Love My Country, Loathe My Government: March 2019

Sunday, March 31, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Insanity, Part 6: The Idiocy Of Forgiving Student Loans and Even Her Mom Takes a Powder To Florida To Avoid High Taxes

As a result, most of our recent political class insanity posts have almost always had an Ocasio-Cortez piece of insanity. Thus, we have decided to separately track her craziness and idiotic takes on economics, business, government, and whatever else on a regular basis under its own set of posts. She deserves to have a separate effort that captures all of the ridiculousness she espouses.

The original format we were going to use was to start with a set of her original inane ideas and just continue to build on that initial list as time goes by. But after just three summaries of her idiocy and stupid ideas it has become obvious that we cannot continually add to the existing set of ineptness, that list would get too large too quickly.

Thus, each new Ocasio-Cortez post will have only the latest gaffes out of her mouth. To review her previous idiocies just enter her last name in the search box above. The latest post can be accessed at:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2019/02/9-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-insanity.html

Let’s get started:

1) Greg Holt, writing for the Godfather Politics website on March 18, 2019, gave a quick review of some of Ocasio-Cortez’s stupidity and ignorance before going into her latest misreading of reality:

She is a Congresswoman who majored in economics in college but does not know the real definition of the unemployment rate.
She must have taken business classes if she was an economic major but still had no concept of the economic bonanza that Amazon would have brought to her Congressional district when she helped chase the company away.
She thinks Medicaid is a well run operation that is cheaper than private healthcare, radically wrong on both points.
She says that Americans should be “excited” about “being automated out of work.”
She is pushing a disaster known as the “New Green Deal” which also included getting rid of cows, getting rid of air travel, and giving free money to anyone who decided they did not want to earn money at a job.
She totally misread a Pentagon audit report and claimed that the Pentagon had misspent $26 TRILLION over a ten year period even though the TOTAL Pentagon budget over those years was less than half of that.

And now we have the latest idiocy from her. In a recent tweet she said:

Cost of the GOP Tax Scam for the rich: ~$1.8-2.3 Trillion

Cost of forgiving all student loans in America: ~$1.5 Trillion

Clearly where there’s a will, there’s a way.

When people say that there isn’t “enough” to do these things, what they mean is they don’t *want* to do them.

A few things about this idiocy:

It is not a tax scam for the rich, these people earned that money, they did not scam it from the poor.
Who said letting people get out from debt that they knowingly incurred is a good idea?
And by the way Congresswoman, there is not $2.3 TRILLION laying ground that we are giving to the rich, it is money they will not be paying in future taxes.
This is the same mistake you made when you thought that the $3 billion that Amazon was getting for moving into your Congressional district was somehow an existing pot of money that could be reallocated to other uses, it is a future reduction in taxes, not a current bucket of taxes.

So ignorant of taxation and life. Twitter users let her know how stupid this concept was:

Colin Moriarity: “I made an awful call as a kid, lived on campus, and walked out of NU $60k in debt, all because of private school room & board in a big city.I paid every penny back, with interest, 10 years early. Do I get my debt forgiven, too, or do I get to pay the Taking Responsibility Tax?"
Red Tide: “I paid back every dollar of my student loans. It's called taking responsibility for one's debts. It's what grown-ups do.”
“Vmf9569: “I agree with 1/2 of this. If you cancel their debt I want my debt canceled. I didnt go to college bc I couldn’t afford it. They did and now you are saying I should pay for their college? Why? Bc debt is hard to pay off? Yes, it is. Get a second and third job like I have.”
Am pollitcalnmoderate bol: “It’s the price of education, it’s not easy but it’s a choice people make, it’s not like he was forced to do it. He chose to, forgiving debts is just another way we’ll make people lazy and allow people to get away with horrible financial decisions with no consequences.”
Jess: “Yes let’s teach kids that when you borrow money you don’t have to return it. What a great lesson. I paid back all my loans. Sure I had a small amount compared to others but you still borrowed the money. We need to teach these ADULTS life lessons such as this.”

You get the idea. A lot of Americans with integrity worked hard to get an education and to pay for their education. Assuming that those that were not as honest or hardworking or had as much integrity deserved to have their loans paid off by those who actually work for a living is a travesty, which is just about everything that Ocasio-Cortez comes up with or says, a travesty.

2) I always have believed in karma, that anyone who is evil or stupid eventually gets put in their place by karma, Mother Nature, or whatever you want to call it. Ocasio-Cortez seems to think that she and other in Congress are entitled to the hard earned dollars of hard working Americans, that it it is the right of politicians to take as much as they can from an honest earning American.

