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Mark Caserta: Nation desperate in fight against terrorism

8 Jul

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Mark Caserta: Free State Patriot Editor

7.8.16

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There are too many major issues facing our nation, both domestically and internationally, for me to speculate which raises the most concern.

And frankly, the question is ambiguous to the point we should expect our nation’s leaders to be able to strategically address multiple issues simultaneously without compromising resources or victory.

However, capable execution at the executive level requires strong leadership, predisposed at fulfilling duty and obligation to the American people, with a servant’s heart and a lion’s will. And this president is dangerously wanting in this regard.

However, all things considered, survival is paramount. So, in my mind, the threat of radical Islamic terrorism poses the most imminent threat to the nation and now my neighbor.

Obama’s sympathetic decorum toward the Muslim faith has emboldened Islamic jihadists to bring the fight to our shores – and people are dying.

Team Obama continues to demonstrate a lack of conviction in standing against our enemy’s aggression and incredibly still does not have a plan to defeat ISIS or even understand their motivation.

For a case in point, look at Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who just last week told the world how she feels we should address terrorism.

“The good in this world far outweighs the evil,” Lynch said during a press conference in Orlando on Tuesday. “Our common humanity transcends our differences … our most effective response to terror and to hatred is compassion, it’s unity, and it’s love.”

So, is Lynch proposing we show compassion and love to the barbarous individuals who are burning, beheading and slaughtering innocent people?

It takes one “evil” person, amid hundreds of “good” people, to inflict death and destruction. But while her statement is both nave and foolish, it does embody the Obama narrative which indiscriminately coddles the Islamic faith.

But I believe we’re now dangerously close to a point of no return regarding domestic Islamic terrorism.

Multiple news sources, including a February 2015 “Breitbart” column by Edwin Mora, have reported FBI Director James Comey warning Americans that his agency is investigating suspected ISIS supporters residing in all 50 states.

“We have investigations of people in various stages of radicalizing in all 50 states,” said Comey, adding, “This isn’t a New York phenomenon or a Washington phenomenon. This is all 50 states and in ways that are very hard to see.”

In Mora’s column, Comey describes the radicalization message being used in the U.S. via social media.

“Troubled soul, come to the caliphate, you will live a life of glory, these are the apocalyptic end times, you will find a life of meaning here, fighting for our so-called caliphate. And if you can’t come, kill somebody where you are.”

Understand, if ISIS is successful at establishing domestic terrorist cells in every state of the union, we could be facing a coordinated attack of immense proportion. And nothing short of martial law could be our remaining course of action, leaving our nation forever changed.

Our nation is in desperate need of competent leadership committed to protecting life over legacy.

And we need it now.

Mark Caserta is a conservative blogger, a Cabell County resident and a regular contributor to The Herald-Dispatch editorial page.

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Doug Smith: Remember the Law?

8 Jul

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 Doug Smith: Author, historian and lead contributor to Free State Patriot

7.8.16

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Remember the law?

Our founders did. They saw protections of the law, and concomitant penalties of force as a means of protecting the infant United States from arbitrary use of power. Or, as Jefferson put it, Tyranny.

Make no mistake, we have experienced tyranny multiple times in recent years, though never quite as blatantly as when the Director of the FBI, days after the AG meets with the powerful husband of the target of a criminal probe, outlines a clear case for her criminal behavior, then declines to prosecute it.

Some folks like tyranny.   If the tyrant props up your business while attacking your competitor, what’s not to love? If the tyrant makes sure everyone buys your book, while banning your nearest competitor, what’s not to love?

When the Chief Justice of SCOTUS bends himself and the language into pretzels to find a way to say the President and Congress didn’t do what they did, which would be wrong, but did, what they didn’t do, which is ok, so we’ll call it what they didn’t do, and go right on doing what they did, people who love the act love the ruling. People who love the law shudder.

If the only impediment to government abuse of its subjects is the outrage of a handful of lifetime appointees, no one needs to know, or obey the law. Just find out what the judges like. When the law is no protection, we hope for a Knight, a Defender of the Weak. But that system was as flawed as the men who wore the shining, or rusty armor, and as safe as his whim while he held the only sword.

