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Who is Best at Running a Country? Patriots and Businessmen vs Lawyers and Career Politicians

When it comes to running a country well, you need two things:

Patriots: These people have their priorities in order: God, Country, and Family. They also aren’t afraid to back down from a fight. In fact, if you attack one or more of their priorities, a fight is exactly what you’ll get. Unlike Demoncraps and Libturds (Democrats and Liberals), Patriots will not compromise on essential principles, nor are they in the game just for themselves.

Without Patriots, the United States of America would never have been created, nor would we have survived, much less thrived as a country.

Businessmen: These folks understand the hard, cold realities of business, where companies don’t have the luxury of raising prices without competition (i.e. raising taxes) every time they need to cover their ineptitude. Instead, they learn, often the hard way, to get it right. In big business, you don’t just balance budgets. You’re always looking for ways to do things better, smarter, and cheaper, because that’s what it takes to stay in business and remain competitive with the ever-innovative competition.

Trump’s advantage over Hillary is two-fold: First, he’s a LOT smarter than Obama, whereas Hillary is probably on par with Obama. Valerie Jarrett is just plain wrong on that point. Obama is an idealistic imbecile. The fact that Jarrett sees him as “brilliant” doesn’t say much about Jarrett. Do we really need four years of the same? Should we risk eight? Yeah, I don’t think so!

Second, when Patriots and Businessmen run our country, we thrive. We prosper. When Lawyers and Career Politicians run our country, they run it into the ground because they haven’t the slightest clue as to how to run a country.

Have you ever examined what’s on the curricula of most political science degrees? This is the most common degree obtained by both lawyers and politicians before going to law school or entering politics. It’s ridiculous! It’s all but totally void of common business functions such economics, accounting, and finance, much less any technological aspect such as math, physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering.

Lacking the proper education, most lawyers and career politicians are clueless. They know how to write law, but they don’t know what laws should be written. They know how to politic their way up through the political system, but when it comes to making decisions that actually benefit society, they are literally without a clue, and are often driven by the ridiculous liberal propaganda, which is little more than a retread of the Communist Manifesto, itself craft by a blithering idiot and ignorant idealist named Marx who never once found any modicum of success in his own life.

That’s a valid source for how to run a country? I think not! Any historian could tell you that!

Sadly, not only do we have such lawyers and career politicians embedded throughout our government, but we also have far to many ignorant voters who simply never learned why such policies are bad, no matter how good they sound. As a result, these voters keep reelecting the blithering idiots back into office.

That’s no way to run a country, people. Come on – wise up!

Do You Know Ed Mezvinsky?

He was born January 17, 1937, but you’re probably saying, “Who is Ed Mezvinsky?” and “Why should I care?”

Bear with me for a minute, as the answer has to do with Hillary Clinton’s run for the 2016 elections, and a great deal more. The “more” part will boggle your mind.

Ed Mezvinsky is a former Democrat congressman who represented Iowa’s 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977. He sat on the House Judiciary Committee that decided the fate of Richard Nixon.

He was outspoken saying that Nixon was a crook and a disgrace to politics and the nation and should be impeached.

He and the Clintons were friends and very politically intertwined for many years.

Ed Mezvinsky had an affair with NBC News reporter Marjorie Sue Margolies and later married her after his wife divorced him.

In 1993, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, then a freshman Democrat in Congress, cast the deciding vote that got President Bill Clinton’s controversial tax package through the House of Representatives.

In March 2001, Ed Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 counts of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud. He had embezzled more than $10 million dollars from people via both a Ponzi scheme and the notorious Nigerian e-mail scams (yes, he’s “that guy”). He was found guilty and sentenced to 80 months in federal prison.

After serving less than three-quarters of that time, he was released in April 2008. He remains on federal probation. To this day, he still owes $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.

About now you are saying, “So what!”

Well, this is Marc and Chelsea Mezvinsky. Ed Mezvinsky is Chelsea Clinton’s father-in law. Chelsea married his son.

Marc and Chelsea are in their early thirties and purchased a 10.5 million dollar NYC apartment (after being married in George Soros’ mansion).

Has anyone heard any mention of any of this in any of the media? No?

Gee… I wonder why…

If this guy was Jenna or Barbara Bush’s, or better yet, Sarah Palin’s daughter’s father-in-law, the news would be an everyday headline and every detail would be reported over and over. The liberal rags, however, are owned by the same corrupted cabal to which the Clintons, the Mezvinskys, and Soros belongs.

People are already talking about Hillary as our next President, and there is a distinct possibly Chelsea will run in the future. The headlines are already proclaiming, “How Hillary Clinton won the 2014 midterms.”

Apparently, the cycle of the rich and corrupt never ends.

The Democrat’s ongoing scheme is simple: Promise anything to the masses in order to keep being reelected, then abuse the power of their office to line their own pockets, the pockets of their friends, and the pockets of people and companies who funded their campaigns — at your expense.

Lying and corruption seem to make Democrat candidates more popular, yet Democrats who are repeatedly suckered into voting for them keep wondering when they’re going to get their slice of the pie.

The answer is, “Never, so long as you keep allowing yourself to be suckered in to voting for Democrats.” If the Democrats have you on a hook, and want to keep you on that hook, the only only solution is to get off the hook. Stop voting Democrat.

“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln

The Comcast/Time-Warner Merger is BAD for America

Yes, Netflix caved and wound up paying Comcast not to throttle their throughput. Apparently, fighting the Comcast giant would have cost Netflix far more in terms of lost customers. Link.

Who here thinks it’s Comcast who should be throttled? Who here thinks the Comcast/Time-Warner merger is a VERY BAD idea? Who here believes such a merger will only cast forever rising prices in cement, when by all rights, thanks to constant improvements in networking technology, prices for unlimited Internet data at 100 Mbps should be significantly less than $30 per month?