Most famously she thought it was okay to rape the earnings of American earning over $10 million a year by taxing those dollars at an obscene rate of 70%. Taking 70 cents out of every incremental dollar starts approaching slave wages.

But there is a little karma or irony when you consider a recent article by Daniel J. MItchell from the Townhall website:

It has been no surprise that over the past few years many Americans have fled high taxation states like New York, Illinois, and New Jersey for lower taxed states like Florida and Texas.
Florida ranks number one in economic freedom from a recent study while New York finishes dead last.
The fact that Florida has no state income tax while New York has a very high state income tax rate explains a lot of this difference and why many New Yorkers are leaving the state in droves.
And this is where the karma and irony comes into play since, according to the New York Post, Ocasio-Cortez’s mother, despite her daughter’s call for higher and higher taxes, has actually moved out of New York to Florida to, wait for it, to avoid high taxation.
Specifically: “I was paying $10,000 a year in real estate taxes up north. I’m paying $600 a year in Florida. It’s stress-free down here,” Blanca Ocasio-Cortez told the Daily Mail.
Former Florida Rick Scott and current Florida Senator laid it out for Ocasio-Cortez: “The elites in New York and Washington should commission a study of Florida to see what happens when conservative ideas are put into practice. …Florida’s economy is thriving, expanding at a record pace. …There’s a reason Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s mom left New York for Florida. And there’s a reason companies are fleeing high-tax states, bringing jobs with them to Florida.”

So even though Ocasio-Cortez’s mother gets it, i.e. that there is no political freedom without economic freedom which is why she is looking to reduce her tax burden, the Congresswoman does not get it, always wanting to raise taxes for stupid, inane ideas. Listen to mom, Alexandria, she is a lot wiser than you have shown yourself to be.

That will do it for now. Her mother understands, freedom, responsibility, and America as does those hard working Americans who worked hard to get educated and worked hard to pay off their rightful debt, three concepts that are foreign to Ocasio-Cortez.

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Friday, March 22, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Insanity, Part 5: Possible Campaign Law Violations, Possible Pay Law Violations and A Downward Favorability Trend

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2019/02/9-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-insanity.html

Let’s get started:

1) While we may laugh or shake our head at some of the many inane and idiotic statements this Congresswoman makes, she may have gotten herself into some serious law breaking areas as reported by several news sources, actions that could eventually lead to jail time under campaign financing laws:

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has filed a formal FEC complaint that alleges campaign finance law breaking by Ocasio-Cortez.
Specifically, the NLPC complaint alleges that she and her top aide, Saikat Chakrabarti, operated an “elaborate scheme to avoid proper disclosure of campaign expenditures.”
Chakrabarti is a millionaire who is the founder of the Brand New Congress PAC and a group called “Justice Democrats.
The complaint demands that the FEC conduct an investigation into whether Chakrabarti channeled $885,000 from his two PACs into two shell companies he owned which may have allowed Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign to receive campaign donations that exceeded what was legal.
PACs are required by law to disclose how and when their campaign donations are spent but private companies are excluded from that requirement which may mean that the two shell companies were set up explicitly to hide and bypass the PAC disclosure requirements.
According to former FEC official, Adav Noti: “It does seem like there’s something amiss. One is the scam PAC possibility – they’re really just paying themselves and they’re concealing it by using the LLC. The other is that there’s actually another recipient, that the money is going to the LLC and then being disbursed in some other way that they want to conceal.”
Furthermore, “One possibility – a strong possibility, based on the description they put out – is they just got really bad legal advice that somehow said they had to to do this,” he continues. “But regardless, when they decided to use the PAC form, which they did, they subjected themselves to all the legal requirements that come with that.’
According to former FEC Commissioner Hans von Spakovsky: “If the facts as alleged are true, and a candidate had control over a PAC that was working to get that candidate elected, then that candidate is potentially in very big trouble and may have engaged in multiple violations of federal campaign finance law, including receiving excessive contributions.”
Thus, both Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti could face jail time if they intentionally hid information about her campaign and the PACs to avoid campaign contribution limits.
In addition, it appears that both of them may not have informed the FEC that they both controlled the Justice Democrats group that was supporting her election campaign.

Great: stupid ideas and possible criminal activity to boot.

2) And campaign finance entanglements might not be the only illegal financial hanky panky she is covering up. She has also been accused of purposefully underpaying her staff members to avoid Federal laws that require transparency of higher paid government employees. Director Tom Anderson of the NLPC notes that this “an old trick some of the most corrupt members of Congress have used time and again.”

But not surprising since Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend may or may not be an employee on her staff and she definitely hired Saikat Chakrabarti onto her Congressional staff.

