President Trump transmitted a message to congress, warning them not to cut Social Security and Medicare {Direct Rumble Link}. Many politicians and pundits will look at Trump’s position from the perspective of it being good to campaign for older voters, but that’s not the core of his reasoning.
In 2016 CTH was the first place to evaluate the totality of President Trump’s economic policies; specifically, as those policies related to the entitlement programs around Social Security and Medicare. We outlined the approach Trump was putting forth and the way he was approaching the issue. In the years that followed, he was right. He was creating a U.S. economy that could sustain all of the elements the traditional political class were calling “unsustainable.”
Before getting to the details, here’s his video message and policy as delivered yesterday. WATCH:
Fortunately, we do not have to guess if President Trump is correct. We have his actual economic policy results to look at and see how the expansion of the economy was creating the type of growth that would sustain Social Security and Medicare. This was/is MAGAnomics at work.
♦ On Social Security – Unlike many other 2016 Republican candidates, Donald Trump did NOT call for rapid or wholesale changes to the current Social Security program; and there’s a very good reason why he was the only candidate who did not propose wholesale changes.
With the single caveat of “high income retirees” (over $250k annually), which previously Trump said he was open to negotiating on, President Trump does not consider these programs as “entitlements”. The American people pay into them, and the federal government has an obligation to fulfill the promises made upon collection.
To fully understand how Donald Trump views the solvency of Social Security, you must again understand his economic model and how it outlines growth.
The issue with Social Security, as viewed by Trump, is more of an issue with receipts and expenditures. If the aggregate U.S. economy is growing by a factor larger than the distribution needed to fulfill its entitlement obligations, then no wholesale change on expenditure is needed. The focus needs to be on continued and successful economic growth.
What you will find in all of Donald Trump’s positions, is a paradigm shift he necessarily understood must take place in order to accomplish the long-term goals for the U.S. citizen as it relates to “entitlements” or “structural benefits”.
All other candidates and politicians begin their policy proposals with a fundamentally divergent perception of the U.S. economy.
The customary political economy theory, carried by most politicians, positions them with an outlook of the U.S. economy based on “services”; a service-based economic model.
While this economic path has been created by decades old U.S. policy and is ultimately the only historical economic path now taught in school, President Trump initiated his economy policy with the intention to change the dynamic entirely, and that’s exactly what he did.
Because so many shifts -policy nudges- have taken place in the past several decades, few academics and even fewer MSM observers, were able to understand how to get off this path and chart a better course.
Donald Trump proposed less dependence on foreign companies for cheap goods, (the cornerstone of a service economy) and a return to a more balanced U.S. larger economic model where the manufacturing and production base can be re-established and competitive based on American entrepreneurship and innovation. This is the essence of MAGAnomics.
The key words in the prior statement are “dependence” and “balanced”. When a nation has an industrial manufacturing balance within the GDP there is far less dependence on the economic activity in global markets. In essence the U.S. can sustain itself, absorb global economic fluctuations and expand itself or contract itself depending on the free market.
When there is no balance, there is no longer a free market. The free market is sacrificed in favor of dependency, whether it’s foreign oil or foreign manufacturing, the dependency outcome is essentially the same. Without balance there is an inherent loss of economic independence, and a consequential increase in economic risk.
No other economy in the world innovates like the U.S.A. President Donald Trump saw/sees this as a key advantage across all industry – including manufacturing and technology.
The benefit of cheap overseas labor, which is considered a global market disadvantage for the U.S., is offset by utilizing innovation and energy independence. This was the core of the economic program that created so much immediate GDP growth in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
2017: […] “This policy will be successful in moving the U.S. economy away from low-growth secular stagnation towards significantly more buoyant performance. We would not be taken by surprise by a doubling of the growth rate of real GDP in the U.S. over the next two years, nor by a further significant move up of equity valuations and a material further appreciation of the dollar.” ~ David Folkerts-Landau, Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank
The third highest variable cost of goods beyond raw materials first, labor second, is energy. If the U.S. energy sector was unleashed -and fully developed- the manufacturing price of any given product would allow for global trade competition even with higher U.S. wage prices. This is why President Trump traveled to Saudi Arabia as his first foreign trip, followed closely by a trip to Asia. He was putting the basics of his U.S. economic policy into place.
Additionally, the U.S. has a key strategic advantage with raw manufacturing materials such as: iron ore, coal, steel, precious metals and vast mineral assets which are needed in most new modern era manufacturing. President Trump proposed we stopped selling these valuable national assets to countries we compete against – they belong to the American people; they should be used for the benefit of American citizens. Period. This was the central point of the Steel and Aluminum tariffs.
EXAMPLE: Prior to President Trump, China was buying and recycling our heavy (steel) and light (aluminum) metal products (for pennies on the original manufacturing dollar) and then using those metals to reproduce manufactured goods for sale back to the U.S.
As President, Donald Trump stopped that practice immediately, triggering a policy expectation that we do the manufacturing ourselves with the utilization of our own resources. Then he leveraged any sales of these raw materials in our international trade agreements.
When you combine FULL resource development (in a modern era) with the removal of over-burdensome regulatory and compliance systems, necessarily filled with enormous bureaucratic costs, Donald Trump began lowering the cost of production and the U.S. became globally competitive. In essence, Trump changed the economic paradigm, and we no longer were a dependent nation relying on a service driven economic model.
The cornerstone to the success of this economic turnaround was the keen capability of the U.S. worker to innovate on their own platforms. Americans, more than any country in the world, just know how to get things accomplished. Independence and self-sufficiency are part of the DNA of the larger American workforce.
In addition, as we saw in 2018 and 2019, an unquantifiable benefit came from investment, where the smart money play -to get increased return on investment- became putting capital INTO the U.S. economy, instead of purchasing foreign stocks.
With all of the above opportunities in mind, this is how President Trump put us on a pathway to rebuilding our national infrastructure.
The demand for labor increased, and as a consequence so too did the U.S. wage rate which was stagnant (or non-existent) for the past three decades.
As the wage rate increased, and as the economy expanded, the governmental dependency model was reshaped and simultaneously receipts to the U.S. treasury improved.
