Wednesday, October 7, 2026

October, 2026, Political Class Insanity,Part 3: More Covid Deceptions, The Federal Government Shrinks and No One Notices, and Virginia Invites Dead People To Vote

The incompetence and mismanagement of taxpayer dollars and government programs, be it Covid, voting, or over staffing continue to waste taxpayer dollars while never resolving any major issue facing the country.

1)We recently reviewed the false claims/lies that the Federal government released via Anthony Fauci and others with regards to Covid:

  • Fauci said if you took the vaccine you would not catch the virus and thus, you would help stop the spread of the virus.
  • In reality, everyone I know who took the vaccine and the boosters caught the virus at least once and more often than not caught the virus multiple times.
  • The decree to stand at least six feet away from others during the pandemic had no scientific basis.
  • It is highly likely that taking the virus caused severe and often fatal heart problems for otherwise perfectly healthy young adults.
  • A recently uncovered communication from Fauci's cellphone indicates there were signs that taking the vaccine could possibly lead to miscarriages by pregnant women, a concern that was never made public.
  • Fauci and the Biden administration initially swore that the virus arose in nature and not from a U.S. funded research lab in Wuhan, China, a position that is now probably false

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  • A recent medical study put forth some claims that kids that received the Covid vaccine had higher rates of several medical conditions than kids that did not get the vaccine.
  • The study was named, “Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in COVID-19-Vaccinated Versus Unvaccinated U.S. Children: Analysis of the National Health Interview Survey, 2022–2024”.
  • The data for the study was from a study of  21,990 kids collected by the National  Health Interview Survey, NHIS.

  • From the study: “We analyzed official U.S. government data from 21,990 children and found a consistent association between childhood COVID-19 vacinADHDcination and higher odds of autism, ADHD, anxiety, special-education use, and mental-health treatment.”

  • Specifically, there was a 32% increase in autism diagnoses in kids that got the vaccine vs. those that did not get the vaccine.

  • In addition, there was a 23% increase in neurodevelopment disorders, a 19% increase in the need  for  special education services, a 24% increase in asthma, and a 27% increase in anxiety disorders

  • Mental health issues were also more prevalent, a 57% increase in  mental health  medications and a 60% increase in mental health treatment.

  • Kids aged 5 to 7 had a 154% higher chance of autism.


Correlation does  not  mean causation which is  always a  concern in these types of studies. However, the report cites the findings as significant enough  for further and more rigid analyses to see if  these  differences were  actually caused by the  vaccine.

The bigger question is should we ever trust the political class  and the drug companies in the  future when we are assured that a medical treatment  is safe  when such assurances continue to prove false  or outright lies?


2)Over the decades the  Federal government’s  employee base and related costs have increased  significantly. Unfortunately, the competence and effectiveness of the Federal government has not matched the increase  in taxpayer dollars used to support a larger and larger employee base. However, Trump made it a promise to reduce the size of the Federal government:


  • About 300,000 Federal government workers have left the Federal payroll since Trump  became President in January 2025.

  • And the typical American taxpayer did not notice any difference in their  lives.

  • Unemployment did not explode, Washington D.C. did not become a ghost town, Social Security checks still go mailed out, Medicare still  functioned, the IRS still collected taxes, national parks are still open, etc.

  • The USAID agency was eliminated which meant that American tax dollars didn't get sent around the world to sponsor a Sesame Street play in Iraq, pay for sex change operations in Guatemala, etc.

  • The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau  lost 88% of its workforce and nobody noticed.

  • Other Federal bureaucracies such as Housing and Urban Development,  the Agricultural Department, the Education  Department, and the State Department shed thousands  of  jobs and no one noticed a negative impact on their  life.

  • Biden on the other hand grew the Federal government base by 130,000 with no  appreciable improvement in life for Americans.


Given  that 300,000 jobs were cut  and no one noticed a change in their lives outside of  D.C. how more Federal jobs could be cut without  a negative impact on  our lives? I am willing  to take the chance  and maybe get some of those wasted  tax dollars returned to the American taxpayer in the process.


