December, 2019, The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care: The Stupidity and Gross Reality Of Medicare For All

Every month for years now we have had to discuss how bad Obama Care is turning out to be under the continuing theme, “the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care.” This month is no different. As the legislation continues to march through America, driving up health care and health insurance prices as it serves as dead weight on economic growth, it cements its rightful place as the worst piece of legislation Washington has ever produced.

It never had a chance to be successful since it really never addressed the underlying root causes of our ever increasing health costs in the country:

• Americans eat too much of the wrong kind of food, resulting in obscenely high obesity rates for the country.
• Our food chain is infested with overdoses of high fructose corn syrup, salt, sugar, and other unhealthy additives.
• Americans smoke too much.
• Americans do not exercise enough.
• The country is in serious need of health care tort reform.
• Barriers to insurance company competition across state lines need to come down.
• Obama Care never “followed the money” to find out who is actually profiting from the ever escalating healthcare costs in this country and how to get those factors under control.
• Obama Care never got the immense amount of fraud and abuse in current government healthcare programs, Medicare and Medicaid, under control in order to save money to efficiently fund other government health care initiatives.
• Obama Care never put serious research money towards curing the major diseases that drive high healthcare costs such as high frequency cancers and dementia type diseases.

You cannot resolve any problem unless you understand and address the underlying root causes. No difference here: Obama Care legislation never addressed these listed root causes and thus, has no chance of ever being successful.

But it is not just missing the root causes of our healthcare costs that makes Obama Care so horrible. It resulted in millions of Americans losing access to their favored doctors, hospitals, and insurance policies. It has caused insurance premiums, deductibles and copays to escalate substantially. It will likely add trillions of dollars to the national debt. It has exposed millions of Americans to higher than necessary identity theft chances. It has created government bureaucracies that are wastefully spending taxpayer wealth and being exploited by criminal elements. It has stifled economic growth and job creation.

These are just a sample of the types of idiocy that we have been reviewing for the past several years in this blog relative to Obama Care. To read those past posts, just enter the phrase, “the unfolding disaster,” in the search box above.

When we started this theme many years ago, it was all about the failure that is Obama Care. Over time, many of the failures that we predicted or other smart people predicted became true. Obama Care did not reduce annual health insurance premiums by up to $2,500 as promised. Obama Care did not bend the cost curve of health care as promised. Obama Care did not get insurance for over 21 million Americans as promised. And Obama Care did not allow you to keep your doctors, your hospitals or insurance plans as promised.

But with the failure of Obama Care has come a much worse idea, “Medicare For All.” Thus, most of these types of posts going forward will focus on this inane idea since the previous big healthcare inane idea, Obama Care, has basically collapsed in failure.

1) Let’s start today’s discussion with one of the biggest advocates of Medicare For All, Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren. At a recent political rally in North Carolina, Warren promised that her Medicare For All program will provide health care and health insurance for millions and millions of illegal immigrants.

At the rally Warren was asked by someone: “We know that you have included undocumented people in your plans to provide Medicare for All, so my question is why did you decide to include people regardless of immigration status, and would this include obtaining subsidies like the ACA’s – Affordable Care Act’s – affordability subsidies? Would you also support access to the children’s health insurance program without regard to immigration stuff?” 

To which Warren answered: “I’m really glad you asked this. Medicare for All, as I put this together, covers everyone, regardless of immigration status, and that’s it.” 

So:

• Warren wants to take taxpayer wealth from hard working American citizens to subsidize the healthcare of illegal immigrants.
• Warren wants to take taxpayer wealth from hard working American citizens to subsidize the healthcare of illegal immigrants even though millions of American citizens cannot afford health care today.
• Warren wants to take taxpayer wealth from hard working American citizens to subsidize the healthcare of illegal immigrants even though millions of Americans are homeless, hungry, or drug addicted and not getting support to help their needs.

Just another example of a leading liberal in this country who values illegal immigrants over legal, taxpaying, and needy Americans.

2) We have often documented how bad health care is in some foreign countries, e.g. England and Canada, countries that basically have implemented similar programs to “Medicare For All.” High costs, long wait times, inferior treatment, spotty coverage, etc. are all consequences of having the government run all of a country’s health care processes. James Schmitz, writing for the Heritage Foundation on November 21, 2019, recounted his own horror stories of dealing with “Medicare For All” type programs overseas:

• When he was very young, Mr. Schmitz suffered a hellacious fit and spasm that required him to be rushed to the hospital.
• He was rushed into a CT scanner that night and afterwards a neurologist told his parents that their small child had West Syndrome.
• This syndrome is a severe form of epilepsy and his parents were told that he had about a 90% chance that their son would never be able to speak, walk, eat, or think, there is no cure.
• He was treated almost immediately with Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) which may have been the reason why he defied the odds and according to him, “I found myself in the top 1 percentile of people with West syndrome who could enjoy a mostly normal life. Thanks to the top-notch medical treatment I’ve received in America, I can do most of the things the neurologist predicted I wouldn’t be able to.”
• Flash forward many years ahead and Mr. Schmitz is a college graduate and living in England.
• Although he was living a mostly normal life he still needs anti-seizure drugs and visits to a doctor every three months.
• He also needs access to a doctor within a week’s notice if needed.
• So imagine his surprise and fear when he walked into an urgent care clinic in England, expecting to easily set up an appointment with a local neurologist within a few weeks.
• The general practitioner working in the clinic said she would be glad to set up an appointment with a recommended neurologist but that it would be for about nine months out.
• When Schmitz panicked, the urgent care doctor said she could make a call and possibly, possibly see if an appointment could be made for three to four months out.
• At that point, his dream of living, working, and traveling throughout Europe had come to an end: “Disheartened by the news, I knew staying in the U.K. was out of the question. I had to return to the U.S. in order to keep accessing the routine medical care that had saved my life so many years before. A month later, I packed my bags and left for Heathrow Airport having spent less than three months in the country. It’s a shame, because Britain is an amazing country and I would have loved to stay longer. Health care should not be a reason to have to leave a modern, First World country. I cannot go a day without taking medicine or without knowing if I’ll be able to see my doctor in a timely manner. My life is only made possible by the high-quality care and access I get in the United States. It’s something other countries don’t enjoy.”

This is what nationalized medicine and Medicare For All means: you will have less access to medical treatment, less access to specialized doctors, you will experience more pain and stress, and the overall cost will be higher. Higher, costs lower quality, less access, not a great combination. And somehow, people like Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and others think this is a good idea. Insanity.

3) The Heritage Article cited above went on to lay some realities about nationalized medicine:

• On average, in England and Canada sick people wait twice as long vs. the U.S. to see a specialist, according to the National Community Pharmacists Association.
• We have discussed other studies which estimate that the wait time in England and Canada is much longer than twice as long.
• Nearly 1.8 million people in England are currently sick and ailing but are on a long waiting list to get admitted to a hospital for treatment or for outpatient treatment.
• Tens of thousands of foreigners come to the U.S. every year for medical treatment since the wait time to get treated in their home countries is just way too long, too painful, and too agonizing.

One reason why people like Warren and Sanders are so high on Medicare For All is that they know that they will write the legislation so that they personally do not suffer from the poor and expensive healthcare that will result in this country. They will take care of themselves, much like they did for Obama Care and every other aspects of life, and we will be sicker, more pained, and poorer for their ideas.

Thus, the stupidity of Medicare For All and the stupidity of making taxpaying real Americans pay the medical bills of illegal immigrants. Did no one learn anything from the failure of Obama Care?

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December, 2019, The Horrors And Destruction That Donald Trump Has Imposed On America...Just Kidding! A Three Year Review Of The Trump Administration

Before we start today’s discussion, let’s review my voting history: 

• I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life.
• Thus, I did not vote for Trump. 
• I have rarely voted for a Republican for national office in my life. 

About 3 years ago, many liberals, Democrats, and millennials were besides themselves with grief and fear because their pre-ordained queen, Hillary Clinton, was not elected President. Instead, Donald Trump was elected, an individual that these same people despised, hated, and feared, an individual they felt would endanger and possibly destroy the country and our democracy. For the past year and a half they fretted, worried and lashed out at anything or anyone that even remotely smelled of Donald Trump.

Given that Trump has been in office for almost two years, I thought, that as someone who did not vote for him, it would be a good idea to review the horror, trauma, and terrible things that Trump has subjected the country to in just eighteen month’s time. This is obviously a very sarcastic comment when you take an unbiased look at what has happened during the Trump Presidency.

The many previous posts we did on this topic identified over 300 good things that have happened to America and Americans since Trump became President and they can found by entering the phrase “the horrors and destruction” in the search box above. 

Given we are three years onto Trump’s Presidency, I thought it would be a good idea to list out some of his many accomplishments that we have already listed in the previous numerous posts on the topic. As the previous paragraph points out, we have already named over 300 ways that American is better off today than it was three years ago when he took office. So in no particular order, consider the following 13 improvements that have occurred in America under the Trump administration:

1. According to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, 76% of those polled rated the economy as very or somewhat good, higher than the rating a year ago which was 67% and the highest level since February, 2001.
2. The House of Representatives passed Trump’s new trade treaty with Mexico and Canada with overwhelming Democratic support, a treaty that should benefit the U.S. economy and provide protections to workers outside of the U.S.
3. According to a study by Surveys of Consumers Attitudes, consumer sentiment has been at 95 or higher in 30 of the previous 35 months, a 20 year high.
4. Trump has recently announced that he will be withdrawing about 4,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan, hopefully a first step in getting the country completely out of this disaster.
5. Since Trump took office the number of individuals receiving food stamp aid has dropped by 6.2 million people and 2.7 million households, a sign of a robust economy.
6. Trump has introduced additional food stamp regulations that will reduce the number of food stamp recipients by another 700,000 able bodied adults.
7. There are currently 158 million American citizens in the workforce, a record.
8. Female labor workforce participation is at an all time high.
9. The African-American unemployment rate is at an all time low.
10. Over 6.3 million jobs have been created by the Trump economy, with over half of them going to women.
11. November results on illegal immigration showed for the sixth consecutive month the number of apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the border was down from the previous month, hitting their lowest level since July, 2018, indicating that Trump has tightened up security on the southern border.
12. Trump recently donated his quarterly salary to fighting opioid addiction in the country, a donation that follows previous donations of his salary to the Department of Education, infrastructure improvement, Veterans Affairs, the Small Business Administration, alcohol abuse prevention, and aid to U.S. farmers.
13. Under Trump, improper payments by the Medicare program have declined $7 billion from fiscal 2017 through 2019.