More money into the U.S Treasury and less dependence on welfare/social service programs have a combined exponential impact. You gain a dollar and have no need to spend a dollar – the saved sum is doubled. That was how the SSI and safety net programs were positioned under President Trump. Again, this is MAGAnomics.
When you elevate your America First economic thinking you begin to see that all of the “entitlements” or expenditures become more affordable with an economy that is fully functional.
As the GDP of the U.S. expands, so does our ability to meet the growing need of the retiring U.S. worker. We stop thinking about how to best divide a limited economic pie and begin thinking about how many more economic pies we can create. Simply put, we begin to….
…. Make America Great Again!
We know it works, because we have the results to cite.
It was the Fourth Quarter of 2019…..
Right before the pandemic would hit a few months later…. Despite two years of doomsayer predictions from Wall Street’s professional punditry, all of them saying Trump’s 2017 steel and aluminum tariffs on China, Canada and the EU would create massive inflation, it just wasn’t happening!
Overall year-over-year inflation was hovering around 1.7 percent [Table-A BLS]; yup, that was our inflation rate. The rate in the latter half of 2019 was firmed up with less month-over-month fluctuation, and the rate basically remained consistent. [See Below] The U.S. economy was on a smooth glide path, strong, stable and Main Street was growing with MAGAnomics at work.
A couple of important points. First, unleashing the energy sector to drive down overall costs to consumers and industry outputs was a key part of President Trump’s America-First MAGAnomic initiative. Lower energy prices help the worker economy, middle class and average American more than any other sector.
Which brings us to the second important point. Notice how food prices had very low year-over-year inflation, 0.5 percent. That is a combination of two key issues: low energy costs, and the fracturing of Big Ag hold on the farm production and the export dynamic:
(BLS) […] The index for food at home declined for the third month in a row, falling 0.2 percent. The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs decreased 0.7 percent in August as the index for eggs fell 2.6 percent. The index for fruits and vegetables, which rose in July, fell 0.5 percent in August; the index for fresh fruits declined 1.4 percent, but the index for fresh vegetables rose 0.4 percent. The index for cereals and bakery products fell 0.3 percent in August after rising 0.3 percent in July. (link)
For the previous twenty years food prices had been increasingly controlled by Big Ag, and not by normal supply and demand. The commodity market became a ‘controlled market’. U.S. food outputs (farm production) was controlled and exported to keep the U.S. consumer paying optimal prices.
President Trump’s trade reset was disrupting this process. As farm products were less exported the cost of the food in our supermarket became reconnected to a ‘more normal’ supply and demand cycle. Food prices dropped and our pantry costs were lowered.
The Commerce Dept. then announced that retail sales climbed by 0.4 percent in August 2019, twice as high as the 0.2 percent analysts had predicted. The result highlighted retail sales strength of more than 4 percent year-over-year. These excellent results came on the heels of blowout data in July, when households boosted purchases of cars and clothing.
The better-than-expected number stemmed largely from a 1.8 percent jump in spending vehicles. Online sales, meanwhile, also continued to climb, rising 1.6 percent. That’s similar to July 2019, when Amazon held its two-day, blowout Prime Day sale. (link)
Despite the efforts to remove and impeach President Trump, it did not look like middle-class America was overly concerned about the noise coming from the pundits. Likely that’s because blue-collar wages were higher, Main Street inflation was lower, and overall consumer confidence was strong. Yes, MAGAnomics was working.
Additionally, remember all those MSM hours and newspaper column inches where the professional financial pundits were claiming Trump’s tariffs were going to cause massive increases in prices of consumer goods?
Well, exactly the opposite happened [BLS report] Import prices were continuing to drop:
This was a really interesting dynamic that no-one in the professional punditry would dare explain.
Donald Trump’s tariffs were targeted to specific sectors of imported products. [Steel, Aluminum, and a host of smaller sectors etc.] However, when the EU and China respond by devaluing their currency, that approach hit all products imported, not just the tariff goods.
Because the EU and China were driving up the value of the dollar, everything we were importing became cheaper. Not just imports from Europe and China, but actually imports from everywhere. All imports were entering the U.S. at substantially lower prices.
This meant when we imported products, we were also importing deflation.
This price result is exactly the opposite of what the economic experts and Wall Street pundits predicted back in 2017 and 2018 when they were pushing the rapid price increase narrative.
Because all the export dependent economies were reacting with such urgency to retain their access to the U.S. market, aggregate import prices were actually lower than they were when the Trump tariffs began:
[…] Prices for imports from China edged down 0.1 percent in August following decreases of 0.2 percent in both July and June. Import prices from China have not advanced on a monthly basis since ticking up 0.1 percent in May 2018. The price index for imports from China fell 1.6 percent for the year ended in August.
[…] Import prices from the European Union fell 0.2 percent in August and 0.3 percent over the past 12 months.
So yes, we know President Trump can save Social Security and Medicare by expanding the economy with his America First economic policy. We do not need to guess if it is possible or listen to pundits theorize about his approach being some random ‘catch phrase’ disconnected from reality. Yes folks, we have the receipts.
This was MAGAnomics at work, and this is entirely what created the middle-class MAGA coalition. No other Republican candidate has this economic policy in their outlook because all other candidates are purchased by the Wall Street multinationals.
America First MAGAnomics is unique to President Trump because he is the only one independent enough to implement them.
That’s just the reality of the situation.
MAGA for life.
- Donald Trump American Solutions Part I
- Donald Trump American Solutions Part II
- Donald Trump “America First” Conservative Solutions Part III
- Donald Trump “America First” Conservative Solutions Part IV
Author’s note as said in 2016: “If I absolutely did not believe this economic model was doable, I would never expand the concept and place advocacy upon it. I am an absolute believer that we can, as a nation, reignite a solid manufacturing base and generate an expanding middle class.” Yes, I bet on Trump, and he was right.
Great post! Thank you!
Back when people first started talking about SS/medicare being “unsustainable”, life expectancy was going up, and at a significant pace, and it showed no sign of leveling off. Now it’s going down. This is no minor factor.
