Mamdani & Hochul Love Islam and Marxism

 To the astute and critical thinking observer watching the future budget of the state and city as well as the political elections in New York State are worth more than a ticket to a Broadway play. I have my ticket and popcorn.

I start out by listing  the players with a brief political bio.

“GOVERNOR” KATHY HOCHUL:

Is a leftist democrat who defied the SCoTUS ruling on the 2nd Amendment (additional litigation ongoing,) claiming “there is no such thing as a good guy with a gun.” Though not declared, she is a socialist who looks for any tax dollar she can find to buy votes and fund her social programs overwhelmingly approved by the large majority of leftist democrats in the state legislature.  There is no social program that is not on her radar.  She has deep ties to ZORAN MAMDANI (described later) the mayor of New York but is downplaying those ties for political reasons. She did not attend his inauguration.  She succeeded Andrew Cuomo who lost in part because of well-documented sexual harassment. Worthless but not as radical as Hochul. There is no giveaway she does not support and if you disagree you are free to leave as she has clearly stated, unapologetically.

BRUCE BLAKEMAN is the current county executive for Nassau County on Long Island.  He has Donald Trump’s endorsement but has been very demure in expressing his political beliefs/agenda. The common expression for these milquetoasts is “Republican in Name only” or “RiNo.’  I have written to him for clarification of his position on DEI and Amendment 2 which has done nothing more for me than getting me added to his solicitation list.

NICK LALOTA is the current Federal House Member from Federal District #1, Suffolk County (in which I live) He is doing his best to make sure everybody loves him (except for me of course).  I have written to him several times, most recently on what is called the “SALT” cap, (“state and local taxes”), in the past on Medicare/Medicaid, demanding he not compromise my medicare, for which I paid over my entire career and for which I continue to pay in my retirement years.  Medicaid is a “gimme” and too often Federal legislation equates the two even though the recipients of the latter have paid and pay nothing for it. He was elected after LEE ZELDIN, a true RiNo, lost to Hochul and was subsequently given a post by Trump.  I do not understand that appointment.  Awful local representative of the working class.

ZORAN MAMDANI, an Islamist/marxist, was elected mayor of New York City last November on a pure socialist and Islamic platform (city run grocery stores, free day care, free transit, stringent rent controls, asset taxes, no arrest of perpetrators of domestic violence against women).  MAMDANI stated during his campaign that domestic violence calls are low priority.  Since most domestic violence is against women, perpetrated by men that should alarm the purple-hairs who adore him.  I saw a picture of four purple-hairs walking the street with Mamdani signs.  Either they have a death wish or they are incredibly stupid.  Purple hair is one step further away from Islam than is the simple lack of burkas. With respect to Islam,  PEACEFUL (as opposed to BLM and ANTIFA) anti-Islam demonstrations in front of the mayor's house he labeled Islamaphobic and racist.  During this demonstration, two Islamic radicals tossed bombs at the demonstrators.  Mamdani said it was Xenophobes who tossed the bombs.  All is on film and he is now being personally sued for $65 million by the demonstrators for defamation of character. To my knowledge he has never apologized. I certainly understand that his pride is worth $65 million.

Here is what the above players face:

The “middle class” blue voters bought MAMDANI’S promise of Utopia.  The rich, except for some of the more self-righteous, did not.  I trust benefits program recipients voted for him as well.  New York is a “blue” state, except for the more rural north.  I live on Long Island, a part of SE New York, and while Suffolk County votes red, it does so only for the most timid of candidates, ie. Rino’s, ie Zeldin and Lalota..

Let’s start with the demise of New York City.  MAMDANI has been dealt some legal blows already. He cannot provide free transit (which he promised) as the state manages the transit systems. He will eventually be sued by employees for harassment based on religious beliefs that oppose Islam. Would HOCHUL pay for Mamdani’s Utopia?   Absolutely; but she is hamstrung by what will be increased revenue  shortfalls. If the Federal Congress turns “blue” in November she will be seeking aid for Mamdani from the Feds.

