It doesn’t matter if it’s Donald Trump running for President, or Warren Davidson being the only qualified candidate to run for John Boehner’s old seat—Ann Becker from the Cincinnati Tea Party made a great point in her below observation and comment as to why America’s best people do not run for public office. The consequences are that the worst of our society ends up running and winning the seats of government which most effectively runs our society—and the results have been dismal. During this particular March of 2016 there are several really good options—and Ann is one of them for State Central Committee. To my mind she’s the only option. And that is additionally the case with Warren Davidson. For the sake of brevity and effectiveness, I have included Ann Becker’s endorsement of Warren Davidson in the following paragraphs because her reasons are nearly identical to my own. If you really want good people in government—then we need to support them when they come under fire—because they always get attacked. When they put themselves out in front the way Warren is offering, we need to have their back—because they will need it. There is a reason that good people get so attacked in public office—it is to protect the many bad guys effectively destroying our republic. So when you get a good one—give them a little cover fire.
I have been in politics for 7 years. One of the questions I get asked all the time – when are people going to wake up? When are the principled people going to take a stand?
I have been looking, searching, supporting and teaching people how important it is to find politicians that will put the Constitution first. Many people have stepped up to the plate, and it has given me hope.
A few months ago, after Speaker Boehner stepped down from his Congressional seat, my search for the right person to replace him went into overdrive. I live in the 8thDistrict. Finding someone who I could consider a leader, someone who I would trust to represent me and my views was a tall order.
Several candidates emerged to run for the seat. I took it upon myself to research and vet the candidates, this is not an official Cincinnati Tea Party endorsement, just a personal endorsement coming from Ann. The man who I chose to endorse was Warren Davidson.
Warren is a former Army Ranger. His military background helps him to understand the scope of the problems we face in the War on Terror and issues overseas. He also cultivated a deep sense of duty and discipline in the military that has carried over into his work in the private sector.
Warren is a small business owner of a multimillion dollar company. He came back from his military service and wanted to build something. He is the owner and President of Global Source Manufacturing in Troy, Ohio. His experience with his business has given him first-hand knowledge of how the government has hindered the growth of his business, from Obamacare and taxes to regulation and unions.
Beyond that, he is a good man. There aren’t many of those running for office.
There is a reason good people don’t run – the attacks.
Over the past week, a PAC called Defending Main Street has started to attack Warren Davidson. If you listen to the radio or live in the 8th district, you have gotten the mailers. They are vicious. At first, I thought it was kind of interesting. I must have picked the right candidate if he is getting attacked. It’s kind of a badge of honor in politics.
Yesterday, they crossed a line. They sent a flyer, big enough to wrap a gift to every Republican in the district. It was ridiculous. Who are these people? Why are they meddling in the 8th district race? I did a little research.
What I found made my blood boil. Defending Main Street is Steve LaTourette and John Boehner’s ‘I hate the Tea Party so I must destroy them’ PAC. Their website says, “The goal of the Republican Main Street Partnership is simple; to find commonsense solutions to problems that people are wrestling with each and every day. In short we represent and support the governing wing of the GOP.” In other words, if you don’t support the establishment you must be taken out.
I did a little more research. Defending Main Street raised most of its money from labor unions. “These unions include the National Education Association (the superpower of unions in America, along with the public employees unions), the operating engineers, the Teamsters, the air traffic controllers, transport workers and other building and trades unions,” from the Washington Times.
The accusations they were spreading in their flyers bothered me. The ads accused Warren Davidson of ‘Shipping jobs to China’. I knew his company was called Global Source Manufacturing, and China is on the globe – but after I got several messages from people asking what these flyers were all about I decided to talk to Warren himself and get to the bottom of it.
The answers were very simple. Warren said, “I do not have a manufacturing plant in China. I have not shipped jobs there. My company employs over 200 workers in Ohio – none in China.” I asked him about the website www.cheapasiantools.com. “The site is nothing but a marketing tactic meant to show up in search engines. If someone looked up tools in China, they would come to our American made tools company.” He also encouraged me to look at the website. It took me to Global Source Manufacturing’s buy American page.
This is another example of the establishment spreading lies. Telling people things that will make them questions a man’s character. This is why good people don’t run for office.
Don’t give into the lies. Stand up to the establishment.
It is very interesting that one of the biggest faults being leveled at Donald Trump for president is that he is willing to compromise and make deals from the Executive Office and that makes him in the eyes of establishment Republicans–untrustworthy. Given the nature of our Republic, that is the means of managing our government–negotiations. Ted Cruz on the other hand represents an uncompromising approach to upholding the Constitution—which sounds great on the surface, but as he says, the Washington “Cartel” has no interest in the Constitution, and will simply outmaneuver him at every juncture would he be in the White House instead of Trump. That is why I say that Cruz would be perfect for a 2024 run, but Trump is perfect now—because Trump has the skills to come out on top in the current deal making culture that embodies modern Washington. Cruz needs to have some things fixed before he could be effective. Essentially, the party rule that is currently in place on both sides needs to end—before someone like Cruz could be effective in the White House. In its present form, Cruz would be paralyzed by the bureaucracy.
The most epic condition of compromise and coming out on the bad side of a deal was Ohio’s very own Governor Kasich and Speaker of the House John Boehner who went golfing with President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. The Republican Party was essentially neutered in that exchange leaving neither Boehner nor Kasich able to do anything against Obama after it. I expect deals to be made in Washington. Our own Constitution was written by making deals between the Anti-Federalists and the Federalists—with Alexander Hamilton coming out mostly on top giving us the Constitution that Ted Cruz reveres so fervently to this day. Later the Bill of Rights was added to appease the Jeffersonian Anti-Federalists because the Constitution didn’t go far enough and they screamed and pushed until somebody listened.
I’m a pretty rigid person—I stick to my guns on things. But I also negotiate a lot. I work with professionals intensely at times, I negotiate around my community, within our family—dealing with children is a constant negotiation—(you can have this if you do that….etc.) But I most of the time get exactly what I want out of the situation. I know where my inner bar is set and what parameters I can live with—which is the benchmark of sales ability. Ted Cruz apparently is missing that. Honesty is a wonderful trait so long as the people you are dealing with don’t want to play any games—but the human race is currently addicted to games and that is unlikely to change anytime within the next thousand years—so the skills needed to lead a capitalist country like America swarming with socialist sympathizers, aggressive global banks, and clandestine terrorists are elements that must be well represented in the White House. And Trump is the only guy in centuries able to even come close to performing such a tricky job. The other one that I can think of was Andrew Jackson, whom even though he was a Democrat, I think a lot of. He did many things wrong, but he had a swagger that was uniquely American and he paid down the debt. Trump reminds me of that type of potential president—which after all the cross-fire and debate, helped make America one of the greatest countries on earth. We wouldn’t have Florida if not for Jackson, and likely would have lost the War of 1812. American needs charismatic characters in the White House once again to rebuild the Republican brand, because right now, that brand is terrible. And before everyone says that Jackson was a racist and was vile, understand that Woodrow Wilson, the progressive hero was far worse. Understand history before placing characters from the past into present context.
