The Horrors And Destruction That Donald Trump Has Imposed On America...Just Kidding! Part 22

Before we start today’s discussion, let’s review my voting history: 

• I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life.
• Thus, I did not vote for Trump. 
• I have rarely voted for a Republican for national office in my life. 

A little over two years ago, many liberals, Democrats, and millennials were besides themselves with grief and fear because their pre-ordained queen, Hillary Clinton, was not elected President. Instead, Donald Trump was elected, an individual that these same people despised, hated, and feared, an individual they felt would endanger and possibly destroy the country and our democracy. For the past year and a half they fretted, worried and lashed out at anything or anyone that even remotely smelled of Donald Trump.

Given that Trump has been in office for about two and a half years, I thought, that as someone who did not vote for him, it would be a good idea to review the horror, trauma, and terrible things that Trump has subjected the country to in just twenty seven month’s time. This is obviously a very sarcastic comment when you take an unbiased look at what has happened during the Trump Presidency.

The many previous posts we did on this topic identified well over 250 good things that have happened to America and Americans since Trump became President can found by entering the phrase “the horrors and destruction” in the search box above. Today, let’s add another dozen or so good things that are going on in the country even though the doubters hate the reality that Trump is President [Note: we may have covered some of these before so consider the repeats, if any, a good review]:

• After years of no change in pay, Trump engineered a budget increase and thus, a pay raise for our brave folks serving in our armed forces.
• Trump embarrassed many NATO countries into finally paying their own fair share of their common defense, as required under the NATO Treaty requirements but what had been ignored in the past.
• ISIS, the most violent and despicable terrorist group of all time, was virtually wiped out by Trump’s military strategy in a matter of months even though Obama said it would take generations.
• Trump’s outreach to North Korea has resulted in North Korea not launching any more rocket tests since the Trump/Kim Jong Un summit last summer.
• The economy has been roaring on all cylinders since Trump took office with record low unemployment levels across the board, rising wages, low inflation, low gas prices, and a soaring stock market.
• Six million jobs have been created since Trump took office with many of them being on shore manufacturing jobs, jobs that Obama once said would take a “magic wand” to bring back.
• A recent study by two University of Pennsylvania sociologists found that Americans on average have become “much less racist” since Trump took office in 2016, killing the deceitful and hateful rhetoric of the mainstream press and Democrats/liberals.
• Trump has supported the need to better take care of our brave veterans, signing the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Act, signing the Harry W. Colmery Educational Assistance Act, signing the V.A. Choice and Quality Employment Act, and creating a new White House V.A. hotline, staffed by veterans and family members, to provide to any needs of any veteran.

For those of you that have hated on Trump since day one, and given your obvious gross error in judgment relative to Trump given the well 250 accomplishments we have previously listed and the eight newest accomplishments listed above, let me ask that you do us all a favor by implementing the following changes in your behavior and attitude:

• Chill out, tamp down your TDS affliction. No matter how much you hate Trump on a sexist, personal basis, get over it. He is the legally and duly elected President, he will be around for a while so refocus your hatred on more constructive issues and matters. You will live a lot longer if you take your hatred out of your heart and soul and devote it to something positive.
• I would really appreciate it if some of you would apologize to the Trump voters you have disrespected in some of the grossest terms possible over the past year. You have called millions of voters racists, ignorant, stupid, Nazis, KKK members, and other horrible names simply because you disagreed with their voting choice. No American should be called such disgusting names simply because they exercised their Constitutional rights to the best of their abilities. Plus, slandering over 60 million Americans is no way to unite the country and get it focused on the real issues facing us all.
• More personally, I would like, no I am demanding, an apology from some of you for your slanderous and disgusting name calling because in doing so, you insulted and disrespected my sister, my family members, my friends, and my co-workers who simply voted their conscience. I will defend their right to vote anyway they wanted and will no put up with your childish and vicious venom and bile directed at them, very important people in my life.
• And finally, I challenge you to read the following blog post, a post that shows quite clearly that it was hateful people like some of you and your silence during the Obama years that actually caused Trump to be elected. Thus, the people you hate for voting for Trump are actually looking back at you in the mirror:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-american-liberals-and-washington.html

If you were silent in the dozens of instances listed in this post then you were responsible for the very thing you hate: a Trump Presidency. Or put another way, a so far successful and productive Trump Presidency. Over 250 accomplishments in a little less than two and a half years is not too shabby despite many of you wanting both Trump and the country to fail.

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The Hypocrisy and Idiocy of The NFL - A Follow Up To My Letter To Roger Goodell

Two days ago we wrote an open letter to Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner, suggesting a way for he and the NFL to get themselves out of the terrible jam they have created by pissing off millions of Americans and millions of NFL fans. The root cause of this jam is the hypocrisy and infantile behavior of Goodell and many NFL players in disrespecting the American flag, the national anthem, the country, and the service men and women and police men and women that protect all of us.