3) She has made stupid statements like claiming that the three branches of government were the Presidency The House, and the Senate. She has showed her economic ignorance by not knowing the definition of the unemployment rate despite having an economics degree. She misread a simple Pentagon audit report and then claimed that the Pentagon had wasted more money than it ever had in its total budget. She made the most insane statements and assertions which drove Amazon to shut down the growth plans it had in her Congressional district, robbing that district of untold billions of dollars in tax revenue and economic growth.

That’s the bad news. The good news is that people are finally realizing what a screw up she is, as measured by a recent Gallup poll:

The good news for her is that when she won her primary election, about half of U.S. adults had no opinion of her or were unfamiliar with her but two months later only 29% of those polled had that opinion, i.e. a lot more people know who she is.
The bad news though is that 41% now hold an unfavorable opinion of her while only 31% hold a favorable opinion of her.
That 41% is up a whopping 15 points from her 26% unfavorable rating from last fall.
Obviously she is trending in the wrong direction, probably because every time she opens her mouth she says something that is wrong, a lie, a crime, or is incoherent. Of course, it is not her fault, she blames Fox News and old white guys for her drop in favorability ratings.
Problem is that old white guys don't make up anywhere close to 41% of the population or the Gallup sample, the percentage of those polled that view her unfavorably. And again, with her and with a lot of her generation, it is never her/their fault, not a good trait you want in a politician or a person of influence.

That will it for today for Ocasio-Cortez insanity: possible multiple violations of campaign laws and a fading favorability rating. Not a good day for the Congresswoman from NYC.

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Friday, March 15, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Insanity, Part 4: Getting Slammed By Greenpeace Founder, Calling America Garbage, and More

Over the past few months, New York City Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has established herself as a human gaffe machine. Her inability to do simple math, her outlandish ideas based on an alternative reality, her economic ignorance, and lack of common sense has resulted in an almost daily stream of idiocy, inane comments, and ridiculous ideas that have no basis in reality.

As a result, most of our recent political class insanity posts have almost always had an Ocasio-Cortez piece of insanity. Thus, we have decided to separately track her craziness and idiotic takes on economics, business, government, and whatever else on a regular basis under its own set of posts. She deserves to have a separate effort that captures all of the ridiculousness she espouses.

The original format we were going to use was to start with a set of her original inane ideas and just continue to build on that initial list as time goes by. But after just three summaries of her idiocy and stupid ideas it has become obvious that we cannot continually add to the existing set of ineptness, that list would get too large too quickly.

Thus, each new Ocasio-Cortez post will have only the latest gaffes out of her mouth. To review her previous idiocies just enter her last name in the search box above. The latest post can be accessed at:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2019/02/9-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-insanity.html

Let’s get started:

1) Ocasio-Cortez has a bachelor’s degree in economics. She is a former bartender. She has not advanced degree, she has no climate science experience or education, and she has never done any known research on climate.

And yet she has confidently and stupidly proclaimed to the world that the world will end in about dozen years unless we immediately tackle the likely myth of manmade climate change. And she wants us to follow her most inane New Green Deal plan to deal with the myth.

So who should we believe, this novice adult or a former leader of Greenpeace, a long standing environmental advocate organization:

Greenpeace co-founder, Patrick Moore, recently proclaimed that following Ocasio-Cortez and her New Green Deal plan woulds result in the demise of the human civilization.
Specifically: “It would be basically the end of civilization if 85 percent of the world’s and and also 85 percent of the U.S.’s energy in the form of coal, oil, and natural gas were phased out over the next few years, like 10 years.”
Furthermore: “Basically, they are opposed to approximately 98.5 percent of all the electricity that we are all using and nearly 100 percent of all the vehicle and transportation and ships and planes that we are using,” Moore stated.
“So when I tweeted the other day and had a huge response — over 3 million impressions on Twitter — when I said ‘You don’t have a plan to feed 8 billion people without fossil fuels or get the food into the cities where it’s needed.’ That requires large trucks, and there’s not going to be electric trucks anytime soon hauling 40 tons of food into the supermarkets, where the people in the cities probably thinks it originates in the supermarket,” he explained.
“That will spread out as a rot from the center of metropolises all across the country and half the population will die in a very short period of time.”
He went on to correctly and logically point out that if her plan was implemented, there would not be any trees left on the planet since wood would become the only viable energy source.

So who are you going to believe, a leading, experienced environmental friend of the Earth or a former bartender from NYC? Seems like a no brainer.

2) For a person who is quite young with very little worldly experience, besides living in a alternative reality, she really should keep her mouth shut most of the time before she says something, insults someone, or makes a fool of herself.

Speaking a recent gathering of liberals, she proclaimed that the current state of America is “garbage” and that Ronald Reagan “pitted” white working class Americans against non-whites to “screw over all working class Americans.”

