1) Everyone Loves America – Except Rich White Liberals
One of the themes that we'd like to see from Trump in his second inaugural address, is a call for a new patriotism. For at least a generation, our schools and the media have magnified America's failures, not the magnitude of our successes and our virtue. We had a president who outrageously declared the United States a "systemically racist country," when in fact a strong case can be made that America is today the world's greatest multiracial success story.
Recent polling suggests that our citizens DO recognize and celebrate American greatness. The only group that DOESN'T, are the cultural and "highly educated" elite. The vast majority of Americans of every race and income category – including 58% of blacks – believe that America is "the greatest country on earth." The only group of people who disagree are white liberal elites. Only three of 10 white over-educated liberals believe this.
Also of note: white conservatives and Hispanics soundly reject the idea that America is systemically racist. Six of 10 blacks believe that America is racist. But it's telling that a much larger share (75%) of white liberals believe this.
Is there still racism in America? Of course, yes. But it is not "systemic" and the nation is becoming less racist with every passing year.
It has been one year since Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina – a country that hit rock bottom. The swashbuckling maverick came into office promising "shock market capitalism." So far, the reversal of fortune in Buenos Aires has been remarkable. Argentina has the fastest growth of its stock market of any major nation with valuations doubling.
This recent Bloomberg headline tells the whole story:
Here is the stock market performance:
The inflation story is also miraculous:
In Argentina, big government created misery and deprivation. Shock capitalism has worked. New York and California should give it a try.
There has been so much action at the federal government level in recent weeks that we almost overlooked some very good news from Baton Rouge, Louisiana late last week. This headline tells the story:
The tax plan, sponsored by Governor Jeff Landry, cuts the state income tax from 4.5% to a low flat rate of 3%.
Corporate income tax rates fall from 7.5% (one of the highest rates in the nation) to a flat 5.5%. The bill – which also eliminates the corporate franchise tax – was passed with a 38-1 vote in the Senate and a 90-9 vote in the House.
So while blue states are busy raising their income taxes, Louisiana has now joined a caravan of southern states slashing theirs.
Our hope at Unleash Prosperity, is to see the entire Southeast turn into a giant income-tax-free zone.
Marc Andreessen, who created the original Netscape web browser before co-founding the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, spent a remarkable three hours on Joe Rogan's podcast and revealed he had a meeting with Biden's team so "alarming" that he switched his allegiance to Trump.
Andreessen told Rogan:
"We had meetings [Biden officials] this spring that were the most alarming meetings I've ever been in. Where they were taking us through their plans, and it was - basically just full government - full government control - like this sort of thing, there will be a small number of large companies that will be completely regulated and controlled by the government, they told us. They said don't even start startups - there's just no way that they can succeed - there's no way that we're going to permit that to happen."
He also described how over the last 15 years, the government had perverted the Justice Department's anti-money laundering "Operation Choke Point." Originally an attempt to target marijuana businesses, the Biden team weaponized the law to target industries they hate - including payday lenders, gun manufacturers, certain tech founders, and the crypto community. According to Andreessen, the government has de-banked over 30 tech startups, including crypto founders over the past four years.
Andreessen isn't a wild-eyed, anti-government radical. Over the years he has backed Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.
Rogan asked him "When you leave a meeting like that, what do you do?"
5) Looking To Donate to a GOOD Cause This Christmas Season?
One of our loyal readers, Judy Travis, has run a program for more than 20 years called "Stockings For Soldiers."
This year, their volunteers will stuff nearly 10,000 stockings with gifts for the families of our soldiers overseas. Thanks to the generosity of our longtime friend and supporter Fred Smith, FedEx helps underwrite the cost of shipping the stockings to our troops in Korea, Guantanamo, Cuba, USS Truman, USS Delaware (submarine), Hungry, Poland, Kuwait, Iraq, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Djibouti, Kosovo, Qatar, Jordan, and to our troops on the Texas-Mexico border.
(As an aside: why do we still have American troops in harm's way all over the world - in dangerous far-off places like Syria?)
If you are interested in finding out more, contact:
Judy Travis
Project Founder and Coordinator
STOCKINGS FOR SOLDIERS - Delaware, Inc.
501.C.3 Tax ID # 27-0604668 www.StockingsForSoldiers.org
1911 Foulk Road
Wilmington, DE 19810
Tel # 302-475-2526
