American Consequences - June 2020

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cost tens of millions of people their jobs, and unnecessarily ruined millions of small businesses. Now, if they have their way and the economy really starts to falter, they will claim to be on the side of the working class by demanding bigger welfare payments and other bureaucratic redistribution schemes instead of just taking their boot off our hands and letting us go back to work. Re: Mr. Mom I have read (almost, I’m pretty sure) all your books. Not only were they incredibly entertaining and funny, but I was educated in a manner I had never come across. You helped form my young mind (although it’s no longer young) and discover that both liberals and conservatives are always going to extremes to overstate their cases on ideology. The result: I’m unaffiliated with any political party and vote for the person who will best serve the office which they are seeking. However, I was thrilled with your editorial about being Mr. Mom and your newfound appreciation of what it’s like to be a mother, especially one that works outside the home. You now seem to understand the hardships of being the one in charge, the one to manage the children and household, while maintaining a full-time job. I applaud you for once again proving common sense eventually wins in the end, with a little effort. I hope your wife is out of quarantine and you do not easily forget this lesson. Bravo to you for sharing your story. Fair warning though, as my grandmother told me, “when they are little, they step on your feet, when they

my hands. I didn’t believe in fairies, and Tinker Bell reminded me much too much of my pesky sister. But, although Tinker went firmly unapplauded by me, the hovering little annoyance continued to survive and spread stupid, sticky fairy dust all over the place. I say to the central banks now what I said to the movie theater ticket-taker when I was seven, “I want my money back.” Re: How to Destroy America’s Cities Buck, your article was indeed, spot-on. The Deep State political Liberals and media are going to any length necessary to tear down this country and the Trump administration, with total disregard for the physical or economic health of Americans. Their intent is to disrupt this nation to the point of martial law, whereby the government can completely take over with unlimited power and control. At that point, they can implement their Socialistic agenda with the pretense of “helping the people regain what has been taken from them.” – Don R. Buck Sexton comment: Don, thanks for your note. Indeed, one of the challenges of dealing with the Left is that their policies create problems that they then claim only more of their policies can fix. We see this all the time with the economy... And in the aftermath of the shutdown disaster, it will be even more stark. Because they panicked during COVID-19 and mandated an overreaction that many Republicans went along with, they have

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