I am very thankful for Trump's courage in addressing these issues. In the end, however, Congress is going to have to strike while the iron is hot and act.
As a farmer, I look forward to your deep dive on Rural VT. They don't speak for us. Typical of all non-profits that cloak themselves in virtue but act to undermine our freedoms by demanding public funding and oversight for whatever "marginalized" community they claim to represent, while taking their cut to further lobby and facilitate.
Anyone that loves freedom should be thrilled President Trump and his team are dissecting the spending and budgets of every federal government agency. Perhaps it should be done with all congress people and all states and their representatives. There are tons of abuse, waste, and in cases such as USAID most likely criminal behavior. The federal government is returning the power back to the people, returning the state rights and budgeting back to the states. In a state such as Vermont where I feel the corruption is rampant, and the legislature seems to care less about the will of the people, it's going to be painful, very painful. In the end the Constitution and its intent shall be restored. We can only be thankful they haven't taken the ax to social security which also isn't delegated by the Constitution.
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You are over the target John! Keep it up! What you are getting at is the heart of the cultural rot that is central to the issues facing the US and many other Western nations. The root of it, I believe, is a system which rewards grift and nonproductivity. Our system pretends (used to?) to reward hard work, competence, thrift, wise investment and prudent judgement, but it ends up rewarding theft, corruption, back room deals and no show jobs.
I have seen it time and again. Virtually all of my exceptionally talented and bright classmates (I was born in 1989) have ended up working for some company that participates in financial arbitrage (buying low in one place and selling high in the other). While in a healthy market based economy merchants should be rewarded for maximizing the distribution of goods and services, modern arbitrage does not increase the available set of goods and services to consumers but is a tax on all of us.
The financialization and bureaucratization (and fractionalized reserve banking along with loose Fed monetary creation) of our society means that loggers, farmers, miners, teachers, EMTs, doctors, truck drivers and anyone who provides goods and services that people want to consume are punished through regulation and taxation and those who produce nothing of value: bankers, investment professionals, venture capitalists are given preferential treatment and subsidization (2008 bailout, and COVID mega bucks).
I am uncertain that Trump is bright enough or capable enough or even on the right team (that is team not politics) to unwind this Sisyphean trap that we have found ourselves in.
Believe me I am not fan of Biden. Or Obama. I am actually bearish on the US government generally and believe that we should work towards an updated federalism where the USG largely doesn’t exist as we currently have it. It cannot be reformed, it is a tumor that will consume everything beautiful and holy if not treated promptly.
I humbly ask all the Trump Nation out there to think critically about where we go from here. I am not certain that Trump is the savior, but instead a quite useful strawman or red herring.
I guess what I am getting at is the left vs right paradigm is itself a psychological operation that is useful to those in power. Don’t play by their rules, be ungovernable. Take responsibility for yourself, your family, your community, your county and your state in that order. The leviathan of the USG is too large and unwieldy to be confronted with reform in mind, it must be treated like the cancer that it is.
Your comments about rewarding the bureaucrats and technocrats reminds me of Thomas Sowell's book "Intellectuals and Society," as well as John Lukac's amazing work, At the End of an Age, where he claims this transition began in the mid-1950s. It ends badly if we don't change course. I just pray it isn't too late!
Wonderful writing in this piece. Keep up the great work of exposing these Leftist, parasitic agencies! I’ll be praying from here in Texas that you and your fellow Vermont patriots in their Right minds will prevail and thrive! 🙏✝️🙏
I am very thankful for Trump's courage in addressing these issues. In the end, however, Congress is going to have to strike while the iron is hot and act.
just not easy task, SO MANY of the traitors... I think everyone needs to help, like John, exposing these 'grass roots' nukes.
As a farmer, I look forward to your deep dive on Rural VT. They don't speak for us. Typical of all non-profits that cloak themselves in virtue but act to undermine our freedoms by demanding public funding and oversight for whatever "marginalized" community they claim to represent, while taking their cut to further lobby and facilitate.