Conservatives have warned that HOCHUL and MAMDANI will drive out conservatives but more important to those two, is the wealth that often goes with them. They do not care that people of differing political beliefs leave; they care that they do not take their money with them. HOCHUL has said the money is welcome but not different political beliefs.  Thus HOCHUL is on board with the Islam/marxist philosophy but does not have the money to pay for MAMDANI’s utopia without raising taxes.  She is up for re-election in 2028.  MAMDANI will need state dollars well before that. He may work with HOCHUL to avoid implementing his programs until after (he hopes) she is reelected.  The only way HOCHUL can give him money is through tax increases and while she is truly evil, she has a brain and understands the middle class might be fickle enough to not re-elect her if she digs into their pocketbooks further. Raping the rich?  Peachy; just leave my middle-class bank account alone. Voters love social programs until they have to pay for them. As an aside a NYC neighborhood protested a mental health facility being built in their neighborhood.  They did not object to it until they learned it would be in their neighborhood.  So, HOCHUL is between a rock and a hard place and I love it.  After  the 2024 election she quite loudly told Republicans to move to Florida; because they do not “share” her social values.”  Recently, she is filmed asking for them to return (with their money) since she still says she wants their money to pay for her social programs, not that DEI should include political diversity. New York is behind only Hawaii in the highest tax rates in the nation. We as citizens are not better served.  The money is gobbled up by unions and social projects. HOCHUL (she is not alone) has never seen a private sector dollar she did not covet. My wife and I do not have an income that she would dare latch on to. We are middle class and if she latched on to personal income to a degree that included us she would be raising taxes on millions of people.  Again, she is evil but not stupid.  We don’t have that much and while Suffolk County legislators are not high quality people my guess is that they too will be cautious about raising local taxes.

Both assembly houses in New York State are “blue.”  Democrats outnumber Republicans in the Senate by two to one.  In the House a little more than that majority applies. I do not know the philosophical/fiscal makeup of the representatives but it is safe to assume many of them will not be willing to raise taxes though my guess is they would still retain the majority even if they did.  This is a sad state.  But, one more time: money talks and the middle class who love their blue representatives and programs, I suspect, cannot be counted on for continuing support if they must pay more to support those programs.  The flight of the wealthy red voters will mean the woke marxists majorities will become larger in government but the tax grabbers will have to be cognizant of some threshold beyond which they will lose elections.  I do not know where that threshold is.

MAMDANI, while not acknowledging that wealth is fleeing his hoped-for Utopia, has already said he will have to fund his deficit by raising taxes on the MIDDLE CLASS.  I love it when the woke crush themselves in the jaws of their making.

MAMDANI intends to implement a wealth tax. This means that an individual who has amassed an estate post-taxes will be required to pay a tax on the value of the estate.  His suggested figure is a net worth of $750,000 or more.  In many parts of New York city a house alone can cost that much.  This means that people we do not believe are wealthy are going to pay more to fund his Utopia.   

Businesses and wealthy individuals have been leaving New York for Florida (remember HOCHUL urged them to do so because they do not support her vision of New York).  I do not know the amount of money that has left the city but one number suggested was over ONE TRILLION.  Trump left long  ago; other refugees are not so famous.

Goldman Sachs said it is leaving New York City, leaving no function behind. Goldman Sachs has been a landmark in the city for decades. ELIZABETH ADAM, a Youtube podcaster, posted at length about this with stunning figures on the loss to the city.  Goldman Sachs is moving to Texas and Utah and the annual operating costs it will save are in the millions and she pointed out the higher earners who move will save in one year, enough money for a down payment on a nice house and their income taxes will be lost to the state as well. Other companies leaving or lessening their presence are Citadel, JP Morgan Chase, Icahn (billionaire Carl Icahn).

I do not know how to copy and paste but here is the link to her video.  It is a wake up call:

https://youtu.be/TDKVcKf66ul?si=II74Mpcl3h-T5U_g

If this does not work.  you might be able to paste it into Youtube.  Otherwise search:  “Elizabeth Adam” Mayor MAMDANI panics as Goldman Sachs Abandons New York for Dallas Texas.”  If you hope for the failure of this once great city this will be an interesting watch. I guarantee it. Ms. Adams articulately posts much about the vice in which the city is being squeezed.

Enter NICK LALOTA, “our” legislator to the Federal House.  He recently boasted that the cap of Federal Income tax deductions for State and Local Taxes, “SALT,” has been raised from $10,000 to $40,000 in many cases. He proudly voted for that raise. I do not believe the government has a right to the money of the wealthier but what LALOTA does not acknowledge is that the federal budget, in the unlikely “if”, is “zero sum” and we tax the wealthier less then we will tax the middle-income earners more.  Again, I don’t begrudge the wealthier paying less in taxes but if the government does not reduce costs (and it won’t) then the revenue will be made up from folks in other tax brackets.  Meaning?  He is not a friend of the middle class as he proclaims to be.

The responsibility, ultimately, is upon the voters to elect officials from whom they gain iron-clad commitments to reduce taxes, only possible if the government reduces programs and operating costs.  If the voters do not do that, they get what they deserve. Unfortunately I get what they deserve as well but my income level is not likely to see much in income tax hikes.

