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Denmark fail: what socialism gets you

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Denmark LIESBecause, as Margaret Thatcher once said: “The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”

It looks as if Denmark is hitting that threshold.

From Bloomberg.com:

Aging Danes Hope Robots Will Save Their Welfare State

by Peter Levring

Denmark needs creative solutions to its labor shortages

Denmark has a problem: it may soon be unable to afford offering such a good deal to its people.

Free health care for all, a $757 monthly stipend for college students and robust safety nets for the less fortunate all cost money – Denmark devotes slightly more than 30 percent of its gross domestic product to social spending, one of the highest levels in the rich world.

According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, such a “generous welfare system requires robust public finances.” And while Denmark’s “seem sustainable” for now, the assumptions that underpin that view carry a high level of uncertainty, the OECD warned in a recent survey.

What?  The gravy train is about to derail?  I thought Denmark was the welfare and socialist Utopia favored by the rest of the planet.

True, an unemployment rate below 4 percent is one of Europe’s lowest, and industry frequently complains about shortages in skilled labor. But population projections show that Denmark’s 600 billion-krone ($91 billion) welfare system is facing a future of more customers and fewer people around to pick up the bill. 

The alternative to cutting costs, of course, is to increase revenue. But Denmark’s not doing too well there either, with faltering productivity leading to an economy that’s now expanding at a slower pace than the euro area’s.

Denmark Shrinking ProductivityBut wait!  Weren’t we told that Denmark is a worker’s paradise?  They out-produce the rest of Europe?  Everyone has a smile pasted on their face?  Check the graphic at the top of this post as opposed to the graphic above.  Apparently, not so much.  The graph above says this: you are heading towards a cash crash, in terms of being able to pay for all of your free shit.  That is to say, the ultimate tipping point of more parasites than hosts.

Let me finally state this: Denmark has it easy.  It is a small country (133rd in size), with a small population (5.7 million, including the Faroe Islands and Greenland) that has, conversely, one of the world’s highest income tax rates.  The world’s.  And even then, with having a much smaller geographic area and population to pacify — than, say, the United States — it is already running out of cash and labor.

If the Perfect Ideal Utopia that all Leftists, Progressives and Demorats immediately point to when prompting and promoting welfare and socialism theories is running out of gas — with a fraction the size and population of the US — what makes anyone think it will work here?

Historical Alzeimers, as I call it.  That’s what.

Because, as I’ve always said, everyone thinks they can “do” Socialism better than the last guy.

Ahem.  Hillary.

BZ

 

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Soros: funding violence against law enforcement

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Black Lives Matter Wide BannerIt’s no surprise or secret that 86-year-old Hungarian billionaire George Soros is a Leftist par excellence, who just “happened” to make over $1 billion dollars in one day when he short-sold the British pound in UK’s Black Wednesday crisis of 1992.

But, naturally, because Soros funds Leftist causes the staggering profiteering of Soros simply falls off the radar of the American Media Maggots, et al.  His corporatism is magically acceptable and worthy of ignorance;

Soros has already spent $13 million dollars this election cycle to bring Hillary Clinton to the White House and Demorats back to power in the US Congress.

That as background, from Breitbart.com:

Hacked Soros Memo: $650,000 to Black Lives Matter

by Aaron Klein

George Soros’s Open Society Institute viewed the 2015 Baltimore unrest following the death of Freddie Gray as opening a “unique opportunity” to create “accountability” for the Baltimore police while aiding activists in reforming the city, according to hacked documents reviewed by Breitbart Jerusalem.

The documents further confirm that the Open Society last year approved $650,000 to “invest in technical assistance and support for the groups at the core of the burgeoning #BlackLivesMatter movement.”

The information was contained in a detailed 69-page Open Society report on the agenda of an Open Society U.S. Programs board meeting held in New York October 1 to October 2, 2015.

The report directly states the Open Society views the Baltimore unrest last year as a crisis that can be utilized to carry out the organization’s agenda.

