Rules Are For the Peasants
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
It bears repeating once again: if they wanted to provoke an actual civil war, what would they do differently?
Too true Frank.
Truly, the oligarchs will continue to ‘move the goal posts’ so long as the subjects OBEY.
The threat is not the China virus. It’s the totalitarianism.
Meanwhile, lawless Fraudulent Chinese Joe unconstitutionally overrode Congress’ vote and illegally reinstated the omnipotent [they didn’t alleviate the China virus catastrophe, but could stop a nation’s evictions] CDC’s unconstitutional moratorium on evictions.
[They each were paid out in total $7 trillion – add that to the already-unsustainable national debt – including billions in loans (not repaid if used to pay workers) to businesses to pay employees, and individually $2,400 in China virus hush money and $300 a week extra unemployment money, And, they couldn’t pay the rent?]
Shut up, peasant!
In 1981, the oldest of my parents’ active friends reached 60. His wife held a gathering in their home attended by his children and maybe two dozen friends. That’s as elaborate as it ever got in our world. (His, by the way, was a life very much worth celebrating).
This was Pat Nixon’s 60th in 1972
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/the-working-white-house-pat-nixons-birthday
Sorry to be a repetitive bore. Please recall that Harry Truman in 1956 was living in the Wallace family homestead (too much house for an elderly couple); met expenses from his veterans’ pension, Social Security, interest on whatever savings he had, interest on whatever haul he got from his memoirs, and whatever remittance his son-in-law elected to send. The man nearly murdered by Puerto Rican nationalists in 1950 had no security detail prior to 1965. That presidential pension enacted in 1958 came in quite handy; Herbert Hoover didn’t need the money, but he took the pension so as not to embarrass Truman who did benefit from it. Medicare was also handy to the Trumans.
I understand the Obamas, who entered middle age with a household balance sheet so lousy they turned to Tony Rezko to finance a home purchase, have multiple homes a net worth of $70 million.
Harry Truman, “You can’t get rich in politics unless you’re a crook.”
Art, any thoughts on this recent NY Mag article arguing Truman actually wasn’t hurting for dough?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/the-truman-show.html
Harry Truman, “You can’t get rich in politics unless you’re a crook.”
Per Steve Sailer, the Obamas ca. 2002 were sinking deeper in debt every year, at a time when Mooch’s salary at the University of Chicago Hospitals was $150,000 a year and he was drawing salaries from the law school there and from the State of Illinois.
Oh Barack Obama…. Regale us once again on how discriminatory this country is and how you as a black man so underprivileged.
Explain to us too how soon the oceans will rise unless we give the progressives total power
– all this from your beach side mansion with complete affirmation from the press.
David WS, quiet down there.
And your social compliance score has received -50 points.
The Gilded Peacocks of Versailles were never as hypocritical as Maaaartha’s Vineyard’s crowd.
Is there any further evidence needed that this entire fake mask, fake vaccine, fake panic-demic is long since over— if it ever existed?
Do do-gooders always do damage?
The worst president in US History had a glorious record as community agitator before he (and Ayers and Rezko and et al) huckstered the Dems into allowing him to try to wreck the rest of America.
See the Obama/Citibank Litigation (one element of a gargantuan, nation-wide anti-redlining campaign); See “The Daily Caller”, 9/3/2012, Neil Munro
The landmark 1995 court decision required Citibank to grant loans to 186 Obama low-to-moderate income clients . After the 2007 bust, half of them went bankrupt and/or lost the homes to foreclosure. Today, only 19 remain in their homes.
Re NYS sexual-predator-in-chief. In 1990’s HUD chiefs raised low-to-moderate income lending targets from 30% to 56%. Eventually, FNM/FRE liberalized underwriting standards for purchases, and owned or guarantied 50% of US residential mortgage loans, and owned or guarantied about 75% of low quality home loans. .
Try to find “Highlights of HUD accomplishments 1997 – 1999.” The document chronicles the “accomplishments under the leadership of then HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, who took over in January 1997.” It provides the unintentional blueprints for the housing bubble, the subprime mortgage crisis, the financial catastrophe of 2008, and the Great Recession. Cuomo set affordable housing goals for FNM/FRE – the two, huge GSE’s involved in home finance – to buy $2.4 trillion in mortgages over ten years. He raised from 42% to 50% the requirements for FMN/FRE home loans purchases to be with low-to-moderate (CRA) borrowers. Low-to-moderate home buyers accounted for 49% of the 12.5 million rise in home ownership in the ten-year period from 1995 to 2005. They likely would have been better served (avoided foreclosure and bankruptcy) if they had not.
Do do-gooders always do damage?
When they lose sight of human nature, such as expecting businesses to behave like philanthropies. Also when they lose sight of the utility of institutions and practices that self-organizing people construct. We have a rental housing market for a reason: owner-occupied housing doesn’t fit into a lot of people’s lives very well. It’s too expensive, requires too much assumption of risk, requires too much time, and is an illiquid asset to boot. Trying to goose the share of the population in owner occupied housing (based on dubious social theory) raised the proportion of delinquent and defaulting loans so high it threatened banks and conduits with insolvency – and all at about the same time.
Steve P.,
Out fishing with a friend off MV (his boat) we were tied up with the Coast Guard for over two hours, lost the drift and caught nothing, all because of that cheeseball lives on the island.
Sticks in my memory.
But his race-baiting act, after being elected not once but twice, sticks in my craw the most. Such an opportunity to heal race relations, and he instead played the race card to maintain the power of his party. A despicable evil thing to do, to sow division instead of healing.
Define do-gooder. I think of Charles Martel, Francis Xavier, George S. Patton…
Don’t wanna be a party popper, but hoping Covid isn’t being served on one of those Hors d’oeuvre. That would send Michelle into a head spin.
P, Doing damage to evil men can be a good thing.
Or, I need to elaborate on the ubiquitous, post-modern ‘do-gooder.’
I mean the chattering idiots and the con artists.
The CI’s live in worlds of their own making and there can never be anything like them. When sooner or later they get to set them up they fall to pieces.
The others are con artists hiding behind high motives. I give you Al Gore and his employ of the climate hoax to become a billionaire. I give you Barack Hussein Osama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson who made the plight of blacks worse. I give you Bernie Sanders and AOC [unemployed barmaid] riding the wave of socialism lunacy to get power and riches. The list goes on.
They say they want to help people. But, it’s all scam. The people they said they wanted, plus a lot more, to help were hurt.
Maybe if the media and tech titans didn’t censor truth-tellers and swear to the massive lies, things would change.
Art, any thoughts on this recent NY Mag article arguing Truman actually wasn’t hurting for dough?
Truman’s grandchildren cannot sue him for libel. He has no background in accounting or finance. He’s telling the rest of us to take his word for it. He’s a law professor, not the most honorable of occupations. Then there’s this:
https://jonathanturley.org/2014/01/09/professor-campos-responds-to-professor-leiter-in-controversy-involving-professor-leong/comment-page-1/#comments