The Enterprise – Truth Is Inmutable – Never Forget That

 By John Mariotti.

 

THIS EDITION IS RICH WITH CONTENT—MOST OF IT NOT MINE—BUT STILL WORTH READING.

 

 

First some comments on the business, economic and then the political world.
CHINA IS STILL AN ECONOMY WITH PROBLEMS
China wants to sustain its relatively high growth rate, but that is not happening. It is now below 7% and many believe it is really much lower than that. The Chinese government wants to prop up its growth rate with free flowing capital AND maintain monetary policy independence AND hold a fixed exchange rate. All three simply cannot happen at once. Something has to give. Time will tell what it is. Meanwhile China continues to spend on its militaristic ventures in the South China Sea—applying “squatters rights” in order to claim territorial rights that stretch the imagination. Claiming these so called islands (Spratly), expanded with massive dredging operations then building runways and military installations on them, is—sooner or later—going to lead to a major conflict with the USA over rights to free passage in major parts of the ocean.
THE US ECONOMY IS NOT REALLY WELL—AND IT’S NOT REALLY SICK—IT’S ALSO NOT REALLY GROWING MUCH
2% Growth cannot sustain all the “wants” that the Obama administration demands. It also cannot support even a balanced annual budget—not even close—and that is with costs for interest on the national debt still unnaturally low. No one in any position of power is willing to deal with the “elephant in the room”—entitlements that are consuming an ever increasing share of the US budget. Medicare/Medicaid waste and fraud continue to be HUGE, unaddressed problems. These programs will go broke—or break the country—in the next decade or two. Social Security is clearly “fixable” with modest revisions—if any group of politicians (Congress and the White House) could agree on exactly how, and have the nerve to fix it. Will any such group ever do it? NO…they just nibble around the edges, at best.
REGULATIONS FROM THE REIGN OF EMPEROR OBAMA’S MINIONS CONTINUE UNABATED
The massive blizzard of  stifling regulations are killing America faster than any of the so called reasons for passing such onerous rules. This will only change if/when a Republican can win the White House (and the contentious, factions of fools in the party—absent leadership of any kind—are now throwing away that chance for 2016). The way things are going, Hillary will win a 3rd Obama term and continue to run the country down the drain with tax, spend and regulate to create an ever larger government to enslave the American people and mis-appropriate/mis-spend the wealth of those who can still create it. Ayn Rand’s brilliant book ATLAS SHRUGGED is looking more than more prophetic. If you haven’t read it, you MUST. Its long, tedious in places, but frighteningly accurate too.
While talking about reading…
IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE FIRST FULL PARAGRAPH OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE LATELY, READ IT NOW
[Highlighting is mine.]
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
WHILE CANDIDATES FIGHT FOR A SPOT ON THE NOV. BALLOT, AMERICA HOLDS ITS BREATH
Many say Donald Trump is unlikely to get 1237 delegates by the convention—unless he can find 50-100 unbound delegates to join his side. Ted Cruz can’t either—unless others join forces with him (Rubio & Kasich are the only ones with any meaningful number of delegates). Bernie Sanders is unlikely to overcome Hillary Clinton’s Democratic Party super-delegate obstacle. According to polls, Hillary (or Sanders) would beat Trump handily and Cruz by a lesser, but still measurable margin. Polls are not elections, but they are directionally accurate. Of the remaining “active candidates” only John Kasich polls as the winner against Clinton and a toss-up against the unlikely opponent, Sanders. Many Trump followers are zealously dug-in. Followers do not equal delegates, however, and many delegates who are bound to Trump on the convention’s first ballot are not Trumps’s zealots. Cruz has gained some support from the GOP “establishment” but is still widely dislikes and distrusted. Kasich is far behind both of his GOP opponents, but seems to be the last viable “active” candidate. Marco Rubio holds the next most delegates from his campaign before he suspended it after his loss in Florida.
OBAMA WILL “RUN OUT THE CLOCK” TO AVOID INTERFERING WITH OR OVERTLY INFLUENCING HILLARY’S LEGAL ISSUES
See below. Consider the next few pieces before we reach a conclusion.
THIS IS A STRIKING STATEMENT FROM OVER A YEAR AGO—AND A FRIGHTENING TRUTH
The damage Barack Obama has done to America is immeasurable. It is timeless in its duration. It is profound in its impact. It is appalling in it brazen-ness, its illegal nature, it’s unethical, dishonest and devious approach, and its measured and carefully considered, intentional destruction of what has made America great in the past. Neither treason nor impeachment laws can reach far enough to punish this imposter who gained the White House not once, but twice, did his dastardly work, and will soon leave behind a mess of such epic proportions that whoever follows has a hopeless task. Barack and Michelle Obama will live in infamy when the totality of their damage to America is fully realized.
Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Franklin Graham was speaking at the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida in January, 2015, when he said America will not come back.  
He wrote:
 
