The Roots of the Disconnect Between the American PEOPLE and Our Political-Media Class

Gus Hall (R), John Brennan (L)

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John Brennan, former CIA Director, is proof of how disconnected the "American" political-media class is from the American people.

In 1976 he claims to have voted for Gus Hall of the Communist Party USA for President.

Do you know who voted for Gus Hall?

NO decent American. In 1976, there was a deep and bitter enmity between those two nations and those competing ideologies (Capitalism/Corporatism and Marxism/Collectivism).

In Police, Fire and Construction jobs across this country in those days, a good way to get killed would be admitting you supported Gus Hall.

The Communist Party USA wasn't merely Marxist, but Stalinist! These guys were virtual Nazis.

John Brennan proclaims he admitted that in a CIA interview, which is curious, in and if itself (perhaps he was more likely recruited?)...and accepted into that organization.

Clapper, Brennan, Strzok, Page, McCabe & Co. are a big part of what's wrong with America's political-media class today.

Trump is not in the vanguard of this spreading Nationalism. It began with the Pan Asian movement, then the return to traditional (Sharia-based) Islam in the Arab-Muslim world. The Muslim migrant invasion of Europe generated the Euro Nationalism that has swept that continent today.

Trump and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro are relative late comers to the trend.

The world has soundly rejected "Anglo-American Globalism," and rightly so.

WWII wasn't a fight against Nationalism, instead, it was Nationalist England, France and the U.S. fighting Imperialist Germany and Japan.

Stalin's USSR NEVER joined the Allies. That nation only declared war on Japan two days AFTER the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima (August 6th). The USSR declared war on Japan on August 8th to claim Manchuria from Japan. (https://www-history-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/soviets-declare-war-on-japan-invade-manchuria?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.history.com%2Fthis-day-in-history%2Fsoviets-declare-war-on-japan-invade-manchuria). The 2nd atomic bomb was dropped on August 9th on Nagasaki.

Right after WWII ended, the West (England, France, the USA, etc) entered a long "Cold War" with the imperialist USSR.

THAT'S who John Brennan supported. Those Soviet ghouls.

The West's enemy was Imperialism (global domination and enforced conformity), NOT Nationalism, the respect for individual nations, national sovereignty, the natural diversity of mankind in language, culture, ethnicities, etc.

The Anglo-American Globalism pushed by our political-media class IS Imperialism.

Sadly, THAT'S what America's Left now stubbornly supports.
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Dalai and Me...

The Dalai Lama

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I VERY MUCH like the Dalai Lama.

Like me, he's a Nationalist. (https://www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6159933/amp/Dalai-Lama-says-Europe-belongs-Europeans.html?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQECAFYAQ%3D%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-6159933%2FDalai-Lama-says-Europe-belongs-Europeans.html) AND (https://www-newsweek-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.newsweek.com/dalai-lama-says-europe-europeans-refugees-should-go-home-and-rebuild-1120065?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&amp=1&usqp=mq331AQECAFYAQ%3D%3D#aoh=15432512945896&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fdalai-lama-says-europe-europeans-refugees-should-go-home-and-rebuild-1120065)

He's also a very good ping pong player (not nearly as good as me), but a spirited player.

AND...he's probably one of the most spiritual people on earth. Hmmmm, me too, I think.

Aside sharing the belief that Europe MUST REMAIN European, he also believes that the animating energy in all of us is part of a greater collective ("Cosmic Consciousness," "Collective Unconscious," "Universal Mind" etc.), which is what man th religions mean by GOD.

In that view, in a very real sense, we are all connected...part of the same energy source inhabiting separate and different vehicles, or bodies.

I kind of share that view...although, from there, Dalai and I diverge. See, he sees that as unifying, in the sense that we must eventually all come to realize that and accept our universal connectedness, if we're ever going to grow and truly evolve to a higher moral, spiritual and intellectual path.

Hmmmm...now I say, in effect, "F*ck all that sh*t, we ARE individuals, so long as we're wrapped in these separate skins. It's both natural and good that we should divide ourselves up and engage in CV instant conflict. We're human...after all.

Now, Dalai knows me. He knows the things I've done...many of which, early on were...despicable, at best. He believes that my interpretation of that universal truth is what allows me to live with myself...an interesting proposition.

HOWEVER, to that, I'd retort, it MIGHT BE...IF I were somehow inclined to harbor any such things as guilt and regret, which I do not, nor ever have.

That said, I have thought much about Dalai's view of all our spiritual connectedness and can see where it reconciles well with Jesus' view, Buddha's view, even the gnostic view and I think in there is the road to enlightenment...or at least an overgrown path to becoming a better person.