As a result of their behavior:

• Social media is red hot with fans expressing their disgust at the players’ and Goodell’s disrespectful behavior.
• Fans are vowing not to buy NFL tickets and memorabilia, boycotting NFL sponsors, and not watching NFL games on TV any more.
• Fans that have purchased special and expensive NFL TV packages have been asking for and receiving refunds on their purchases.

A couple of observations and talking points:

• First and foremost, President Trump should have never entered the fray, this is a marketplace matter, it does not have anything to do with Federal government functions. Trump should have been focusing on much more important national matters including a potential nuclear war with North Korea, the mess in Syria, terrorism in general, the repeal of the disastrous Obama Care legislation, tax reform, and any number of other pressing matters.
• But having said that, Obama also should have also kept his nose out of non Federal government, trivial matters: he should not have taken time off as President to record a commercial for a comedian’s (George Lopez) TV show, he should not have wasted so much time prancing and primping around on daytime talk shows like The View, Ellen, and others, he should not have wasted so much time every March thinking that he was an expert in picking March Madness games and going on ESPN to brag about his picks (which were never any good.), etc. He should have been focusing on much more important national matters  including a potential nuclear war with North Korea, the mess in Syria, terrorism in general, the repeal of the disastrous Obama Care legislation, tax reform, and any number of other pressing matters.
• Goodell comes off as hyper hypocritical in this matter. When players wanted to mark up their sneakers to honor those that died on 9-11 he stopped them because it was not consistent with and was disrespectful of league uniform rules. When a player wanted to mark up his spikes to honor his mother, he stopped the gesture because it was not consistent with and was disrespectful of league uniform rules. When the Dallas Cowboys wanted to put a decal on their helmets to honor the five Dallas police officers that were murdered by a domestic terrorist, he stopped the gesture because it was not consistent with and was disrespectful of league uniform rules. But when a bunch of players disrespect the flag, the country and the national anthem, acts of defiance that are not consistent with league rules, he goes mute. When quarterback Colin Kaepernick comes to an NFL practice wearing socks that depicted all cops as pigs, surely inconsistent with NFL uniform rules, Goodell was silent. So hypocritical.
• In fact, he got himself in a snit by claiming that Trump disrespected the league. He needs to keep in mind that the NFL needs America, America does not need the NFL. His players and employees disrespect the flag and country and those that protect us and he’s upset because he thinks that the league got disrespected, give me a break.
• Last week, a New York Giants receiver, Odell Beckham, caught a touchdown pass and as part of his post score antics he got down on all four legs and acted like a male dog taking a piss on a bush. To my knowledge as of today, Goodell has not reprimanded or punished Beckham for such crass and disgusting behavior but he tolerates the disrespecting of the country, the anthem, and the flag.
• But probably the other biggest screw up by Goodell, besides his super hypocrisy, is that all of these player protests, supposedly against racism in America, are totally useless. These protests are an empty gesture of spoiled millionaire players taking a few minutes to execute an empty protest without any plans, initiatives, and sense of what it takes to actually make a positive difference in society. As a result, the issue they think  they are highlighting is getting lost because of the way Goodell let them go about it. If there is widespread racism in this country, and real data would dispute the widespread assertion of these players, they blew the opportunity to address it with their disrespectful behavior. The issue they protested, racism, is now an afterthought to the furor and disrespect they have incurred and for that I blame Goodell for letting the crazies run the asylum and not focusing their passion into a positive action that involved fans, sponsors, law enforcement, and politicians.
• No kid in south Chicago is any safer from the drug trade violence in the streets as a result of millionaire players not respecting the flag. No opioid drug addict in inner city Baltimore is more likely to get addiction treatment as a result of millionaire players not respecting the anthem. No inner city school kid in Washington DC is getting more than a mediocre education as a result of millionaire players not respecting those in the police and armed forces that have died and suffered protecting all of us. And no bridges between police organizations and local communities have been built as a result of millionaire players pissing like a dog.

I have provided a way out of the mess he created. I doubt he will ever read it or act on my suggestions. That is certainly his right. But I am done with the NFL for now. Not so much because I disagree with the players but what they did and how they did it was stupid and self defeating. And the hypocrisy of Roger Goodell in this whole mess is juvenile, and certainly not the mark of a great leader. Two things I hate in life is hypocrisy and stupidity, and the NFL and Goodell have certainly displayed both of them in this issue, causing the real purported issue, racism, to  get lost in the noise.

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An Open Letter To Roger Goodell and A Way Out Of The Current Mess He Created - Follow Up Discussion Tomorrow

September 26, 2017

Mr. Goodell:

It seems you have quite the problem on your hands given the now widespread habit of players not respecting the American flag or the national anthem at the start of NFL games this season. No doubt you know that this behavior has caused quite the discontent among your fan base as many in this country interpret the player's’ behavior as disrespecting the brave armed forces and police forces that protect our country and safeguard our towns, streets, and families.