Specifically: “One perfect example, I think a perfect example, of how special interests and the powerful have pitted white working-class Americans against brown and black working-class Americans in order to just screw over all working-class Americans, is Reaganism in the ’80s when he started talking about welfare queens.”

Then she blurted out this thought which I can still not figure out what it means from a logic and historical perspective: “So you think about this image of welfare queens and what he was really trying to talk about was … this, like, really resentful vision of essentially black women who were doing nothing that were ‘sucks’ on our country.”

Not content to have one nonsensical statement she followed it up with this nonsensical statement: “And it’s this whole tragedy-of-the-commons type of thinking where it’s, like, because these one, this one specific group of people, that you are already kind of subconsciously primed to resent, you give them a different reason that’s not explicit racism but still rooted in a racist caricature. It gives people a logical reason, a ‘logical’ reason to say, ‘oh yeah, no, toss out the whole social safety net.'”

So let’s do a little analysis of her remarks:

America is “garbage” but millions and millions of non-Americans want to come here and live, certainly not a sign of a garbage society.
Americans donated over $400 billion to charities last year out of their hard earned earnings to help others who are less fortunate in their communities, certainly not a sign of a garbage society.
The Federal government takes American tax money and sends it overseas as foreign aid to help those in other countries, certainly not a sign of a garbage society.
Americans probably spend millions of hours a year volunteering in their communities to help others, being it building houses via Habitat For Humanity, working in food banks, etc, certainly not a sign of a garbage society.
The American economic system has raised the quality of life of its citizens to the highest level in the history of humanity, it currently has resulted in historically low unemployment rates in minority communities it has generated substantial economic and wage gains over the past two years, and it has resulted in incredible technology advancements such as Google, Facebook, smartphones, medical advancements, etc.
The Reagan comments she tries to spin, unsuccessfully into racism remarks, happened in the 1970s, not the 1980s, so just from a timeline perspective she is again wrong.
Reagan was not trying to get rid of welfare and support of needy Americans, he was trying to clean up welfare abuse ands save the taxpayers money, certainly not a racist thing to do.
It is tough to take anyone seriously and view them as a mature adult when they have to often interject the word “like” into their comments, “ talk about was … this, like, really resentful vision", “where it’s, like, because these," etc.

My gosh, she certainly put did herself with this speech and conversation. Dates are wrong, topics are wrong, her conclusions are wrong, and the concept that America is garbage is unbelievably wrong. But all of this is par for the course with her.

3) Let’s finish her insanity off today with some further comments she recently made with us annotating the parts of her vocabulary which show how immature and shallow her ideas are:

“I think the thing that is really hard for people to sometimes see is that when we are on this path of a slow erosion and a slow, slow, slow, just, LIKE, move away from what we’ve always been, we’ll be a hundred miles, you’ll, you know you won’t even realize that you’ve drifted a hundred miles.”
“So, when someone’s talking about our core, it’s, LIKE, ‘oh this is radical.’ But this isn’t radical, this is what we’ve always been."
“And this idea of, LIKE, 10 percent better from garbage, is, shouldn’t be what we settle for. It’s LIKE this, LIKE, it feels LIKE ‘moderate’ is not a stance, it’s just an attitude toward life of, LIKE, hmmm.”

I’m sorry, even if what she said contained even an inkling of common sense, which it does not, I cannot take someone seriously who talks LIKE a 14 year old valley girl.

More Ocasio-Cortez gaffes, insanity, and idiotic ideas to follow.

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Sunday, March 10, 2019

March, 2019, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Elizabeth Warren Goes Repugnant, Bernie Sanders' Sexual Harassing Campaign Staff, and More

Let’s get started:

1) Liberals and Democrats like to imagine themselves as the protector of all and comforter of all population minority segments that they define anyway they want to suit the current outrage moment. A recent hero of such outrage was Senator Bernie Sanders who had a decent run at the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2016.

But according to a recent National Review article by Jack Crowe, Sanders’ campaign fell far short of protecting and respecting the rights, feelings, and respect of women:

Women who worked on his staff and campaign have gone public with the accusations that they were subjected to sexual harassment and discrimination from their bosses on the job.
The accusations were strong enough for Sanders to publicly apologize for this predator behavior: “I certainly apologize to any woman who felt that she was not treated appropriately, and of course if I run, we will do better next time,” Sanders said when asked by CNN’s Anderson Cooper about a Wednesday New York Times report that alleged systemic gender pay disparities and sexual harassment on his campaign.
Furthermore: “I am not going to sit here and tell you that we did everything right in terms of human resources, in terms of addressing the needs that I’m hearing from now, that women felt disrespected, that there was sexual harassment which was not dealt with as effectively as possible.”
A number of women on staff say there was sexual harassment which, when they reported it, they were mocked and had their accusations ignored.
They are said they were paid less for comparable work, a standard rallying point of liberals and Democrats, a rallying point that Sanders failed to respect.
Sanders tried to make the excuse that he was too busy running for President to know what was going on: “Yes, I was little bit busy running around the country trying to make the case.”

