Bert's Thoughts

 After being deluged by campaign commercials during the recent primary season, and campaign commercials in general, it is obvious that almost all politicians are liars (even is statements aren't outright lies they are designed to mislead.)  I just read an article on the APnews website ( https://apnews.com/article/electricity-utility-bills-west-virginia-trump-coal-38ad648f99a42eb2c73d7affaddadbcb ). I use their news app regularly even though they definitely suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. The title of the article was “Trump promised to cut electricity costs in half. Bills in energy-rich West Virginia now top mortgages.” One lady focused on it the article claims that heating her small WV house cost her $940 for February. Another lady, who has a teen age daughter still living at home, claims that her electric bills also totaled over $5000 for the year, even though her home is slightly more than 1,000 sf and her AC was broken last summer. Over the four hottest months of ...

  The first sentence of the first Section of the 14 th Amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”   I doubt that people who voted to ratify the Amendment remotely considered that birthright citizenship would be used allow millions of people gain access to the assets others. (I am still waiting for someone to show me the Article/Section of our Constitution, or its Amendments, where We the People gave the federal government the power to take our money and redistribute it to others.) Whatever it takes birthright citizenship should not be allowed in the United States. Not one of the 27 European Union nations allows birthright citizenship. Of the over 30 NATO nations only the US and Canada allow birthright citizenship. According to a 2024 study by the Center for Immigration Studies, 59% of ALL non-citizen households in the US (legal ...