I am not disturbed at all by The Washington Times secret tapes. Trump cannot be literal in anything he does because in his mind he knows where his margins are. Do the American people deserve to know where those margins are—traditionally yes? But under the circumstances of our present condition, where you can’t trust politicians or understand what their real motivations are—or trust the media and the hit groups behind them which fund everything—information in this day and age has to be somewhat obscure. It’s a game that has to be played—and the only people you can trust are people who have actually done things. With Trump, I can see the things he’s built. I see his nice family, and that is résumé enough for me. I have a pretty good idea where his margins are based on what he produces. As it stands for instance our immigration policy is an open sore that is guided by George Soros policies. That effort has to be undermined by a really good negotiator who can convince a majority of congress, the senate, and the media of its relevance. A good salesman knows that there is no chance of that happening unless the other party thinks it can get something out of it. Trump knows that the best way to negotiate is to start off with a strong position that scares that crap out of everyone, then working back from that position to make the other side think it got something out of the deal. In reality, Trump gets what he wants, which is an enforceable immigration policy and people will eventually be happy with it—as opposed to the Ted Cruz method which is to draw a line in the sand and force a floor battle over budgets and policy that just angers everyone—and gets nothing done at all. Good management often requires this constant back and force in negotiations, and a good manager knows where to set their high points and how to achieve at their margin without breaking the other side. Optimally, the other side will feel like they got something out of the deal and everyone walks away happy.
I know this game—but I am surprised that more people in politics don’t understand it. It could be said that they don’t know it out of convenience. But after watching the barrage of establishment Republicans berate Donald Trump over the last couple weeks—after the Super Tuesday wins made it very evident that he was really in a position to win the nomination—I was convinced that they really are just stupid. For that reason, they shouldn’t even be in public office. Ted Cruz is a legal mind, and we certainly don’t need people like that negotiating anything. They’ve been doing it for years and they lack the imagination to set a bar at a high mark that they can work to a margin to show compromise. It sounds good on a campaign trail to tell people you won’t compromise, but the Cruz rigidity has given him no ground as a senator to work from. He has no allies, and as a President members of his own party will defy him just to spite him. I think Cruz would have the best of intentions but we all know the path to hell is always paved with good intentions. Personally, I don’t want any more paths to hell. I want a president who knows how to win negotiations domestically, and internationally.
What I want out of a president is a guy who can golf with a couple of politicians and win for a change at the real game being played—the negotiations on position. I was so embarrassed by Kasich and Boehner because they were out-witted by a guy so inept, and has no background in achievement, that they came out looking like fools. Kasich and Boehner came away from that famous golf game licking the feet of Barack Obama. I want a guy on the Republican side who can turn those tables for a change, and leave Democrats thanking Trump for all his hospitality afterwards—for expanding the economy, enforcing immigration, opening up the Second Amendment, getting rid of Common Core, and many other things—then stripping down naked to sell their cloths to a charity that Melania Trump is hosting—then thanking the couple and asking for another chance to give their very shirts off their backs again. That is how Trump will win where Cruz will just create more government gridlock.
You know the situation is dire when the Republican Establishment is dying for Ted Cruz over Donald Trump—even after Cruz had called them essentially an organized crime syndicate. They figure that they can at least stand up to Cruz and make him appear ineffective—and punish voters for going in his direction. But with Trump—they can’t deal with a private sector guy in the White House. Trump would change their culture and that is something that terrifies them. And what we’d end up getting as a result would be so much more than we have right now paving the way for a true Constitutional Republic in the aftermath.
When playing this kind of chess, you sometimes have to think not just four or five moves ahead, but four of five games ahead. That is what is needed to beat these establishment types. This election with Trump is only game one—and we need a lot more victories than one. We need to start winning for the next 100 years. People need to start thinking bigger and working toward those goals with an understanding of how the game is played. This isn’t checkers. It’s certainly chess. Ted Cruz and the rest of the GOP are playing checkers.
Many people from the Republican establishment hope and pray that the legal issues surrounding Trump University will sink Donald Trump as a presidential candidate. However, unlike them, Trump has put himself into contact with thousands and thousands of people who want to sue him at the slightest provocation—because he is so incredibly wealthy. Public sector politicians really don’t understand that kind of risk—yet Trump has thrived in spite of that treacherous trend. Even so, it is hard to find people out of literally the many tens of thousands who have been in direct contact with him as either employees, or customers who can say anything bad about him. I’m a really good person and it would be easy for people to find two or three hundred people who hate me and would love to bury me anyway they could. Trump runs an even greater risk of that kind of attitude, yet even on such a large stage, very few can actually step forward and say anything against him. Those that do are obvious ambulance chasers and that is the situation surrounding Trump University. Here is Trump explaining the situation with evidence to provide clarification to the controversy.
When it comes time to vote for Trump in your state—do it! It’s not just a vote for a really good guy who doesn’t say enough about all the people he’s helped. It’s a shot in the hull of a really corrupt band of pirate outlaws holding the GOP hostage—and they need to be driven out. Trump is our best shot at doing it—so don’t waste the opportunity. Send this to someone you know who wants to learn more about Trump University and Donald Trump in general. If they are on the fence—get them off it and into a voting booth to vote in for Donald Trump.
This is a pretty important story. Republicans have a severe “branding” problem. People like me who are very conservative find people like George Will, Karl Rove, Mitt Romney, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, John Boehner and even locally, Patti Alderson, Don Dixon, Cindy Carpenter and many others terribly flat and unable to win contested issues against Democrats. They are what make up the Republican “establishment,” these days and it is their fault that the Republican “brand” has declined, and even failed in most cases. As I’ve discussed before conservatives won’t get everything we need in just one election. There has to be a multiyear plan enacted to repair the massive damage done to the party by Republicans moving left of center to attract new voters. And just for the record, Ronald Reagan was not conservative enough for me. He is not the benchmark of conservativism as far as I’m concerned. When Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz say they want to be the new party of Reagan, I cringe. Reagan actually toyed with joining the Communist Party and was a union leader for a time. Only late in life did he learn to speak like a conservative and very late—become one. I liked him-but when it comes to conservatives I am often very let down—because few people are as conservative as I am.
About 1,000 Democrats in Mahoning County so far have switched their party affiliation to Republican with election officials saying several did it to vote for Donald Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner.
“We are seeing something this election cycle I’ve never seen before to this degree,” said board Chairman Mark Munroe, who’s also the county Republican chairman. “Every day I take phone calls or get voice messages from people saying they’ve been Democrats all their life and they’ve had it. They want to vote for Donald Trump. I’m surprised at the volume of inquiries we’re getting. It’s remarkable.”
A number of Democrats taking a Republican ballot when voting early at the board “say they want to vote for Trump,” said Joyce Kale-Pesta, Mahoning County Board of Elections director.
About 7,000 Mahoning County voters have cast early votes. Early voting started Feb. 17 and ends March 14, the day before the primary.
Of those 7,000, about 14 percent were Democrats who voted Republican, Kale-Pesta said. That’s about 1,000 so far.
The percentage of Democrats switching parties will grow even more, said board Vice Chairman David Betras, who also is the county Democratic chairman.
And it doesn’t concern Betras.
