Friday, September 6, 2024
Kamalnomics' Dismal Jobs Report: Sluggish!
Job growth was much lower than expected in August, while revisions over the previous two months indicate gaping holes in Kamala’s economy — as fears of a Kamala-induced recession continue to mount.
The economy added just 142,000 jobs in August — far lower than economists’ expectations — as the labor market continues its slowdown. The number of jobs reported in June has now been revised down on two separate occasions, a trend that has continued over 11 of the past 15 months.
The net job growth in August came largely from part-time employment, while full-time jobs “plummeted” — a clear sign Americans are in distress, economists say.
In fact, the number of people working part-time for economic reasons shot up by 264,000 in August alone — and 614,000 over the last year — as Americans struggle to make ends meet in Kamala’s economy. That’s the highest number since May 2021.
The economy lost 24,000 jobs in the manufacturing sector alone last month.
Things are great — if you’re not an American. Over the last 12 months, 1.3 million native-born Americans LOST employment, while 1.2 million foreign-born workers GAINED employment. As many as 768,000 native-born Americans LEFT the labor force, while 1.5 million foreign-born workers JOINED the labor force.
Just wait until Kamala raises taxes by $5 trillion and destroys the economy for good.
The only way back to prosperity is re-electing President Donald J. Trump in November. |
Thursday, September 5, 2024
And Now THIS, From CNN -- OMG!
BREAKING: CNN just found out that Kamala Harris is a LIAR. This is simply hilarious 🤣pic.twitter.com/PJ1NLtZk9w
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) September 5, 2024
Trump's Economic Plan: Make America Affordable Again!
President Donald J. Trump today wrapped up a major speech to the New York Economic Club, in which he outlined his vision to make life affordable for Americans again — and contrasted his record of prosperity and opportunity with Kamala's record of Radical Left lunacy.
President Trump's plan is simple: keep taxes low, unleash American energy, cut regulations, prioritize efficiency, reduce spending, and make housing more affordable.
Under Kamala, we have an ECONOMY IN CRISIS:
- In just the past year, 1.3 million workers have become unemployed.
- The typical American family has lost over $28,000 paying for the increased cost of living.
- Credit card debt has reached an all-time high, with more than one-in-three Americans reporting they've maxed out their cards.
- Families now need to earn at least $110,000/year to afford a typical home — locking 65% of households out of buying ordinary houses.
- Gas prices, grocery prices, and electricity prices are up between 30% and 50% since President Trump left office.
- 8.4 million Americans are now working second jobs — the highest in three decades.
Kamala's Radical Left agenda would DESTROY THE ECONOMY:
- She promises $5 trillion in tax hikes — the largest in history.
- She wants the largest small business tax hike in history by ending President Trump's tax cuts for pass-through income.
- She's proposing raising the business tax rate to 28% (higher than communist China).
- She vows to raise the capital gains tax to 33% — the highest since 1978.
- She wants a first-ever 25% tax on unrealized capital gains.
Under President Trump, we had a THRIVING ECONOMY:
- Real median household income rose by over $6,400.
- Real net worth for the average household increased by $197,000.
- Average wealth more than doubled for the bottom 50% of households.
- Seven million new homeowners were added — after 12 straight years of decline.
- Seven million new jobs were created in just three years.
- The S&P 500 increased by ~80%.
- Americans benefited from largest tax cuts in American history — which slashed rates for working families and cut the business tax from the highest rate in the world to an ultra-competitive 21%.
- A record number of job-killing regulations were cut — the only president in modern history to achieve a net reduction in regulations.
- America's domestic oil production increased by a stunning 47% in just three years as the price of gas reached $1.87/gallon.
- More than 50 trade agreements were negotiated to protect the American worker and open foreign markets.
- The job-killing NAFTA was ended and replaced by the USMCA.
- A 27.5% tariff on all Chinese cars was enacted — and remains in place to this day — as President Trump stood up to China and saved the U.S. auto industry from obliteration.
President Trump has a plan to rescue Americans from Kamala's nightmare — and bring back the American Dream bigger, better, and stronger than ever before:
PILLAR ONE: American Energy
President Trump will END Kamala Harris’s anti-energy crusade by implementing a policy of abundance, independence, and dominance — and cutting energy prices in HALF or more within a year of taking office.
President Trump will immediately issue a national emergency declaration to achieve a massive increase in domestic energy supply — and blast through every bureaucratic hurdle to issue rapid approvals for new drilling, pipelines, refineries, and power plants and reactors.
As a result, prices will fall immediately in anticipation of new supply.
PILLAR TWO: Ending the Green New Deal
To further defeat inflation, President Trump will terminate the socialist Green New Deal and rescind all unspent funds under the misnamed "Inflation Reduction Act." President Trump will also immediately end Kamala's electric vehicle mandate — stopping the waste and saving taxpayers an estimated $1 trillion.
