2015. Jeb Bush mentions "anchor baby" fraud and the left immediately calls him racist. Bush then gives a groveling explanation and ends up looking even more pathetic.
This is what Republicans had before Trump. Thankfully the days of groveling like this are long gone.
.@RoKhanna is a rich radical who is seeking power by any means necessary. He does not even have a basic understanding of economics and he is a dissembler who greatly misled me and others to raise funds for his campaigns.
He is not to be trusted.
What is Seen and What is Not Seen by Bastiat:
1. The stimulus check. You see the family that spends it and feels relief. You don’t see the worker who not only pays, but earns less because capital was consumed rather than invested — or the prices quietly rising for everyone as money was printed to fund the gesture.
2. The green subsidy. You see the solar plant opening, the ribbon cut, the jobs announced. You don’t see the factory that wasn’t built because that capital was redirected by decree, the cheaper energy that never existed, the industry that moved elsewhere.
3. The minimum wage hike. You see the worker whose wage goes up. You don’t see the worker who wasn’t hired, the hours that were quietly cut, the restaurant that installed a kiosk instead of a teenager.
4. Rent control. You see the tenant who pays less this year. You don’t see the apartments never built, the ones left to decay, the city that slowly stops housing anyone who didn’t get lucky with timing.
5. The bailout. You see the bank, the carmaker, the jobs saved. You don’t see the competitor who ran his business prudently and is now funding his reckless rival’s survival, the moral hazard quietly purchased for next time.
6. The tariff. You see the steel mill that stays open, the union that applauds, the politician taking credit. You don’t see the ten industries that pay more for steel, pass costs to consumers, and slowly lose ground to foreign competitors who don’t carry the surcharge.
7. The government job. You see the bureaucrat employed, the office opened, the program announced. You don’t see the private job that doesn’t exist because the tax that funded the bureaucrat was the investment that wasn’t made. The seen job has a face and a salary. The unseen one was never born, so it has no one to mourn it.
Bastiat’s point, sharp as ever: the bad economist is not stupid – his picture is just incomplete. He counts what is visible and stops there. The good economist counts both sides of the ledger. The politician, by contrast, has every incentive to count only the first and campaign on it…
Atlas Shrugged made simple:
1. Society runs on a small number of highly capable producers – industrialists, inventors, engineers – whose work everyone depends on but takes for granted.
2. The system starts rewarding need over achievement: the more capable you are, the more you’re expected to sacrifice for those who aren’t.
3. Success gets treated like a debt – taxed, regulated, resented – until the most capable start asking why they bother trying at all.
4. One by one, led by a man named John Galt, they simply withdraw – walking away rather than keep propping up a system that punishes them for producing.
5. Without them, the whole structure collapses, revealing that the “automatic” prosperity everyone assumed was actually being generated by specific, irreplaceable people.
6. Atlas is the Titan from Greek myth, condemned to carry the sky on his shoulders forever – Rand’s stand-in for the producer class, holding up civilization while getting blamed for it.
7. “Shrugged” is the whole argument in one word: Atlas doesn’t fight, doesn’t protest – he just quietly sets the weight down. Nobody realized the sky was being held up by anyone in particular, until the day it isn’t.
You don’t want us? We just go…🤷🏻♂️
@GavinNewsom so bold, so stunning, so brave -- to have squandered the states immense tax revenues on programs with inverse outcome to spending ratios and a train to nowwhere
@kaitlancollins turns out, when the radicals said they wanted to burn it all down and reimagine - what they actually meant was take the democrat party from liberals and replace them with communists
I would like to see you make a voluntary contribution of 5% of your family’s $200M net worth to the government for important healthcare, childcare, and jobs. Don’t worry, it’s just one-time. Your $10M contribution will provide free childcare for over 1,000 California kids for a year! Once you’ve made your personal contribution to a more just and equitable society, I’ll support all your other asset seizure ideas. But you gotta go first…
.@jessebwatters nails it! 👏
Gavin Newsom had to post a video to prove his high-speed rail is actually being built… 16 YEARS and 16 BILLION dollars later @CAGovernor is bragging about the first track going down
I would be laughing at him if this boondoggle wasn’t projected to cost $135 billion when all is said and done
What a disaster
Thank you CA!
I’m humbled I received nearly 5M votes—the most primary election votes of any candidate for CA Attorney General, ever
And over 1.6M more votes than & nearly 20 percentage points above my closest opponent
With your support, we’ll do even better in November!