Unleash Prosperity Hotline – Weekend Edition Issue #785
06/02/2023, 06/03/2023, 06/04/2023
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1) This Brought a Smile to Our Face
In case you missed this headline from Wall Street Journal yesterday:
This comes just two weeks after our blockbuster report grading major financial firms on how they were voting on hostile ESG shareholder resolutions. The big money managers from Blackrock to State Street to UBS and JP Morgan now know we are watching and grading their votes going forward. Many of the top management at these firms have told us they are going to pay more attention to how they proxy vote on ESG. Apparently, they don’t like their clients reading that they got a grade of F.
2) The Average Voter Is Only Willing To Pay $20 a Year To Fight Climate Change
CTUP co-sponsored a poll with our friends at the American Energy Alliance, and the results show that the American people overwhelmingly want affordable energy and to make their own choices on what cars to drive. Our favorite result: on the question of how much would you be willing to pay in higher energy costs, etc. to combat global warming, the median answer was $20. The cost the greens want to impose on us each year is easily one hundred times that high.
Here are some of the highlights:
Pollster Mike McKenna notes that all of the trendlines are moving away from the Biden positions:
Where there has been change, voter sentiment in favor of government making decisions, in favor of taxation, in favor of banning gasoline-powered products, and in favor of reliance on China, has eroded over time.
This poll suggests that we may have reached peak climate change craziness in America and that Republicans should fight back more aggressively against Biden’s anti-consumer, anti-energy agenda.
3) Senate Votes to Block Biden Student Loan Bailout
All Republicans and Arizona Independent Kyrsten Sinema voted for the bill, but they were joined by only two Democrats: Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana. (Tester is remarkably sensible only when he is running for re-election.)
All of the other Democrats are fine with a president holding dead-beat college graduates not paying their student loan debts and instead transferring $400+ billion of liabilities from borrowers to taxpayers – most of whom didn’t even attend college.
Biden's new pick for CDC director is Mandy Cohen, who was health director of North Carolina and right hand to lockdown governor Roy Cooper.
Dr. Cohen appears to have a record indistinguishable from Biden's disastrous previous CDC director and was pro-shutting down schools for a prolonged period of time.
A new law requires Senate confirmation for the CDC director (one of the most powerful positions in the federal government, as we learned during COVID) but the effective date is not until 2025. So there is little hope of Cohen not getting the job.
Because a picture is worth 1000 words, we share this picture Cohen tweeted of herself in a cloth Fauci mask:
Only in Washington are people rewarded for being COMPLETELY wrong.
This is not the Bee. This is from the Chicago Sun-Times.
Fresh off her record of locking down the city of Chicago and shuttering businesses (except her own hairdresser, of course), locking kids out of school, endorsing riots, and sharply curtailing law enforcement. Then not even making the runoff in her bid for reelection. Obviously, the next step for Lightfoot is to teach public health at Harvard, despite no relevant background other than a recent disastrous experience. You can't make this stuff up.