More hypocrisy from just another plain old politician. It was not his fault, he was not aware what was going on, blah, blah, blah. As always, a member of the American political class is incapable of taking responsibility, not an attractive trait for someone who wants to lead the country. A great leader gives credit and takes responsibility, something that Sanders does not know how to do.

2) I am not looking to get into a discussion of abortion here, pro choice vs. pro life. I just want to point out one of the most callous, heartless, and despicable statements a politician has made at anytime on any subject. Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Presidential candidate, is the culprit.

This statement goes back a few months when Democrats were out of their minds during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Warren was besides herself with the panicked thought that if Kavanagh was confirmed then the right to an abortion would be destroyed and back alley abortions would become prevalent again.

But what was really repulsive was her statement that: “Today, thanks to Roe, getting an abortion is safer than getting your tonsils out. Before Roe v. Wade, many women turned to back-alley butchers to end their pregnancies.” So in essence, Warren is equating the killing of an unborn human soul to getting rid of an unneeded bodily organ. Again, this discussion is not about the validity of abortion but let’s have a little compassion for killing an unborn infant then comparing it to getting your tonsils out. Repugnant and insane.

3) And following up on Warren’s inhumane rant, she is basically wrong about thinking that the reversal of Roe vs.Wade would result in a return to untold millions of back alley abortions because….there never really was an epidemic of back alley abortions prior to Roe. Consider a history of abortion based on facts and reality, not Warren’s scare tactics and rhetoric:

Back in In 1960, Dr. Mary Calderone, the medical director of Planned Parenthood, wrote in the American Journal of Public Health: “… about 90 percent of all illegal abortions are presently being done by physicians…Whatever trouble arises usually arises from self-induced abortions, which comprise approximately 8 percent, or with the very small percentage that go to some kind of non-medical abortionist…So remember…abortion, whether therapeutic or illegal, is in the main no longer dangerous, because it is being done well by physicians.”
Once upon a time Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a former abortionist and abortion activist, claimed that between 5,000 and 10,000 women died every year from back alley abortions and that legalizing abortion was a way to ensure their safety.
Except that those numbers were imaginary as he later admitted: “I confess that I knew that the figures were totally false and I suppose that others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the ‘morality’ of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted … The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated, and anything within reason that had to be done was permissible.”
And even the government admits that thousands and thousand of women did not die annually from back alley abortions since a Center For Disease Control study found that in the year prior to the Roe decision 39 people died from abortion procedures in the country, not 390, note 3,900, not 39,000 just 39, less than one per state.
And the fact that Roe is the law of the land does not mean that abortion is as safe as getting one’s tonsils out since Roe became law, hundreds of women have died from legal abortion complications.

Again this is not a debate on the pros and cons of abortion but the reality that politicians will lie and exaggerate reality and facts to make a false talking point even when it comes to killing unborn souls.

4) Speaking of lying politicians, let’s look at a recent article by the Heritage Foundation on lying politicians when it comes to the border wall that Trump wants to build to protect Americans from criminal and terrorist elements coming across our southern border:

Cal Thomas, writing on January 10, 2019, found that politicians change their views and values based on the political winds of the times.
Consider what Senator Barack Obama had to say about illegal immigration back in 2006: “Those who enter our country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of our immigration laws.”
Hillary Clinton in 2015: “I voted, when I was a senator, to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.”
According to the Washington Post,back 2013 a bipartisan group of Senators “which included current Democratic leaders Sens. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) and Richard J. Durbin (Ill.), declared that “not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary [of Homeland Security] shall establish . . . the ‘Southern Border Fencing Strategy,’ to identify where 700 miles of fencing (including double-layer fencing) . . . should be deployed along the Southern border.””
Nancy Pelosi at the time stated that the proposed Senate legislation had the characterization that “every piece of this legislation has had bipartisan support”

But now that Trump is President and these people hate Trump, the concept of securing our border and protecting Americans is despicable to these hypocrites and liars.

