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10 Steps to Save America

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Posted By: earlybird, 12/19/2022 2:14:33 PM

Most Americans know something has gone terribly wrong—and very abruptly—with the United States. They are certain that our wounds are almost all self-inflicted. (snip) Crushing national debt and annual deficits, spiraling food and fuel costs amid “normal” seven-percent-plus annual inflation, bread-and-circuses entitlements, a nonexistent border, a resurgence of racial tribalism, pandemic violent criminality, and humiliation abroad—all these pathologies are easily cited as symptoms of a sick patient. Our crises are not as the Left maintains—a nine-person Supreme Court, the Electoral College, or the filibuster—all distractions from existential problems the Left largely created.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: jollytroll 12/19/2022 3:26:11 PM (No. 1360305)
I have criticized VDH in the past for so frequently and so eloquently describing all our various problems, so kudos to him for pointing out some solutions! That being said, IMHO he should have put this in letter form addressed to Captain Obvious !-).
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Trump'sCousin 12/19/2022 3:28:36 PM (No. 1360306)
The republic is dead. Make peace with it, accept and enjoy what little you have left. Those in positions of power including the military, who have sworn an oath to protect and defend the United States of America have abdicated that oath. There is nothing the average American can do about it. We were unable to keep the Republic. All empires die. Chinese dynasties, Greece, rome, Britain just to name a few. Read history. What we are experiencing is not new.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Red Ghost 12/19/2022 5:47:28 PM (No. 1360401)
I love VDH. When he speaks it is usually so comforting. Not quite like Rush, but there is a quality of intelligence and common sense about him. But, this piece? VDH, not for nothin' buddy, but we all know this stuff. And it ain't happening. We do not have fair and legal elections. So, even if there was a will to save our country, and I believe there is, again it ain't happening with out real elections. And there is absolutely no one, except the bad orange man, who is even willing to talk about let alone confront this criminality. I think the people in this country want change. I believe they voted for peace and prosperity in 2020, which we had for four years, and that election was stolen. I believe they tried again in 2022, and once again that election was stolen. There is little hope for 2024. So, all of the solutions that VDH asserts, we know and a majority of the country would be willing to do. Again, there is no one, except bad orange man willing to ensure these solutions are tried. NOT A ONE! But, hey, ain't no more distressing tweets. Absent free and fair elections, fogettaboutit. We're done.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: stablemoney 12/19/2022 5:54:41 PM (No. 1360411)
We do not need a $7 trillion dollar government. The government is financed 50% by inflation. Cut it in half. Take the power out of DC. The left says they believe in diversity, but they don't really, they believe in uniformity, all power in DC.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Rinktum 12/19/2022 6:45:54 PM (No. 1360443)
#1, I agree this article should be addressed to Joe Biden. Might I add every member of Congress, the Supreme Court, the hierarchy of the DOD, DOJ, FBI, CIA, IRS, and every other alphabet agency. It should also be forwarded to the head of every media outlet and social media sites. Finally, this article should be send to every newspaper in the country. Then challenge anyone to rebut it. If there are any takers, have a public debate.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Dino Sayer 12/19/2022 7:15:37 PM (No. 1360463)
The prices of hydrocarbons is baked into every thing we buy, from food to cars to houses to medicine. The inflation we are all suffering from has one single central source, the anti-energy policies of the current administration and Congress. All the interests rises they can plan will not stop inflation one bit, since it is coming from 'real' inflation of overpriced energy. Return to open oil exploration and development. The cost of everything else will drop like a rock. We already lived through this 40 years ago. The artificial scarcity of "fossil fuels" which we finally stop fiddling with. Now it is the climate change boogie monster. Enough all ready. lets live as well as we can today, and we will cure tomorrow's problems tomorrow with tomorrows technology.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Red Jeep 12/20/2022 7:26:15 AM (No. 1360689)
VDH wrote another dead on article this month, "If You Really Wanted to Destroy the U.S., Then..." https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2022/12/01/if-you-really-wanted-to-destroy-the-us-then-n2616602 The article starts: "First, you would surrender our prior energy independence. Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up consumer demand. Make war on coal and nuclear power. Drain the strategic petroleum reserve to make the pain for consumers more bearable for midterm election advantage...."
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 12/20/2022 8:10:12 AM (No. 1360731)
VDH, you are assuming that there is still some level of integrity within the federal government and the msm that would allow your 10 points to succeed. While I appreciate your points, I am a realist. Until integrity is first restored within the American population, nothing is going to change. Afterall, unless all of those Americans who eventually choose to go into politics can restore integrity within themselves BEFORE they go into politics, greed, corruption, and elitism will continue to flourish. Your thoughts, sir?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: GustoGrabber 12/20/2022 8:17:06 AM (No. 1360735)
Repeal the seventeenth amendment. Senators would cease to be elite protectors of national and global oligarchs and once again be defenders of their state, and not a ngo or industry.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Italiano 12/20/2022 8:38:10 AM (No. 1360750)
Never happen. Never. Forget it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Strike3 12/20/2022 11:06:34 AM (No. 1360893)
We all know what needs to be done. We also realize that nobody on the republican side of the aisle will do what is necessary to clean out the Washington version of the Augean Stables. They are going to make us repeat French history, are they not? Excuse me while I put the final edge on my guillotine.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: NotaBene 12/20/2022 11:38:10 AM (No. 1360928)
I would add stop the endless wars in support of Globalist ideolology.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: The Remnants 12/20/2022 4:05:33 PM (No. 1361118)
Dr. Hanson's Ten Steps to Save America Step One - Cut the Debt Addendum to Step One: Call up - The U. S. Senate's Commission on Appropriations (dated December 20, 2022). Read the amounts set aside in our $1.7 Trillion budget for fiscal 2023 (includes $44.9 Billion for Ukraine; pity a billion or two could not be set aside for the invasion on our southern border). I am not well-versed in how these monies are approved or disapproved, but I heard someone say that it is important that our lame-duck Congress does not approve this appropriations' budget. It should be our new Congress who has that responsibility.
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