Balanced budget? As long as we are the reserve currency of the world, we will never be able to balance the budget and not run deficits. Not possible. Now, we have to be the reserve currency if we want to keep dictating and controlling the world's financial institutions. So...
Besides taxes the republicans have nothing else to really say. The party is a blank?
The democrats? Let's see who owns them? Silicone Vally, Hollywood, Wall Street, bankers, and now the multi-nationals that Trump drove out. Which he was correct about. I think the democrats will even scoop up the military-industrial complex too as the republican's squabble and sleepwalk. Crazy and will keep getting crazier. The peaceful years since the end of WW2 are over. We can't protect the world anymore and we don't really want to. Back to the way the real world worked before WW2.
Recent events have led me to a deeper sense of cynicism about the US political parties and their media advocates. Tax cuts on higher income brackets certainly advance the self-interest of the wealthy. Probably tax brackets were too high after WWII, but the obvious problems we now face are insufficient government income, along with too rapid a growth in entitlements. How can this even be controversial?
I know this piece was specific to Trucking, but there’s lots O’Brien and The Republicans could work on together to fix up the trucking industry and end the cycle of driver churn which helps make it a really bad job.
Conservatives should not only ignore cities, they should exorcise them. Since the dawn of history, cities have exploited the countryside. That needs to stop and the way to stop it is to get the cities out of America (and France, Germany, Canada, etc.) Let the globalists who congregate in cities pay a fair price for the resources they extract.
Shell shortage isn't exactly a new thing. Consider 1915.
For some weird reason, most of the internet sources focus on the British problem though it drastically affected Russia and, to a lesser extent, France and Germany. I will note also that every offensive failed until the advent of tanks and infiltration tactics, no matter how many shells were expended. It is hard to find the political will and resources to build up vast resources in peacetime. There was probably a sword shortage in Rome at times. There was definitely a shortage of arms of all sorts during CW1. The standard cannon on both sides was called a Napoleon. Guess why. At a more mundane level, the most common Confederate rifle was the 1853 Enfield (second in the Union armies). They shot the (French) Minie ball. The iconic Sharps rifle was British. Good thing for the Brits that they didn't get in a war of their own.
Balanced budget? As long as we are the reserve currency of the world, we will never be able to balance the budget and not run deficits. Not possible. Now, we have to be the reserve currency if we want to keep dictating and controlling the world's financial institutions. So...
Besides taxes the republicans have nothing else to really say. The party is a blank?
The democrats? Let's see who owns them? Silicone Vally, Hollywood, Wall Street, bankers, and now the multi-nationals that Trump drove out. Which he was correct about. I think the democrats will even scoop up the military-industrial complex too as the republican's squabble and sleepwalk. Crazy and will keep getting crazier. The peaceful years since the end of WW2 are over. We can't protect the world anymore and we don't really want to. Back to the way the real world worked before WW2.
Recent events have led me to a deeper sense of cynicism about the US political parties and their media advocates. Tax cuts on higher income brackets certainly advance the self-interest of the wealthy. Probably tax brackets were too high after WWII, but the obvious problems we now face are insufficient government income, along with too rapid a growth in entitlements. How can this even be controversial?
I know this piece was specific to Trucking, but there’s lots O’Brien and The Republicans could work on together to fix up the trucking industry and end the cycle of driver churn which helps make it a really bad job.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-teamsters-rnc-speech-represents-the-gops-past-and-its-future/
Conservatives should not only ignore cities, they should exorcise them. Since the dawn of history, cities have exploited the countryside. That needs to stop and the way to stop it is to get the cities out of America (and France, Germany, Canada, etc.) Let the globalists who congregate in cities pay a fair price for the resources they extract.
Shell shortage isn't exactly a new thing. Consider 1915.
https://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/shellscandal.htm
For some weird reason, most of the internet sources focus on the British problem though it drastically affected Russia and, to a lesser extent, France and Germany. I will note also that every offensive failed until the advent of tanks and infiltration tactics, no matter how many shells were expended. It is hard to find the political will and resources to build up vast resources in peacetime. There was probably a sword shortage in Rome at times. There was definitely a shortage of arms of all sorts during CW1. The standard cannon on both sides was called a Napoleon. Guess why. At a more mundane level, the most common Confederate rifle was the 1853 Enfield (second in the Union armies). They shot the (French) Minie ball. The iconic Sharps rifle was British. Good thing for the Brits that they didn't get in a war of their own.
Love the second sentence. Eloquently worded!