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"The Trouble With Socialism Is That Eventually You Run Out Of Other People's Money."
- British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Direct Headline: San Francisco will pay criminals $300 a month NOT to shoot other people in desperate plan to tackle surging gun crime
The effort will select 10 fellows to be rewarded with $300 each month to keep their noses clean and keep free from gun violence incidents....Davis tried to explain that the program isn’t “as cut and dry” as simply giving cash for criminals...It's not as transactional as, 'Here's a few dollars so that you don't do something bad,' but it really is about how you help us improve public safety in the neighborhood," she added....The same participants can also seek to receive an additional $200 per month by attending school or helping to be change agents and mediate potentially violent situations before they erupt...."
M.L. Nestel 19:47 ET, Sep 1 2021
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3584427/san-francisco-pay-criminals-300-month-shoot-gun-crime/
Direct Headline: High Society Money Got Newsom to High Places
The Times refers to Newsom’s longtime mega-donors as “San Francisco society’s ‘first families’ — whose names grace museum galleries, charity ball invitations and hospital wards.” You know them as high society bigwigs like the Getty family, the Fisher family who founded The Gap, and the Traina family that produced President Trump’s current ambassador to Austria and socialite Dede Wilsey...The Gettys were Newsom’s original cash source, since before he went into politics. Oil tycoon J. Paul Getty’s son Gordon was an investor in Newsom’s wine store PlumpJack, and Gavin was a close friend of the family as his father Bill managed the family’s trust....Most of these families knew Newsom since his high school days in Larkspur. ....“Bill Newsom was so close with the family that he helped deliver the ransom money after the 1973 kidnapping of J. Paul Getty’s grandson, John Paul Getty III.”...The Gettys have given Newsom more than a half a million dollars in his various campaigns for the Board of Supervisors, San Francisco mayor, lieutenant governor, and now for governor.....
by Joe Kukura Updated 10/31/2018 4:49 pm
https://www.sfweekly.com/news/high-society-money-got-newsom-to-high-places/
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Scarcity breeds the conservative mindset.
If we thrust back into a nomadic hunter/gatherer society where day to day survival was uncertain, then the idea of "Progressive" behavior that leads to outright socialism would be insane.
A Limousine Liberal might order some Blue Apron or Hello Fresh, a food box system. Or casually shop at a farmer's market on the weekend between their forays into changing over into European style furniture and decor. If you want chicken, go get some organic in a package at some overpriced quaint little local place.
But in a world of scarcity, if you want chicken, you need to build the enclosures, feed them, daily maintenance them, think about predators, disease, weather and the cost to keep them alive. If you want a chicken dinner you need to weigh out the trade off to losing possible eggs and then kill it, pluck it, clean it, gut it, dress it, season it, prepare it and then cook it. A chicken thigh under this scenario is extremely costly in time, effort, sweat, blood and risk.
It's easy to give things away that others work hard for ( i.e. the Progressive mindset that has taken over Big Education and tried to indoctrinate legions of America's young into future card carrying quasi Socialists) when you aren't in the deep chain of production and the cost to yourself and your opportunity is not brutal. It bears repeating. What did Margaret Thatcher say again? Socialism is a wonderful idea until you run out of other people's money.
This is part of the reason why poor rural Christian white America is so against some of the entitlements they see. London Breed is a complete and total idiot. My property taxes and all the other taxes and fees and licenses and all that other crap I pay feed into her salary and have paid into this state for decades upon decades upon decades. She wanted to roll out a program to pay street gangsters and thugs a cool 300-500 dollars a month NOT to go shooting each other. It's easy to do something that patently stupid when it's someone else's money. It's easy for a total political zero like Gavin Newsom to be extremely liberal. He grew up basking in the wealth and privilege of the Getty family. He came from political legacy and influence. He was protected from the day he was born by the wealthy elite. You don't think his take on pandemic lock downs would be different if he spent 15 years sitting in traffic and clipping grocery store coupons and worrying about what gasoline costs like most Californians?
