Trump's Budget Cuts Don't Go Nearly Far Enough

Everyone and his brother are up in arms over Trump's nibbling at the edges of the massive welfare state. Apparently, it is cruel for the federal government to re-distribute just a little less wealth than it typically does. There is perhaps no greater indictment of modern Americans than their shameless sense of entitlement to other people's money. Consider the following:

• The federal government has no enumerated power to spend money for the purpose of alleviating anyone's poverty, hunger, or ill health, and any power not enumerated is reserved to the states via the Tenth Amendment. As such, the entire edifice of the modern welfare state -- including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the like -- is an illicit monstrosity.

• Even the states traditionally shunned the practice of spending public money to alleviate private suffering, as this is an abuse of the awesome power of taxation, whose narrow purpose is to enforce law and order while leaving everyone otherwise free to spend money as charitably or otherwise as they wish. 

• There is nothing "charitable" about spending public money to alleviate private suffering. Charity by its very nature is voluntary; public money is obtained through force. If you mug someone and distribute his cash to those in need, you are a thief rather than a saint. You are every bit as much a thief if you demand that a blow-dried politician do the same on your behalf.

• Public welfare has destroyed society by making people more dependent on government and less dependent on one another. Ever since the rise of the welfare state, private charities have withered on the vine. Worse still, every vice that helps generate poverty -- sloth, addiction, licentiousness, bastardy, etc. -- is now subsidized and encouraged rather than shamed or remedied.

•  America is going broke and simply can't afford this any longer. Entitlement (i.e., "mandatory") spending is consuming a larger and larger share of the federal budget, squeezing out  discretionary spending and sinking us even deeper under waves of non-repayable debt.

Trump may be loathsome, but the millions of Americans who demand lawless and immoral plunder are even worse. If you want to find out what's wrong with America today, take a break from your sanctimonious posturing and look at the man in the mirror. Even if you don't, the good news is that all of this is fiscally unsustainable and will collapse. Everyone will have to go cold turkey; it won't be pretty, but it will be richly deserved.

EDIT

I should have paused to address a trite apologetic regarding Social Security, namely that you supposedly "earned" this money because you paid into the system your entire working life. You didn't pay into anything; you were taxed, and the federal government immediately spent that money to pay existing Social Security recipients and to fund many other unconstitutional programs. When you retire, you will not be receiving your own money, but rather money plundered from millions of other people. This is a Ponzi scheme that likewise will collapse under its own weight (and not a moment too soon).

It reflects poorly on you if you argue that two wrongs make a right. It reflects poorly on you also if you prefer to surrender your liberty rather than rely on yourself, your family, or your friends to prepare for retirement in a voluntary and responsible manner. 

A Lesson From The Manchester Massacre

Another Muslim terrorist has murdered another bunch of innocent people in a Western nation, this time the UK.

All of you who put COEXIST bumper stickers on your automobiles in a cheap effort at virtue-signaling need to have your heads examined. Do you invite everyone to "coexist" in your house with you? Of course not, even if they are from your own neighborhood. We can all coexist on planet Earth, but there is no justifiable reason to encourage or even tolerate coexistence of alien and hostile cultures within a single nation. History is clear that this is a recipe for strife and bloodshed.

And no, America is not a "nation of immigrants" from around the world. America was settled and founded by a specific people from a specific ethnic, religious, and cultural background whose values are not universally or even widely practiced. The notions of (socialist) Emma Lazarus that are etched onto the Statute of Liberty cannot rewrite history. Consider the words of Alexander Hamilton:

The opinion advanced in the Notes on Virginia is undoubtedly correct, that foreigners will generally be apt to bring with them attachments to the persons they have left behind; to the country of their nativity, and to its particular customs and manners. They will also entertain opinions on government congenial with those under which they have lived, or if they should be led hither from a preference to ours, how extremely unlikely is it that they will bring with them that temperate love of liberty, so essential to real republicanism? There may as to particular individuals, and at particular times, be occasional exceptions to these remarks, yet such is the general rule. The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.

The United States have already felt the evils of incorporating a large number of foreigners into their national mass; it has served very much to divide the community and to distract our councils, by promoting in different classes different predilections in favor of particular foreign nations, and antipathies against others. It has been often likely to compromit the interests of our own country in favor of another.

Consider also that the preamble to the Constitution acknowledges that it is meant to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,” meaning the founding generation's descendants rather than whoever might set foot here in the centuries to come. That was the policy practiced for more than a century thereafter, as all of the naturalization acts from 1790 to 1906 were strictly confined to people of a similar background. Ozawa v. United States, 260 U.S. 178, 192-93 (1922). And of course there was the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act that virtually shut off immigration “to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity."

The "nation of immigrants" claptrap took hold following the dreadful 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, sponsored by Philip Hart (the product of Irish Catholic immigrants) and Emanuel Celler (the product of German Jewish immigrants). This blasted open the doors and has pretty much destroyed America as a coherent nation at all.

There is no shame in preserving one's nation while leaving other nations to chart their own destiny, just as there is no duty to sacrifice one's nation on an altar of sentimental platitudes. It might be too late for the UK to remember this, but perhaps it's not too late for us.

The Trump Holocaust

It's an embarrassment of riches for me lately, as I'm getting so much new business that my challenge has become to space out my work and make time for other activities, such as commenting here. This is a good problem to have, and I'm grateful for it.

I'm also grateful for the hysterical meltdown of the establishment, the media, and all their mindless adherents over President Trump. My reason is not only the entertainment value, but also vindication for something I've been preaching for a long time now: it is impossible to reform the system from within the system. Look, people. The establishment wants open borders, high taxes, pervasive regulations, a Third-World population to replace the American one, and a sock-puppet in the Oval Office to ensure that all of this happens. Trump is not part of the program, so the establishment is fighting back with every weapon in its arsenal short of assassination (for now). If Trump fights them off, great. If Trump goes down, the nationalist sentiment that elected him will erupt in anger and find expression in a new champion, one who isn't interested in negotiating with the stalwarts of the status quo, but rather in eradicating them. As Obi-Wan Kenobi warned Darth Vader, "You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

A blunt -- but also very incisive -- assessment of the motives behind the attack on Trump is offered by Heartiste:

The Gaystream Media is in full-blown meltdown over Trump. He’s a man who shoots from the hip, and the media in its quest to destroy him — and don’t forget this means to destroy Heritage America who voted for Trump — has abandoned all journalistic integrity for clickbait generated by latching onto Trump’s extemporaneous riffing and completely stripping it of any context in order to frame Trump as the next Hitler. 

I got to thinking what this reminds me of . . . women caught cheating. Confront a woman with incontrovertible evidence of her infidelity and she’ll be driven to hysterics, first denying the charge, then accusing you of distrusting her, then bashing you for being a horrible partner, then twisting your words to mean the opposite of what you mean to make herself look like the victim, then finally spitefully blaming you for pushing her into the arms of another man. 

The Gaystream Media is that cornered whore, presented with solid evidence of their journalistic malpractice and zero integrity shilling for the globohomo agenda, who, knowing its credibility is shot, lashes out with hysterical fury and film reels of psychological projection. The womanish hysteria is what a busted cheating whore resorts to when the jig is up. Now all that’s left is for Trump and his supporters to hold their ground, stay firm, and show the door to the frazzled media.