I have quietly wondered if Covid was their “fix” for the “social security problem”.
Congress will not ” cut ” the entitlements , they will — Inflate Them Away.
” Wasn’t us … blame The Fed “
I’ve been thinking the same thing.
Not “they will,” rather, THEY HAVE.
In the 1930s the system was designed that if it ever used up the Trust Fund and reached Pay As You Go, everyone would take a 20% cut. Everyone.
That requirement is still the law.
I learned early about SS. Daddy was a notch baby.
part of the plan….those rascally elderly are eating up too much of the nation’s resources…..especially PRC was very supportive of this method of population control
Covid was their “fix” for everything that wasn’t agreeing with them or making them a lot of dough. Well, COVID is OVER for most of us (IMO, we’re not buying into the BS anymore). “They” are no longer calling the shots – WE ARE.
Is it a coincidence that you use the word “shots”?
Absolutely. No one will ever change my mind. Kill off the Medicare/Medicaid recipients to have more money to launder in Ukraine.
It’s EXTREMELY attractive to kill off citizens who have lived before things were broken! They know what it looked like before the damage was done.
… and “half-life” the rest of the people. Also further reduce certain populations by sterilization & reproductive complications.
But they also need it for the replacements being imported. Guess who’s getting SS#’s as a welcome gift at the border? They advertise it as: “No documents needed” for a reason. They believe they’ll make better slaves.
Wouldn’t be surprised. It fits the WEF “useless eaters” paradigm.
WEF acolytes are the “useless eaters.”
What I do not understand is they plan on eliminating 70% of the worlds population and they still want us to live in ceils and eat bugs???
My eldest called covid from the onset the ‘baby boomer’ disease. I believe he was correct in doing so and that it was ‘designed’ to eliminate what is now considered a non-productive element of society…namely: the elderly. I am old enough to remember when the elderly were revered and honored. They weren’t at all considered simply ‘useless eaters’. Rather, they had knowledge and wisdom of value for the youth. Not only were they free babysitters, but they had the ability to teach and guide. They were also the ‘run to’ when their was an urgent financial need. They still are, or at least can be, all of those things. However, as disrespect and Honor have diminished… they became a ‘burden’ to society rather than an asset. The Leftist orchestrated this as rebellion against all authority was enhanced in the 60’s-70’s. The gov had begun their welfare initiatives and had begun their plan of replacing ‘parents’. We see the outcome/fruit of that today in our schools predominantly. Now, the young parents want their control back of their own children..what they are taught, what they are exposed to, how they are being guided, etc….and rightfully so. When the proper structure of the family, God designed, is re-implemented, the understanding of the value of the elderly will be, too. This has all been a part of ‘The Plan’ sprung by one of Hussein’s minions, Ezekiel Emanuel. See: https://www.liveaction.org/news/ezekiel-emanuel-rationed-health-care-biden-covid/
Bottom line…the gov wants to be the ‘parent’ in the same manner in which the want to be God.
Your eldest has his generations wrong. The oldest Boomer is in their late 70s. It’s the Silent generation disease. That’s whose mostly in nursing homes- those into their 80s.
“Dr. Emanuel, brother of Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, is a major advocate of universal health care and was a key advisor to the president on formulating the Affordable Care Act, or as we know it, Obamacare.”
<Sep 19, 2014
PJ Media
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel to Me and Others: Don’t Live Past 75
https://www.hudson.org/domestic-policy/dr-ezekiel-emanuel-to-me-and-others-don-t-live-past-75-
covid was there fix for many things
Cease wondering.
The NWO has declared that billions must die.
Millions have — prematurely- since COVID’s “escape” from the lab…
and the follow up Jab.
Soros is 90 plus.
Schwab is 80.
Bill Gates is no youngster.
Potato in Chief is 80.
Piglosi is 84.
Bitch McConnell is 80.
(Just to name a few)
Why in hell are these demonic senior citizens, in the twilight of their own damn lives, so hell bent on destroying the lives of their generation?
Why advocate jabbing babies to death, aborting full-term babies, castrating children, destroying the family, religion, tradition ….?
Actually, I know why, Satan is their master.
Truth
You couldn’t have said it better. But there is hope in Jesus. The King is coming!
Coooorrrrecto Lorrie G! ✝️
I’ve got two small businesses I’m running…partly because I love staying active and partly because I believe things will get a bit rough in the next few years.
I’ll be surprised if our beloved Trump makes it past the primary. Even if he’s re-elected he’s not our best hope. We better start looking to The Savior for help. We better start with some serious personal introspection about what we can do to protect ourselves, our loved ones, our neighbors from our hostile governments and preparing for The Second Coming.
I encourage you “elderly” to figure out ways to supplement your income! Let’s not let the government steal our joy! Let’s not sit around wringing our hands and clipping coupons!
I’m 63, and would like to work until 70ish, then take my SS “benefits”. If my health fails, so be it.
Look to Jesus Treepers. Look to Jesus! 🔥✝️🔥🙏🔥
I too planned how silly. But yes a major illness forced me to retire early, thank God I had a spouse with insurance or they would not be paying me anything ever.
It’s the price for selling your soul.
Kissinger is 99. Grassley is 89. And they are NOT BABY BOOMERS. They are the “Silent Generation”
no it’s more pragmatic than that.
I agree … the “3 Hot Spots” were nursing homes and huge numbers of elderly died all alone in Homes, Hospitals & Rehab Centers … but now … young people are dying, too.
Yes —- burning the candle at both ends!!
Indeed. How many in their 50’s and 60’s are not with us any longer after the vaccines?
yes it was and there was nothing quiet about it
The research was interesting to the Chinese to solve their grey hair problem.
It might’ve worked for them. Except they are so stupid and shirt sighted that they’ve started giving our SS and Medicare to all of the border jumpers too. That is why we are waiting longer and longer for lower quality medical care. Look around you the next time you go to the dr. You’ll see that most of the people there are obvious foreigners.
You are not alone in your thinking. 🙁
Makes you wonder. I know a fever dream that the radical left has is to euthanize people over a certain age because they are a “liability” to our Soviet central planners and consume resources that they want to shower on illegal aliens and “underserved” communities.
