American Consequences - April 2019

It’s wastepaper – a diary of Bernie’s useless and impotent political activities from June 2016, when the Wicked Witch of the Midwest’s flying monkeys yanked him out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, to August 2018, when he’s still asking where we go from here... I have a suggestion, and the weather is warmer than Vermont’s. The thing about Bernie is not that he’s a bad guy or that he’s a commie or that he’s anything. He’s nothing. He’s a bum. The man has never done anything except complain about what’s wrong – prejudice, poverty, injustice, rain on weekends. Wikipedia says he’s worked as a carpenter. Imagine living in The House that Bernie Built. He would have been complaining that the tape measure was wrong, the plumb bob was wrong, the bubble in the level was on the wrong side. Oh, and

he was mayor of Burlington. Population: 42,450. Major industry: Ben & Jerry’s. The Grump was ready to ship the endless supply of B.S. published by politicians to a book burning in Burlington, Vermont. (“First city in the U.S. to run entirely on renewable energy.”) But then came a surprise... All YourWorth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan by Elizabeth Warren and her daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi turns out to be a perfectly good little manual for personal money management. “ What?! ” you say. The Menace of Markets, the Foe of Finance, the Bane of Banking, the Killer of Kapitalists, and the Grand Poobah of Progressivism? That Elizabeth Warren? Yes. AYW is no screed against economic liberty, but a common-sense guide to balancing household budgets, avoiding debt, accumulating savings,

Some modern politicians, not to name names such as Donald Trump and

and making prudent investments. It’s too chatty in the way self-help books seemingly can’t help themselves from being, but otherwise, it’s utterly unobjectionable. Why isn’t this book full of... of what Elizabeth Warren is so full of now

Beto O’Rourke, show no signs of being able to read.

that she’s running for president? Simple. It was written in 2005. Elizabeth Warren didn’t become a modern politician until she ran for Senate in 2011. She didn’t need a litter box. She wasn’t house (the White one) trained yet. – TBG

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