We know from the past six years that the GOPe/RNC wants the same things as do the progressives and the DNC so Trump can expect no cooperation in making any changes to existing programs. In my opinion he will need to start a media campaign no later than March or April 2017 to get the people to put pressure on the congress to make the changes they want so he can sign them.
Tag Archives: Greek no vote
Euro Collapsing thanks to Another Brain-Dead EU Proposal
Armstrong Economics Blog
Re-Posted May 5, 2016 by Martin Armstrong
Merkel’s failed refugee policy is destroying the fabric of Europe and raising international concerns that Europeans may need visa’s because she has introduce the prospect of ISIS using Europe as a stepping to get into the USA. Now, Merkel’s policy is to force other countries to take refugees. The European Commission now wants to compel European member states to accept refugees by imposing a fine of 250,000 euros per applicant they deny. Instead of admitting a huge mistake, they are creating a mandatory option that will only bring in more people. Merkel’s policy is tearing Europe apart at the seams. Instead of dealing with the issue directly and publicly stating ALL refugees will be turned away, the crisis only get worse. About 80% are not even refugees from Syria. These are people migrating to Euro from northern Africa and other places using this as the great way to the promised land. The euro has been collapsing as a result of this new brain-dead idea where politicians REFUSE to every admit a mistake. They take their countries down in the process. Friends in London are starting to say if Britain does not exit the EU, they will migrate to the USA. This is becoming completely an insane Brussel’s policy and the member states who do not get out are out of their mind. The economic union has become a political union with dictatorial powers from Brussels as the Troika never even stand for election so there is no way to vote the people out of power.
Annoying, Irrelevant Gnats Will Now Seek Third Party Candidate…
There is no real difference between the RNC/GOPe and the DNC and untill the citizens are fully aware of this there can not be a real change. Trump and Sanders are the result of the citizens beginning to wake up and understand that virtually all in DC are out ONLY for themselves and they don’t care a lick for the common man/woman. Once the citizens are fully awake there will be hell to pay for all the political class in DC.
What the Press is Not Talking About Bernie Beating Hillary
Armstrong Economics Blog
Re-Posted May 4, 2016 by Martin Armstrong
Bernie beat Hillary in Indiana. They are focusing on Trump beating Cruz, ignoring that Bernie beat Hillary. What this is revealing is that people are angry at government. Bernie and Trump have a lot more in common. In Spain, the king had to dissolve Parliament because the politicians could not win a majority or form a government. This is a worldwide phenomenon. This is NOT about Trump – this is about government as a whole.
Ayn Rand’s Definition of When a Nation is Doomed
Armstrong Economics Blog
Re-Posted May 2, 2016 by Martin Armstrong
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. . . you may know that your society is doomed.”
Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
- p. 413 ; Francisco d’Anconia to Bertram Scudder
Judge Jeanine: What’s wrong with putting America first?
Published on May 1, 2016
Reaction to Donald Trump’s foreign policy address
Economics, Modern Conservatives, The 2016 Election and The Import Export Bank…
The myth that we are being told is that we have Free trade now and that the problem is that US companies are just not competitive. Well the definition of Free Trade is trade without ANY GOVERNMENT intervention. That idea does not has has not existed for a long time. Everyone for the FED the IMF the ECB and everyone in Asia manipulated their currencies and policies to benefit them. The US government supports the export of US jobs to the rest of the world in return for those counties buy our debt. That gives the politicians more money for the programs of transforming the our country into a European style socialist big unelected government with total control of the people.
Current Desperation – There are Trillions of Dollars At Stake…
I agree 100% with Sundance! Further as a former US Army Special Forces officer (back in the day) who was trained to do what you now see happening I will tell you what you see is exactly what we were taught to do albeit with different methods as this was 50 years ago.
Are the Metals & Dow Aligning?
Armstrong Economics Blog
Re-Posted Apr 28, 2016 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: All three are moving together since mid-January. Does that mean all three are already aligned and a lift is now possible? Or do we go to retest the January lows first?
ANSWER: This is the preparation for the Sling-Shot Move which is coming. Everything is pushing it to the limit. We are carrying the weight of the world around on this move. This is how you will trap people buying highs or selling the lows. They will make their judgment based upon emotions. You will see extreme moves in both directions. Markets are NEVER that forgiving. They strive to wipe everyone out on both sides and the more arrogant they are, the bigger the loss.
We should see the metals push higher trying to get closer to their 2015 highs. The question becomes; can they exceed 18.50 in silver and 1307 in gold? If not, then they too have done what the Dow has done. The worst possible pattern would be a 2017 high, a profound thrust to a low in 2018, and then a Sling-Shot Move to the upside which could push this whole mess into 2024. We achieved a minor Daily Bullish Reversal in silver and gold today, but a sell signal in the Dow. They are trending together, but still in opposite directions. So we can see that they are starting to align. The process is not yet complete.
Just look at this logically. It appears to be the four major elections coming (BREXIT, US President, French President, & Germany) that hold the potential to turn this world we are carrying around completely upside down. If the British vote to exit, that can be devastating to the Euro and set off a wave of civil unrest demanding also to exit in other countries. That would benefit the dollar in a big way. What would that do to the metals? Would the Dow then recover from another retest of the support? The Euro begrudgingly holds on, but here too, trying to retest its 2015 high or at least the target reversal at the 11600 zone, is difficult to say the least.
We are getting there. There has to be a retest of the lows. Nothing moves in one direction. The question becomes; soon or later? That is determined if we fail at the 2015 highs or break through that ceiling. For lift-off, what it takes is that collapse in confidence and we can see that where Bernie is frustrating Hillary and Trump leads the pack no matter what they cry about or conspire. People are just losing it when it comes to government. Trump and Sanders are bringing more people out to vote than ever before. Why? They all know something is wrong. They may disagree at to what it is. But the universal knowledge here is that something is just not right. This is the seed we need to fertilize to get that Sling-Shot.
A Unity of Opposites: A Jewish Teaching that Private Vice Can Serve Public Virtue
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
Consider Donald Trump vis-à-vis these extracts from my book American Exceptionalism:
- The Father of America, George Washington, envisioned in this nation the growth of a great commercial Republic. He understood that a commercial Republic will inevitably foster, along with competition and self-interest, the passions of ambition and avarice, which would augment dissension and litigation. However, he agreed with his great Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, that under the rule of law and well-designed institutions, “ambition will check ambition,” and that avarice, rightly directed, “may serve the public as well as the private good.”
- Hamilton also discerned that commercial republicanism can foster rationality, creativity, co-operation, as well as thrift, frugality, and even civic virtue.
- The philosopher-scientist Alfred North Whitehead observed that “Commerce is the great example of intercourse by way of persuasion.” It transforms self-interest into “enlightened self-interest.” Thus modified, self-interest will produce public benefits, while public benefits will enable a larger number of citizens to prosper and contribute to the common good.
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Strange as it may seem, Donald Trump has been more or less influenced by the teaching of the above paragraphs. His pompous boast “to make America great again,” his enormous avarice primed by vulgar egoism, should be viewed with the above paragraphs in mind, to justly evaluate the man who may become the next President of the United States.
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