Mostly they want the money showered on themselves.
And… unfunded pension plans.
You can say it out loud now.
“ I have quietly wondered if Covid was their “fix” for the “social security problem”.
The vaccine is causing wage earners to die. We need more wage earners, not less.!
How can one believe they want to kill taxpayers and fix social security at the same time?
Democrat vaccine mandates are used to destroy the US , including sss.
It started in China and it is well known that they had too many old people and with the 1 child program no one to support them.
The Tennessee Covid Numbers showed the 51+ age groups comprising 95% of the deaths throughout 2020. The vaccinations started in earnest in Tennessee in April of 2021. During the summer, fall, and winter the 51+ age groups dropped to 91-92% of the deaths. The people that were increasingly dying were the younger folks that would be contributing to Social Security. My guess is the drop in average age of the population is due to the increase in younger people dying which is another problem for the solvency of social security.
Not to mention, how many people are vaccine injured and have applied for Social Security disability.
The Covid Case Fatality Rate on a cumulative basis for the US and TN continues to creep lower. It is probably just a normal flu which means the old people are dying at the same rate as always. The drop in average age has to be due to the vaccine killing younger folks. That theory is bolstered by the TN numbers above. The deaths as I stated rose throughout 2021, but dropped off is 2022 and 2023. There are a lot fewer Covid cases so the deaths I was detecting in the Covid numbers have to drop off with the fewer Covid cases. The younger folks are still dying but I do not detect that in the Covid numbers, we see it every day with some younger person dying for unknown causes.
He really needs to get back on Twitter so more people can see this stuff.
Can’t he just post his Truth posts on his Twitter account..copy/paste…
IKR?
Think he’s committed to a few days grace period w/ TS before he can put info elsewhere. (???)
But, who cares? A few days later is a heck of a lot better than NEVER.
And twit takes longer vids now.
The modern day Moses.
“In the years that followed, he was right. He was creating a U.S. economy that could sustain all of the elements the traditional political class were calling “unsustainable.””
Anyone else recall Paul Ryano loudly talking about what needed to be done to “fix” social security and medicare?
I don’t recall him saying much about it AFTER he was installed as Speaker, but he and several other RINO’s were often mentioning it in the media.
“President Trump does not consider these programs as “entitlements”.”
I will never forget the condescending look on several Congressional members faces whenever they mentioned veterans benefits as “entitlements”…as if we were welfare queens looking for a hand-out rather than health care for service connected medical problems we earned.
It was often mentioned close to “PAYGO” rules which didn’t seem to get mentioned too often when discussing other spending.
Disgusting swine.
Social Security it technically unconstitutional, as the 10th Amendment provides that the States are responsible for such programs. Not only that, the Feds have been stealing from the Social Security fund for years to fund other programs.
The whole thing needs to be audited, and then abolished.
SS was a Ponzi scheme from inception….age to legally collect full benefits = 65, the life expectancy of Americans in the mid 30s =65 with minorities being even lower……then LBJ “appropriated” the trust funds which WERE in a form of escrow to pay for the Vietnam War that JFK had said he was prepared to get us out of……they just put in federal IOUs for the money they stole which is why it is funded out of general revenues now
All of which is a reminder that the stuff going on today is nothing new.
You are so correct, Kroesus. SS, Medicare and Medicaid is part of the American way of life now as the lower & middle class process through our journey above ground. It is ingrained in our psyche. It is expected by all… the government giveth and the government can take away…
The problem now is that nobody is willing to mess with it… not good politics. Somebody soon is going to have to lead the charge to make the shift of those programs out of the general revenue pot into a more secure (money making) money pot, so that it will be there for retirees… Who is going to do that? That makes too much sense…
If these programs go defunct which is predicted, the “cone head’s” in congress at that time will have it dumped right in their laps… Oh boy, once again American politicians, rolling the dice… “Seven come Eleven, Baby!”
The Supreme Court ruled that SS is a tax and the Govt. is under NO obligation to pay you anything. Don’t know when this rule was done. But the Supremes also ruled that CO2 is a pollutant and the the EPA has every right to regulate our air. Scalia chastised his fellow judges for voting for this so that was done before he died.
The thing is, for those of us who paid into it for decades if it gets taken away that amounts to stealing.
Not if the funds are disbursed to state agencies.
“President Trump does not consider these programs as “entitlements”.” Yeah, and neither should WE!!! I don’t know about y’all, but I worked my butt off for 50 years paying into Social Security, and I expect to be paid back what I worked so hard for. It is NOT an entitlement – it was my savings program!
“I expect to be paid back what I worked so hard for.” That is right, which means you are “entitled” to receive a SS benefit. That makes it an entitlement! Stop thinking of entitlement in a negative manner.
An entitlement is something somebody demands, expects to get without putting forth any effort.
So many people nowadays think they are entitled, especially those who have not contributed to society.
Same here!
two definitions of entitlement:
noun:
1) the amount to which a person has a right
2) a government program that provides benefits to any individual meeting certain eligibility requirements
Veterans benefits and Social Security are entitlements. Don’t think of the word “entitlements” in a negative manner. Think of them as something you are rightfully entitled to.
I believe you are correct in your assessment. It’s the sleazy politicians who have stolen money from these programs that make the “entitlement” word sound so bad. Question. Is the interest anyone gets on their money in the bank considered an “entitlement”! Well I don’t see any difference my friend in that, or what they deducted from our paychecks over the years. We are actually entitled to what we get as a result of what they take from us. That was the plan at the start, but politicians see it as a gravy train for them to spent.
Thank you Sundance for always putting this in layman’s terms even this blue collar common sense old man can understand much appreciated be well stay strong stay safe God Bless
R.D
We WILL be great again, I do believe. My President Trump has NEVER lied to me and I don’t expect him to start now. We just have to do our part and support him in everything we do and he does. IMO, this is a team effort. And I love our success at Making America Great Again!
Trump has broken promises plenty of times, perhaps inadvertently.
He has a bad habit of listening to neocon trolls who use twist logic in order to convince people that their policies are America First.
…as in Syria and Ukraine!