Okay, let’s stop the list here, you get the idea. The previous posts under this topic found over 300 successes and good things since Trump took office. Higher wages, better job opportunities, higher economic growth, better approaches to health and drug addiction, stronger actions and respect in foreign affairs, reductions in government bureaucracy, hardly the disaster that liberals, Democrats, and Hillary Clinton predicted.

For those of you that have hated on Trump since day one, and given your obvious gross error in judgment relative to Trump given the well 300 accomplishments we have previously listed, let me ask that you do us all a favor by implementing the following changes in your behavior and attitude:

• Chill out, tamp down your TDS affliction. No matter how much you hate Trump on a sexist, personal basis, get over it. He is the legally and duly elected President, he will be around for a while so refocus your hatred on more constructive issues and matters. You will live a lot longer if you take your hatred out of your heart and soul and devote it to something positive.
• I would really appreciate it if some of you would apologize to the Trump voters you have disrespected in some of the grossest terms possible over the past year. You have called millions of voters racists, ignorant, stupid, Nazis, KKK members, and other horrible names simply because you disagreed with their voting choice. No American should be called such disgusting names simply because they exercised their Constitutional rights to the best of their abilities. Plus, slandering over 60 million Americans is no way to unite the country and get it focused on the real issues facing us all.
• More personally, I would like, no I am demanding, an apology from some of you for your slanderous and disgusting name calling because in doing so, you insulted and disrespected my sister, my family members, my friends, and my co-workers who simply voted their conscience. I will defend their right to vote anyway they wanted and will not put up with your childish and vicious venom and bile directed at them, very important people in my life.
• And finally, I challenge you to read the following blog post, a post that shows quite clearly that it was hateful people like some of you and your silence during the Obama years that actually caused Trump to be elected. Thus, the people you hate for voting for Trump are actually looking back at you in the mirror:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-american-liberals-and-washington.html

If you were silent in the dozens of instances listed in this post then you were responsible for the very thing you hate: a Trump Presidency. Or put another way, a so far successful and productive Trump Presidency. Over 200 accomplishments in two years is not too shabby despite many of you wanting both Trump and the country to fail.

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December, 2019, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: Whistleblowing the Clinton Foundation, IMpeaching Trump Because He Is Too Tall, and More Insanity and False History from Ocasio-Cortez

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) After impeaching Trump for virtually nothing, it should be interesting to see what Democrats think about the financial shenanigans that were recently uncovered relating to the Clintons:

• According to a recent interview by Congressman Mark Meadows, three whistleblowers have come forward and provided hundreds of pages of information relating to possibly illegal and unethical financial activities relative to the Clinton Foundation.
• The whistleblower documents allege misuse of charity funds and quid-pro-quo promises made to rich Foundation donors.
• Meadows has called for Congressional hearings relative to an already investigation going on relative to the Foundation.
• That investigation has been going on since 2018 and is being led by U.S. Attorney John Huber.
• Huber recently requested documents from MDA Analytics LLC, a company that has been investigating the Clinton Foundation.
• MDA recently contacted the FBI in Arkansas, the Department of Justice and the IRS to share the findings that their analysis has turned up.
• Back in 2016, Clinton Foundation CFO, Andrew Kessel, allegedly told MDA that, “one of the biggest problems was [former President Bill] Clinton’s commingling and use of business and donated funds and his personal expenses” and that Bill Clinton “mixes and matches his personal business with that of the foundation. Many people within the foundation have tried to caution him about this but he does not listen, and there really is no talking to him.”
• What is also interesting and suspicious is that back in 2016, when Hillary was running for President, the Foundation pulled in $62.9 million in donations but once she lost out to Trump, the Foundation only pulled in $26.6 million in 2017, about a whopping 60% decline in a single year.
• Meadows believes that this sudden drop off “raises grave concerns their operations were not above board as the American people have been led to believe. Whenever we look at the possibility of ‘pay to play’ by government officials, current or former, it demands answers, and anyone who uses public office to sell access for their own financial benefit must be held accountable.” 

Should be interesting to see if Nancy Pelosi has any integrity at all and supports an investigation into the Clintons and the possible phony front charity foundation. Given her history of strictly bitter and partisan politics, I doubt it. It is only political opponents that she goes after, integrity and trust be damned.

2) Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson was the laughing stock of Congress, and quite possibly the nation, several years when during a Congressional hearing he wondered and worried out loud that the island of Guam could tip over. Yes, during a hearing on the deployment of naval resources to the island, he asked a high ranking Navy official if the island would tip over if too many resources were deployed there.

If this is not enough to show how perverted and insane our political processes have become, that someone like this not only got elected once but has been reelected since showing these extreme ignorance, than nothing is.

