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Saturday, March 26, 2016

If Cruz Takes The Majority Of Delegates In Wisconsin, It Will Further Complicate Republicans

2 Wisconsin Polls Show Cruz Leading Trump

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By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 26 Mar 2016 01:39 PM

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Two new polls in Wisconsin are showing Texas Sen. Ted Cruz with narrow leads over Donald Trump in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.

In a statewide Emerson College Polling Society survey conducted from March 20-22 of 439 likely GOP primary voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 points:

Cruz, 36 percent
Trump, 35 percent
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, 19 percent

In a Basswood Research survey conducted for The Washington Free Beacon of 500 likely Republican primary voters, conducted on March 19 and 20:

Cruz, 36 percent
Trump, 31 percent
Kasich, 21 percent

The margin of error was not available for The Free Beacon's poll.

The Emerson pollsters also questioned favorites in potential general elections matchups, finding that Cruz trails Democratic front-runner Clinton by just one point, and that Democrats in general scored better than their potential Republican challengers:

Cruz over Clinton, 46-45 percent;
Bernie Sanders over Trump, 47-38 percent;

And in the Democratic primary, it was Clinton with a six point advantage over Sanders, by 50 to 44 percent, with Sanders leading Clinton among voters 18-34 by 67 to 29 percent. Older voters, though, favored Clinton by much larger margins.

In favorability ratings for Trump and Cruz:

Men: 59/47, Trump; 64/32 Cruz
Women: 40/50 for Trump; 58/32, Cruz
Independents: 33/61, Trump; 48/44, Cruz

In Free Beacon's poll, Cruz's lead would go up a great deal if Trump drops out. If that happens, 48 percents said they'd back Cruz, but just 36 percent said they would back Trump.

Friday, March 18, 2016

Government "Free Stuff" Ends At A Point. Are We Near Or Is The Fear Of A Collapse Like Henny Penny?

What will happen when the ‘free stuff’ ends?

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The Great Recession never ended, despite what the mainstream media and political hacks tell you. It has just been covered over as if putting paper over a damaged wall. If you look closely you can spot the truth.

The administration’s unemployment numbers are false. The actual unemployment rate counting all those not working — not just those considered “short-term discouraged workers” (what the government counts) — is 22.7 percent, according to Shadowstats. This is the number based on the measure used prior to 1994 to count unemployment. That means more than one in every five Americans who could be working is not. For comparison, at the height of the Great Depression unemployment was 24.75 percent.

Food stamps are the new bread lines. The food stamp program is a clever ruse that hides the actual number of people who are on assistance. If the media were showing lines of people waiting for soup and bread there would be a national revolt.

The number of people receiving food stamps (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) has exceeded 45 million for 56 straight months, according to the Department of Agriculture. This means an astonishing 14 percent of Americans are fed by government. And 21.3 percent (52.2 million) of the U.S. population is on one or more means-tested government programs. Still more —almost every American? — get special tax breaks, incentives or treatment, which is yet another method of redistribution of wealth and more social engineering.

In 1969, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture began tracking food stamp participation, 2.87 million Americans were on food stamps. That’s just 1.4 percent of the population. Food stamp participation has increased 1,470 percent in 47 years, while the U.S. population has increased only 56 percent.

This increase was by design. The USDA admits that “Changes in SNAP policies, some of them associated with the 2002 and 2008 Farm Acts, have made benefits easier to apply for, available to more people, and more generous.”

Although Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are engaged in a race to promise the most “free stuff” for the people, such a thing is unconstitutional and unsustainable. Government welfare programs disincentivize work and require government money printing to sustain.

The act of money creation means that more and more of the national wealth flows to the federal government. How in the name of Pete do people think that the United States government became so powerful and so wealthy in property? But all fiat money systems in history have collapsed and the U.S. will be no exception.

The government produces nothing. It has to steal and it does so on an unimaginable scale. The mind of man cannot deal with such a massive transfer of wealth, and few people even suspect it. Why do people not know about the biggest fraud in history?

As Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) told the Free Beacon, “Unless we reform programs like the SNAP program and a number of other entitlement programs there is going to be a shrinking supply of funds for all of these programs given the fact that we now have $500 billion to $1 trillion annual deficits totaling at $20 trillion annual debt.”

Supporters of Communist Sanders and the Witch of Chappaqua believe the free stuff can continue forever. That’s not surprising. Many of them have been fed by government their whole lives through school breakfast and lunch programs, and are taught in schools that the government is their caretaker.

But government has nothing except that which it takes from someone else. Money printing is theft, because every dollar printed debauches the dollars you are holding.

When the food stamp program and all other government programs collapse, there will be blood in the streets. Desperate people do desperate things. When that happens, the last thoughts of many Bernie and Hillary supporters will be, “Where is government and why didn’t it come and save me?” (For tips on how to prepare get my book, “How to Survive the Collapse of Civilization,” — BL)

For a vision of what Bernie and the Witch are proposing for your future, go here and here.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

More Evidence That Kerry Hates Israel. He Is NOT An Even Handed Negotiator!

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) with PA leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on July 23, 2014, in efforts to broker a deal with Israel. (Photo: Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)

A foundation chaired by John Kerry’s wife funds a restaurant promoting anti-Israel incitement and offering products only from countries in conflict with America.

A foundation chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry,funds a restaurant that promotes an anti-Israel agenda, the Free Beacon reports.

The eatery, called Conflict Kitchen, received a $50,000 grant from the Heinz Endowment in April to help pay for its moving costs. It is now situated near the Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh campuses.

The restaurant, which serves popular Middle Eastern food such as hummus andbaba ghannoush, states that it only uses products from countries at war with the U.S., such as Afghanistan, North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela. “Our current focus is on Palestinian food, culture and politics,” the Conflict Kitchen website states.

In fact, the website, decorated with a logo in Arabic letters, is filled with sophisticated anti-Israel propaganda.

Sandwiches Wrapped in Propaganda

The restaurant’s sandwiches are wrapped in messages carrying quotes from Palestinian Arabs mourning the creation of the State of Israel.

The restaurant logo is the Arabic translation of “Conflict Kitchen,” a spokesperson told UWI.

One wrapper refers to the creation of Israel as “an intentional and ongoing offensive.” It also alleges that Israel “deliberately blocks Palestinians from obtaining drinking water, prevents non-Jews from becoming citizens and has assassinated or imprisoned all of the non-corrupt Palestinian leaders.”

Another includes the inciteful message: “Palestinians are not going to just let [Israel] in and drop their arms. No, they’re going to kill and they are going to die.”

An Assault on Free Speech?

The restaurant not only hosted panel discussions featuring anti-Israel speakers; the owners also barred supporters of the Jewish community and Israel from participating in these events, according to several media outlets.

Conflict Kitchen’s location is ideal for inflaming the already-boiling anti-Israel atmosphere on campuses. As Times of Israel points out, “anti-Israel activities on US campuses are up by about 50% compared to the same period last year, according to Jacob Baime, executive director of the Washington-based Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC).

Millions of Dollars to the Radical Left

A spokesman for Heinz Endowment confirmed to the Free Beacon that the foundation has beenfunding Conflict Kitchen, adding:, “The opinions of Conflict Kitchen do not represent those of the Heinz Endowment.” He declined to say whether they would continue to support the group in the future.

Capital Research Center, which monitors American foundations, in a feature on the move to the left among non-profits, reports that Heinz Kerry has funneled millions of dollars to radical left-wing environmentalists.

Is Kerry an Unbiased Mediator?

Secretary Kerry, a key player in the Israel-Palestinian Authority negotiations, has made controversial statements regarding Israel. He recently stated that the lack of progress in the negotiations was the cause for the strengthening of the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) terror group in the region, seemingly holding Israel responsible for the lack of an agreement.

In a separate incident, he claimed that Israel was on the way to becoming an “Apartheid state.”

In light of these new revelations, it seems fair to ask whether Kerry had been an impartial mediator in the failed U.S.-brokered peace talks.

Author: United with Israel Staff