I do not believe there is a “leader" on the horizon who has the courage to say “enough” so MAMDANI’s utopia and HOCHUL’s quiet support of MAMDANI may well work for awhile but eventually the ostrich voters will have enough. What may have to happen if for a strong, articulate conservative runs against Hochul.  BLAKEMAN is not that person. The person will lose but the pieces of his/her case may boost chances in following elections as the sheep finally understand what has happened to them.  What happens then?  Who knows; the government may have entrenched expenditures into law so government administrators will have little choice except to fleece their local taxpayers.  BRUCE BLAKEMAN, the aforementioned gubernatorial candidate does not have the courage of his few convictions to fight New York’s bankrupt future.  Eventually house cleaning will have to be from the legislature first to give local governments more freedom to rein in costs.  If he is elected (I hope he is not) he will have many swords on which to fall and he will not be willing to do that.  He is a coward.

THE FUTURE:  I hope to see New York City file bankruptcy and it may have to do that unless HOCHUL  bites the bullet and fleeces the taxpayers further.  Wealth will continue to flee the city so to  fill the budget MAMDANI will have to tax the middle class (who voted for him) and that will cause further flight of people who are in a position to leave.  I can leave; my income is from a Washington State pension and social security. My house on Long OIsland will be easy to sell.  It does not matter where I live…Texas is too hot however and Florida is too humid. Wyoming and Idaho are nice and those states do not hate Libertarians. The rich will increasingly flee as the taxes continue to become more burdensome and reach lower earners. Bankruptcy of New York is inevitable.

I have popcorn in stock and believe me I really do hope the people who voted for these demons suffer. I won’t suffer.  Thee sheep will get what they voted for and if Utopia does work, they get that life to enjoy but I believe it will fail.  I will lose nothing but will enjoy the losses of the sheep.There is nothing on the New York state or city budget that suggests taxes will do anything but rise.

Let me get to my popcorn.

Have a nice summer.

Blakeman requirements for donation

Bruce Blakeman is the Nassau County, New York Executive running for governor of New York against incumbent Governor Evil (aka Hochul).    Below is what I wrote him since I don’t think he is sufficiently aggressive to tackle the damage the woke marxists have done to this state.

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Good Day Mr. Blakeman:

Your solicitation for campaign funds is NOT an emergency.  If you send any more solicitations, please tone that down. Fire, assaults, traffic crashes are emergencies.

I am a male, 80 year-old Libertarian, who long ago stopped sending campaign contributions as even the candidates I liked reneged on campaign promises and I learned that the candidate rarely wants public input, just money and that does not work for me.  If I contribute nothing to you I doubt it will matter much but “to thine own self be true” thus here is what I require of you for my vote and possible contribution.  Governor Evil is a horrible person but I do not vote lesser-of-evil.

1.  Unabashedly and loudly support the 2nd amendment.  It is a part of our constitution and a politician who is embarrassed about it will not get my vote (I have a CCP and in 50 years have never shot anyone if  you can believe it!).  Bad guys will always have guns and I want a fighting chance. Governor Evil is wrong; there are “good guys with guns.”  Read her list of places a holder may not take a weapon and you will see she gutted the 2nd amendment. I want a governor who unabashedly attacks that list and does not hide behind litigants.

2.  No DEI.  Yes it does exist.  62% of Suffolk County is white.  Hispanic is ⅓ of that and blacks are ⅙.  Take a walk into the Stony  Brook University hospital and see if the employee demographics matches that of Suffolk County.  If the aide you assign to that wants my company I am available.  DEI violates all civil rights law. For chuckles, in the Smithhaven Mall, near the entrance to the Stony Brook medical extension is a kiosk for Medicaid services.  Notice any picture of white applicants or technicians?  I don’t either.

3. No help for Mamdani.  Make that a clear campaign promise.  You do address that in your letter but Mamdani  intends to rape the rest of New York and Hochul is trying to figure out how to do that; knowing it is politically risky. Be forceful in promising no state aide.  He is a dangerous man and NYC is being scrutinized as an experiment in a culture the country repudiates.  Make sure he is not successful due to taxpayer help from the rest of the state.

4. Rescind bans on fossil fuels.  You allude to this.  The banning of gas ranges is tyrannical. Provide me all the natural gas and electricity I choose to use.

I understand if elected you will deal with a Leftist legislature.  Use your veto and you may have to fall on your sword.  While I think you can win, I truly don’t know what the odds are.

John Tyson

LEGALIZE ASSISTED SUICIDE

 MY CASE for ASSISTED SUICIDE

Let us imagine I am about to be hospitalized for kidney failure or (and, if I am lucky) liver cancer either of which will both be fatal.  I might choose to forego corrective surgery or treatment and donate my organs.  What remains is how I die.  I don’t want expensive medical treatment but I do want to die with dignity and I (or my proxy) decide when that will happen.

It is time to legalize assisted suicide in our country.