But that does not stop him for continuing to speak silliness and ignorance:

• During the debate on Trump’s impeachment, Johnson stated that Trump should be impeached because he is taller that Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
• Specifically, “Colleague from Georgia talks about how Democrats are trying to make Zelensky look weak. Well, I’ll tell you. That brings to mind the picture of President Trump and President Zelensky meeting in New York in September at the UN — and a big chair for President Trump — a little chair for President Zelensky.” 
• Forget high crimes and misdemeanors as outlined in the Constitution, let’s impeach Trump because he is taller than another nation’s leader.
• Johnson did not know when to shut up, going on to describe Trump as, “Big, 6’4″ President Trump and 5′ 11″ Mr. Zelensky.”
• And he is not even right with his “facts” since if you look at the picture of the two leaders shaking hands, the chairs are identical in size and style, one is not bigger than the other.

You cannot make up this nonsense. During the very serious process of impeachment this guy is focused on Trump’s height rather than reality. To see this foolery in action, go to the following link to see that Johnson is actually this out of touch with reality:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/democrat-village-idiot-hank-johnson-wants-to-impeach-president-trump-for-checks-notes-being-too-tall-video/

3) So many times we have had to review the insane comments, logic, and positions of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Despite having a college business degree she did not know the simple definition of the unemployment rate. Despite running for Congress, she did not know the three branches of government. The list goes on and on and can be reviewed by simply putting her name in the search box above.

And despite her history of speaking from a position of ignorance, she continues to stick her foot in her mouth as recently illustrated:

• She recently asserted that the Democratic Party should go back to the way the party used to be and the values it represented, specifically citing the Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
• She also said that the party needed to return to its roots during the passage of the Civil Rights Act back in the 1960s.
• Specifically, “I want to be the party of the New Deal again. The party of the Civil Rights Act, the one that electrified this nation and fights for all people. For that, many would call us radical. But we aren’t “pushing the party left,” we are bringing the party home.”
• She obviously does not realize that FDR did not fight for the rights of tens of thousands of Japanese American during World War II since he shipped them off to internment camps in one of the most egregious violations of human rights in this country’s history.
• She obviously does not realize that Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act and filibustered the bill for 75 days until Republicans were able to get it passed through the Senate.
• She obviously does not realize that a higher percentage of Republican in Congress voted for the Civil Rights Act than the percentage of Democrats in Congress that voted for it.
• She obviously does not realize that it was a Republican President, Eisenhower, who made tremendous strides in breaking the back of segregation in the 1950s.
• She obviously does not realize that the Democratic Party was the party of the Ku KLux KLan and Jim Crow laws after the Civil War.

The ignorance of this member of Congress continues to boggle the mind just about every time she speaks. Combine her erroneous rantings with the Georgia Congressman who thinks a Pacific island can actually tip over...a Texas Congresswoman who thinks the Constitution is 400 years old AND who wanted to know if an exploring vehicle on Mars was going to be near the area where Neil Armstrong walked on the moon... a Speaker of the House who actually said a piece of legislation had to be passed in order to find out what was in that legislation and you can see why we feel our political processes are so broken that these types of people actually hold public office.

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December, 2019, Part 6, Political Class Insanity: Hillary Sees Russians Everywhere, Elizabeth Warren's Failed Math Skills, and CNN Continues to Commit Integrity Suicide

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) First, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats accused Trump of being a secret Russian agent. The country spent about $30 million on the Robert Mueller investigation and found out that Trump was not a Russian agent. Then Clinton accused fellow Democrat and Democratic Presidential candidate, Tulsi Gabbard, of being a Russian agent without providing any evidence to support this accusation. Gabbard rebutted and admonished Clinton for making this baseless accusation.

Clinton is still at it, apparently seeing Russians behind every tree. In a recent Howard Stern interview she asserted that the Russians have said, “let’s do everything we can to elect Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.” Again, I am not aware that she provided any proof that the Russians were colluding with Sanders, I guess we are supposed to take her word for it.

But later on in the interview you get why she is slandering Sanders. She complains that Sanders “hurt her.” She followed that up with, “I hope he doesn’t do it again to whoever gets the nomination.” It seems that she is still bitter about losing not only to Trump but she blames Sanders for undercutting her. And thus, she brands him as a Russian agent as revenge for him daring to oppose her.

As far as Gabbard is concerned, maybe Clinton is envious of another Democratic woman besides herself becoming the first woman President. Whatever the case, her infatuation with branding everyone a Russian agent is sad and dangerous since if there ever is an American politician who is actually a Russian agent, we probably will not believe it since Hillary played the Chicken Little/Russian agent card too often based on nothing.