“I knew Donald Trump’s message would resonate with blue-collar Democrats,” he said. “But once they learn about his record – besides him being anti-trade – they will change their minds in the general election. I assure you that come the general election, voters will vote our way once we tell the story of Donald Trump. The more chaos created in the Republican primary, the better Democrats will do in the general election.”
Betras, who backs Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, said it “would make me happy for Donald Trump to beat John Kasich,” the Ohio governor running for president as a Republican.
About 5 percent of Republicans – 350 voters – cast Democrat ballots of those who’ve voted so far, said Chris Rakocy, the board’s information technology manager.
Munroe, who supports Kasich, said that if the governor isn’t the Republican presidential nominee, “I’ll be glad to support whoever is our nominee.”
When asked about Trump’s various controversial statements, Munroe said, “Should Trump be the nominee, he’ll have plenty of time to rehabilitate himself.”
Trump is the reason turnout will be higher than normal for this primary, Munroe said.
“We’re seeing this all over the country; the Republican vote is way up and it’s because of Trump,” he said. “Now, it’s happening in the Valley. Whatever you think of Trump, you can’t take away his ability to energize the electorate.”
There are 161,009 registered voters in the county, including 40,958 Democrats and 14,663 Republicans. The rest are independents, who don’t vote in primaries, with a tiny number affiliated with third parties such as Green and Libertarian.
In Ohio, party affiliation is basely solely on voting in a primary, Munroe said.
“All you have to do is tell a poll worker that you want to vote for a certain party in the primary and that becomes your affiliation,” he said.
Election officials in Trumbull and Columbiana counties say they aren’t keeping track of how many voters are changing party affiliations.
“But we’ve had some people say, ‘I want to switch to the Trump party,” said Stephanie Penrose, Trumbull County’s elections board director.
“There are a lot of Democrats switching over,” said Kim Meeks, Columbiana County’s elections board deputy director. “We see a trend, but we won’t know details until after the primary.”
Let that simmer for a bit and think of what that could do for the GOP. Think about California come November 2016, or New York. Tell me there is another Republican in the party today who could win in these places. The answer of course is that there isn’t. Ted Cruz won’t. And nobody else will either.
Not that it’s a massive government conspiracy, but such tragedies do play a role in the desire of all government workers to expand their influence with inflated drama in times of crises. The shooting at Madison Junior/Senior High School in Ohio—virtually in my backyard, is just such an example—which was a very minor incident that garnered national press. Here is how USA Today reported the issue.
Four students were injured and a 14-year-old boy was in custody Monday following a shooting at a high school in Butler County, Ohio, authorities said.
Madison Junior/Senior High School remained in lockdown for a short while, but all students were safe, the school said in a statement on its Facebook page. None of the injuries was life-threatening, the statement said.
Two students were struck by gunshots and two were injured by either shrapnel or while trying to get out-of-the-way, Butler County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Anthony Dwyer said. The shooting took place in the school’s cafeteria.
All schools in the district in Butler County’s Madison Township were placed on lockdown, which was lifted shortly after 12:45 p.m. Roads to the school quickly backed up with parents and relatives trying to get to the school to pick up students.
Bob Hollister, of Trenton, whose grandson attends the school, said he had been sitting in his daughter’s van for about 45 minutes when the lockdown was lifted. He has another grandchild in grade school. He described the morning as “chaotic.”
When he first arrived, Hollister said he saw police with shotguns and assault rifles.
Seriously, assault weapons—school lockdowns, and general crises and mayhem—over essentially a couple of kids having a fight? Sure a gun was involved, but it was a relatively harmless conflict that could have been resolved quickly and without so much fanfare. The kids weren’t killed and the shooter had much more systemic problems to deal with which provoked him to resort to a firearm to inflict harm that all the adults around him obviously missed and didn’t take the time to diffuse leaving all the public officials running around patting themselves on the back for being nearby and making much more of the incident to garner more national attention. Honestly, the case should have been diffused in the media as it was within moments with the on-site cop. The threat neutralized—which it was. And that should have been the end of it. Everyone should have stayed in class. All the schools should have remained open. Sheriff Jones shouldn’t have even been on the radio talking about the issue with Bill Cunningham on 700 WLW dramatizing the issue like it was the end of the world. Everyone wanted to be a hero as the situation was clearly blown up to make it part of a national effort by progressives to demonize guns and install fear into the weak.
Just a few days earlier I was doing some shooting with some people who don’t spend much time around guns. I was displaying my Cowboy Fast Draw set-up and how the wax bullets work in target shooting and everyone wanted to know if the gun was real. When I explained that the .45 Vaquero that I was using was in fact a real gun that would feed real bullets in its current form a slight fear washed over the observers. That fear was totally unfounded, but was put there by a media culture that has taken issues like this Madison Junior/Senior High School shooting and blown them out of proportion to inflict negative opinion against firearms for the progressive aims of banning them. Every little issue where shootings come up is highlighted to drive the point home and feed that fear into people not privy to their frequent use. This shooting at Madison was so small it shouldn’t have been reported outside of the immediate media market—because it was essentially a non story—a dispute among teenagers. But because it happened in a public school and the public police force needed to justify themselves—much more was made of the issue for the benefit of marketing government services to the public at the expense of Second Amendment freedom.
The fault of the issue is in the parents who obviously did not have control of their child and allowed the kid to think it was OK to take a gun to school and shoot some other kids. Somewhere the parenting broke down to allow the incident to occur, and that is the root cause of the tragedy. But since government has for many years designed their public school system to triumph over parenting leaving neither party to do the job very well—as parents now defer the responsibility to the schools and schools when something like this goes wrong on their watch defer to the parents—kids are raised by media to copy off movies, music, video games, and every panic driven estrogen laced diatribe on the nightly news. There is no mystery why this 14-year-old shot some kids at a school—it’s because he had terrible parents—and the school fostering peer pressure incessantly missed the opportunity to let some steam off the situation before something like this happened.
Parents of the Middletown School system were even more embarrassing. Many showed up to rescue their children from the clutches of danger imprinting on the minds of the youth forever the anxiety of that tragic day on a leap year February. What they should have done was explained to their children that there was nothing to fear, the situation was solved within minutes of the shooting. But the parents were guilty themselves of making too much of the situation because they wanted to go back to their offices and bloviate how their children were involved in a mass school shooting so that they could garner some sympathy and secret need for attention. The parents behaved abysmally.
Everyone abused the situation without diagnosing the cause of the quandary. Instead the situation was perpetuated for the furtherance of statism in all its grotesque forms seeking to profit off the misery of a diabolical tragedy. At the conclusion of the news cycle on the story guns were made to be feared even more, acceptance of more police presence in our lives made more fashionable, and schools had a chance to show themselves as the umbrellas of safety and decision herding around a bunch of panicky ill-equipped parents under the authority of the “state.” And the forces of government expansion had a field day exposing the misery of a small town school and a fight between a few teenagers for the furtherance of statism through a gradual decline of the American love of firearms. The whole scene showed why most people just aren’t intellectually equipped to manage a constitutional republic—and that is the fault of our public education system.
