Quantitative Easing Stealing From the Middle Class

I recently read an article in a financial magazine. It blamed the central banks for making the rich richer and the rest of us poorer because of Quantitative Easing (the over printing of money by the Federal Reserve). It then accuses the people behind it, the ones controlling the central banks (like the Federal Reserve) of being stupid and not learning from past mistakes. The article is wrong, the people that are printing the money intend to only benefit the wealthy. That has always been their intent and that is why Andrew Jackson sought to eliminate the precursor to the Federal Reserve. He said that governments did not need to borrow money from private bankers and he was correct.

Let me really simplify this. Wages have not gone up in the last ten years or so. During that same time the taxes on the wealthy have gone down about 50% (really). That means that the middle class is paying more as a percentage of their income than the wealthy. Those tax breaks were made on the promise that the wealthy would create more jobs in America, they did not, they increased outsourcing to China. Quantitative Easing, the lowering of interest rates by the overproduction of money will mean that the middle class pays the debt disproportionately to the wealthy. It was meant to steal money from the middle class and leave us with the debt. It is the final plundering of the American worker.

Rubio and the Republican Party Don't Think Voters Should Choose the Nominee

So Marco Rubio has come out and said that his supporters in Ohio should vote for Kasich. He has told his own supporters to not vote for who they want even if they want him. The whole purpose of the primaries is to find out who the voters want; but, as far as Rubio and the establishment is concerned they don't want to know who the voters want. Think about that.

As for Ted Cruz, he doesn't respect the voters either. Cruz has called Trump supporters "low information" which is to say that he believes half of the Republican party voters are idiots. Sarah Palin called him on this in a Facebook Post. Sarah Palin - GOP Majority Voters in Primary are Wayyyyyy Beneath Cruz, So Says Cruz.  Even Fox News took Cruz to task for this. Fox - Cruz says Trump backers have 'relatively low information,' not very 'engaged'. 

Breitbart - HuffPo’s Grim: 54 Private Jets at Meeting to Stop Trump.  Politicians of both party and billionaires got together to figure out how to ignore the will of the voters. These things should bother you even if you dislike Trump.

YouTube - How the Elite Control the World: The Rich Getting Richer, the Upper Class & Money in America (1996).  This is a video that is really worth watching. It is about the attitude of globalism rather than nationalism in the wealthy of today.

The New York Times - The Party Still Decides.  Here is a line from the article, "The less-than-democratic side of party nominations is a virtue of our system, not a flaw, and it has often been a necessary check on the passions (Trumpian or otherwise) that mass democracy constantly threatens to unleash."

And Washington D.C. Repubicans Vote For Rubio. Here is Why.

Washington D.C. holds it's own Republican caucus. This is okay; but, they also get as many votes as the whole state of Hawaii. In D.C. the Republicans make up only about 6% of the total population. In fact there are only a few thousand Republican voters in the whole city. Politicians and lobbyists and most of the government workers live outside of D.C. in places like Virginia which holds it's own primary.

The Republicans in the primary vote in Washington D.C. are probably mostly very low level civil servants who support the system that employs them. They support the establishment and their votes are in. The establishment lackeys who cannot afford to live outside of Washington D.C. voted for the winner, Marco Rubio. Yep, he got a whopping 1,059 votes which gave him 37% of all the votes. Kasich came in second with 1009 votes or 36% of the vote. Trump came in 3rd with 391 or 14% of the votes and Cruz came in last with 351 or 12% of the votes. The really sad thing is that they get as many delegates at the convention as does Hawaii which has a heck of a lot more voters. The fact of the matter is that some states get more delegates than they should not because of the states population or even the number of Republicans in the state; but, instead because of the number of establishment Republicans in the states. It is non-representative primaries that bother me. I don't like anyone's vote being watered down so that insiders can have an advantage.

I Will No Longer Support Sanders

I mention this because I had previously written that I did. I support many of his policies; but, I can no longer support him. I found his claim that Trump was responsible for the protests irresponsible and a political cheap shot. Mind you, I could not cast a vote for Clinton if my life depended on it, I find her to be very Nixonesque in her and her husbands political style. I believe she is insincere, dishonest and I simply do not trust her. I believe the attacks about her e-mails is silly; but, I still do not trust her. I will not vote for any bought and paid for establishment shill and that includes everyone except Donald Trump on the Republican side.

I believe my readers deserve to know where I am coming from so they can judge for themselves if I am consistent and honest in my analysis. Have a great weekend.