Many educators, the first threat point against America's children regarding this unhinged quasi Socialism push, lean hard left politically because they exist in a bubble where much of their career progress is built on tenure and level of education. They aren't in the private sector fighting tooth and nail for basic survival. It's easy to be a liberal 50 year old teacher protected by tenure spouting something or other about social justice. What about a 50 year old in the trades and wondering how badly ageism ( a real problem for older workers in many sectors) will come to get him?
Many people are born into America into implied freedom and abundance and safety, compared to the rest of the world. There are mechanisms that keep nearly all Americans from literally starving to death. But when you are starving and fighting for your life all the time, you don't have time for pronouns. Or social justice. Or "equity" for Black Americans because of systematic racism.
Think about what "education" would look like a world of common scarcity. Let's say you, the reader right now, and I were administrators of the future and ran a closed off bunkered society where the outside world was full of chaos, carnage, death and what generally happens when organized cities/government falls. You could always use another doctor. A nurse. A dentist. An engineer. A mechanic. An electrician. A highly trained soldier/fighter. A skilled experienced farmer. How many English teachers do you need? History teachers? Psychology teachers? Art teachers? Sociology teachers? I'm not saying there's no value in any of those things in limited quantities, but something like art is a luxury when people are starving. The "education" to be taught within scarcity would be farmers teaching young people how to be future farmers. Doctors teaching young people how to be future doctors. Mechanics teaching young people how to be future mechanics. Things needed for essential survival.
The majority of the people working in hard left leaning activist Big Education and all the lower levels are luxuries of a society steeped in abundance and perceived "safety" Yes, the people that are critical to shaping the children who represent the future of this Republic. Take that abundance away and they are expendable. Most of them lean politically left because of the reliability currently that abundance. Because many are working essentially for the city or state and are protected in ways that the average private sector employee is not.
When authoritarian regimes roll in, after this quasi socialist "utopia" takes hold and begins it's domination, what does recorded human history teach us? To keep the masses at a certain level of compliance, and to limit their education to stop them from asking the hard questions, it's just easier to take many of the school teachers and drag them outside and execute them. Nothing is more ironic that educators who avoid the grim brutality of human history despite it being at their very finger tips.
All these hard left leaning liberal happy to be indoctrinated "educators" are trying to force feed the kind of new political order without understanding these "new utopias" will naturally dispose of them and purge them eventually. This is the basis of the saying, "The Left Eats Itself"
Of course if I bring up history, legacy politics, evolutionary biology, biological imperative, behavioral psychology and things that are plain as day by looking through the Mark I eyeball at how the world works on a daily basis, I'll eventually be called a bigot and a racist and xenophobe and a misogynist and an overall threat to society because my free speech isn't the kind of free speech that most of Big Education and the hard woke radical left is willing to tolerate. When the socialist driven bent of modern Big Education talk about this mythical future utopia, they are talking about a paradise where all the Conservatives are purged first. And, yes for many of you out there, that makes a potential moderate like you the new "right side of the aisle" And you'll be shown no mercy at some point as well. Ask yourself if you will live long enough to see your children lined up against a wall for not being pure enough for this coming New World Order.
Nothing makes me laugh harder than looking at the activist complicit Big Education cabal, where it's constant virtue signaling with the loaded constant threat of making sure you know they want to solely define what virtues should be the only ones to actually matter.
As the cost of an American college education explodes, and the ability to make a living for the average American grows harder and harder ( to one day pay for that college), and if you factor in out of control inflation and an uncertain future, how exactly is the hard radical left planning to reload Big Education with a new wave of future zealots? Toxic incomprehensible public policy that is pushed forward that makes it impossible to rearm their future army of woke shock troopers. As I said before, the hard radical left finds a way to eat itself.
I have no quarrel with the traditional liberals here. I ask my Conservative brothers to embrace traditional liberals. People who want many of the same things but see the problem solving differently. I have no quarrel with the moderates and undecideds. My only message to you is that when the hard radical left talk about purging the "right wing", what happens when all Republicans are purified and all of you become the "new right wing"?
The hard radical left, store bought establishment Democrats and the insanity of the Biden Administration is running out of your money and my money, so they are rolling the printing presses to steal your children's money and your grand children's money too. Our western world is reshaping into one where the masses are going to facing inevitable scarcity. This will naturally create new Conservatives in the most organic way possible. We are not your enemies. Join us.
