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Jim Bohn

Free Speech: Twitter Response Shows Many American Big Businesses Don’t Share American Values

Americans should not count on big business to support Americans values.  Businesses that stopped advertising on Twitter demonstrate that they don’t believe in the First Amendment. 

Ask yourself the following question.  What’s worse: (i) child sexual exploitation and the promotion of violence; or (ii) asking whether COVID came from a lab?  The vast majority of Americans would say of course violence and sexual exploitation are horrible things.  And a majority of Americans—72 percent according to this poll—believe that COVID came from a lab.  So in the minds of most of the public (i) is far worse then (ii).

Child porn was rife on old Twitter.  Elon Musk is purging child porn from the site.

So were calls for violence from Antifa and far left groups.  That was OK on the old Twitter. 

Corporate America was perfectly copacetic with the above.

Now comes along Elon Musk and the new Twitter.

Elon believes in free speech.  On the new Twitter, you can debate things like whether COVID had natural origins or came from a lab.  You can debate whether the lockdowns were worth it.  You can also discuss …. (deep breath) … the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop.   

You’d think that corporate CEOs would be delighted with new Twitter.  Unfortunately, you’d be wrong. 

The possibility that Americans may now have a platform to discuss important issues without fear of censorship caused corporate America to have a meltdown.

Below is a list of companies that have stopped or paused advertising on Twitter. 

The number of Twitter users has soared since Elon Musk took over.  Clearly there’s no business reason for these corporate actions. 

So it must be that these companies are more comfortable with the old Twitter than the pro-free speech new Twitter.

As Christmas is right around the corner, I’ve highlighted those companies that are in the consumer products sector.

Abbott Laboratories, Allstate Corporation, AMC Networks (movie theatres), American Express Company, AT&T, Big Heart Petcare, BlackRock, BlueTriton Brands, Boston Beer Company, California State Lottery, CenturyLink (internet), Chanel (cosmetics), Chevrolet, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Citigroup, CNN, Dell, Diageo (Black Label Scotch), DirecTV, Discover Financial Services, Fidelity, First National Realty Partners, Ford, Heineken N.V., Hewlett-Packard (HP), Hilton Worldwide, Inspire Brands (Dunkin donuts, Arby’s), Jeep (Chrysler), Kellogg Company, Kohl’s Department Stores, Kyndryl, LinkedIn Corporation, MailChimp (The Rocket Science Group), Marriott International, Mars Petcare, Mars (Candy),  Merck & Co., Meta Platforms (Facebook), MoneyWise (Wise Publishing, Inc.), Nestle,  Novartis AG, Pernod Ricard, PlayPass, The Coca-Cola Company, The Kraft Heinz Company, Tire Rack, Verizon, Wells Fargo, Whole Foods Market IP, Yum! Brands (Taco Bell, KFC).

Most disappointing are the automakers.  Ford, Chevrolet (General Motors) Jeep (Chrysler/Stellantis) are all on the list. 

General Motors was the first automaker to jump and it still hasn’t returned to Twitter. 

Automakers always wrap themselves in the American flag to sell their products.

Yet these automakers don’t stand for American values like free speech and free expression. 

If these companies don’t support American values, who needs them?

You don’t see Japanese or Korean companies on the list, do you? 

If big companies don’t have it in their heart or head to support free speech do they deserve your dollars?  Of course not. 

The Christmas shopping season is upon us.  Let’s send these corporate hypocrites a message and tell then “hell no, we are not buying your products.”  Rather, we’re only opening our wallets to companies that believe in free speech and freedom.

Dems Reject Accountability on Ukraine

House Democrats voted down a bill that would provide for an audit of where military and economic aid to Ukraine is going.  Why are they afraid of accountability?

The House Foreign Affairs Committee rejected by party line vote a bill introduced by Marjorie Taylor Greene that would have provided for an audit for where aid to Ukraine is going.   Over on the Senate side, Rand Paul has made similar calls for oversight of aid programs which are now closing in on $100 billion.   

Given Ukraine’s history of corruption calls for an audit or other oversight are entirely reasonable.  Ukraine ranks 122nd among the nations of the world according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index.  That’s not far from Russia itself which was 136th. 

Given the amount of spending and the high likelihood that some of the lethal weapons being shipped to Ukraine will end up in the hands of terrorists or international criminal gangs, oversight is appropriate.

Nevertheless, the corporate media in the United States continues to give escalation of the war in Ukraine a good leaving-alone or as CBS News did, buries its own story about military aid going missing. 

However, the media overseas is far more forthcoming. 

The Manchester Guardian spoke with Jurgen Stock, the head of Interpol, amount his concerns that weapons sent to Ukraine are ending up in the hands of international criminal gangs.  He said:

“Once the guns fall silent [in Ukraine], the illegal weapons will come. We know this from many other theatres of conflict. The criminals are even now, as we speak, focusing on them,” Stock said. “Criminal groups try to exploit these chaotic situations and the availability of weapons, even those used by the military and including heavy weapons. These will be available on the criminal market and will create a challenge. No country or region can deal with it in isolation because these groups operate at a global level.”

Similar warnings appear in the Canadian press.  Here’s an excerpt from a report by CBC News, a government-run broadcaster:

“There is the real threat that the Ukrainian government can potentially not control all of these weapons,” said Kelsey Gallagher, a researcher with Project Ploughshares, a Canadian non-government disarmament group. “They could end up anywhere.”

The $100 billion spent so far on Ukraine is just a drop in the bucket compared to the amounts that the United States will have to spend to rebuild the country after the war ends or an armistice is declared.

The cost of Ukraine nation-building will dwarf the $2-3 trillion that the U.S. spent on Iraq and Afghanistan.

Zelensky himself estimates that rebuilding Ukraine will cost over $1 trillion and the war isn’t even over yet.

These costs will be borne almost entirely by the young Americans because, as in the past, America’s endless wars are financed through debt. 

On the upside, the more expensive the war and rebuilding, the more successful careers in foreign policy it will create.  Here’s a link to a master class in nation building for those interested in getting an early start on a new and promising career.

As for future costs, Europeans will argue that they shouldn’t pay because they bore the brunt of the cost of Russian sanctions.  Moreover, the Europeans are already accusing the U.S. of profiting from the war. 

Countries in the developing world will argue that they didn’t care for the war in the first place.  No nation outside of the traditional Western alliance—not Mexico, Brazil, India or China—have imposed sanctions on Russia. 

Given the enormous sums that the U.S. taxpayer is going to be spending on Ukraine it’s high time to establish some oversight over these programs.  Hopefully the next Congress will insist on oversight before appropriating more for this war. 

Free Speech: Apple Treats Americans Like the CCP Treats Chinese

Apple’s threat to ban Twitter from the iPhone app store subjects Americans to the same type of thuggish tactics that the Chinese Communist Party is employing in their country. 

The Chinese Communist Party is cracking down on civil liberties.  As the headlines below show, an integral part of the Communist Party’s crackdown on individual rights centers on banning Twitter and social media apps to prevent individuals from communicating with each other. 

“China protesters claim the CCP has threatened to remove the Twitter app.”

“Beijing Police Checking People’s Phones For Social Media Apps Amid Mass Protests: Report”

Depriving the populace of the ability to communicate electronically severely limits free speech.  Only an authoritarian, totalitarian government would do that, right? 

But in fact, only one of the headlines above pertains to China.  Can you guess which one?  The real headline is the first case is “Elon Musk claims Apple has threatened to remove the Twitter app.”  I just changed the subject to “China protestors” and the object to “the CCP”. 

The second headline pertains to one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet.  The other to the treatment of U.S. citizens by big tech.

In substance, there is no difference between the repressive action of the Chinese Government and the treatment of the American public by Apple. 

In China, police are checking the phones of people at random to see if they have social media apps like Twitter or Telegram which protestors are using to coordinate their activities.  The effect is to scare people into removing these apps from their phones. 

William Yang of Deutche Weil reports (using Twitter—which Apple wants to crush):

“In #Beijing, police has reportedly been checking passersby’s phones, and if they found Twitter, Telegram on the phones, they would write down personal information of the person and give them warning. If they face resistance, police would say they could report the person.”

In the United States, Apple is threatening to prevent Americans from getting access to Twitter in the first place. 

The actions of Apple show that the threats to free speech and liberty is not limited to governments.  Big corporations are just as big a threat if not more.  Who needs the security state to oppress the population when big tech will gladly do it for free? 

Indeed, Apple appears to be working hand in glove with the Chinese Communist Party.  As Zero Hedge reports, Apple has turned off other communication tools on iPhones in China, and only China, to thwart dissent. 

I encourage GOUSA readers and members to send a message to Apple CEO Tim Clark and the other big tech oligarchs by boycotting Apple products this Christmas and beyond.  I certainly will. 

Brandon Does It Again: Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner Up 20% Since Last Year

Inflation from reckless spending and massive Fed money printing are putting a damper on holiday cheer as Americans have to dig much deeper to afford a holiday dinner this year. 

The American Farm Bureau reports that the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner is 20 percent higher this year than last year.  He computes the cost to feed a gathering of 10 is $64.05 this year versus $53.31 last year and $46.90 in 2020.  Comparing 2022 to 2020, the cost of Thanksgiving dinner is up 37 percent in just two years. 

As usual the Biden Administration blames … wait for it … Putin for the debacle.  Vladmir Putin, is there anything he can’t do???

Of course, the Biden Administration’s claims are completely silly.  Unless you plan to celebrate the day with a big bowl of borscht and black bread the items on your table come from U.S. farms and those farmers are subject to the same monetary and spending policies that are eating away at your paycheck and standard of living. 

But never fear.  The elites in Washington have money saving ideas for you.  Here are a few:

  • NPR recommends that instead of having mashed potatoes (price up 20 percent YoY) try mashed lima beans instead.  Added bonus: afterwards, you can amuse your friends by recreating that hilarious fart scene from Blazing Saddles.   
  • The St. Louis Fed suggests having tofurky (repulsive) instead of turkey.   The suggestion was so outrageous that some thought it was a parody but no, it’s a real blog post. 
  • Reduce food waste by changing the five second rule to the ten second rule.  OK we made that one up. 
  • Take the advice of Democratic Congressman Sean Maloney and serve Chef Boyardee for Thanksgiving.  Mmmmm, beefaroni.    

And keep your hope up.  In two years, it will all be over (hopefully). 

Happy Thanksgiving from GOUSA!

So What Did The FBI Find When They Raided Mar-a-Lago?

According to the Washington Post: absolutely nothing of any importance.

The August FBI raid on the home of Donald Trump’s private residence was something straight out of the playbook of banana republic dictatorships.  Never in the history of the United States has one administration ever searched the private residence of a previous president or a political opponent.

Of course, the FBI would never have treated a Democrat this way.  But this type of thuggish treatment by the hopelessly politicized FBI and Justice Department is the norm when it comes to Republicans.  See for instance the treatment of Peter Navarro or Roger Stone. 

So what did the FBI find in it’s raid.  Nuclear secrets?  No.  Other important stuff?  Hardly.

According to the Post, what Trump had in his possession were merely trophies and mementos of his time in office. 

“Federal agents and prosecutors have come to believe former president Donald Trump’s motive for allegedly taking and keeping classified documents was largely his ego and a desire to hold on to the materials as trophies or mementos, according to people familiar with the matter.”

Of course, it was obvious from the beginning that the FBI was on a fishing expedition.  For instance, the New York Times reports that 99 of the documents seized by the FBI were newspaper and magazine clippings.   

All Americans should be disturbed by the creeping authoritarianism at the FBI and the Department of Justice.  The raid and the treatment of Republicans shows that this country truly has a two-tiered justice system. 

Hopefully the Republicans in the House of Representatives will investigate and force a thorough house cleaning at the top of the FBI and DOJ.  Such a house cleaning is long overdue.    

More on the Student Loan Bailout (a/k/a Biden’s Bailout for the Bourgeoisie)

CNBC reports that most beneficiaries of Biden’s student loan forgiveness program plan to spend their extra money on vacations, dining out, alcohol, video games and gambling.

The Biden Administration claimed that their student loan bailout program was intended to help “middle-class borrowers struggle[ing] with high monthly payments.”