"Low Information" Media Pundits

Pimpernel has never accused another person's supporters of being ignorant and find it disgusting when I see it done to Sanders or Trumps supporters. It is dismissive of this nations citizens and the democratic process. If there is any single group that is "low information" it is the media. Lets face it, they have been 100% wrong about the Trump candidacy. They did not believe he was capable of winning any elections, that has been thoroughly disproven. They have continued for the past 9 months to say that he would go down in the polls because he said things that the establishment does not like being said and he has only gone up in the polls. They have said that his support was limited to 20, 25,30 and 34 percent. That has proven to be silly and wrong with his current support as opposed to the others running in the Republican party at 49%. Remember this is the same media that said that Jeb Bush could not be stopped because of the millions and millions of dollars that the donor class had given him, that is definitely been proven wrong. So what is the problem are all the pundits just idiots or lying? You decide, either way they have destroyed their own credibility and seem hell bent on continuing to destroy any respect that people may have had for the media.

Chicago Trump Rally Disruption and a Thanks to the Secret Service.

Last night a Trump rally was disrupted by a group of people who did not wish the man to speak; but, you have to know there is more to the story. Lets start with this, the protest was not spontaneous, in fact, it was planned and funded. That alone should disturb all of us. Elections are about hearing all the different voices and choosing who we want. Secondly, stopping a rally does not stop the message from getting out, we live in an age of television and the internet and candidates get more listeners by having an interview in a television studio than at rallies. So why did these people choose to try and stop the rally?

Lets look at the rally's to get a feel for why they upset people. Trump and Sanders have had enormous rallies compared to the other candidates, people are coming out by the thousands to see them and hear them, people are excited by the two candidates in a way that we have not seen in decades. Seeing the exceptionally large crowds at Trump rallies highlights how popular his message is with certain people and that is seen by the rest of the public on television. The establishment is scared that the people will see that they can work together against what is going on in this country and that scares them.

What would the response of the media be if the tens of thousands of Trump supporters who show up for his rallies shut down a rally by Sanders or one of the other candidates? I am pretty sure that the media would use it to demonize Trump supporters; but, when people prevent Trump supporters from attending his rallies the media says it is Trumps fault. That is hypocritical and wrong. It is however not surprising or unexpected. We need to ask ourselves what led up to this protest.

Breitbart - HuffPo’s Grim: 54 Private Jets at Meeting to Stop Trump. Here is the opening paragraph from the article, "Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on Tuesday that “something like 54 private jets” had arrived at an elite meeting of tech CEOs, GOP party insiders and big donors set on stopping Donald Trump before he wins the Republican nomination." It should be noted that the meeting included some Democratic politicians too. Why would tech people get together to stop Trump? Could it be because he wants them to make their products here and not in China? Could they have an economic interest, I mean obviously they are very wealthy as seen by the fact that they all flew in on private jets.

While the media attempted to claim that these protests are spontaneous, the reality is that they were organized over the internet. The fact is that MoveOn.org has taken credit for stopping the rally. In truth since Trump has been seeing larger and larger crowds there has been a continual effort to disrupt his rallies with people getting tickets and then protesting inside the rallies, that does not seem very democratic does it? When disrupters have been removed from the rallies by security and the police, they are not condemned by the media. A press that claims to believe in freedom of speech seems quite content when Trump and his supporters have their freedom of speech disrupted. Does the media accuse the protestors of being "low information" or "racist", nope.

I have been very clear in my support for Sanders and for the Occupy movement over the years. Today I am disappointed in Sanders and that makes me sad. He blamed Trump for the disruptions following the lead of Clinton, Cruz, Rubio and Kasich. I expected better of him, I expected nothing different from the others. I will be truly disappointed if I were to learn that some of the protestors had been part of the Occupy movement as this is similar to how their voices were quieted and how they were removed from public places for voicing their concerns.

While I generally support protests, I do not respect disruptive protest. I do not see this as an attack against Trump, I see it as an attack against the democratic process and you should too no matter who you support. The Pimpernel would never call for disruptive protests against anyone running for office, it is just wrong. It is also the last ditch effort to subvert the election before the convention and will fail. The truth is that it will only solidify and give more support to Trump. People do not like being told who they can listen to or support and the establishment and his protestors are both attempting to do that. Once it has shown to be failed because of Trump's increasing his polling numbers, they will take a new track and the only one left to them is to attempt to eliminate Trump and that is not surprising. The establishment would rather see riots in the street than their control over the political system challenged, that is why a number of top Republicans have said that they would vote for Clinton over Trump. Today Rubio has basically said the same thing and that spells the end of his political career.

UPDATE:

I have to add something to what I wrote. I have been watching and reading media from all different perspectives and I keep seeing the same words used at his rallies. They say that Trump needs to tone down his message, that is nonsense. The people protesting him did not do it because protestors were kicked out of Trumps rallies, that is just silly. If they are protesting because he wants tighter controls over immigration then we have a real problem. Every nation has the right to decide who can come there. In truth I do not believe that is what is behind all of this. In fact, I disagree with the description of the protest being "violent", there were (it was estimated at the time) a couple of thousand protestors and well over 15,000 Trump supporters. While a very few of the protestors started fights (five were arrested), the fact of the matter is that a riot did not break out and the vast majority of protestors and supporters were peaceful. To demonize the vast majority of either side for the actions of a very few is propaganda.

