All eyes were on Tuesday's New Hampshire Primary. Everyone was
curious to see how the Democratic field of supporters would vote and
which candidate would come out on top. While the nation was focused on
this first in the nation primary, the Virginia House passed HB 961,
which bans suppressors, so-called "high capacity" magazines and "assault
weapons."
The bill originally
had an outright ban but an amendment was added that created a
grandfather clause, meaning people who currently own suppressors,
AR-15s, AK-47s and other similar rifles would be able to keep them. The
original language also made it a felony for gun owners to have magazines
that held more than 12 rounds. The bill was changed to make simple
possession a misdemeanor, Bearing Arms reported.
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Op-ed: Trump's Acquittal Wasn't The Only Good
News Last Week By: Diane Sori / The Patriot
Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
“Not only is there demand for labor, there’s supply to fill
that demand, and that’s a very positive narrative.”
- Michelle Meyer, chief United States economist for Bank of America
Merrill Lynch
The impeachment nonsense is finally starting to fade into the
background not just because President Trump was rightfully acquitted
but because what matters most to the American people is again center
stage. And what matters most is that under the leadership and
economic policies of Donald J. Trump the American economy is soaring
as proven by the U.S. Department of Labor’s recently released
January jobs numbers...numbers that showed non-farm payrolls rising
to 225,000 for the month, which is well above the 158,000 new
payrolls both Wall Street and leading economists had predicted. Also,
average hourly earnings rose 3.1% over a year ago to $28.44, ahead of
estimates for a 3% growth rate.
So what explains these unexpected numbers? How about numbers that
included the employment-to-population ratio rising to 61.2%, its
highest since November 2008 and 0.5 percentage points higher than
just a year ago. And how about the fact that President Trump and
China recently signed a new 'Phase One' trade deal along with
Congress having passed a new North American trade agreement... which
together basically negated the Democrats mantra that a recession was
close at hand. And there's also numbers showing that actual wages
rose the fastest for both black workers and those at the bottom rung
of the earnings ladder. Now add in that the Federal Reserve cut
interest rates three times last year in an effort to help keep the
overall numbers strong...which worked. And when you add in the
continued, albeit modest, pace of wage growth, the worry of many that
the economy will burn itself out has basically become a mute point.
And even with the actual unemployment rate for January rising ever
slightly from 3.55 to 3.6 percent... statistically a non-issue...this
actually proves to be a good thing because it shows that more people
joined the labor force to look for work...employment-to-population
ratio it's called. And said ratio is a key indicator reflecting the
percentage of people who are working relative to the total
population, as in the number of people working divided by the number
of people in the total population multiplied by 100. And with that
number increasing 0.2 percentage points to 63.4%...matching its
highest level since June 2013...this shows that the number of people
looking for work is actually higher than the number of retiring baby
boomers.
Also, the participation numbers shows that Americans in
their prime working years has been steadily increasing, especially
amongst women, thus signaling that companies can keep adding jobs
without fearing that they'll run out of workers. In fact, as per the
January report, the share of Americans ages 25 to 54 working or
looking for work increased to 83.1% up from 82.9% in December, this
being the highest percentage since 2008.
Another positive in these January numbers is that the
employment-to-population ratio for working-age people with
disabilities increased from last January's 29.8 percent to 30.7
percent now, while working-age people without disabilities saw their
employment-to-population number increasing from 73.6 percent in
January 2019 to a rate of 74.4 percent in January 2020.
And by taking a closer look at the numbers one sees that the
so-called “weather-sensitive”
construction industry added 44,000 new jobs which is well above the
2019 average of 12,000 jobs being added; while leisure and
hospitality added 36,000 new jobs as did the health care industry.
Professional and business services grew by 21,000 jobs, bringing to
390,000 the number of jobs that sector has added; while
transportation and warehousing increased by 28,000 jobs. The only
true negative in these numbers was in manufacturing, which has been
in a slump for quite some time, where another 12,000 jobs were lost
mainly due to the drop in motor vehicles and parts sales...while
mining, wholesale trade, retail trade, information, financial
activities, and government showed little if any change over
December's numbers, basically holding steady.
But the bottom line is that roughly 6.9 million jobs have been
created allowing 3.5 million workers to enter the full-time labor
force while at the same time consumer confidence is up especially
among independents since President Trump took office. And that alone
has the Democrats coming unglued.
So as expected the Democrat naysayers are now chiming in...heaven
forbid they give President Trump's economic policies any kudos or
dare to admit that their fabricated nonsense of a looming recession
has gone bust. And their latest scare tactic dejour is that due to
the coronavirus outbreak in China, China has been forced to close a
number of factories which possibly could...as in maybe it will, most
likely it will not...affect trade globally. And they're doing this
never mind the fact that as of today, as I write this, there have
been no indications whatsoever that the outbreak half a world away
has or will affect the American economy. Just more Trump haters
crying wolf it seems.