3)At some  point in  time I will try to review the massive amount  of voter fraud that has been uncovered over the past several years  and which is still being  uncovered. Whether the  fraud is intentional or just incompetence, it makes no difference.  The single most important act of freedom in a democracy is voting and that process should be 100% fraud proof.


But apparently that message  has not  gotten to  the Virginia  governor:


  • Virginia  Governor,  Abigail Spanberger, recently tried to make a positive public relations splash when she  announced  that she was restoring the voting rights to convicted felons.

  • Now I have no problem with  that gesture, assuming that those felons had paid their price to  society and  were no longer serving prison terms.

  • One of those  convicted felons  who got a letter restoring his voting  rights was Peter Alan Breton.

  • The problem was that Mr. Breton had been deceased for about ten years, passing away in  2016.

  • In  fact,  the letter restoring his  voting rights was not  sent  to anyone  in his family but to  a very close friend, Peggie Young,  who posted on Facebook: “I don’t know what to say about this.I received it yesterday, September 29, 2026. My dear BFF, Pete Breton, passed away in 2016. I have his ashes. Is this perhaps how voter fraud begins? I’m so confused.”


One could possibly forgive such incompetence if Mr. Breton had recently passed away and the records had not yet been updated in time. But he passed away ten years ago so there really is not any excuse except for this incompetence. Which  raises a bigger question  or two:


  1. How many other deceased,  ex-felons in Virginia were also contacted and encouraged to reach out, leading  to  possible voter  fraud if recipients  of those  decide to vote  in their place?

  2. How many other  Virginia state government  voting processes are corrupt?


Given the  widespread voting process corruption we know of elsewhere in the country, the odds are good the second  statement being  true is highly likely.


Enough insanity for  today: voter integrity corruption in Virginia, Washington sheds  government  jobs and no notices, and possibly more and massive Covid deception  from the Federal government and Fauci.


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Tuesday, October 6, 2026

October, 2026, Political Class Insanity, Part 2: West Coast Political Stupidity From Oregon to Los Angeles To Seattle

 For  many, many years we have written about the ineptness, ignorance, and inability of the American political class to efficiently and effectively manage out tax dollars  and resolve the problems facing the  county. They never learn from  past mistakes and continue to  just make stupid decisions. Today’s political  class  insanity discussion just reinforces their historical incompetence.


1)Government intervention in the  medical care/health  care industry around the world and through  history has rarely ended  well:


  • Nationalized health care in England, Canada, and elsewhere has shown that health care quality deteriorates while the cost for government care management rises and rises when politicians get involved.

  • Obama Care promised to get every American on an affordable health insurance  plan  and “bend  the cost curve” of health  care while in  reality over 25 million Americans still don't have health insurance coverage and the Obama Car insurance policies failed to bend any curve.

  • The Federal government  has already tried to manage the  nation's health via Medicare and Medicaid, two programs  that are rocketing towards bankruptcy and as we have discussed extensively in our  government fraud posts, both programs are infested with fraud that steals billions and billions of  taxpayer wealth every year.

  • Vermont, one of the most liberal states in the country, tried to implement a  total state based government healthcare process over 12 years ago and had to give up before  even starting its implementation  since they could not find  any way to  fund it without going bankrupt.

  • Oregon voters voted against a universal  care strategy and plan at the  state level in 2002 with only about 20% voting in favor.


So history has shown that government controlled/politician-controlled healthcare management  has rarely, if ever, delivered better health care in an economical manner. And yet, that has not stopped the  politicians out in Oregon to  try and do what has never been successfully and efficiently accomplished before:


  • Oregon politicians want to take total control of healthcare over every Oregon resident by taking over Medicare and Medicaid control, Obama Care, and private insurance programs in the state.

  • The state politicians created the so-called Universal Health Plan Governance Board in 2023.

  • The purpose of  the  Board was to design  a publicly funded, government  controlled health  care system for  every resident, a “publicly funded health plan covering everyone who lives in Oregon.”

