February 16, 2017

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-indisputable-facts-of-reality have not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by learning other people’s experiences and observations. The comment box below invites sharing facts, opinion, or concern. (I read, write, and listen to establish my opinion as I pursue the-objective-truth.)
Note:  I often connect words in a phrase with the dash in order to represent an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth without addressing possible error or attempting to balance the expression.

The Advocate:

Our Views. Gov. John Bell Edwards strains to spend $26 billion when $18 billion is needed! Damn the people, “the governor---to his credit---wants to raise the taxes to pay the bills,” boasts The Advocate.
 

I'm no economist, but LSU Professor Jim Richardson and Steve Winham have my opposition in "the increase in state spending over the past 14 years has . . . trailed the expansion of the state's economy." Their message is: If the economy increases, government should increase--a falsehood. If the state gets a windfall, it should save for the next disaster, whether natural or legislative.  

 

It's true that if you make more you can spend more, and politicians tend to help themselves and their favored groups to all the money they can, even at the expense of emergency funds.

 

Louisiana population grew at 0.06%/yr over the 5 years since 2010. If state services should expand with population growth that’s $108 million increase per year. Assuming reasonable growth we’d be at $18 billion from the 16.8 billion pre-Katrina budget.

  

Today’s thought. No matter how you comfort yourself and nourish hopes, if behavior is bad you know it and may either reform or risk misery and loss. Fidelity is the key to “Delight yourself.” Shame on The Advocate for continuously publishing the mysteries of G. E. Dean and no opposing views.

Incarceration (Johnson). I have yet to see anyone address 1966 march icon James Meredith’s 2016 claim: The black race ignored the duty and responsibility part of citizenship. I celebrated the civil and voting rights acts of 1965-6 and collaborated for reform. Meanwhile, I witnessed increases in illegal alien employment because blacks did not want to work. 

 

We advocate collaboration for broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security. In other words, civic-morality. In another phrase, public-integrity. The parts of “broadly-defined” that apply for a civic citizen begin with taking charge of personal education, acquiring the understanding to be able and intent to live a full life, and collaborating for civic justice.

American free-enterprise is not great and never was. Collaborating for justice requires reform: The system may 1) convince the worker who has no assets to prepare for employment that pays reasonable living plus save & invest so as to build enough wealth for sufficient retirement plus emergency reserves, 2) assure that every production or service function the civic culture needs is paid at wages necessary for the first provision and 3) help someone who cannot work gain the ability to work, no matter how long possible achievement takes. Meanwhile, dissidents---people who are ignorant, contrary, criminal, evil or otherwise alien---must be constrained by just-statutory-law and law enforcement.

I’d like to see Ernest Johnson and others working to establish a civic culture. In the USA, civic-morality or public-integrity can start with understanding and committing to the civic agreement stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

 
(People who ignore the preamble or oppose it as "secular" or obsolete are neglecting America's promise of greatness and exceptionalism.)

To Fanaafi Fauese Mapuna Chapman:  I agree. In fact, most people are annoyed with my work.

 

However, iterative collaboration for broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security is what 2/3 of inhabitants want.
 
Yet about 77% of inhabitants are---divided---willing to stake their lives on their theology. But theology should address what happens in a person's afterdeath, that vast time after body, mind and person stopped functioning. A person's afterdeath has no importance to the next person's life, and no person would negotiate their beliefs in a civic forum, say to provide better statutory law and law enforcement.

Diversion canal (Babin). Wasting $113 million is immoral. The request for $125 million needs support. I will write my representatives.

Electric car tax (Giangrosso). I agree with Giangrosso, and if taxing electricity to cars is not already done, it should be---should not depend on increased gas tax. This is the future. Germany legislated the end of the combustion driven car, I believe by 2035.

George Will column. On a rare, perhaps throwback, day I mostly agree with Will. 

 

First, Trump’s profusion of dishonesty to confront dishonesty won the election, made me nervous then, and unnerves me now. I gave him three years to start succeeding as president before he blew right by as candidate, with 57 % of the Electoral College and 84% of US counties. Both Will and I are concerned, yet I do not consider myself wiser than Trump. He is in a USA of enemies more than any person in history who carried the will of We the Civic People of the United States.
 
I trust that when Trump looks into it, he’ll oppose civil forfeiture. That this sentence is last does not diminish its importance: I clearly agree with Will.