2) We have often shown examples of the many skills that most politicians lack: logic, economic training, project management, etc. Elizabeth Warren recently illustrated another skill that politicians lack, basic math skills:

• Warren has been running around the country promising a lot of free stuff to voters and vowing to enact a whole slew of government operated programs and processes in an attempt to appeal to liberals and socialists in this country, most socialists.
• This free stuff includes Medicare For All, the New Green Deal, forgiving college debt, free college tuition, etc. 
• The obvious question is how Warren would pay for all of these socialism goodies since nothing is free in life.
• Most estimates of the Medicare for All idea would be an increment $3.2 TRILLION a year in government spending, the cost of forgiving college debt would be $1.6, and the cost of the New Green Deal could be another $1 TRILLION a year bringing just these three promises to about $44 TRILLION over ten years.
• Keep those numbers in mind when you consider what Warren recently said at a National Education Association meeting when questioned how she would fund additional educational programs.
• She answered by flippantly and ignorantly stating that “there’s always money. It’s there.”
• She seems to think that she owns all of our wealth and it is at her disposal to do as she pleases.
• She also seems to think that there is no end to the amount of wealth there is in this country, a completely ignorant economic position.
• She went on to say that she would change budget priorities to fund her pipe dreams including reducing the defense budget.
• Now, while the defense budget should probably be reduced, given how much money the Pentagon wastes every year, let’s do some math to show how out of touch Warren is with mathematics reality.
• The annual Pentagon budget is about $700 billion every year.
• If she reduced the Pentagon budget by 100%, something that is impossible and stupid to do, she would free up about $7 TRILLION for her freebies and other socialism projects over the next ten years.
• But we just showed how over ten years she would need $44 TRILLION to fund just three of her pet programs.
• Thus, reducing the Defense Department budget to $0 would still leave her $37 TRILLION short of her needed funding or about 84% short of her funding needs.
• To fill this $37 TRILLION hole every American citizen, men, women, and kids would have to pay about $115,000 EACH to get the funding she needs or about $11,5000 a year for ten year per person. 
• Thus, a family of four would have to pay $46,000 a year.
• And this would leave us without any armed forces at all.
• If she reduced the Pentagon budget by 10%, a more realistic assumption, she would be over $43 TRILLION short of her needed funding.

As you can see, we are in the ridiculous arena of math calculations. But that is because her program ideas and the needed funding are ridiculous. Do none of these people have any logic or math skills? And even if they do not have these basic skills, is there no one on their staffs that can point out how stupid these ideas are? Scary that these types of people are trying to run the country.

3) We have often pointed out how important a free, unbiased press is in a democracy and for liberty of a nation’s citizens. And we have also lamented how the free press and the journalism profession in this country has failed miserably in this important responsibility. Most mainstream news outlets in this country lean heavily in favor of the left side of the spectrum, so much so that poll after poll show that the American public realize how biased and dangerous such bias is:

• Recent Pew Research found that respondents felt that journalists behave unethically almost always or sometimes 66% of the time.
• Recent Gallup research shows that only 23% of respondents felt that they only had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers.

Which shows that we really do not trust the people/”journalists” that are bringing us the news today. But that is also a good news story in that we at least know we are not being fed the truth in an unbiased way and that good news has manifested itself in the recent crash of CNN ratings, a news institution that was once felt to be trustworthy, a time that has long passed:

• CNN’s TV ratings have recently hit a multi-year low.
• Over Thanksgiving weekend, in the important 25-64 demographic, CNN hit a three year new low in ratings, according to Nielsen Media Research.
• In total, CNN averaged only 620,000 viewers every night over that weekend.
• This put their performance below other cable networks including AMC, the Food Network, and the Hallmark Channel.
• Thus, there is a very good chance that the biased reporting of CNN often lost out to Cupcake Wars on the Food Channel or they fell below a hokey Christmas movie on the Hallmark channel.
• At the same time, Fox News had more than three times as many viewers, two million, and MSNBC had more than twice as many than CNN.

Again, this is a double edged sword. On one hand, CNN and other mainstream news outlets have failed the American people and their own industry’s integrity and trust standards with their biased and skewed news reporting. This has endangered our democracy and freedoms since a free, unbiased press has always been an anti-tyranny bastion. 

The good news is that a good many Americans have realized that CNN and others are not really journalism outlets anymore as much as they are biased ratings machines, truth be damned. We can only hope that at some point in time real journalism returns to this country as opposed to what the likes of CNN is now propagating.

That will do it for today: in Hillary’s world everyone is a Russian agent, In Elizabeth Warren’s world basic math laws math are suspended, and in the news world, CNN’s integrity and trust continue to plummet as their reporting becomes more and more skewed.

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December, 2019, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: The Failure That Is Afghanistan, Ocasio-Cortez Takes Her Gaffes and Anti-Israel Gaffes International and A Democrat For President Gets Punked

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Often times the race to be the Democratic Presidential candidate for 2020 reminds me of a clown car. A bunch of clownish figures that run around making fools of themselves in an attempt to get our attention. It would be funny if it were not so scary to think that one of these folks might actually run for President.

One of the strangest candidates is a so-called self help guru, Marianne Williamson. To my knowledge she has never held elected office. To my knowledge she is not a dynamic and successful business person. To my knowledge she is not trained in law, economics, or international policy, traits that one might want in a President.