I am assuming that you are also aware that the players’ behavior is resulting in formal and informal efforts getting underway to boycott NFL games, sales, and sponsors. Yes, you have quite the quandary to dig out from if the NFL and the NFL revenue stream is to be protected.

To be honest with you upfront, I too have a serious problem with both the players’ behavior and your behavior. I have had many friends and relatives who have served in this country’s armed forces and some who died in that service. I have many friends who are able, kind, and non-racist members of police forces that are being tarnished with this feeling that all police members are racists. In my opinion, the players’ pre-game behavior is a slap in the face of these other brave Americans. Your refusal to fine Colin Kaepernick for wearing socks at an NFL practice depicting all police officers as pigs while fining players for having a minor fashion discrepancy on the field is the height of hypocrisy. 

But whatever got us to this situation, the question now is how to get out of it so that all parties get what they want. And this letter is a suggestion to that end. You and the league are now stuck in a vortex that is not going to get any better if you and the league proceed in a business as usual manner. No good will come to the league and its owners, no good will come to those that are offended by the players’ behavior, and no good will come to protecting and advancing the protesting players intentions, which seem to be to combat racism is this country. 

My proposed solution attempts to break the league out of the muck and mire before it swallows you up while making positive contributions to humanity. The main components of this plan include the following aspects:

- The players that are protesting the American flag, the national anthem, and insulting all service members and police forces across the country will contribute to a fund to address society’s problems. If these millionaire players want to make a statement, let them back up that statement with the financial resources that they can surely afford. I propose that the protesting players put up $100 million for this effort.

- You have many, many rich corporate sponsors. I would suggest that as good societal presences that they also put up a contribution to this effort, with the intention of matching the $100 million put up by the protesting players.

- With this $200 million fund, call it the NFL Player Humanity Fund, the funds would be distributed to worthy and credible charity and activist organizations that would address the problems facing society, especially minority neighborhood problems across the country:

Some of the funds would be used by minority organizations to build bridges and relationships with local police forces, to build understanding and compassion between those in the community and those that police those communities. These efforts would help increase police training sensitivity awareness and build positive community outreach programs between all parties involved in a community’s safety.
Some of these funds would be used to protect the nation’s urban youth from the violence that many of these kids faces on city streets everyday with help going to organizations like Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCAs, etc. that would provide a safe, constructive haven for urban youth.
Some of the funds would be used to help treat the drug addicted throughout the country and especially in urban areas, a plague that in some places is now more fatal than gun violence.
Some of the funds would be used to fund viable and accredited education institutions, especially in urban areas where city kids never seem to get the opportunity education-wise to break out of the cycle of poverty.
Some of the funds would be used to support those that have been injured in the line of duty of protecting the country, be it servicemen and women or police men and women, helping in their recovery from wounds and injuries or in the case of death, helping the families they left behind.

Once this fund is established, any player that continues to disrespect the flag and the anthem would be fined $1,000 per game, money that would go into the fund. That helps the fund grow to help others, puts some skin in the game for these wealthy players, and takes the fever out of the sore with fans who know that if a player continues to disrespect the flag and anthem at least some monetary support will go towards helping society.

Hopefully you get the idea. Players disrespecting the flag and country without a viable plan to fix what they protest come off to many Americans as spoiled rich brats who think a minute or two of disobedience in their million dollar careers actually accomplishes something. People upset with the players need to recognize that there are actual racism issues in this country that need to be addressed beyond a couple of minutes of protest. Kids in urban areas that are getting shot, drug addicted and under educated never have a chance at a better life that I am sure the protesting players and the protesting fans would want to see happen. And despite what  Kaepernick thinks and you condone, the vast majority of police officers in this country are not pigs.

You need to break this vicious cycle of everyone shouting at each other, accomplishing nothing. A program such as the NFL Humanity Fund would address the issues that fans, players, and the underprivileged in this country are facing and actually have a plan to get things done. It gives everyone something that is important to them and puts the league in a much better public relations position.

I am aware that the NFL and individual players already donate a large amount of funds and time to worthwhile efforts in communities across the country. However, most fans are not aware of that so the current player protests make them come off as selfish hypocrites. However, the players have upped the ante so to speak with their protests and disrespect and thus, the need to up the ante on combating racism and society’s problems have to be upped also.

I hope this proposal lands on an NFL desk of someone who is interested in breaking this cycle of yelling and protests, by both players and fans, that accomplish nothing. The NFL PLayer Humanity fund would get some good out of a bad situation that is getting worse. Ignore it at your own peril, die hard football fans like myself are not going to be patient forever, the volume of yelling that gets worse every week and accomplishes nothing is turning may of us off, many who just want to watch a football game and relax without all of the distractions that now surround the game for no good reason and which, most importantly,  accomplish nothing.