Anyone that loves freedom should be thrilled President Trump and his team are dissecting the spending and budgets of every federal government agency. Perhaps it should be done with all congress people and all states and their representatives. There are tons of abuse, waste, and in cases such as USAID most likely criminal behavior. The federal government is returning the power back to the people, returning the state rights and budgeting back to the states. In a state such as Vermont where I feel the corruption is rampant, and the legislature seems to care less about the will of the people, it's going to be painful, very painful. In the end the Constitution and its intent shall be restored. We can only be thankful they haven't taken the ax to social security which also isn't delegated by the Constitution.
The Left specializes in using words like “democracy,” “rural, “dictator” to get their way, which at this point is just carpetbagging.
Every day I am thankful that the total population of Vermont is so small.
"Rural" Vermont?
Ain't marketing somethin'?
I have heard that some buyers choose a paint color for its name, too.
I look forward to your deep dive.
dementiacrats Dementiacrats is a syndrome characterized by a decline in cognitive function, affecting memory, thinking, and social abilities, which interferes with daily life. It is often caused by neurodegenerative diseases, with Alzheimer's disease being the most common type, drugs and alcohol
You are over the target John! Keep it up! What you are getting at is the heart of the cultural rot that is central to the issues facing the US and many other Western nations. The root of it, I believe, is a system which rewards grift and nonproductivity. Our system pretends (used to?) to reward hard work, competence, thrift, wise investment and prudent judgement, but it ends up rewarding theft, corruption, back room deals and no show jobs.
I have seen it time and again. Virtually all of my exceptionally talented and bright classmates (I was born in 1989) have ended up working for some company that participates in financial arbitrage (buying low in one place and selling high in the other). While in a healthy market based economy merchants should be rewarded for maximizing the distribution of goods and services, modern arbitrage does not increase the available set of goods and services to consumers but is a tax on all of us.
The financialization and bureaucratization (and fractionalized reserve banking along with loose Fed monetary creation) of our society means that loggers, farmers, miners, teachers, EMTs, doctors, truck drivers and anyone who provides goods and services that people want to consume are punished through regulation and taxation and those who produce nothing of value: bankers, investment professionals, venture capitalists are given preferential treatment and subsidization (2008 bailout, and COVID mega bucks).
I am uncertain that Trump is bright enough or capable enough or even on the right team (that is team not politics) to unwind this Sisyphean trap that we have found ourselves in.
Believe me I am not fan of Biden. Or Obama. I am actually bearish on the US government generally and believe that we should work towards an updated federalism where the USG largely doesn’t exist as we currently have it. It cannot be reformed, it is a tumor that will consume everything beautiful and holy if not treated promptly.
I humbly ask all the Trump Nation out there to think critically about where we go from here. I am not certain that Trump is the savior, but instead a quite useful strawman or red herring.
I guess what I am getting at is the left vs right paradigm is itself a psychological operation that is useful to those in power. Don’t play by their rules, be ungovernable. Take responsibility for yourself, your family, your community, your county and your state in that order. The leviathan of the USG is too large and unwieldy to be confronted with reform in mind, it must be treated like the cancer that it is.
I agree! However, DT is shrinking the USG...
Your comments about rewarding the bureaucrats and technocrats reminds me of Thomas Sowell's book "Intellectuals and Society," as well as John Lukac's amazing work, At the End of an Age, where he claims this transition began in the mid-1950s. It ends badly if we don't change course. I just pray it isn't too late!
Same BS with USDA/NRCS in New Hampshire.
https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-02-28/former-usda-employee-describes-firing-and-long-term-impact-of-job-cuts-in-nh
Well, we can change that! It's illegal when government does it, especially with the new administration!
Wonderful writing in this piece. Keep up the great work of exposing these Leftist, parasitic agencies! I’ll be praying from here in Texas that you and your fellow Vermont patriots in their Right minds will prevail and thrive! 🙏✝️🙏
Love the picture of the bailage feeder John! Get er done!