And based on a recent gaffe, she seems to not be real thorough when it comes to stating as fact something that is impossible:

• She recently believed a fake news story that stated that Trump had pardoned mass murderer Charles Manson.
• Problem is that Charles Manson died in 2017 so that Trump could not have pardoned him to give him his freedom and he did not even pardon him posthumously.
• She wrote to her Twitter followers that “there is something deeply sinister about Trump pardoning Charles Manson, even posthumously.”
• The theory is that she picked up this information that was originally published on a known satirical website called MoronMajority and the story was then picked by the Daily Kos, a left wing website that did not label the story as satire.

After she got lambasted on twitter she took the initial Manson Tweet down, offered a half ass apology and then took the apology down.

Seriously, in this age of instant information access, she could not have done two minutes of research before making a fool of herself? If she is so easily fooled by an idiotic Internet story like this, how easily would Putin, Kim, and the rest of the world fool her and take advantage of her if she was President? Lord help us. 

2) Not happy displaying her ignorance on a whole range of topics in this country, our favorite political gaffe machine Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex decided that she should display her ignorance on the international stage as well. She recently Twitter endorsed and supported the leader of the British labor party Jeremy Corbyn in advance of national elections over in England:



Let’s start off with the reality that she really has no business sticking her nose in the elections of a foreign country, it is not appropriate and she probably has no value to add to that election. But more importantly, think about what she is endorsing:

• The National Review recently listed out the strong anti-Semitism history of Corbyn.
• He once invited members of Hamas and Hezbollah, sworn terror enemies of Israel, to the British Parliament as “friends.”
• He was paid about $27,000 to appear on Iranian Press TV, a country that is the worst terrorist nation in the world.
• He once falsely asserted that Israel was involved in a terror attack in Egypt.
• In 2014 he went to Tunisia to celebrate the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
• He once compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
• He has attended events hosted by Deir Yassin Remembered, a group operated by Holocaust denier Paul Eisen.

This is the kind of person that Ocasio-Cortez is supporting. Rather than focus on taking care of her NYC constituents and the affairs of this country, she pokes her nose into foreign affairs, where she has no stake or knowledge, and supports a hateful, anti-Israel foreign politician. Sad, sad set of priorities.3) We have often reported on the disaster that is Afghanistan from a financial and wasting of tax payer wealth. It is also obvious that militarily this has not been a success since 18 years into the affair we are still mired down in a no win situation.And now the Washington Post has reported on how the past three Presidential administrations have been a total failure in this endeavor:

• The Washington Post recently reported on as massive trove of documents that illustrate how many government officials felt that the war in Afghanistan has been a failure even though they had publicly proclaimed that it was going well.
• Douglas Lute, who served both Bush and Obama and is a retired three star Army general had this opinion in 2015: "We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn't know what we were doing. What are we trying to do here? We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.”
• He continued: "If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction ... 2,400 lives lost. Who will say this was in vain?"
• Yes, over 2,000 American lives lost, over 20,000 U.S.soldiers wounded, over 700,000 troops having been deployed in the country, almost a trillion dollars spent and we have basically nothing to show for it.
• According to the Post, Bush, Obama and now Trump "have been unable to deliver on their promises to prevail in Afghanistan."
• All told, since 2001, the Pentagon, the State Department and the U.S.Agency for International Development have likely spent between $934 and $978 billion in the country. 
• Jeffrey Eggers, a retired Navy SEAL told government interviewers in the documents: "What did we get for this $1 trillion effort? Was it worth $1 trillion? After the killing of Osama bin Laden [in 2011], I said that Osama was probably laughing in his watery grave, considering how much we have spent on Afghanistan.”

Another example, a very, very gross and expensive example, of how the American political class does very few things well and far more often than not does many things horribly and expensively bad. Which is why our desire is for politicians and the government bureaucracies they overlook to do very few things and do them well rather than do a lot of things and do them horribly bad. The Afghanistan disaster is probably one of the grossest examples of government ineptness and it cost the country dearly in lives and wealth.That will do it for today: a gullible Presidential candidate, an ant-Semitic NYC politician and a massive and expensive government failure in Afghanistan.

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December, 2019, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Politicians Who Should Be Seen and Not Heard and The Continuing Greed of Those Who Serve In Office

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Freshman Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has shown herself to be anti-Israel any number of times in the past two years. Her disgust with Israel has been well documented and we will not go into her statements and actions supporting her hatred at this time.

So her behavior after the recent slaughter of Jewish Americans in Jersey City, New Jersey was certainly surprising, crazy and at the end of the day bigoted:

• According to Alicia Luke, writing for the Freedom Outpost website on December 12, 2019, Tlaib tweeted and blamed “white supremacy” for the murders for the three Jewish Americans, and a Jersey City policeman.
• Specifically: “This is heartbreaking. White supremacy kills,” the Michigan Democrat wrote in a since-deleted tweet.
• Her sympathy was initially surprising given her past disgust with the Jewish state.
• It would seem that maybe she had a change of heart but that was probably not the case.
• Rather then opportunity to make peace with the Jewish state, she immediately tried to leverage the dead Americans to support her faux outrage at the myth of white supremacy.
• You see, white folks did not commit the violence and murders, two African Americans committed the atrocities, a reality that did not fit Tlaib’s knee jerk reaction to spread hate about the races in this country.
• As soon as she realized that her desire for headlines and an opportunity foment white supremacy made her look like an ill-informed idiot she deleted the tweet.

