I'm Baaaacccckkkkk and just in time.

After a long hiatus due to a severe illness and the double-lung transplant that followed I intend to once again make my voice heard. There is very little disagreement that the nation is in terrible shape. Even those that are responsible seem to agree. Except for the spinners very few people think we are better off as a nation. The economy is still idle, race relations are at their lowest level since the 1960's, our conduct on foreign soil is superfluous and poorly chosen.  Our nation seems to be on the wrong side almost every time. Instead of stabilizing the Middle East and North Africa our feckless and wrong-headed foreign policy has put a match to the oil under its sand. President Obama's and Hilary Clinton's action in these areas has caused the greatest refugee crisis of this century so far, and it's still early.  We are so fed up with our politics (both Republicans and Democrats)  that we are willing to take an outsider over insiders who have proven they can accomplish very little. The Republicans can't decide on a Speaker or how to fight Obama on the budget, the debt ceiling, spending, executive overreach, not to mention illegal action via regulation in many departments and choosing which laws to prosecute and which to ignore. Meanwhile Democrats are willing to give their nomination to a woman who had failed as Secretary of State, failed as Senator of New York and is under investigation for divulging National Security. We are becoming the country our Founding Fathers feared.

Things I heard that bug me.

Donald a Trump is not qualified to be President: Ari Fleischer, most conservative pundits, Republican politicians, almost all Democrats. Trump meets all the qualifications to run. He says what he means. He probably means what he says. The attacks from all sides come from the fear he could win and make the political class earn their pay. Now wouldn't that be novel.

The Mexican Goverment doesn't do anything to help illegal aliens cross our southern borders; Larry Kudlow, financial analyst. Wrong Larry. The Mexican govt permitted the distribution of booklets that told illegals how to cross the border, what to say if they were caught and how to avoid arrest.

Mitt Romney and other conservatives now say take the Confederate Flag off the South Carolina Capitol. Unfortunately they fail to point out a Democrat passed the law that put it there. They also fail to point out that the legacy of slavery, segregation , Jim Crow and the Confederate Flag throughout the southern states belongs lock, stock and barrel to the Democrats who fought integration until Lyndon Johnson created the Great Society to subjugate African Americans, destroy their families and secure their vote.

New Jersey Democrats are demanding Chris Christie resign because he's running for President. Can you ever recall Democrats asking a Democrat candidate to resign because he or she ran for President? In case you don't know the answer is no.

Why Infrastructure Spending Doesn't Work

This is the second time I have written on this subject at The New Narrative. However as an editor of the now defunct New York Construction News and publisher of The Infrastructure Pipeline and Juvenile Justice Magazine I have had many opportunities to explore the issue. The main reason infrastructure spending cannot provide an immediate stimulus is because it takes years of planning to build or repair even the simplest of roads or bridges. Add to that the actual length of physical time it takes to do the work and you have projects that require many years to develop, implement and complete. In fact, most states have to spread their infrastructure plans over several years because many projects simply take years to build. Anyone who does serious driving will tell you there is road and bridge construction in almost every state. Many of these projects have been ongoing for several years. Infrastructure does provide jobs, but in most cases those jobs already exist and most of those people are already working on another project. Most government financed infrastructure goes to government employees or firms that already do business with government and are familiar with bidding systems. Perhaps that is why fours years into Obama's first infrastructure stimulus he remarked "the jobs weren't as shovel ready as we thought;" And the truth is they won't be this time either. Federal and State governments fund their Highway Trusts from a variety of sources including the gas tax, highway use tax, etc. They do it every year so a close look will tell you they already have billions to spend but can't do it because infrastructure spending has to be developed and planned before it can be put in the pipeline. The effect can never be immediate. When a politician tell you otherwise he is lying.

Will Benghazi be Obama's Iran-Contra?

On the 11th Anniversary of 911 the State Department consulate in Benghazi was attacked by rebel forces that turned out to include al-Qaeda fighters. There were persistent rumors at the time that the Obama Administration through the CIA and State Department were trying to provide arms to Syrian rebels, which many think was the purpose of Ambassador Christopher Stevens' trip to Benghazi. Some people think that Stevens came to the realization that al-Qaeda fighters were among those buying the weapons and tried to cancel the deal, which lead directly to his death and the deaths of the others. Perhaps that is why we did not run to the sound of the guns and left our men to die in the desert. After two years of investigating by Congress and stonewalling by the Obama Administration a Select Committee has been formed to get the answers that the families of the four dead victims deserve, as well as to give America a clear picture of what took place. For example, if the goal was to provide Syrian rebels with weapons was it legal to do so? It wasn't for Ronald Reagan. Americans deserve an answer.

The ObamaCare Trap

Republicans must be careful to not fall into the Democratic trap of "fixing" ObamaCare. The President and his allies have been adamant in saying the Republicans have been trying to repeal ObamaCare, but have not offered an alternative. The truth is Republicans should not offer an alternative; that is the trap. The solution is to be found in the market, not in the Congress. It is government involvement in medical care that has led to the situation we now found ourselves in. Medicare is not in trouble yet, but will be if ObamaCare related cuts in service continue. Medicaid is a well-known disaster providing inferior healthcare to America's poorest and needy. Medicare and Medicaid are both rife with corruption in every state. Without the constantly renewed "Doc Fix" Medicare too would be in big trouble. So Republicans must fight the "alternative" argument of Obama and the Democrats by saying Health Care requires a market solution, not another government program. It is time for the government to get out of the healthcare business and leave it to the professionals who know what they are doing.

Is the President Walking on Broken Glass?

Just how bad is the situation with ObamaCare? Has it driven the President to the edge? As the truth emerges and we discover that He and the Democrats understood the healthcare market would be utterly unraveled to accomplish the long-sought liberal goal of national healthcare. We learned that while he and other Democrats assured us if we liked our policy we could keep it was a lie.  If we liked our doctors we could keep them, period, was a lie too. Worse yet, they knew it was a lie and told it anyway. It was as bold a lie as you could tell. As brazen as a lie could be. Even as he said it he knew it was untrue and he thought he could get away with it. Like a kid in a candy store, the President thought he could pocket that one piece and walk out without getting caught. But as the lies piled on and the truth became a victim of the knockout the President has been caught and is now walking on the broken glass of a shattered healthcare scheme? How will the bloodbath end?

ObamaCare: The Road to Single-Payer

Those that think the Republicans have never offered an alternative to ObamaCare are wrong. The simple truth is Democrats don't want reform. What they want is "Single-Payer." They want government run healthcare to control people's lifestyles and medical choices. They want to eliminate insurance companies from the equation and impose a healthcare tax on every working person and subsidize the cost for those they deem "can't afford it." What is occurring now is the intermediate step toward single payer; make policy management so impossible that it becomes a losing proposition for insurance companies, hospitals and doctors and they get out of the business. Both are happening right now.If you think this is a paranoid view consider the following: Before ObamaCare was passed 85% of people with healthcare insurance were satisfied with the policies. It wasn't perfect, but 85% is not bad. There were said to be 40 million people uninsured. Some who did not want insurance and some who did not have it because they were too poor or ineligible. Rather than legislate reforms to provide wider coverage and lower prices, which could have been easily done, the Democrats decided to go after the whole enchilada. To accomplish this they have to destroy the current system. The Democrats have told what they think you deserve: MedicAid, also known as healthcare for the poor, except for the ruling class of course. Be careful what you wish for.