Even as a Trump supporter I was willing to give Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz a look if they were to become the GOP nominee eventually, but not after the debate on Thursday February 25th, 2016 on CNN. Cruz and Rubio showed a vast amount of ignorance when they tried to pin down Trump on hiring illegal aliens to build Trump Tower back in the 70s. Cruz and Rubio both of Cuban decent supposedly representing Tea Party type values tried to attribute Trump to committing to hiring only “American” workers on his many projects. Specifically they brought up Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach where he tends to hire foreign workers there for the seasonal social events that take place about four months out of a year. Reports are that over 300 people have applied, but they weren’t qualified because as Trump says, most American help doesn’t want the part-time work—and those that do—(and I’ll add this for him so he doesn’t have to say it) don’t bring the kind of energy for the job that such a resort requires. So he fills the vacancies with foreign workers with the right attitude who will do the seasonal work of one of the most exclusive resorts in the world. I understand completely and I am one of the most patriotic people on earth. But apparently, Rubio, Cruz and the entire media doesn’t understand the problem. So let me illustrate it for everyone on behalf of people like Trump who find themselves unfairly ridiculed for elements beyond their control.
Of course such a controversial piece requires context, so let me provide it from my perspective. If anybody does currently or ever has worked harder than I do, I’ve never met them—and I have met many thousands of people all around the world. I’m far from a hermit living under a rock or writing articles from my mother’s basement. Those descriptions do not apply to me in any way, shape or form. I know a lot about people and different countries, their religions, their histories, and their philosophic elements. I am very good at seeing what is in people’s hearts because over time I have learned to read them by the kind of work they produce. You can tell a lot about people by what they make in life—and work is something that most people reveal about themselves. If they don’t like to work, they are typically very lazy people who can’t be trusted. If they work hard they tend to be good people in all aspects of their lives. Hard workers therefore are good people, bad workers are not. I have spent thirty years working every odd job that I think exists at every level of society. I’ve at many times worked two full-time jobs at separate places for years on end, with only one car in our household. During those periods I rode a bicycle to work all year-long in every possible weather condition. Additionally I am seldom late or miss work, and I always give at least 100% to whatever I’m doing whether it’s flipping burgers or arranging multi-million dollar deals. I like to work, I like to make things, and I love outperforming the people around me. And I never let anything stop me from an objective—death, sickness—anything. I’ve actually been in fistfights with people who felt so guilty by my work ethic that they’ve wanted to fight me to bully me into not making them look so bad. This has actually happened a lot, and I’ve worked in some of the toughest types of places that there are—machine shops, union driven assembly plants, down-and-out fast food workers, janitors, tree trimmers, I actually did car repos for a time and have performed work as a body guard—so we’re not talking about powder puff golf club types or weekend warriors. I’ve hauled around popular sports figures and helped them through tough times at late night parking lot brawls when they ran their mouths too much—I’ve been there and seen it all. Saying all that, nobody from my past can come forward to say that they got the better of me in any way. Nobody was able to bully me into some sort of compromise—on any topic large or small, and nobody can say that they worked harder at anything than me. That may sound bold, and arrogant to people, but it’s a fact of life. At 47 years old there are no demons in my closet anywhere in the world who can say otherwise. That makes me uniquely position to say what I will next.
Just because some slob from a local trailer park who would rather watch Jerry Springer all day while on welfare applies for a job to keep their checks coming as a minimum requirement to receive their government money applies to a job like Mar-a-Lago it doesn’t mean they are qualified. A warm body does not constitute a good hard worker. Often you have to interview hundreds of people just to find one good worker. It is very tricky business and it takes a lot of discretion and personal honesty. Government people, and Rubio and Cruz certainly fall into that category now in my mind—assume that if an applicant applies for a job and they are American citizens that they are automatically qualified as a warm body for that position. Not so. Let me tell you. All workers are not equal, in spite of what the government and the laws they write try to pretend. Some are great, some are terrible, some workers are just flat-out lazy and want to collect a pay check for doing the absolute minimum. When you are at Mar-a-Lago, if you are Donald Trump you want someone who says, “yes sir,” “no sir,” holds the door open for people, is generally of good hygiene and competent. You expect quality. If all 300 of those reported applicants are not of good quality—they will not be good for the job. A lot of times these deficiencies force big employers like Donald Trump to look outside of the country for good help.
I personally love people from other countries because they remind me of my grandparents. Both my grandparents had working farms and they were very hard workers. I grew up with great examples of people who weren’t afraid of hard work and they judged lazy people as worthless. It certainly made an impact on me—I took many of those lessons to heart at a very young age. I never liked my teachers in public school or in college—but I always found I got along well with employers. Teachers were people who often couldn’t do things in the real word and I knew that—so I fought with them incessantly because I deemed them too lazy to face the real world outside of the classroom. Employers made things happen and I always respected that. The only people who I find these days, after two generations of complete social destruction by our education system who think the way I do about work ethics often come from other countries. Immigrants from Europe (East Germany, Romania, Poland), Africa, India, Mexico and Asia generally work their asses off, and they actually enjoy it because they feel it reflects the quality of person they are. They work hard in America because for most of them unlike their country of origin they get to keep their money—so they have no trouble working 12 to 14 hour days because they actually enjoy amassing wealth. Many foreign-born Americans I know who have only been in America for a decade or so have their cars and houses paid off, and they still work a full-time job and a part-time job while they put their children through college with cash. I love and respect that approach—like I said it reminds me of how my grandparents used to think—which is how all Americans should think.
But many Americans who were born and raised within the United States and went through public education only to be trained to think incorrectly about most things don’t get it. When they apply for a job, they think they are entitled to something. My generation starting getting bad about that attitude in the 1990s and the Millennials have taken it to a whole new level. I am of a mind that I don’t even think we should have weekends. If I had things my way Americans would have their companies operating three shifts per day seven days per week all days of the year except for perhaps Christmas—because that is a productive way to live life. Work, play, and a healthy lifestyle all go hand in hand in my life and I expect that to be the case with everybody. But too many people American born have been taught that a job is some kind of entitlement, that weekends are entitlements—and that sitting on their ass doing little of nothing but watching television is a right. They forget that leisure time is not a reward for hard work performed, they assume that it’s a right to the essence of their very souls—and that attitude was adopted from the socialist trends in Europe that are just now catching up to Americans in the States.
These days you have to interview a lot of American born people to find one good hard worker. The best way to find them are people who were raised on farms because there is a good chance someone taught them early in life to work hard to some degree. The worst tend to come from areas swarming with welfare recipients—it doesn’t matter their skin color. There are always exceptions and it’s good to try to find them, but as a basic rule, that’s the way it is. Politicians like Cruz and Rubio over the years have made labor laws assuming equality and opportunity to all—so there are legal restrictions to what you can and can’t do with employees especially ones that turn out to be less than spectacular. But reality dictates flexibility and some method of recharging our education system into producing good workers who learn to live in an American economy instead of becoming socialist activists for a new generation—as they are today and have been for about three decades—at least.
