GOP Leader Andria Tupola Joins Johanson and Fukumoto in Steering Hawaii Republicans to the Far Left
Aloha, Republicans:
Terrible news. Read it and weep. Our state legislature's embrace of socialism was totally unanimous. Not a single "no" vote. Not even one. That's exactly how the vote went down at the State Capitol on May 5, 2017 . On the final day of this year's regular session of the state legislature, under the leadership of the latest RINO minority leader Andria Tupola, all five Republicans in the state house (a.k.a. the only remaining elected Republicans in all of Hawaii) joined the other 71 Democrats in the state legislature by voting in favor of openly pursuing socialism in the islands.
House Concurrent Resolution #89 -- introduced by the two most recent Republican minority leaders(Boy, our party can sure pick 'em!) Aaron "Ling" Johansonand Beth Fukumoto along with Beth's VERY close associate, progressive Democrat legislator Chris Lee -- is the first concrete step toward creating "Universal Basic Income" or UBI for the people of Hawaii. It's the dream of socialists worldwide. And faster than Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard can push "Universal Healthcare", RINO's and Democrats are joining hands with the World Workers Party, Socialists United and the Communist Party to push "Universal Basic Income".
Known as 'the capitalist road to communism ', UBI or guaranteed income or simply "free money" is a leftist-futurist vision which requires taxpayers to bear the financial burden for a proposed new entitlement program which pays people for simply being alive. "To each according to his needs," wrote Communist Manifesto author Karl Marx -- while Hillary Clinton's slogan put it more simply in 2016: "Forward together".
Unless you have principles along with some life experiencewatching how liberals get voters hooked on endless freebies, what politician of either party in Hawaii could possibly say "no" to the next big thing in government entitlement programs? With Hawaii Democrats and Hawaii Republicans both pushing Universal Basic Income, all they need is a printing press to make money in the basement of the State Capitol (or significantly higher taxes) to fund such a dependency-creation program.
According to the legislation's chief sponsor, State Representative Chris Lee (yes, let that serious official title sink in for a bit), 51% of all millennials don't believe in capitalism as is right now and they would like to redefine the American Dream so they "no longer have to seek out the best job that pays the most, but it rather find the job that provides the best meaning and quality of life." Lee, the guy who talked Tupola, Ward, McDermott, Thielen and Cheape into voting for this legislation, explains further that a majority of millennials want to be able to select jobs and careers which might be low-paying yet personally satisfying -- say, musician or coffee barista or bike messenger or even poet or rapper or surfer. But since failed Democrat policies have made Hawaii so expensive, and since automation in the retail industry cuts the number of service jobs available, then Hawaii residents ought to be able to afford living in the islands while pursuing 'their dreams and their passions' while working low-paying jobs of their choice. According to Lee, Universal Basic Income is "a mechanism that empowers people to have that opportunity in the face of a changing economy."
Yes, this is the new socialist direction for Hawaii which Republican minority leader Andria Tupola, national committeeman Gene Ward, and the other three elected RINO Republicans fully support. Let's be honest about it. If universal healthcare is socialized medicine, then universal income is the essence of socialism - plain and simple.
But how would this insanity of guaranteed paychecks for life possibly get paid for? Where would the money come from? Who exactly would pay for the program? The answer now lies with the politicians who gave the green light to pursuing a governmental structure for this madness only four months ago with their unanimous vote.
For a simple answer, leave it to Tax Foundation of Hawaii president Tom Yamachika to help set these utopian visionary political leaders straight with a reality check using his terribly simple example: If all Hawaii residents were given $10,000 annually by the Ige administration, this would cost about $10 billion a year, which Yamachika says Hawaii can't afford given the existing mess of $20 billion in unfunded pension liabilities for retired state and county government workers. Generous Democrats and RINO's buying votes got us into that mess by overpromising freebies to public employees in exchange for their support. Now, these politicians want to create another entitlement program which is unaffordable, unsustainable and which changes the entire societal compact for a cost equivalent to a brand new 20-mile rail project each year.
As Margaret Thatcher warned, the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. Yet such common sense doesn't bother Hawaii politicians (including Andria Tupola and her GOP caucus) who rarely care about the cost of their grand schemes.
THE BOTTOM LINE : It's no longer going to be enough for folks to work hard in their careers to pay taxes and watch their income get redistributed via 'well-meaning' and 'generous' and 'caring' Democrats to help the less fortunate among us. Now, as taxpayers living under House Speaker Scott Saiki and GOP leader Andria Tupola, we'll now have to write even bigger checks to the government so that Chris Lee's millennials can afford the growing cost of living in Hawaii while pursuing their dreams of holding down low-paying yet dream-fulfilling passion jobs.
NOT-SO-FUN FLASHBACK : if this unanimous vote by Andria Tupola's House Republican Caucus reminded you of how, in 2011, the same GOP caucus led by Gene Ward ignored.
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