January, 2018, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: A Senator Votes For The Opposite Of What He Believes, Another Politician Gets Indicted and More

It is the beginning of another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let's get started:

1) We have often pointed out how confused, dazed, and lost most politicians are. We once reported that a Georgia Congressman thought the island of Guam could tip over in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. We reported on a Texas Congresswoman who thought that there were still two Vietnams with North Vietnam ruling over South Vietnam. That same Congresswoman once declared that her own Congressional district was 50 feet below sea level which, of course, it was not. We once had a Speaker of the House proclaim that a piece legislation (Obama Care) had to be passed BEFORE we could see what was in it.

Which brings us to the latest piece of politician confusion. As most of you know, Washington recently enacted some far reaching tax reform legislation that will reduce and simplify the Federal tax process. It is estimated that over 140 America tax filers will see a reduction in their taxes going forward as a result. The tax legislation will also make filing one’s taxes easier and quicker. And the legislation has already resulted in companies taking important steps to reward themselves, their employees, their stockholders, and the charities they support with their tax savings.

Which brings us to our latest confused politician. Joe Manchin is a Democratic Senator from the state of West Virginia. He voted against the tax reform legislation as did every other Democrat in Congress. In a recent radio interview, Manchin acknowledged there was a lot of good in the legislation that he voted against: “There’s some good in this bill. I acknowledge that. The things that you mention are correct. Initially people will benefit and see some changes in their taxes.” He went on to say that, “I think there is going to be benefit from the get-go, which is called the sugar high.”

Now, he did try, vainly, to justify his no vote on the legislation. He said that taxes could go up in ten years if Congress does not renew the tax cuts. Well, that gives Americans ten years of tax reductions, Joe, and in ten years all Congress has to do is renew the tax cuts, that simple. Another way to say the same thing is a line I found describing Manchin’s idiotic position: “Which is like saying you’re going to pass on this delicious chocolate cake right now because there might not be any left in 2027.” 

Obviously, Manchin voted against his conscience and voted along party lines because his handlers in the upper end of the Democratic Party dictated his vote. Which is just another example of what is wrong with our political class in America today: doing the right thing always takes a back seat to doing the things that benefit only politicians and the two major political parties.

2) It is not only politicians that are confused, dazed, and lost. Often celebrities are the same way. For some reason they think that because they are good at show business stuff that they have deep insights into life and politics that they need to share, and impose, on the rest of us who do not have their brains or knowledge.

Third tier comedian Rosie O’Donnell is one of those show business types. She has been a vocal, often hysterical critic, of Trump ever since he decided to run for the Presidency, somehow thinking that her ranting and raving will make some kind of positive difference in the state of the union.

Unfortunately, her out of control ranting and raving may have exposed her to some serious felony possibilities:

• Tim Brown, writing for the Freedom Outpost website recently, reported that O’Donnell could face a $12 million fine and 15 years in prison for attempted bribery.
• In the run up to the vote to reduce taxes, O’Donnell went on Twitter and publicly offered to pay two Republican Senators $2 million if they voted against the tax reduction legislation.
• Unfortunately, selling your vote to the highest bidder is not the way our republic and government processes are supposed to work which makes offering a sitting member of Congress money to vote a certain way a crime.
• According to the article: “18 U.S. Code § 201 criminalizes the attempted bribery of federal officials by whoever “directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any public official … with intent to influence any official act.””...”The fine to be imposed would be “not more than three times the monetary equivalent of the thing of value, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more than fifteen years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.””
• While some people initially thought her bribery tweet was in jest or to make a symbolic point, she followed up with another tweet, insisting she was serious, making her even more susceptible to prosecution.

Still no cure for stupid...or show business people who think they are smarter than the rest of us when it comes to politics, government, and the world.

3) Probably the second most mentioned topic in this blog behind stupidity of politicians is the crookedness of politicians. Which brings us to the latest instance of a crooked politician:

• Virginia Democratic Congressional candidate Shaun Brown was recently indicted by a Federal grand jury.
• The indictment includes two counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government property.
• Specifically, the indictment claims that Brown and others filed bogus claims with the Federal government’s Summer Food Service Program in excess of $439,000 via a non-profit group that Brown founded in 1995.
• Her non-profit was supposed to provide meals to children of low income households during the months when those kids could not get meals via school lunches.
• The indictment claims that Brown defrauded the Federal government, and American taxpayers, by submitting for compensation for more meals than she actually served.

