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2017-06-19 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-19 03:33|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Not much noticed is how Trump is cutting off the money flowing from government to the Left. The slimming of the federal bureaucracy will bring down house prices around DC which will do a lot to reduce the wealth of this Left leaning group and hence money flowing to their preferred causes.

Posted by phil_b 2017-06-19 04:07|| 2017-06-19 04:07|| Front Page Top

#2 #1 impacting surrounding areas. Look at traffic flows in and out of DC. I know Maryland has benefited greatly these many years sucking off the government political operations in DC. Look at the influx of many different races with each trying to grab power as the blacks have done. Each does this not for America but for their own people. Creating private enclaves or simply put safe zones.

Posted by Dale 2017-06-19 06:06|| 2017-06-19 06:06|| Front Page Top

#3 In the age of internet, the government should be decentralized. How about starting by moving the EPA in Iowa?

Posted by Captain Tojo3621 2017-06-19 07:49|| 2017-06-19 07:49|| Front Page Top

#4 TC - that idea has been floated and has merit. Unfortunately many Dems back it so I'm skeptical as to actual motives. Still, enough worth that the Trump admin should look into

Posted by Rex Mundi 2017-06-19 09:00|| 2017-06-19 09:00|| Front Page Top

#5 A number of recent articles have argued that America -- and the post WW2 order -- is broken.

And thus the pushback against globalism; Brexit, and the election of Trump. If broke, it is that people sense the gnawing away of underpinnings by the left and globalists.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-06-19 10:12|| 2017-06-19 10:12|| Front Page Top

#6 #3, hey man, what did Iowa ever do to you?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-06-19 10:33|| 2017-06-19 10:33|| Front Page Top

#7 ...able to assume the responsibility of global leadership
They keep using the term global leadership and they just never define it, do they? This like the difference, in engineering, between Force and Work -- unless an action has meaningful results it is just waste motion. But the writers assume that what they desire is meaningful --- hubris...

Posted by magpie 2017-06-19 12:42|| 2017-06-19 12:42|| Front Page Top

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