April 11, 2017

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-objective-truth has not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by listening to other people’s experiences and observations. The comment box below invites readers to express facts, opinion, or concern, perhaps to share with people who may follow the blog.
Note:  I often connect words in a phrase with dashes in order to represent an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth despite possible error. In other words, the writer expresses his “belief,” knowing he could be in error. People may collaboratively approach the-objective-truth.

The Advocate:  See online at theadvocate.com/baton_rouge

Our Views. With $8 million spent on one town with 500 people this year, the challenge seems now rather than ahead. But the towns should take charge.

The first thought is that towns-people should either take care of their infrastructure or move. The state is not obliged to guarantee a town’s viability.

It’s their personal preference to live there, else they would have moved already: Let the benefits offset the cost of infrastructure maintenance.

Today’s thought, Proverbs 25:11. Some kind* words seemed hard on first hearing.

Worse blows are endured by better people.

You've been the best on the block. (By a man old enough to have had parents who were slaves.)

Your life is ruined as long as you say so.

What is a man of your eminence doing here? (The student-union pool hall at UTn, 1961.)

You’ve been dealt a bad hand: you may play it.

That’s not the man I married. (Reluctant to sign the contract to build our house.)

Yes, we could be talking death in five months, but we are going to do everything in our power to avoid that conversation.

There’s nothing you can do about it: The other person must decide you are good.
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On the other hand, one expression is easy to hear and more motivating than the others:

Phil: your mind and body can perfect your unique person. (RWWE, 1838).

* This entry by G. E. Dean seemed so strange I had to retrieve the paper from the trash and make certain I had the correct reference. The passage reads, "Like apples of gold in settings of silver is a ruling rightly given." Dean says "Speak kindly. It brings wonderful treasures to those [who] hear it."

Letters

Preventing conflicts (Pittman). Liberal democrats live the delusion that dissidents can be persuaded to the liberal’s mindset. Liberals somehow missed the old saw, "Live and let live." And then came AMO.

About seven trillion man-years of experience and observations inform the open-minded person that there will always be dissidents for reasons only the dissident might discover. For example, it may be youth, habitual ignorance, or one of the alienations: criminality, evil, or worse.

The USA cannot dictate democracy in the world. The USA can only protect the republican form of government it has, both domestically and abroad. The promise of republicanism is obvious to other nations. It is incumbent upon them to seek a transition from their tyranny to something closer to the USA’s way. It is good for the USA to recognize and act according to the-objective-truth rather than some notion of arbitrarily reforming the world.

However, defense against alien forces, both within (law enforcement) and without (the military), is essential.

Politics (Russo). The art of politics is getting elected to herd cats.

The art of public service is voting to help the people according to the-objective-truth. To advance fidelity to the-indisputable-facts-of-reality rather than advance dominant-opinion.

John Kennedy seems excellent in both herding cats and serving the people.

 

If Hillary Clinton had been excellent for herding cats, Kennedy's vote would not have mattered.

Obamacare helps (Fischer). Statistics show that when a human recognizes that they are a person and behave so as to take care of their person, health outcomes are four times better than consequences of medical attention. A civic people focus on this 400% advantage in health care. 

 

Dissidents invite personal health problems.

 

Extreme dissidents, who whet and satisfy personal appetites, tout health care paid for by other people. If Obamacare insurance is too expensive, dissidents don't buy. If something serious comes up, some go to the emergency room and may later negotiate Obamacare coverage.

The reform to financially viable living is coming to liberal democracy, as in England, as well as to republicanism (America).

Stephen Waguespack guest column. Thank you.

I especially appreciate the view that the swap to 4% state tax for broader sales coverage is an easily overlooked swap that hurts low-income people (LIP)---people with income at multiples of poverty.

And it’s a double hit against LIP if passing the Gross Receipts Tax, dubbed sales tax on steroids.

I guess Gov. Edwards feels entitled to tax LIP, since much of their largess comes not from free enterprise such as work but from the Democrats, who bargain for their votes.

Edwards does not seem to consider that the days of federal largess ended with Barack Obama’s exit, and those days will not return. The federal government is shifting responsibility for the people to insist on public-integrity in their state to the people in their state. Edwards’ opportunity to reform his administration is disappearing as the legislative session gets underway.
 
The GOP did not elect President Trump: we Trump voters elected him. It does not matter whether a person is GOP or DNC; religious or not; dependent on skin-color or not; for civic-justice or dissident; rich or poor; Trump is authentic or not, Trump voters want voluntary public-integrity. Think of it as open-minded independence for mutual freedom.

Michael Barone column. “Maybe it’s time to focus on what the legitimately” committed voters hoped for when they voted for President Trump: in this case, public-integrity.