If true, and a Federal grand jury indictment is serious stuff, then how low is this potential member of Congress, using hungry kids as a front to defraud the American taxpayer. And she wanted to be a member of Congress. So sad and pathetic.

That will do it for today’s insanity: Another potential greedy and pathetic politician, this one feasting off of low income kids, an idiotic show business celebrity whose big mouth might land her in prison, and a Senator who voted how others in his political sphere dictated how he was to vote rather than voting for the best interests of his constituents. More insanity to follow.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:

Term Limits Now: http://www.howmuchworsecoulditget.com
http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

January, 2018, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: People Just Want To Be Free and The Horrible Priorities Of California Politicians

It is the beginning of another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let's get started:

1) We have often discussed the reality that people just want to be free.They want to be free to operate their lives in the way they want to operate their lives with minimal interference from government bureaucrats and politicians. They want to keep as much of their wages and earnings as possible in order to provide the best possible lives for their family, friends, and themselves.

And that is something that politicians never seem to understand. Taking more and more of a person’s personal wealth for them for “government programs” never ends well. Consider what is happening in the most heavily taxed states in the country and the death spiral they have created for their states and their citizens:

• According to an article on the Daily Caller website by Will Racke on December 26, 2017, almost half a million people migrated out of just three of those most heavily taxed states, California, New York, and New Jersey, in the past year.
• New York lost the most amount of current state residents with 190,000 residents leaving the state between July, 2016 and July, 2017 according to the Census Bureau.
• Since 2010, New York, a heavily taxed state, lost over 1 million residents, more than any other state on both and absolute and as a share of population.
• Now, in total the overall population was not down too much since the birth rate exceeded the death rate and there were a lot of international immigration into the state.
• However, recently born resident obviously do not pay taxes and new international arrivals are quite possibly lower income and lower tax generators than the established residents who left the state.
• Illinois is another heavily taxed state that has long term state employee pension issues also lost a lot of tax paying residents.
• 115,000 Illinois residents left the state in the past year, causing it to drop to the sixth most populated state behind Pennsylvania.
• Illinois has lost 650,000 residents since 2010, equal to the population of the 2nd through 5th largest Illinois cities (excluding Chicago).
• The loss of taxpayers at such a great rate has caused Illinois lawmakers to raise taxes to cover the smaller tax base revenue stream which is likely to cause even more residents to leave the state, says Orphe Divounguy of the Illinois Policy Institute: “As people leave the state, they take their pocketbooks with them. That means there are fewer Illinoisans to pay the bills. It’s worrying because if you have a declining population and a declining labor force, you will for sure have a further slowdown of economic activity going into 2018.”
• And unlike New York, Illinois could not make up the difference with births and in-migration.
• California also experienced high levels of out migration with 138,000 residents leaving the state last year, second only to New York, which is not surprising since the state’s highest marginal tax rate is over 13%, an income tax to be paid on top of the Federal income tax.
• Like New York, California showed a small overall increase in population to offset the 138,000 with births outnumbering deaths and a high level of international immigration. 
• But as with New York, newborns do not pay taxes and the international input, especially in California, is likely mostly lower earning and poorer Central and South American and Mexican immigrants.
• And with Trump’s tax reform legislation about to become law, a law that caps the amount of state and local tax deductions one can take on Federal income tax returns, the out migration from these three states is likely to increase since their higher earning residents no longer get the advantage of higher tax deductions from the states’ high income and property taxes.

Can you say death spiral? HIgher taxes causes tax paying residents to leave the state for lower tax rates which reduces the tax base which reduces tax revenue which causes politicians to raise tax rates (because they seemingly never reduce government spending or inefficiencies) which causes more residents to leave, etc. People just want to be free, a reality that politicians seldom understand.

2) Jared Sichel, writing for the Daily Wire on December 29, 2017, showed that it is not only Washington politicians that pass stupid laws, as he reviewed six inane California state laws that will take effect January 1, 2017:

• California politicians decided that the state government will ignore existing Federal immigration laws by forbidding state law enforcement officials from asking for someone’s immigration status or holding someone for ICE immigration agents and prohibits landlords from reporting renters who are illegal immigrants. So, the safety of American citizens (e.g. Kate Steinle) and the rule of law take a backseat to illegal immigrants in the state of California.
• As if Californias were not taxed enough, see the previous point on how high taxation is forcing residents to leave the state, as of January 1 California motor vehicle registration fees are going up between $25 and $175.
• It will be against the law for a potential employer to ask a potential employee what their salary history was or what salary they are getting at their present job. Why the government should have any say in a private conversation between a private employer and a private citizen is a mystery to me along with what possible good could come from this invasion of privacy is also a mystery.
• A new California law will steadily increase the state’s minimum wage level to $15 in 2022. As we have shown so many times in this blog, this forced increase in the state’s minimum wage will reduce the demand for low skilled, poorer people and/or force businesses to move out of state to avoid the higher salary costs in their business, increased costs forced upon the businesses by economically ignorant politicians.
• In California you no longer have to go through “clinically appropriate treatment for the purpose of gender transition.” In other words, anyone at any time can change their gender destination on their birth certificate of any state id documents. Which raises the question: the homeless rate in California is skyrocketing, the state’s infrastructure is falling apart, the state’s financial health is dire straits, the state’s public schools generally stink and the state politicians are worried about trivial gender change issues.
• Local schools can no longer be allowed to whether or not they want their schools to be designated “gun free zones.” Which means that all schools will no longer be able to protect their students and staffs they way they want to protect them.

Again, so many pressing issues facing California residents, issues that dwarf any potential upside from these trivial and petty laws from the state’s politicians.

So let’s review what we learned today: people want to be free and are willing to physically move to a place that makes them freer and California politicians have what has to be the most inane priorities relative to what is really broken in their state. More insanity to follow.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:

Term Limits Now: http://www.howmuchworsecoulditget.com
http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

The Horrors and Destruction that Donald Trump Has Imposed On America...Just Kidding! (Part 2)

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 year ago, many liberals, Democrats, and millenials 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 that felt would endanger and possibly destroy the country and/or our democracy. For the past year they fretted, and worried and lashed out at anything or anyone that even remotely smelled of Donald Trump.

Given that Trump has been in office for a year and we are at the end of that calendar year, 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 one short. Of course, this previous statement is dripping in sarcasm. Several days ago we listed out 53 of Trump’s positive accomplishments for 2017. But since then a number of other positive accomplishments have come to the forefront.

So for those of you that feared the end of the world with Trump’s election, here are 9 additional accomplishments, in addition to that previous list of 53 accomplishments, he has imposed on the country. Let’s be honest Trump haters, he has done a pretty good job in just the first twelve months of his term. 

1) According to an analysis from the folks at Zillow, the giant real estate sales website, the value of the entire U.S. housing stock increased by 6.5% in 2017, the first year of Trump’s term, or a dollar increase of a robust $2 trillion. This is the biggest gain in home values since 2013.

2) Rick Newman, in a recent article on the Yahoo Finance website, admitted that he was wrong last year when he predicted the stock market would plunge when Trump was elected, citing the reality that the Dow is up about 28% since the election, the Dow has set 86 record closing highs, and the S&P index is up about 20%, while Americans “feel increasingly confident about their [economic] prospects.”

3) The Conference Board’s index of consumer confidence latest analysis shows consumer confidence hit 122.1 in December, slightly below the 17-year high set in November, 128.6, with Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators at the Conference Board, stating that “consumers’ expectations remain at historically strong levels, suggesting economic growth will continue well into 2018.”

4) The latest unemployment rate analysis from the Department of Labor puts the rate at 4.1%, the lowest level since 2000.

5) The Conference Board also found that the percentage of Americans planning to buy a major appliance is, 9.2%, is at its highest level since at least 1978.

6) CNN Money reported recently that 60% of Americans surveyed by the Conference Board plan to take a vacation in the next six months, which was just below the October measure of 63.5%, making it the second highest intention level since at least 1978.

7) The number of police officers killed in the line of duty in Trump’s first year fell to the second lowest level in at least 50 years.

8) He proved so many “experts” wrong including the obnoxious Paul Krugman of the New York Times who so wrongly predicted the impact of Trump’s election back in late 2016: “Under any circumstances, putting an irresponsible, ignorant man who takes his advice from all the wrong people in charge of the nation with the world’s most important economy would be very bad news. What makes it especially bad right now, however, is the fundamentally fragile state much of the world is still in, eight years after the great financial crisis,” said Krugman a year before the Dow rose almost 28% and we have experienced two consecutive quarters of over 3% annualized growth. 

9) He reduced the size of the excessive Federal government workforce in all but three Federal entities (Department of Homeland Security, Veterans Administration, and Interior Department) by 16,000 full time employees in a single year, compared to Obama who expanded the size of the Federal government workforce by 68,000 employees in his first year in the midst of a deep recession and massive Federal government budget deficits.

