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I Don’t Believe That !

Recently I had an interesting conversation with my friend, let’s call him Lew. Lew is staunchly conservative and wise beyond his years, but what made this especially fascinating was that it was about the experiences of his brother-in-law, let’s call him Anders. Now granted most conversations with, or about, brothers-in-law are not what one would call “riveting,” but Anders is a State Senator in California, a Republican State Senator – an endangered species in a vast wasteland, but not yet extinct.

Anyway Lew related that he was asking Anders why his fellow Democratic Senators don’t understand the sorry plight that California is in as far as the future is concerned.  Anders sighed and said, “I have repeatedly brought up the fact that California is losing an incredible number of families to other states. I quoted a recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal that stated that middle income families are leaving because of high housing prices fueled by onerous zoning regulations, and that since 2010, 710,000 residents have left California for other states. The response that I got from various Democratic Senators was ‘I don’t believe you or the Wall Street Journal’!”

Lew then said that Anders continued, “Last week I was trying to point out that jobs and businesses are leaving California in droves. I quoted Joe Vranich, a business relocation consultant, who stated that approximately 1800 businesses shifted jobs or capital out of California in 2016, and in the last ten years 1300 companies have left California taking with them  $76.7 billion in capital and 275,000 jobs. At first I thought from their facial expressions that they were genuinely concerned, but my optimism fizzled when they replied, ‘We don’t believe you or Joe Vranich’!”

“Initially I was shocked,” Lew said to me, “but then I recalled the recent comments of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D,CA) at a meeting at the White House where the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen was trying to present statistics which are the result of our present border policy – ‘In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records including those charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 violent killings.’ Finally, according  to those present at the meeting, Rep. Pelosi, after multiple rude interruptions, essentially said that she didn’t believe either the Secretary of Homeland Security or her ICE statistics.” 


Lew then continued, “At first I thought that maybe this “non-believing” was a California thing – that is until, according to the Washington Post, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D,NY) said that it was okay to ‘spew lies’ if you are morally right!” (Wow! This AOC is like manna from heaven . . . for Republicans!)

After this conversation with Lew, my eyes were opened. Now I get it! Apparently all Democrats have to say is, “I don’t believe that,” and, wallah, everything is hunky-dory.!! My question to Democrat politicians: Is saying you don’t believe something when you know that it’s true, the same as “spewing?”
1/10/19

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