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Is it any wonder, after such unmitigated success, that the left is apoplectic about having its echo chamber shattered by a barbarian like Trump?

The belief system of the progressive left includes the shared understanding that leftists have been anointed to determine what is good and right in American life and what is not.

Their candidate was ordained to hold the highest office in the land as the inevitable consequence of this orthodoxy. That belief system was shattered at 2:30 AM on November 3, 2016, when the Associated Press called the election for Trump."

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Quit trashing Obama’s accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:

• First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
• First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
• First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
• First President to violate the War Powers Act.
• First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
• First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
• First President to spend a trillion dollars on “shovel-ready” jobs when there was no such thing as “shovel-ready” jobs.
• First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
• First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
• First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
• First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
• First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
• First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
• First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
• First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
• First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

• First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
• First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
• First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
• First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
• First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
• First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
• First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
• First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
• First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
• First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
• First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
• First President to go on multiple “global apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.
• First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
• First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
• First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
• First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
• First President to repeat the Holy Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth
• First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
• First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences.”
• Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. (Thank God he didn’t get away with THIS one.)
• First president to allow Iran to inspect their own facilities.
• First president to have blood on his hands from Benghazi to the assassinations of several police officers.
• First president to trade 5 terrorist for a traitor
• First president to facilitate the Iranians to acquire nuclear weapons.
• First president to light up the White House in rainbow colors to honor men that lust after other men’s rear ends.
• First president to put young children in danger by forcing states to allow men in women’s restroom and showers.
• First president to smoke crack cocaine in the White House.

I could go on for days but you get the point.

How did that hope and change’ work out for you?

“It’s Just The Right Thing To Do”: Dem California Senator Endorses Socialist Policy

When an opportunity to establish a illogical, massive government system that would ruin the individual liberty, innovation, and quality of life for American citizens is discovered, democrats become glassy-eyed and salivate like unholy fiends from the underworld. Kamala Harris, one of the democrat hopefuls for 2020, announced that she supported Bernie Sander’s “single-payer” healthcare idea at a recent town hall meeting. The move would basically turn Medicare into socialized healthcare.

The statement shows just how out-of-touch with reality these elitists really are, and it illuminates their true liberal objective, which is the destruction of a free market system. Undeniably, there are a few problems with this Hitler-like scheme.

The dismal quality of other country’s similar socialist healthcare systems, the fact that republicans control congress (and hopefully they won’t demonstrate further treachery), and the basic inequality and destruction of the free market are the major reasons why intelligent people throughout the country oppose such lunacy.

A 2014 study produced by Cal Thomas highlighted the poor quality medical people receive when the government operates as a third-party buyer for healthcare. The National Health Service in that country determines which medicines can be used (there’s no choice for the individual), and they only approve drugs that would be a “benefit to wider society.”

That means that people with HIV could not benefit from new drug discoveries. Plus, there’s absolutely no incentive for scientists and researchers to develop any new treatments. America leads the world in biomedical research, dwarfing all other countries that have socialized medicine.  Under government controlled healthcare, that innovation would disappear.

The study also found that there are only 2.71 doctors for every 1,000 patients in England. Basically, that would mean a three year wait for an appointment, so people end up in emergency rooms. Unlike what Obama claimed, visits to the ER are extremely frequent. The BBC reports, “nearly 12,000 people made more than 10 visits to the same unit in 2012-13. A small number of those — just over 150 — attended more than 50 times.”

This wretched situation is generated because the government is essentially a third-party payer, and it doesn’t work. Bob McEwen explains it perfectly. When a buyer doesn’t use a product or spend his own money to purchase it, he doesn’t care about quality or cost. That means that the free market economy, which is the absolute best system for ensuring individual equality, is destroyed.

Consider an individual who buys something for himself. Both price and quality matter. Consumers hunt for the business that offer the lowest cost and the highest performance. That’s a first-party payer. When someone buys something for someone else, that’s a second-party payer. The only thing that matters is price, because the buyer isn’t going to use it.

When the government becomes the third-party “single-payer,” the costs increase, fraud increases, and service declines at a remarkable rate. For proof, look that the VA. It is a single payer healthcare system that is lousy with cheating, stealing, and poor quality care.

Democrats ignore the truth. They pander to people who want to be taken care of by the government, like their slave master predecessors. Universal healthcare is not a right. When people have a choice, businesses compete. By removing that selection, there is no longer any incentive to achieve.

Laser-eye surgery is a perfect example. The costs have been reduced by over 25 percent because of the free market. When businesses compete for clients, customers reap improved quality for a lower price.

Nobel Prize winning Milton Friedman said it perfectly, “A society that puts equality—in the sense of equality of outcome—ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.… On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality.”

He’s absolutely right. History shows that although emancipation freed slaves in the U.S., if it hadn’t been for entrepreneurs, the move to the civil rights act would have taken much longer. Of course, democrats opposed both.