Copy of AFF Sentinel V22 #04-The Economy Beginning 2025 - Part II
- Steve Dittmer
- Jul 22
- 3 min read
Sorting the Complexities
Steve Dittmer | AFF Sentinel
Colorado Springs, CO
Originally sent to subscribers 01/14/25
We began last time with analysis of where our economy is now. This is the continuation.
Big corporate CEOs have confessed that one their biggest fears have been upsetting their young employees, who had bought in lock, stock and barrel into DEI and ESG philosophies. But the youngest of the young, the so-called Generation Z, having grown up witnessing the results of the last few years of leftist culture, actually voted more for Donald Trump.
Nothing like witnessing the gap between what you have been promised, what they’re telling you is happening and the hard reality witnessed by your own eyes and bank account.
We’re a bit skeptical of the major shift from big corporate titans like Mark Zuckerman, Jeff Bezos, Larry Fink and Bill Gates but whether or not they have really been knocked off their donkeys’ St. Paul style or they are just shifting emphasis, the results may be the same. Remembering that their job is to make money for owners instead of kowtowing to over-sensitive activists and their dewy-eyed disciples may be old-school but it is derived from common sense and is a response to the fiduciary charge of business.
Steve Moore said talking to big corporation CEOs revealed that they didn’t think they were permeated with DEI and ESG diktats within their company. But closer examination of what was going on at the lower levels of companies indicated it was there, whether they knew it or not.
Peek said while the George Floyd incident started much of the DEI movement among young employees, it was the Bud Lite commercials that tipped thinking the other way. The young employees who are DEI focused do not really know much about the energy business or climate change, yet those issues are key to our economy.
The key question is, will the Democrat party understand and respond to the change in culture, Larry Kudlow pondered.
So far, much of the party has not.
We remember Rush Limbaugh reminding us that Americans get free speech but they are not guaranteed the right to not be offended.
Liz Peek pointed out that the bigger the government footprint expands into the world, everyone’s “on the take” from the government. They are either angling for government subsidies or trying to avoid regulatory problems.
Some early work to carry out the wishes of Trump and his supporters will be accomplished with executive orders But legislation is required to make sure the reforms are more permanent.
The key to all this optimism is the reconciliation bill (s). Seems as if more people are leaning towards one bill, which, as well as other reasons previously discussed, reminds us of the Farm Bill calculus. Most of the Farm Bill has nothing to do with agriculture but we wouldn’t likely get anything without the stuff that has nothing to do with agriculture.
We need the tax stuff the most but we are likely not to get what we want without border reform, energy reform, deregulation and other items we know we can get support for.
How do we get it?
Newt Gingrich is both the consummate politician and an historian. As one of the legendary House Speakers, he knows what Speaker Mike Johnson is going through now. He has said he could not do what Johnson is doing. He doesn’t have the patience.
He told Mark Levin that there are 37 Democrat districts that are key, 13 that Trump won and the rest that Trump was within five percent of winning. Trump and J.D. Vance must campaign in those 37 districts just like it was an election. They need to make those Democrats choose between voting with the Republicans or survival back home, Gingrich said.
The Republicans must all realize that this reconciliation bill is the vote they must unite on. They cannot betray their voters, the party and the country.
Reagan used that type of strategy to get 46 Democrat votes for tax cuts and 101 Democrat votes for welfare reform, Gingrich said.
We have to understand that Democrats govern from Washington to the countryside, Gingrich added. Conservatives govern from the grass roots back to Washington. Tell Democrats that they need to vote with us now or we will replace you. We can get 15-20 Democrat votes that way. We cannot negotiate for votes with the leadership.
We get there by rousing the voters, Gingrich reminded.
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