George Rebane

Ignorance is the handmaiden of collectivism.  When ignorance prevails, socialism/communism will always seek to fundamentally transform the governance of a liberal society.  Rebane Doctrine

Government shutdown derby.  Unfortunately too many government workers live paycheck to paycheck.  That depends more on individuals’ faulty behavior than unavoidable financial stress.  (Even as dirt poor immigrants with minimally paying jobs the Rebanes always put a fixed percent in the bank for such rainy days – government handouts didn’t exist then.) That said, I don’t see why such destitutes cannot get a bank loans today to tide them over, since we all know that the government will make them whole once the shutdown ends.  That lump sum payment can serve as signed-over collateral to completely eliminate the lenders’ risk.

News on the street is that lamestream media is in retreat.  Led by major outlets like WaPo and CBS, the formerly ‘hate Trump’ newsrooms are getting a makeover with new management replacing former sleazebags who have long generated fake news to serve the socialist narrative.  In the forefront of their efforts have been edited versions of what President Trump actually said.  Even the vaunted BBC has had a management change because they admitted to modifying, among others, Trump’s 6jan21 speech to sound as if he were promoting an insurrection.  However, these good tidings may be premature, our leftwing media is very firmly entrenched with both ignorant and evil reporters.  I’ll believe any change in the offing when I see it.

“… to save our democracy” is the practiced refrain of our legions of the less read.  Ever notice how many of your progressive neighbors don’t know the meaning of such concepts as democracy and republic.  Our local newspaper’s op-ed pages overflow with supporting evidence. To them all these words are just parts of parroted slogans that let them declare their membership in the politically correct (today read ‘socialist’) class.

Eliminating government shutdowns has a ready solution in the Rebane Doctrine.  Government will continue to operate on a perennial continuing resolution of current spending until Congress passes a new budget or appropriations bill.  And all congress critters cease getting their pay during the interval between the old appropriations having expired until the new one reaches the president’s desk.

[15nov25 update]  Job openings galore.  Small example – “Ford has 5,000 job openings for mechanics offering a six-figure salary, a sign of skilled manual labor shortage facing the United States, the company’s CEO, Jim Farley, said in a Nov. 12 interview on the “Office Hours: Business Edition” podcast.” (H/T to reader)  Anyone who cares to look at the details will see that the Trump economy is roaring.

[16nov25 update] “History (of socialism) repeats itself because people forget the past.”  So writes Victor Davis Hansen here – https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/12/mayor-mamdanis-socialist-vision-is-setting-nyc-up-for-failure/ .  Unfortunately, that is not only untrue, but the reality is much worse.  Today there are already two generations of Americans whose schooling has never covered the tragedies of socialism (and other forms of collectivism) along with the benefices of free market capitalism.  You cannot forget what you have never known.