  • “Publicly funded” are code words for taxpayer funded.

  •  The original plan  was to develop the plan  and roll it out starting in 2028 and  complete the rollout by 2032.

  • However, the Board has delayed its final report  because those  serving on the  board cannot figure out how to pay for  the plan.


Such stupidity. Every resident in  Oregon likely has a unique health  care need. To think  that the state politicians can come up with a program that efficiently serves every resident and their unique  health  care needs is Soviet Union-like thinking, another example where government-control of health care failed  dramatically.


Dr. Delose Cosgrove is the former CEO of the Cleveland Clinic. I would bet that he has more health care and medical knowledge than every member of the Oregon state legislature combined. We previously discussed his belief  that smoking, diet, and lack of exercise contribute to  40% of premature deaths in this country, 70% of chronic diseases such as heart disease, and account for 75% of the nation's total health care.


He proved his point by implementing healthier food in the Clinic cafeteria and sponsoring  exercise and smoke cessation sessions. The  result was massive weight loss of Clinic employees and healthier employees and greatly reduced smoking levels. Politicians seem to always want to resolve public health  issues with economic solutions while the  best way to resolve public health issues is with public health solutions.


Advice to Oregon politicians via Einstein: the definition  of insanity is doing the same  thing over and over and  expecting different  results. Trying to implement government-controlled health  care is insanity, it has rarely if  ever  worked  before..


2)Speaking  of government incompetence, let’s head out to Los Angeles, a city that suffered through decimating wildfires a year ago:


  • A recent investigation  into the wildfires was recently  finished and released.

  • Findings  of  the report, over  700  pages  long, included the fact that fire-fighters were prematurely sent home despite the presence of high/dangerous winds, and evacuation  orders to residents did not go out until their homes were already on fire.

  • The  report  also concluded that the city fire department ignored warnings that a wildfire was still alive and smoldering and which  eventually reignited into a fury.

  • The report stated that firefighting efforts and communications were uncoordinated  and  disjointed.


Combine these findings with the reality that is already known  about firefighting infrastructure, ( e.g. dry hydrants, dry reservoirs, etc.)  and you see a massive failure of the local government  agencies and politicians, a failure that destroyed homes, businesses, lives, and trust.


A very basic duty of any government entity is to  protect the lives and property of the  citizens it serves. In the case of  the wildfires, Los Angeles politicians failed dramatically.


3)Obviously, American politicians do not know much  about affordable and available  healthcare or fire  fighting. But Seattle politicians show that politicians constantly show their economic ignorance:


  • We have recently and often discussed the reality that Seattle may actually be  the leading city candidate to go bankrupt first.

  • Violent crime, high taxes, high homelessness problem, and fleeing residents and businesses have  seriously  degraded the size of the city’s tax  base and revenue stream.

  • The fleeing tax base has created a severe crisis  in the city, with expected  city tax revenues facing a three year budget hole totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.

  • The  business  office vacancy rate is now the highest in the country with about 35% of the business space in the city now vacant.


Obviously, city politicians in Seattle have not managed the city economy efficiently  and effectively. And their recent decision is going to make  this  bad  situation  even worse:


  • According to reporting by the Western Journal, the city is raising the  minimum wage  to $22.14 on January 1st, up from the current level of $21.30.

  • That will give it one  of the highest minimum wage levels of any major  American city.

  • But this higher and higher rate  puts additional profitability strain especially on small businesses in the city, a  population  that has already been shrinking because of crime, a shrinking  customer  base, and already high taxes

  • These small business owners will likely reduce the number of  workers, reduce the number of hours of operation, take away other employee benefits, replace workers with  automation, and possibly leave the city altogether.

  • These options are not theoretical, we have  reported on similar economic insanity of raising the  minimum wage too quickly in  other cities and other states  with the  same  consequences.


An  old saying goes as  follows: “When stuck  in a hole, stop  digging.” Seattle  is stuck in a  financial crisis hole. Businesses are shutting down or moving their operations out of the  city for various reasons. Making it harder for a business to remain profitable and viable  should be the priority, not  increasing the major  expense item in its operation, labor. 