Always miss seeing that list of “broken promises “ when I read comments like yours..🤔
🇺🇸💪😀👍
I’ll start the list with “they have to go back.”
Remember . . . he’s not done yet.
Trump is an imperfect human like everyone is.
We hope & we pray that he’s not done yet. However that’s not in our hands, it’s in God’s hands.
He promised better relations with Russia. Relations got worse.
He promised to get us out of the Middle East. He didn’t.
He promised to get to get rid of the source of Islamic terrorism. He armed that source and blamed Iran instead.
He promised to get rid of NAFTA. He replaced it with something worse.
He gave up on trying to repeal Obamacare after McCain voted against it.
He increased the deficit.
He listened to the Federalist Society and appointed squishes to the SCOTUS instead of actual conservatives.
May I continue?
President Trump!!!!!!!
Republicans always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory before every election. Right before the 2022 Mid-term election Lindsey Graham announced that he was sponsoring a bill to make abortions illegal. Now, the Supreme Court just ruled that abortion was a state issue with no federal jurisdiction so why would Graham propose a clearly unconstitutional law? To give Democrats a rallying campaign issue on a silver platter which is why Republican candidates did so poorly. Democrat tv commercials featured Graham and his ban denying abortions in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother.
Lindsey could be considered to be a saboteur.
Could be? Look at his exploits in Ukraine: IS a traitor.
Lindsey must love watching 300,000 young Orthodox Christian Russian and Ukrainian soldiers killing each other over something that the United States could have easily settled with negotiations!
Intentional — he wasn’t up for re-election, so kill it for those McConnell wanted killed. He’s as untrustworthy as his cohort, John McCain!
What a great feature. Thank you Sundance for all of your hard work.
MAGAnomics is anathema to the Transformation of America as envisioned by Obama & the WEF-Davos-Malthusian anti-human authoritarian cultists.
A family member received a Medicare Summary statement the other day. Showed medical charges billed for a specific time period.
Along with the summary was a front and back printed page IN 14 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, explaining all the rights available. I can’t even imagine how much making everything available in all those languages costs!
Also, in my opinion, the “Entitlement” programs attached to Social Security and Medicare are Supplimental Security (SSI), Medicaid, and Medicare Plan D for those who not only DO NOT pay anything for their drugs, but also DO NOT pay the monthly payments!
In the summer of 2019 I was building a house. I’ll never forget a conversation I had with our contractor, a down to earth, small town guy. We were both giddy with our personal economic situations. Stocks were up, materials were plentiful and relatively cheap, labor was reasonable and easy to hire and gas was cheap. The US seemed on the right path for the first time in decades. Today it seems like a dream.
Sundance, right on target.
I do not remember the name of the book or the author, but more than 20 years ago I read a book where the author described how the global elites planned to turn the American economy into a ‘service economy’. He described it. It was, like we can see today around us, horrible.
He also identified, BY NAME, many of the ‘elites’ in the US, including politicians (like senator Ted Kennedy), who at that time belonged to globalist organizations. It surprised me, but when I did my own research based on what he stated, I found out he was right on target.
The author was well known at that time for his anti globalist books. Then he suddenly passed away, a mysterious death, a lot of people, myself included, believed he was murdered by the globalists.
I am sure I still have his book, but because it is late at night and I am tired from work (I get home at around 1:00 in the morning) and my library is fairly big, I have not yet been able to look for the book. And I do not remember right now (2:20 in the morning) his name. Will look for the book after I get up, and if any of our fellow Treepers think they know who I am writing about, please let me know his name, that will make it easier to find the book.
I’ll check back for your identification.
Maybe “None Dare Call it Consipracy” by Gary Allen?
Kay, YES! Thank you! You made it easier to find it in my library 👍! And Gary Allens’ co-writer for this book was Larry Abraham.
The version I have is the dark blue hardcover version by Buccaneer Books Inc. Now I will read it again.
It was the first time I read about the Trilateral Commission (TC), and the Council on Foreign relations (CFR). On this version, starting on page 163 (Appendix II), he published the entire list of CFR members as of June 30, 1982. Starting on page 179 (Appendix III), he published the entire list of US Trilateral Commission members as of October 15, 1982, and their organizations. On Appendix I, which starts on page 155, he names the CFR and the TC members who infiltrated the Reagan administration, and the so called ‘media’ members and ‘media’ organizations who were CFR members. And a lot more.
I may have made a mistake and named a wrong Kennedy on my comment above. But maybe not. The lists were made in 1982, and they have changed a lot since then (many have died, others have joined). Will read the book again.
It was the first book that helped me clearly see the NWO and their plan!
IIRC everyone in RWR’s cabinet was CFR excluding the “Great Communicator” himself
Conspiracy. Sorry.
“None Dare Call it Conspiracy” by Gary Allen!
When you find out the title I would sure like to know.
“None Dare Call it Consipracy” by Gary Allen!
Conspiracy, not Consipracy. Sorry.
Sundance you and between 74 to 100 million other MAGA voters bet on President Trump too! Just my humble opinion.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I expect that we will never again have a “free and fair election” in this country. They have gotten away with it too many times and now it has become the “norm.” Yes, there are some red states that are holding the line but it’s only a matter of time before they are corrupted. There’s only One who can straighten out this mess and most people are too afraid for Him to enter the scene.
Medical care costs have gone up on average 8% year over year every year since 1980. There is no saving Medicare with costs rising at that rate, there is no expanding the economy fast enough to compensate for that. Something must be done to reign in medical costs.
I’m waiting on a politician to campaign on breaking medical monopolies. Hospital and insurance CEOs need to be in prison for price collusion, something medical insurance companies and hospitals do routinely. Pharmecutical CEOs need to be in prison for price gouging. Ask yourself why you cannot get a binding price quote for a surgery procedure from any major hospital in the nation. Why don’t hospitals post their prices up front? Why do patients with insurance pay a different price than a cash customer?
All of this has been illegal for more than 100 years. No other industry is allowed to do what the medical industry does on a daily basis.
Why, you ask? Because they have the politicians snugly in their pockets, that’s why. How else does a nitwit like bi-dumb get fabulously rich on less than 200k a year salary?
