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This Week in Missouri Politics — April 17, 2022
Scott Faughn is joined by Sen. Paul Wieland, member of the Conservative Caucus, to discuss the state of the Senate, abortion, and more. On the panel, Scott is joined by state Reps. Tony Lovasco, Jim Murphy, and Bridget Walsh Moore along with Mark Dalton, political director of the Carpenters Union.
Watch here.
Graves Speaks Out Against Transportation Mask Mandate
Northwest Missouri’s national representative said he believes the federal transportation mask mandate shouldn’t have been extended and it’s time for it to be done.
Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., serves as a ranking member of the House Transportation Committee. He said he has made multiple efforts to speak out against the mandate, gathering 129 Republican members to sign a letter to President Joe Biden and following up with an additional letter with help of the Senate.
The mandate was extended Wednesday and will now run until May 3.
“People are tired of it, that’s the bottom line,” Graves said. “They’re tired of the double standard, they’re tired of the control, and that’s what it’s about. It’s not about controlling the virus, it’s about controlling people, and it just needs to end.”
Continue reading here.
Where We Are
The General Assembly is off today as part of their Easter break. Senate Appropriations will start its budget markup tomorrow at 10AM. Find the budget notes here. The Senate will use its new schedule on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, with committee hearings starting at 8AM, and the full body convening at 11AM to have full days for floor action. The Senate will be in this Friday.
There are four weeks remaining in the legislative session. May 6 is the constitutional deadline to pass the budget. (And there’s also constitutional requirement to pass a congressional redistricting map…)
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Young Americans Turn Against Biden & Globalism
By Steve Cortes
Young Americans awaken to the generational grand larceny that has been perpetrated against them by the ruling class. Biden and his rigged globalist agenda employ war, debt, and inflation to hijack the futures of the young, and they increasingly politically rebel against this predicament.
Recent polling gives evidence to this secular shift among the young. Just last week, critics of Biden and the globalists understandably fixated in the implosion in polling support for Biden among Hispanic citizens. The incessant promotion of cultural radicalism plus economic corporatism pushes Latino voters away from the Democrats, as revealed by the latest Quinnipiac Poll, which showed an abysmal 26% approval rating for Biden among Hispanic voters.
But that same survey also revealed that support for Biden among young American voters ages 18-34 utterly collapsed, even lower, to only 21%. Even CNN charlatan Brian Stelter conceded this reality in a recent article, relaying that “young Americans have turned on Joe Biden.” CNN’s analysis cites other polling from Gallup which details Biden losing a stunning 1/3 of his young supporters over the last year.
This kind of meltdown among young adults signals a five-alarm fire for the Democrats. It’s Defcon 1 for Dems into the midterm elections with this kind of disaffection within the ranks of a formerly dependable demographic. Alternatively, this shift presents opportunity for America First. Our movement must properly identify the abuses inflicted upon the young by Biden and his globalist comrades -- AND provide a roadmap out, an agenda of fixes.
Decades of profligate Washington spending ratchets total federal debt up to nearly $30 trillion. Much of that debt financed the constant warfighting and nation-building of Bush and Obama, with fervent promotion from Joe Biden, as a senator, then vice-president, and now from the Oval Office. Young Americans fought in these disastrous wars, with over 7,000 vibrant American servicemembers killed in action because of the multilateralist fantasists of the DC foreign policy establishment.
In addition to the incredible human toll, financially these globalist interventions cost America a jarring total of $8 trillion, according to the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.
So now, young Americans face the unbearable debt burden accumulated by middle-aged and elderly ruling class potentates, personified by Joe Biden. Interest rates rocket higher as Biden’s exorbitant budgets send inflation spiking to 40-year highs, far above the rates of any of America’s economic peers. Accordingly, a fiscal nightmare scenario beckons, and the young are on the hook most acutely.
Consequently, young Americans confront the reality of vastly reduced near-term opportunities -- plus a long-term economic slog with their futures mortgaged by a corrupt crony cabal of politicos, oligarchs, and a complicit corporate media.
Consider a tangible ramification of this quagmire: young people and housing. For renters, costs skyrocket, as lease prices soared 17.1% over the last year, compared to a contained 2.5% growth rate in the hot pre-pandemic Trump economy of 2018 and 2019. Even worse, most young people will likely never become homeowners due to the combination of vaulting list prices thanks to Biden’s inflation, plus surging mortgage rates to finance those homes.
As an example, interest rates on 30-year mortgages swelled from 3.25% to begin this year to 5.29% now, per BankRate.com. To put that leap in dollar terms, for a home priced at the national median of $409,000, if a young American couple actually has a 20% down payment of over $80,000, what are the financing costs? At the beginning of 2022, the monthly payment was $1,758. Today, the monthly payment is $2,149. That increase of almost $400/month and almost $5,000/year relegates most young people to permanent renting status. No wonder household formation and birth rates plunge to all-time lows.
So how do we stop this devolution and provide young citizens with the robust future they deserve?
First, stop the fiscal madness that has been pursued not only by Biden’s Dem allies on the Hill, Joe and Chuck, but also by collaborator establishment Republicans like Mitch McConnell.
Second, insist that America return to a Trumpian foreign policy of realism and restraint. Stand up against the Washington War Machine which sees a regional conflict in Ukraine as the next grand adventure of interventionism.
Regarding housing, stop all illegal migration immediately, plus enact a moratorium, a pause, on even legal immigration, so that real wages for citizens can rise again and housing can stabilize. In addition, prohibit large scale institutional investments into single-family residences so that young people do not have to compete against BlackRock and other asset-manager cartels
for a starter home.
We owe solutions to our children and grandchildren. If the America First cause delivers on these issues, the movement will dominate American politics for decades to come.
Tax Day Brings Added Burdens to Missourians
Fiscal Budget Notes
https://www.senate.mo.gov/fiscal-year-2023-budget-notes/
2) https://twitter.com/BobOnderMO/status/1515319345378959364
Mississippi Tightens Up Its Elections With Ban On Zuckbucks
If Mississippi can advance election security measures to bar state and local election officials from receiving funding from nongovernmental entities to conduct elections so can Missouri!
https://twitter.com/BobOnderMO/status/1515358679062786057
https://twitter.com/BobOnderMO/status/1515358569129984000
4) https://twitter.com/FreedompplSTL/status/1514600570979553281
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