It means that one candidate can get things done to improve the lives of others, and of the nation too - proven by his past performance

Clinton and Trump: Past Performance is, Guarantee of Future Results!

In the real estate profession “You’re Only as Good as Your Next Deal”. In the securities business it is said, that “Past Performance is no Guarantee of Future Results.” In fact, the best fund managers pick companies, among other factors, based on the past performance of managing executives who made “good deals.” Both mantras prove that We, Americans, had to fight for our real estate the same as Israelis fight for theirs, the same as Americans today have to fight again to reconstitute the Republic for which, We, The People, once stood.

Character AND performance matters in politicians, except when character no longer matters, and past performance is forgotten for expedience. Among progressives character, or the lack of it; and corruption and the overwhelming evidence of it, never mattered. Therefore the progressive ignores the past performance of the leading opposition who employs 35,000 people and has spent a life of resounding success managing large enterprise; and also ignores the disastrous record of their favorite candidate’s complicity in the deaths of 350,000 human beings while she denied having had any complicity in it. Shortcomings matter more concerning the progressives’ enemies, and never for their own which is in most cases, many times larger. Given this history one can almost posit that it is the lack of character that attracts the progressive to his idol…the lack of character that the progressive evidently shares with his idol. Take the billionaire who threatens the status quo, whom allegedly went broke when he actually never had; and his opponent who claimed to be broke herself, when in fact she never was. This sort of a lack of character appears most glaringly when a president who has never built anything but a path to the nearest welfare office pointed his forefinger at the “broke” billionaire who has built everything imaginable, including skating rinks. Lack of character is best seen in irony again when one side has had a thirty year record of chronic women abuse and a felony conviction to back it indicts the other side falsely of women abuse. In fact the second, Trump, promoted and elevated women to high positions in traditionally men’s jobs an age when women just became aware of their oppression.

It gets even better when the one making the charges paid, as a matter of record, 38% less to women than to men for years. In the prog world character, morality and ethics are merely three inconvenient words in the dictionary. Character never mattered. All that mattered was power, the lying to get it, and the control needed to reengineer society to fit in with the tyrannical agendas written about in the book 1984. The Clinton’s version was a tragicomedy. Hillary trashed Donald for bragging about his ability to create jobs. She must have meant he did not…and she had. How many jobs did Hillary create? I should add, how many did Bill create? Well, he did, with a Republican Congress led by Newt Gingrich that ended Welfare as Usual and Business as Usual. That, was the Contract From America. Putting people to work. Until Bill Clinton’s final year when the Tech Bubble collapsed leaving the nation out of work and Hoping For Change in their pockets and food on the table. And the nation with skyrocketing deficits. In fact, Hillary’s co-President whom she promised to put in charge of America’s economic future, was the direct cause of the global economic collapse, and the $20 trillion debt America owes today. Hillary’s answer to Donald Trump’s past performance, a success gained in the usual way by working and investing for it, vs. her husband’s, was to outsource the U.S. economy to Bill and his Clinton Foundation that sold America’s uranium to Vladimir Putin.

Putin in turn sold it to Iran. Hillary approved the sale. Hillary needs Bill because she has neither the knowledge nor the confidence to run our economy. Remember, she was “broke.” In fact, Hillary has never achieved anything for women or her country, except the deaths of many innocents abroad. Imagine how the media might have treated this story had Donald Trump outsourced the US economy to Melania and Slovania. On that MEMO to Hillary: Trump employs 35,000 women and men who put food on the table, send their kids to college without Bernie Sanders-marked lunchboxes, pay their insurance and medical bills, and buy new cars, the manufacture of which employ millions of Americans. That, is about 34,989 more people employed at Trump’s expense than Hillary and Bill’s at government’s - meaning the taxpayers. It means that one candidate can get things done to improve the lives of others, and of the nation too - proven by his past performance. The other never has. SPENGLER, aka David P. Goldman at PJ Media wraps it up: In Alien vs. Predator, I’m for Predator, Because He’s OUR Predator A fit of high dudgeon has gripped many of my Republican friends, ex-friends, and soon-to-be-ex friends now that Donald Trump has all but won the Republican nomination. My advice to them: get over it. This presidential race will look like Alien vs. Predator. I’m for Predator, without a second’s hesitation, because he’s our Predator. For all his faults, Donald Trump would be (and I’m confident will be) an incomparably better president. I’m not pleased about the outcome of the primaries. I supported Ted Cruz and helped out in his campaign with economic research and news analysis. Yes, Trump is a vulgarian with poor impulse control. I don’t like him and find his vulgarity objectionable and his insulting remarks about Mexicans (for example) deplorable. The mother of my children is Mexican, and I take this sort of thing personally. If I ever have the opportunity I will give Trump a black eye. But there’s a war on—three different wars, in fact. To remain neutral is moral cowardice; to choose the wrong side would be downright wicked. First, there is a war on between Judeo-Christian principles and the political correctness inspired by the Frankfurt School and the French existentialists. Lunatics have seized control of our universities and have stamped out dissent with the zeal and vigilance of the Spanish Inquisition or the Taliban. The distinguished historian Paul Johnson said it best in a Forbes essay: America has been a land of unrestricted comment on anything—until recently. Now the U.S. has been inundated with PC inquisitors, and PC poison is spreading worldwide in the Anglo zone. For these reasons it’s good news that Donald Trump is doing so well in the American political primaries. He is vulgar, abusive, nasty, rude, boorish and outrageous. He is also saying what he thinks and, more important, teaching Americans how to think for themselves again. If the foxes haven’t yet seized control of the hen-house, they are running the hatchery. With the universities in the hands of the American Taliban, we can’t educate a new generation of Americans. Trump is a bitter antidote, but as Johnson argues, he may be the antidote we need. One might add that he’s the antidote we deserve.



Andrew G. Benjamin -- Bio and Archives Andrew G. Benjamin is a real estate and tax specialist, equities trader, a former economic advisor to New York city mayor Rudy Giuliani; serving on the transition team’s Subcommittee on Taxation, Finance and the Budget. Benjamin also wrote extensively about intelligence, economic issues, the Mideast, terrorism, technology, high end audio and transnational politics.

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