SANDERS SUPPORTERS
It isn’t surprising that Bernie Sanders’ supporters are predominantly millennials, the generation that grew up with every amenity provided. Life is wonderful when you’re safe and secure in a climate-controlled environment, able to eat a bountiful harvest of infinite variety, sleep in a cozy bed and wear fashionable clothing. Life is great when all of these amenities are provided for you. What do millennials do when mom and dad kick them out of the basement? They support Bernie Sanders’ retrogressive socialism, thinking this is mankind’s ticket to the good life.
Millennials aren’t without good intentions. You can’t blame these youngsters for their lack of knowledge about America. They’re no longer instructed about the lives lost, sacrifices made and bloodshed that have laid the foundation for them to be born into such an amazing existence. They’re not instructed about the failure of socialistic policy wherever it has been attempted; instead they’re brainwashed to believe socialism is a path to utopia and equality.
America’s greatness has been created by one guiding principle: people over government. This principle was intended without massive bureaucracy controlling the individual.
WHO PAYS?
Donald Trump has released his plan for making Mexico pay for a wall on our Southern border. Problem is Trump’s plan includes confiscating part of the wire transfers from Mexicans working in the U.S. who transfer money to family in Mexico, and additional visa fees for legal travel from Mexico, and tariffs on goods imported from Mexico. These plans cannot be implemented without congressional approval.
Even if approved, these fees and charges would quickly be avoided with very little effort via the black market. Even if this plan was implemented and charges were paid, payment would be made by poor working-class Mexicans, legal and illegal, and American consumers.
EXCESSIVE REGULATION
State senators should vote no on House Bill 1549, which would increase notifications on wind development from 30 to 180 days. Clean, renewable wind shouldn’t be burdened with restrictions that don’t apply to other energy production. This is a job-busting bill because wind produces 27 percent more jobs per kilowatt-hour than coal and 66 percent more jobs than natural gas.
We need those jobs, which aren’t subject to the boom and bust of the oil industry. Landowners need the land-leasing payments and the state needs funding generated by clean, renewable wind, which doesn’t cause earthquakes or use a drop of drinking water. We should let the energy industry compete in the marketplace, not at the state Capitol.
EXCUSES, NOT REASONS
If I told my boss I’m going to pick and choose which job duties I want to do and ignore the rest, I’d be fired. Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford have given us excuses, not reasons, why they won’t do their duty to allow hearings to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. So why do we taxpayers have to keep paying their salaries? Being a politician instead of a legislator won’t earn either of them my vote next election.