PILLAR THREE: Cutting Regulations
In President Trump's first term, he pledged to cut two existing regulations for each new regulation — and he did far better than that, cutting more than 5.5 regulations for every new regulation. But over the past four years, Kamala has added as much as $6,300/year in new regulatory costs onto the backs of every American family.
In his second term, President Trump will be even more aggressive in cutting unnecessary and burdensome regulations by eliminating a minimum of TEN old regulations for every one new regulation.
Moreover, instead of attacking the industries of the future, President Trump will embrace them, making America the world capital for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
PILLAR FOUR: Prioritizing Efficiency
In 2022, fraud and improper payments cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. That's why, at the suggestion of Elon Musk, President Trump will create a Government Efficiency Commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government — then making recommendations for drastic reforms, which will save taxpayers trillions of dollars, further taming inflation and bringing prices down.
PILLAR FIVE: Lowering Taxes
President Trump will bring economic relief by making the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent — and will cut taxes even more by eliminating taxes on tips and seniors' Social Security benefits.
President Trump's plan calls for expanded R&D tax credits, 100% bonus depreciation, expensing for new manufacturing investments, and lowering the business tax rate from 21% to 15% — solely for companies that make their products in America. If a company outsources, offshores, or replaces American workers, not only will they not be eligible for these benefits, they will also pay a tariff when their product comes in from another country.
PILLAR SIX: Encouraging Domestic Production
Under President Trump’s leadership, America will encourage domestic production instead of punishing it — and make America the manufacturing superpower of the world once again.
President Trump will implement a pro-American trade policy that uses tariffs to encourage production here and bring trillions of dollars home. President Trump will ensure the U.S. has a steel industry, an aluminum industry, a manufacturing base, and a defense industrial base.
PILLAR SEVEN: Affordable Housing
President Trump will make housing much more affordable. As inflation is tamed, interest rates will fall dramatically — reducing mortgage rates back down to 3% and saving the average homebuyer thousands of dollars per year. President Trump will eliminate regulations that drive up housing costs, with the goal of cutting the cost of new home builds by HALF.
President Trump will also open up portions of federal land for large-scale housing construction — ultra-low-tax and low-regulation zones — where millions of Americans will take part in settling these safe and beautiful communities.
PILLAR EIGHT: Investing in National Endeavors
As President Trump defeats inflation, makes America affordable again, and reignites explosive economic growth, he will create America's own Sovereign Wealth fund to invest in great national endeavors for the benefit of all Americans.
This fund will help build extraordinary national development projects — from highways to airports to the transportation infrastructure of the future — while investing in state-of-the-art manufacturing hubs, advanced defense capabilities, cutting-edge medical research, and modern agriculture techniques so we can have safe, healthy, high-quality foods for our families.
This wealth fund will return a gigantic profit, which will help pay down the national debt.
Kamala Harris has increased the cost of everything she touches — and her plans for the future would tax Americans even further into oblivion.
President Trump will unleash a new era of safety, prosperity, opportunity, and success for American families, workers, and businesses. He's done it before — and together, we'll do it again.
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
The Difference Between Fame And Celebrity
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| Nixon was never a celebrity. Elvis was/is forever. |
Well, there is. And we're here to explain it.
Fame simply means that you are well known. Celebrity came about with the emergence of modern mass media. It happens when you are not simply well known but you are celebrated via the media for because of some talent, characteristic, personality trait, achievement, distinctive appeal, etc. Maintaining celebrity status means that you must sustain the media attention you've been accorded and that can be an ongoing challenge.
True, the media attention can have its peaks and valleys but if it ebbs for too long, then celebrity is lost. Sometimes people achieve celebrity and sustain it over so many decades that it becomes part of their persona. People like Elvis, Sinatra and Streisand come to mind. Icons!
But you don't have to be an entertainer to become a celebrity who achieves legendary status. Business people such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and housewares diva Martha Stewart have achieved that status. More recently Tesla's Elon Musk has entered that domain. They're not only famous but they have cultivated the media spotlight and have managed to retain that attention over a significant period of time. Indeed, Stewart remained a celebrity even as she was convicted of a crime and served time in jail.
To further distinguish celebrity and fame, think of the following: Pope Francis is famous but you'd hardly call him a celebrity. The same could have been said of Margaret Thatcher. In the political realm, obviously, Joe Biden was never a celebrity. He's just not interesting enough -- not to the media and not to the average consumer of media. Politicians have a hard time becoming celebrities because, well -- public policy just isn't very sexy.
If you're already a celebrity (like Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump) you can bring that celebrity with you into the political arena. And if you're already rich, famous and debonaire (think FDR and JFK) and you become a public figure, you're likely on your way to celebrity, especially when you add power to the mix.