FINAL THOUGHT:

Today at a rally a protestor rushed the stage and tried to reach Trump, he was stopped by Secret Service agents. If you watch the video you will see four Secret Service agents basically surrounding Trump to protect him. You really have to admire the Secret Service agents who risk their lives on a daily basis to protect our candidates so that you and I can decide who we want, they are not just protecting Trump or the other candidates, they are risking their lives for our freedom to choose who becomes President and then they continue to protect the eventual winner while he is in office. I tip my hat to all of the Secret Service members.

Donald Trump and What's Going On

For the past few days I have been writing about some big picture stuff; but, I have also been collecting news articles to discuss. I may wait to publish until later tonight.

MSNBC - Top Arab-American city backs Jewish socialist, man for Muslim ban,  The problem with the media is that they actually believe their own spin on things. For the past 15 years the media has said that they do not understand why the Arab Muslims hate the United States. The Republican establishment claims it is because they hate our freedom. This is delusional. They hate us because we keep invading their countries, stealing their oil and bombing their families. It is not really that complicated. Why did Trump win the Arab vote when he wants to put a temporary ban on Muslims from the middle east until we can determine which ones might be terrorists? He won their vote because he doesn't want us to keep invading countries in Arabia. Pretty simple.

Reuters - Foreign diplomats voicing alarm to U.S. officials about Trump.  According to unnamed U.S. Officials, a number of foreign politicians have expressed concern about Trump because of his crudeness and distrust of Muslims. What is interesting to note is that the countries mentioned in the article are India, South Korea, Japan and Mexico. Lets think about that, the countries that we are outsourcing our jobs to don't like Trump. Maybe it has more to do with his wanting to charge them a tariff than it has to do with his style.

Huffington Post - An Open Letter To Non-Racist Donald Trump Supporters.  While I regularly read the Huffington Post, their bias in pretty well skewed. This is the site that posted articles about Trump's candidacy in the Entertainment section and regularly posts three or more articles a day attacking Trump and all of his supporters. The title of the post itself is disgusting as it suggests that most of Trumps supporters are racists and that is simply not true. I know because all of my friends except two are Trump supporters, the two others are liberals. I myself am more of a social democrat as my posts over these six years have clearly demonstrated. What is truly telling is that the Huffington Post is not read by most Trump supporters, they are much more likely to read the Drudge Report.

The Washington Post - How Donald Trump is ruining Paul Ryan’s speakership.  The fact is that Ryan is in trouble with the Republican voters because he oversaw a budget increase and more deficit spending and the voters hated that. The take away from this article is that Ryan wants to set the party platform at the convention and force Trump to agree to it. The establishment is looking for any way possible to steal the election or at least control the candidates policies. Anything to contradict the will of the people.

Yahoo - Trump’s bad logic on 'bad trade deals'.  Here is the first sentence from the article. "Somebody please tell Donald Trump: A trade deficit isn’t a loss. You could even argue it’s a gain." What sort of logic is that? Who thinks increasing our debt to foreign nations is a good thing? Let me reiterate what I discussed in my series on "What's Going On", they do not want us to get manufacturing back and will say anything to prevent it.

The Cheat Sheet - How America’s Middle Class Dug Its Own Grave.  I always enjoy these articles where the wealthy use the media establishment to blame the people for the things that were done to them. It was not the middle class that outsourced jobs to Communist China, they also did not cause the financial crisis, that was done by the banks.

YouTube - Judge Jeanine: Mitt Romney awoke a sleeping giant. The average Republican is really mad at the party establishment and the attacks on Trump are really beginning to let them see how the party doesn't care what the voters want. Watch the video.

The New York Times - Rank and File Republicans Tell Party Elites: We’re Sticking With Donald Trump.  The Republican voters, even those who do not like Trump, are getting madder and madder at their party "leaders" for ignoring the voters. This is a party who is committing suicide to protect the interests of the wealthy in the party at the expense of the workers.

Fox - Hucakbee: The establishment has ruined this country.  I highly recommend you watch the video. It is a former Republican governor who is explaining that his party does not represent the voters.

Newsmax - 22 Republicans Declare Their Non-Support for Trump.  Well, they can kiss their next election goodbye. You cannot say that you will not support your parties nominee against Clinton and expect to then get the support of Trump supporters in your own election.

Follow Up - What's Going On series.

As the above articles show, the establishment (donor class, wealthy people) are getting hysterical over the voters supporting Donald Trump. They fear him because he disagrees with sending jobs overseas and with them getting tax breaks at the expense of the middle class.