“The American dream ended on November 6th, 2012 in Ohio.  The second term of Barack Obama has been the final nail in the coffin for the legacy of the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled and developed the greatest republic in the history of mankind. 
  A coalition of blacks, Latinos, feminists, gays, government workers, union members, environmental extremists, the media, Hollywood, uninformed young people, the “forever needy,” the chronically unemployed, illegal aliens and other “fellow  travelers” have ended Norman Rockwell’s America. You will never again out-vote these people.  It will take individual acts of defiance and massive displays of civil disobedience to get back the rights we have allowed them to take away.  It will take zealots, not moderates and shy, not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs to right this ship and restore our  beloved country to its former status.
People like me are completely politically irrelevant, and I will probably never again be able to legally comment on or concern myself with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered our culture, our heritage and our traditions without a shot being fired.
The cocker spaniel is off the front porch, the pit bull is in the back yard.  The American Constitution has been replaced with Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and the likes of Chicago shyster David Axelrod along with international socialist George Soros have been pulling the strings on their beige puppet have brought us Act 2 of the New World Order. 
  The curtain will come down but the damage has been done, the story has been told. Those who come after us will once again have to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to bring back the Republic that this generation has timidly frittered away due to white guilt and political correctness.”’
OBAMA RUNS OUT THE CLOCK AGAIN—AFTER THE COURTS OVERTURN HIS ACTION
Barack Obama has a knack for violating the law and then waiting for a long, long time for someone to tell him he did so. That behavior,  in basketball or football, is called running out the clock…stalling until enough time has elapsed to make the outcome moot.  Obama is doing it again in ignoring Hillary Clinton’s “sloppiness” and telling the American people that “Classified” is not actually a definite condition of a document—it’s sort of, kind of, up to the interpretation of who’s breaking the law. What a great president we have: he breaks the law himself, and then finally gives in after he’s been exposed, and after the damage has been done, and the furor has subsided. Fast & Furious, the IRS, Benghazi, illegal emails on the Secretary of State’s illegal private server, and on, and on.
FROM POLITICO: Four years after asserting executive privilege to block Congress from obtaining documents relating to a controversial federal gun trafficking investigation, President Barack Obama relented Friday, turning over to lawmakers thousands of pages of records that led to unusual House votes holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt in 2012.
 
In January, a federal district court judge rejected Obama’s executive privilege claim over records detailing the Justice Department and White House’s response to Operation Fast and Furious, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigation that may have allowed as many as 2,000 firearms to pass into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
 
In her ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson did not turn down Obama’s privilege assertion on the merits. Instead, she said authorized public disclosures about the operation in a Justice Department inspector general report essentially mooted the administration’s drive to keep the records secret.
 
Both sides had until midnight Friday to file an appeal. Instead, the Obama administration turned over a set of documents to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
 
“In light of the passage of time and other considerations, such as the Department’s interest in moving past this litigation and building upon our cooperative working relationship with the Committee and other Congressional committees, the Department has decided that it is not in the Executive Branch’s interest to continue litigating this issue at this time,” Justice Deparment legislative liaison Peter Kadzik wrote in a letter Friday to House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah).
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/obama-relents-in-fight-over-fast-and-furious-documents-221741#ixzz45fbsVCmX 
THESE FACTS HAVE NOT ALL BEEN VETTED, BUT DO RING TRUE…

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