I have a loving family and right now would NOT choose to stop medical care and end my own life even if I developed a terminal disease.  I believe there is nothing that can convince a family member that I loved him or her if I choose to end my life. Choosing to end my life, I am dismissing their heartbreak by asserting it is not important to me to be around him/her any longer.  When I die, I won’t care any more but to those who survive me, my choosing to die is dismissive of their love for me and is abject betrayal. 

I face nothing fatal at this point.  I work strenuously to provide for my health and quality of life.  I have a solid ”live wish” but at my age my body is beginning to retire.  I have little to contribute to the economy, my family or the betterment of society. This is not a “poor me” or “I am useless” statement.  It is a matter of fact. I have done my “share.” I love life but might in different circumstances choose to give my organs to someone who potentially has much longer to live than do I.  Will I have a “live wish” down the road?  Who knows?  What if I am alone and could cause someone else to live by donating my organs earlier rather than later. I am an organ donor. I might choose that option.  As the feminazis like to say, “my body, my choice.” When I end my life really is my choice and in fact there is nothing anyone can do to stop me but legalized assisted suicide allows the chooser to indeed “die with dignity.”

I have much life to live and many people I hope to please and many I hope to anger so don’t watch the obituaries quite yet. I write these thoughts as I reflect on the similar thoughts my father expressed to me 25 years ago.

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WHAT IF I COULD DONATE MEDICAL CARE

 COULD MEDICAL CARE FOR THE ELDERLY BE BETTER PROVIDED TO YOUNGER PEOPLE INSTEAD?

25 years ago my late father wondered aloud if it is good policy to spend  hundreds of thousands of dollars on medical care for elderly, dying people.  His musings were not born from selflessness.  My father, a successful business executive, posed policy that might deprive him of care as he aged, allowing someone else to live.  He was the philosopher and armchair politician.  I wanted him to live long and healthy thus the significance and numerous ramifications of his ideas escaped me.

Now, 35 years later with increasing frequency I recall his thoughts.  I am 79; I have had a triple heart bypass, two stents, eye surgery and other less important procedures.  I am on many drugs that prolong my life and health and to my credit I work very hard to maintain my own health.  

Except I probably eat too much chocolate.

I am entitled to my medical care.  I paid into Medicare for 50 working years and continue to pay for it in my retirement.  I have a generous supplement, for which I pay a great deal.  MEDICAID gives  health care to people; health care (MEDICARE) for which I pay dearly; MEDICARE that I believe is threatened by the siphoning of funds for MEDICAID, which the entitlement group receives for free. We should care for kids and let adults care for themselves. I do not care if ADULTS die in the streets for lack of food or medical care resulting from their life choices.  I prepaid and continue to pay for Medicare and I expect no degradation of my benefits.  No, I am not wealthy; I have provided for my family and me for my entire life and now I EXPECT the benefits for which I prepaid and continue to pay.  Politicians execute policy that benefits people who have never learned that the natural consequence of not caring for oneself is death.

Instead, what if:

1.  I can forfeit all further benefits which are then available to a relative or friend - perhaps a family provider - OF MY CHOICE who cannot afford health care?

2. I can donate my benefits to a non-profit OF MY CHOICE that will provide care for their legitimate - my criteria- clients.  An axiom to remember is “God helps him who helps himself.”  In no case would I want my health benefit to be given to people - professional victims - who choose to do nothing to care for themselves. In other words, do not “bleeding heart” (I know, that is not a verb) my donation.

There must never be an entitlement to any benefit I donate.  As the donor I have a complete right to vet a potential recipient or agency to make sure their values are in line with my values, i.e. no discrimination in any form that conflicts with my values.  For example, a third party agency may NOT include DEI in its selection process.  Because of the possibility an agency might not follow my wishes, I insist on the final vote on their recommended recipient and ALL vetting information would be provided to me; HIPPA is waived. Many years ago I participated in an exercise where a group of us had to determine the recipient of a kidney, choosing from several candidates deliberately painted quite differently. I broke out in a sweat. The ability to decide between life and death - to play God - of another person is a horrifying task but one which I will manage if I have the opportunity. As the donor I have the unmitigated right to decide the beneficiary and my choice will favor a person with my values.  By the way we gave the kidney to a young father of a family of four.

Judgmental, value-laden?  Of course!  But as I am the one making the donation I have an uncompromised right to select an individual whose values I share and for whom I feel sympathy. Charity begins at home, not in politics. NO DEBATE.

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My hopes for a Republican candidate for governor

 Elise Stefanik is currently a Federal House rep from upstate (rural) New York.  She is running to unseat a truly vile incumbant (Kathy Hochul).  I am enthusiastic about her candidacy and extend an offer to help her candidacy, laced generously with opinions and caveats.