When all men agree to subject themselves, and their leaders, to a set of laws, they can live in the assurance of a mostly fair and equitable set of rules to play by. When those leaders toss out the rules, and the people permit it, citizens become subjects. Make no mistake. While tyranny may serve some for a time, it will ultimately serve only itself. Power serves power. Tyranny will consume the liberty of everyone, except those with power and money. Tyrants are not vegetarians. Their meat is the people. If not you today, then someday soon. Don’t cheer when the wolf eats your enemy. You are his prey too.

So when citizens of a free country hear see their chief law enforcement officer colluding, the head of a once respected law enforcement agency make an impassioned case for the crimes of an elected or appointed official, then shrug it off with no consequences, they are watching themselves become subjects.

There is the law for the peasantry, the varlet, the knave, then there is the law for the Lords and Ladies of the manor. Honor the King, pay your ducal tithe, (how much of the $ 200 million dollar Clinton fortune would that amount to, one wonders?), and come to do battle if your fellow Nobles are threatened. Do this, and the nobility will protect you as well.

And should one of your peons think to commit the same acts for which you are excused, why then bring back the dungeon! Drawing, quartering, the stocks, branding, none of it is too severe for an answer.

After all, who do these common folk think they are? The Queen is not subject to the same mores and strictures as the blacksmith. One would think they had held a revolution while one slept.

 

 

 

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Mark Caserta: Americans become weary of all the political lying

1 Jul

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Mark Caserta: Free State Patriot Editor

7.1.16

While the office of the U.S. president has many requirements, it would seem being truthful isn’t one of them, at least if you’re a liberal Democrat.

In fact, I’m amazed at how Democrats incessantly lie to Americans on the most important of issues! And, of course, there’s always the complicit liberal media willing to lend a “hedging hand.”

For a case in point, look at Bill Clinton. Many younger readers are probably unaware of the fact that in 1998, Bill Clinton was impeached as president of the United States, charged with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice.

After it was discovered Clinton had engaged in an extra-marital affair with a 21-year-old intern named Monica Lewinsky, Clinton repeatedly lied to the American people and eventually to a grand jury in an effort to cover up his fling.

It was only after it became known that Ms. Lewinsky had preserved a blue dress which provided DNA evidence of their affair that Clinton would tell the nation the truth about their inappropriate relationship.

Clinton became only the second president in history to be impeached. He was later acquitted by the U.S. Senate and allowed to finish his term.

And of course, there’s Barack “pants-on-fire” Obama.

How many of you recall during his 2008 presidential campaign, when Obama repeatedly told voters his healthcare debate would take place in a public forum, primarily C-SPAN.

Multiple news sources, including The New York Post, reported that Obama promised voters on at least eight different occasions the healthcare debate “would be transparent.”

One notable example would be during a meeting with the editorial board of The San Francisco Chronicle in 2008, when Obama said, “These negotiations will be on C-SPAN, and so the public will be part of the conversation and will see the choices that are being made.”

A deluge of lies thereafter gave birth to the nightmare known as Obamacare, in which Americans “weren’t” allowed to choose to keep their doctors or healthcare provider, as promised by the “double-crosser-in-chief.”

 

And now, for their next prevaricating presidential candidate, the Democrat Party is offering our nation “her excellency,” Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In possibly the most callous of lies perpetrated by Democrats in recent years, Hillary Clinton revealed her true nature when she lied to the families of the victims of Benghazi about the deaths of their loved ones.

“This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with.”

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”

Why do these elected officials lie? And why do their fellow progressives give them a pass?

It’s all about insidious power – the power to oppress our nation with their liberal agenda.

So, let there, once again, be “Power to the People.”

And let’s make America great again.

Mark Caserta is a conservative blogger, a Cabell County resident and a regular contributor to The Herald-Dispatch editorial page.

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Mark Caserta: It’s time for common sense on gun issue

24 Jun

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I consider it the height of hypocrisy for the Obama administration to blatantly pave the way for Iran to eventually get a nuclear weapon and still seek to take guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.

Such is the incoherent policy rationale of a liberal.

I’m going to attempt to make this as simple as I can, because apparently progressives cannot or will not think logically where gun control is concerned.

So here goes.

According to a study from the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, there are approximately 300 “relevant federal and state laws regarding the manufacture, design, sale, purchase or possession of guns” in the U.S.

Now, a 2008 CNSNews column written by Susan Jones on the issue, reports this study does not include a tally of local gun laws which would essentially bring the total to somewhere around 20,000! According to the column, Brookings didn’t include these because 40 states “preempt all or most local gun laws,” so they concluded there was no reason to include the local gun laws in the tally.

Here’s the fly in the buttermilk for short-sighted liberals: criminals don’t abide by the law!

So in the words of Hillary Clinton, “What difference at this point does it make?” What gun law or additional restriction will keep guns out of the hands of criminals or domestic terrorists!

In fact, a police officer friend of mine shared with me that when he runs the plates of a vehicle and it shows “concealed weapons permit,” he feels much better about the person being a law-abiding citizen.

Now there’s some common sense thinking.

A terrorist isn’t going to submit to a background check. A criminal isn’t going to register a weapon. An individual desirous of perpetrating a mass shooting isn’t going to abide by a magazine law. A radicalized domestic Islamic assassin isn’t going to go to a gun store to legally purchase an assault rifle.

Are you getting the picture?

However, a law-abiding citizen will willingly submit to a background check. They’ll have no problem registering their weapon. They’ll abide by a magazine law. And if they aren’t able to purchase an assault rifle legally, they won’t own one!

Any rational-minded person should be able to understand laws only restrict the law-abiding.

I’m amazed at the logic, or lack thereof, that progressives predictably spew following a horrific mass murder demanding additional gun laws for individuals who couldn’t care less about following them.

Now, what if a law-abiding citizen, properly trained in the use of a firearm, had been at most of these tragedies? We know murderers lean toward “soft” targets where the chance of a firearm being present is low.

And what if that individual got off one timely round, perhaps while the shooter re-loaded?

Lives would’ve been saved. It’s that simple. I can’t make it any clearer.

Just one final question for liberals.

Is it really saving lives that’s important to you, or is it propagating your liberal agenda?

If it’s lives, then it’s time for some common sense.

 

Mark Caserta is a conservative blogger, a Cabell County resident and a regular contributor to The Herald-Dispatch editorial page.

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Doug Smith: Letter to Senator Joe Manchin

17 Jun

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Doug Smith: Author, Historian, and lead contributor to Free State Patriot

6.17.16

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“The problem we have — and really, the firewall we have right now is due process. It’s all due process. But due process is what’s killing us right now.”

Senator Joe Manchin (D) WV 2016

“A principal source of errors and injustice are false ideas of utility. For example: that legislator has false ideas of utility who considers particular more than general conveniences,…. who would deprive men of the use of fire for fear of their being burnt, and of water for fear of their being drowned; and who knows of no means of preventing evil but by destroying it. The laws of this nature are those which forbid to wear arms, disarming those only who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent. Can it be supposed, that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, and the most important of the code, will respect the less considerable and arbitrary injunctions, the violation of which is so easy, and of so little comparative importance? Does not the execution of this law deprive the subject of that personal liberty, so dear to mankind and to the wise legislator? and does it not subject the innocent to all the disagreeable circumstances that should only fall on the guilty? It certainly makes the situation of the assaulted worse, and of the assailants better, and rather encourages than prevents murder, as it requires less courage to attack unarmed than armed persons.”

Cesare Bonesana-Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco, 1764

This 18th Century Italian jurist Beccaria had a good feel for wielding both law, and guns. His writings influenced our Founding Fathers, in particular Thomas Jefferson. We have, today, a President who finds the Constitution a bulky impediment to doing the things he wants to for “the People”, and a sitting US Senator who feels it is the Due Process clause of the 5th Amendment which is killing us.

We have had that pesky 5th Amendment since well before we had Joe Manchin and Barack Obama to look out for us. It has served us pretty well, and not killed us in all that time. The same cannot be said of Barack, Joe, and the Democrats. It is worth noting that the last time due process was suspended, another Liberal/Progressive Democrat, FDR, did so to illegally detain Japanese American citizens for the duration of WW2.

It is also interesting to note that the Senator does Not propose altering due process to let the FBI investigate potential terrorists, just keeping people from buying guns. Maybe, he notes, just for 5 years. The Left, like Joe, and Hillary, has fired at the 2nd Amendment for years. His fellow Democrat Senator Harry Reid tried to dismantle the 1st Amendment to limit a citizen’s right to criticize government. Now, Joe wants to go after the 5th.