So you are Donald Trump and you need to complete a project ahead of time and under budget—you need workers who won’t drag ass like some dog with an itch. You need people who will buckle down and get it done and then some. Good work is worth more than money—finances are just a form of compensation. Trump needs people who will reach deep and pour their souls into one of his projects—and if you limit yourself to some limits a knuckle-dragging, banana eating political loser has established as the law from the perspective of know-nothings, who have never done anything productive in their lives—he might as well do as most people have and throw their arms up in frustration—buy a condo in Florida and play golf the rest of their lives—because unless you love to work hard—the pain in the ass that it is to make ANYTHING in America these days is unbearably difficult. You almost have to be insanely hard-working to even try.
When Trump says he wants to bring back jobs there is a two-part strategy that is far too complicated for someone like Rubio or Cruz to understand. Nobody in government understands unless they have been in the trenches and actually done private sector work. First you have to bring back the jobs that were sent overseas through corporate inversions. Then you have to change the education system to produce workers who can actually perform those tasks. It’s not so much about giving someone a job in America that Trump is talking about—it’s the wealth that comes with the productivity of those jobs. Jobs in themselves don’t make anything. But people do, and not all people are equal—even though politicians want to believe it because their pandering statements make the toothless chain-smoking, trailer trash, casino addicts think they are equal to a worker who wakes up looking forward to a productive day and hesitates taking a break because it makes them feel they are wasting precious time. Any successful person understands this basic discrepancy. Trump certainly does and he has worked within the law to find the best possible workers for his various projects. But back in the Trump Tower days, there was no other option with the way labor unions try to bend you over backwards every five seconds. You have to have competitive labor to protect yourself from socialist union activism. Politicians created that limited labor aspect through their laws and policy which using the Department of Labor, heavily favors labor unions. So if you want to build something, you have to think outside the box within legal parameters of course to find the best people for a project—whether the job is big like Trump Tower or small like job Mar-a-Lago. Productive enterprise cannot be constrained by law and political short-sightedness to believe that a job of any kind can be filled by any ol’ warm body. It can’t. Jobs are opportunities for productivity, and that is a magical thing—and not everyone is capable of comprehending that magic and the wonder it often brings when it’s done well.
Rubio and Cruz clearly didn’t understand the definition of good labor at that debate—but then again, few people really do. But they do know big labor and how to make a pitch for their monopoly on productive work and the ability to shut down effort to drive up costs due to a lack of competition by the more ambitious.
It’s important for everyone to know that corporate inversions are the direct result of policies and laws created by open border advocates for the primary objective of redistributing the wealth of America around the world to socialist and communist countries. For instance, many don’t know it, but the Mexican Revolution at the turn of the last century was a Marxist inspired event, just as all of Central America, Cuba and South America were challenged with. Those are not capitalist countries. All of Africa has struggled between communism and socialism as well as Europe. Russia was communist—now it just wears the face of a free market economy—but is still run by a former KGB agent who strives to take Russia back to the “good ol’ days. Scandinavia is openly Bernie Sanders socialist. China is communist, Vietnam is communist. North Korea is communist. India is a hybrid socialist country and Australia is experimentally socialist. That leaves really the United States to be the only somewhat capitalist country on earth and we all know in economics that socialist and communist countries are not job producing environments. So they needed jobs in those places—to be fair, and only the United States had them. The United Nations put pressure on law makers to organize trade deals that inspired corporate inversions through American tax codes to drive jobs created under a capitalist system to poor regions distraught by Marxist philosophies. It was the ultimate wealth redistribution plan.
Obviously, if America is going to survive, it has to stop that practice. When Trump uses the Carrier air conditioning company moving from Indiana to Mexico as an example to take advantage of corporate inversion business tactics, the key to solving the problem is to make it not so economically feasible for those companies to leave. Their labor costs are already too high because of the socialist oriented labor unions—also by design—to drive up costs in America making employers want to seek places like India and China to help their bottom line. But the big villain is the tax structure where corporations are demonized through the tax code to pay extraordinary amounts which inspires them to places like Mexico just to survive. That is a progressive strategy manipulated by behind the scenes radicals like George Soros to attack the American economy by looting the wealth of capitalism and redistributing it to the socialist progressives of Mexico.
The proper thing to do is to view such behavior as a military attack against American sovereignty. Immediately whoever the next president is needs to change the corporate inversion laws to make the practice far less attractive to companies. The next president needs to find a way to make American companies want to stay in the United States. So far, only Donald Trump has shown any willingness to attack this issue with swift action. That’s why it’s laughable that people would actually attack him as not being conservative. You have to understand what we are fighting. Corporate inversions are anti-capitalist—they are massive wealth redistribution schemes created by Marxist philosophy. Jobs created in the United States are inspired to move with their feet for short run gains only to put jobs in the pockets of socialist countries unable to create them on their own—because of their terrible social philosophy.
Trump offers something that only he could perform, an opportunity in the first year of his presidency to reverse the corporate inversion imposition that we are currently experiencing by convincing congress to change the laws on the books and to deal directly with manufactures like Carrier to stay in Indiana instead of moving to Mexico. Remember that giant sucking sound that Ross Perot was talking about in 1992? Well, this is it, and somebody needs to plug the hole. Only Trump shows the ambition, business smarts, and willingness to do the hard work of changing the corporate inversion culture.
So what happens to the rest of the world? Surely, the moment that America puts a stop to corporate inversions the United Nations will cry foul like a forward in soccer falls to the ground the moment a defense player breathes on them. Well, they will suffer, and if they stick with socialism and communism, they will rot away. America could take the lead to teaching them capitalism—for their own survival. Japan has learned well from America, and Hong Kong is still doing pretty well in spite of its communist mother country. The UAE is pro capitalist for the most part. There are plenty of examples to learn from—and the countries of the world need to pay attention. But they do not have a right to operate as collectivist based Marxist economies and use our weak government bureaucrats to steal America jobs because they are incompetent idiots. They need to learn what works and adopt that; otherwise they won’t be able to compete. That is the way it’s going to have to be.
It’s not compassionate to destroy yourself so that the deliberately weak and malpracticed can continue to operate as parasites. It is not justice for jobs to be created here in America—developed and nurtured along by a customer base, then to lose those assets to deficient countries who get gold mines dropped in their laps without doing the work of creating it. It’s no different from welfare recipients getting a check from government which was stolen through taxation from wealthy, hard-working people—someone else did the work, and someone else benefited because government served as the mediating thief between the two parties. Donald Trump’s position on this could not be more conservative, and there is no other candidate who will dare move against the George Soros type of American insurgents financing the open border movement for the very reason of spreading socialism around the world. That is one of the premier reasons that I’m supporting Trump, and the swiftest action possible the moment he’s elected. Because time is running out. When companies like Carrier are heading into Mexico the clock is about to run out. This is not something to take lightly. I talk to a lot of people, especially in business, and there are many who offer their two cents on any given topic, but their value isn’t worth a penny. Because they are already on their way to Mexico in their minds, and the world of socialist governments who offer short term gains for lazy, complicit losers. Yes the booze is cheap in Puerto Vallarta, and the women are easy—because they have nothing else to run to. For a corporate CEO looking for a tax shelter and cheap labor who spent the first half of their life busting their ass to work up the ladder and is on their second marriage—Mexico looks attractive. But it’s not America, and it never will be.