And if February's jobs numbers increase or even just hold steady,
and there's no real reason why they shouldn't, the Democrats will be
in meltdown mode yet again showing the American people that these
folks cannot even herald this president's economic
successes...something that surely benefits not only both sides of the
political aisle but more importantly benefits both “We the People”
and our country as well.
Now something else to add to the plus column...something that
President Trump has wanted and something the Democrats will not just
meltdown over but which actually might cause them to blow their
collective lid...and it starts here in Florida, our president's new
home state. And what is that something...how about that last Friday,
Florida's Governor Ron DeSentis threw out the rotten apple known as
Common Core...the government ordered educational standards that
translated into the dumbing down of America's students.
“Florida has officially eliminated Common Core, I truly think
this is a great next step for students, teachers, and parents,”
said Governor DeSantis. And to that might I add that by Florida's
governor eliminating Common Core we just might see a domino effect
starting to take hold as other state governors come to the
realization that when 2+2=5 becomes an acceptable answer, America's
educational system is not only in trouble but it's in desperate need
of a major overhaul.
And Florida's specific educational overhaul comes in the guise of
B.E.S.T., which stands for Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking
(you can read the B.E.ST. Standards in its entirety here:
http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/5660/urlt/StandardsRecommendationsPacket.pdf),
with said standards being a result of "a transparent and
inclusive process created by Florida teachers." And B.E.S.T
sees Florida becoming the first state in the nation with an English
Language Arts (ELA) booklist that encompasses grades K-12; the first
state in the nation with a civics booklist and course “embedded”
within language arts lessons for grades K-12; reading lists with our
nation's all-important founding documents being taught in tandem with
American history; the teaching of cursive writing; and of course the
dropping of the 2+2=5 so-called “crazy math” curriculum;
just to name a few.
“I wanted to make sure we had a renewed emphasis on American
civics and understanding the principles that make America great,”
Governor DeSantis said when asked why the specific emphasis on
booklists. I'll tell you why...because Governor DeSantis is a
champion of American exceptionality and with the adoption of the
B.E.S.T. Standards, Florida students will be able to reach that very
pinnacle.
Simply, Florida students will be going back to the long ignored
but very much needed basic educational principals of “reading,
writing, and arithmetic,” coupledwith said emphasis on civics and
a reduction in the amount of testing which will be replaced with
all-important actual classroom learning, something sorely missing
under Common Core.
And something else much needed in
today's modern world...a world where young people think they're owed
everything...sees with the removal of Common Core, Florida high
school students now having to take a personal finance course to learn
the value of a dollar, and do so in order to graduate. Hopefully,
with this course these young people will learn that their self
grandiose vision of entitlement has come to an end...this next
generation maybe righting the millennial generation's wrongs, if you
will.
So with Common Core now having been "officially
eradicated" from Florida classrooms as per Florida's Board
of Education, Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran himself
recommended that the State Board formally adopt the new B.E.S.T.
Standards, which they did in the February 12th legislative session.And with B.E.S.T's adoption as per Governor DeSantis, “These new
standards create pathways for students that lead to great college and
professional outcomes and parents will now be able to reinforce what
their children are learning in the classroom every day. Florida’s
B.E.S.T. Standards were made by Florida teachers for Florida
students, and I know they will be a model for the rest of the
nation.”
We can only hope so for Common Core has created a generation of
maybe not illiterates per se, but a generation where America's
brightest kids were brought down to the level of those who were
placated by a system where every answer to question is right no
matter that said answer is wrong...an “anything goes”
mentality that does way more harm than good. And “dumbing down”
puts it mildly for what Common Core created across the board was
a generation of young people unable to function in the real world.
But what can you expect when it's perfectly acceptable for 2+2 to
equal 5. Thankfully, our new Governor Ron DeSantis put an end to such
nonsense...and thankfully his Common Core proponent Andrew Gillum
lost the governor's race.
So there you have two other bits of good news from last
week...news somewhat lost in the Senate impeachment tussle...news
that our economy is strong as are our jobs numbers with all key
economic indicators predicting both will remain so, and news that
with Florida removing “all vestiges” of the educational
nightmare that is Common Core from Florida's public schools hopefully
it will start the ball rolling in the growing effort to take back
America's public schools. So last week was a very good news week
indeed...Trump's rightful acquittal most definitely included. Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. *********************************************************************************************************************************** For more political commentary please visit my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article, Free Vaseline and Other Empty Promises. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
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