I look
for the Teamsters to get federally mandated fuel subsidies. With diesel selling over four bucks just about everywhere, the truckers will have to foist this basic operating cost off onto customers, and what better way than to have O make it mandatory?
The right is so fragmented that almost every conservative or classical liberal is his own political party of one, and while many will hold their noses and pull ther R lever, every group has it’s own battle cry- ‘I won’t vote for this guy because he’s not Christian enough” “I won’t go for that guy because he’s too Christian” “I won’t vote for anyone who does x, y, or Z.”
Presenting no unified front means heavy losses, almost every time.
The left on the other hand would rather vote in a baby killer, so long as he keeps their subsidies or their favorite program intact. Obama will be a two-term president, and he will be replaced by someone worse. The fragmented, thoughtful right versus the unified, mindless left will always be a losing battle. Pascal will correct me on this, because I don’t know the exact quote- the leaders don’t care if you hate them, so long as you don’t love one another. Can it be that the whole of conservative talk radio is a series of wedges to splinter the right into smaller and smaller groups, each of which has no power against the leviathan of liberal ignorance? Maybe that’s tinfoil hattedness.
But that’s what’s happening.
I hope you’re wrong, but fear you are correct.
Until the right gets its own lightning rod the left will continue to erode our rights.
I do not think Trump is the rod. He has several good qualities, just not sure the right will unite behind him.
Your words are fine as they stand Og. It was deTocqueville who wrote in Democracy in America “a despot easily forgives his subjects for not loving him, provided they do not love each other.”
It might seem that this is just a more elaborate way to say that the goal of our tyrants is “divide and conquer.”
But there’s one added word that is telling in Tocqueville: PROVIDED.
The agents of our despots, who have infiltrated all our protective institutions — many unaware themselves how useful a set of idiots they are — have provided that America remains as divided as ever, and even worse now that we have been infiltrated by those with foreign allegiances unchecked at the open door.
Can we defeat them still? Yes we can. We must stop being willing to let it go, and start demanding that all these “leaders” stop talking and start proving.
“Can we defeat them still? Yes we can. We must stop being willing to let it go, and start demanding that all these “leaders†stop talking and start proving. ”
I’m not so sure you’re right. I HOPE you are.
Og, whether Teamsters or not, just about every trucking firm around here (and we have a lot of them due to I-65 and being half-way between Indy and C-Town) is already charging a fuel charge. If they didn’t they would park ’em. My cousin’s son has his own fleet and he calls Washington every Monday morning to find out what he can charge for the surcharge. Everyone’s already paying it. Look for inflation to really take off in June as these charges are passed on to the consumer…
All The Best,
Frank W. James
Oh, Yeah, Mr James. I know a lot of trucking firms who have the fuel surcharge in place, but I spect O will subsidize the unions to “Keep them competitive”(Translation: Allow them to undercut the non-union companies)
for the Teamsters to get federally mandated fuel subsidies. With diesel selling over four bucks just about everywhere, the truckers will have to foist this basic operating cost off onto customers, and what better way than to have O make it mandatory?
Possible.
But on the other hand, remember two things:
Most truckers aren’t Teamsters (thank God); Teamsters more or less own UPS and a few freight companies, but there are a huge number of independents and non-Teamster companies.
Fuel-related freight costs raise all prices, so a subsidy is a political winner in the short term without the excuse of unions at all.
(It’s a stupid policy, but it’s politically viable.)
We also need to keep in mind that the Big Delivery Companies such as Fedex and UPS are under Teamster Contracts. So if you order 500 rounds of your favorite ammo from Sportsmans Guide, for example, and their shipping costs go through the roof, well, it’s “just another Brick in the Wall”, as Pink Floyd once sang. Bottom line, those “Sheeple” who still have jobs and money need to realize that not everything out there has an APP for that, and one can’t download Groceries “On Demand”. But as long as they think the Tech Stocks are doing Fine, then Wall Street will be doing Fine, so the Economy is doing Fine, so we need to re-elect the Anointed One, because everything is Fine, right? Reminds me of the old Holocaust Story : “First they came for the Jews, but I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the…” If Farmers can’t afford to Farm, then what? Sorry Barry, I don’t think there’s a “Green Hybrid Combine” out there to keep the grain flowing into the System, but hey, that could be part of what he wants…