The trick now for Donald Trump is obviously making it so that Marco Rubio’s supporters along with Ted Cruz can jump over to him without feeling they betrayed their candidate. So a change in presentation is due, especially now that Jeb Bush has announced that he’s out of the presidential race. John Kasich has no chance, Ben Carson has no chance. Only Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio—both freshman Tea Party senators who don’t have much of a track record are left to determine who will be the Republican nominee along with Donald Trump—who is also a Tea Party favorite. Let’s see, I heard several establishment Republicans in Butler County Ohio say in early 2013 when they were trying to stuff out the various Tea Party groups—that it would all be over by 2014. Well, that’s not what’s happening.
Because of the vicious warfare a lot of these Cruz and Rubio people will be reluctant to side with Trump—so it will be the New York billionaire’s task to pull over the supporters and finish off these two—which should be rather easy. There are a lot of things to pick on that could sink their ships really fast if Trump wanted to do it. Rubio is from communist Cuba. Ted Cruz had a father who was a communist revolutionary—and he was not born in the USA. Both have had trouble with their personal finances and listing their paperwork obligations to some degree. They both speak well, but are obviously above their head in personal experience. They were good candidates when Bush and Kasich were the focus, but now, they are front-runners subject to exposure—and it will be tough for them—there is a lot of easy fodder for Trump to expose over the next few weeks.
For them however, Cruz and Rubio, they will try to paint Trump as not being conservative enough and that is something that will have to be overcome quickly. Trump was already dealing with that in his South Carolina acceptance speech before the print was dry for the morning papers. That assertion, which many friends that I have in the Liberty movement support, is laughable. The definition being used about conservatism has been established in the Tea Party wake of conservatives mixed with libertarians—and it is that criteria that is judging Trump’s viability of conservative values. It is a political definition largely formed by Glenn Beck’s portion of the conservative Tea Party audience and is not based on actual conservative value—and that is what Trump needs to attack now in order to overcome the younglings—Cruz and Rubio.
If I had to write Trump’s life arch to arrive at this moment it would probably go something like this, Trump was hungry to step out of his father’s shadow—he worked really hard and put his stamp in New York in a big way enjoying a lot of early success. He was the Michael Jackson of real estate and he worked extremely hard to get there. The 90s came, and the bottom fell out of many of his investments. He was over extended and struggling to stay afloat. His father who was someone Trump leaned on a lot suffered Alzheimer’s disease and finally died in 1999. Also over this span, Trump went through two marriages, had to file bankruptcies on several of his properties to keep them from sinking everything he had worked for and he had to pound through a lot of public scrutiny—a lot of people who wanted to kick him on the way back down off his 80s successes. As a developer in New York, where a lot of liberals control things, Trump had to donate money just to play the game. There weren’t a lot of Republicans in the world he was living in—so he had to do what it took to help his businesses. He survived the 90s with a lot of personal skill and triumph and faced the next century without his parents, and a company that needed him to bounce back and carry it on his shoulders toward new heights. Most of the things Trump faced in the 90s would have forced lesser men to jump off a roof, but Trump just buckled down and solved everything with sheer tenacity and intelligence. In the post parent years, Trump truly broke out to be his own man—and along the way he started the Apprentice on NBC with Mark Burnett and actually refined himself over the course of 14 seasons as he was a teacher to several young people on a very popular television show. Along the way, he bounced around on political positions, largely because most of the people he was dealing with were liberals—but he never personally lost himself. He never drank, did drugs or got himself into misdeeds with women even though he could have easily as a single person at the time. He met his current wife in 2004 and she seemed to be just what he needed as a person. Since she came along, his personal focus has been surgical and his businesses have grown enormously. He could not be a liberal in any way because of the way he has raised his family. His kids show his conservatism, his businesses could not have been raised to the level they are without him being conservative to his very core—because liberals cannot think right to become wealthy the old fashion way. Trump has been vetted through the harshest fires and he has endured and actually excelled. I can say that I know what kind of president he’ll be, and I don’t have to worry about him crowning himself king. He’s far more complex than that—and more reliable.
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio comparatively have done nothing in their lives. They are professional politicians without much of a track record and a lot of youthful idealism. They have not survived the fires of reality all so well—they are actually a bit like Trump was in the 80s. They have yet to face any hard crashes in their lives—which they will—and you don’t want a person in the White House who might not handle things so well under enormous pressure. Cruz has been a good debater and argued in front of the Supreme Court, but that’s a rather small thing compared to all the achievements of Trump. And Rubio in his short career has even been caught on the Gang of 8 mishap with Chuck Schumer—which will be easy for Trump to expose in the coming weeks. However Trump does get into trouble is with statements like what he made about Apple.
The answer to Apple is not to boycott them, or even to have the government force Apple to unlock the cell phone of the California ISIS terrorists. Trump’s comment that the government “owns” the phones is incorrect. Trump the CEO is used to operating as a top down manager which is actually needed right now in the White House because of all the dysfunction—but you have to understand that government is owned by the people. I’m sure Trump understands that, and his intentions with Apple are good, but he’s wrong in assuming that government could solve the problem of encryption with judicial force. It just feeds the anxiety that Glenn Beck and Ted Cruz are already feeding about Trump’s conservatism. The government should not be in the business of telling companies what to do. In the case of Apple, rather than sitting around like a bunch of sorry losers for two months complaining that they couldn’t break the encryption of the confiscated phone, they should have hired a 12-year-old kid to hack the thing. If Apple can invent something, then someone else can reverse engineer it and in this day and age, there is a kid out there who can do it. The FBI should have utilized them instead of looking to impose government rule over a private sector company. Out of all the good things that Trump has said and done on this run for president, the supporters of Cruz and Rubio will take pause with that kind of talk—so it’s best to avoid those types of impulsive statements. The FBI should not be waiting for a court order to force Apple to cooperate, and nobody should boycott Apple with peer pressure to force their hand. It is up to the FBI to use all their vast resources to break the code. I do not believe them when they say they can’t get in. What they want is an easy way to get at such information in the future. They are looking to move the Overton Window for all future cases in favor of them—which is dangerous.
Even if Trump doesn’t win in Nevada he’s in good shape to win the nomination. He’ll do well in Nevada—and he’ll get plenty of delegates. Marco Rubio didn’t do well in New Hampshire or Iowa, so even if he surges, he’s still way behind in the delegate count and Cruz has consistently been in third place. He has no support from his colleagues in the senate and that will hurt him at this phase. He has peaked out. He’s not going to win, so his supporters need to get their minds around it. Trump at this point could come in second and third in several of the Super Tuesday races and he’d still be poised to win. Personally, he would consider it a failure to lose anything—but in the game of numbers, they are all in his favor. So it’s time to start thinking about the next step. Trump is far more conservative than Cruz and Rubio—not by what he says—but by how he acts when the rubber hits the road. And to me, that’s what matters most. Cruz and Rubio have not been job creators. Trump has, and he has a lot more experience at the hard decisions it takes to actually do things in the real world. There is a big difference between idealism and actuality. Trump has had a long career of making success out of hard realities whereas everyone else has simply just talked about it. Trump would be wise to stick to his experience and shift into that next gear that will make it easier for the Cruz and Rubio people to come into his tent. They may do so reluctantly, but it’s time for them to start moving in that direction.