5) One last piece of insanity about the wall concept, a concept that was once a good idea among Democrats and now is a bad idea. One tack that they now take is to say that the wall is either not needed or is ineffective. But consider some realities that Cal Thomas included in his article cited above: “Since San Diego built its wall in 1992, the statement notes, apprehensions of illegal aliens have declined by 92 percent; El Paso, Texas, erected a wall in 1993 and illegal border crossings dropped 72 percent the first year and 95 percent over 22 years; Tucson, Arizona, built its wall in 2000 and apprehensions dropped 90 percent over 15 years; the Yuma, Arizona, wall went up in 2005, contributing to a decline in crossings of 95 percent over nine years.”

But as always with a lying American politician, never let reality get in the way of a good talking point.

That will do it for this month’s political class insanity, a sad state of affairs for every American. Today we covered how politicians lie about walls and abortion, how insensitive and repugnant a politician can be when it comes to killing a soul and equating it to having your tonsils out and how a politician was just another male sexist leader. More insanity next month.

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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

March, 2019, Part 3,Political Class Insanity: Economic Nonsense In NYC, Political Idiocy in Virginia, And Americans Say Government Is The Biggest Problem

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) Probably not a surprise, given the incompetence of those politicians and government bureaucrats that operate the government in this country, a recent Gallup tracking poll found that the top problem facing the country was not gun control, climate change, poverty or education. The biggest, by far, problem in Americans’ minds is “the government/poor leadership.”

More than a third of those polled, 35%, said that the government and those leading the government were the top problem facing the country today. The second biggest problem as cited by those polled was immigration, a distant second at 19%, almost half of what was perceived as the top problem. A distant third place problem was healthcare at a mere 6%.

The 35% was the highest level ever attained by the government/poor leadership in all of the tracking done by Gallup. In other words, our politicians have been getting worse and more of a problem over time.

I think that this survey shows that Americans are pretty smart in that they recognize that if our politicians and leaders were better, the other problems might just take care of themselves if good, smart leadership could somehow miraculously arise out of the current of politicians. Get a better, smarter set of politicians into government and the failing public education processes in this country get fixed. Elect some smart people who care more about the country than their own greed, and maybe the poverty/hunger/homelessness problem gets fixed.

A few years ago a famous Brazilian clown ran for public office and actually got elected. His campaign slogan was “how much worse could it get” if a clown got elected. Which reinforces our desire for term limits for our politicians, “one and done.” How much worse could it be, given how badly the current members of the political class have screwed everything up?

2) Sometimes when it comes to American politicians you just have to smack your head and say: “What in the world were they thinking?” Which leads us to our next piece of insanity:

The media and this blog have extensively covered the major racism scandal surrounding the governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam.
Someone came across the medical school yearbook page of the governor where two very racist items were printed.
One item was a photo of two young men at a party, one dressed as a KKK member and one dressed in black face makeup, both of which are extremely racist and insensitive.
The governor first admitted that he was one of the men in the photo and 24 hours later said he was not in the photo which made the scandal even worse by adding a layer of lying to it.
The second tem was the mention that the governor’s nickname in school was “Coonman,” another racially insensitive situation.

So, two major racially insensitive items to have in your background. There was a groundswell of disgust and calls for him to resign, which so far he has refused to do. But given the scandal and furor, one would have expected him and his wife to be extremely sensitive and careful relative to their actions and words and just go low profile until the current scandal calms down.

But according to the Gateway Pundit website, while low profile may have been the smart thing to do, politicians rarely do the smart thing:

Jim Holt, writing for the website on February 27, 2019, reported that his wife made a major and again, racially insensitive move, when a bunch of kids were coming through the governor’s mansion on a tour.
It has been alleged that the wife handed out cotton balls to some African American kids on the tour, obviously invoking the specter of black slavery in the South.
A state government employee was rightfully upset as a result of her eighth grade daughter being upset after being handed a ball of cotton by the governor’s wife who then asked the kids to imagine being a slave and having to pick cotton.
The state employee, Leah Dozier Walker, wrote to the governor’s office and state politicians with the following message: “The Governor and Mrs. Northam have asked the residents of the Commonwealth to forgive them for their racially insensitive past actions.But the actions of Mrs. Northam, just last week, do not lead me to believe that this Governor’s office has taken seriously the harm and hurt they have caused African Americans in Virginia or that they are deserving of our forgiveness.”

My gosh, the stupidity of the political class really knows no limits. After all of the racist blowups over the yearbook stuff, the subsequent calls across the country for the governor to resign, the embarrassment of such racially insensitive behavior, the wife thought handing out cotton balls and invoking the image of slavery to some African American kids was a good idea?! Insane.

3) We have often discussed the reality that one area of life where politicians almost always screw up is in the field of economics. Their economic policies are usually overly expensive, ineffective, and often make the situation worse. Their economic policies have given us a $22 trillion national debt, have put Social Security and Medicare on a road to insolvency, gave us an economic stimulus program after the last recession that wasted over $800 billion without stimulating anything, and have raised the minimum wage level which has resulted in higher unemployment and depressed economic growth.

