GOP losing big money donors

There is an article in Fox Business about how Steve Cohen is the latest billionaire withholding donations to the Republicans leading up to the midterm elections. The deep dark secrets, is many very wealthy people are actually socialists and communists at heart. Because the little people are starting to do well again financially, they have to throw a monkey wrench into the works, and get as many Democrats elected to Congress in the 2018 election. Trump must be impeached and removed from office, so it can get back to business as usual. The little people need to be controlled, impoverished, maginalized, disarmed, and eventually herded into extermination camps, or shipped overseas to China to populate the ghost cities in the interior. They need to become slaves, so that they can make the screens for the IPhones and/or other electronic components for consumption by our ruling elite. We are becoming a feudal society with a ruling class of aristocracy and peasantry. The peasants were allowed to have their temper tantrum, and now the elites say it is payback time. Wake up America, and let's expose them for what they are, and what they are doing.

Raise The Age For Gun Ownership To 21? Raise The Age Of Majority For Everything To 26

In the wake of the school shooting in Florida, there are calls to raise the age for the purchase of certain firearms to 21, and the banning of so-called "assault" weapons entirely. I've got a better idea. Since we can no longer produce young people with any degree of maturity, let's raise the age of majority to 26. After all, if you can stay on your parents' health insurance until you are 26 years old, while you continue to play video games in your mom's basement, you are not capable of making adult decisions.

I hear the whining now: "If you are old enough to be drafted and die for your country, you are old enough to vote." First of all, there is no military draft. There hasn't been one since 1973. Bringing back the draft, however, is a great idea. Even better is 2 years of compulsory military service for every high school graduate. High school dropouts would be required to serve 4 years of military service, and be required to finish high school while in the military at a DOD school under military rules.

OK, here is the compromise. If you join the military at 18, or 17 with parental consent, you are allowed to vote, you are allowed to drink on or off base with your military ID card, and you are allowed to enter into a contract after you are counselled by your commanding officer and base legal. If you are not willing to join the military, you will not be considered an adult until you are 26. That will also take the drinking age out of the realm of most college students, preventing a lot of campus related alcohol incidents. Yes, I know the college town bars will suffer, but as some folks like to say, "you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs." It will also reduce the number of incidents of college hook up date rape, since alcohol will not be as available.

I remember from my college days, alcohol  did lower the inhibitions of both the boy and girl. It was the 1970s, and with the 18 year old drinking age, 24 hour visitation in the dorms, no curfews, and available birth control through the campus health center at reduced cost, there was a lot of sex on campus. Abortions were also available at the local hospital as a last resort, due to the Supreme Court's Roe vs Wade decision.

Things are different now. We need to tighten things down. Is it social engineering? Sure it is. It's just social engineering that goes against the grievance and victimhood narrative. I can hear the whine and cheese party now.

Attended Greater Greater Washington Happy Hour In College Park

Last month, I attended a Greater Greater Washington happy hour event at a place called Milk Boy Art House in College Park, Maryland. I had a good time. I have attended these events in the past, and that night, being like most of these events, I was more than likely the only conservative in the room. Most of the attendees at these events are urban professionals that are in the planning, nonprofit, and advocate/victimhood industries; these industries, and they are industries despite their claim, tend to attract liberal social justice warriors and Marxist control freaks to their ranks. At this event, there were also several attendees that were running for the Prince George's County County Executive job in the upcoming election. All of them were liberal Democrats. Despite our political differences, I do enjoy their company, and occasionally, we do find that we have common ground. Two areas are affordable housing and public transportation.

I have always been a big fan of public transportation, ever since I took my first ride on the Boston subway system when I was a young kid. Once or twice a year, when my family drove up to the Boston area from Hartford, Connecticut, to visit my mother's brothers and sisters, my father and I would have a father/son bonding experience spending the day riding the Boston "T." We might make a couple of stops at the Museum Of Natural History and/or the Boston Aquarium. Most of the time, though, we would just ride around on the subway and eat junk food from the vendor stalls that sold their wares on the train platforms (yes, at that time, you could eat on the platforms), and use the really gross, dirty bathrooms at the stations when nature called. No wonder my mom never joined us. However, it was a great time for a father/son catch up. It was a cheap way to spend a day bonding. I think the fare at one time was 10 cents.

Another area where I agree with the GGW crowd is affordable housing. We do tend to disagree with what is considered affordable. I realize that we live in a high cost area, but I don't consider spending 35% to 45% of your take home income on housing affordable.

This is going to shock a lot of my conservative friends, but I am a big advocate of employer provided housing as part of your compensation package. I spent 26 years in the military, and I'll tell you this: The military does take care of its own. The military provides housing on base for both single personnel as well as families. If there is nonavailability, or a housing allowance is one of the perks of the job, the military provides you with a tax free allowance for housing, that is variable based on the cost of living for the area where you are stationed.

My father taught school in Farmington, Connecticut. He taught US History, English, Geography, and Civics at the junior high school level. He also had a Masters Degree. At that time, teaching was one of the lowest paying professions, even with a Masters Degree. The junior high school and high school were in the same cluster of buildings. Across the parking lot were what were called the "barracks." The barracks were teacher provided housing. He had to be at work at 7:30 AM, and he would leave the house at 7:28 AM and still be early for work. He would also come home every day for lunch. At the time, my mother didn't work, nor did she need to...and despite a low teachers' salary, they were able to save up enough money for a down payment on the only house they would ever own.

There were quite a few sacrifices living in the barracks. First of all, there was no central heat. There was a kerosene space heater in the kitchen that provided heat for the entire unit. You had to keep the doors open, and run fans to send the warm air from the heater to the outlying bedrooms. The kitchen had a 4 burner electric stove with 3 working burners. There was an old fashioned wringer washing machine that was in the corner of the kitchen, and my mom used to roll it to the middle of the floor, attach it to the sink, and do her laundry, which was then taking outside and hung up on a clothesline. If you needed a dryer, you drove to the laundromat in the center of town. There was also no air conditioning in the summer. You ran fans, and you roasted. The barracks were two long rows of housing, back to back. Today, they would be considered slums. Yet, somehow we survived. It is common for many of the elite private schools in this country to provide faculty housing on campus. Maybe it is time for the governments and industry to start doing the same.

Thoughts On Bernie Goldberg's Prediction About Trump's Reelection

Yesterday, January 8, 2018, Bernie Goldberg wrote an article about the media, and how they will help Trump be reelected in 2020. You would think that the media would do everything in their power to make sure that Trump is defeated. However, think about it. It's about ratings. Ratings mean advertising revenue.

It is no secret that the mainstream media despise Trump. Everyone, except for Fox was in the tank for Hillary. They hate him, and he has no use for them. However, they need each other. "The media,...love their ratings more than they hate him — and in crunch time, will act in their own best interests."
Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0118/bernie_g010818.php3#jx1LLDAk9RPVISL5.99 

The mainstream media will never get on the Trump bandwagon. They will continue to bash him every chance they get. It's good for business. Also, President Trump will continue to poke a stick in the media's eye every chance he gets. It's also good for business with his supporters. Isn't dependency a wonderful thing. There is a supposedly Chinese saying that says, "May you live in interesting times." Yes we do.