[Heritage Foundation] The Spanish economy is under serious threat. The Sánchez Administration is using the excuse of a serious health crisis to enact policies that undermine investor and business security and restrict personal and economic freedom. Such interventionism will trap the economy by increasing fiscal imbalances—Spain’s historical mistake—and put the country on a destructive track that will erode freedom and result in excessive spending, more debt, and rigidity. The long-term social and economic consequences of these mistakes can be enormous. Instead, the government should implement serious measures to enhance economic freedom and allow a strong recovery soon.
Spain’s economic 2020 freedom improved slightly, but many policies implemented by the current government threaten to derail or even reverse that modest progress.
The government’s priority is to defeat the pandemic and get the nation back to work. However, it should avoid unnecessary interventions in the economy to do so.
Spain should reduce non-essential government spending to zero, consider pandemic-related tax relief, and resist increasing structural spending imbalances.
Spain’s economic freedom, as measured by The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom, improved slightly in 2020. Many policies implemented by the current PSOE/Podemos government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, however, threaten to derail or even reverse that modest progress towards greater economic freedom.
Of special concern are the many anti-free-market and anti-capitalist measures the government has put in place in response to COVID-19. Recommendations in this paper, if adopted, would help the Spanish people—at the very least—to avoid losing more economic freedom....
It's Kurt with anti-despair message
[Townhall] It’s certainly frustrating to watch a pack of reeking leftist scumbags declare a portion of an American city an "autonomous zone" — what is it with Democrats and their secession fetish? — but do not get frustrated because Donald Trump has not sent the 101st Airborne in to powerwash the human grunge from Seattle’s feces-bedecked streets.
...Let’s understand the strategic scenario. The long-term strategic objective of the leftists is to turn the United States into Venezuela, and they want to be Maduro. The major strategic objective that will put them in position to do so is victory in the November elections. Everything happening right now is part of their overall strategy to achieve that objective. But what kind of operation are they using to achieve that objective? There are two types of operations relevant here — kinetic and information. A kinetic operation is actual warfare. It’s violence designed to defeat the enemy and cause his surrender by either physically destroying him or occupying his territory and compelling surrender. An information operation is designed to affect the perceptions, and thereby the actions, of the target. Kinetic ops tend to do something to the enemy; and info op tends to get the target to do something to himself.
...Okay, so what is the 2020 elections, with the rioting, vandalism, violence and occupations?
This still an information operation, not a kinetic one.
...They want is to make us (including the president) think this is a kinetic operation, and get our side to make fundamental strategic errors by failing to recognize the true nature of the threat. They hope that such a mismatch between perception and reality will then lead to gravely damaging blunders. One of those would be Trump succumbing to his legit frustration and sending in a bunch of federal troops to crack skulls in Seattle.
...Many of us cons are furious that Trump is "doing nothing." This is the wrong thing to think. Trump is only doing nothing if this is a kinetic operation; because this is an information operation, not going kinetic (sending in the troops) is doing something. And in fact, Trump is employing the law enforcement component of his kinetic assets by having the feds wait and arrest Antifa types after the protests end, and hitting them with hardcore federal rioting-related charges. Previously, they would get ticketed and released; now, looking at a five-to-ten stretch, the lawyers their daddies hired to get these sunshine anarchists out of their beefs are going to be advising them to roll over so they can start back up at Cornell in September and not at Leavenworth. And Police Unions learning that they're totally expendable for D-Politicians.
Trump can and should let Seattle’s problem be Seattle’s problem. A small-scale riot in a peripheral city known for coffee, drizzle, and droning, garbage music is the very definition of a local problem. Why would Trump interject himself into it and relieve the mayor and governor of the consequences of their failure to keep order? Why would he stop them from showing the electorate exactly what the reeking cesspool they could expect after Gropey Joe defunds the police looks like?
Scumbagistan is a giant zit on the face of liberalism, and why should Trump pop it? He’s letting it fester for all of us to see — and winning the information war.
