Important headlines for February 8th
Bottom Line: These are stories you don't want to miss and my hot takes on them...
Hot Take: So why is it that Venezuelans have lost faith exactly? Oh right, because of corruption in the government. This is what can happen when corruption is allowed to fester in a government. Once upon a time Venezuela was a South American success story with prosperity and freedom. Now it's a country so corrupt that a person who won an election by 1% five years ago has so corrupted a country in that short time that its citizens widely don't even believe their vote will matter.
Every world empire throughout history has fallen. We're fools and ignorant to think we're somehow different. It's unlikely any outside force will defeat us for the foreseeable but it's absolutely possible that if corruption at the highest levels of government is allowed to operate against the will of the people to attempt to undermine a Presidential election, a President-elect and President of the United States... We need complete accountability. Last Friday there were 30 statements of fact in the Nunes memo. It's six days later and not one of the thirty has been specifically disputed. Unless all 30 are successfully accounted for treason will have occurred by the former FBI Director, Former Deputy FBI director and multiple former Deputy AG's and one current Deputy AG.
That's not rhetoric, that's not hyperbole, that's fact. Fact that takes us one major step closer to the end of freedom and equal treatment under the law unless prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Here's the definition of treason for those who don't get it:
trea·son
ˈtrēzən/
noun
the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.
I'd prefer not to end up like Venezuela. How about you? Or is your political party more important than freedom?
America Needs a Merit-Based Immigration System Sen. Orrin Hatch, FOX News
Hot take: We're all Americans. We're all tax payers. Our country is $20.7 trillion in debt and 14% live level below the poverty line as it is. This isn't complicated. This shouldn't be controversial.
Here are two scenarios:
A. We have people we can bring in without skills who cost and average of $175,000 per person and average being on government assistance for a minimum of five years
B. We bring in people who are self-reliant tax paying contributors from day one
Why in the world wouldn't a country $20.7 trillion in debt with 14% of its population living below the poverty line choose B? Unless one cares more about politics than the Americans they're supposed to be representing.
Tick, Tick, Tick...FBI Scandal Getting Closer to Obama Thomas Lifson, Am. Thinker
Until tomorrow...