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Honorable Elise Stefanik

Federal House Representative

137 Margaret St. Suite 100

Plattsburgh, NY  12901

Dear Representative Stefanik:

Want Some Help?

 Because I live on Long Island I know little about you. I caught a clip the other day that you will run against Kathy Hochul for governor.  I believe one remark was that the State of New York will not bail out our Sharia Law city from its certain financial failure. Delightfully, Hochul is caught between a rock wall and a hard place.

Your website is tailored to your role as a representative.  I assume most of your positions are similar to those you will communicate during your gubernatorial run. Rarely have I had so much enthusiasm for a political candidate. On our long ballots I will often vote for one candidate, or none; in the last election I voted for no candidates but expressed my opinion on the two ballot issues. I do not vote party or lesser of evils, only individuals with whom I substantially agree. I do not like Lee Zeldin, a perfect RiNo.  I researched his congressional history when he ran for the governor of New York and discovered not one thing controversial and important.  We all love our veterans, right?  Too many other issues of importance he ignored.  I was disappointed Trump appointed him to his cabinet.  A nice guy with not nearly the spine to run a divided government. I do not understand why candidates with conservative values are so terrified of defending those values.  Mr. Lalota is of the same cloth.

Your positions and issues of particular importance to me:

SECOND AMENDMENT:

I list this first deliberately.  As  our country becomes less willing to defend the innocent, often protecting the criminal, I want to be in the best position to defend myself and family.  I like the saying “when you need a cop in eight seconds, one will arrive in eight minutes.” In Mamdani’s Utopia, it will likely take much more time than that and if the call is from a woman whose husband is beating her, one may not show up at all.  Mamdani hinted as much. That does not work for me.  That I own a handgun guarantees my safety?  No but I have a better chance than if I am unarmed.  I would prefer we not have RPG’s in the hands of individuals but handguns are legitimate and so would have thought our forefathers.

I have a concealed weapons permit.  Guns scare me. I do not target shoot and  do not hunt.  I will, without remorse, shoot someone who threatens me or my family.  I am a transplant from the State of Washington. I carried a gun for 50 years.  Believe it or not, Sandy Hook, I never shot anyone.  I once removed the gun from my glove box, waved it at four thugs who hoped to extract an elderly man from his car at a stoplight in Spokane, Washington.  They ran, the old man drove off in his car, I replaced my gun and drove off, happy I had done my good deed for the day…and no one got shot! Again, Sandy Hook, sorry to disappoint.

I rarely carry.  My fear is that if I leave my gun in the car it might be stolen but at least I feel free to carry it on a specific trip.  Except for Hochul.  After she was stomped by the SCoTUS decision, she, with her fellow evils, crafted a list which essentially tells me I can’t carry my gun anywhere except on the roads. You may have read the comment from one advocate, a comment that made me laugh. He said if he stopped at a gas station that did not AFFIRMATIVELY allow him to bring a gun on the premises, he was in violation of Hochul’s Law. Can this evil “human being” look at herself in the mirror?  Many of the do-not-carry dictates are working through the courts now.  I am not well connected but do pay attention to headlines.

Should you become the next governor and lack the votes to revoke some of this hate legislation, I ask that you instruct the State police and sheriffs to not enforce non-criminal non-violent violations of Hochuls’ Law.

MAMDANI’S UTOPIA:

I am looking forward to this playing out. I don’t watch organized sports but will certainly pay attention to the likely constitutional and Trump battles.  On that note I intend to watch the Trump/Mamdani meeting.  I have a whole case of Costco microwave popcorn waiting.

In the meantime, the purple-haired ignorant females who paraded after Mamdani’s victory, need not bother with 9-1-1 if your hubby beats you - and you might want to cover up your purple hair with your hijab.

Marxism is an idea that this country has toyed with for 100 years.  Between New York and Seattle (I used to live in Seattle; it is a weird place) this country has the opportunity to decisively prove its fallacies and oppression.  I have heard, and love the expression “socialism works until the government runs out of other peoples’ money.”  I do not want the state or Federal government to bail out Mamdani even if serious civil issues develop. The New York lemming voted this dangerous man in.  Let them deal with it. I hope Vance takes over in 2029.  He is NOT a wimp and he will not bail out NYC.  My hope is that NYC and Seattle fail so badly that politicians other than a radical Left minority will let it die. In the meantime my microwave is ready to pop my popcorn. Anthropologists:  fire up your computers!

MIDDLE EAST:  (I don’t believe you addressed this).

Israel has a PERFECT right to exist.  Middle East history is complex.  I know little about it but I have begun reading a  book about the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Although some Jews settled in the area prior to WW2, the majority were resettled there for humanitarian reasons after WW2.  They have a right to live unmolested.  Funny that when the Islamic folk attack Israel the attackers lose the war, lose land and then want the UN to require Israel to give the land back.  Reminds me of Lucy, Linus and the football Lucy pulls out from under Linus time and time again as he tries to kick it.  What did Einstein say about that??