We could repeal the 17th, Joe, which changed from State Legislatures appointing Senators to direct election. If we did, do you suppose the GOP led WV Legislature would re appoint you to the Senate?

The Bill of Rights is to protect citizens from what government can do To us, not to ensure what it must do for us. POTUS, and you, Senator, are sworn to protect it from all enemies, foreign and domestic, not attack it because it is “killing you.”

You are ready to attack the right to own guns, but you are not ready to admit that is Muslim terrorists who are killing us. With guns, with knives, with pressure cookers, with box cutters, with shoes and underwear stuffed with explosives. The common theme is not guns: it is terrorists.

You ought to respect the Constitution you swore to uphold, or resign your office if you can’t.  And recognize that Americans have been armed, heavily, for over 200 years. Taking away guns, or box cutters, does not make us safe. Recognizing who our enemy is, and going after them, does.

 

 

 

 

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Mark Caserta: American lives overrule political correctness

17 Jun

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Mark Caserta: Free State Patriot editor

6.17.16

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Simply put, political correctness and a liberal misrepresentation of Islamophobia in our nation are costing lives.

Last week we sustained the worst mass shooting in our nation’s history. An Islamic gunman, wielding an assault-style weapon and handgun, reportedly opened fire on hundreds of innocent people killing dozens and injuring many more.

While authorities are investigating whether the attack was an act of domestic or international terror, there is little doubt the shooter was influenced by his radical Islamic roots. CNN reported the afternoon following the attack that the attacker called 911 to pledge allegiance to ISIS and mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers, according to a U.S. official.

Shortly following the attack, a friend asked me, “Mark, what do you think Obama will call this attack?”

Of course, my friend was alluding to Obama’s prior shameful reference to “workplace violence” as in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, or an act of violence committed by a “lone gunman,” as in the shooting deaths of four Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 2015.

“Anything but an attack from radical Islam,” I replied.

And true to form, following the attack, multiple news agencies including USA Today, reported President Obama calling the mass shooting in Orlando “an act of terror” and “an act of hate.”

No mention of Islam.

Interestingly, however, while the president made no mention of the shooter’s Islamic background, he was sure to identify the victims as being part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender culture.

I wonder how long before he blames the assault rifle and/or conservative “homophobe mentality” for the brutal attack.

But liberal libel and intellectual dishonesty aren’t going to protect our families from the threat of Islamic terrorism. Obama’s persistent refusal to admit innocent blood is being shed in the name of Allah should be troubling to all Americans.

And we all should be reminded, Hillary Clinton plans to carry on Obama’s failed Islamic foreign policy if elected.

It’s naive and otherwise blatantly ignorant to believe that simply refusing to call these extremists “Islamic terrorists” is going to save lives or in any way help fortify our relationship with Muslims around the world.

In fact, quite the opposite is happening. Our enemy is emboldened and prepared to bring the fight within the borders of the United States, as it was in Orlando.

To make matters worse, the president seems determined to exacerbate the problem by bringing thousands of un-vetted Syrian refuges to the U.S. Obama’s own FBI director James Comey told a House Committee on Homeland Security in 2015 that the federal government simply does not have the resources to conduct thorough background checks on all of the 10,000 Syrian refugees and exclude ISIS penetration.

America needs leadership willing to deliver a message of “shock and awe” to radical Islamic extremists around the world. Obama has proven he isn’t even willing to rattle his saber against Islamic terrorists, much less defeat them.

And we have no need of a president who values protecting the tenets of Islam over protecting the lives of Americans.

American lives matter.

Mark Caserta is a conservative blogger, a Cabell County resident and a regular contributor to The Herald-Dispatch editorial page.

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Mark Caserta: A letter to the president about the economy

10 Jun

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Mark Caserta: Free State Patriot Editor

6.10.16

              

 

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Dear President Obama,

 

Greetings from the great state of West Virginia!

Mr. President, last week in an interview with The Economist, you boasted to the American people the economy is better now than when you took office saying, “Since I have come into office, there’s almost no economic metric by which you couldn’t say that the U.S. economy is better and that corporate bottom lines are better – None.”

Well, Mr. President, I’m not sure what metrics apply in Washington, but as for the rest of the country, things have never been tougher.

Sadly, throughout your presidency, the complicit liberal media has refused to engage you with direct questions aimed at getting honest answers.

So if you’ll indulge me, Mr. President, I would like to pose a few simple questions.

