The Pundits/Experts Are Wrong. They’re Always Wrong!
I monitor the news continuously and that includes the “news” reported by talking heads. I’m disgusted by what passes as “reporting” these days…
- There’s no such thing as an honest reporter/journalist anymore. (Victor Davis Hanson, maybe Katherine Herridge, a few others being a handful of exceptions)
- We live in a “Post Truth” world. Don’t believe ANYTHING, from ANYBODY. The only way to survive and prosper in this new world is to become a dedicated SKEPTIC.
- What drives “reporting” is $$$$$! “If it bleeds it leads” was never more true. Doesn’t matter whether it’s Fox News or Breitbart, MSDNC or CNN….it’s all about attracting eyeballs, thus advertising revenue.
- The discussions about Globalism, Climate Fascism, Gender, Deportations, Democracy are all just that: DISCUSSIONS. The only thing that REALLY matters is what is happening to YOU, and YOU are unique and have circumstances, concerns, preferences that may be similar to some, but not identical to ANYONE. Thus, THE DEFICIT (for example) impacts you differently from the person next to you. Forget what the talking heads are saying. Look at EVERYTHING through your OWN LENSES!
- Ask yourself, “How has the DEBT and/or DEFICIT affected ME?” The pundits who squeal that the world is ending due to tariffs or deportations or deficits or debt or any other headline issue put forward by the media are simply all wrong. The world is NOT ending. Change and disruption and chaos is GOOD if it exposes and roots out intractable problems.
- Here’s a truth you can relie on because you can see it in your own life: “A rising tide lifts all boats.” Instead of focusing on the LOSERS, we must focus on the WINNERS. Instead of the unproductive “victims”, we need to watch the productive growth creators.
- GROWTH solves virtually all problems. Deficits/debt…remember what Reagan inherited? Remember the hand-wringing as he tuned out the leftists and listened to Jack Kemp and pushed tax CUTS instead of the tax INCREASES demanded by the chattering class? How quickly did we emerge from the depths of economic despair and experience the 80’s BOOM after the tax CUTS?
- And once again, the notion that tax cuts have to be PAID FOR is simply ludicrous! Think about that for a second. Taxes are transfers of money from the working to this amorphous thing called government. It’s not THEIR money, it’s OURS! Why in the world should we PAY THEM more to get back our money??? One can argue that tax cuts, ceteris paribus, must be OFFSET somehow to keep the budget equation balanced, but it’s not by PAYING for them. It’s about finding a way to reduce the spending on the other side of the equation OR, increase revenues. The latter happens with GROWTH! It’s simple arithmetic. But the pundits conflate and confuse the issue to support arguments that favor their leftist or rightist postions. It’s insidious! SO DON’T LISTEN TO THEM!
You have to hand it to Trump, Vance, and a few of their cabinet members/staff who tell it like it is. Wouldn’t it be refreshing if everyone said what they really think like Tom Homan does instead of continuously calculating the political ramifications of what they’re saying?
Keep your seat belts fastened. History is being made right in front of us and we’ll look back and be glad we were there for it!