We did not expect but are delighted with a president who offers integrity but greets liars with alternatives to research, all the while waiting for them to discover personal integrity. He interacts mostly with writers and elected officials. But they are first both persons and citizens who may either collaborate for civic-morality or cooperate when it is discovered. 

 

Too many choose to be dissidents to public-integrity, and that is the change Barone’s column invokes.

 

The Roberts’s column. The delusion seems that liberal democrats can or may resist Trump. 

 

Delusion emerges when people don’t apply the common sense humankind accumulated over some seven trillion years of experience and observation: the-discovered-objective-truth. For example, pride invites the woe that teaches humility, so LGBTs publicized pride in a preference others considered and rejected in favor of a proven quest for differing choices.

 

Their adoptive method was Alinsky-Marxist organizing (AMO), which is now well understood (e.g., see Adams on amorality, online at newenglishreview.org/DL_Adams/Saul_Alinsky_and_the_Rise_of_Amorality_in_American_Politics/ )

 

People are gullible to learn fear only to turn to the institution that indoctrinates that mysterious grace rather than humility as the private-protector. Gullibility is not on their list of deadly sins.

 

They accept that they were born in error when their mom and dad was a couple in love for llfe. Spouses dedicated to rearing and remaining faithful to aid the possibility and intent for the child to perfect their unique person.

 

They invent symbolic daggers like homophobia only to close their minds to heterophobia---the fear of a man to take responsibility for a woman and her viable ova matched by the fear of a woman to trust a man’s authenticity. Conveniently, they choose to partner with the same sex and thereby drop out of civically moral procreation and child rearing. Deluded by “we’re in love and deserve to be marriage,” they deny any child in their care the right to stay with the couple that conceived the child and to be reared by a mom and a dad rather than competing dads, one or both of whom may become objects of romance, divorce, and second “marriage.”

 

That’s only the tip of an ice berg of folly that liberal democrats can’t comprehend let alone understand and reap the benefits. Some of their folly may be reversed.

  

Stephanie Grace column. The caption said it all. 

 

“Get ready for talk about herding cats” rather than ideas for how Louisiana government may serve the people. Service to the people is the last concern of each the governor, the legislature, and The Advocate.

 

I usually read beyond the caption anyway, but I am busy. Got to get to the park before it rains.

 

Federal dollars available (Page 1B). How much will the state manager take and when will that entity be known?

  

Defamation suit (Page 1B). If wrongful, I hope LeCerts pays the cost.

Nungesser (Page 1A). To Diane Marina: Since Mr. Chester has no stake in his claims against Nungesser, I’d say Chester-claims carry no weight. Nungesser is innocent based on what read.

 

Interestingly, some commenters tie this to the N. O. monuments, a state issue about which I met Nungesser last year. 

 

I wanted the commission to maintain a timeline of history to be updated as understanding unfolds. Also, the Louisiana taliban or gestapo or black legislative caucus wants history revised. Wipe out the war by white church in the north vs white church in the south over erroneous bible interpretation regarding Africa’s global commodity to this day: black people. Black travesty!

  

Film giveaway (Page 1A). To: I wonder about Tyler Bridges’ integrity and The Advocate’s integrity.

 

In one paragraph, they report, “In 2015, producers claimed $268.3 million in tax credits while their films and television shows generated $61.1 million in tax revenue, Scott found.” Then Bridges evaluates “That’s a 22.7 percent return on taxpayer dollars.” What? A stream of giveaways is involved.

What really happened is that $222 million in credits were claimed in 2014, and less the 2014 gain (maybe $30 million/) is the proper expenditure on which the state received $61.1 million in 2015. In other words, the state lost maybe $131 million on its 2014 contribution to film makers, not considering the past decade's losses. We need revenues for 2016 to consider the 2015 loss.

A chart online at labudget.org/lbp/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/LBP-Report.Louisiana-Film-Tax-Credits.pdf , with $1.024 billion spent by Louisiana from 2002 through 2012. Individual reports for 2013-6 show another $1.02 billion in just four years. Assuming Bridges’ 22.7%, perhaps Louisiana received some $400 million after giving $2.04 billion, or $1.6 billion loss.

Doing this study reminded me of many controversies and court cases over business relationships with film makers. It is not a story of success for Louisiana, and I have no idea where those cases stand. It would not surprise me if the state squandered $2 billion over 14 years.

One other point that has occurred to me: when we consider state losses, it is common to talk about losses to taxpayers, as in this article. However, that is a false notion: When Louisiana government squanders two billion dollars, every person in the state---citizens, aliens, and visitors are hurt.

Rightly or not, I consider The Advocate a bemuser rather than a people’s help. If The Advocate blames Loren Scott, I want to see the evidence.

Phil Beaver does not “know” the-indisputable-facts. 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, education non-profit. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.