- British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Direct Headline: San Francisco will pay criminals $300 a month NOT to shoot other people in desperate plan to tackle surging gun crime
The effort will select 10 fellows to be rewarded with $300 each month to keep their noses clean and keep free from gun violence incidents....Davis tried to explain that the program isn’t “as cut and dry” as simply giving cash for criminals...It's not as transactional as, 'Here's a few dollars so that you don't do something bad,' but it really is about how you help us improve public safety in the neighborhood," she added....The same participants can also seek to receive an additional $200 per month by attending school or helping to be change agents and mediate potentially violent situations before they erupt...."
M.L. Nestel 19:47 ET, Sep 1 2021
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3584427/san-francisco-pay-criminals-300-month-shoot-gun-crime/
Direct Headline: High Society Money Got Newsom to High Places
The Times refers to Newsom’s longtime mega-donors as “San Francisco society’s ‘first families’ — whose names grace museum galleries, charity ball invitations and hospital wards.” You know them as high society bigwigs like the Getty family, the Fisher family who founded The Gap, and the Traina family that produced President Trump’s current ambassador to Austria and socialite Dede Wilsey...The Gettys were Newsom’s original cash source, since before he went into politics. Oil tycoon J. Paul Getty’s son Gordon was an investor in Newsom’s wine store PlumpJack, and Gavin was a close friend of the family as his father Bill managed the family’s trust....Most of these families knew Newsom since his high school days in Larkspur. ....“Bill Newsom was so close with the family that he helped deliver the ransom money after the 1973 kidnapping of J. Paul Getty’s grandson, John Paul Getty III.”...The Gettys have given Newsom more than a half a million dollars in his various campaigns for the Board of Supervisors, San Francisco mayor, lieutenant governor, and now for governor.....
by Joe Kukura Updated 10/31/2018 4:49 pm
https://www.sfweekly.com/news/high-society-money-got-newsom-to-high-places/
*******
Scarcity breeds the conservative mindset.
If we thrust back into a nomadic hunter/gatherer society where day to day survival was uncertain, then the idea of "Progressive" behavior that leads to outright socialism would be insane.
A Limousine Liberal might order some Blue Apron or Hello Fresh, a food box system. Or casually shop at a farmer's market on the weekend between their forays into changing over into European style furniture and decor. If you want chicken, go get some organic in a package at some overpriced quaint little local place.
But in a world of scarcity, if you want chicken, you need to build the enclosures, feed them, daily maintenance them, think about predators, disease, weather and the cost to keep them alive. If you want a chicken dinner you need to weigh out the trade off to losing possible eggs and then kill it, pluck it, clean it, gut it, dress it, season it, prepare it and then cook it. A chicken thigh under this scenario is extremely costly in time, effort, sweat, blood and risk.
It's easy to give things away that others work hard for ( i.e. the Progressive mindset that has taken over Big Education and tried to indoctrinate legions of America's young into future card carrying quasi Socialists) when you aren't in the deep chain of production and the cost to yourself and your opportunity is not brutal. It bears repeating. What did Margaret Thatcher say again? Socialism is a wonderful idea until you run out of other people's money.
This is part of the reason why poor rural Christian white America is so against some of the entitlements they see. London Breed is a complete and total idiot. My property taxes and all the other taxes and fees and licenses and all that other crap I pay feed into her salary and have paid into this state for decades upon decades upon decades. She wanted to roll out a program to pay street gangsters and thugs a cool 300-500 dollars a month NOT to go shooting each other. It's easy to do something that patently stupid when it's someone else's money. It's easy for a total political zero like Gavin Newsom to be extremely liberal. He grew up basking in the wealth and privilege of the Getty family. He came from political legacy and influence. He was protected from the day he was born by the wealthy elite. You don't think his take on pandemic lock downs would be different if he spent 15 years sitting in traffic and clipping grocery store coupons and worrying about what gasoline costs like most Californians?
Many educators, the first threat point against America's children regarding this unhinged quasi Socialism push, lean hard left politically because they exist in a bubble where much of their career progress is built on tenure and level of education. They aren't in the private sector fighting tooth and nail for basic survival. It's easy to be a liberal 50 year old teacher protected by tenure spouting something or other about social justice. What about a 50 year old in the trades and wondering how badly ageism ( a real problem for older workers in many sectors) will come to get him?