In fact, most beneficiaries plan to spend the cash on luxuries.   

A survey by Intelligence.com found that 73 percent of beneficiaries plan to spend their additional cash on luxuries like vacations, dining out, alcohol, video games, and even gambling.

 “Overall, 73% of applicants say they are likely to spend their extra money on non-essential items. Men are more likely than women to say they will use the additional money this way (84% vs 65%).  The plurality (52%) of applicants say they are ‘very likely’ or ‘likely’ to buy new clothing and accessories with the extra funds they’ll have. Using the money for a vacation (46%) or eating out at restaurants (46%) were also popular answer choices.  Additionally, applicants say they are likely spend the extra money on: Smartphone (44%); Investing in the stock market (43%); Gifts (42%); Gaming system (36%); Wedding (30%); Drugs/Alcohol (28%); Gambling (27%).”

The bill, of course, is going to be dropped in the lap of everyday Americans who will no doubt be delighted to pay more in taxes to pay of the loans of Theatre majors.    

One wonders where the Republican party was on this during the past election.   As Kevin O’Leary points out on CNBC, this would have been a great issue for the Republicans.

Here at GOUSA we didn’t see the Republicans make an issue of Biden’s bailout for the bourgeoisie.   Time for new leadership at the GOP.  Yes, long overdue.   

Even CNN Says Bolduc Could Win Tuesday

At GOUSA we are not big fans of the legacy media much less CNN.  But when a news source with a clear left-wing bias suggests that Don Bolduc could win his New Hampshire senate race we take notice. 

This Sunday, CNN published an article suggesting Don Bolduc could deliver a big surprise in this Tuesday’s election.  Indeed, Bolduc is slightly ahead in the polls.

They write:

“New Hampshire is exactly the type of seat you might expect Republicans to be competitive in, given the polling we’ve seen nationally. A CNN/SSRS poll published this week put Republicans ahead by four points on the generic congressional ballot. That’s an 8-point shift toward the Republicans from the final 2020 presidential result.”

The eight-point shift is exactly the margin between Biden and Trump in New Hampshire in the 2020 election. 

And as we blogged about in the past, Hassan only won the seat in 2016 by a razor thin margin.  She was never that popular with New Hampshire voters.  A majority of New Hampshire voters want someone else.   

New Hampshirites expect to see their candidates up close and personal.  Bolduc has been out there the entire time doing eighty town hall meetings while Hassan ducked debates and holed up in her basement and Washington office.    

Moreover, New Hampshirites have been particularly negatively impacted by the policies of the Biden Administration.

  • New Hampshirites have been doubly hard hit by rising gas process.  They’ve been hit not only at the pump but also by higher prices for heating oil.  If you are reading this from outside New England, most New Hampshire homes are heated by oil. 
  • New Hampshirites are prudent.  Democrat spending programs and massive government borrowing (all supported by Hassan) don’t play well with thrifty New Hampshire voters.
  • New Hampshire prides itself as a low tax state.  Few New Hampshire voter look forward to the prospect of harassment from the 87,000 new IRS agents that Hassan voted for.   

Lastly, we can’t help pointing out CNN’s own haughty attitude.  CNN takes a swipe at polling by Trafalgar and St. Anselm college (“A number of pollsters that don’t meet CNN’s standards for publication have put out results indicating a tight race, or even a Republican advantage.“).  However, the pollsters that CNN casts aspersions on are actually more accurate than CNN’s own polling (among the worst according to analysis by Real Clear Politics).  Apparently, Mr. Enten’s mother never told him that you shouldn’t criticize others if you can’t do better yourself.    

New Poll has Bolduc Up by One Point in New Hampshire, Leavitt by Six.

General Don Bolduc is gaining ground faster than Patton’s Third Army.  The St. Anselm poll has Don Bolduc with a one-point lead over Maggie Hassan.

Republican Karoline Leavitt has a six point lead over Chris Pappas.

Things are rocking in the Granite State. 

Real Clear Politics now considers the New Hampshire Senate race as a GOP Pick Up and the New Hampshire first district as a Toss Up. 

Fifty-six percent of New Hampshirites have a negative view of Joe Biden.   

Since the September primary, Bolduc’s favorability rating has increased by 4 points while Hassan’s fell by 4 points.  And Karoline Leavitt’s up a whopping 24 points.   

Good news for Don and Karoline.  But don’t get cocky.  Hassan won the seat in 2016 against Kelly Ayottte by less than 800 votes out of 740,000 cast.  2022 may be just as close.    

Go to Rumble to see our side-by-side comparison of Bolduc and Hassan:  https://rumble.com/v1lqt6r-don-bolduc-vs-maggie-hassan-for-us-senate-nh-oppscore-side-by-side.html

Republican Don Bolduc has a Opportunity Score of +4.80 (strong pro-opportunity).  Democrat Maggie Hassan has a -0.80 Opportunity score (poor anti-opportunity).

Be sure to keep checking go-usa.us for updates.  

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Poll: Bolduc Within 2 of Hassan

A new poll has Don Bolduc just two points behind Maggie Hassan in the New Hampshire senate race. 

A Fabrizio, Lee and Associates poll has General Don Bolduc (Republican) with 47 percent and incumbent Maggie Hassan (Democrat) with 49 percent.   The poll results were released on October 20. 

The release doesn’t state when respondents were surveyed.  However, Republican candidates have been surging in the generic ballot.  Thus, it’s likely that the New Hampshire race is dead even. 

The poll also found that 52 percent of New Hampshire voters want Hassan replaced with someone else and 44 percent stating that they will definitely vote against Hassan. 

Here’s our side-by-side comparison of Bolduc and Hassan: 

https://rumble.com/v1lqt6r-don-bolduc-vs-maggie-hassan-for-us-senate-nh-oppscore-side-by-side.html

Republican Don Bolduc has a Opportunity Score of +4.80 (strong pro-opportunity).  Democrat Maggie Hassan has a -0.80 Opportunity score (poor anti-opportunity).

Be sure to keep checking go-usa.us for updates.   

The Student Loan Shell Game

Young Americans Will Soon Realize Debt Forgiveness Isn’t a Good Deal

In the shell game, a street corner huckster places a ball underneath one of three cups.  Then after moving the cups around on the table the ball seemingly disappears.  That’s not the case.  A solid ball doesn’t just vaporize.  The ball is still somewhere.  The only change is that the location of the ball is just then out of sight. 

Political hucksters play the same game using debt.  You can move debt around.  But the debt doesn’t just go away.  Rather, it’s just someone else that bears the cost. 

In the case of student debt, young people celebrating the announcement of Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan will soon find that the debt hasn’t gone away.  Rather, it’s still a burden, just in a different form.     

Consider the balance sheet of the federal government.  Student loans are an asset to the federal government. 

Student loans are an asset because the federal government expects to receive interest and principal from borrowers.  Student loan payments are revenues from the government’s perspective. 

The same is true for a bank.  Loans are also an asset to the bank because the bank expects that the borrower will repay the loan and the bank will collect interest in the meantime. 

Forgiveness eliminates a source of revenue for the federal government.  In the case of the Biden Administration plan, the loss in future federal revenues is very large.  The Congressional Budget Offices that forgiveness will reduce federal revenues by $400 billion over the next thirty years.  The Penn-Wharton Budget Model estimates that the forgiveness plan will cost $600 billion over the next ten years. 

The loss of revenues from borrower repayments leaves Congress with three possible choices:(1) reduce spending; (2) increase taxes; or (3) borrow more to make up the difference.  Assuming government is spending money on things that are worthwhile (admittedly a big “if”) then reduced spending means that young people today won’t get the benefit from whatever federal programs that are cut.

Options (2) and (3) are where things get really interesting. 

Say for instance that government makes up for the loss in revenue by raising taxes (option 2).  Who’s going to pay?  Well for the most part, it’s going to be the same young Americans that were the borrowers in the first place. 

Some of the tax burden might fall on older Americans.  But the vast majority of student loan debt is held by young people.  According to the Department of Education seventy six percent of outstanding student loans are owed by borrowers aged 49 and below.  The author of this article is 59.  That means that I’m not going to be paying taxes much longer.  But if you’re a 22 year-old just receiving your sheepskin, you’ve got many, many, many years of tax payments ahead of you. 

This doesn’t mean that it’s unfair for Americans that never went to college to chip in too.  Plumbers, electricians, waitresses all pay taxes too.  But in general, adults with college degrees earn more and therefore pay more taxes than those that didn’t.  Therefore, the bulk of the taxes necessary to make up for the loss in revenues from loan forgiveness will be paid for by other college educated adults.  Seen this way, forgiveness is just a shell game replacing one expense borne by college-educated Americans (loan payments) with another (higher taxes). 

In fact, the borrowers that really make out from loan forgiveness are the 2.6 million borrowers over the age of 62 that collectively owe $104 billion who are unlikely to pay any meaningful amount of taxes in the future (but will be collecting Social Security–thank you very much).    

Suppose the government chooses option 3, borrow the money.  Borrowing isn’t free.  For one, the government is going to have to make interest payment to holders of the bonds issued to plug the budget gap.  Second, government borrowing crowds out private investment which means slower economic growth. 

Slower growth doesn’t mean much to a 59 year-old like myself.  In fact, I might like it.  Lower growth generally means lower prices for stuff and higher unemployment means fewer cars on the road.  But for a young person, slower economic growth is devastating.  Slower growth means fewer job opportunities.  Plus, since growth is cumulative, a small decline in annual growth rates means meaningfully lower living standards many years in the future.  Milton Friedman famously said that “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.”  So too with the forgiveness of student loans.  Young Americans may be celebrating today.  But soon it will become apparent that forgiveness amounts to nothing more than a shell game. 

Ho-hum, Another Endless War

GOUSA stands for ending endless wars.  The military-industrial complex and the Biden Administration thinks otherwise.

Rather than seek a negotiated solution to the war in the Ukraine, the Biden Administration is plunging the United States into yet another endless war.  As if the twenty-year war in Afghanistan and the eighteen-year war in Iraq worked out swimmingly.  The same goes for U.S. involvement in the wars in Somalia, Libya, Syria and Yemen.  I’m sure I’m leaving some out.

The doctrine of endless war is bankrupting the United States and is bringing us to the brink of nuclear war. 

Duck-and-cover is back.  New York City released a public service announcement telling people what to do in the event of a nuclear war.  The message from the smiling presenter: just go inside and you’ll be OK.  Even the New York Times labeled it “bizarre”.   

Ukraine’s President Zelensky recklessly suggested that NATO to conduct strikes against Russia’s nuclear capabilities.  As Russia would take such a strike lying down.   

He’s also declared that Ukraine is a de facto member of NATO.  A statement sure to escalate the war.      

President Biden stated that the “prospect of Armageddon” today is greater than at any time since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.  Actually, today’s situation is even more dangerous.  During the cold war the United States and Soviet Union were at least talking on a regular basis.  Not today.    

Even with the prospect of nuclear annihilation hanging over us the United States refuses to engage in discussions with Russia or to push the Ukrainians to do so. 

Polling shows that a majority of Americans—Democrats, Republicans and Independents—support negotiations to end the war.  

Source: Data for Progress

Instead, the United States is now essentially running and financing what is becoming another endless war.  Not with a small country in the Middle East.  Rather with a country with a stockpile of 6,000 nuclear warheads.   What could possibly go wrong?

During the last two decades, the United States spent $2 trillion on the war in Afghanistan and another $2 trillion on the war in Iraq with little to show for it.  Rather than creating liberal democracies., Afghanistan and Iraq today are among the most repressive regimes on the planet.

The war in Ukraine is going to be far more expensive.  U.S. spending on the war is running at about $50 billion per calendar quarter–$200 billion a year.  That’s equal to the burn rate of spending on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.  And just yesterday Ukraine asked for another $55 billion to cover its 2023 budget deficit. 

Saner figures in Washington, like Henry Kissinger and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen, want to stop escalating and start negotiating. 

However, with Joe Biden and neocons like Lindsey Graham (R-Raytheon) in charge, our next endless war is just at the beginning.

Bolduc Gaining in New Hampshire’s Extremely Close U.S. Senate Race

Both the Hassan and Bolduc camps agree that the New Hampshire Senate race is extremely close with Bolduc surging in the polls.

There’s a lot of news coming out on the New Hampshire U.S. Senate race.  The two major party candidates are Democrat Maggie Hassan (Opportunity Score -0.80, poor anti-opportunity) and Republican Don Bolduc (Opportunity Score +4.80, strong pro-opportunity). 

Real Clear Politics rates the race as a Toss-up. 

Here’s our side-by-side comparison of Bolduc and Hassan: 

Here’s a quick roundup of news on that race:

An internal strategy memo from the Hassan campaign says that Bolduc is doing far better than public polls indicate.  Here’s an excerpt:

“Our own internal poling shows that Don Bolduc is quickly consolidating the Republican base and is rapidly making up ground against Senator Hassan.  While many public polls still show Bolduc getting 80 percent of the Republican base, our own polling shows that he will get 90+ percent of Republicans that typically the case for a GOP nominee and is therefore well on his way 10 making this a tied race.”

WGBH says that Don Bolduc is gaining on Maggie Hassan (link)

The most recent poll by Trafalgar has Hassan up by a mere 3 percentage points.  Only 35 percent of respondents to that poll were Republicans.  Therefore, it’s likely that Republicans were underweighted in the sample. 

Further evidence that Bolduc is surging is that Hassan is now refusing to debate with General Bolduc.   That’s not a good look for Hassan and a sign of an incumbent in deep trouble.   

Don Bolduc has a long piece in the Daily Caller with a lot more information (link)

Remember that Donald Trump outperformed the last six New Hampshire polls by 3 percentage points.  If Don Bolduc also outperforms by 3, then the race is dead even right now.   

Lots of GOUSA members and activists are in the New England area and many are watching this race closely. Plan to stay up late on November 8 to watch the results.

Look North to See How the GOP Can Attract Young People

Canada’s Pierre Poilievre shows how to attract young people to conservatism. His success could be a model for the GOP.

America’s Republican Party has a big problem.  Republicans do well with older voters.  But Republican politicians go over like a lead balloon with voters under the age of 40. 

Exit polls show that by a two-to-one margin, young people preferred Joe Biden to Donald Trump in the 2020 election.  Democrats captured the support of younger voters by similarly large margins in every election since 2004. 

Because individual party preferences are formed early in one’s adult life and tend to persist, the failure to attract younger voters to the Republican cause bodes ill for the future of the GOP. 

So how can Republicans attract younger voters?  Canada’s new Conservative party leader shows how its done. 

Pierre Poilievre is Canada’s new Conservative Party leader.  Poilievre is a huge hit with young people.  He’s attracting large numbers of young people to his party and to conservative positions. 

Polling by Abacus shows that the Conservative Party is now the most popular choice of Canadians between the ages of 18 and 29. 

So what is Poilievre’s secret to attracting young people to the Conservative Party?

According to the Canada’s National Post, Poilievre’s popularity is doe to the fact that he’s actually addressing issues that young Canadians care about.

“Poilievre’s growing popularity among young voters is likely due to how he’s seized upon an opening by providing coherent messaging that addresses the general state of dissatisfaction and the economic anxieties that are weighing on young Canadians.  That includes continuing frustrations about the inaccessibility of home ownership, income instability and inflation.”

Pierre Poilievre — Wikipedia

Poilievre offers a mix of populism and libertarianism. 

He blames deficit spending by the ruling Liberals for inflation.   Poilievre is proposing implementing a pay-as-you-go law which requires any new spending to be offset through cuts elsewhere. 

Poilievre seeks to address high housing costs by reducing restrictions on development. 

Poilievre believes that Canada needs to address climate change but wants to reduce CO2 emissions through technological solutions, not by impoverishing Canadians. 

Polievere is a moderate on most social issues.  He supports gay marriage and does not want to make changes to abortion policies in Canada.  In Canada abortions are generally not available after the twenty-third week of pregnancy. 

Poilievre is a strong supporter of free speech.  He’s an opponent of woke authoritarianism in academia, the media and government. 

He supported the right of the Canadian truckers to protest.  He also opposed the use of Canada’s Emergencies Act to crack down on COVID dissenters.   

Does this sound a lot like GOUSA’s agenda?  It should. 

Here at GOUSA we stand for solutions that will make life better for all Americans and especially young Americans.  After all, the early years of adulthood are times of possibility and potential.  And what do you want more than opportunities to realize those possibilities and that potential. 

Interested?  Contact us at the bottom of our home page.

Or chip in a few bucks on our Donate page. 

Americans Aren’t Divided—It’s Our Elites That Are Dividing Us

80 percent of Americans agree on most important issues.  It’s our elites that are causing division.  GOUSA is the voice of the 80 percent.

Polling data shows that Americans are not divided on most issues.  Rather, it is our political and media elites that are divided and are dividing us.

Take the issue of abortion. 

Politicians in the Democratic Party insist on abortion for any reason right up to the point of birth.  Some even want to allow abortions after a baby is born alive. 

On the other side, some politicians in the Republican Party would allow no abortions at all. 

Most Americans disagree with both positions.  Polling going back all the way to 1976 shows that most Americans believe that abortion should only be legal in certain circumstances—generally the first trimester and cases involving the health of the mother.  Moreover, the views of Americans have not changed at all during the past 46 years.

Politicians aren’t getting the message.  GOUSA does.  In our opportunity rating system, we ask the following question:

“Does the politician value life and accept the right to choose early in pregnancy (up to heartbeat or first trimester), and oppose later term abortion (through 2nd & 3rd trimester) except in rare and limited cases, such as risk to the life of the mother?”

You could replace abortion with a range of different issues: welfare, government spending, foreign policy, free speech, education …  The list goes on and on.

The fact that politicians are not listing to the 80 percent majority that want to see reasonable, common-sense solutions to the challenges facing America is why so many of us are disgusted with politics. 

You can see it in the polls.  Most Americans dislike both the Democratic and Republican Parties. 

It’s not that Americans are divided—it’s that the elites are divided, and that the political and media elites are seeking to divide us.

Batya Ungar-Sargon discusses how it is the elites, not Americans, that are divided.  She cites a huge amount of data to back that up.

GOUSA is interested in solutions.  Solutions that unite us rather than divide us.  Solutions that expand freedom and opportunity for all Americans.  Solutions to problems that 80 percent of Americans want solved and solved in a way that is acceptable to 80 percent of Americans.   

Reflections on Queen Elizabeth II

A personal reflection on the passing of one of the greats of our time by James Bohn    

This post is not about politics or economics.  Rather, it is about the life qualities that are most important and a person who embodied them. 

I have always admired Elizabeth II for her dedication to duty, decency, the British people and the Commonwealth.  For that reason, I offer a few words of personal reflection for GOUSA readers on her life and the events this month. 

Queen Elizabeth II gave many speeches during her long reign.  However, in my view, her greatest preceded her ascension to the throne in 1952.  The speech was simple and short. The occasion was her twenty-first birthday in 1947.  

In that brief speech, she vowed to dedicate her whole life to the service of the British people and the commonwealth.  Her stirring words are captured in the excerpt below.

Mature beyond her years when she ascended to the throne upon the passing of George VI in 1952, she was a rock that never faltered.  Throughout her long reign, Elizabeth II exhibited a dedication to duty and decency rare among those in the public eye especially in our current times.

There will be many musical tributes to Elizabeth II in the coming weeks.  While many occasions will feature the British national anthem, in my mind, a different song better captures her life and reign. 

That song is I Vow to Thee My Country.  The performance in the excerpt below by the Royal Marines Band. 

Elizabeth maintained her 1947 vow of service until her final day on earth. 

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Bolduc Ahead in the GOP Primary in the Critical New Hampshire Senate Race

A new poll shows General Don Bolduc in the lead in the September 13 NH Republican primary.  There is a high likelihood that the Republican nominee will flip this seat.  

The New Hampshire senate seat is one of the GOP’s best chances for a pickup in the November election.  Real Clear Politics rates the seat a toss-up.     

Polling by the University of New Hampshire shows that General Don Bolduc has a significant lead over other Republican candidates in the September 13 primary.  Overall, Bolduc leads his nearest rival, NH Senate President Chuck Morse, by 43 to 22 percent.   

The poll also shows Republicans very satisfied with Bolduc as their nominee.  Don Bolduc is the most widely known among the GOP candidates.  Eighty percent of GOP primary voters are very interested in the race. 

57 percent of prospective GOP primary voters have a favorable view of Bolduc.  Only 15 percent have an unfavorable view.

The fact that voters are paying attention to the race and that Bolduc has high favorability portends well for the general election in November as Republicans are likely to be unified around General Bolduc should get the nod in the primary. 

Don Bolduc received a 4.8 rating from GOUSA using our OppScore framework.  That is a Strong Pro-Opportunity Score. 

Chuck Morse received a 2.4 rating from GOUSA using our OppScore framework.  That is a Moderate Pro-Opportunity Score. 

Maggie Hassan, the incumbent, received a -0.80 rating from GOUSA.  That is a Poor Anti-Opportunity Score.

Hassan received negative opportunity ratings in three of five categories: social opportunity, economic opportunity and education opportunity. 

GOUSA will be doing a side-by-side comparison of the positions of the GOP nominee versus that of Senator Hassan. 

Be sure to keep checking go-usa.us for updates.   

Democrats to the Middle Class “You F-ed up, you trusted us.”

If Biden and the Democrats haven’t already alienated every hard-working American, the cancelation of student loan debt is sure to do it.

In the movie Animal House, Otter, Boon, Pinto and Flounder go out for a night of partying with a brand-new Lincoln Continental that Flounder’s brother Fred lent to him.  They crash the car.  The next day, Otter informs a distraught Founder “You F-ed up, you trusted us.” 

Millions of Americans that bought into Scranton Joe’s working-class shtick surely must feel the same way as Flounder.  So should anyone else that values thrift and personal responsibility. 

Cancelation of student loan debt rewards irresponsible and immoral behavior.  Biden’s plan makes chumps out of Americans that have behaved responsibly and paid off their debts, paid for their education, or decided not to go to college at all.      

As the Washington Examiner succinctly put it: “[Biden] has sent a clear message to everyone who doesn’t have a college degree or who already paid off student loans: Drop dead.”   

If you believed that Joe Biden and the Democrats cared about middle- and working-class Americans, then like Flounder, you f-ed up.  You trusted them.

Cancelation is nothing other than a payoff to the higher education establishment and the purple-haired acolytes of the likes of Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and the rest of the squad with their worthless college degrees.  If their degrees were worth something, instead of braying for the taxpayer to foot the bill, these geniuses could have paid them off from the higher earnings that a college degree typically affords. 

The cancelation of student loans is such bad policy, that both the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal opined against it. 

So have some Democrat bigwigs like Obama economic advisor Jason Furman and Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.  Both Furman and Summers point out that cancelation is just like cutting $10,000 or $20,000 checks to millions of people and thereby stoking inflation.

But most of all, cancelation is unfair by taxing plumbers and truck drivers to bail out college students that mismanaged their careers and finances. 

Granted, most students don’t learn much in college.  There are scores of YouTube interviews with college students that don’t even have a basic grasp of history, economics, mathematics or geography.  

There’s little disagreement that American colleges and universities produce a poor product.  Colleges and universities don’t reward excellence in teaching or hold students to high standards.  But just because these institutions have intellectually defrauded their customers doesn’t mean that taxpayers should be forced to foot the bill.  Rather, it is higher education institutions that need to change.  Canceling student debt does nothing about that.  Instead, it rewards bad behavior.

At GOUSA, we value education.  But we also oppose subsidization of irresponsible behavior.  Our rating system considers where politicians stand on this issue.  We downgrade politicians like Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Biden that thumb their nose at those who manage their finances and careers responsibly. 

Check out politician scores on this website.  We identify those politicians that support greater opportunity for all Americans and those that don’t.  You’ll be glad you did.  So, unlike Flounder, you won’t F-up by trusting them. 

Bolduc Leads in NH Primary, Hassan Deep Underwater

Big news.  General Don Bolduc leads in the New Hampshire primary race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.  Most voters want incumbent Senator Maggie Hassan replaced. 

Polling by St. Anselm University shows that General Don Bolduc has a big lead over his primary opponents in the primary race for the 2022 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. 

Don has a +4.80 opportunity rating.  This is a Strong Pro-Opportunity score. 

This is one of the best opportunities for a Republican pickup in the U.S. Senate.  Maggie Hassan, the Democratic incumbent, is deep underwater with NH voters.  According to St. Anselm, 53 percent of New Hampshire voters want someone new in the seat.

The primary election is on September 13.   

Here’s the link to Don Bolduc’s campaign website. 

General Bolduc has been a good friend to GOUSA.  Don spoke at OppCon 2021 and 2022.   

Here’s Don Bolduc’s appearance on the GOUSA Opportunity Report:

Here’s a panel discussion with Don and John Paul Moran.

As evidenced by his very high pro-opportunity score, Don’s views and priorities are very much in alignment with GOUSA’s agenda.  We wish Don all the best in his race.

Even the Corporate Media Thinks the “Inflation Reduction Act” is Utter BS

It’s so bad for the Democrats that they can’t even get the corporate media to go along with their talking points about the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act.”

This weekend on ABC news host John Karl asked Biden spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre about the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (which will in fact have no effect on inflation).  The exchange didn’t go so well for KJP with Karl characterizing the Act as “almost Orwellian.” 

ABC'S JONATHAN KARL: "Isn't it almost Orwellian? How can you call it the Inflation Reduction Act when the nonpartisan experts say it's not gonna bring inflation down?"

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "I appreciate the question." pic.twitter.com/tmtFTdsgXx

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 14, 2022

Karl points out that the CBO estimates that the Act would do nothing to lower inflation.  KJP’s sole response is that bill addresses inflation by increasing taxes on corporations and high-income earners.

GOUSA’s response: complete balderdash.

The single largest tax component in the bill is a change to the tax treatment of capital investments that makes it less attractive for manufacturing firms to invest in new plant and equipment.  Less investment means less production by domestic manufacturers which will worsen supply shortages.  Just months ago Biden himself was blaming supply shortages for inflation, now his tax policies are going to make it worse.       

There’s also no connection between tax rates and inflation.  History demonstrates this.  Inflation rates in the 1970s were as high as today.  During the 1970s, the top income tax rate 70 percent compared to 37 percent today.  If raising taxes slows inflation today, why didn’t the even higher tax rates in the 1970s slow inflation then?  The short answer is that raising taxes does nothing to reduce inflation.    

The etymology of so-called Inflation Reduction Act is just one of many examples of Orwellian double-speak coming from the Biden Administration.  This is the same bunch that tried to change the definitions of the words “inflation”, “recession”, “vaccine” and “woman” to suit their political purposes. 

Want straight talk about the economy and other issues? Tune in to GOUSA’s regular podcast updates under the content tab. New podcasts and videos posted on a regular basis.

The Inflation Reduction Act is No Such Thing

Not even Democrats believe that the “Inflation Reduction Act” will reduce inflation. 

Here at GOUSA, we previously blogged about the detrimental economic and environmental effects of the Schumer-Manchin Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.  See our previous post or visit windAction for a detailed analysis of the Act. 

Now it turns out that not even Democrats believe their own claims about the Act.  A poll by YouGov find that 47 percent of Democrats believe that the Act will either increase inflation or have no effect.  Only one in five Democrats believe that the Act will reduce inflation. 

Overall, only twelve percent of Americans think that Act will reduce inflation while 36 percent think it ill increase inflation.

Now even Bernie Sanders admits that the claim that the Act will reduce inflation is complete codswallop.  He says “I wanted to take a moment to say a few words about the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. And I say ‘so-called,’ by the way, because according to the CBO and other economic organizations that have studied this bill, it will have a minimal impact on inflation.”

Bernie Sanders (I-VT): "I wanted to take a moment to say a few words about the so-called Inflation Reduction Act… And I say 'so-called,' by the way, bc according to the CBO & other economic organizations that have studied this bill, it will have a minimal impact on inflation." pic.twitter.com/hHxLiqcYEL

— Forbes (@Forbes) August 7, 2022

The Democrats characterization of the Act as having anything to do with inflation is flat out dishonest. It is no wonder the percentage of Americans that express confidence in Congress is so low.

Here at GOUSA our goal is to cut through the political B.S. and identify those politicians and policies that serve the interests of the American people and those that do not.  Our opportunity rating system is a key tool in doing just that. 

Interested?  There are many ways you can join in our work.  Click on this link to contact GOUSA to find out what we are up to and ways that you can help out.    

The Chips Act is a $280 Billion Boondoggle 

Congress tees up yet another taxpayer-funded round of corporate welfare in the form of the $280 billion Chips Act.  The Chips Act repeats the federal government’s past mistakes with centralized planning and industrial policy.  Today’s politicians should learn from the failures of Carter-era energy policies.  

If you need another demonstration that the only thing shorter than a politician’s attention span is his memory the newly enacted Chips and Science Bill will provide that. 

We all love computers and consumer electronic so what’s wrong with the federal government getting into the business of developing and directing the manufacture the silicon chips that are the brains of these wonderful gadgets?  Plenty.

First, the legislation is a knee jerk reaction to the chip shortage that emerged during the COVID lockdowns.  There’s no evidence a market failure here or of a shortage going forward.  In fact, chipmakers are already making massive investments in new capacity leading to concerns of a glut rather than a chip shortage going forward. 

Second, government does a horrible job at directing technological development.  Remember Solyndra.  Or the disastrous experience with SEMATECH, the federal government’s previous attempt at directing the chipmaking business.  The government should let private markets and individuals make capital investment decisions on their own.   Democrats might be expected to back central economic planning.  But that that so many Republicans, including some self-described conservatives, backed the Chips Act shows that the Republican establishment has (i) little appreciation for how capitalism works and (ii) are consumed by “we know better than you” hubris.     

Third, while helping American companies compete in chip manufacture may be a laudable goal, chip making is a global industry.  It’s not clear what makes a company “American” these days.  For instance, Intel, which is headquartered in the United States has major development and fabrication facilities in Germany and India.  Wouldn’t Germany and India also benefit from subsidies dished out to company headquarters in Silicon Valley?  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC), the world’s largest chipmaker, is building fabrication facilities in the United States.  Would Intel qualify for federal subsidies but not TSMC even though TSMC is building facilities in the United States?  If TSMC does, why are American taxpayers subsidizing a Taiwanese company?    

The entire venture is reminiscent of the Carter-era push to develop synthetic fuel from coal.  Like the Chips Act, the federal government’s Synthetic Fuels Corporation was formed as a reaction to a temporary development—high energy prices in the 1970s from the OPEC cartel.  Congress authorized $88 billion ($335 billion in today’s dollars) in funding for the Corporation to build plants to turn coal into gas.   

Like the Chips Act, the federal government’s synthetic fuels program was a knee jerk reaction to a temporary problem.  The price of oil soon collapsed going from $39 a barrel in 1980 to $12 by 1986.  As noted above, industry analysts predict a glut of chips just next year.

The Synthetic Fuels Corporation actually built just one plant in North Dakota.  The plant went bankrupt in 1985.  Congress in a rare moment of fiscal sanity abolished the Synthetic Fuels Corporation in 1986. 

It was fortunate that the venture failed.  The process of creating gas from coal creates enormous amounts of greenhouse gases.  Unlike natural gas extracted from the ground, coal gasification also requires enormous amounts of energy to heat and extract the gas from coal.  Had Carter-era energy policies actually come to pass, U.S. CO2 emissions levels would have been far higher than they are today. 

The disastrous experience with the synthetic fuels program of the Carter-era should serve as fair warning tom the politicians of today.  However, it appears that today’s politicians (and taxpayers) are determined to not learn from the failures of the past.    

Joel Kotkin on the New Feudalism and the Decline of the Middle Class

Author Joel Kotkin provides incisive analyses of the factors that are destroying the middle and working class in America and the Western world.  We recommend looking into his work.  Here at GOUSA we are seeking to reverse those trends by developing an agenda for broad-based opportunity and prosperity for all Americans.

Some of the most interesting ideas and commentary these days is coming from those who have “left the left”.  Joel Kotkin is one of them.  Kotkin considers himself an old-time social democrat.  As such, he’s keenly aware of how the managerial elites have disempowered working- and middle-class Americans.  Kotkin views America and the West as entering into a new feudalism in which society is dominated entirely by a self-perpetuating elite.     

Kotkin offers a biting critique of elitism and the tech oligarchy that controls business, media and government in America today.  He also exposes the lunacy of the Democratic party’s obsession with climate change, race, and gender politics.  These policies, according to Kotkin, are perpetuated by the elites and oligarchs to distract the public from issues of class and inequality of opportunity.   

Below is Kotkin’s appearance with Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster on Triggernometry. 

Another great interview is Kotkin’s with the London Telegraph.

We agree with much of what Kotkin has to say.  A key point in the GOUSA economic opportunity agenda is to break up the finance and tech oligopolies that have too much power in America today.  We believe in competitive processes and free market capitalism.  But these massive companies have come about by employing anti-competitive practices (tech) and government protection (especially finance).  Antitrust is important to restore competition where there is none.  Moreover, Kotkin argues that these companies are stifling debate and discussion—literally cancelling entire classes of people from their platforms—and creating an angrier society. 

We also reject socialist economic planning.  Government economic planning favor the interests of the elites.  This includes enriching the elites financially.  But government economic planning also favors elite ideologies and values over that of the middle and working classes.  Kotkin discusses the left’s climate agenda and how it is being forced on middle and working classes throughout the world without discussion or consideration of dissent. 

We hope you have a chance to delve into Kotkin’s work. 

And if you haven’t yet, consider spending some time looking into the GOUSA agenda in greater depth, checking out our videos, joining in one of our events, or talking with someone on our team. 

We’d love to hear from you.

American history: “Don’t tell me what to think; teach me how to think” by Phyllis Payne

During my years in school the American history textbooks I studied portrayed American leaders as heroic and American culture as ideal. This was indeed the history of old white men. It was very simple and boring. We memorized dates and events. There were few controversies. According to our history textbooks America’s standing in the world was that of a knight in shining armor.

When I was a senior in high school, I was an ambitious, competitive, overachieving student who ranked in the bottom of the top division. (I love to throw that in!) Studying English literature and writing were my passions. American history was a required course for us college bound students. Because of a course scheduling complication, I was assigned to an American history class with two friends from Division one and 25 students from lower divisions. The teacher was known as the “Duster” from his habit of tossing the chalk board eraser at the heads of students who were not paying attention. He was easy going and likeable. This class looked to be easy sailing.

The first day of class the teacher handed out our textbook. It was a 3-inch-thick book bound in red cloth. The print was small; the pages were thin. Surely this was a mistake. The book was an incongruous choice for this level class. This was not going to be an easy A class for us.

The teacher explained that the book was intended for college freshmen. Furthermore, he said we would discover what our country’s history really was. America was not perfect. What a shock. Our leaders and our people had made mistakes. Our leaders debated each other strenuously. There were many controversies where honest intelligent leaders on both sides made valid points. Some were dedicated to the American ideal and some were not.

He was right. What a revelation it was to learn the truth. This was a fascinating and compelling class. Our teacher did not teach to the lowest denominator among us. He showed us all the respect he had for our collective intelligence by introducing us to the real American history, warts and all.

Although I went on to college still convinced that I was a natural English major (I did enjoy my classes), I later went all in for a master’s degree in American history. My professors were challenging. I was even more enthralled with the rich, tumultuous history of our country. This was every bit as dramatic and captivating to me as any works of fiction I had studied.

Patriotism is born of appreciating the best and worst moments of our history. My high school history teacher as well as later college professors made American history come alive to me in all its human reality. They taught me how to think critically, how to analyze and look at all sides to discern the truth.

I learned that we all bring our own sets of bias to the conversation but knowing that we can still weigh the facts and the issues and come to reasonable conclusions in a fair-minded way. As Tim Scott said, we can pursue “common sense and common ground.”

That is my story. What will your children’s stories be? Would you rather have your children experience the awakening I had to American history, or would you rather have them told to believe the false, damaging “facts” set forth in books like the 1619 project, which have been refuted by Phillip W. Magness in his book, the 1619 project, a critique and Professor Tom Woodward in his book 1776? Or maybe you want them to be told that they are either victims or oppressors as the proponents of Critical Race Theory teach? There is no doubt that our country has racial problems and that there are still people who treat those of different races from their own reprehensively. However, it is not right to tell children what to think, when we can teach them how to think. We can introduce them in age-appropriate ways both the American history we can be proud of and the times that our nation has failed to live up to its ideals. We can have an open and honest discussion and include in it our great hope and confidence in our children that they and their generation will achieve the improvements for all Americans that our generation has not yet accomplished.

Even the College Democrats Think Biden is Weak on Foreign Policy

From the College Dems Twitter page

Poll Demonstrates Exactly What’s Wrong with Government and Politics in America

Left-wing progressives don’t care for America.  But it is left-wing progressives that are in charge of all of our major institutions.  How crazy is it that our country is governed by people who don’t care for it?

A new poll by Echelon insights asks penetrating questions about how the left and the right view America and current issues.  The results show that progressives, the people who control the media, administrative government, academia, K-12 education, Hollywood, big tech and much of big business have views that sharply diverge from the rest of America. 

You can find poll crosstabs here.  The Liberal Patriot Substack provides a good summary—read the whole thing.  I’ve excerpted some parts of Liberal Patriot’s post below but keep reading for things that I’ve also pulled out of the poll.  Remember, it is strong progressives that are in charge of all of the institutions I’ve listed above.

“The crosstabs provided by Echelon allow for a comparison of strong progressives’ basic political views with those of Hispanic and working class voters. Here are some examples:

1. America is not the greatest country in the world vs. America is the greatest country in the world. By 66 percent to 28 percent, strong progressives say America is not the greatest country in the world. By 70-23, Hispanics say the reverse and working class voters as a whole concur by 69-23.

2. Racism is built into our society, including into its policies and institutions vs. Racism comes from individuals who hold racist views, not from our society and institutions. Strong progressives are very, very sure of America’s systemic racism, endorsing the first statement by an amazing 94-6 margin. But Hispanics disagree, endorsing the second statement that racism comes from individuals by 58-36, as do working class voters by 57-33.“

Here are some other details from the poll I’ve pulled out:

Progressives are now the war party.  Progressives are the most likely to support going to war with Russia and involvement in wars overseas.  Noam Chomsky call your office.

77 percent of strong progressives approve of Biden’s handling of the economy versus 37 percent of all voters

88 percent of strong progressives claim that hard work is not the route to getting ahead in America whereas 54 percent of all Americans view hard work as the path to success.  Remember that it is the strong progressives that control K-12 and higher education.      

Strong progressives are the least likely of any group to name the economy or inflation as an issue facing the country.  Likely because many of them are in government jobs or on the dole and therefore are immune from economic shocks and get automatic cost of living adjustments. 

66 percent of strong progressives want transgender athletes to play on teams other than that of their birth gender.  Only 24 percent of all voters do.

In summary, what the poll shows is that we have a class of people that control the major institutions of this country that do not believe in American greatness, believe that America is a racist nation, don’t believe in hard work as the route to success, and champion a social agenda that most Americans reject. 

Instead of the progressive agenda of Job Biden and the elites, we at GO-USA champion an American agenda. 

We believe that this is the greatest nation on the face of the earth, we believe in individual liberty and the free market system, and we believe in governance by the people, not the elite few.

If you believe as we do, won’t you chip in to help us spread our message and save America? Go here to make a donation to GO-USA.

Poll: Most Americans See the Federal Government as Hurting, Not Helping

GOUSA believes that the role of government is to create greater opportunity for all Americans.  Unfortunately, Washington and the Biden Administration is hurting, not helping the average American.  That needs to change.

A new poll from Monmouth University shows that most Americans believe that the actions of the federal government are hurting them financially.   

Overall 57 percent of Americans said that the actions of the federal government are hurting them, only 8 percent say that the government has helped.  The percentage of Americans viewing the federal government as hurtful is a record high since Monmouth began asking the question in January 2015.

A record 88 percent of Americans say that the country is on the wrong track—also a record high–versus 10 percent who say America is on the right track. 

Americans also view Biden’s policies as primarily benefitting the rich (more about that below).   Only 41 percent say that middle class families have benefitted a lot or a little from Biden’s policies and 54 percent say that the middle class hasn’t benefitted at all.   

In contrast, under Trump, 65 percent said that the middle class benefitted a lot or a little versus 32 percent who said that the middle class didn’t benefit at all.   

Clearly Trump’s policies were better for the middle class whereas Biden’s policies benefit the elites at the expense of the working class.  Indeed, the Biden Administration seems intent on waging a class war against middle- and working-class Americans. 

The results of the Monmouth poll should be no surprise to anyone.  The ways that the Biden Administration is harming Americans is long.  To name just a few:

  • Rampant inflation that is decimating the savings and earnings of American families
  • Mass illegal immigration that drives down wages for working Americans and especially blacks
  • The promotion of critical race theory and racialist policies that further divide us
  • Unrealistic energy policies that are destroying American jobs and emptying our wallets

GOUSA offers an alternative.  Our Five Points of Opportunity are a guiding star for how to make America the Land of Opportunity again. 

On other parts of this website, check out the Five Points of Opportunity and the OppScore system for rating politicians.

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House Passes Bill for More Intrusive Surveillance after Buffalo

H.R.350 would empower Homeland Security and Justice with new authority to monitor domestic terrorism with heavy emphasis on “white supremacists” a.k.a. “Trump Supporters”.

Just what we need, more authority and power to federal law enforcement to surveil Americans and monitor their speech on the road to censorship. Law enforcement is already supposed to be tracking domestic terrorists of all shades. Why do we need this bill? Sen. Josh Hawley described this bill, “It’s like the disinformation board on steroids. Another way to look at is the Patriot Act for American citizens”. Hawley could have said, just equally correctly, it’s an Anti-America Act for true Patriots. All Democrats voted for the bill. All Republicans voted against the bill except one; you guessed it, Adam Kinzinger. I’m surprised Liz Cheney didn’t follow suit. It passed the House May 18th, 2022.

In my mind this is just code word for cracking down on free speech and political speech; particularly anybody who speaks out against the government, against this illegal immigration invasion, against Biden’s policies, their overreach and failures or claims the 2020 election was rigged and/or stolen. It is just a smoke screen to go after conservative activist in the guise of domestic terrorists. When you listen to the Democrats who support this bill they strongly imply a relationship between the recent Buffalo massacre and the January 6th so-called “insurrection” (again, Trump supporters).

This bill must not pass the Senate! Any Congressman who voted for it will definitely get a big fat negative on the first amendment category of the personal opportunity section of the GOUSA rating system.

Approval Ratings of Disney Corp Plummet as Company Goes Woke

Hard to tell if the management of Disney Corp. is more dopey or goofy but they certainly are woke and fast going broke.  A new poll finds that only 33 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the entertainment giant.

We blogged in April about the precipitous decline in Disney’s stock price after management of the entertainment giant, long known for wholesome family entertainment, decided that it was a good idea for schools to provide instruction in adult topics to kindergarteners. 

Or to put it another way, while Disney movies may contain warnings like Parental Guidance (PG), Disney has no tolerance for parental guidance, that is parental involvement, when it comes to classroom instruction.

This, of course, is just the latest in the company’s campaign of woke activism.  But now it has caught up with them.  The favorability ratings of Disney have collapsed.  A new NBC Poll shows that only 33 percent of Americans have a favorable view of Disney Corp while 30 percent have an unfavorable view of the company.  That’s a +3 percent favorability rating.

Contrast that with Disney’s ratings just last year.  A poll last year found that Disney was viewed favorably by 77 percent of American adults versus just 21 percent with an unfavorable view of the company.  That’s a +56 percent favorability rating.

The 44 percent decline in the company’s favorability is huge.  However, the real story is even worse.   

None of these polls break out Disney’s ratings among parents versus non-parents.  Parents and their kids tend to be major consumers of Disney’s products.  Parents tend to be more conservative on most issues than non-parents.  As a result, it is reasonable to assume that Disney’s approval ratings among parents are even worse than the dismal 33 percent in the NBC poll. 

Woke activism is destroying Disney’s reputation among its core customer base. 

Another measure of how badly Disney’s wore management has tarnished the company’s reputation is to compare Disney’s +3 favorability rating with other industries and companies.

According to Gallup, Disney Corp is less popular than banks (+14 favorability) or electric and gas utilities (+6) and only slightly more popular than airlines (+1) or attorneys (-4).  As for the latter, when your management takes your company’s image from that of an American cultural icon to that of Dewey Cheatem and Howe Attorneys at Law, you have a very big problem.   

By going woke, Disney management has changed the company’s image from as pure and good as Snow White to a company as creepy and conniving as the Evil Queen.  Walt Disney would have been horrified at what his company has become.  One wonders if the current management even cares. 

COVID Collaborators Must Be Held Accountable

The GOUSA Personal Opportunity Message by Jim Avallon

On May 6th I read in the Epoch Times that “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on May 5 that it will restrict the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to adults who can’t receive mRNA vaccines, because of the risk of potentially life-threatening side effects with the J&J shot.”  FDA Restricts J&J’s COVID-19 Vaccine Over Risk of Blood Clots (theepochtimes.com). It seems the J&J shot can cause blood clots soon after the inoculation. 

What!  Now they tell us.  Isn’t this the same FDA that drilled into us that these so-called vaccines were safe and effective?  Isn’t this the same FDA that wanted people to lose their jobs, their likelihoods, if they didn’t get the experimental jab; that wanted people to be restricted from restaurants, sports events etc. if one didn’t get the never-before-used technology jab?  All the while ignoring the chorus of doctors, physicians and ordinary informed people who were saying that these vaccines were rushed to market and were not proven safe AND ignoring the 1947 Nuremburg Code The Nuremberg Code (cirp.org) which lays down certain basic principles for human experimentation to satisfy moral, ethical and legal concepts; emphasizing the voluntary consent of the human subject.  These COVID collaborators should be brought to justice as in 1947.

NOW I read in an April 26, 2022 JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) infectious disease investigation report that “….the unadjusted incidence rate of confirmed GBS (Guillain-Barre Syndrome) in the 1 to 21 days after receiving the Ad.26.COV2.S (Janssen) vaccine was 32.4 per 100 000 person-years, which was significantly higher than the background rate of GBS.   Incidence of Guillain-Barré Syndrome After COVID-19 Vaccination in the Vaccine Safety Datalink | Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network. From personal experience , in the 1990’s my father had GBS and 90% of his body was paralyzed for two to three weeks.   He could have died but even after recovery he never really felt his feet again.  It was not pretty. 

Stay tuned, it ain’t over yet and it will not be exclusively the J&J inoculation (there is a reason Iceland, Sweden, Denmark and Finland have restricted the Moderna inoculation for potential side effects)  Iceland Joins Nordic Peers in Halting Moderna (MRNA) Covid Vaccinations – Bloomberg). 

All I can say is that we need the 1st amendment category of GOUSA’s Personal Opportunity rating more than ever.  It doesn’t specifically say “Medical Freedom” but it should.  Religious Freedom and privacy are close enough.

Democrat House Organ Plays Biden Funeral Dirge

It’s hard to find a major newspaper more in the tank for the Democratic Party than the Boston Globe but even they acknowledge less than half of Massachusetts voters approve of Joe Biden.

Here’s the Globe’s headline: “In 2020, Biden was a political juggernaut in Massachusetts. A new poll shows voters have soured on him. A lot.”

The article acknowledges that Biden’s approval is tanking even in Massachusetts.  From the article:   

“In March 2020, President Biden swept through Massachusetts’ Democratic primary with a come-from-behind Super Tuesday victory. He later topped Donald Trump by 33 ½ percentage points here, his second-largest margin of victory in November. Few places lean more Democratic than Massachusetts, according to political forecasters.  But even in this deep blue stronghold, Biden has fallen hard.  Just 46 percent of registered Massachusetts voters say they approve of the job Biden is doing as president, with about the same proportion giving him a thumbs down, according to a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll.”

Biden’s approval among Massachusetts Democrats is only 75 percent. 

You’d have to search pretty hard to find a news outlet that more closely hews to the Democratic line than the Boston Globe.  The Los Angeles Times and Minneapolis Star Tribune come to mind.  But the list is pretty short.

If even the Boston Globe acknowledges that voters dislike the job that Biden is doing, he must be doing a very, very bad job. 

Of course, rather than fix things in the country, Democrats look to fix the results of elections. 

From the comments is a post that typifies Massachusetts Democrat thinking: 

SAD04 (5/01/22 – 3:27PM) “I don’t think the polls capture what has happened. Democratic voters want Trump indicted. They want democracy restored. They want DC statehood. They want more legislation–which Manchin and Sinema have blocked. Voting rights guaranteed. They don’t want to live under the threat of a GOP return.”

So according to this line of thinking the “restoration of democracy” means one party control (i.e., no “threat of GOP return”).  That’s the authoritarian mindset that pervades the modern Democratic Party.  It is the same mindset that gave rise to the Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board or pushes for more censorship in social media.       

If Democrats and Joe Biden did what the voters want, their approval level would rise, plain and simple.  The reason that the public is dissatisfied with their performance is that they are not doing what is in the public interest. 

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Russia’s Failures in Ukraine War Demonstrates the Superiority of Capitalism Over Socialism

GOUSA stands for free market capitalism. But capitalism is not just a driver of economic opportunity. It is an important driver of national opportunity and security too.

At the outset of the Russia-Ukraine conflict one would have thought that Russia would simply roll over Ukraine.  The Biden Administration predicted that Kyiv would fall in three days. 

That didn’t happen.  Why?  There are several reasons but one of them is the poor quality of Russian military hardware.    

Russia has a huge arsenal of weapons.  Russia has the largest fleet of tanks and armored vehicles in the world.  Russia’s air force has 3,800 planes, second only to the USAF.  

Moreover, a major focus of the Putin regime has been to modernize the Russian military.  Russia spends about 5 percent of its GDP on the military compared to about 3 percent in the U.S.

So why isn’t Russia kicking ass in the Ukraine?  A major factor is that Russian military hardware sucks.

As explained in the video below the Russian military-industrial complex consists of companies that are state-run or owned by Putin cronies.  Such firms have little incentive to innovate and there are few controls on production quality.

For instance, in the West there are at least three American companies that compete to produce fighter jets (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman) plus several in Western Europe.  In Russia, there is only one, United Aircraft Group, which is part of RosTec, a state-owned firm.   In Russia there is no competition among aircraft manufacturers, little incentive for innovation or quality control, or need to keep costs down.

Corruption is a big factor too.  The higher the price of Russia arms, the more cash available to Putin’s cronies. How much of Russia’s defense budget gets diverted into the pockets of Putin’s allies is anyone’s guess.

As a result, Russian troops are supplied with guns that jam, missiles that don’t fire properly, and tanks that break down.  That reduces the combat effectiveness and morale of Russian units in the field.   

And it’s not just military hardware.  Companies that supply food, clothing and other materials for Russian soldiers are also either state owned or controlled Putin’s cronies.  That’s one of the reasons for the widespread reports of logistics failures such as the delivery of spoiled food to frontline troops.

This is not to excuse the existence of the revolving door between Washington politicians and bureaucrats and America defense firms.  However, the Russians have taken the revolving door to another level. 

The failures of the Russian military in the Ukraine war provides the world with a clear example of how capitalism enhances national strength. 

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Get Woke and Go Broke: Disney Style

Like the Evil Queen in Snow White, Disney stock has fallen off a cliff as parents boycott the entertainment giant.   Good.

The chart below shows the change in the price of Disney stock versus the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  Over the past year the value of Disney stock has fallen by more than a third while the market as a whole is down just a little bit.

The decline has been particularly rapid since Disney came out for the sexualization of young children by opposing HB 1557. 

HB 1557 was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis on March 28.  Between May 28 to April 22 the market value of Disney Corp has fallen by $34 billion.     

HB 1557 has been labeled by opponents as the “don’t say gay bill”.  That is a gross mischaracterization of HB 1557.  HB 1557 merely states the following:

“Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards,”

Disney’s action sparked a boycott by parents concerned that the company has “surrendered to the woke mob” and the revocation of Disney’s special development privileges in Florida.     

From our vantage point, rather than “surrendering to the woke mob”, it looks to us that Disney is leading the work mob. 

And we applaud Governor DeSantis for abolishing the special treatment of a politically-connected corporation.  Disney had been getting special through the Reedy Creek Improvement District since 1967.  Ending corporate welfare is always a good thing woke or not.       

Disney may not have unveiled their new Sodom and Gomorrah attraction quite yet (OK, that’s satire from the Babylon Bee) but it is no longer the provider of wholesome family entertainment that it was under founder Walt Disney.

Walt Disney himself once said “our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”  It is a shame that modern Disney no longer wants children to be children. 

Trains, Planes, Bus Mask Mandates found Illegal…finally!

Your Monday Morning Personal Opportunity Update from Jim Avallon

Last week a Federal judge in Florida ordered the end of the federal mask mandate for airline, train and bus passengers; Health Freedom Defense Fund v. Biden.  Hans von Spakovsky, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation explains in Heritage’s The Daily Signal interesting details of this order  https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/04/21/biden-administration-should-lose-its-mask-mandate-appeal/.   On a side note, Hans was on a well-attended GOUSA Zoom event last year discussing primarily the disastrous HR1 bill.

Particularly surprising in Hans’s article is that the CDC relied on a 1944 Public Health Service Act to justify its Feb. 3rd, 2021 sweeping authority to require masks on all public transportation, in airports and train stations.  This 1944 Act gives the CDC authority to require “inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of animals or articles found to be so infected or contaminated as to be sources of dangerous infection to human beings, and other measures as in the (CDC’s) judgement may be necessary.”  The CDC argued that the mask mandate falls with “sanitation” or “other measures” of the statute.  However, the Federal judge determined that “sanitation” means “active cleaning” and is limited to cleaning “property”.  Wearing a mask means nothing.

In addition to violating the 1944 Public Health Service Act, the Federal judge also found that the CDC violated the Administrative Procedure Act requiring the public to be given the opportunity to review and comment on a proposed regulation.  The CDC completely ignored this.

Hans explains more of the details of the above violations in the attached article (including more violations of the Administrative Service Act) but isn’t it nice to know that all this time that we were suffering under these mask mandates these very mandates were ILLEGAL.  AND, by the way, doesn’t this ruling call into question all the mask mandates in other public places or places frequented by the public.   The last I heard from friends and acquaintances was that every time they questioned or challenged a mask mandate in a Post Office, Registry or even at a Mall, the defending reference was always the almighty, and as it appears now, above-the -law, CDC.   

I know the unconstitutionality of the mask mandates is a problematic discussion, especially if one is not a lawyer and especially when it comes to areas directly under Federal jurisdiction.  However, it seems that the strongest argument against would fall under one’s personal freedom and religious assembly and privacy rights.   That is why the 1st amendment rating under GOUSA Personal Opportunity rating’s category is so important when considering political candidates.

Biden Policies Hasten Decline of Economic Freedom in the United States

Land of the free? Not so much when it comes to economic policy. The most recent issue of the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom provides hard evidence of how the Biden Administration has moved America towards a more socialistic economy. 

The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom is a widely recognized measure of where national economies fall on a scale between free market capitalism and authoritarian socialism.  In Biden’s first year, economic freedom in the United States hit an all-time low. 

Heritage Foundation has compiled the index since 1995.  Heritage considers twelve different aspects of national economies in coming up with an overall index.  Countries are ranked from most free (#1 Singapore) to least free (#177 North Korea).

In the 2022 issue of the index, the United States freedom score and ranking are at an all-time low.  The United States is now ranked as the 25th freest economy in the world.  According to Heritage, the U.S. economy is now less market-oriented than that of Germany, Canada or the United Kingdom as well as many smaller advanced and developing countries.      

In 2012, America was ranked as the 10th freest economy in the world.

America’s ranking has fallen dramatically over the last decade due to the growth of government spending, increased business and labor regulation, and the growth of trade protectionism.  The authors write:

Driven lower by a sharp decrease in its fiscal health score, the U.S. has recorded a 3.0-point overall loss of economic freedom since 2017 and has fallen from the upper half to the lower half of the “Mostly Free” category. Business freedom and rule of law are strong, but the economy is being crushed by reckless government overspending.

America’s movement away from free market capitalism means less economic opportunities for all Americans.  Kevin Roberts, the CEO of the Heritage Foundation, lays out a disturbing picture of what the decline of economic freedom means for the future of the United States:  

Especially for Americans like me who have benefitted from the legacy of a society justly called the “land of the free,” this year’s Index of Economic Freedom paints a disturbing picture. The startling decline of America’s economic freedom is serious cause for alarm. Policymakers in Washington, DC, and around the globe must understand that simply spending their way back to prosperity always has failed and will continue to fail.

GOUSA believes that free market capitalism, not socialism, is the path to greater opportunity and prosperity.  Our unique rating system identifies those politicians that believe in and are advancing free market economic policies and those who are pushing socialism. 

To learn more about our economic opportunity rating system and see the economic opportunity ratings for individual politicians, visit our OppScore rating pages here, here and here.  

CENTRAL PLANNING & COVID by Jim Avallon

Each individual American state established much of their COVID policy and we are better for it.

I’m part of an e-mail report “COFFEE&COVID” by Jeff Childers and last week Jeff referenced an article in the New York Times by Li Yuan, 4-13-22 : ”China’s ‘Zero-Covid’ Mess Proves Autocracy Hurts Everyone”.  China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Mess Proves Autocracy Hurts Everyone – The New York Times (nytimes.com) The article begins by describing China’s great sparrow extermination of 1958, after Chairman Mao blamed wild sparrows for his failing agricultural policy, declared the hapless birds to be pests, and called for up to 2 billion birds to be killed nationwide. The near extinction of Chinese sparrows predictably led to insect infestations, which ruined crops and contributed to the Great Famine that starved tens of millions of Chinese to death in the next three years. That’s how central planning “works.”

Although I’m by no means a great fan of our COVID policy in the U.S., it sure could have been worse if it was completely centrally planned from Washington, resulting in something on the order of Chairman Mao’s sparrow extermination results……………….or for that matter China’s present day COVID policy and the ~25million inhabitants of Shanghai locked in apartments (now in its 3rd week) with people screaming out of their windows (some say jumping out of their windows) struggling to get food.  Newly infected people are being moved to crowded and dirty quarantine centers, animals put down, people denied medical services while drones circle the city monitoring.  I could go on. https://youtu.be/6byyZA4MPyU, https://youtu.be/KNseignRiC8 

This is why the GOUSA 10th amendment rating’s category under Personal Opportunity is so critical because it essentially rates a politician’s affinity for central planning.  Thank God we have governors like DeSantis and Abbott who can counter or try to counter the failed central policies of the Swamp!   

Biden, Fed Inflationary Policies Hurt the Poor the Most

GOUSA’s Economic Opportunity Tuesday Update

Inflation is overwhelming wage increases among low-income Americans.  The inflationary policies from the Biden Administration’s spending binge and the endless money printing by the Federal Reserve is increasing income inequality in America.

That is, while Biden and the Federal Reserve claim to be concerned with income inequality, their policies are having the exact opposite effect—making poor Americans poorer. 

Professor Scott Galloway from New York University explains.

The charts in the WaPo story and the video use the official rate of inflation which excludes a lot of things that Americans buy. Measured properly, the inflation rate is much higher and real wage gains lower than that reported by the government.

GO-USA stands for economic policies that benefit all Americans. 

America needs policies that promote lasting prosperity.  That means reducing regulation and making the tax code more equitable so that businesses and entrepreneurs can thrive. 

Instead, the Biden Administration and the Federal Reserve are pushing deficit spending and money creation.   

The only way we can address this and fix the problem is to elect better leaders in government – and throw out our failed, corrupt legislators – the reason why we created the OppScore at GOUSA.   Please support our mission so we can continue to serve you, by donating today.

Maine doctor highlights COVID treatment injustice in ME, praises NH

GOUSA Personal Opportunity Monday Message by Jim Avallon

Dr. Christiane Northrup from Falmouth, ME is a leading authority on women’s health and wellness.  In the past few pandemic years she has been a strong, outspoken advocate for health and treatment opportunities and against the COVID inoculations including the way COVID has been managed. 

Last Saturday she spoke at the New Hampshire Freedom March & Rally in front of the New Hampshire State House in Concord.  It was pouring rain while she was speaking but she got her points across. 

One of her more interesting comments was that she knows three doctors in Maine who are losing their licenses in that state for prescribing Ivermectin yet across the border in NH you can get it over the counter. https://www.bitchute.com/video/hOJP0Q1048L9  Well in New Hampshire not yet, but almost.  

Recently passed in the NH House is House Bill 1022 which authorizes licensed pharmacists following a “standing order” from a physician or advanced practice registered nurse to dispense ivermectin to persons in NH without a prior prescription and it is going before the NH Senate this Wednesday.  NH HB1022 | 2022 | Regular Session | LegiScan

There are more legalistic words to this bill, but it will basically allow people to get Ivermectin over the counter as Northrup said……while it is made criminal just across the border in Maine.  

It sounds like the politicians in Maine need a good dose of the GOUSA rating system, particularly in the Personal Opportunity section of the 1st Amendment and privacy.

Yet Another Poll Shows Republicans Have a Golden Opportunity To Appeal to Young Voters

The latest Quinnipiac poll shows Joe Biden’s approval ratings continue to tank among the Millennials and Generation Z.  But will the GOP be able to capitalize on young voter dissatisfaction?

We’ve been blogging about the golden — or shall we say GRAND — opportunity that Republicans have to appeal to young voters given the myriad of failures of the Biden Administration. See our blog here and here.

Now yet another poll shows that young Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of Joe Biden. The latest is from Quinnipiac.

Quinnipiac surveyed 1,462 adults from March 24-28, 2022.

According to the survey, only 27 percent of Americans aged 18-34 approve of the way Joe Biden is handing his job.  This compares to 36 percent for all Americans.

Biden’s overall 36 percent is dismal.  However, for several decades, Democrats have depended on the votes of young voters to offset the Republican edge among voters age 45 and over.  That edge has gone away. 

In the 2020 election, Biden received 60 percent among young voters.  Based on the results of the Quinnipiac survey, half of the young people that voted for Biden in 2020 do not approve of his performance in office. 

Nor do young voters view Biden as a strong leader when it comes to his handling of the crisis in Ukraine.  When asked whether Biden has demonstrated strong leadership in his dealings with other NATO nations in the response to the invasion, only 34 percent of young people view Biden as a strong leader.  

The collapse in youth support for Biden provides the GOP with a golden opportunity to make deep inroads with rising generations

In 1980 and 1984, Ronald Reagan won the hearts and minds of millions of young Americans.  But since that time, young voters have increasingly favored Democrats. 

Republicans should take a page from the Reagan playbook.  Young voters then were attracted to his message of economic opportunity, growth, optimism and a strong America.  We believe that young people would be attracted to the same message today. 

GOUSA’s message today echoes that of Ronald Reagan.  We believe that young people are looking for a future of opportunity and freedom.  And we are developing policies that will move America in that direction.   

Biden’s Wild Gyrations on Ukraine Put America and the World at Risk

Biden’s incoherence on Ukraine is creating the most dangerous situation since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

Just last week the war in Ukraine looked like it was nearing a conclusion.  Reports suggested that Russian leaders were looking to change their objectives from conquering the entire country to merely asserting independence of portions inhabited by Russian-speaking people. 

Ukraine was looking for a settlement as well.

Then along came Joe Biden.

Instead of looking to end the conflict, Biden escalated pushing for regime change in Russia.  

At minimum Biden handed Putin a propaganda victory allowing him to claim that any anti-regime activities are the result of plots by Washington or London.

At worst, Biden set the stage for World War III.

Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed as White House staff quickly walked back Biden’s reckless remarks. 

This underscores the dangers that arise from a President that lacks judgment, self-control and possibly full control of his faculties.    

This is not the first time that Biden’s lack of leadership has put the world in danger.

Biden’s policies toward the Ukraine have been incoherent from the start.

Biden began with appeasement telling Putin that “minor incursions” into Ukraine were acceptable.

Next came the defeatism.  Biden fomented panic by telling the Ukrainians that Kyiv would fall “within 72 hours” of a Russian attack.  It didn’t.    

Continuing to push defeatism, Biden the offered to extract President Zelensky from Kyiv.  Zelensky’s response “I need ammo, not a ride” will no doubt go down in military history along with that of General Anthony “Nuts” McAuliffe’s response to the Germans at the siege of Bastogne. 

Now Biden has become the ultimate war hawk claiming that the United States would be ready to respond by using chemical weapons, suggesting that U.S. troops would soon be in Ukraine, and telling the world that the United States was seeking regime change in Russia.      

In each case the White House had to walk back Biden’s remarks. 

During World War II there was a poster that read “loose lips sink ships”. 

Loose lips in a conflict between two nuclear-armed superpowers is far worse. 

In the 2020, the corporate media, big tech, and the Democratic party told the American people that the adults were going to be in charge.

It’s looking more like the Keystone Cops.  

Harvard Student Blasts School’s Insane COVID Policies, Conformity and Condescension

“We may be the future decision makers, but most of us aren’t leaders” writes Julie Hartman in the Wall Street Journal

College students have de minimis risk from COVID.  Yet universities have imposed irrational and draconian mask and vaccination policies on students with harsh consequences for those who do not obey, or even speak up, against administration edicts.

One Yale student likened life on campus to that of a “surveillance state.”  At the University of Chicago students were forced to sign a “Required COVID-19 Attestation” in direct contradiction to the school’s academic freedom policies. 

Hartman writes that all this insanity has infantilized her generation of college students: 

More concerning than the administration’s heavy-handedness has been the zombielike response of the student body. I ask my friends, “Why do young, fully vaccinated students continue to tolerate these irrational Covid restrictions?” While many of my peers acknowledge the excess, they shrug it off. The prevailing mood on campus is resignation, learned helplessness and reluctance to dissent.

These policies have also empowered groups of students to act as self-appointed enforcers who use COVID policies to bludgeon their fellow students.   

There is a smaller group at Harvard that apparently find pleasure in these restrictions. These students will chastise you for not wearing a mask correctly and called one of my brave peers who publicly denounced Harvard’s Covid restrictions a “eugenicist” because he supposedly showed insufficient sensitivity to immunocompromised people. They love Covid for the moral high ground it gives them to condescend to and control others.

Red Guards in training?  Don’t be so quick to dismiss.  The unfortunate truth is that events in early life, including those during the college experience, have an important role in forming our outlook and behaviors in later life. 

For many, that means sheepish, unquestioning adherence to edicts of the elites no matter how silly or irrational. 

For others, that means becoming hectoring, humorless bureaucrats, politicians and bosses. 

What does that mean for America?  As Hartman puts it: “My peers and I are often told that we are the future leaders of America. We may be the future decision makers, but most of us aren’t leaders. The inability of Harvard students to question or oppose these irrational bureaucratic excesses bodes ill for our ability to meet future challenges.”

Indeed.

Senate Votes to Repeal Transport Mask Mandates (Even Some Democrats)

The United States Senate voted 57-40 end federal mask mandates on airplanes and public transit. Eight Democrats voted with Republicans.

Mitt Romney (R-Establishment) was the only Republican to vote against the measure.

However, as reported by Roll Call (below) it may not pass the House and the White House states that it will follow The Science (which apparently says that 5 year-olds need to wear masks on the playground but it’s OK for the 79 year-old Joe Biden to stand next to the 81 year-old Nancy Pelosi for 90 minutes at the State of the Union Address) and veto the measure.

Despite the defection of eight Democrats — Sens. Jon Tester of Montana, Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly of Arizona, Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire all voted to oppose the mandate — the resolution’s future is uncertain in the House. President Joe Biden has vowed to veto if it passes there, with the White House saying “the determination of the timeline and circumstances under which masks should be required in these settings should be guided by science, not politics.”

Kelly, Bennet, Hassan and Cortez Masto are up for reelection this fall.

Rasmussen Poll Shows Americans Overwhelmingly Approve of GOUSA’s Issue Agenda

Rasmussen Research asked Americans about the issues that concern them the most.  The result show that GOUSA’s issue agenda reflects the concerns of two-thirds or more of the American public.

GOUSA stands for fiscal integrity.  That includes a responsible monetary policy that controls inflation.  Inflation robs small savers of the opportunity to build wealth and is a primary driver of economic inequality in America.  Deficits unfairly impose the cost of present-day government spending on young Americans.     

GOUSA stands with law enforcement and against violent criminals.  That’s a component of national opportunity.  Americans should feel safe in their communities, persons and homes.   

GOUSA actively supports election integrity.  Our CEO, John Paul Moran is leading the charge for election integrity in Massachusetts.  We are also working with national election integrity groups to prevent ballot stuffing and fraud from mail-in voting. 

GOUSA supports high education standards and quality and against indoctrination through Critical Race Theory. 

GOUSA supports border controls.  We believe that citizenship should mean something.  And we believe that the American people, not Washington elites and corporate interests, should be the ones that determine immigration policy.

Finally, we believe that Americans have the right to make their own health decisions.  We oppose mandates and the believe that workers should be able to choose whether or not to get vaccinated without the threat of firing or harassment. 

In short, our issues are the issues that are top of mind for the American public.

We invite you to join us in making America the Land of Opportunity again. 

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Polling Shows Opportunities for Republicans Among Young Voters in 2022

The latest Economist/YouGov poll shows young people disillusioned with the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party.  But can Republicans make the sale?

The Economist/YouGov polled 1500 Americans on their views on the Biden Administration and the ideological positioning of the two major parties.

Americans overall, and young Americans in particular, are not optimistic on the outlook for the next three years under Joe Biden.  Just over a third of young Americans are optimistic about the remaining Biden presidency.   The same number of Americans aged 18 to 29 are pessimistic.

  It is important to remember that exit polls found that Biden received 60 percent of the vote among 18 to 29 year-olds ion the 2020 election.  Clearly large numbers of young voters have become disillusioned with the failures, corruption and big government policies of the Biden Administration.    

Biden does slightly better among 30 to 44 year-olds.  Still, a substantial majority of Americans under the age of 45 are either pessimistic or unsure.  The Biden Administration has not endeared itself with young people in America. 

Young Americans are more likely to see the Democratic party as too far to the left than want to see the Democratic party continue to move left.  By a 3 to 2 margin, 18 to 29 year-olds view the Democratic Party as more left wing than they are.  The margin increases to two-to-one among 30 to 44 year-olds. 

Nevertheless, the Republican party also needs to do a lot of work to appeal to young voters.  Young voters are more likely to see Republicans as too far to the right than not conservative enough.  However, older voters are more likely to view the Democratic party as too extreme.  Almost half of Americans 65 and over see the Democratic party as much father to the left than they are while less than a third find Republicans too far right. 

The fact that voters overall are marginally more likely to find the Democrats too far to the left (33 percent versus 29 percent for the Republicans) is in stark contrast to the corporate media narrative which routinely characterizes Republicans as “far right” but never, ever characterizes Democrats as “far left”).

Here at GOUSA, we are working to develop an opportunity agenda that should appeal to all Americans, both young and old.  GOUSA wants to make America the Land of Opportunity again. 

Young people, with their lives and careers ahead of them, have the most to gain from the expansion of opportunity in America.    

Senator Rick Scott Releases His Rescue America Plan

Florida Senator Rick Scott spoke about his Rescue America plan at CPAC.  Most of the elements of his plan are part of the GOUSA agenda.  What do you think of Senator Scott’s plan?

Senator Scott and his team have dug into the details and came up with an eleven point plan agenda for the Republican party should it take control of one or both houses of Congress in 2022. 

This seeks to avoid the problem Republicans had in 2017 when, after Donald Trump’s victory, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell had no legislative agenda in place. 

You can download a copy of Rick Scott’s plan at this link. 

Senator Scott’s plan in comprehensive.  Like the five points of opportunity framework that we use here at GOUSA, Senator Scott’s plan addresses most important aspects of American life—the economy, defense, national sovereignty, the culture, public safety, and individual freedom.

And like GOUSA’s agenda, most elements of Senator Scott’s plan are favored by the American people.

The Morning Consult and Politico asked Americans whether they favored major elements of senator Scott’s plan.  Here are the results:

Senator Scott’s plan is modeled after Newt Gingrich’s 1994 Contract with America.  Newt himself has endorsed Senator Scott’s Rescue Plan. 

Regardless of whether you like the plan or not or take issue with individual plan components, Senator Scott is to be congratulated for putting his ideas out there for public debate.  We need more politicians who like Senator Scott are leaders, not laggards, in addressing the challenges facing our country. 

Good News: Poll Shows a Majority of Young Canadians Support the Freedom of Expression for the Truckers

A new poll by the Angus Reid institute, a non-profit public opinion research organization, shows that a majority of young Canadians support the right of Freedom Convoy truckers to express themselves.

Support among young Canadians is much higher than among the old. 

The survey asked Canadians whether they felt that the right to protest outweighed the economic disruptions from the protest.  Results by age and gender appear below:

The results are both surprising and encouraging. 

Surprising because young people are often viewed as more supportive of authoritarian measures than the old. 

Encouraging because, at least on this issue, a solid majority of young Canadians support freedom of expression.  In that context, the results of the Angus Reid poll are very good news indeed. 

The authoritarian crackdown of the Trudeau should be revulsive to anyone who believes in free expression and individual rights.  Trudeau is revealing himself as nothing more than a pretty, elitist dictator. 

The Trudeau regime has instigated violence against protesters, trampled innocent civilians with horses, and frozen the bank accounts of thousands of supporters of the protests.

And then there is the blatant hypocrisy of Canada’s boy Prime Minister who swooned for Black Lives Matter but uses the jack-booted power of the state to crush peaceful protests by ordinary working-class Canadians.  

Hopefully, young Canadians will lead the charge for freedom in Canada.  Unlike their elders, young Canadians appear to have their heads on straight.

GOUSA supports the rights of all individuals to peacefully express themselves.  That includes the Freedom Convoy.   

To make a financial contribution in support of the freedom Convoy, you can do so at the GiveSendGo website.   

UPDATE: Daily Mail publishes pictures of Freedom Convoy supporters trampled by RCMP horses. You won’t see this in the corporate media.

UPDATE2: Britain’s Laurence Fox calls for Canada to be expelled from the British Commonwealth for human rights abuses. Trudeau hoisted on his own petard.

Princeton Professor: America Needs an Opportunity Party. We Agree!

Professor Stephen Kotkin makes the case that America needs an opportunity party.  We agree 100 percent. 

In the most recent episode of Uncommon Knowledge, Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution asks Princeton University History Professor Stephen Kotkin about his love for the United States.  

Kotkin offers an eloquent statement as to why he loves this country and why his love is not because he lives here but what the United States gave him and stands for.  Kotkin discusses the opportunities that the United States has given him to develop himself and succeed.

He concludes by stating “there should be a party in this country called the American Opportunity Party” so that every young person has the opportunity to develop him or herself to the fullest.

That’s exactly what we believe here at GOUSA.  We need an opportunity party.  A Grand Opportunity Party.

And here at GOUSA we are working every day to build one. 

An excerpt from the conversation with Stephen Kotkin appears below. 

You can watch the full interview on the Hoover Institution’s website.  Watch the whole thing.  Highly recommended.    

Young Voters Overwhelmingly Disapprove of Biden. Will the GOP Seize This Opportunity?

A new poll by CIVIQS provides more evidence that younger voters are turned off top Joe Biden.  Will young voters register their disapproval of the Biden Administration in November?

I blogged a few days ago about polling data that showed younger voters turned off to Joe Biden and willing to look toward the GOP on important issues including on jobs and the economy.

The openness of young people to the GOP message could make the 2022 election a watershed moment in American politics. 

During the past twenty years, majorities of younger voters have favored the Democratic Party while older voters have favored the Republican Party.  Younger voters have been critical to the success of Democrats at all levels of government. 

Now large numbers of young people have been turned off by the incompetence of the Biden Administration.

CIVIQS surveyed over 160,000 registered voters on their views of Joe Biden’s performance as president. 

Their survey shows that generational differential in approval have disappeared. 

A mere 26 percent of Americans under the age of 35 approved of Joe Biden’s handling of his job as president.  Approval among younger voters was lower than the 34 percent approval rate for Biden among all voters. 

Biden’s approval numbers are underwater is most major demographic groups.  His approval levels are equally dismal among both highly educated young people and non-college graduates and among and men as well as women. 

Most telling, only a slim majority—51 percent–young people that describe themselves as Democrats approve of the job that Biden has done as president and a mere 42 percent of young Blacks approve of Biden’s handling of his job.

Young Americans are clearly dissatisfied with the left-wing Biden agenda and are looking for a change.

But where will that change come from?

Here at GOUSA we are developing solutions that will provide greater opportunity for Americans of all ages.  We want to make America the land of opportunity again. 

The starting point is to define what opportunity looks like.  That’s why we’ve develop the OppScore rating system and are rating politicians on whether their policies, votes and stances lead to greater or fewer opportunities for Americans. 

The Mask Mandate Masks Come Off

Emerging evidence shows that mask mandate did nothing to stop the spread of COVID while permanently damaging the development of young people.  So why don’t the media care and politicians care?    

The mask mandates provide both social and medical science with an ideal worldwide experiment.  Some nations, states and cities imposed mask mandates while others did not.  This provides the intellectually curious with a controlled experiment by which to evaluate the effect of mask mandates on public health and well-being.

In his new book, Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates, Ian Miller sifts through the evidence and shows that mask mandates have failed.  You can read more of Ian’s work on his Substack. 

More evidence comes from the Brownstone Institute.  The Brownstone Institute reviewed 167 scientific studies of the effects of masking on mortality.  They concluded that: “To date, the evidence has been stable and clear that masks do not work to control the virus and they can be harmful and especially to children.”

There was plenty of evidence all along that masks impeded the development of young children.  Even CNN acknowledged that.  More on the detrimental effects of masking on childhood development is coming out every day.    

So why, in the absence of any evidence that masks reduced mortality while significantly harming young people did politicians impose the mandates and the media go along with them?

Geoff Shullenberger astutely sums up the motivations of politicians on masking:

“It is not difficult to see why mask mandates proved irresistible to politicians. Masks are the perfect form of hygiene theatre, conveying an intuitive sense of safety regardless of demonstrable efficacy at scale. They also offload responsibility for controlling the pandemic to ordinary people. The overcrowding of ICUs can be blamed on the bad behavior of “anti-maskers”, rather than on the allocation of resources by governments and hospital CEOs. When cases and deaths spike, it is the fault of the citizenry, not the leadership.”

The media also liked to single out so-called “anti-maskers” as villains in this plot.  That was all too convenient as much of the corporate media views itself as aligned with and happy to do the bidding of the political left.    

Here at GOUSA, we stand for personal freedom and opportunity.  We stood with parents against government mask mandates.  And we are working with other groups that oppose government overreach and the biosecurity state.

If you believe that our work is important, please chip in a few bucks by visiting our donate page or drop us an email so we can get acquainted.

How Big Tech Oppresses the Working Class

Brendan O’Neill writes in Spiked Online on how GoFundMe’s withholding of millions of dollars raised to support the Canadian truckers epitomizes elite disdain for the working class.    

Here’s an excerpt (but read the whole thing):

“GoFundMe’s deprivation of funds to the truckers protesting against Canada’s vaccine rules is, to my mind, one of the most egregious and anti-democratic acts yet carried out by the California-based elites who oversee the World Wide Web. These truckers, such essential workers, are revolting against Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s introduction of a new rule earlier this month stipulating that truckers who cross the Canada-US border will need to be vaccinated or else go into quarantine after every trip. This is a mad demand.  It would severely undermine some truckers’ ability to earn a living.  So truckers have risen up. They drove their vast rigs across Canada in what came to be known as the Freedom Convoy before stopping in the capital Ottawa where they have been blocking roads and causing fainting fits among middle-class liberals who cannot understand why these oiks won’t just carry on dropping off sacks of kale to the local Whole Foods and stop going on about their pesky rights.

There has been an outpouring of support for the truckers.  Canadians and Americans tired of corona-authoritarianism are cheering the truckers for honking a huge collective horn at the elite consensus on Covid.  Despite the best efforts of woke politicians and columnists to depict the truckers as QAnon on wheels, as a motorized version of Mussolini’s March on Rome, many people know that in truth they are decent working people who simply object to the state making their lives that bit harder. People also know that the woke set’s attempts to delegitimize the Freedom Convoy by flagging up ‘far-right’ comments made by a tiny handful of the truckers is a tactic as old as capitalism itself.  Elite opponents of working-class organization have always used smear and innuendo to try to nullify the throng. Seeing this smear campaign for what it is, lots of folk decided to give the truckers a few bucks. But GoFundMe had other ideas.“

GOUSA stands for limiting the power of big tech monopolies and the Silicon Valley oligarchs.  We stand for opportunity for all.  We believe in free speech and free expression and oppose the oppression of the powerless by the powerful.

Unfortunately, most members of Congress and the federal bureaucracy have been captured by big tech companies through their money, connections and the prospect of lucrative revolving door employment.

GOUSA’s is evaluating whether or not members of Congress stand for or against the big tech monopolies.  Our rating system identifies those members who are pro-opportunity and pro-working class.  To learn more about our rating system go here. 

More here from Glenn Reynolds in the New York Post.

Note: Oik is British derogatory slang for a person regarded as inferior, ignorant, ill-educated, or lower-class.

Will 2022 be the Year of the Young Republican?

Low approval for the Biden Administration and dissatisfaction with the state of the economy may finally bring young people around to the Republican Party.

The Democratic Party is dependent on young voters for electoral success.  Young people tend to vote Democratic while older voters favor the Republicans.

The age gap is so wide and persistent that had only voters over the age of 40 voted, not only would Donald Trump have been reelected in 2020, Mitt Romney and John McCain would have won in 2008 and 2016. 

And if only Americans over the age of 35 voted, Republicans would easily control both houses of Congress and a large majority of governorships.

Recent polling shows that young people have soured on the policies and performance of the Biden Administration.  I previously discussed results of the CBS poll.  Now a new poll by the Morning Consult shows equally dismal numbers for the Democrats.

The table below compares Biden’s approval in the Morning Consult poll with the share of the vote that he received in the 2020 election by age group. 

The difference between Biden’s job approval and the percentage of older Americans that voted for him in the 2020 election is less than ten points.

But among Americans below 35—Generation Z and younger Millennials—the gap between approval and vote share is a whopping 23 points.  Indeed, younger Americans now are marginally less likely to approve of Joe Biden’s performance as President than are older Americans.   

The decline in Biden’s approval ratings among younger Americans provides an excellent opportunity for Republicans bring younger voters over to their side. 

Young people now view Republicans as better able to manage the economy.  Economic issues are the top concern of young people according to the Morning Consult poll. 

Young people are open to electing more Republicans to Congress.  Democrats now only hold a slight edge among Americans between 18 and 34 though almost a quarter of the youngest voters say that they are unsure who they’ll vote for.

The failures and incompetence of the Biden Administration have created an opening for republicans to pitch their message to younger voters.  Whether Republicans will offer policies and candidates that are attractive to young voters remains to be seen.

Young voters who have their lives ahead of them, tend to place a higher value on opportunity than do older voters.  Here at GOUSA we are developing messages of hope and opportunity that should appeal to young people. 

It begins with the five points of opportunity that make up the opportunity star.  And we are rating politicians on their support for all forms of opportunity. 

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