This is how low the leadership has fallen in D.C. A politician immediately assumes the worst in order to fit it into her dialog of dividing the races in this country and she opens her mouth without doing even basic research into the reality of a situation. And she makes a fool of herself while families in Jersey City are in the beginning stages of mourning the loss of their loved ones, Tlaib did not even have the human decency to remain quiet for a grieving period. Disgusting.

2) But Tlaib is not the only freshman Congresswoman opening her mouth and espousing idiocy. Our favorite politician gaffe machine, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, somehow put her foot in her mouth again:

• Trump has been trying to clean up the scandalous food stamp program that while it does a good thing in helping struggling American families to put food on the table for their families, it has been riddled with scandal and fraud as people fleece the system and the American taxpayer.
• Trump has proposed changes to the system that would reduce the taxpayer risk and make sure that only people who deserve the food support get it.
• It is estimated that upwards of 700,000 people currently milking the system for food support would lose that opportunity to rip off the system.
• But as with Tlaib above, Ocasio-Cortex did another knee jerk reaction as a result of her hatred for Trump.
• And has a result of talking without knowing and/or understanding what Trump was trying to do, she looks like a vain and hateful person.
• She tweeted out the following fallacy: “My family relied on food stamps (EBT) when my dad died at 48. I was a student. If this happened then, we might’ve just starved. Now, many people will. It’s shameful how the GOP works overtime to create freebies for the rich while dissolving lifelines of those who need it most.”
• But this assertion is so false since according to the rule that Trump is pushing, the restrictions and reductions would apply to able bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 49 who DO NOT have dependents and does not apply to parents with minor children, the elderly, or the disabled.

In other words if you are a stand alone adult without kids, are not elderly and not disabled, you are going to have to get off your duff and get a job in order to eat. Millions of American taxpayers go to work every day in order to eat, there is no reason why able bodied adults should not do the same.

For Ocasio-Cortez to say that many Americans will starve to death because of Trump is nothing more than a fallacy, a denial of reality, and more childish hatred towards Trump. As always with Ocasio-Cortez, she should again consider the following piece of advice: It is better to remain silent and thought ignorant than to speak up and remove all doubt. Ocasio-Cortez and just about every other politician in D.C should consider this advice.

3) We recently discussed the rather distasteful reality that Obama now owns three homes worth in excess of $25 million: an estate on Martha’s Vineyard, a home in an exclusive D.C. neighborhood, and another luxury home in California. This is quite amazing since Obama earned only $400,000 a year as President, before taxes, and his wife was a housewife. Both of their careers prior to the White House did not include million dollar salaries nor do they have massive family inheritances.

Thus, we were forced to wonder how the former First Family is not only able to afford three grand homes but also pay the maintenance, property taxes, and utility costs that accompany these properties. And now we may know how he does it:

• During his administration Obama actively pushed the so-called Common Core education process, a process that we accurately predicted would be a disaster for the country and which is now basically defunct despite billions of taxpayer dollars wasted on the effort.
• Wherever Common Core was adopted, test scores and learning progress plunged.
• Fast forward and we find out that Obama got a whopping $65 million book deal from Penguin Random House Publishing.
• Pearson Publishing received a $350 million contract during the Obama administration to publish Common Core educational materials.
• Nothing shady here until you realize that Pearson Publishing and Penguin Random House are corporate relatives.
• Pearson and a company called Bertelsmann are joint owners of Penguin Random House which we just said gave Obama the ridiculous book deal.

So, the obvious question is: did Pearson/Bertelsmann/Penguin Random House have a quid pro quo deal with Obama, Pearson gets the $350 million Common Core contract and Obama gets a sweetheart book deal from Penguin Random House? The appearance of a conflict of interest is often just as bad as a real conflict of interest and this “arrangement” certainly fits that description.

Combining this Obama “deal” with the reality that Joe Biden has made over $15 million since leaving office, the whole stench of politicians getting obscenely wealthy while providing little to benefit society just smells more and more. Politics is no longer about serving the country and its citizens, it is about making oneself richer and richer. From the mega bucks Nancy Pelosi’s machinations relative to the Visa IPO to Ocasio-Cortez complaining she is overpaid despite living in a luxury apartment, getting $300 haircuts and wearing designer clothes, the greed of the American political class has never been so intense or so obvious while its ability to resolve real issues and problems has never been so low.

So today’s insanity included two politicians who do not know when to just be quiet, or at least speak AFTER they have the facts, and the gross corruption and greed of politicians both while in office and after they leave office.

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December, 2019, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Portland Politicians Failing the Homeless, Joe Biden Wants to Fight An American, Biden Supports The Confederacy, and Ocasio-Cortez Goes Delusional....Again

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Liberals and Democrats always consider themselves as pure of heart and defenders of the disadvantaged. I would say this is a mirage since they are politicians, and in my opinion there are very few of them that are pure of heart and most could care less for anyone that cannot help their careers.

But they are always quick to pounce on anyone that they consider not pure of heart especially if it is politically advantageous to them. Thus, it should be interesting to see how they react to their leading candidate for President, Joe Biden, and some interesting video that has been recently uncovered. 