Now, one last thing about establishment politics, the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that excited everyone but Trump supports right before the South Carolina vote was obviously a small sampling of known Cruz/Rubio supporters hoping to turn the tide of public opinion just ahead of the vote. The Bush campaign floated it out, and all the major news organizations ran with it—even though it was the only one. That is how deep the establishment is on the process and it should tell voters everything they need to know. Yet Trump didn’t buckle at all. He was calm and cool through the whole process. On the night before the election he held three massive rallies which made news all over the state. Trump simply out-worked everyone. With Trump in the White House he will set a new bar as far as what’s expected out of a sitting president. There is nobody running who works as hard at things as Trump. And the establishment doesn’t know what to do with him. They’ve thrown everything including the kitchen sink at him because there is one thing that Trump has that none of them do—including Rubio and Cruz—Trump loves hard work. They run from it by default. That is what’s wrong with Washington D.C.—to its core. We need a president who will make “hard work” fashionable once again—and nobody can do that like Trump. Calvin Coolidge was a very hard worker—but he couldn’t sell it. Trump can outwork Coolidge—but he can also sell it—and that is exactly what America needs right now. It doesn’t need a political definition of conservatism. It needs a hard worker who can convince America to do the same. And that is what Trump is after a long life of really hard knocks. He’s not going to lose this election at this point. Because nobody is able to outwork him to the finish line—so if you are not yet a Trump supporter and you don’t want Hillary in the White House—it’s time to come to terms.
As I have been advocating for Ann Becker to replace Patti Alderson on the State Central Committee seat it’s important to understand who the socialite is and why she needs to be replaced. I often say there is a lot you can learn about a person by the way they dress. Well, further you can tell a lot about people by their biographies and resumes. Personally, I have found this particularly difficult for me to display myself because I have such a colorful background with so many aspects to attempt to cover. In publishing for instance they want you to zero in on just things that are specific to the relevancy of your published work. So I’ve never enjoyed doing them because they feel like I’m always leaving out bits of myself. The same holds true for professional tasks—things you get paid for. If you are doing high level work people don’t necessarily care if you like to read and climb mountains for recreation. They just want to know what you can do for them and how much money you can make. However, a phony is someone who tries to include everything they’ve ever done to attempt to pad their experience into appearing vast when in fact they are just social monstrosities who have only obtained anything in their life through their marriage and the luck of the draw financially. That likely is the situation with Patti Alderson as she exhibited quite gloriously in the bio she provided on her campaign website. Notice how she includes just about everything she’s ever done for anybody, almost as ridiculous as including going to restroom, taking out the trash, and hosting latté sipping meetings with Lakota levy supporters for the purpose of raising property taxes on residents not as rich as she is—then calling herself a Republican because the candidates gather at her house looking for a donation to their war chests.
Bio for Patti Alderson
West Chester, OH
State Central Committee Woman – Republican – 4th District
Family:
Born and raised in Maineville, OH, the only child of Irish immigrant Michael and wife Ruth Fox. Married to Dick Alderson in 1970 and moved to West Chester in 1972 where we began our family of two daughters followed by seven grandchildren.
Education: 1967: Graduated Valedictorian from Little Miami High School 1970: Graduate of Miami University, B.S. in Education, Major: Business
Work: 1970 – 1974: Business Teacher and Coach at Reading High School. 1978 – 1995: Secretary/Treasurer of West Chester Marketing, Inc. (Accounting & Human Resources). 1995 – 2000: Special Events Coordinator at Ursuline Academy of Cincinnati. Initiated the 1st Successful House Raffle in the Cincinnati area. 1995 – 2014: Mediator for Butler County Courts
Community Volunteer and Philanthropist: 1999 – 2015: Founded and Operated the Community Foundation of West Chester/Liberty 2013 – Present: Established the Boys & Girls Club of West Chester/Liberty
Political Involvement: 1991: Worked on the Campaign for Dick Alderson for Trustee 1989 to Present: Held numerous (more than 65) fundraisers in support of Local, State & National Candidates 2004: Provided Election Day phone bank for President George W. Bush. 2008: Initiated a grassroots initiative of local citizens to form a PAC, Making Congress Accountable. Purpose of the PAC: to make Congress accountable for their vote to secure energy independence for the U. S. Our Membership: 30 committed citizens. Our group personally presented our petition to every Senator and Representative in Washington D.C. 2010-2013: West Chester Tea Party 2012 – Present: Served as State Central Committeewoman District 4 2012 – Present: Member of the Executive Committee of the Butler County GOP
Non-Profit Boards (past & current):
Board of Directors Butler County United Way
Parish Council President, St. Susanna Parish
Education Commission, President, St. Susanna School
Board of Directors American Red Cross
Board of Directors Ursuline Academy of Cincinnati
Board of Directors Ursuline Academy Foundation Board
Board of Directors, CEO & President, Community Foundation of West Chester/Liberty
Board of Directors National VOA Museum of Broadcasting
Board of Directors, Treasurer, Ohio Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs
Board of Directors, Boys & Girls Club of West Chester/Liberty
Recognitions: 2004: The Cincinnati Enquirer’s “Women of the Year” 2007: West Chester – Liberty Chamber Alliance “Women of Excellence” 2008: Greater Cincinnati Athena Award Finalist 2009: West Chester – Liberty Chamber Alliance “President’s Award” 2010: Keynote Speaker – West Chester – Liberty “Women of Excellence“ Awards 2011: Venue Magazine Class of 2011 “Venue Award” for Leadership & Service 2011: Named to Junior Achievement’s “Butler County Hall of Fame” 2015: “Philanthropist of the Year Award” presented by the Community Foundation
Here’s the problem with this listing, if I listed everything I’ve done over the last 30 years—like she has—I couldn’t contain the contents on less than ten pages of similar exhibition. I mean she lists things like her involvement in the West Chester Tea Party and her husband’s political endeavors as parts of her experience. She also listed a phone bank on Election Day for George Bush. Those are ridiculous things to mention. For instance, and I only mention it because its relevant to this blog site and concerns Patti directly because of dealings I’ve had with her through mediators—but I would never consider mentioning the $10,000 that was donated through Yes to Lakota Kids and all the media work I did for that campaign as part of my “history” even though it was more than successful. If I listed every little thing the way she has it would be a small booklet. Patti’s involvement with the West Chester Tea Party is interesting—I went to nearly every meeting they had from 2010 to 2013 and she was never there. She contributed some space she had in one of her properties to Ann Becker so that she could keep tabs on the group, but withdrew that support after Ann went after John Boehner’s speaker seat for being an ineffectual RINO. The West Chester Tea Party was then booted out to the street to find another location as area establishment Republicans went on a quiet crusade to destroy the group. I don’t see that Patti mentioned anything about any of that. She just mentioned the West Chester Tea Party on her bio as if she were some kind of member. That certainly lends speculation to the relevancy of all her listings.