Cue Rahm Emanual, disgraced Mayor of Chicago: “you never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

The so-called “money shot” for Leftists:

Recognizing the need for strategic assistance, the U.S. Programs Board approved $650,000 in Opportunities Fund support to invest in technical assistance and support for the groups at the core of the burgeoning #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Our support of the #BlackLivesMatter movement follows other investments that have taken very different paths, including the Dreamers and Occupy Wall Street. USP grantee United We Dream (UWD) for example, a youth-led organization formed in 2009 by undocumented students and other advocates, changed the narrative about undocumented people and continues to be a major player in the immigration reform field.

Ah.  Good to know that the doddering George Soros is still sufficiently cogent to fund and embrace Saul Alinsky, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

There are, literally, billionaires working against you, good citizens of the United States of America.

And millions of Leftist dollars are funding those who wish to assassinate law enforcement personnel who are black, Caucasoid, Asian, Hispanic, it doesn’t matter.  If you wear a law enforcement uniform you are now a funded target.

Good times.

BZ

 

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More black lives not mattering: 100 people shot in Chicago

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Blood PoolBecause, in truth, black lives don’t matter to Leftists, they don’t matter to Demorats and they sure as hell don’t matter to other urban black males.

Ripped from today’s yawning headlines at the ChicagoTribune.com:

Nearly 100 people shot in Chicago in less than a week

by Alexandra Chachkevitch

Nearly 100 people have been shot in Chicago in less than a week, pushing the number of shooting victims so far this year to more than 2,500 — about 800 more than this time last year, according to data kept by the Tribune.

Between last Friday afternoon and early Thursday, at least 99 people were shot in the city, 24 of them fatally.  At least nine people were killed on Monday alone, the deadliest day in Chicago in 13 years, according to Tribune data. Among the wounded that day was a 10-year-old boy shot in the back as he played on his front porch in Lawndale.

The number of shooting victims in Chicago stood at 2,514 Thursday morning. At this time last year, 1,725 people had been shot.  The city has not seen this level of gun violence since the 1990s, a trend the Police Department has blamed on lax gun laws and feuding gang factions.

“Lax gun laws.”  What a load of horse-crap.  Chicago has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, on par with Los Angeles and New York.  Assault weapons?  Banned.  Go here.

If you want to stop gun violence, you’d best start with inserting the black father into the family equation and stop paying people for more children absent a father, embrace religion and churches, clean up schools and bring the trades back into them, lean on “stop and frisk,” demand the “broken windows” mindset from police, emphasize education with a focus on the basics and halt generational welfare.  Blacks in urban neighborhoods have just as much a right to be safe on their streets and in their homes as anyone else.

Yawn.  More young urban black males killed.  Meh.

Let us not forget it is Lyndon Baines Johnson, Democrat, Hero of the Left, the consummate personal opportunist and 36th president, who said — regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (as Senate Majority Leader) to Hubert Humphrey, “Hubert, it don’t take any genius to be for civil rights from Minnesota.  How many black people you got in Minnesota?  Humphrey said, about 12,000.  Johnson said to Humphrey, “you make me sick.”

Let us also not forget that it was LBJ who said “I’ll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next two-hundred years.”

And so he has.  It’s nothing more complicated than this: I’ll respect black lives when Democrats respect them, and when they respect themselves.

I’m going to have a very long wait.

Hey, hand me a beer, would you?

BZ

 

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Black officer shoots armed black suspect, Milwaukee burns for two nights

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Raw footage from the Milwaukee riots, targeting Caucasoids for beatings.

Which brings immediately to mind this false adage promoted by the Left: once we have more black cops all will be well in the cities — black cops wouldn’t shoot black suspects being the clear intimation thereof.

Uh, unless they were armed and committing crimes.

Sylville Smith Milwaukee ARMED SUSPECT 8-13-16

Sylville Smith, law-abiding Milwaukee suspect.

For two nights in a row the city of Milwaukee has burned after the shooting of an armed black suspect with a lengthy criminal history, following a vehicle stop in which two persons took leg bail.  From Fox6Now.com:

“He (officer) ordered that individual to drop his gun, the individual did not drop his gun,” Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said. “He had the gun with him and the officer fired several times.”