I am not Jewish and have never had a Jewish friend, BUT they have a perfect right to unfettered existence and prosperity.

In whatever capacity you have as governor, defend Israel.  

EDUCATION:

Public "education" is, especially in big cities, is nothing more than incarceration of and inculcation of woke/marxist values in children. Public education is an atrocity and gets worse.  A few years ago an independent study demonstrated that NOT ONE 4TH GRADE STUDENT in the Baltimore school system could perform 4th grade math. I would bet a beer it is the same in NYC.  The rich parents take their kids out of public schools and the poor parents don’t have  a choice.

Weingarten is truly a horrible person but I have little praise for the millions of teachers who lack the integrity to speak up against public education despots.  Since they can’t be fired, what they have to lose I do not know.

I want children to learn the “three R’s” an art, some physical fitness and mutual respect, NOT respect required only by whites, males and the physically-able. A lesson or two in the Constitution might be thrown in as well.  Oh, yes, learn finances and how to balance a checkbook.  Being told that the earth is warming catastrophically and we Americans are solely responsible for that or we stole land from Mexico and American indians is not as useful to the next generation as fundamentals as we prepare the to thrive.

Open the doors to private and home schooling. The SOLE purpose of the education dollar is the education of children, not the support of unreproachable teachers or bureaucracies.  The “separation of church and state” argument is a red herring.  I understand the issue but believe it can be overcome, with the cooperation of private religious schools.   I believe, with no proof, that the wealthy are not openly supportive of this because they want their kids in the limited “slots.” Shame on you!  Voucher systems, over time and with private school cooperation will create more private schooling opportunities.  The unions, teachers and bureaucracies create a new argument against private schools almost daily but their arguments really are red herring.

In the universities, any professor who is reasonably deemed, including fair and proven accusations, to have deprived a student of his/her freedom of speech, loses tenure at incident number one and is dismissed at incident number two.  Educators MUST NOT teach what to think but teach how to think.

Again, big city schools do little more than incarcerate kids.  Pull a heinous criminal off the streets, how cruel!  Incarcerate kids, providing no hope for their future, good public and education policy!!!

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

The term "undocumented aliens” is feel-good.  They are illegal.  They should be labeled as such. Don’t use terminology intended to make them or their supporters feel good about themselves.  I tend to get along with Hispanics more than any other race/ethnicity (including caucasians, actually) but if they are here illegally, deport them.  Their drain on our nation’s, state’s and city finances is repeatedly documented.  AND democrats aim to legalize the immigrants, hopefully gaining millions of democrat votes (fewer than they might hope for however).  NO health insurance, SNAP or cash. No protections under the constitution.  Try walking into the countries from which these people emigrate, and demanding benefits similar to ours. Let us know how that works out for you.  Once upon a time I researched moving to Norway, not seriously but with an interest.  Immigration rules are not horrible there but the potential immigrant HAD TO PROVE SELF-SUFFICIENCY.  Were I in a negotiation on this issue I think there is room for compromise but unmitigated  immigration and draining of AMERICAN resources is not acceptable. Frankly I believe the judges that stop deportation ought to be doxxed.  The radical left is doxxing ICE  agents and public officials who support deportation.  What is good for the goose is good for the gander and perhaps the Boesberts of the world would develop some temperance.

Separating children from adults is not our problem.  Parents are free to take their children along.  They are not allowed to stay in the U.S. because they have children.

MEDICARE, MEDICAID AND SNAP:

There is no such thing as a “free lunch.”  I am 79; I paid into social security and medicare for my 55 working years and I continue to pay for medicare as well as a private supplement. And I pay taxes on social security. My Lord.  There are no circumstances in which my health or pension should be compromised.  I don’t care how Canada or Europe treat health care; I would rather live here. I do not understand the complexities of health care or medicine.  It is expensive but I do not believe the public is being told the truth, not just “poor me” rhetoric.That the government has horrible actuaries and fiscal policies does not compromise my entitlement. Want an abortion (I am in the middle on this issue) get your checkbook out.  People who believe it is immoral must not be forced to pay for it.  Cut government as necessary to keep my entitlements intact. I have some thoughts on meeting the needs of kids if I am ever engaged in that discussion. I trust you have heard purple-haired mothers or others with five kids griping that SNAP does not permit the buying of snacks.  Did they not read the word “Nutrition” in that acronym?  And how about the welfare leeches with five kids who planned to rob WalMart if their benefits were cut. While I think many of these posts are “click bait” the posters deserve criticism. Back in the seventies my wife and I were on “food stamps” for two months while I was between jobs. One month of benefits fed us for two months and included a steak on rare occasion. The term ‘food insecurity” is one more red herring. Smart eating (diet) might be another subject taught in our schools. Certainly more important than “global warming.”