It seems that even if we are all connected to the same energy source, the only way any of us can improve anything is by looking within to improve ourselves...the one person we control.

For me, the greatest thing Jesus said was, "Before you would take the splinter out of your neighbor's eye, first take the mote/plank from out your own," in other words, to fix the world...first, fix yourself.

I think that at least for me, the best I can try for is attempting to be a little better person today than I was yesterday

I Come From an Earlier Era...

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

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I come from an earlier era, a very different America...a very different world.

In that regard, I am truly a time traveler, as I've traversed a few generations, now.

Like any time traveler, I can offer first hand observations of different eras. In many ways, the earliest era of the America I knew, from 1954 to about 1964, was, in some ways, a much better place and in some ways a worse one.

In that period of my life (childhood) dozens of commercial trucks ran up and down most blocks; dry cleaners, the lawn mower repair and blade sharpener truck, bakery trucks, grocery delivery trucks, ice cream trucks, along with Municipal garbage trucks, street sweepers, Fire apparatus and, of course, the U.S. Postal Service's mail carriers walked the streets back then with their mail bags slung over their shoulders.

All those commercial vehicles were a testament to the lack of government over-regulation.

The economy here was buoyed by being one of the last ones standing after WWII, but that was somewhat balanced out by the massive expenditures of the Marshall Plan.

Of course, the tax system was different, depending overwhelmingly on Corporate taxes and tariffs on foreign goods, as the Dependency Deduction shielded most people's income from the income tax. Since Corporate Income taxes and Tariffs amount to hidden sales taxes, goods and services were more expensive relative to incomes, so most people lived more frugal, basic...what today we'd call "poorer" lives, but our culture was richer.

Comedy was still dominated by old vaudevillians like George Burns and Gracie Allen, Abbott and Costello, the 3 Stooges, Jack Benny and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Groucho Marx, who remained the king of American comedy, through the 1960s.

Today we judge that earlier, politically incorrect humor by the narrower standards of our current day. Jack Benny's long time partner, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson delivered a wide eyed country styled, stereotypical black character.(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_%22Rochester%22_Anderson)

The fact was, that at the time, many blacks WERE moving from the rural South to Northern cities and that naivete was very common, just as the "hillbilly" ways of Buddy Epson's "Jed Clampett" character was not atypical of many of the suddenly wealthy Texas "Oil men" of the period. Men who went from eaking out a living on a small ranch, or farm to having great wealth, seemingly overnight.

There were still reruns of the old radio show, turned 1950s TV hit, "Amos and Andy."

It's true that the original radio broadcast was created by two white performers (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correl), but it's not true that it was a show that mocked American blacks.

Amos Jones and Andy Brown were two devoted family men, who came to Chicago from the rural South, in search of a better life. They started a business, "the Fresh Air Taxi Company." Their foil was another black character, George "Kingfish" Brown, who was always trying to scam the pair with an assortment of "get rich quick" schemes.

Though the accents were Southern, rural and stereotypical, the characters were all honest, hardworking, family oriented and strivers.

The TV show became a hit in 1951 and 1952, but was felled by an NAACP boycott in 1953, that led to its cancellation. (https://youtu.be/8Ka6u2WA_zU)

Today, most people mistakenly believe that show was a "racist mockery," when, in fact, no other show portrayed black Americans in such an upwardly mobile, wholesome light until the "Cosby Show," some three decades later!

One of the grave injustices of the boycott and cancellation was that some great actors, like Spencer Williams (Andy), Tim Moore (Kingfish), Ernestine Wade (Sapphire Stevens) and Alvin Childress (Amos) never got their due.

A cursory look back to that era shows a starkly different America. All our TV shows depicted honest, hard working families, with uplifting themes.

Children's shows were simpler too, "Captain Kangaroo" and "Andy's Gang" offered childish themes and pure, wholesome entertainment. Later "Sesame Street" and "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" taught basic values and aided early learning.

Some may call that a "simpler time." People certainly didn't take themselves very seriously back then and we WERE, in many ways, a different country.

The seminal event that marked the end of that era and that original  or traditional America was the JFK assassination on November 22nd, 1963.

Michael Hoffman, author of "Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0970378416/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_26pMCbRFA9NKY), wrote about the Kennedy assassination, "The killers were not caught, the Warren Commission was a whitewash. There was a sense that the men who ordered the assassination were grinning somewhere over cocktails, and out of this, a nearly-psychedelic wonder seized the American population, an awesome shiver before the realization that whoever could kill a President of the United States in broad daylight and get away with it, could get away with anything."

