But the insanity and lunacy continues today:
1) The first set of insane political antics comes form the Washington Could Learn A Lot website and their compilation of the latest statistics on what is going on in the country from a posting on their website on August 6, 2013, “Everything Sucks:”
- Home ownership is at an 18-year low at 65%. People are renting instead of buying.
- College graduates are moving in with their parents to save money or bide their time.
- The only reason unemployment numbers are at 7.5% is that they don’t count those who just stop looking for work. People who are not in the labor force increased by 240,000 in July relative to the 165,000 jobs gained.
- And when people can find a job, it’s usually part-time and/or unsatisfying. Of the 953,000 jobs created in 2013, 731,000 were part-time. And only about one-third of people feel engaged at work.
- The weekly Gallup Economic Confidence Index shows that on a scale from -100 to 100, confidence has remained above -30 since January of 2012, and this is up from a low of -65 in 2008.
- In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal Polls we see that a record-breaking 83% percent disapprove of the job that Congress is doing.
- While more than 45% of Americans were confident that the POTUS had the “right set of goals and policies to improve the economy” in 2009, that confidence has dropped all the way to 33% while economic confidence has risen.
- Washington has made a lot of promises to fix all this junk, and we know what you are thinking: “WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG?? %$#@!!”
Great question. Why is it taking longer than expected or do these politicians in Washington have no idea, inclination, or will to make things right and resolve the major issues of our time. I vote for the latter explanation.
2) According to a recent General Accountability Office analysis and report, between 2008 and 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued more than $36 million in checks to about 6,300 farmers who had bought the farm, I.e. they were dead.
If there is any good news in this disgrace it is the fact that the Department of Agriculture is less inept today than it used to be. The Department’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), which oversees farm income subsidies and disaster payments, had paid out a whopping $1.1 billion to 172,801 deceased farmers between 1999 and 2005.
The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), which administers the Federal crop insurance program is not much different when it comes to handing out taxpayer wealth for no reason. This agency provided $22 million for some 3,434 farmers who had been dead for two or more years. Yesterday, we found out that taxpayers were sending checks to people in jail. Today we are sending checks to dead farmers. Can hardly wait to see where our taxpayer wealth is fraudulently being spent tomorrow.
3) And politicians continue to wonder why most of us never believe what they say. Bloomberg caught the Justice Department and Eric Holder in a bad math lie in the middle of August. The Obama administration claimed that it was cracking down and rounding up mortgage providers that illegally operated and helped cause the Great Recession.
Obama’s Mortgage Fraud Working Group in the Department of Justice wrongly claimed it had criminally charged 530 people who had victimized 73,000 Americans. When Bloomberg journalists reporters got underneath the claim, the Department first stalled and then admitted it had inflated the claims themselves, a fib they admitted late on an August Friday, a time when news reporters are getting more focused on the weekend than reporting.
We are not talking minor math rounding errors here. Originally the Justice Department said 530 people were charged criminally as part of a year-long initiative by the multi-agency Mortgage Fraud Working Group. Turns out the actual figure was 107 or 80% less. Holder originally said the defendants had victimized more than 73,000 American homeowners. That number was revised to downward to 17,185, a reduction of about 75%. Estimates of homeowner losses associated with these mortgage frauds dropped to $95 billion from $1 billion.
Makes you wonder what else they are lying about. Or probably more accurately, are they telling the truth about anything that they speak of. Again, these are not rounding errors, they are outright lies and deceptions. Thankfully, at least two reporters were doing their jobs correctly and uncovered just the latest lies from this administration.
Given that they would lie about a relative trivial matter like this, the administration should not be given any credibility and benefit of the doubt when we are talking about major issues such as illegal IRS targeting, Benghazi, spying on news organizations, NSA spying, etc.
4) Comedian Jeff Dunham once made the somewhat accurate observation that the only difference between the government and the Mafia is that the Mafia is profitable. Listen to the audio dialog at the following site and then tell me if this is not akin to a Mafia shakedown of a legitimate business:
http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/08/22461-voicemail-leaked-of-democrat-congresswoman-using-bribery/
This is an actual voice mail that a lobbyist firm kept that contains a voice mail message left for them from sitting Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Basically, she is telling the lobbyist that he had not sent any money to her perpetual reelection campaign and that was not good since she sat on several Congressional committees that were involved in the areas this lobbying firm focused on.
This was basically an extortion phone call from a member of Congress. It has the undertones of an Al Capone standard operating procedure. It is this type of gangster-like behavior that requires that 1) we establish term limits for all Federal politicians since there is no longer any perpetual reelection efforts and 2) we need to fix our politics processes so that only individual American contribute to election campaigns. PACs, businesses, lobbyists, unions, etc. would be forbidden to do so, only individual Americans.
Both of these steps were proposed in our book, “Love My Country, Loathe My Government.” The term limits idea has been operational zed at:
www.howmuchworsecoulditget.com
We should not have to pay protection money to a sitting Washington politician in any, any circumstance.
5) According to an article in the August 2, 2013 issue of The Week, the Federal government is getting into the magic industry. Believe it or not, American taxpayers are paying for this Department of Agricultural insanity.
The Department recently and officially demanded that magicians that use rabbits in their act submit plans to the Federal government on how they would save their rabbits in the face of a natural disaster. I swear, you cannot make this stuff up. Somewhere in the obese government bureaucracy actual human beings are worried about stuff like this. And being paid for it with my tax money.
In the face of this idiocy, magician Gary Maurer said he would carry around a reminder note so that in the case of a natural disaster he would read the note which says: “Take rabbit with you when you leave.” That was his plan. For this common sense we need a government bureaucracy. Insane.
6) According to another article from The Week magazine that appeared in its August 9, 2013 issue, the U.S. government has spent over $24 million over the past six years to fly a plane over Cuba that broadcasts American-sponsored television programming to the island below. However, the Cuban government blocks the signal with signal jamming equipment so no Cuban citizen has ever seen what is being broadcast.
Despite this fact, according to the article, Congressmen representing the Cuban exile community insist that the useless flights continue. Einstein must have this insanity in mind when he said: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results.”
How stupid and wasteful is this program. Its funding could have kept the White House tours going for more than 24 years instead of broadcasting stuff over Cuba that is never seen.
Lies, wasteful spending, extortion, and more. Never a dull moment, or rational moment, when dealing with American politicians. And we are just getting warmed up, more tomorrow.
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