Starving children:  provide two or three full meals a day in school; provide neither food nor cash to the parents.

I have never accepted that I am “my  brother’s keeper.” I am compassionate more than most but “God helps him who helps himself” perfectly matches my belief.  The natural consequence of doing nothing for oneself is death.  Our country seems unable to say “no” to leeches. Since Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” we have become the land of “gimmes.”  It might be too late to reverse that mentality but we might slow it down. Trump is trying to do that. We have a country in which people believe they are owed simply because they exist.  Most of my career was  with the Washington State agency “Department of Social and Health Services” (DSHS).  More about this later but I was a part of a meeting with an agency senior official who was lamenting Clinton’s work (never serious) requirements.  I spoke out in favor of them.  This idiot turned red-faced and said "they are not used to getting up at 5:30 in the morning.” I just shook my head.

ENERGY AND GLOBAL WARMING:

The hatred the woke/marxists have rained upon the U.S over this issue is appalling. As in the issues of race, economic disparity, our “collective national guilt” (my phrase) has tolerated this damaging nonsense since Al Gore stepped out of his 38 room house and declared we are all about to die.  Several glaring inconsistencies and half-truths.  There is not a peep in the U.N. about China and India, who, combined, are responsible for more air pollution than all other countries combined.  There is no complaining about Gore or deCaprio or Taylor Swift flying private planes or Pelosi, one of few passengers on a government plane. I was one of the last ones on the bus with respect to the reality of global warming and still do not buy it is man-caused.  Assemble a panel of true experts, all of whom are heard with no hatred or name-calling and I will watch that panel.  I doubt you watch Sky TV (Australia) but a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences was removed from the air because he made a case against global warming. Anyone who wants to learn how to think, not what to think, ought to be incensed. No one has convinced me that in the 4.5 billion years the earth has existed warming and cooling have not been regular and cyclical. 

No windmills and solar farms. “Fire” up the production of natural gas, oil and nuclear.  DeCaprio and Gore want to place windmills on their ranches, great.  I do not want to pay for their windmills and solar panels either in tax dollars or utility rates. You might have some control over this policy but might not over the next.

Rescind Hochul’s ban on natural gas use in new construction.  It is dangerous and not practical. Natural gas is useful, for example, in power failures (fireplaces and cookstoves, not central heating). I understand the legislature is obscenely woke-marxist but you can start the ball rolling by speaking publicly on this issue.  My next proposal might seem ludicrous but give it some thought or study.

On Long Island, and I trust, most other parts of the state, electronic traffic management is archaic.  I live near a major intersection and at 5:30 a.m. when no one is approaching from any direction, it takes NINETY SECONDS for the light to turn green.  Eventually, making sure it is safe and after I stop I proceed on the red light.  Hochul is concerned about air pollution and conservation (?). I can only imagine over millions of motorists, the pollution and fuel waste this abominable engineering costs.   I want EVERY electronic signal to be engineered for safety, yes, but for the most efficient movement of traffic. Three simple and inexpensive solutions. 1.  After certain hours, depending on the intersection, signals switch to blinking red (one direction) and yellow (other direction.) 2.  Or, after certain hours, signals become “on demand.”  One direction may remain green in perpetuity until a car approaches from another direction and causes the signal to change in his favor. 3,  Remove some signals in favor of yield or stop signs.

There are other solutions, none of which are rocket science. AI, informed me, considering all the variables, that the “average commuter”  working 40 years in the "average city,” will spend 4.6 MONTHS waiting at stop lights.  In the perfectly engineered world the time would not be “zero” but let us say it is one month.  Imagine all the fuel and air pollution that unnecessary wait causes given several million drivers on the road.  BEFORE one dollar is spent on any feel good projects, or on any state project of dubious value, engineer traffic and spend the money on necessary technology projects designed to implement the study and improve traffic flow.  Truly an aside but before a freeway was built in Tacoma, Washington there was an intersection of a well-used arterial and what would later become a freeway.  The green light time for the freeway was FIVE MINUTES during morning and evening  commutes.  A long time for the guy on the arterial waiting to cross but the effect was the “freeway” traffic, once it started moving, was generally cleared before the light turned in favor of the arterial.  That type of engineering is what I am talking about.