All  of which leads to another saying; ”The good news  is  that  your  wages just went up. The bad news is you no  longer have a  job.” Which is exactly what will happen if history is any guideline: businesses  will  tighten up their  labor  expense line to  compensate for the higher minimum wage, resulting in fewer jobs, fewer employee benefits,  fewer hours,  and  use of  automation to  replace human  labor. Or they will abandon the  city,  further reducing a shrinking tax base. In either case, residents, employees, and the Seattle city income statement  suffer.


Enough insanity for today: Seattle  continues to commit economic suicide, Los Angeles politicians failed dramatically in  fire  protection, and Oregon politicians  want to  go somewhere where no one has been successful before, government controlled healthcare.


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Friday, October 2, 2026

October, 2026, Political Class Insanity, Part 1: Walz Finally Exits A Fraud Infested State Government, Michigan Football Destroys Local Real Estate Market, Government IDs For Bananas and More

 We have spent a  lot of blog time recently on trying  to figure out which state or city government will go bankrupt first and the massive amount of criminal fraud that exists within many government programs. However, that does not  mean that other, regular political class insanity has stopped:


1)As readers of this  blog know as followers of  Nick Shirley’s  great work in exposing government  fraud, it seems that the epicenter of government fraud  always leads  back to Minnesota. Dozens and dozens of Minnesota  residents, many of them Somali  immigrants, have already been found guilty or pleaded guilty to defrauding taxpayer funded  government programs.


And this flood of fraud has caused the current  governor, Tim Walz, to not seek  another term as governor. For months he downplayed the reality of the fraud in the state but recently kind  of acknowledged what we all know:


  • He was recently interviewed by the Minnesota Star-Tribune.
  • And after denying there was  massive  fraud going on under his nose during his administration he finally acknowledged that he “should have stopped it  [fraud] sooner.”
  • Specifically, “We didn’t stop them. I accept that. I think there does need to be accountability with that. And part of it is that, yep, that’s with me, I’ll step aside.” 

  • He then tried to deflect the massive fraud by referring to supposed other accomplishments such as climate, livability, etc.

  • However, state senator  Julia  Coleman was  not going to let Walz get away with his own self celebration: “We should remember him spending our $18 billion surplus, raising taxes $10 billion, creating an unsustainable budget, letting rioters burn down Minneapolis, hurting our students and businesses with lockdowns and pardoning a child rapist.” 


Massive wasting of taxpayer money,  massive fraud, unfettered  rioting,  what a waste of a politician.


2)Speaking  of  a waste of a politician, consider an idiotic remark out of a Michigan candidate for Senate:


  • For background, understand  that the  University of Michigan college football has  been a long running fixture in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

  • There are on average 8 home football games played evey year at their huge on campus stadium.

  • Those football  games create huge economic gains for the businesses in the city and surrounding area when over 100,000 fans go to the games.

  • And yet,  Democratic candidate for Senate from  Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, thinks that the University of Michigan football  team is bad for  local  housing. 

  • Specifically, Michigan football games and their fans make the local housing situation worse: “The problem with that is this: we are a tourist destination. You know why we are a tourist destination? Football Saturdays.  So, there’s a lot of folks who have extra capital to spend, who will use a corporation like Airbnb or Vrbo, will buy a housing unit that should have been affordable or available for somebody like you, and then they take it off the market. Which artificially depresses the supply of housing.”


As with  most political rantings, he apparently provided no data or statistics on  how many housing units are off the market  because of eight football  games a year. And would it be  worth the  lost jobs,  lost tourism dollars, lost economic impact to shut down eight football games a year to free up a minimal number of local housing units?


Also, how bad of an economic decision would it be to purchase  a home worth hundreds of  thousands  of dollars in order to rent it out maybe  eight weekends a year and leave it vacant  for the other 44 weeks? 


Which brings  us back to that age old  question: do politicians think we are that stupid when they say idiotic things like this or are they actually that stupid  and ignorant? We may never know.