Sherwood Kent, author of "Most Dangerous: A True Story" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1634240405/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_zeqMCbXE9ZM1E), noted the many indicators of the social transformation in the wake of that public execution, "Within a year, Americans had largely switched from softer-toned, naturally-colored cotton clothing to garish-colored artificial polyesters. Popular music became louder, faster and more cacophonous. Drugs appeared for the first time outside the Bohemian subculture and ghettos, in the mainstream. Extremes of every kind came into fashion. Revolutions in cognition and behavior were on the horizon, from the Beatles to Charles Manson, from “Free Love” to LSD."

Today, we swim in an ocean of manufactured misinformation. Our "news" is mostly commentary and events, both foreign and domestic are filtered, edited, often even fictionalized in whole, or in part.

It's hard to consider any sources, "reliable," but regardless, we're all still influenced by this ocean of manufactured data we all swim in.

It wasn't always like this...
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Time Doesn't Only Fly...

Tom Seaver with the NY Mets

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In 1969 Tom Seaver made $40,000/year with the World Champion NY Mets.

At the time a very good income in New York City was $10,000/year, so Seaver, perhaps the best pitcher in baseball, earned about 4X what a slightly above average annual NYC wage was...a wage about equivalent to $100,000/year, or so, in NYC today.

Today top pitchers earn upwards of $30 million/year. Compared to those $100,000/year workers that's about 300X what those NYC workers earn today.

Quite a difference.

In 1974, the New York Mets signed Seaver to a one-year deal worth $172,500, a record for a pitcher at the time. The most Tom Seaver ever earned as a player was $1,136,256/year in 1985 at age 41. He retired the following year after pitching the year after agreeing to a $3,610/year pay cut. (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=seaveto01)

It wasn't until 1980 when baseball salaries skyrocketed. Nolan Ryan became the first MLB player to earn $1 million/year.
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AOC's Puppet Master, Corbin Trent, LIES...Again

Corbin Trent

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(https://www.facebook.com/1808948309317651/posts/2290031671209310/)

This is an interesting video that shows how Alexandria Occasio-Cortez "came out of nowhere" to become a Congresswoman - she came through a casting call.

In short, she's a paid parrot for a hidden group of far Left loons.

Corbin Trent co-founder (along with Bernie Sanders) of the PAC "Brand New Congress" claims, "40% of Americans, like 60 million Americans earn less than $20,000/year."

He's wrong about that.

In fact, he's BLATANTLY wrong about that. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/02/07/ludicrous-economic-numbers-40-of-americans-make-less-than-the-1968-minimum-wage/#4d653ba84d8a)

He's also an idiot...just not quite as much of an idiot as Alexandria Occasio-Cortez, who couldn't even get her lines right. She parroted that mistaken factoid as, "200 million Americans make less than $20,000/year. That's 40% of Americans!"

Just how STUPID was Alexandria's goof? Well, 200 million Americans would be appx 65% of all Americans (there are 310 million Americans)...and NO, 40% of America's workers (which would be appx 61 million workers) DO NOT earn less than $20,000/year.

HOW do I know?

Thanks for asking.

Turns out, there aren't even 200 million workers in America! "In 2017, around 153.34 million people were employed in the United States." (https://www.statista.com/statistics/269959/employment-in-the-united-states/)

So, 40% of American workers would be appx 60 million U.S. workers, as Trent says. It's just that his number is about double the number of those actually earning $20,000/year or less. Where AOC got "200 million Americans" from...is anyone's guess.

As to what Americans earn, "The Census counted 114.6 million households in 2010, the most recent year for which it has published data. Some takeaways: Almost one household out of every four (24.9 percent) makes less than $25,000 a year. About one in three households (30.1 percent) made between $50,000 and $100,000.Jul 16, 2012 (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/how-much-americans-earn-at-every-age.html)

That 114.6 million U.S. households includes those completely dependent upon government assistance. (appx 12%). OK, so according to the above census figures appx 28 million, (including, presumably the appx 25 million [12%] fully dependent on government assistance) households earn less than $25,000/year, another appx 34.5 million earn between $50,000 & $100,000/year, and another 25% or 28.5 million households earn between $25,000 and $49,999/year. That accounts for appx 80% of U.S. households earning under $100,000/year, leaving over 23 million U.S. households (appx 20%), or 1 in every 5 American households earning over $100,000/year.

What's the average income in the U.S.?

"The median household income in the United States is $59,039, according to 2015 data from the U.S. Census." Aug 24, 2017 (IBID)

That average includes part time and per diem workers.