That’s what being a politician is all about!
Hospital CEOS have participated in Mass Murder: they will get the death penalty.
Sundance, you come close to saying we can grow our way out of SS insolvency. That is not correct. Under every realistic scenario SS obligations increase proportionally to SS receipts as wages rise. Of course growth would solve many other problems, including repaying money Congress has borrowed from the SS trust fund. Now if we reduce the average worker’s lifespan by 3-5 years, that would make a big difference…
Pfauci: “Hold my beer…”
Well, the past three years have taken at least 3 years off my lifespan, that I can tell you!
wesley clark said 7 country 5y=code word two term each bush+incoming 2008 admin all rig start both ukraine-Europe migrant crisis= Jillian Assage say it’s washing money as seen fake 300k afgan army
arrest all of bush/obama admin for crime of war profit start EU migrant/Ukraine crisis= then we can finally lower taxes/living cost/inflation for operating within usa
those whom claimed russia hack 2016 are the same people from putin files that did coup in ukraine to install biden in oil like schiff-victoria nuland-podesta=
mccain start proxy war ukraine=
I must take issue with the Leftist’s term for social security and medicare as being considered ‘entitlements’. The Left has always played the ‘vocabulary game’. Their newest and most blatant attempt to change the vocabulary is only causing what they’ve always done to come to light. In the past, they were much more ‘subtle’ with this little game of theirs. They gradually inserted the word ‘entitlement’ for social security/medicare to justify their actual entitlements of welfare, food stamps, free health care, medicaid, etc. However, no one has ‘earned’ the money that goes into actual ‘entitlement’ programs. Even the term: ‘entitlement’ has fostered the past couple of generations to believe they are ‘entitled’ to things and don’t have to work for them to their detriment.
The money received by social security/medicare recipients is their money. They paid that money to the gov out of every paycheck they earned for however long they worked (50+ yrs. on average). Yes, there are some that live long enough who actually receive monies that go beyond how much they gave to the gov. However, for all the folks that died before they turned 62-67, they never received one penny back of their hard earned money which they gave to the gov out of every paycheck. In addition, those that worked and turned over their ‘tithe’ to the gov but did not work a minimum of time also lost out on those earnings that went into the pot. This was hopefully the check and balance on the taxation of the worker. Everyone was to give the gov a percentage of their earnings and it would all be thrown into one big pot. Those that lived long enough could get at least some of their money back upon retirement. Those that died or did not put in a minimum number of years worked, lost what could have been passed onto their heirs.
The reason that social security/medicare are in jeopardy is because the gov repeatedly ‘borrowed’ money from the pot to either support their actual ‘entitlement’ programs or simply line their own pockets leaving in exchange IOU’s which they never acted upon. In other words, the hard-working working class had their money, which they earned and entrusted to the gov, stolen from them. Once the people trusted the gov to hold onto their money for them to later return it to them upon retirement, they lost their sovereignty over their own finances. Personally, I would have preferred to have taken all of my money that I gave to the gov to hold for me and saved it, invested it, or spent it…it was my money that I earned and it was my choice, good or bad, as to what I did with it.
Bottom line…social security/medicare is not an ‘entitlement’. That is a lie fostered by the Leftists. If the Leftists now want to destroy the social security/medicare programs…fine. Write me a check and refund me for all the monies I entrusted to them over the past 50 yrs. …plus interest…the interest I would have earned if I had saved/invested all of my money on my own without the ‘nanny state’s’ so-called assistance.
Nobody did more to conflate programs that individuals pay for (like Social Security and Medicare) with pure welfare programs (like Medicaid) than Paul Ryan.
not entirely true……while we DID pay into the system with the extended life expectancy most “retirees” withdraw much more out of the system than they ever contributed including an ROI of 5% over the life of their participation…..typically they are getting more than DOUBLE in total benefits + interest as they paid into it……AGAIN this is understandable as the whole program was designed as a scam on the public with few actually expected to EVER collect on their portion of contributions
the major criminal portion of the program is the lack of ability to transfer or inherit that part of the plan the participant was forced to hand over to the government by law……in fact, SCOTUS has fielded a case where they decided even though the government has taken money from you (and employer) by force you have NO expectancy of ANY money as the government holds NO obligation to the individual participants
If I had been able to self direct those funds taken out of my paychecks to some stock and bond funds, I would be getting 2 to 3 times more money per month than I am getting now, and would be able to pass it down to my heirs.
5% ROI is stellar for government returns over the long term….it was dressed as a way to keep the elderly from becoming destitute like they were from FDR’s anti-depression policies that deepened the economic woes over the short and long term in the 30s….as a compassionate people this was a smart way to sell the grift…as I have said before it was a scam from the beginning with the government collecting money and expecting to actually have to pay out very little
This makes sense to someone who is against big government and believes in the need to live within your means, budget wisely and spend frugally without being miserly and selfish. Why have all the Republican politicians not all bought into this and run with this in the elections? I cannot see the Democrats offering any sensible alternative if any.
WTF? When the leader of a political party has to warn his members in Congress not to comit political seppuku you know there is such systemic rot in that body it makes me wonder why he even continues to cast his lot with them. The Party Of Capitulation- its what they do.
Distractions, from the major programs in execution designed to subdue the US:
Biowarfare
Subversion of petrodollar hegemony
Runaway debt
Energy strangulation > high inflation
General economic decimation
Depletion of US weapons
Weakening of US military
Subversion of the Bill of Rights
Growth of the surveillance police state
Destruction of the family
Corrosion of education
Identity class Marxism
Anti-meritocracy “equity”
Growth of hostility and distrust of authorities and others
All tied together in systemic synergies.
For example: The biowarfare (engineered virus + shots) is a fundamental mechanism slowly decimating the people, while also driving other things like economic sputtering with associated inflation and cascading supply shortages, weakening of the military, subversion of the Bill of Rights and growth of the surveillance police state, increasing distrust of authorities and others with increasing hostility and related destruction of social ties including the family, further degradation of an already-poor educational system, and general all-around societal malaise.
