Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "A Way FORWARD?" video.

  1.  Real Actual News  He's pretty socialist. He offers some improvements for how they ADMINISTER socialism, but it still comes down to Peter robbing Paul to take care of Mary. Peter doesn't care about spending Paul's money wisely, and he doesn't really care if Mary gets back on her feet. He has nothing at stake. I think Universal Basic Income makes sense if it's a J. Peter Grace "negative income tax" kind of deal. Grace Commission proposed negative income tax when Reagan was president. The idea was to bring everyone up to the poverty line and leave the rest up to them. Eliminate HHS and all federal programs and just pay you the difference between what you earn and a basic subsistence level. It would reduce the federal bureaucracy SIGNIFICANTLY. But I don't think that's what Yang's proposing. He just wants to give away $1,000 per month, so teenagers and 20-somethings can live like college students without owning anything. Just get 3 or 4 people who want to share a house and sing kum-bye-ah until you retire. Very attractive to young people, who want to hang out and party. Maybe work on their guitar or basket-weaving skills... I put Yang in sort of a Tulsi Gabbard category. He says things neither establishment party wants to hear. It's just not a good enough reason to vote for him. He also has a serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. He bought the MSM characterization of Trump, without giving him credit for the things Trump was right about, like immigration, regulatory capture, reducing our military footprint abroad, getting politics out of the classroom, making cities pay their own way by curtailing MASSIVE state-and-local-tax writeoffs for big-spending cities, shifting the tax burden from big-spending blue city governments to flyover country, getting government out of the way of working stiffs and small businesses. Of course, everything good Trump did with regard to the last two got wiped out by COVID.
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  2. Trump isn't erratic. He's a salesman and a negotiator. You always extoll the virtues of what you're selling, and in negotiations, you never ask for what you WANT. You ask for the MOON and hope to get something CLOSE to what you want. My main problem with Trump was he didn't do his homework on who his closest advisors, cabinet members and generals should be, and he didn't have the right guy advising him in that area of weakness. I think his instincts were generally good, but there were (and are) just too many forces arrayed against him in the "business-as-usual" departments and federal agencies that live in an ecosystem that prospers at the expense of everyone else's (not just at home but abroad). If the feds are offering subsidies to electric car manufacturers, you KNOW it's about their buddies who make or want to make electric cars, but it's NOT to save the environment. It's to funnel resources to the one thing that's profitable politically for people in government and profitable for the pals who are mining Lithium (a nasty business). They'll get around to paying the guys who will ine up for subsidies to pay for the massive cleanup of all those Lithium batteries, later. Everything in its time. People won't realize what it's doing to the environment until it's so bad, it can be considered a crisis for the guys who caused it to get paid solving for us. People can always see the good things they can do with power, and the harm caused is always secondary, because "Look at the good we do." They just waste resources and store up more trouble for the future. Instead, the focus should be on laying the foundation for LETTING good things happen, and the main thing to do there is to do NOTHING. Just do the best you can where you are and share your successes and failures with the world. That's how the Internet is supposed to work. It's the only centralized thing we need, and its purpose is so we can talk to each other! Period!
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