In California Senate Race It’s Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest

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Issue #874
10/11/2023
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1) In the California Senate Race It’s Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest
This headline from the Washington Times grabbed our attention:

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One of the three lead candidates for the open Senate seat in California, Rep. Barbara Lee, recently declared that the U.S. minimum wage should be $50 an hour. We used to joke that it won’t be long before Democrats endorsed a $50-an-hour minimum wage, but Lee isn’t. Her plan would likely double the unemployment rate in America overnight.

It turns out, the other two leading candidates for the Senate seat — Democratic Reps. Adam B. Schiff (yes, THAT scoundrel) and Katie Porter — aren’t much better. They want to roughly triple the federal minimum wage of $7.25 to $20 - $25 an hour – making them the moderates in the race.

The late, great economist Walter Williams used to quip that if a higher minimum wage will end poverty in the U.S., then why doesn’t Mexico raise its minimum wage to $50 so it can become the richest country in the world?

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2) Texas School Choice Update
We are still keeping close track of the special session of the legislature in Austin to see if Governor Abbott’s universal school choice bill is enacted into law. This could give five million students the freedom to attend the best school available – public or private.

Those who will be helped most are low-income and minority children.

But the Democrats are almost universally siding with the teachers' unions against the children.

The Democrats are promising to throw up every roadblock they can to stop the school voucher program. Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer of San Antonio, chair of the House Democratic Caucus, says his message is “very clear: no vouchers and no deals.” There is still a hope that some of the urban inner-city Democrats (who represent districts with some of the worst schools) will put children first and vote yes.

Meanwhile, Accuracy In Media (AIM) sent hidden cameras into the administrative offices of San Antonio’s public schools, and what they found was shocking: no matter what guidelines are established, the administrators feel free to ignore or subvert them.

When administrators were asked by AIM whether they were enforcing Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on teaching radical Critical Race Theory in schools, they scoffed and openly violated state law. Watch this video and you will see that the public school administrators are acting like leftist activists, not champions of kids.

Watch the video here:

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3) Ranking the States on School Choice
Speaking of education reform, our friends at ALEC have just released their rankings on how schools are performing across the 50 states, and which offer the most choice options for kids. The top three states this year are Florida, Indiana, and Arkansas – all of which received A grades. The worst F schools were in New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.

This has been the year of school choice and so we see many states like Arkansas, Arizona, and West Virginia climbing remarkably in their ratings.

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4) Chart of the Day
Energy use is HIGHLY associated with higher living standards. The more energy an economy uses, the more productive and richer the society. Hence, reducing energy availability and use is a very good way to make a nation poorer. This is the end result of the green energy movement. Energy poverty leads to poverty in all things. Cheap and abundant energy – i.e., fossil fuels - make nations richer.

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5) Yikes! Return of the GOP’s Big Spenders
The iron rule in Washington is that appropriators love to spend and borrow money – regardless of what party they’re in.

So we shouldn’t be surprised to learn that the Appropriations Committees are taking advantage of the turmoil in the House and the ouster of Kevin McCarthy from the Speaker’s chair, to reassert their right to spend and blow through even the lenient spending caps that were agreed to during the debt ceiling deal earlier this year.

Tom Cole, the vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has told reporters: “This agreement was faulty from the beginning. It’s changed over time, and now in a sense, it doesn’t exist at all because McCarthy isn’t the speaker anymore.” Then he added: “So we’re not really bound by this agreement now.”

Only four out of 12 appropriations bills have passed the House so far, and Cole’s comments will increase pressure to pad the remaining ones.

It’s more important than ever that whoever is the new Speaker support efforts like Kentucky Rep. Tom Massie’s to trim federal spending by one percent across the board. Otherwise, the appropriators are going to go hog wild on a budget that is already running a $2 trillion annual deficit.

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6) A Lesson for Steve, the Next Time Carmelo the Cat Joins A TV Appearance

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