Understand that the leftist establishment would like nothing better than for Trump to go kinetic. That’s why it is baiting him, and hoping that those of us who are sick of these Lil’ Red Guards will pressure him into dropping in the paratroopers to bust some heads ... And those generals screwed-up too, bad. They should have waited to wring their hands over Trump’s violent and dangerous employment of the military until he actually violently and dangerously employed the military. A bunch of allegedly (but not actually) neutral and nonpartisan military figures with heaps of establishment street cred coming down on POTUS in the wake of a bloodbath could have had a devastating political effect, but they pulled the trigger too early. Mattis and Milley and the rest of the medal men we’re supposed to think are superb strategic operators, but who still haven’t won the war against a pack of turbaned banditos after about 20 years, screwed-up yet again.
...Trump is winning this information battle. Conservative Americans — and moderate Americans who want law and order — can’t wait to vote against defunding the police, rioting and appeasement. The Silent Majority is being roused again. Possibly, just possibly, that selecting violent criminals like George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks as martyrs was a mistake.
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Problem is, you need the Great White Defendant. Philando Castille was murdered at a traffic stop by a Minneapolis-area cop. He was a black guy. But the cop who killed him was Hispanic. Thus, there's no joy to be had. Same as last week's butcher's bill in Chicago.
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/\ He was a black guy. But the cop who killed him was Hispanic. Thus, there's no joy to be had. Same as last week's butcher's bill in Chicago.
Make no mistake. There is only one group of people in the targeting folder, and I suspect you know who they are.
#3
BLM pulled the trigger on riots two months too early. They were supposed to follow, not coincide with, the Corona outbreak. The only arrow left in the quiver at present is a recrudescence of the Corona to screw things up beginning in mid-September.
#4
More are talking and flat out REJECTING the taliBLM message.
I'm surprised at some of the voices, but a great opportunity to point out that, when it comes to white-on-black violence, it's man-bits dog news, it's demographically unusual.
#5
I love the fact that none of my concerns about Trump have proven out.
He has NOT turned into a NY Rino or Democrap wannabe.
And he has proven a master at pushing the Demos crap back on them. See his handling of Covid pushing back on the states their responsibilities, it's their toilet it's their job to clean it. He's doing the same with the rioters.
#6
Alan, buy the pistol, but understand it's primary use is to buy you the time to get to your long gun, be that a rifle or a shotgun. Best bet is get all three. Damned fine pump shotguns available new for less that $400. AR15's not in 5.56 are scarce. Good luck.
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[American Thinker] Mayor Cheryl Selby of Olympia, Washington just got her consciousness raised. Her hometown newspaper, The Olympian, reported last Friday:
On Friday night, two groups converged in downtown Olympia, and some became destructive, burning flags, smashing windows, and spray painting businesses and Olympia Mayor Cheryl Selby's home.
Selby and her family were not home last night, but her neighbors began texting her when the protesters arrived at her house.
"I'm really trying to process this," she told The Olympian over the phone Saturday. "It's like domestic terrorism. It's unfair.
"It hurts when you're giving so much to your community," she said[.]
Mayor Selby was previously vandalized and installed a security camera, so we have video of the miscreant via KING TV in Seattle:
#7
Selby needs to follow history more closely esp. a chap named Chamberlin say about 1939.
Here's a thought for all the $h|tbirds tearing down statues. If you erase all references to the Confederacy, you will see it rise again since no one will remember it and all the issues it caused. "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."
So, in effect, they are championing the rise of slavery by denying it ever happened in the 1st place. Who's the racist now?
#8
Segregation by choice has been an unspoken aspect of race relations for decades. The current BLM arrogance and criminal conduct certainly won’t diminish that trend. Tribalism always leads to friction with the “others “ and in a nation with millions of armed white citizens with military experience at some point that seems a stupid strategy.
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[Heritage Foundation] The Spanish economy is under serious threat. The Sánchez Administration is using the excuse of a serious health crisis to enact policies that undermine investor and business security and restrict personal and economic freedom. Such interventionism will trap the economy by increasing fiscal imbalances—Spain’s historical mistake—and put the country on a destructive track that will erode freedom and result in excessive spending, more debt, and rigidity. The long-term social and economic consequences of these mistakes can be enormous. Instead, the government should implement serious measures to enhance economic freedom and allow a strong recovery soon.
[American Thinker] Mayor Cheryl Selby of Olympia, Washington just got her consciousness raised. Her hometown newspaper, The Olympian, reported last Friday:
