Front Porch Politics podcast is geared and ready for this mid-week update. While wealthy celebrities bribe colleges and socialists bully Nancy Pelosi, we work. Hold on to your wallets before socialists take them, and let’s dive into the mid-week update for March 13, 2019.

In this week’s podcast, we will give you evidence on why we need a border wall. America is facing a crisis at our southern border. The liberals in our country call this “fabricated.” The rhetoric is that we do not have a crisis. Conservatives are deemed as racist if they want to keep you and your family safe. It is time we sound the alarm. The trojan horse of America has arrived.



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Bernie Sanders is no stranger to the American public. The socialist candidate from Vermont is seeking the Democratic nomination for 2020. Just a note all his assets are in his wife’s name, Here are some facts about Bernie Sanders socialist plans to burn America.







Eight years of Obama



Former President Obama redefined the landscape of American politics. In my humble opinion, he made race relations worse. He crippled our economy by more than doubling the national debt. And he shared a vision of “Globalism” not patriotism.



Due to Obama’s refusal to support simple solutions, like tax cuts, he was the only president in American history to fail to achieve at least 3% annual growth in GDP. But his economic policy is no match for Bernie.



Bernie Sanders is raising a great bit of money to become President. Sanders is a full bore socialist. The ideas that made America a powerhouse of independence and liberty will not exist in his world. The main platform to which Sanders is running on is the following.



Medicare for All



In 2017, Sanders introduced a bill to transition to Medicare for All, a system where every American would get health care through the government. As many of you know I am against this. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris said, “healthcare should be a right.”



The argument is that many American’s cannot afford healthcare. The truth of the matter is, that after the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare”, the promises of government fixes were a lie.



New data from eHealth shows average individual(Obamacare) health insurance premiums have increased by 99% since 2013. Over the same time period, family premiums have increased by 140%.



To put this in perspective, “Medicare for all” would nearly double the size of the already bloated federal government. Doubling corporate and individual income taxes wouldn’t cover the costs. How do you grow an economy? You cut taxes, not double them.



The Loss of Doctors and Hospitals



Sanders wants to apply Medicare’s below-market rates across the board, which would amount to a roughly 40% cut in payments to doctors and hospitals. I’m sure there are those who hate doctors making money. Sanders hates the one percenters, even though he is one.



“Medicare for all” would be more expansive than anything that exists anywhere else in the world, with the possible exception of Cuba. We all know what great health care they have in Cuba.
Even in Sanders’ beloved Nordic socialist paradises, people pay as much as 30% of their nations’ health costs out-of-pocket. In Communist China, almost a third of health spending is out-of-pocket.



Because Sanders would eliminate prices entirely from health care, the only way to control health spending would be to slap stiff price controls on doctors, hospitals and drugs, or ration care. What would be the effect of this?



There would be chronic shortages of doctors nationwide. Hospital overcrowding would be epidemic. Waits for everything from hip replacements to cataract surgery to cancer treatments would be extensive. Drug innovation would come to a virtual standstill. And there would be endless fights over the size of the government’s health budget, along with massive amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse.

As we wrap a week of house hearings, Korean negotiations falling apart, and socialism run amuck, let us not miss the behind the scenes news. Front Porch Politics will take a look at why Democrats are self-destructing, and conservatives need to awaken to a new fight for America.











Ocasio-Cortez and Pelosi



Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are threatening House Democrats to vote their way, or hit the highway.



Source: AP Photo/Seth Wenig



After more than two dozen moderate Democrats broke from their party’s progressive wing and sided with Republicans on a legislative amendment Wednesday, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reportedly sounded the alarm in a closed-door meeting Thursday and said those Democrats were “putting themselves on a list.”



What caused this?



The legislation that prompted the infighting was a bill that would expand federal background checks for gun purchases. A key provision requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be notified if illegal immigrants attempt to purchase guns saw 26 moderate Democrats side with Republicans.



House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scolded her wayward center-leaning colleagues, telling them: “We are either a team or we’re not, and we have to make that decision.”



“We are either a team or we’re not, and we have to make that decision.” Nancy Pelosi



Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s List



Ocasio-Cortez reportedly took it a step further. She said she would help progressive activists unseat those moderates in their districts in the 2020 elections. AOC also has shown support for illegals who purchase guns to have no background checks or submit the information any citizen would have to do.



Representative Ocasio-Cortez has vehemently denounced ICE since bursting onto the political stage — but has also raised concerns among fellow Democrats that she’s picking fights with her own party.



Socialist are Hurting their own Party.



The Socialist movement is losing steam. According to a Wall Street Journal poll, the number of American’s who support Medicare for all has drastically fallen. In the poll, Medicare for all had support in November 2018 of 30%. Those polled in February 2019 only 12% supported the measure.



Why the Decline?



Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s sweeping “Green New Deal” could end up costing close to $93 trillion, or about $600,000 per household, according to a new study released by an advocacy group.



In an analysis published on Monday, the American Action Forum — which is headed by a former director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Holtz-Eakin — estimated that the New York Democrat’s policy proposal could end up costing somewhere around $93 trillion over the course of the next decade.



American’s are not stupid



Despite what AOC thinks, most American’s with common sense see right through her bad economic policies. Americans have learned that the way to achieve success is hard work, not government handouts. Let us please remember that AOC only received 110,318 votes. That is .03% of the United States population. However, she touts herself as the queen. Remember she stated, “I’m the boss – how about that?”



Source: BizPac Review



Why Capitalism Works



The United States unemployment rate is 4.0%.

This week has already been packed full of conversation topics for the Front Porch. One thing we are learning about America is that we are bitterly divided. We have lost our moral compass as shown by a vote this week in the Senate on life. We have lost confidence in the ability of our government officials, as Rashida Tlaib calls Republican Mark Meadows a racist.







Senate Democrats: Babies born can be killed.



Republicans’ effort to outlaw infanticide of babies born after botched abortions collapsed Monday, falling victim to a Democrat-led filibuster in what could be Congress’s only chance to vote on the hot-button issue this year.



We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.The Declaration of Independence



The Democrat Voting on Life



All of the senators who have announced they’re running for the Democratic nomination in 2020, including Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Kirsten Gillibrand, N.Y., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voted “nay”.



Credit: National Right to Life



Sponsors of the bill said they were driven to act by recent state laws and bills they said would allow abortions up to the point of birth — and, in at least the case of one failed piece of legislation in Virginia, would have allowed a child born despite an attempted abortion to be left to die.



“It isn’t about new restrictions on abortion. It isn’t about changing the options available to women. It’s just about recognizing that a newborn baby is a newborn baby. Period,”Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican. He said it made him “uneasy” that such legislation was even considered controversial.



“The bill is solely meant to intimidate doctors and restrict patients’ access to care and has nothing, nothing, nothing to do with protecting children.”Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer



Dubbed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, the bill would have required that doctors care for a newborn baby who survived an abortion the same way they care for other newborns. If doctors failed to give medical care to a living baby, they would face criminal penalties.



Sen. Ben Sasse, the chief sponsor, said the fierce pushback from pro-choice activists was revealing.



“Planned Parenthood and others refuse to draw a line between abortion and infanticide.” “That’s what their lobbying the last week has shown. That should tell us something about what these groups are really about.”Senator. Ben Sasse



New New York Abortion Law and Infanticide



At abortion groups’ urging, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month signed a bill repealing a previous law that required a second doctor to be on hand for late-term abortions, so as to provide care in case an attempted abortion instead turns into a live birth.



That law also repealed a part of the law that declared such a child “should be afforded immediate legal protection under the laws of the State of New York.”



Virginia is for Abortionist



In Virginia, a Democratic state delegate offered legislation to repeal similar restrictions on late-term abortions. She sparked controversy when, at a legislative hearing, she said a woman in labor and about to give birth could still have an abo...

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Democratic presidential hopefuls Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren said they both support reparations for African-Americans affected by slavery. However, evidence shows this is not the solution we need in America.







Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren on Reparations



“We have to be honest that people in this country do not start from the same place or have access to the same opportunities,” she said in a statement to the New York Times. “I’m serious about taking an approach that would change policies and structures and make real investments in black communities.”



Warren also voiced her support for federal government reparations on Thursday.



“We must confront the dark history of slavery and government-sanctioned discrimination in this country that has had many consequences including undermining the ability of Black families to build wealth in America for generations,” said Warren in a statement. “Black families have had a much steeper hill to climb — and we need systemic, structural changes to address that.”



The issue with this is that we have. If we want to look at the true cultural problem then let’s see the real problem.



Lack of Fathers, the Real Issue



America has transitioned into a country that has lost its roots in traditional family values. Gone are the days where the “nuclear” family is considered to be the goal or standard. In the most recent study conducted by National KIDS COUNT, 42% of our nation’s children from all ethnic backgrounds live in a fatherless home. the numbers increase for African-American kids to 66%. The lowest group is Asian-American at 16%.



Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services



The idea of a father in the home is the minority in their culture, not the majority. The disadvantages are not from lack of government assistance, it’s from a lack of father’s. A stable home even when the family may be lower income can drastically change the future of the child. It is important to note that not all fatherless homes are from separation, abandonment, or divorce.



Just the Facts on Government Assistance



Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services



Will throwing money at a problem, as our government typically does, solve the problem? No. To back this up with statistics, the highest ethnic group to receive government assistance is the African American Community at 48%. Almost half of the children of this race in our country already receive assistance in some form or fashion and it is not solving the problem. This compared to 17% of the Asian culture, which has a strong Father presence in the home.



Trouble at School



If you do not believe that a Father’s presence is important to a child then let’s ask the U.S. Department of Education. According to the 2016 data, 44% of African-American students have been expelled from school. Now there are some who will say this is racial profiling. However, the lowest population is the Asian students at 4%, the Hispanic students at 15%. Both are lower than the white student expulsion rate of 20%.



Source: U.S. Department of Education



When I was younger my mom could discipline me. But to get my attention as I grew older, it would take my dad. See dads have a way of standing firm. He and my mother stood together in the fight to raise my sister and myself. And we were not wealthy. We grew up in a lower-middle-income home, with no ability to get government grants for college or no gover...

The United States of America is at a crossroads. As generations change so do the politics of the country. In this podcast, Front Porch Politics is going to give examples of why we are seeing a growth of Socialism in the United States of America.







A Brief History



Let me take you back in time. The baby boomer generation grew out of a generation born from parents who grew up in the Great Depression and saved the world from Socialism and tyranny in World War II. The baby boomer generation saw many changes in our country: de-segration of school, Civil Rights Marches, and the United States landing on the moon. This generation also saw a threat from a foreign enemy that pushed socialist idea across the globe. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR.
The USSR competed with the United States in military, space, and economics. They used tyranny and murder to gain as much ground as they could and overtake the capitalist county known as America. Soviets would flee the USSR to escape the harsh rule of an Iron fist. It is estimated that the USSR, who devalued human life, murdered over 40 million of their own citizens.
However, this generation is now at retirement age. The generations who follow have a weaker view of tyranny. Why? The baby boomer generation saw the collapse of the Soviet Union. My generation existed in a time where the economic strains of Socialism took a country with natural resources, strong military, and a space program to economic catastrophe. Therefore, we declared we had beaten the Russians and between Rocky and Reagan we dismantled a wall that trapped Soviet Socialist in.



A New Generation



Given the facts from the past, a new generation has emerged. A generation that is more about fighting their parents’ ideas. One would think that this generation would see the devastation that has taken place in Venezuela, but no. They gather in large crowds to cheer on people like Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This logic is irrational, and their support is due to a lack of knowledge of history, mostly coming from the poor teaching and lecturings in community colleges and universities.



Several factors have equated to this generations ideas. The promise of everything being free, and this ridiculous idea that if we do not do something we will destroy the world in 12 years. Neither are factual, there is no such thing as a free lunch, someone has to pay. The evidence against catastrophic climate change is skewed and misinterpreted to show a slant that enrages a generation to beg the government to do something. So how did we get to this generation?



Higher Education Influences



Today’s college classroom is much different. Let me give you an example. At a local community college here in Alabama, the doctrinal push is much different. Instructors now push the Socialist ideas on the students. Brain-washing them to believe that Capitalism is evil, and Socialism is much better. That countries around the world are far better than the United States, and we are stuck in an evil economic system that oppresses people. Want an example, great! In the podcast is audio that is from a Ethics classroom at a community college located in Alabama.



The instructor is pushing his Socialist ideas about Nationalized Healthcare. The Ethics teacher wants free healthcare for anyone. He describes how we control one-third of all the wealth, but degraded companies gaining profit. He then tells the student a drug company CEO’s made $1.6 billion per year, that is a lie. The highest paid CEO makes roughly $26 million a year. He is planting the seed. The seed of Capitalism is bad, and Socialism is good.

Front Porch Politics would like to take a moment to recognize the men who helped mold our country. The men we are going to recognize are some of our former Presidents. This President’s Day we hope you take time to celebrate the men who made our country great, and who showed leadership to guide this great land of ours to become a world power.







George Washington



The Prayer at Valley Forge



“…the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.”George Washington



On Christmas night, 1776, Washington and his men crossed the Delaware River and attacked unsuspecting Hessian mercenaries at Trenton, forcing their surrender. A few days later, evading a force that had been sent to destroy his army, Washington attacked the British again, this time at Princeton, dealing them a humiliating loss.



The First President



Still hoping to retire to his beloved Mount Vernon, Washington was once again called upon to serve this country. During the presidential election of 1789, he received a vote from every elector to the Electoral College, the only president in American history to be elected by unanimous approval. He took the oath of office at Federal Hall in New York City, the capital of the United States at the time, establishing the phrase “so help me God.”



Washington’s Prayer



Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ.



Andrew Jackson



President Andrew Jackson



“The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests”Andrew Jackson



Ol’ Hickory is well fabled and disliked by many today. In the culture we live in Andrew Jackson would be seen as having toxic masculinity. There is so much more to learn about this General.



Stance on Religion



During a trial in Nashville Tennessee
young Nashville lawyer: “Mr. Cartwright, do you believe there is any such place as hell, as a place of torment?”
Rev. Peter Cartwright: “Yes, I do.”
young Nashville lawyer: “Well, I thank God I have too much good sense to believe any such thing.”
Andrew Jackson: “Well, sir, I thank God that there is such a place of torment as hell.”
young Nashville lawyer: “Why, General Jackson, what do you want with such a place of torment as hell?”
Andrew Jackson: “To put such damned rascals as you are in, that oppose and vilify the Christian religion.”



The Famous Scar



During the Revolutionary War, the 13-year-old Jackson joined the Continental Army as a courier. In April 1781, he was taken prisoner along with his brother Robert. When a British officer ordered Jackson to polish his boots, the future president refused. The infuriated Redcoat drew his sword and slashed Jackson’s left hand to the bone and gashed his head, which left a permanent scar.



The Battle of New Orleans



In December 1814, as diplomats met in Europe to hammer out a truce in the War of 1812, British forces mobilized for what they hoped would be the campaign’s finishing blow close to New Orl...

You are listening to part four of our four-part series from Front Porch Politics.  Again we are proud to have guest speaker Mr. Bill Monroe. Mr. Monroe is a former educator who will give you a perspective as a Yellow Dog Democrat. This is a four-part series. Topics include the wall, DACA, migrant workers, homosexuality. We hope you learn a great deal and enjoy the interview from part one of this four-part series.

Welcome to Front Porch Politics Podcast. Discussion on the porch this week includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Green New Deal, and Socialism in America. You will not want to miss podcast 38!











AOC and Her Ideas for America



Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has unleashed her new idea for America this week with the New Green Deal. Part of this New Green Features plans such as 70% taxes, elimination of cow farts, and rebuilding every building in the United States. If that is not zany enough for you there is more to this law. In the 2019 hashtag infested, Climate change world we live in there is much, much more.



The Socialist Ideology



Let us begin by stating some facts about Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. She has stated that people working in multiple jobs make the unemployment rate low. Out of 154 million job holder, only 4% are working 2 full-time jobs. She compares this to people working in New York City so let’s begin there. The lowest, non-tipped, wage in New York is $13.50 an hour. According to Ms. Cortez, someone working her claim of 80 hours a week is making a minimum of $1,080.



Those figures are based on having two full-time jobs at 40 hours each. If the employee is working 80 hours at one full-time job they would be eligible for overtime pay which is $20.25 an hour over 40 hours. Which is a net of $1,350 each week. Recently she stated, “it’s sad someone can’t feed their kids working 100 hours a week.” She goes on to state, “A lot of people are more concerned about being preciously factually and semantically correct than about being morally right.”



The End of the World Scare Tactic



Ocasio-Cortez has stated the end of the world is coming in 12 years. Her idea to solve all the problems economically and in the climate is the New Green Deal. Her strategy would require the phaseout of all combustion engines, i.e. gas-powered, by 2030. If you had a car before this time frame you would have to have your car retrofitted to run on battery power. That’s roughly 260 million vehicles in the United Staes. Think of that cost!



Other parts of the Green New Deal include a Federal Job guarantee. This, of course, is required to give “a liveable wage” health care, and retirement benefits. This is based on a marginal tax rate. To make a long story short, if someone is making over $10 million for every $1 earned they would make 30 cents. Then is the Medicare Tax of 2.35%. Couple with New York city and state taxes, the tax rate would be 85.04%. In other words, you earn $1, you get to keep 15 cents.



The issues with this are the numbers. If you implemented this tax rate it would only generate $72 billion dollars a year. To compare a Medicare for all plan old cost at a minimum $3.26 trillion dollars a year. Far below the amount gained by taxing the “rich.” When asked about how to pay for this Ocasio-Cortez replied, “No one is saying how will we pay for Space Force.” The estimated cost by-the-way is $3 billion dollars over a five year period.



The Bernie Sanders effect.



Bernie Sanders proposed a tax plan that would pay for the programs he was promoting. The analysis concluded that it would raise taxes on anyone making under $250,000 at a minimum of 8.8%. So ask yourself, do you want to pay 8% more in taxes each year? I thought she was concerned with only raising taxes o...