Muhammed Ali? Yeah -- he was famous and a celebrity. Joe Frazier (a nice guy and a champ) was not. On top of all this, you can appear to eschew celebrity and still be a celebrity. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Greta Garbo come to mind. Ditto, JFK, Jr.
Interestingly enough, even royalty does not automatically convey celebrity. Queen Elizabeth wasn't a celebrity but in her day, her sister Princess Margaret was. Then Prince Charles (now King of England) was/is not a celebrity but Princess Diana was.
Even with all the inescapable surveillance that accompanies it, celebrity has its charms. Henry Kissinger (one of the most unexpected celebrities ever) put it best: "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."
Trump Campaign Announces 'Catholics For Trump'
Today, President Donald J. Trump announces “Catholics for Trump”, a coalition committed to safeguarding the vital principles of religious liberty and defending family values that President Donald J. Trump has ardently championed. Under President Trump’s leadership, our nation witnessed unprecedented support for religious freedom, with significant victories both domestically and globally. President Trump restored protections for faith-based organizations and bolstered the rights of religious institutions against governmental overreach.
Unlike the Harris-Biden administration, which has systematically undermined these fundamental rights, President Trump has stood unwaveringly in defense of the foundational principles of Catholicism. President Trump knows the significance of ensuring religious freedom for all, and unlike Kamala Harris, he also knows the true power of faith and will never take away our God-given rights. This coalition presents an incredible opportunity to display to our nation, under God, what Catholics believe in and the morals we uphold.
Catholics for Trump stands with President Trump in his mission to continue building a nation where the rights of every individual to practice their faith freely is protected. Together, we can secure a future that honors the principles of freedom, faith, and life that are integral to our American heritage, and we will protect the right to engage in the divine Truth of the Lord and hold steadfast His unconditional love that guides us daily.
To join Catholics for Trump and get involved, please visit Catholics.DonaldJTrump.com.
“In our lifetime, no president has done more to advance and defend religious freedom than President Donald J. Trump. America needs President Trump back in the White House to protect and preserve our God-given right to worship freely at home and abroad.” – Callista L. Gingrich, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
“Now is the time for Catholics to coalesce and acknowledge that President Donald Trump is the only candidate that will help uphold and promote our moral principles and foundational beliefs. Catholics and all Americans need a strong leader in the White House now more than ever and that leader is Donald J Trump.” – George Glass, Former U.S. Ambassador to Portugal
“Like all Catholics who follow the teachings of the church, it guides every decision I make. There has never been a time when those values and the freedom to practice them have been in greater peril. With such high stakes, we are blessed to have the easiest decision in modern history as to which candidate for president has a record in public office more consistent with those teachings. That’s why I will vote for and support Donald Trump and encourage my fellow Catholics to likewise.” – Former Senator Rick Santorum
“President Trump’s record in office is more closely aligned with Catholic principles than that of any other president or major party nominee in my lifetime. In 2024, he is running against the most radically anti-Catholic presidential candidate in my lifetime. This is not a difficult decision.” – Michael Knowles, Commentator and Author
“Kamala Harris hates Catholics and everything we hold sacred. We can’t pretend otherwise. Our institutions, families, culture and belief in the sanctity of all human life are the antithesis of her vision for America. Donald Trump and J.D Vance — and now RFK — are the antidote to the ruling class that has destroyed our country.” – Brian Burch, President, CatholicVote
“President Trump will continue to defend our religious freedoms, and our values enshrined in faith and family. His leadership is needed more now than ever before because he understands that American families are the pillars of a strong society. The contrast could not be clearer. We have watched Kamala Harris attack President Trump’s Catholic judicial nominees who had to face her hostile and unfair questions when she was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She was especially bigoted to anyone associated with the Knights of Columbus. Harris also was complicit in the FBI’s fascist infiltration of Catholic parishes that say Latin Mass. Her smears of Justice Brett Kavanaugh can never be forgotten. Accusing Catholic students of high crimes was a cheap shot to score political points. President Trump’s leadership to keep American families strong is critical to the future of our nation." – Matt and Mercedes Schlapp
In over 3 years over working at the White House and countless meetings in the Oval Office, I witnessed Donald Trump take the moral and ethical concerns of Catholics seriously. When presented with opposing views, he invariably chose the path advocated by his pro-life advisors and those advocating for the dignity of human life. As a Catholic I have no choice but to proudly vote Donald Trump this November.” – Joe Grogan, former Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
“With their vile anti-Catholic bigotry, Harris-Walz present an existential threat to Catholics in America. Donald Trump and J.D. Vance will instead protect the rights of Catholics to raise our children, run our schools, work our jobs, operate our businesses, protect our borders, and live out our faith free from the radicals who threaten our American way of life.” – The Honorable Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., Former US Representative for Kansas
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— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) September 4, 2024
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