Nations are not economic zones.
That matters, because from a pure GDP standpoint the ideal citizen is someone who gets cancer, gets divorced, crashes the car, and hires a small army of professionals before dying.
Nobody contributed more to UK GDP this week than Henry Nowak’s killer.
Think about that.
Police response. Medical response. Detectives. Public affairs officers. Dozens of lawyers. Prison for life. All of it staggeringly expensive. Vickrum Digwa has already made up the entire lifetime GDP contribution of the man he killed. Probably a hundred times over.
Migration isn’t just about votes.
Consider yourself. A patriot who lives a simple life.
You are not a burden on society, so you contribute little to GDP.
You eat well and work out, so your medical footprint is small.
Your wife cooks at home and you read or watch TV, so you barely touch restaurants and nightlife.
You camp in state parks or take the boat out fishing, so the travel industry sees none of your money.
You’re happily married, so no dating apps, no Tinder, no Grindr, no OnlyFans.
You save what’s left, which means you aren’t spending it. Your money sits in an unleveraged fund, so you do little to inflate the stock market.
You don’t drink or gamble.
You don’t screw up at work and force the company to hire more people to fix your mistakes.
You went to trade school instead of college, so you starved the education industrial complex.
You use your car and the airports, so there’s no case for a hundred-billion-dollar high speed rail line on your behalf.
You’re anti-war, so you never call for the stockpiles to be drawn down and rebuilt.
You give through your church, so almost none of it leaks into the NGO machine.
You never defraud or hack anyone, so no one needs new compliance officers or cybersecurity contracts to stop you.
You have never once hired an immigration, prenup, personal injury, divorce, or estate lawyer.
You are not a journalist or a Hollywood entertainer enticing others into making bad decisions.
You have never been to prison.
You drive carefully, maintain your car and your house, own a fire extinguisher, and never dial 911.
You vote against profligate spenders.
You’re not an environmentalist who calls for the end of nuclear power (so we burn more oil) or anti-oil (so we build solar panels) or want to save the tree toad which require million dollar environmental impact statements.
You have few complexities and take the standard deduction so CPAs get nothing from you.
And most damning of all: you have no debt.
That last one matters more than people realize. Most assume the government is the only entity that can create money.
Not true. All Debt creates new money.
Government debt, yes, but every dollar of debt you take on is also new money injected into the economy. Money that can be taxed. Money the wealthy can leverage and compound.
This is why they prefer migrants over you.
This is why they attack family values.
Your pastor told you that becoming an electrician, a plumber, a nurse, a firefighter, a teacher would contribute to society. He told you to live a simple life. To love and protect your family and your neighbors. He told you not to gamble or drink or have affairs.
Don’t you see why they hate the church?
Why they hate you?
In their eyes you are wasted space.
You may contribute enormously on the human scale, the only scale that has ever actually mattered, you may contribute non economic values like love, honor and duty. You might contribute locally on a micro-economic scale.
But in the big picture you are an economic loss. Because you contribute almost nothing to GDP.
You contribute far far leas than a criminal migrant with a mental disorder, gambling addiction and cancer.
You are a great American in the eyes of your church.
But on an economic GDP scale you are the very worst type of American.
h/t @cdrsalamander
@TheBeNiceCooler@ThomasEWoods@marklevinshow You are an idiot. I dont give a shit about Mark Levin. My pointing out Massie ran a shit campaign is his fault and on him. Fuck off you loser who has never run an election campaign in his life. You are a pathetic loser who cant handle an election. Get bent.
@BrentScher Send me the best guy you got at the collapsing Daily Wire and we’ll see who how it goes. Should be easy since I’m so retarded.
Oh yeah, they’re all scared. Buncha bitches over there.
Yes, happy birthday to a true American artist and icon.
Clint embodies everything great about film as a medium for STORY.
For years he balanced his star power with his artist side, famously making one for the studio so he could make one for himself.
Malpaso is a company with an ethos, make the best movie you can for the least amount of drama. Spend only what you need to tell the story on the page as efficiently as possible.
That’s why he could be so prolific and, at times, profound.
It’s a lesson he learned from Don Siegel. I love Clint’s work, uneven though it may be because of this basic ethos. Saying that takes nothing away from his canon, every project is itself an experiment. All we can ask of an artist is they give us their best.
Clint has always done this, even in the ones for the studio.
Unforgiven and The Outlaw Josey Wales are still my favorites with many an honorable mention, too many to name here.
I have a very specific list of films in my Top 10, they each represent a top film in a genre… Clint easily gets The Western nod with Unforgiven, the most devastating statement on the nature of unresolved anger leading to unrestrained violence I’ve seen.
Thank you for a lifetime of indelible memories. Here’s to a few more… or not.
“We’ve all got it coming, kid.” - Unforgiven
“I reckon so.” - The Outlaw Josey Wales