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Under the cover of Covid, and now in the shadow of the infamous Election Irregularities of that fated 2020 presidential election, with current emerging alleged election fraud in Nevada and Pennsylvania inconveniently slipping into the public discourse, there is proved a colluded ongoing Election Interference in the nomination of the Republican candidate, the likes of which has never occurred in our Constitutional Republic's history, albeit, the question remains: Do you support the plain-sight Election Interference of the Democratic Socialist party, employing its minions in their Propagandistic Media, and their Two Tiered Justice System?

98.13% No, I do not support Election Interference; I am a patriot unto our Constitution.

0.93% Yes, I do support Election Interference; the alternative, Donald Trump, to this mentally diminished president is far worse.

0.93% "What, me worry" if elections are rigged?

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Published: Saturday, June 9th, 2012 @ 7:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation ( More Entries )

    This week's "Daily Journal" guest columnist is Dr. Michael Sanera, John Locke Foundation's Director of Research and Local Government Studies.

    This week's "Daily Journal" guest columnist is Dr. Michael Sanera, John Locke Foundation Director of Research and Local Government Studies.

    RALEIGH     The News & Observer recently reported that 20 solar-powered "Big Belly" trash cans are being installed in the Glenwood South entertainment and restaurant district. These trash cans automatically compact the trash and, when full, signal city crews to empty them.

    According to the report, these smart trash cans save "on both fuel costs and manpower time." In other words, they are more efficient than the old dumb trash cans. I will circle back to the labor-saving aspect of these cans in a minute.

    Unfortunately for N&O readers, the reporter missed the irony in this program.

    Raleigh is paying for these high-tech gizmos with $150,000 from a federal grant the city received in January 2010 that was part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as President Obama's jobs stimulus money. Congress passed and the president signed this law with huge national media fanfare.

    At the time, they promised that spending $787 billion would create jobs and bring the country out of the recession. As soon as workers were hired for thousands of "shovel-ready" projects, the economy would boom, and millions of unemployed workers would be back on the job, or so Keynesian economic theory predicted. How's that theory working for you, America?

    Raleigh applied for and received a portion of this jobs stimulus money and initially used the bulk of the grant money for a Weatherization Loan Program. This program would assist homeowners to hire workers to install insulation, energy-efficient windows, and other energy conservation measures. Thus the program would meet two objectives: put workers to work and reduce energy consumption.

    But this program quickly failed according to city council minutes "due to lack of response from the banking and nonprofit community."

    In May 2011, funds were transferred to various pet projects of liberal city council members, including $300,000 for the "Climate & Energy Action Plan" and $130,000 to "Establish [the] Office of Sustainability."

    Once again in early 2012, the city council transferred the Obama jobs stimulus money. This time the council approved the transfer of $150,000 to the "Big Belly Solar Trash Compactors" currently being installed in Glenwood South.

    A real Win-Win for federal and local politicians

    Let's review: In 2009, the president and congressmen got rave press reviews for passing nearly $1 trillion in stimulus money to create jobs and bring the nation out of the most severe recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. More than 200 economists predicted at the time in this ad in the New York Times that it would not work.

    Now in 2012 the nation still has an 8.2 percent unemployment rate, many states are still facing high home foreclosure rates, and gross domestic product growth is anemic. But local city council members get rave press reviews for using the same jobs stimulus money to install labor-saving solar trash cans.

    In other words, the N&O praises Raleigh City Council for a labor-saving program that should reduce the number of jobs. I agree that if these trash cans work as advertised, they will reduce labor costs and save taxpayers money, but that is not the issue. That's economics, not politics.

    The political issue is that federal politicians claim to create jobs, while local politicians claim to eliminate jobs with the same money. They use this trickery in an attempt to fool their constituents, and it would not be possible without the complicity of the gullible press.

    Or as George Orwell concluded in his 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language": "Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

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