What I see when reading all this is a modern woman who is struggling to appear as a liberated female from behind the rather large professional shadow of her husband. She doesn’t have much experience at anything except what the money they’ve made has allowed her to enjoy from strictly a top down position. It’s easy to sit on boards of directors when the people who put you there only want the money and resources that you could provide them with. It’s quite another thing to slug it out on the ground level the way that Ann has had to do—and earn everything that they’ve ever achieved the hard way. Patti’s bio is quite clearly one written by a woman wanting to appear as a self-achieving feminist who wants to be socially enamored. Now that is specifically something she needs to resolve within herself and her family—but she includes everyone in her district when she runs for private office with public motivations that have an impact on elections with an obvious neurosis not founded in self-reliance.
I have seen Patti and her husband at a Tea Party event in Liberty Township where Susan McLaughlin and Katy Kern were singing praises to her for some contribution she made. Patti seemed pretty happy to be put in the spotlight that way, which I suppose was nice. But at West Chester, she shortly withdrew her support of Ann Becker’s West Chester Tea Party after the 2012 elections when Becker came out against John Boehner and John Kasich—because neither politician had shown themselves to be “conservative” enough. About that time Susan moved in the direction of Patti, membership declined dramatically in Liberty Township at the Tea Party group there, and a small little war within the Republican Party emerged with people like Ann and I on one side, then Patti and Susan on the other. Of course Patti is friends with everyone, at least socially. However her actions behind the scenes can be quite scandalous. Nobody of any authority has called her out on anything, because essentially they all wanted to be invited to her next event—for the opportunity to solicit funds for their future campaigns. That’s not to say she’s a bad person, but from personal experience, I can’t say that she has anything of any experience to dictate that she’s anything but a socialite who sways to the political left, and intends to hold the Republican Party of Butler County in that philosophic position with her influence gained exclusively through campaign contributions. Her padded bio adds fuel to that fire by confirming her vast insecurities as a modern woman who wants to be everything to everybody but can’t hide the fact that she just got lucky and married the right guy. That might make her a nice neighbor and charitable donor—but to sit on an important seat in a significant Central Committee position that makes decisions for the future of the Republican Party—Ann Becker is by far the best choice.
We made a deal before this meeting to not put the levy on the ballot which I was largely responsible for, along with others. Patti was working with the board to advance a tax increase on private property. And she wants to run the Republican Party? She needs to put that on her “bio,” that she supported tax increases on property her friends develop. She put everything else on there. Why not that? Because she’s a Republican in Name………………………..Only.
I am not however. I am an eternal optimist that doesn’t believe in surrender or allowing the mind to become depressed—about anything. I typically carry everyone on my back toward a goal, and for many years I have been fine with that type of approach. The net result is that second-handers ride in my wake and I’m fine with that until they get the funny idea that they are equal to me, and then try to step out in front and take charge. That is where I have to draw the line. Largely, my support of Donald Trump is due to this trait, he like me is a bottomless pit of optimism, and I think it’s more important to have that type of character in the White House than any other aspect of an election. The world unfortunately is controlled by depressed characters—these second-handers, and it really does need to stop. They need to learn their place, and stay in the wake of their clear superiors. Second-handers are not equal to out-front personalities especially those with great optimism. Optimism is one of the greatest traits a nation, a company or a household can possess.
I recently traveled to and from Japan and many of my intellectual thoughts about optimism was confirmed. They have a national approach that very much embodies a can do optimism that is a direct off-shoot of their Shinto Buddhism as a religion. It shows up in their work, their businesses, and their entertainment— in every aspect of their culture. It is amazing how much the Japanese people do given so little resources on the island that they reside on. A lot of that comes from their remarkably positive attitudes. They are very productive and happy to be. They don’t throw away their elderly and most levels of their society have a playfulness about them that joyfully participates in the sorrows of the world—which is clearly a Buddhist attribute. I had read stacks of books on Japanese culture and by default over many years have adopted my own brand of Shinto Buddhism that does not export the responsibility to some third-party spirit residing outside of our four-dimensional space. There is a science to positive thinking that works so long as that is the objective, and that type of optimism is the missing ingredient that America needs most in a capitalist society.
Most people think I’m insane when I insist on certain strategies in business, but as many have witnessed who have hung around to gather up the results, I always know what I’m doing. People who have been second-handers to me long enough know that I always end up coming out on top, and that in my long history, failure has never taken root. That doesn’t mean I haven’t felt the tinge of detrimental failure. It has certainly knocked on my door many times, but I have never yielded to it in any fashion. I have always been able to find the silver lining and turn it to gold eventually—and that is largely due to my overwhelming approach to a positive attitude. Over time I have become used to having nobody around me share this trait, so I am accustomed to functioning completely alone without any input from others. For me personally, it was nice to deal with the Japanese people in general because when it comes to living an honorable existence with a positive flare, they get it. For instance, it was late at night in Kobe, Japan—actually, last week. I didn’t bring any tooth paste with me because honestly, I didn’t want any trouble with the TSA in America—because they are such a bunch of scardy cats about everything—typical unionized slobs who panic over every little raindrop. I was at my hotel and needed some toothpaste to brush my teeth with. So I ran down to Chinatown where nobody spoke much English to get some supplies. I found a little store open that late and I found some tooth paste even though I couldn’t read a word on the box as to what it was. I could decipher enough to figure out that it was toothpaste. Taking it to the counter there was just one other person in the entire store and it looked like he was a Chinese-Japanese guy in his middle sixties. All I was buying was that little tube of toothpaste. I intended to use the whole tube before traveling back to the United States, so it wasn’t much. The man was very pleasant and treated the purchase like it was a block of gold that I had placed on the countertop. When our transaction was completed he gave me a deep bow in thanks and we parted ways.
The cashier in that Chinatown store didn’t have to bow to me; there was nobody else around to judge his behavior. And he didn’t have to be so thankful of a small tube of toothpaste purchased at 11:30 PM on a weeknight when it looked like there wasn’t going to be much else sold to justify him being open that late. Yet he had a marvelous attitude because to him that toothpaste was equal to a bottle of liquor or a pack of meat sold for a celebration. When you live that way day in and day out for your entire life, you tend to outlast whatever troubles your mind, and a productive outcome can eventually be expected.
Donald Trump has that same type of optimism and I think America needs that a lot more than any other aspect of our society—especially after that trip to Japan. I would say that I think having a positive attitude is more important than legal technicalities, or any other learned behavior passed down from mentor to apprentice within the American framework. I value that positive attitude above all other traits. Too often America have limited themselves into reporting what they can’t do which I find disgusting. I want to hear what someone “can do.” I don’t want to hear come out of anybody’s mouth what they “cannot do” especially if they haven’t tried before reporting. Finding excuses not to do something is not appropriate in a free market capitalist society. The sky should be the limit.
I hope that in Trump’s wake America wakes up to its potential again. In my personal life, those who know me understand that excuses are not welcome. You either accomplish a task, or you keep trying until you do—there is no can’t. That is a word that I reject from the English dictionary—and I don’t use it. And let me just say this, our nation better get their minds wrapped around the concept of achievement once again. And for those who have been riding in my wake, you better get a grip. If you want to play ball, you better know what you are swinging at. When I’m in charge of things, there is only one way to swing that bat, and you better be aiming for the fences. Because failure is not an option—under any circumstances.
The Overmanwarrior 