So for those of you that feared the end of the world with Trump’s election, here is a list of 9 more Trump accomplishments to go with the list of 53 accomplishments we published a few days ago.

Let’s be honest Trump haters, he has done a pretty good job in just the first twelve months of his term.

Given your gross error in judgement relative to Trump, let me ask that you to 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.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:

http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

The Horrors and Destruction that Donald Trump Has Imposed On America...Just Kidding!

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 year ago, many liberals, Democrats, and millenials 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 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 a year and we are at the end of that calendar year, 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 one short year:

1. Oversaw two consecutive quarters of annualized economic growth over 3% in his first year, Obama had no more than two quarters over 3% in eight years. 
2. Generated repeated historic highs in all major stock market indices over the past year, likely enriching any American with individual stock holdings, mutual fund holdings, or a 401k or IRA account. 
3. Provided tax reduction legislation that will reduce the Federal income tax burden of well over a 100 million American taxpayers. 
4. Eliminated about 1,500 unnecessary government regulations to spur investment and business growth and save the economy an estimated $89 billion in excessive regulation costs. 
5. The national unemployment rate is at its lowest level since 2007, lower than at any time during Obama’s eight years. 
6. The national Hispanic unemployment rate is at its lowest level ever since the government started to measure it. 
7. The unemployment rate in the manufacturing sector is at its lowest rate in years. 
8. The weekly applications for unemployment benefits are almost at historical lows. 
9. Median household income is at a 7 year high. 
10. Existing home sales are at their highest level since January, 2006. 
11. Home prices rose a strong 6.2% in the past year. 
12. Confidence among U.S. homebuilders reached its highest level in December since July, 1999 according to data from the National Association of Home Builders. 
13. Consumer confidence is at its highest level since 2000, with the consumer confidence index at 125.6. 
14. Home mortgage applications are at a seven year high. 
15. Improving economic conditions resulted in a Christmas buying/spending season that was higher than it has been in almost ten years, rising almost 5% or $33 billion over 2016. 
16. AT&T announced that it would pass along their company income tax savings from Trump’s tax cut legislation to their employees in the form of a $1,000 bonus to each of its 200,000 nonmanagement employees in addition to investing $1 billion in the U.S. market in 2018. 
17. Comcast announced that it would pass along their company income tax savings from Trump’s tax cut legislation to their employees in the form of a $1,000 bonus to its frontline and non-executive employees and invest over $50 billion in the U.S. market in the next five years to improve and expand their broadband, theme park, television and film business divisions. 
18. Fifth Third bank announced that it would pass along their company income tax savings from Trump’s tax cut in the form of raising the minimum wage of its 3,000 hourly employees to $15 an hour in addition to paying a one time bonus of $1,000 to all of its 13,500 employees: “We want to invest in our most important asset – our people,” said CEO Greg Carmichael of Fifth Third Bank. He also said that the tax cut provided an opportunity to “reevaluate its compensation structure and share some of those benefits with its talented and dedicated workforce.” 
19. Wells Fargo announced that it would pass along their company income tax savings from Trump’s tax cut in the form of raising the minimum wage of their hourly employees to $15 an hour and spend $400 million on donations to community and non-profit organizations in 2018, 
20. Boeing announce that it would take its income tax savings from Trump’s tax cut by investing $300 million in the company’s employees and facilities and charitable donations “Each of these investments benefits Boeing’s most important strength – our employees – and reflects the real-time impact and economic benefit of the reforms,” said Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg. “The reforms enable us to better compete on the world stage and give us a stronger foundation for the investment in innovation, facilities and skills that will support our long-term growth.” 
21. Bob Parsons, the billionaire owner of YAM Worldwide, announced he will be passing tax savings from the Trump tax cut in the form of giving almost 600 of his employees with more than six months tenure a $2,000 bonus and those with less than six months bonus $1,000 bonus on top of currently planned bonuses: "The passage of the tax credit is a catalyst for explosive economic growth. On a massive scale, the lowered federal tax burden on businesses will increase investment, entrepreneurship and corporate philanthropy.I’ve always believed in sharing good news and have decided to celebrate the tax plan by giving back to my staff.” 
22. Other companies, including FedEx and CVS Health, have announced that they will also pass along their income tax savings from Trump’s tax cut in the form of employee compensation and just these two companies predicted their tax savings would enable them to together hire 4,000 more employees. 