That this is biowarfare is clear from the overall picture: The virus was engineered and released from a CCP lab funded by US govt. The risk was first downplayed as it was globally spread, then grossly overstated to cause panic and lockdowns (“3.4% fatality rate!” – WHO, early 2020, based on patently incomplete data on number of infections). The safe effective treatment protocols developed by mid-2020 and codified by FLCCC and others were HEAVILY suppressed by colluding US and other western authorities. The shots were rushed with grossly inadequate testing and controls (they even intentionally broke the control groups), and the population was fooled and coerced to take them, without proper freely-given informed consent due to the complete censorship and propaganda and coercion, in violation of all medical ethics including the Nuremberg Code. The authorities have continued to lie and push the shots, even as data is ever more overwhelming that they are ineffective for their purported purpose* and gravely harmful (demicide). On the last point, back to the CTH article:
What is Trump’s position?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dr-robert-malone-says-he-cant-support-trump-while-ex-president-stands-by-covid-19-jabs/
(* Ineffective at preventing transmission, infection, and serious illness and death from the virus. Effective at decimating the population.)
On all the major programs sinking the US, of which foundering Social Security is just a symptom:
I’d love to see a plan to repair the massive holes taking on water and turn the rudder to keep the ship from sinking on the rocks. Not just feel-good nebulous “keep your chin up and carry on and keep praying”, but real actions.
On the apparent biowarfare – another aspect supporting the “biowarfare” conclusion:
The virus and shots share essentially similar spike and related pathologies, make it very difficult to distinguish between virus-induced vs. shot-induced harm and fatalities. Given all the other facts of the plandemic, it appears likely that this was done intentionally to obfuscate shot harms and deaths.
There was no good reason to design a “vaccine” using the spike alone, rather than the entire nucleocapsid antigen. This was apparently done precisely to commingle shot pathologies with virus pathologies, to hide the shot harms and deaths. A brilliant design, for a stealth bioweapon system.
Shot causality in deaths can be verified using immunohistochemistry in autopsies, but relatively few are done, as this is costly (and the masses are brainwashed to think that other things including the virus are to blame, and most pathologists are leery of jeopardizing their position by documenting shot deaths.)
Shot causality can be inferred from other data, e.g. epidemiological patterns, but that is an uphill battle because of inherent statistical uncertainty and the above virus-shot pathologies commingling.
*****
Finally: Don’t lose sight of the entities behind all this, apparent from the end state everything points to.
People are in denial that this IS the Plan.
Trump’s position on the clot shot is entirely out of step with reality. He should listen to Dr Malone. He has no excuse.
Good Post.
“How the ‘vaccine lies’ will play out”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/how_the_vaccine_lies_will_play_out.html
Great synopsis. If you can see it, I can see it, and a whole lot of others see it or can/will understand it once they’ve read it/this, then why is is that our so called professional economists cannot see it, as well as our political class?
Simple answer: they are either too stupid despite their academic ‘credential,’ OR they have hidden, selfish agendas and could care less about the rest of us!!!!
There is no way the economy can grow nearly enough to sustain social security and medicare. GDP growth in 2017, 2018, and 2019 was paltry, well under 3%. We aren’t growing our way out of the problem no matter who’s president. At the same time, GOP politicians like Paul Ryan are sabotaging their own party by calling for “reforms” to those programs, as those reforms are unfair to the people who paid into them for decades, and will result in GOP candidates losing elections. Maybe that’s the idea.
Currently, the social security tax applies to income up to 130k or so and then is eliminated for high earners. If we re-imposed that tax on incomes over $1 million, and assessed a levy on law firm profits over a certain amount (Perkins Coie), on foundations (Gates, Soros), and on university endowments (Harvard, Yale), we could fund those programs indefinitely. Shore up social security and medicare by taxing the people and institutions that are intentionally destroying this country and its middle class; don’t cut earned benefits of the middle class.
When you read the timeline of Trump’s economic achievements, and understand that, for whatever reason, the ‘establishment’ did not want this to continue (and remember, the WEF ‘predicted’ the downfall of the US), the entire Covid debacle becomes purposeful and clear. Personally, I believe that Trump saw (knew) that Covid had the potential of being a bioweapon, purposefully unleashed. Perhaps his ‘error’ was trusting in the federal medical establishment that had been in place for decades. I will say that, perhaps because of hidden negotiations, many of his personnel choices left something to be desired….Pence, Pompeo, Barr, etc, etc., were not choices that would be aligned with Trump’s success. Hopefully Trump’s naïveté in this area, and his choices, will be more productive second time around.
The uni-party has already harvested enough ballots to beat Trump.
They only have to put a name on them, doesn’t matter who. We lose.
If you’re right, and I suspect you are, then this isn’t a contest. It isn’t good enough to rerun ‘16 and ‘20. We can’t get there simply trying harder.
President Trump has my unwavering support, but the bad guys have already shredded the rulebook and can simply declare a “winner” by fiat. If there is way to “win” it will involve coloring outside the lines.
I’m sure President Trump is aware of the harvest of ballots happening again; however, surely we are not all knowing and he is naïve. He must have a strategy/plan.
God bless President Tramp and keep him safe.
If he means preventing congress from using SS like a piggy bank, good luck. Anything short of that is smoke and mirrors.
no such thing anymore…..Congress long ago stole the net balance from SS and Medicare’s books……..they are having to backload that stolen money to make up for deficits out of the general fund
He made it look easy. 2017-18-19 and starting 2020 our company was having the best years in now 32 years in business.
Starting March 2020 to now we’ve had the worst years in 32 years in business. For my wife and I it’s stark.
“A rising tide lifts all boats”
Wall Street (WEF) vs Main Street (the rest of the country/world)
And a leftist sinkhole sucks everyone down.
No question about it. Misery loves company and that’s what leftist excel at.
The runaway debt and other trains off the tracks are racing to complete the wrecking of the US before Social Security runs aground.
Difficult to predict how the final collapse would go down. Which trainwreck would trigger what exact events.
So the cabal changed course, to have a hand on the tiller driving the ship aground according to a Plan preserving their place on top no matter what.
