Vincent J. Curtis
4 Oct 2016
Let’s start with a little news. A little scandal. This morning Fox News reported the following:
“Hillary Clinton had glowing words for the General Motors
plant in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, when she traveled there in 2011 as secretary of
state to announce the joint venture -- of GM and an Uzbekistan state-owned firm
-- as a finalist for a State Department award.
“It is a collaboration between Uzbek and American companies,
and it will serve as a symbol of our friendship and cooperation,” Clinton said, touting the plant’s “newest, most advanced technology.”
The visit came a year
after the General Motors Foundation had contributed $684,455 in vehicles to the
Clinton Foundation.
Fast-forward several years, and GM-Uzbekistan is now
embroiled in a massive scandal, reportedly facing
charges of fraud, money laundering, and embezzlement, a legal case
that has reached high-ranking government officials in the country.
Clinton isn’t tied to any of the allegations. (Of course
not!) But it’s another example of how Clinton Foundation donations and
subsequent State Department actions have put the Democratic presidential
nominee in an awkward position. The 2011 praise wasn’t a one-off, either.
Clinton’s State Department again made GM Uzbekistan a finalist for the Award
for Corporate Excellence in 2012.”
A little prestige is worth $684 grand in free vehicles, isn’t
it? Especially if the prestige can ward
off a criminal bribery investigation! Like most things Clinton, appearances can be
deceiving.
The General Motors Foundation is not the same as General
Motors Corporation, and the Clinton Foundation is not the same as Hillary and
Bill Clinton. And GM-Uzbekistan is run
by Uzbeks, not Americans. Just so we are
clear on that.
News that is not here yet, but soon will be, is the
potential recommendation for indictment for felony perjury by Judge Emmitt Sullivan
in the Judicial Watch case. The Judge
ordered Hillary to surrender all her emails to the State Department, and to
certify “under oath under penalty of perjury” that she had done so. Well, she hadn’t done so, and every couple of
weeks more State Department business emails are vetted and released. The FBI recovered some 15,000 emails from
Hillary’s ruined server that were State Department related after she certified. The
State Department has been ordered to release three tranches of emails before Election
Day.
Let’s end this with a bit of Obama corruption. Obama’s corruption is the undermining of the
rule of law and of the constitution, in order that he achieve his political
objectives. It is not about money for
himself. Obama’s corruption is very
Marxist in style, and for that reason even more insidious than financial
corruption.
Not here yet are the final, catastrophic consequences of
Obamacare. Just before the election, the
public is going to be notified of their health care premiums for 2017, and in
some cases the increase with be greater than 60 %. Many states have been reduced to a single
carrier of insurance as the major health care insurers pull out of the market
due to unsustainable losses. The
subsidies that the Obama Administration had been unlawfully funnelling to the
insurers has been cut off, and the final collapse of Obamacare will occur in
either 2017 or 2018. The Republicans
were right about Obamacare, and the next president will have to work quickly
with Congress to repeal and replace it.
Hillary is not that person.
The next president is going to inherit a catastrophe in the
health care sector, a collapsing economy because the Fed is finally going to
start raising interest rates, and foreign policy disasters in Syria, Libya, and
the Baltics. Hillary will be embroiled
in fighting her perjury scandals, and will have absolutely no traction with a
Republican Congress. A Hillary
presidency will be a failure from the start because she will have been elected
without a mandate. It will be gridlock
from horizon to horizon.
Trump has a clear program with well-known objectives, and he
has not built-up a large reservoir of hatred in the Congress as Hillary
has. Trump represents movement away from
the present morass.
We'll see in just over a month whether the American electorate make their decisions on basis of their brains or their glands.
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