This latest economic failure of upping the minimum wage was recently discussed on the Godfather Politics website about the situation in New York City:

According to Warner Todd Huston, with the arrival of the city’s new $15 an hour minimum wage, the city has now lost more jobs now after the minimum wage level went up than the number of jobs lost after the 9-11 attacks, attacks which dealt the city a substantial economic blow.
A recent research report form the Foundation for Economic Freedom found that since the new $15 wage level took effect, the city has suffered through the steepest decline in restaurant jobs in almost 20 years.
The report concluded that since the restaurant industry operates on very low profit margins, usually between 2 and 6 percent, a major, 40%, increase in the wage line of this type of business results in a severe profit challenge.
In order to stay in business, restaurant owners are forced to cut expenses elsewhere which means fewer jobs, reduced hours, and higher prices which in part wipes out the wage gains of some industry workers.
A NYC Hospitality Alliance survey found the three out of four city restaurants plan on reducing the hours that retained workers will work and nearly half said they will reduce some restaurant jobs in 2019.
Mark Perry, discussing the report found that: “December 2018 restaurant jobs were down by almost 3,000 (and by 1.64%) from the previous December and the 2.5% annual decline in March 2018 was the worst annual decline since the sharp collapse in restaurant jobs following 9/11 in 2001.”

So whether it is in Seattle, as we have previously discussed, or now in NYC, the following discussion almost always follows when politicians raise the minimum wage arbitrarily: “The good news is that you have a higher hourly wage rate. The bad news is that you no longer have a job...or you will not have as many hours to work since the business needs to cut other expenses to meet your higher wage rate.”

In either case, a lost job or a fewer hour job, the net change in economic well being is usually worse after the politicians get done tinkering with their economic levers. Let the market decide what the right wage level is, it is much smarter than any American politician.

That will do it for today: economic tomfoolery in NYC, political insensitivity and idiocy in Virginia, and politicians continue to being the biggest problem facing America today. More insanity to follow.

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Monday, March 4, 2019

March, 2019, Part 2,Political Class Insanity: Booker Hates America, Hillary Should Have KNown Better and More

Let’s get started:

1) Senator Cory Booker is a Senator from New Jersey who wants to be the next President. In my opinion, he has been an undistinguished, blowhard Senator who has accomplished very little except being a drama queen in front of the cameras and press.

He recently commented that the U.S. is not ”the top country” to be born into today if you are poor during a recent interview on “Pitchfork Economics,” whatever the heck that is. Now while he is certainly entitled to his opinion, let’s explore a few ways why this is just a plain insane and stupid thing to say:

There are probably tens of millions of American voters out there that would disagree with this statement, not a good thing to do if you want their votes.
Apparently he did not list any countries that were better to be born in if you are poor.
Apparently he did not recommend any solutions to make it better if you were born poor into this country, i.e. better schools, better housing, better job opportunities, etc.
Apparently he did not address the reality that millions of people from other countries continually try to get into this country because of its prosperity and economic opportunity.
Apparently he did not address the reality that under Trump the unemployment rate for African and Hispanic Americans are at or near record lows.

Again, he is certainly entitled to his opinion. But if you have a problem with something, don’t whine about it, work towards solutions and resolution, something that he did not do and something that I think he is incapable of doing. And don’t be an idiot: if you want to be President, do not be so stupid as to alienate millions of voters before you even get out of the starting gate.

2) David Greenfield, writing for the Freedom Force website, had an interesting article on how the Senate blew up the long standing filibuster rules to confirm a government official just to have that move blow up in its face:

Back in 2013, Democrats got ticked off that Republicans would not support the appointment of Congressman Mel Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).
Just so happens that Watt is African-American which enabled the Democrats to play their race card tactic, never mind whether or not he was qualified to head the agency, if Republicans opposed him they must be racist.
Head of the Senate, Harry Reid went on record to associate the Republicans opposition with slavery and the Civil War: “Republicans’ unprecedented obstruction continued today with a step that we have not seen since the Civil War, as they blocked Representative Mel Watt, a sitting member of the House of Representatives, from being confirmed to an administration position.”
Again, no consideration to whether he was able and capable, just drop that race card even though Watt had no background in housing financing and had found himself embroiled with multiple conflicts with the Office of Congressional Ethics organization for shady fund raising.
As a result, to get this unqualified and possibly unethical person into a very powerful position, Reid nuked the long standing filibuster option on appointments to bypass Republican doubts, killing a long established process and setting a dangerous precedent.
Which may have been okay if Watt was a good, reputable performer in the job.
Turns out that morally and ethically Watt was deficient on both counts.
As his term as head of the agency neared, it became known that he was aggressively pursuing a female employee at the agency despite being married.
When he took her out to a Mexican restaurant he allegedly told her that, "There is an attraction here that I think needs to be explored."
He want on to say relative to a tattoo the woman had that, “If I kissed that one, would it lead to more?”
When the woman, Simone Grimes, turned his advances down, saying she was already in a relationship, he said that was not an issue since, "I love my wife too. Having an attraction for someone else doesn’t have to mean you don’t love them.”
And investigation for sexual harassment got underway and he claimed in public that he was clean of any unethical or bad but in private claimed to not to be a regular FHFA employee, he led the agency, and thus, was not bound by the agency’s employee behavior policies.
But the investigation resulted in a massive 600 page report that concluded that Watt was guilty of misconduct and not being candid with investigators, which was verified by recordings Grimes had made of their conversations.
Worse of all, it appears that Grimes was then targeted and retaliation for her going public, as she testified in front of Congress.
Those Congressional investigations in turn uncovered the reality of what was going on inside the FHFA which included reducing the auditing staff and some other very shady dealings.

Nicely done Harry Reid. Play the race card and ruin the lives of people like Simone Grimes, the firing of hard working government employees and blowing up a long standing check and balance Senate process for a scumbag like Watt.

3) On a personal basis, I had a long list of reasons why I would not vote for Hillary Clinton:

She had spent decades abetting, protecting and defending her husband’s sexual predator and raping tendencies, always defending him and trying to destroy his sexual predator victims.
She had a long history of blatant lying, e.g. she did NOT land under sniper fire Bosnia, she did NOT have four grandparents who were immigrants, etc.
She was not an effective Senator, having been able to get no more than a small handful of sponsored bills enacted.
She violated Federal law by using an insecure computer server in her own home that was likely hacked by foreign intelligence agencies and could have led to the death of many American agents around the world.
She lost billions of dollars in State Department budget dollars that were never accounted for.
She used the State Department as a money laundering operation to enrich herself and her husband.

And yet despite all of this law breaking and money laundering, she has never come close to being indicted, arrested, or put on trial for her misdeeds. Her good friends in the Justice Department, James Comey and Loretta Lynch, made sure she never had a day of legal reckoning.

But according to a recent set of news reports, many important people in the FBI thought she should have faced justice:

The one time top lawyer at the FBI, James Baker, initially thought that Hillary Clinton should have faced criminal charges for sending classified, secret government information over her insecure home computer system.
This information came about from his closed door testimony to Congress in 2018.
Specifically: "So, I had that belief initially after reviewing, you know, a large binder of her emails that had classified information in them. And I discussed it internally with a number of different folks, and eventually became persuaded that charging her was not appropriate because we could not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that - we, the government, could not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that - she had the intent necessary to violate (the law)."
Despite this feeling, he was persuaded not to proceed with criminal charges "pretty late in the process, because we were arguing about it, I think, up until the end."
He went on to say that he “thought that it was alarming, appalling, whatever words I said, and argued with others about why they thought she shouldn't be charged."

So she did not intentionally try to break the law even though she did, which apparently for connected political types like her that makes it all okay. So the next time you get arrested for speeding, use the Hillary defense: you did not intend to break the law. Next time, God forbid, you get arrested for drunk driving after you injure or kill someone, use the Hillary defense: you did not intend to break the law. Want to bet that defense does not work for you, an ordinary American citizen with no connections to the FBI Director and Attorney General?

That will do it for today: a Presidential candidate who hates America, a former Congressman and head of a government agency who turns out to be a low life after all, and Hillary skates on breaking the law because she was viewed as a poor soul who did not intend to break the law even though she did. More insanity to follow.

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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Insanity, Part 6: The Idiocy Of Forgiving Student Loans and Even Her Mom Takes a Powder To Florida To Avoid High Taxes

Friday, March 22, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Insanity, Part 5: Possible Campaign Law Violations, Possible Pay Law Violations and A Downward Favorability Trend

Friday, March 15, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Insanity, Part 4: Getting Slammed By Greenpeace Founder, Calling America Garbage, and More

Sunday, March 10, 2019

March, 2019, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Elizabeth Warren Goes Repugnant, Bernie Sanders' Sexual Harassing Campaign Staff, and More

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

March, 2019, Part 3,Political Class Insanity: Economic Nonsense In NYC, Political Idiocy in Virginia, And Americans Say Government Is The Biggest Problem

Monday, March 4, 2019

March, 2019, Part 2,Political Class Insanity: Booker Hates America, Hillary Should Have KNown Better and More

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