23. Is currently reviewing and fixing all international trade regulations to ensure America gets a fair deal with other countries. 
24. Convinced China to begin the importation of U.S. grown beef. 
25. Implemented policies that have significantly reduced illegal immigration to the lowest level in 17 years. 
26. Convinced major companies like Exxon, Bayer, Apple, SoftBank, Toyota, etc. to domestically invest $78 billion. 
27. Renegotiated the F-35 fighter program contracts to save the American taxpayer $700 million. 
28. Reduced the White House staff budget by $22 million. 
29. Has ordered the head executive of each branch of government to come up with a plan to trim excessive bureaucracy and costs within their branch and to restructure their branch to improve its efficiency. 
30. Has kept average gasoline prices at their lowest levels in 12 years. 
31. Got the Keystone pipeline approved. 
32. Convinced NATO allies to pull their fair share of common defense expense, resulting in those allies increasing their defense spending by 4.3%. 
33. Allowed the Veterans Administration, a corrupt and ineffective and inefficient government agency, to more easily fire poorly performing employees. 
34. Allowed veterans to receive health care from non-government entities to improve the turnaround time for healthcare treatment of veterans. 
35. Gave NASA better and more definitive direction and strategies including giving it its first reauthorization in seven years, requiring it to create a plan with cost estimates to get a manned flight to Mars by 2023, requiring it to prioritize its own launch equipment over that of foreign countries, and analyze and prepare a report on the danger of an asteroid hit on Earth. 
36. Passed legislation that will result in the first overhaul of the nation’s weather forecasting system since the 1990s with $170 million authorized to improve weather and storm prediction, tracking, planning and disaster recovery. 
37. Passed legislation to impose a dozen different types of sanctions on Russia for its action in the Ukraine and Crimea. 
38. Passed the “Forever GI” legislation that expanded opportunities and relaxed restrictions on the funding available for former service people to get education benefits. 
39. Put a focus on combating the criminal enterprise known as MS-13 gangs, an illegal immigrant driven crime syndicate that has a presence in all 50 states. 
40. Pulled the country out of the ill defined, unbalanced, and unnecessary/useless Paris climate accord. 
41. Created a government commission to focus on combating child trafficking. 
42. Created a government commission to focus on combating rampant voter fraud. 
43. Created a government commission to focus on combating the country’s opioid addiction crisis. 
44. Created an office to support the victims of violence from illegal immigrant criminals. 
45. Recorded the second highest monthly government budget surplus in history in April, 2017. 
46. Signed An Executive Order To Promote Energy Independence and Economic Growth. 
47. Donated an entire paycheck to veterans’ causes and support. 
48. Recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. 
49. Helped break the back of ISIS, the most horrible terrorist organization of all time, even getting recognition from the pro-liberal, anti-Trump New York Times: “...And for now, the Trump administration’s approach to the Middle East has been moderately successful, and indeed close to what I would have hoped for from a normal Republican president following a realist-internationalist course.” 
50. Launched a multi pronged diplomatic and economic strategy to address the growing and dangerous problem of a nuclear armed North Korea, a problem that Obama ignored for eight years with his lame “Strategic Patience” strategy. 
51. Reduced the United States financial commitment to the United Nations budget in order to force this bloated, inefficient, and ineffective organization to clean up its act and not continue to waste American taxpayer wealth. 
52. Attained an approval rating exactly equal to Obama’s rating at the same time in their first terms, as reported by Matt Drudge “Rasmussen Poll shows Trump at 46% APPROVE this morning, with 53% DISAPPROVE...What about Obama at same exact date first year in presidency?? 46% APPROVE, 53% disapprove.” 
53. And possibly Trump’s biggest accomplishment, he prevented a crime syndicate (aka the Clinton Foundation) queen and a defender, abettor, and condoner of a sexual predator and possible rapist (Bill Clinton) from becoming President. 

[Note: a lot of these accomplishments were compiled by the Political Insider website with other sources adding to their original list.]

So for those of you that feared the end of the world with Trump’s election, here is a list of 53 accomplishments he has imposed on the country. Let’s be honest Trump haters, he has done a pretty good job in just the first twelve months of his term. 

Given your gross error in judgement relative to Trump, let me ask that you to 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 TDS 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 millions of 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, a personal 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 longer put up with your childish and vicious venom and bile directed at them, very important people in my life 
• And finally, I challenge some of you to read the following blog post, a post that shows quite clearly that it was hateful people like you and your silence over the past eight 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.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w