If you don’t think the Comcast/Time-Warner merger is all about eliminating the competition so as to RAPE the consumer, as monopolies tend to do, you didn’t learn anything from playing Monopoly, did you? Perhaps might change your mind: Cable companies want to stop the best internet in America from growing

It’s called “unfair business practices,” people and YOU should be all over it, writing your Congressmen, demanding they put the thump on Comcast, Centurylink, Time-Warner, and others, because YOU’RE the one who’s going to pay the seriously over-jacked bill for the rest of your lives if you do nothing!

Netflix – Requiem. Hulu – Requiem.

For the past couple of years I’ve heralded Netflix above Hulu, primarily for its outstanding collection of old movies, as well as the fact that unlike Hulu, once a series has finished and becomes available on Netflix, it’s the entire series. No gaps.

Unfortunately, that’s all about to change!

Do you remember the Quickster debacle, where Netflix was going to split it’s websites into two, Netflix for Internet Streaming and Quickster for DVDs and Blu-rays? They wound up scrapping the idea, but not before Netflix lost nearly a million customers, and their stock dropped from nearly $300 per share to $60 per share in just six months, and at a time when most tech stocks were skyrocket-rebounding. Meanwhile, they kept the two services separate anyway, at least on the inside, with their offerings split between the two.

Talk about painful – OUCH! Thank you Netflix CEO Reed Hastings for that incredibly greedy but stupid reduction in service. Thank God I didn’t own any shares in Netflix! Sadly, many people did, and they lost their shirts, if not their retirement.

I’d have been happy to pay 50% more for the “other” service, or even 100% more to be able to access it all online. Waiting for discs via snail mail when I have 20 Mbps is stupid.

Thanks again, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings…

While in school, both as an undergrad studying business, and as a graduate student working towards my MBA, we studied how and why companies fail, primarily because that’s the best way to avoid failing. Netflix would make a terrific case study, not only as a success story, but also for how badly they screwed up with Quickster. Hasting’s next trick, however, may very well doom Netflix altogether while other companies are gathering for their own trick: Leapfrog.

You see, Hastings has been letting various content deals expire. About 1,800 of them. This time, Hastings’ dream — our nightmare — is to focus on both current and original programming. If he were to keep the older movies and TV shows available, that would be terrific! After all, the cost of both storage space and bandwidth have marched to the tune of Moore’s law for nearly thirty years, doubling for the same price every eighteen months, with no sign of deviating. Actually, Moore’s law is approximate. The actual pace has been closer to 42.5% increase per year, or 1.86 times every year and a half.

So why is he cutting anything? That makes zero sense, especially for old movies. It’s a cash cow! With more and more people desiring and moving to on-demand content, cutting that content is like slaughtering the cow.

Stupid.

Second, what we consumers really want is to be able to surf one site with a TV, Blu-ray, computer, or phone, and watch any TV show or movie after it’s arrived on scene. Whether it’s an hour later, a month later, or five years later, I want to be able to view that program! Last week’s episode of NCIS? I’d like to watch that now, please. A 1986 episode of Magnum P.I.? Now, please.

Think about this for a minute: How many cable subscribers are without DVRs these days? Pretty much none, right? After all, nearly all cable boxes come with the ability to record programming built into the unit. The problem is, we consumers still have the laborious task of programming the units, telling it when and what to record, pretty much the same as we did thirty years ago, back in the early 1980s. About the only thing that’s changed is that it’s on disk, not VCR, so we can record two channels at the same time (five if you have Direct TV’s Genie).

So why in the world is Hastings dragging Netflix back through time? The beauty of Netflix was on-demand content! Clearly, Hastings is a better entrepreneur than he is a business manager. If he were the latter, he’d do one or more of the following:

1. Buy out Hulu. Netflix is, after all, many times larger than Hulu. Besides, Hulu has the contracts to provide recent TV shows and movies. Furthermore, Netflix has a more ergonomic user interface, so ditch the joke that Hulu uses. Netflix has far better problem resolution, but because their online interface actually WORKS, they have far fewer problems.

Much of the programming by the two companies is duplicated, so there’s a significant synergistic effect. The elimination of competition is another. Hulu has already begun generating its own content. Consumers are ticked off at both of them as each does what the other can’t or won’t do. And use Hulu’s style (colors, layout) – that’s the other area where they excel over Netflix.

Besides, you could call the joined company either Netflu or Hulix. About just “Netflix (formerly Netflix and Hulu).”

2. Go ahead – put in the commercials for TV shows. Or charge $8 a month to see them without commercials. Do both, however, and you’re making profit at the expense of … yourself. Serious, that idiot plan of Hulu Plus is costing them far more in terms of lost customers than whatever additional profit they were gettings.

3. Make 100% of the content available online, while keeping high-yield content available to both online and mail customers. The following pricing structure would serve them well.

Online only: $12 per month

Mail only: $8 per month

As I said, both storage and bandwidth are getting bigger, faster, and cheaper by the minute, and they’ll continue to do so. It’ll be a LONG time (well over a decade) before consumers step up from Blu-ray (HD 1080p) TVs to the brand new quad units in any appreciable numbers. Yet by 2015 both storage and bandwidth for HD content will cost Netflix just half of what it costs today.

4. Invest in better problem resolution tools. Netflix already has a better interface, but more time should be put into better guides than paying people to solve the same problems over and over and over and over… Once posted, a well-written guide costs just about zip. Improve the menu and organization of the help files, and you’ll eliminate even more help center calls.

Bottom line, this merger would be a match made in heaven, not only for both companies, but for both sets of customers, as well. Everyone wins!