Many people are born into America into implied freedom and abundance and safety, compared to the rest of the world. There are mechanisms that keep nearly all Americans from literally starving to death. But when you are starving and fighting for your life all the time, you don't have time for pronouns. Or social justice. Or "equity" for Black Americans because of systematic racism.
Think about what "education" would look like a world of common scarcity. Let's say you, the reader right now, and I were administrators of the future and ran a closed off bunkered society where the outside world was full of chaos, carnage, death and what generally happens when organized cities/government falls. You could always use another doctor. A nurse. A dentist. An engineer. A mechanic. An electrician. A highly trained soldier/fighter. A skilled experienced farmer. How many English teachers do you need? History teachers? Psychology teachers? Art teachers? Sociology teachers? I'm not saying there's no value in any of those things in limited quantities, but something like art is a luxury when people are starving. The "education" to be taught within scarcity would be farmers teaching young people how to be future farmers. Doctors teaching young people how to be future doctors. Mechanics teaching young people how to be future mechanics. Things needed for essential survival.
The majority of the people working in hard left leaning activist Big Education and all the lower levels are luxuries of a society steeped in abundance and perceived "safety" Yes, the people that are critical to shaping the children who represent the future of this Republic. Take that abundance away and they are expendable. Most of them lean politically left because of the reliability currently that abundance. Because many are working essentially for the city or state and are protected in ways that the average private sector employee is not.
When authoritarian regimes roll in, after this quasi socialist "utopia" takes hold and begins it's domination, what does recorded human history teach us? To keep the masses at a certain level of compliance, and to limit their education to stop them from asking the hard questions, it's just easier to take many of the school teachers and drag them outside and execute them. Nothing is more ironic that educators who avoid the grim brutality of human history despite it being at their very finger tips.
All these hard left leaning liberal happy to be indoctrinated "educators" are trying to force feed the kind of new political order without understanding these "new utopias" will naturally dispose of them and purge them eventually. This is the basis of the saying, "The Left Eats Itself"
Of course if I bring up history, legacy politics, evolutionary biology, biological imperative, behavioral psychology and things that are plain as day by looking through the Mark I eyeball at how the world works on a daily basis, I'll eventually be called a bigot and a racist and xenophobe and a misogynist and an overall threat to society because my free speech isn't the kind of free speech that most of Big Education and the hard woke radical left is willing to tolerate. When the socialist driven bent of modern Big Education talk about this mythical future utopia, they are talking about a paradise where all the Conservatives are purged first. And, yes for many of you out there, that makes a potential moderate like you the new "right side of the aisle" And you'll be shown no mercy at some point as well. Ask yourself if you will live long enough to see your children lined up against a wall for not being pure enough for this coming New World Order.
Nothing makes me laugh harder than looking at the activist complicit Big Education cabal, where it's constant virtue signaling with the loaded constant threat of making sure you know they want to solely define what virtues should be the only ones to actually matter.
As the cost of an American college education explodes, and the ability to make a living for the average American grows harder and harder ( to one day pay for that college), and if you factor in out of control inflation and an uncertain future, how exactly is the hard radical left planning to reload Big Education with a new wave of future zealots? Toxic incomprehensible public policy that is pushed forward that makes it impossible to rearm their future army of woke shock troopers. As I said before, the hard radical left finds a way to eat itself.
I have no quarrel with the traditional liberals here. I ask my Conservative brothers to embrace traditional liberals. People who want many of the same things but see the problem solving differently. I have no quarrel with the moderates and undecideds. My only message to you is that when the hard radical left talk about purging the "right wing", what happens when all Republicans are purified and all of you become the "new right wing"?
The hard radical left, store bought establishment Democrats and the insanity of the Biden Administration is running out of your money and my money, so they are rolling the printing presses to steal your children's money and your grand children's money too. Our western world is reshaping into one where the masses are going to facing inevitable scarcity. This will naturally create new Conservatives in the most organic way possible. We are not your enemies. Join us.