusing their power and they have forgotten their place. Until you get the intrinsic value of freedom and property rights you will not get what I’m saying and your smug attitude will forever constitute the high mark in your life. Sad. You were fortunate to be born in America and you have no appreciation.
You said: “Leave it to the privileged left to force their green regulation job killers on the masses while preserving their own luxury centered lives in lavish underground bunkers.”
You want to criticize policy, do so. But if you’re going to criticize profligacy, it can’t be just the lefty variety, unless you want to confirm your diagnosis.
As to your disdain of green energy, well, those of us not waiting for The Rapture will continue the pursuit of sustainable energy sources, and the remediation of damage already done to the planet.
Libby how many of those in Hollywood and sports do you believe are both conservative and interested in building such a bunker? Come on, you know very few with the big bucks are conservative. It’s true, I’m speculating. But you have to admit Silicon Valley and Hollywood in particular are in the tank for Democrats…lefties…progressives. My speculation is grounded in reality.
We’ve been working to clean up American “damage” for decades…and with very little push back. The push back began when Al Gore started the big lie and the government began to use the big lie to write onerous regulations, control people’s minds (education), control the energy sector, shift control to bodies like the UN, and make huge amounts of cash profits for the elite few who created schemes like the carbon credit exchange.
I’m fine with alternative energy as long as the truth is made evident…there is no way it can replace the energy we get from coal, gas, and oil. Since so many of you are also against nuclear energy your brilliant idea to pursue “sustainable energy sources” will remain a pipe dream for decades, possibly centuries to come. You clap your little paddies with glee when you buy a green energy car forgetting that the energy you plug into comes from coal and oil.
My disdain isn’t for clean energy. My disdain is for liars about green energy and the threat they pretend iis imminent in order to control the energy market and indoctrinate children.
Make fun of my religion all you want. I have no desire to try to impose it on anyone.
This is unlike the liars of the environmental movement that bases it’s assertions on lies, indoctrinates public school children, subsidizes companies that fail (Solyndra) and then buys those products (solar panels) from China, causes 850,00 citizens to lose their jobs in the coal industry because they refused to wait another decade or two to make our air cleaner and even then only by an immeasurably dinky amount. I could go on but what’s the point? You are on the side of proven deceivers and liars who put their power hungry (false) agenda above the people.
Chris is right.
About what? That spending grows the economy? Explain the last eight years, please. if Chris and Obama are right we should be experiencing a robust economy.
In 2015 the government took in $3.25 trillion from the private sector and spent (via QE, subsidies, loans, social obligations, programs, grants, etc) all of that money and about $583 billion more (debt). That’s a lot of spending. The government has kept interest rates low. The thinking is that this would cause businesses and people to borrow and spend. But there’s a problem. People are reluctant to go into debt to spend when the economy sucks. People are less willing to take business risks when the economy sucks. Obama’s QE/redistribution economy has produced GDP growth of less than 2% over his term as president even though the recession ended in June of 2009.
Keynesian policies are not working…please Dewey, explain how Chris is right!