So, how much does an American have to earn, in order to be considered "rich"?

"This group of earners  ("the rich") makes at least two times the national median household income: $59,039 in 2016, according to the latest data from the US Census Bureau's 2016 American Community Survey. Nationally, the threshold for "rich" is $118,080, but that figure varies from city to city depending on the local median income." March 6th, 2018 (https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-money-rich-people-earn-in-america-san-francisco-new-york-2018-2)

THIS is why "tax the rich," really means YOU, all you NY, NJ, CA & D.C. workers!

Moreover, given that the average income of all U.S. workers is just over $59,000/year, and almost a quarter of Americans (24.9%) earn less than $25,000/year, the bulk of this income data is impacted by the fact that widely varying costs-of-living and, by extension, wages across the country make direct wage comparisons between places like NY, NY and Des Moines, Iowa impossible.

As an example, in DesMoines, $73,800/year = $100,000/year in NYC. Seeing that, should make it more obvious how dishonest and flat out wrong the "think tank" behind AOC really is.

So WHO is Corbin Trent?

Well, he's THIS guy; (https://campaignforamericasfuture.org/signer/corbin-trent/)
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Mandatory E-Verify Included in Trump’s 2019 Budget Proposal

E-Verify

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https://www.govdocs.com/mandatory-e-verify-included-trumps-2019-budget-proposal/

On Feb. 19, 2019, President Donald Trump released his proposed 2019 fiscal year budget, beginning Oct. 1, 2018.

In his proposal, President Trump allocates $23 million to be invested in expanding the E-Verify program to mandatory nationwide use.

Since 1996, E-Verify has been voluntary for most employers. It also has become mandatory for federal contractors, certain state contractors, and employers that want to implement science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) when hiring foreign graduates of U.S. universities.

Although it is not currently required at a federal level, many states have laws that either require or encourage some employers to use E-Verify including:

Arizona and Mississippi: Required (all employers)

South Carolina: Encouraged (all employers)

Colorado, Georgia, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Utah: Required (public contractors)

Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Utah: Required (state agencies)

What is E-Verify?

E-Verify is a system administered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Verification Division and the Social Security Administration.

The system itself is Internet-based and uses information from an employee’s I-9 form and Employment Eligibility Verification, the DHS and Department of State (DOS) records to confirm the employee is authorized to work the in the U.S.

GovDocs will be following this subject as it develops. Check back on this subject at Labor Law News – updates to come!
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Governor Northam's FOOD for THOUGHT...

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam

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I absolutely HATE do-gooders. One of the reasons I knew very early on that Catholicism wasn't for me was two phrases my Dad used to often repeat; "There but for the grace of God go I," and "I am my brother's keeper." At age 9, those two phrases agitated me, no end. Dripping, as they were, with that maudlin sense of superiority...looking down on those who are "helped."

I knew religion wasn't long for me. I just don't subscribe to that morality, though I do find it best to keep that to myself...at least for the most part.

ALTHOUGH...that Virginia Governor (Ralph Northam?) has me beat, hands down. Sure I support mandating birth control for all dependent poor and I support abortion on demand through the 1st trimester on the grounds that an UNWILLING parent is also an UNFIT one and I support the death penalty NOT via sterile lethal injection, but the guillotine or hanging....BUT Governor Northam has me beat and that's for sure.

The Governor turned a LOT of heads (and stomachs) when "NBC Washington’s Julie Carey asked Northam whether he supported a bill proposed by Virginia Delegate Kathy Tran (D), which would allow abortions - up to the moment of birth.

"In response, Northam said that a baby born alive could be “kept comfortable” and then “resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired” – the implication being that the baby could be left to die if the family decided they did not want to keep their child.

“In this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen,” Northam said. “The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.” (https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/emily-ward/virginia-governor-describes-how-post-birth-abortion-would-proceed)

Now THAT is cold!

What he described WASN'T abortion, but infanticide...and to his credit, he did quite non-chalantly and with some aplomb.

Now, his position and ANYONE'S who supports abortion, but opposes Capital Punishment is clearly illogical as his post birth "abortion," proves.

Governor Northam isn't squeamish about "making a baby comfortable" until it's time to snuff the child, why have ANY reservations about killing someone guilty of murder, human trafficking, pedophilia, any crime involving torture, etc.?

There IS no logical, reasonable reason to oppose the death penalty, especially while supporting the death penalty for an unwanted child, already born.

I'm at least honest about my own morality. I know...one might say, "But you're not running for Office." More's the pity that so many who do run for office apparently have to conceal their own morality.
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