E. J. Dionne column. Dionne has a strange sense of the human quest for personal perfection. 

 

First, he wants Coretta King’s 1986 opinion to be prominent in 2017. Heck; in 2016, 1966 march icon James Meredith said the black race has failed the duty and responsibility part of citizenship. Second, Dionne wants the 1986 Senate rejection of Sessions to hold in 2017. Third, he wants Elizabeth Warren’s senatorial arrogance to hold against all odds and the people. 

 

Dionne presents himself as an arrogant demigod. Maybe he is. Beyond her skill at lying, Hillary Clinton ruined her chances with personal arrogance. I expect the same doom for Warren: Arrogance may ruin her chances.

James Gill column.  I thought shock was Gill’s specialty and think he shirked his duty to readers. Gill, please write the truth about Chris Roberts’ letter, salacious as the phrase may be.

Michael Gerson column.  IMO, Gerson brags about his speech-writing skill but overlooks brilliant thought. It seems that Gerson credits himself for both written words on September 14, 2001 and spontaneity later that day. 

 

However, Gerson misses his own brilliance in the phrase “aggressive authenticity” to describe Donald Trump’s openness to the people. Tragically, Gerson bets on Trump’s failure. The election proved that a civic people saw through Trump’s shtick and recognized his core decency. Consequently, he is President of the United States and will overcome the negative media as well as the AMO democrats in federal roles that by law answer to the people.

 

The Alinsky-Marxist organizers (AMO) have recognized that their methods are widely known and are now claiming they are using Tea-Party tactics. See slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/12/the_tea_party_taught_us_how_to_resist_donald_trump.html . It’s a chicken-and-egg question. Tea-party folks were using Alinsky rules, described in newenglishreview.org/DL_Adams/Saul_Alinsky_and_the_Rise_of_Amorality_in_American_Politics/ .

Broome: fatal shootings (Page 1B). Broome, with her church and dialogues on race, is a new entry in the problem. The liberal democracy that is promoted by the media and Mass Communications schools and other liberal academia is not good public policy. Statutory law must be upheld and the civil rights of first responders---police, sheriffs, firemen, EMS, investigators, and DA’s---must be supported by civil administrators, legislators, lawyers, and judges.

Rehabilitation (Page 1B). I think rehabilitation should focus on civic morality instead of social morality or religious morality. Persons who understand and practice civic morality contribute to public-integrity, which is “so hard to find” (Joel).

Trump slams (Page 1A). See 7B, where Michael Gerson expresses an opinion that predicts America’s failure yet brilliantly expresses Trump’s character as “aggressive authenticity.” Who could ask for anything more?

NATO notice (Page 2A). It’s a notice every liberal democrat should consider: We the Civic People of the United States “cannot care more for your children’s future than you do.” We, the people may consider that preamble to the constitution for the USA and understand that “posterity” means your children’s future.

Protester terrorists (Page 3A). Passion-incited violence, damage, injury, and death during intentional disruption is the heart of Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO), now in its sixth decade. Chief extant AMO leaders include Jeremiah Wright and his parishioner, Barack Obama. AMO recruits are now trying to obfuscate their terror under the guise of “Tea-Party” tactics.

Gun ban (Page 3A). Progressives have the hubris to stereotype people.

Illegal immigrants (Page 3A). Remove “Dreamers” quickly when they have criminal behavior.

One state: Isreal (Page 5A). Trump’s statements about Israel were authentic, and so were Netanyahu’s. Reminded me of January 20, 2017, President Donald Trump: “Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done.” You won’t get that reminder from the media, I’m guessing.

FBI disparity (Page 7A). Is it time for the Democrats to jail Hillary Clinton for blatant failure?

Other dialogues:

Devlin Barrett and Carol E. Lee, “Flynn Probed by FBI Over Calls,” Wall Street Journal, February 15, 2017.

The events described seem like an indictment of the FBI and other federal authorities for not making timely transition from the Obama regime to the Trump regime. 

 

Liberal democrats in official authority are so sorry their opinion did not prevail in the election they are insubordinate after the election. The renegades if not traitors may eventually answer to statutory law and law enforcement. 

 

AG Sally Yates seems egregiously offensive for harboring harmless information to be used to fabricate a media-spin about administrative-risk to the people. 

Judges who allow resentment of President Trump's executive orders inspire unconstitutional actions may find themselves removed. I hope so.

  

Phil Beaver does not “know”. Phil trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. Phil Beaver is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, an education non-profit. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.