The Daily Wire website recently discussed that a video clip from 1993 could be quite embarrassing for Joe Biden. In that clip Biden compliments a pro-Confederacy war group, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, saying they were “an organization made up of many fine people who continue to display the Confederate flag.” 

I cannot imagine the faux outrage the Democrats and liberals would have worked up if this video clip featured Trump or any other non-liberal politician. Given that many on the left side of the political spectrum these days finds racism everywhere when it does not involve them, I expect that the hypocrisy of Biden and others will be amazing.

The original video of Biden supporting the Confederacy can be viewed at:

https://flagandcross.com/unearthed-clip-shows-joe-biden-praising-group-that-displays-confederate-flag-watch/

2) When politicians have no idea how to resolve a problem or issue they usually come up with “solutions” that make the original issue even worse. This was recently illustrated up in Portland. Portland is one of several major western cities that have allowed the homelessness problem in their city get out of control.

Rather than fixing the problem, the politicians in the city decided that it was a better idea to force private property owners to fix the homeless problem:

• According to a Daily Wire report, “Portland wants private property owners to add ‘mandatory rest spaces’ for the homeless.”
• Yes, rather than resolve the issue, force private citizens and private businesses to at least alleviate the problem that they cannot resolve.
• A Portland city commission wants to change the city’s building codes to force private property owners to build their buildings to accommodate the city’s homeless population.
• This commission writes and enforces the city’s building codes.
• The commission wants the construction to have “opportunities to rest and be welcome.”
• Thus, if the commission gets its way, anyone could loiter, sleep or camp on private property.
• As it often happens, when a politician cannot resolve a problem they start trying to fool us with different words to take attention. 
• This is what is happening in Portland since in that city homeless folks are “unhoused” and they are “underserved” by the city’s housing public housing.

I feel so bad for anyone for any reason does not have their own roof over their head, however they define that roof. But forcing private citizens to do the job that the politicians cannot do regarding housing for the homeless is a cop out. Obviously these politicians are not worthy of handling the tax dollars of hard working citizens in finding the root causes of the homeless in their city and then attacking the root causes, i.e. do their job.

3) My perception of a leader is someone who can stay calm and mature under pressure, someone who rises above the trivial and focuses on the big issues and problems, someone who respects others. In a recent encounter Joe Biden had with an ordinary American, he was none of those things:

• During a campaign stop in Iowa, a regular American citizen asked Biden about his son’s dealings in the Ukraine, a topic that has become quite popular recently.
• Biden did not take the question graciously.
• During the exchange, he ended up calling the American citizen a “damn liar” and “fat.”
• He actually challenged the man, who was a senior citizen, to a push up contest and an IQ test.
• He ends the exchange by telling the citizen that he is”too old to vote for me [Biden].”

If, God forbid, Biden ever gets elected President, is this the type of juvenile behavior we want in the White House? What happens when Putin or Kim give him grief, is he going to challenge them to a push up contest? What happens when he has to handle a terrorist situation, challenge them to an IQ test or call them fat? Just another example where Biden in particular and politicians in general are not calm, mature, focused on the big issues, or respective of others.

The exchange can be viewed at: 

https://redrightvideos.com/must-watch-joe-biden-explodes-in-anger-when-voter-asks-about-hunter-call-him-a-dn-liar-and-challenges-him-to-push-up-competition-and-more/

4) First term Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has probably taken up way too much space in this blog with her ignorance and delusions about reality and basic knowledge in a full range of subjects where she has offered her opinion and always been shown to be so out of touch. Her most recent excursion into delusion was recently reported when she insisted that she was right to force Amazon to NOT locate a headquarters in her Congressional district, a move that would have brought great wealth and opportunities to her constituents. That ignorance can be viewed at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2019/12/december-2019-part-3-another-politician.html

Her latest embarrassment of herself started with a tweet:

• According to reporting by the Washington Free Beacon, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that HER effort fast tracked the early arrival of an HIV medicine to the market.
• In reality, a corporate decision to bring such drugs to market was made FOUR YEARS before she was elected to Congress.
• Yet, she claimed that she “took on Big Pharma” with “colleagues in hearings that brought PrEP generic a year early.” 
• But Gilead, the drug company behind the HIV drug PrEP, a drug that can reduce HIV transmission by 99%, had reached an agreement with a generic drug maker for the drug back in 2014, a year earlier than would have normally happened. 

As always with these types of political charades, does Ocasio-Cortez actually believe this fable or does she think we are too stupid or too lazy to understand what the real time line and real truth is? It’s a question that may never be answered or it may all of the above: politicians believe their fables and they do think we are stupid and lazy.

Footnote: the Trump administration recently announced that it will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to all uninsured people as part of its plan to reduce new HIV transmissions by 90% over the next 10 years. Thus, while Ocasio-Cortez is fantasizing over non-accomplishments, Trump is actually doing something in the area of HIV prevention.

That will do it for today’s insanity: Ocasio-Cortez’s fables, Joe Biden picking on a U.S. citizen, Joe Biden admiring the Confederacy, and Portland politicians miserably failing the homeless and the citizens in their city.

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