3)Democrats in Congress have been hell-bent for a long time to pass the SAVE Act, a piece of Federal legislation that would require a government  id to vote. Voting  is possibly the purest expression of freedom in this country and it is now generally known that voting processes corruption is widespread, with the fraud riddled election  of Joe Biden the prime, but not only  example of major voter fraud in this country.


The SAVE Act would be a major step  forward to safeguarding voting process integrity. And the concept is supported by a wide majority of Americans across all  age, sex, and political affiliation sectors.


And yet Democrats continue  to stonewall the effort. But apparently they are alright with  requiring a government  id for far less important government functions:


  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City wants to  spend  a whopping $70 million  to open only five city government grocery stores in New York City.

  • That concept in  itself could take  up several blog posts but  we can come  back to that insanity inthefuture.

  • The concept  is that a wide  variety of healthy food options would be discounted  30% for city residents  so it would make buying food in the city less  expensive.

  • Given a big discount of 30%, it would seem logical for  non-city residents to  make  a trip  into the city and shop at one of these city grocery stores for the  bargain on  these food  items.

  • But they will  not be able to do so since Mamdani announced that, gasp, you would have to have a  government  issued id to shop in these city stores.

  • Yes, Democrats are vehemently against protecting freedom and  voting process integrity by not requiring an id to vote but are going to require a  government id to buy some bananas.


The hypocrisy is amazing. Bananas  need an id, voting does not  need  an id. Of course, a black market  for  fake supermarket city ids will almost immediately appear which  would allow non-city residents  to get the  30% discount. Also, people  outside of the city will use their city friends’ ids  to shop at one of the  five stores. Insanity.


4)Just as an id to the above  government id  insanity consider other pieces of your life where you  need a government id:


  • To drive a car

  • Visit a doctor

  • Pick up drug prescriptions

  • Travel on a commercial airline

  • Buy a gun

  • Open or close a bank account

  • Get a mortgage or rent an apartment

  • Buy alcohol

  • Buy tobacco

  • Buy medical marijuana

  • Rent a car

  • Rent a hotel room

  • Purchase health insurance

  • Donate blood

  • Get a hunting or fishing license

  • Get married or divorced

  • Get a document notarized

  • And buy bananas at a New York City government supermarket.


And yet democrats think that showing a valid government  id when voting  is racist and not  necessary.


5)One last piece of sad insanity for today:


  • Anthony Fauci was the leading government figure during the  Covid pandemic.

  • He promised us that if we took the untested vaccines he was pushing, the virus would stop with  us, helping to slow down  the spread of the disease, and we would not catch the virus.

  • Of course, time showed none of this was true, probably just about  everyone who  got the vaccine and  the  boosters eventually caught  the disease, some of us more than once. 

  • And unfortunately, the virus apparently caused  heart problems and deaths of perfectly normal people,  many of them who were healthy and young  and had no history of heart problems.

  • And now we find out that he secretly had worries about the potential impact the untested vaccines would have on  pregnant women.

  • Text messages  that were  recently uncovered  and released from Fauci’s cellphone shows a discussion with co-workers that fever after  the  second dose “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”

  • But in later public  remarks Fauci claimed that there was nothing to worry about when it came to vaccinating pregnant women despite  his previous private conversations to the contrary.


Even if there was no negative link of the vaccine for pregnant women,  that concern, no matter how minor, should have  been made public, allowing couples and pregnant women to decide for themselves on when  and if to take the vaccine. 


Given that his other  proclamations now ring hollow, e.g. take the virus and you will not get sick, this hiding of a theoretical cause and effect reinforces the perception that he was more concerned with his image than actual results and scientific analyses. This hiding of concerns and false  declarations now raise doubts in  future  crises of whether or  not Americans are  getting the truth  and  the  whole truth from the federal government.


Okay, enough insanity for today: more Covid  doubts from the government, the Democrats’  hypocrisy on government ids and voting, Michigan  football  games destroying a local real estate market, and an incompetent  governor finally bows out and  the  state is probably better for the  ouster.


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