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VIDEO: Green energy worker slams 'dumb bastard' Joe Biden after wind turbine factory is forced to close​

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A frustrated employee at a soon-to-close wind turbine factory in South Dakota made his feelings about President Joe Biden and his special climate envoy John Kerry clearly known during a recent interview with Fox News.

What are the details?

Brian Dockter is one of 300 employees at Molded Fiber Glass, a wind blade manufacturing plant in Aberdeen, South Dakota, who were recently informed that they will be out of a job in early August when the factory shuts down for good.

In a press release, MFG blamed the forthcoming closure on “changes in market conditions, foreign competition, and proposed revisions to tax policies impacting the wind energy industry in the United States.”

Dockter, reportedly a nondestructive testing technician at the plant, argued in an interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Thursday that the phasing out of the production tax credit for wind energy was primarily responsible for the factory’s shutdown.

He added that his family will be forced to sell their house and move due to the fact that a specialized jobs like his are no longer available in the area.




Fox News guest calls Biden a ‘dumb bastard’

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News of the factory’s closure came as a complete surprise to Dockter and his family, especially given the Biden administration’s repeated assurances that green energy jobs would be broadly available under its new policies.

Climate czar John Kerry specifically made mention of the growth of wind turbine manufacturing jobs when he carelessly assured fossil fuel workers in danger of losing work that they would have “better choices” and “alternatives” in green energy industries.

Kerry’s promise appears hollow, at least for now.

“Why doesn’t [Kerry] pick a different profession? He’s obviously not good at it, so if anybody should lose a job it should be him and his cronies and Biden,” Dockter said in the interview.

“Biden is such a dumb bastard, he just doesn’t get anything,” he added.

What else?

It remains somewhat unclear as to exactly which Biden administration tax policy led to the demise of MFG’s South Dakota plant. TheBlaze reached out to MFG’s media contact for more information on the issue.

Under Biden’s proposed $6 trillion budget, $2 billion is allocated to “revise and extend” wind and solar production tax credits, which are set to expire at the end of the year. However, since the mammoth proposal has failed to receive anything close to bipartisan support, the wind energy industry may feel as if it is on uneasy ground.

Of perhaps even more import, noted the Washington Examiner, is the Biden administration’s failure to assure that “U.S. manufacturers would not be undercut by foreign suppliers using low-cost labor” — two adverse factors cited in MFG’s press release.

Report: Under Biden, Republicans Mostly Disgusted with U.S. Moral Values, Democrat Optimism 'All Time High'

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Under the transfer of power to the Biden Administration in 2021, public opinion about the state of moral values in the U.S. has hit all-time lows and highs along party lines.

The overall national opinion of moral values in the U.S. has only worsened slightly this year, though according to a study from Gallup released on Wednesday, the number “masks significant changes in Democrats’ and Republicans’ perceptions of U.S. values between 2020 and 2021.”

“Democrats are much less negative about moral values today than they were a year ago. Conversely, Republicans’ views of U.S. moral values have sunk to record lows,” according to the study, which was based on a poll conducted between May 3 – 18, 2021.

Republicans’ opinion of moral values is lower than it has been in two decades, with 66 percent rating the country’s values as “poor,” according to the study. Overall, 92 percent say moral values are getting worse, which tops the 90 percent recorded in 2007.

Before a notable spike during Biden’s presidency, Republican opinion about the country’s moral compass was steadily worsening. In fact, there was “no comparable surge in concern following the transfer of presidential leadership from Republican to Democratic control in 2009, nor decrease when Trump replaced Barack Obama in 2017,” according to the study. 

In stark contrast, Democrats are “exhibiting record-high optimism about the direction of moral values, with 46 percent saying they are improving,” the study reads, noting that 49 percent of Democrats  — slightly under half — still say things are getting worse. 

Democrats’ views of the nation’s moral values have varied less in the last 20 years than Republicans’ views have, “although the percentage of Democrats rating morals as excellent or good did slump during the Trump presidency after being relatively high during Obama’s last six years in office,” the study reported.

Gallup has been collecting data on the public’s opinion of moral values in the U.S. since 2002, which they noted has worsened overall since the start of their reporting:

Americans have long been dismayed by the state of moral values in the country. Less than a third of Democrats and even fewer Republicans have considered U.S. moral values excellent or good since 2002, and pessimism about the direction of morals outpaces optimism among both groups.

National perceptions on both aspects of U.S. values are fairly steady compared with a year ago. But partisan shifts suggest that the transfer of power in Washington has had a stronger than usual effect on how partisans perceive the country’s moral compass, with Democrats now the most optimistic they have been in two decades and Republicans the least.

President Biden has often used the word “unity” when expressing his goals for the United States, and he said in his inaugural speech that “we must end this uncivil war, that pits red against blue, rural vs. urban, conservative vs. liberal,” said. “We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.”

The results of Gallup’s study paint quite a different picture.

More Biden Budget Analysis

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Yesterday I noted some analysis of the president’s budget from the center-left Tax Policy Center. Now we have some from the right-leaning Tax Foundation.

By these estimates, if enacted, the budget — which includes the Biden family and infrastructure plans — would hike spending by $4 trillion over ten years while raising $1.3 trillion in revenue. These numbers shift to $5 trillion and $3 trillion if you count tax credits as spending and toss in a promised $700 billion from better tax enforcement. (The tax credits include Biden’s big payments to parents regardless of whether they work, and the report treats such “spending through the tax code” as a revenue-reducer rather than spending per se.)

America has a population of roughly 330 million, so every trillion dollars represents about $3,000 per person.

The Tax Foundation also estimates the broader economic effects of the tax and spending changes: about 165,000 fewer jobs and 1 percent lower GDP in the long run, for example.

Unlike the previous report, this one doesn’t tell us what percentage of all individual filers would see tax hikes. In terms of broad income groups, though, the top 20 percent would pay more than they used to starting next year, and the top 60 percent would by 2031, thanks to the expiration of the bigger child tax credit in 2026.

‘Trillions for Domestic Spending, Not a Cent More for Defense’

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I wrote today about the incoherence at the heart of Biden’s China policy:

Joe Biden isn’t known for his austerity, except when it comes to the nation’s defense.

As part of his welcome emphasis on competition with China, the president cajoled reluctant European countries at the G-7 summit into releasing a statement critical of China, on top of the announcement of an infrastructure program meant to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

That’s all fine as far as it goes, but a glaring omission from Biden’s campaign is a defense budget that reflects the growing challenge from Beijing.

Indeed, Biden justifies almost any increased domestic spending as designed to check China’s ambitions, at the same time he neglects what is most needful to keep China from dominating its region and waging war on our allies or perhaps the U.S. itself.

If we can deter China from taking Taiwan with subsidies for electric cars, Biden is inarguably the Churchill of his time.

If we can counter China’s defense buildup with more funding for affordable housing, Biden deserves to take his place beside Alfred Thayer Mahan or George Kennan as a great strategic thinker.