The man, identified by his father as Sylville Smith, died at the scene. It’s unclear whether the second occupant of the car is in police custody.

Smith was shot twice — in the arm and chest, the mayor said. His handgun was stolen during a burglary in Waukesha in March, according to police.

An interesting note is that “Milwaukee’s mayor and police chief say outsiders are fomenting the unrest that has wreaked havoc in a north side neighborhood for two nights since a black man was fatally shot by a black officer.”  Precisely as with various Black Lives Matter protests.

In the meantime, blacks were purposely targeting uninvolved Caucasoids for beatings, and the sister of the armed suspect told rioters to “take that shit to the suburbs, burn that shit down, we need our shit, we need our weave.”

Good to know that hair care is of such high import.

“This is a war,” says a Black Panther leader:

‘This is war’: Black Panther leader says ‘black people are being murdered’ and insists violent protests are protected by the Second Amendment 

by Emily Chan

  • Babu Omowale is leading figure in People’s New Black Panther Party
  • Said there is a ‘war against black people’ following death of Sylville Smith
  • Comments came as a second night of riots erupted in Milwaukee

A leading New Black Panther figure has declared ‘this is war’ in response to the violent protests in Milwaukee at the weekend.

Babu Omowale, the national minister of defense for the People’s New Black Panther Party, said there is a ‘war against black people’ as ‘we’re the ones being murdered’.

His comments came as a second night of riots erupted following the death of 23-year-old Sylville Smith, who was shot by an officer.

You will note one very, very important point from the last sentence.  A lie of omission — even from the UK media (who can be more trustworthy than the American Media Maggots).  The purposeful omission of the race of the officer who shot the suspect.  Both are black.  This goes against the meme, you see, of both the AMM and the Leftists/Demorats who propagate the falsehood that black men are being shot down in droves throughout the streets of America by evil Caucasoid law enforcement officers.

This week, we’ll be examining that LIE and many others here at the Bloviating Zeppelin.

BZ

 

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Kenny Baker, R2D2, passes at age 81

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Kenny Baker As R2D2For those of us of a certain age, who first saw Star Wars introduced to us by way of a long, scrolling explanation at the beginning of the film followed by the seemingly unending bottom of a massive space ship, another era ends for us.

The man who was the character R2D2 from the Star Wars films, Kenny Baker, has passed in England at the age of 81.

From BBCNews.com:

Kenny Baker, Star Wars R2-D2 actor, dies aged 81

Baker made his name as the robot in the first Star Wars film in 1977 alongside Anthony Daniels’s C-3PO character.

Star Wars creator George Lucas paid tribute to a “real gentleman” and Mark Hamill – Luke Skywalker in the films – said he had lost “a lifelong friend”.

Born in Birmingham, Baker’s other films include Time Bandits and Flash Gordon.

After starring in the original Star Wars film he went on to appear in the sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and the three prequels between 1999 and 2005.

He later appeared at Star Wars fan conventions across the world.

Baker’s agent Johnny Mans said the actor had been ill for a couple of years.

He said: “Kenny was truly a great friend, one of the nicest guys you could ever wish to meet, and a fabulous and talented performer.”

Mans described him as “a one-off” saying he would “never forget the laughs we shared over the years”.

“He will be sadly missed,” he added.

Indeed he will because, as R2D2, that character will always be remembered, as with the humanity that Kenny Baker brought to the role.

Baker’s nephew, Drew Myerscough, said he had cared for Baker for “eight or nine years” after he developed respiratory problems.

He said his uncle, who lived in Preston, had a passion for wildlife documentaries and had “a liking for lasagne”.

“He was just a normal, down-to-earth, regular guy that enjoyed life,” he told the BBC.

He said the pair “rarely” discussed Star Wars, but added: “His fans worldwide kept him going and he loved nothing more than going to conventions and meeting everybody – it really gave him that extra lease of life.”

Go with God, Kenny Baker.  You brought joy to, literally, millions.

BZ

 

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