Mr. President, our nation’s labor participation force is the lowest it’s been since the mid-1970s. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a record 94 million Americans are missing from the labor force. During the same period of time in 2008, the number was 79 million Americans. How do you explain this tragic drop in employment?

President Obama, as you know, individuals who haven’t actively looked for work for four weeks are dropped from the monthly reported unemployment rate. Given the record number of Americans not looking for work and missing from the labor force, don’t you feel it’s misleading to report unemployment at below 5 percent?

Mr. President, following the Bush presidency, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there were 28.2 million people on food stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Yet, according to recent SNAP statistics, this number has increased to over 44 million people. How do you explain so many more people now dependent upon the government for food?

Mr. President, in recent weeks, you’ve used the word “booming” to describe certain segments of our economy. Yet, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income has dropped from $55,313 in 2008 when you took office to $53,657 in 2014. When factoring price increases, the median household income becomes comparable to levels we haven’t seen since the mid-1990s. What words do you have for families not feeling the “boom” in the economy?

In 2008, Mr. President, when you were running for office, you criticized then-President Bush for adding $4 trillion to the national debt, saying it was “unpatriotic” and “irresponsible” to burden future generations with such a large national debt.

Yet, since taking office in 2009, your administration has added another $7.5 trillion, according to multiple sources, including The Weekly Standard. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office predicts the debt could exceed $19 trillion by the end of your presidency. Would you now “walk back” your 2009 indictment of Bush?

“Metrics” are only as good as the data, Mr. President. And yours fail to meet the mark.

But if you’re looking for a good accountant to honestly track the information, give us a call here in West Virginia.

We have plenty of people who could use the work.

Mark Caserta is a conservative blogger, a Cabell County resident and a regular contributor to The Herald-Dispatch editorial page.

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Mark Caserta: Progressivism isn’t about technology, injustice

5 Jun

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Sadly, as our nation wars against issues like nuclear proliferation, illegal immigration and rampant Islamic terrorism, we have no choice but to focus our attention on potentially debilitating social onslaughts from progressives.

 

Emboldened by successes achieved under the most liberal president in my lifetime, we’re becoming increasingly impinged upon by members of society disengaged from principles of morality and social conscience.

 

And why not? They’re simply following the lead block of a president whose success at fundamentally transforming America is unprecedented.

What began as a societal “pursuit of acceptance,” the LGBT lifestyle has successfully opened the door to a new world order of “interrelation” and recognition.

 

And knowing liberals will never be satisfied until they’ve removed all barriers of virtue and incorruption, I believe the battle has only begun.

 

I’m amazed how liberals aggrandize the progressive movement in our nation. Their implication that conservatism seeks to oppress civil rights and bolster social injustice is laughable.

 

Progressivism has historically been laden with unintended consequences and is now beginning to impact our nation in ways we never dreamed.

 

As of last week, 12 states, including Kentucky and West Virginia, have joined in a lawsuit against the federal government over its transgender bathroom guidelines for schools, as reported by multiple news organizations, including CNN. The lawsuit seeks to block the federal government from “implementing, applying or enforcing the new rules, regulations and guidance interpretations.”

 

Understand, there’s a pattern progressives follow when establishing a foothold from which they can propagate their agenda, and it’s important to identify the early phases.

Progressives understand they must advance their agenda “progressively.” “Step one” is to challenge traditionally accepted standards. In this case, it’s the conservative interpretation of federal anti-discrimination laws.

 

Achieving protection “under the radar” for even a small group of individuals may be perceived as only one small step for a liberal, but it’s actually one giant leap for progressivism!

 

From that point, progressives tenaciously advance the scale of “acceptance” and “protection” in our society under the guise of human and civil rights.

 

Suppose pedophiles begin leveraging similar tactics seeking protection akin to those waged by the LGBT rights activists, arguing their desire for children is a “sexual orientation” and no different than heterosexual or homosexual desires?

 

Consider NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association, whose website states it’s a political, civil rights and educational organization whose goal is to end “the extreme oppression of men and boys in mutually consensual relationships.”

Would it matter to a liberal if this organization sought protection under the same illogical set of values?

 

Folks, we’re in a battle for the very soul of our nation. I expect ambitions of tolerance we never thought possible.

