Hand Out Or Hand Up?

Don’t tread on MY welfare checks.

Get the #@* government off my back!

[Farm] Commodity subsidies in Clinton County, Ohio totaled $121 million from 1995-2014.

1. DMG Farms – Sabina - $1,331,087

2. Richard T Thompson – Wilmington - $1,163,124

3. W Merle Henry – New Vienna - $1,104,481

4. Stephen D. Pidgeon – Wilmington - $1,079,707

For extended list go to:

https://farm.ewg.org/top_recips.php?fips=39027&progcode=total_cc

Paul Hunter

Leak Away

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Kill those regulations

Trump wants to put those miners back to work in the worst way.

Those pesky, job killing rules and regulations that Trump so deplores have met their match with his new Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross. Ross has an up close and personal experience with those profit sucking big government dictates.

In 2004, Ross, the owner of the now closed Sago coal mine was presented with a list of 140 violations by the U.S. Mine Safety inspectors. In 2005 another 96 serious faults were found.

In 2006 the Sago mine blast killed 12 miners. The exact cause of the explosion was not determined.

Paul Hunter

The Architect Of our Future

Trump's closest adviser and political guru, Steve Bannon, offers this insight into the administration master plan.

Bannon quote: “the deconstruction of the administrative state.”

Unsaid: The construction of the amateur family and billionaire operated state.

Bannon emphasized, quote: “economic nationalism”

Unsaid: We will bring good paying robot servicing jobs back to the U. S. and the consumer will pay the tab. In the mean time the boss will continue to maintain business deals in 25 foreign countries.

Bannon emphasized, quote: “national sovereignty”

Unsaid: We will reduce cooperative military and trade agreements that have kept multiple world wars from our shores. We will build more nukes and hide behind the no longer viable Atlantic and Pacific walls.

An opinion, posted by Paul Hunter

Salute and Say Yes Sir

How does one obtain promotion in a military career? By publicly or privately criticizing the commander's decisions? By undermining the commander's strategic and tactical plans? Just ask four star general “light at end of the tunnel Westmoreland”. Or retired four star general, the otherwise admirable gentleman, Colin Powell, misrepresenting Iraqi WMD at the U.N.

Salute and say “yes sir” is the winning modus.

Scenario: Without a CIA finding and on the advice of NSA head, General McMaster, Trump declares a national security issue on the Mexican border. Trump then orders Secretary of defense General Mattis to order his generals to deploy a brigade to the suspect area with orders to shoot on sight any person caught illegally crossing into U. S. territory.

The hastily convened and selected rally crowd roars its approval. No one risks promotion by saying “hell no”.

Paul Hunter

SMS USAF Ret. paulhunter45177@gmail.com 

What Say You Mr. Speaker?

Early in his career in Columbus, our representative, Cliff Rosenberger, indicated that he would support increased funding for the Wilmington school district. His proper justification was the harsh economic results of the DHL fiasco. However, before the state budget vote he deleted his support for the increase and promised to take up the issue up at a later date. That later date never came.

How will he react from his position of increaed political power when he has another shot at fulfilling that long ago promise when the new budget (see below) comes to a vote? After all his district is one of the most real estate poor in Ohio.

From the Dispatch: “This local government funding formula in Gov. John Kasich’s proposed budget is similar to Kasich’s school funding plan: It awards money from part of the fund based on capacity, a community’s ability to raise revenue from its residents.”

Paul Hunter, Wilmington

Manufacturing Twilight Zone

Imagine If You Will

You are CEO of an automobile manufacturing company with several plants in low labor cost Mexico.

Political pressure is being applied to encourage, if not force you to close those plants and open new ones in the high labor cost United States.

A 35 % tariff and other disincentives make the move financially mandatory if your company is to survive, if it survives.

Now you have to choose from a menu of difficult choices:

a. Not move and add the35% to your selling price and lose market share. Nah!

b. Move and pay the significant wage and benefit labor cost increases then pass that cost on to the consumer and/or the investors. Maybe?

c. Return to the pre-globalization model and negotiate with labor. Build a new factory with all the human needs accounted for. See b

d. Build a inexpensive windowless, toilet-less, cafeteria-less factory with no parking lot. Install an automation system and reduce labor to a few dozen operators and a few low payed robot polishers.

Fire the HR directorate. Yes that's the ticket!

Paul Hunter