Their game plan drilled down to the
foundation is variants of Andy Stern’s infamous threat.
“If we can’t use the power of persuasion, we’ll use the
persuasion of power.”
Andy Stern, Former SEIU International President
There is no compromise with liberals. It
is their way or else. While they prefer people meekly submit to their program,
they are perfectly willing to use whatever force it takes to “win”. Some win! Where
is the joy, the satisfaction? They haven’t won any hearts and minds. What
shallow, hateful people.
2019 will be a bitter year for Colorado
politics. (P)regressives swept all the state offices and gained control of both
the House and Senate. Gun control, single payer health insurance, mass transit,
renewable energy, and putting an end to fracking and strip mining will be high
on their dream agenda. It should be noted most of the newly elected state
officials are from Boulder County.
In 2013 a serious effort was made by
several counties to leave Colorado and form a new state. It failed, but it is
far from dead. The county where I live, Weld, ultimately didn’t go along with
the plan. Now? Weld is far and away the largest oil and natural gas producer
with something like 23,000 wells. Not all are producing. With fracking, the oil
and natural gas play has decades to run.
Colorado is unique in having TABOR
(taxpayers bill of rights) as part of the State Constitution.
Were it not for TABOR, Colorado would be
right up there with California and Illinois in debt and unfunded obligations.
Liberals have been fighting for ways around TABOR and you can bet they will
focus their efforts on eliminating or neutering TABOR.
I’m facing a decision. Do I just get the hell
out? I was born in Wyoming and only need to move fifty miles north. Do I stay and
fight? Part of me wants to get into a fight to form a new state.
While $200,000,000 of out of state PAC
monies turned Colorado “blue”, I’m encouraged the “Blue Wave” turned out to be
more of a blue puddle nationally.
There are a couple of issues I can find a
sliver of common ground with liberals; health care and K-12 education. The track record of
(P)regressives in these two areas is awful. When the family’s insurance costs
more a month than a house payment with deductible/co-pays equal to 25% of an
average family annual income, that, my friends, is abysmal failure.
As
an aside, our governor elect, as a Congressman, voted for Obamacare while
creating a new travel company for medical tourism.
All the monies poured into “education” have
funded a bloated self perpetuating bureaucracy. Damn little has flowed to the
classroom teachers. Those parents who can do so have their children in charter
schools. Why?
Old fart rant. My high school had fewer
than 150 students. We had a principal, who had a secretary, three
custodial/maintenance types, and five ladies in the school cafeteria. All the
rest, including coaches, were in classrooms teaching. All students who tried
received a quality education.
The economy will collapse when more is
being spent that earned. The deficit under President Trump is still not under
control but at least revenues are increasing.
We
can’t have another Great Depression? What, fundamentally, is the difference
between “Grapes of Wrath” and the homeless in Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Seattle, etc.? Better tents?
Prior to the midterms, I was feeling
cautiously optimistic. Now? Back to the
Obama times where my only real interest was finding ways to protect me and
mine.
It does occur to me that I am sharing the
feelings of (P)regressives when Shillary lost. Karma is a bitch.