ABOUT ME:

I am 79, a transplant from Washington State.  I graduated from Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington in 1972 with a B.A. in business and a minor in Philosophy.  This after I left the army with an honorable  discharge, having served between 1966 and 1969; before that two years at a junior college in Marin County, California.  I was a banker for eight years, a paid firefighter for two (no they are not heroes).  My years with DSHS were as one of six “regional business managers.” The shortest description is:  responsibility for a geographic region of welfare offices, supervising facilities, purchasing and non-staff budgeting.  I retired from Spokane, Washington in 2011, married my third wife immediately and moved to her ‘hood, Suffolk County. Horrible place to live; wonderful choice of a spouse.

POLITICS/PHILOSOPHY:

Until I was about forty I identified as a conservative Republican.  I lost faith in the Republican party for many reasons.  In 1996 I campaigned for a seat on the Lacey, Washington fire commission.  Lacey is a suburb of Olympia,  I was a long-time volunteer in that department but the loathsome International Association of Firefighters was aggressively forcing out the volunteers in favor of an all paid (union) department.  My goal was to block that.  I was shellacked. Lacey/Olympia are heavy union cities (aren’t all state capitols?) and I was not well-prepared.  I learned a lot and I was proud I walked my talk.

During the campaign an officer from the Washington State Libertarian Party contacted me offering help.  I knew nothing about the libertarians and will not join groups unless I know them and align with the group’s values.  After the fire commission election I attended some conventions of the party and truly found a political/philosophical home in that group.  I don’t participate in the party any more but the party’s values have never caused me any grief. If I know a Republican candidate and align with his/her values I will vote for him/her but I am highly skeptical of all politicians and as I wrote before often vote for no one on a given ballot. I voted for Dixie Lee Ray, a democrat for Washington State governor before your time  and would have voted for Tulsi Gabbard, had I been in her district, suspecting (correctly) that she was a Republican in Democrat clothing, I am glad Trump brought her to his cabinet.

During my time in Olympia, I hosted a public access TV show called “Libertarian Forum” once a month. The show only lasted  for a year but what a hoot.  We did not accept call-ins but hosted some famous guests and had great discussions on many issues.  Later I co-hosted a radio talk show in Centralia, Washington.  This show did accept call-ins.  Fun as well. Okay, I did hang up on an uncivil caller.

I am clean - unless being married three times is a scandal. I was arrested for a weapons violation in 2013.  What happened was after moving here I bought a house in Washington and attempted to carry a pistol to that new house. I prepared it for transport but I did not know I needed a license even to own a pistol in this state.  Fun being arrested at McArthur, placed in handcuffs and politely escorted to the police car.  $5,000 later the charge was dismissed and as I said I have since obtained a concealed weapons permit. None of the  interviewers was concerned about my arrest as it turned out.

PERSONAL INTERESTS:

My credit is clean.  My chief hobby is home improvement.  I live in a co-op so little of that is permitted but my stepdaughter recently bought a house so I have been doing some improvements for her.  I love softball but, other than pickleball, have yet to find any sport at which I am decent.  For one year in Spokane I was an American Softball Association certified slow-pitch softball umpire.  What a ball (pun intended).  After moving to Long Island I did not pursue that.  I have 17 years of volunteer firefighting experience in addition to two years paid.  I was terminated from the Saint James department after working against a bond issue the chiefs and commissioners wanted. I was sorry about that and have an NDA so can’t talk about that much. Delightfully, using that term again, the bond was shellacked at the ballot box. My favorite time of the day is “morning coffee”with my son and wife…and plenty of TV.

WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU:

If I become better acquainted with you or your subordinates and find our values align as well as I think they will, I would love to help your campaign. I write well; I am probably a “6” on computer literacy. I have no familiarity with graphics but plenty with Google documents and some spreadsheet applications. I know how to research.  I speak well though I understand that would not be a likely assignment.  I can perform logistics for events. I will canvas for votes, with another member.  I can write letters to editors.

WHAT I WON’T DO:

Canvas solo.  There is strength in numbers. I will not phone solicit. I drive as little as possible in these lawless Eastern Seaboard states.  Short local errands or tasks are fine.  If it helps you to understand, I have lived on Long Island for  14 years and have driven to NYC ONE TIME. Exceptions are possible if I am reimbursed my costs.  I will not give you money but may occasionally contribute in kind, such as running errands with no reimbursement.  Again, I will not give you money.  It took awhile, much like Linus, Lucy and the football.  I learned that politicians asking my opinion on issues really did not want my opinion; they wanted my money.  If you get my money, you get my opinion and you reply to it.

FINALLY:

I am not encumbered.  I have plenty of time (at 79, not sure how much) and would have fun working on your campaign (similar ideology assumed).  I do not know how a campaign works but assume meeting other people, you, and planning strategy sessions would get me on board. My energy stems from your values - as I understand them. I have no hard feelings if I am not a match; developing this “application” has been a clarifying effort for me and thus has been valuable and in any case I will follow your campaign.

Sincerely and good luck,

John M. Tyson