The plandemic was brought to bear, along with other things like energy asphyxiation, proxy war, and a puppet president so apparently incompetent that he really can’t be held to account.
Trump seems to be our only hope?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dr-robert-malone-says-he-cant-support-trump-while-ex-president-stands-by-covid-19-jabs/
The gorilla sitting in the living room that Medicare has become is partly due to the health care industry fixing prices and inflating cost of visits to doctors, which partly falls under 15 US Code and is roughly 20 percent of the economy. Here is a very detailed overview of what could be done to fix that. Mods, this is not spam, but if you decide to delete it, I will not object, I am just one of the infrequent commenters. https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=3419181
Thank you for this analysis. Thought I could see the big picture. You showed me I was looking through a microscope. You and Trump are truly the right people at the right time.
Yes, I bet on him too. I only hope and pray that we can break the slimy death grip that the left wing has on our nation.
‘The focus needs to be on continued and successful economic growth.’ And then Covid-19 was released.
Economies move up and down all the time, Trump’s goal is highly admiral but hard to honestly sustain, he himself, over many decades, used US bankruptcy laws, during his own negative growth times.
Then there’s a ‘REPORT: Nearly Half of the Ballots Mailed to California Voters in 2022 Election Are Unaccounted For’. Kari Lake is the current model for Trump and or DeSantis.
A big part of the SS / Medicare problem, is SS Disability and Medicaid: which were never figured into the programs’ costs. There is an entire industry of lawyers who have learned how to get their clients qualified; and judges who apparently think the funding is endless and the cost of “a few more” won’t break the bank.
Thank you Sundance nobody but you can explain Donald Trump as you can on his policies.
How they work for America’s benefit.
It’s refreshing epic listening to someone not mumble, slurring and forget thru a speech. Gosh I miss our President and First Lady.
Who would disagree with this?
Hands off our Social Security benefits.
Virtually every politician, EXCEPT for Trump, has no understanding of Hauser’s Law. Simple explanation is that, regardless of tax RATE or scheme (I’m a CPA and I wander through that maze of credits, exemptions, deductions), Uncle Sam will collect tax REVENUE of just under 20% of GDP. Want more REVENUE? Energize the economy to increase GDP. How simple is that?
Which brings to mind one of my favorite P J O’Rourke quotes:
Curing poverty equals allowing people to get rich. This very simple equation has eluded some of the (alleged) deepest thinkers of the world’s advanced nations.
We need Trump to pull us out of the current nosedive, but what then?
Methinks the pitchforks will finally come out if they touch Social Security and Medicare. They gave a COLA to Social Security and then simultaneously raised the cost of Medicare.
The good news is that most of the globalists are getting old and they recently conceded that they needed to back off their totalitarian plans due to unpopularity (read hatred). If we can get Trump back in office and then also give him his second stolen term, there might be time to get more MAGA into the government.
Personally, no matter who runs, I’m WRITING IN DONALD J TRUMP for President.
You are not alone.
Finally, you have described what most Americans’ need to know and can grasp. The way you have explained it in your article is just good common sense. You need to go on the campaign trail with DJT, Sundance!
Establishment politicians have proven time and again they are either ignorant or do not care about the US economy or it’s citizens. They have plundered our country, and they hate President Trump because he has seen that and his policy and actions shed sunlight on theirs.
Thank you for the cogent explanation of how that polity works, Sundance. We pray to return to Trump Economics!
I always shook my head when “MAGA” became a slogan on a red hat. It should be perfectly obvious that every country must “put itself first” in anything that it negotiates, and that it must never “de-industrialize,” trading its own domestic ability to produce things for buying them “cheaper” somewhere else. Because, if you don’t put your own country first, no matter what country that may be, “no one else on Earth ever will.” (And, why on Earth should they?) 🤷♂️
Incidentally, we are certainly now seeing the national security implications of this, barely eleven months into a not-so kinetic war against an actual opponent. We are running out of ammunition and weapons, and do not possess the capability to quickly replace them. All we have now is a “rust belt.” Russia’s factories are running six days a week. USA/NATO/EU had better right now stop and think about what that actually means. They could lose that war, literally because they “ran out of stuff.”
And it would serve USA/NATO/EU/ukraine right!
Will McCarty have the backbone that earned him P Trump’s trust and endorsement?
Social Security and Medicare can easily be saved. We can cut at least 300 billion from the bloated 850 billion dollar “defense” budget. It’s time to reform welfare and mandate that no additional welfare money will be provided for more than two kids. Eliminate most foreign aid. We blew over 2 trillion dollars in Afghanistan and Iraq. That money could have kept SS and Medicaid in the black for a long time.
The problem with Trump’s proposals is that he’s fine with the massively bloated defense budget.
Social Security is not an entitlement. It’s my money
Paraphrasing Ronald Wilson Reagan:
Conservatives judge the success of their economic policy by how many folks they can liberate from welfare to become self-sufficient, productive Americans = Economic Freedom / Liberty.
Leftists judge the success of their economic policy by how many people they can force into taxpayer funded government dependence = Economic Control / Tyranny.
…. and yeah, it really is just that simple.
My parents both died before they good get one penny of social security.
how much of their SS trust fund did you inherit?….after all it was THEIR money
Trump increased the national debit from $13.8T to almost $27T by 2020. The so-called economic boost was just a redirecting of national debit via government spending The messaging vs the reality of what Trump did in a fiscal sense was and is nothing but pure propaganda.
The numbers don’t lie!!!
Social security and Medicare are both Progressive socialist programs that the federal government shouldn’t be involved in period.
This basis of this conversation is just insane and so far removed fron the realities of conservatism it’s just creepy!!!
the national debt was 19.7 trillion in 2016
Intra-governmental holdings, but I like how you ignored the increase
debt was approaching $20T when PDJT took over….try again
The man is a brilliant economist with a heart of gold.
it’s an absolute crime what the Dems have done to our children, our country and our Freedoms! All in the name of greed, power and control.
If you want prosperity in our country you put country first politicians in office. Especially adult politicians and not a regressing life long fool who cares only about his own money. If they steal the election again succede!