 

Think about it. How many of us, even 10 years ago, would have envisioned the federal government allowing individuals to choose the restroom that aligned with their gender “perception” rather than their physiology?

 

It’s time we set progressivism apart from simply being advances in technology and social injustice.

 

Progressivism seeks to remove the metric of morality and the edict of conscience.

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Mark Caserta is a conservative blogger, a Cabell County resident and a regular contributor to The Herald-Dispatch editorial page.

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Mark Caserta: Federal minimum wage should be tied to inflation

28 May

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Mark Caserta: Free State Patriot Editor

  • May 27, 2016 

 

On the left we’ll see “progressive” Democrats portrayed as liberators of the downtrodden, offering complimentary passes on everything from birth control to tuition.

While on the right we’ll have the “primordial” GOP, viewed as protectors of the “one percent,” looking to reduce entitlements and intrusive government oversight.

Well, when it comes to doing the right thing for hard-working hourly wage earners, I believe both sides have an argument.

 

I recall working for $1.65 per hour in 1974. While hardly a “living wage,” it provided me spending money during school.

 

But the cost of living has increased exponentially through the years, and the federal minimum wage has never been set to rise with inflation. This must change. Currently, the increase requires congressional action and politicians have been irresponsible in acting. Go figure.

 

But understand, attempting to repair 40 years of feckless government bureaucracy in one fatal swoop could send our economy into a disastrous nosedive!

 

One important factor liberal Democrats don’t understand is someone has to pay for it. And that “someone” will predominately be the consumer who frequents the businesses employing the minimum wage workforce. This would include restaurants, movie theaters, retail outlets, grocery stores and so on.

 

Suppose proponents of the federal minimum wage increase are successful at increasing the current rate from $7.25 to $15 per hour. As a business owner, I now have to cover the additional cost in labor.

 

Projecting lower profit margins is not an option.

 

Employers will be forced to react by reducing their costs and services while increasing their revenues to the degree necessary to remain profitable. This means higher prices.

So if I’m paying my restaurant employee $15 per hour to flip your hamburger, guess what – the burger is going to cost you more – not the employer. And there will, no doubt, be fewer cooks in the kitchen.

If I’m paying movie theater employees $15 per hour to sell you a movie ticket, pop popcorn and clean up your mess, you’ll pay much more for the popcorn and movie.

 

If I’m paying my retail outlet store employees $15 per hour to stock the shelves and run the cash register, who do you suppose is going to cover the additional cost? You will – not the employer.

 

In fact, the same people who supposedly got a minimum wage pay increase are the very ones who will cover much of the employer’s additional payroll cost.

 

Minimum wage was never meant to be a living wage, but a stepping stone to a better future. But Democrats have forged a “nanny state” that under their current policies, could be bound to a minimum wage for life!

 

A drastic increase in the federal minimum wage would prohibit employers from growing and creating higher-paying jobs of the future.

 

Let’s tie the federal minimum wage to cost of living increases and allow the free market to work.

 

Mark Caserta is a conservative blogger, a Cabell County resident and a regular contributor to The Herald-Dispatch editorial page.

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Here’s The Full list of 92 Paychecks Hillary Collected from Wall Street

22 May
Here’s The FULL List of 92 Paychecks
Hillary Collected From Wall Street
By Robert Gehl 

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The media’s going nuts that Hillary Clinton took three big paychecks for three speeches at Goldman Sachs.
At $225,000 a pops that’s pretty good scratch – but it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

She’s been very, very   busy, raking in millions in a three-year stretch since she left her post as the Secretary of State.
Her defense? It varies from ” It’s   what they offered me ” to the hilarious, “I happen to think we need more
conversations about what’s going on in the world.” Pricey “conversations” indeed.
Here’s a list of the 92 “conversations” that Clinton has had in just the past three years.
The total: $21.7 million.

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She’s been very, very busy. What did Hillary promise in all these speeches?

What was her advice to Deutche Bank, Cisco and the Council of Insurance Agents? What did she tell eBay?

Or the ” American Camping   Association ” and why on earth would the American Camping Association pay $260,000 to hear from Hillary? Has she ever been camping? We may never know because she refuses to tell us. 

What Hillary discloses to us peasants is on a ” need to know ” basis only.

Robert Gehl is a college professor in
Phoenix, Arizona. He has over 15 years journalism experience, including two
Associated Press awards.

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