Sincerely,

Walter “Bruno” Korschek

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A Thanksgiving Wish: Helping Each Other and Undoing The Damage and Hatred That Washington Politicians Have Wrought

I hope that today finds you, your family and your friends healthy and well and hopefully together, sharing this Thanksgiving with each other in the way you see fit. I hope that there is good cheer around your dinner table, lots of laughs, and plenty of food.

However, if you are fortunate enough to be in such a situation, may I suggest that you take a minute out of your Thanksgiving day to think about others that may not be so fortunate as yourselves. As you may or may not know, there are about 12 million Americans who are currently unable to find work and may not be having as wonderful a Thanksgiving as you.

There are about 23 million Americans who are unemployed or under employed, including many young Americans who are struggling to find a job and establishing a career for themselves.

Every week, hundreds of thousands of Americans find the need to apply for first time unemployment benefits as the economy continues to struggle and economic growth is not enough to provide employment to all those who need it.

News stories have been circulating the past few days on how these hard economic times and high travel costs are keeping families apart this holiday season, something that should never happen in America.

As you sit down to eat, remember that almost 50 million Americans are eating today, through no fault of their own, only because they are receiving food aid from the Federal government.

May I suggest that as a result of the above economic hardships that you take a little time or a little money, only what you can afford, and make the upcoming Christmas holidays a little easier, a little brighter for these million of fellow citizens.

Throw some change into the Salvation Army bell ringer on the street corner. Next time you go shopping, buy a few extra things for the local food bank. Or better yet, volunteer your time in whatever way possible.

Write a check to your favorite charity or buy that gift for the child that may not get one this holiday season. If you see a member of our armed forces waiting in line for a coffee or a lunch, step up up and treat him or her, thanking them for their sacrifices and service.

You see, unless we help each other, it is unlikely the political class will help them. Many of the economic hardships these folks are going through are a direct result of the inability or unwillingness of our Washington politicians to do the right thing. If they were willing or had the ability to do the right thing, 23 million Americans would not be hurting for employment this Thanksgiving day.

Thus, we need to each individually step forward and help our neighbors, waiting for Washington to do the right thing is a no win proposition. These overpaid, under performing politicians have left us and our neighbors with the following dire economic situation today (data and commentary courtesy of the Bankrupting America website):

This season, we are thankful for our friends, and family, and that we live in a nation that can endure a contentious election and still have peace. (Even if the discussion around your Thanksgiving table is not always so serene.) While we are grateful for the things we have, we are mindful of the work we – especially our federal government – has ahead, especially when it comes to repairing the nation’s balance sheet and economy. To that end, here are the five budget- and economic-related events that we are not thankful for this year:

1) No Budget. Congress failed to pass a budget once again this year. The House passed an outline, but the Senate did not. It looks like this trend could continue: according to Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who is likely to take over the Senate Budget Committee, her panel may not even consider one for next year. Disgraceful.

2) $1 Trillion Deficit. For the fourth year in a row the federal government spent $1 trillion more than it took in. Deficits over the last four years totaled nearly $5.1 trillion.

3) Nearly $16.3 Trillion Debt. As of Nov. 15, the national debt totaled $16.278 trillion, about $142,300 for every household in the country. That figure is nearly triple the average household income in 2011 ($50,054).

4) Overspending, High Unemployment, Low Growth. On average since World War II, federal government spending has totaled 19.8 percent of the economy. In FY 2011, it was 24.1 percent and for FY 2012 it was estimated to come in at 24.3 percent. What have been the results? An unemployment rate of 7.9 percent (average since 1948: 5.8 percent) and a two percent economic growth rate in the third quarter(quarterly average since World War II: 3.1 percent).

5) Coming Fiscal Cliff. After last year’s debt supercommittee failed to agree on a long-term plan to tackle the nation’s persistent deficits, billions of dollars of spending cuts kicked in. Congress is now trying to undo many of these cuts and figure out how to deal with trillions of coming tax increases. Together these policies have led to great uncertainty.

A Reuters survey found 42 of 50 economists believe there is a significant chance fiscal cliff negotiations would reduce consumer and investor confidence. Additionally, The Wall Street Journal revealed at least 40 of the nation’s top companies are planning to cut capital spending because of fiscal uncertainty. Reduced spending by the private sector, combined with lower confidence from consumers and investors, will eventually result in even higher unemployment and worsening growth.

So yes, be thankful for what you have today, whether it is a job, a healthy family, good friends, the ability to come together, and have enough to eat. But also be thankful if you can help others also get through these tough economic times. Our politicians, the ones who created these tough economic times, are seemingly incapable of doing such a noble deed.

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