Monday, March 2, 2020

March, 2020, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: More Shady Clinton Dealings and Bernie Sanders Idiocy on Increased Taxes

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) The Clinton political regimes have gotten into some very shady areas but have never been brought to justice. But the same cannot be said for a former Clinton official:
  • Candace Claiborne, a former State Department official, recently plead guilty to the charge treason.
  • She had been indicted by a Federal grand jury for colluding with parties of foreign countries.
  • She had previously worked under both Bill and Hillary Clinton in the State Department. 
  • She was accused of working with spies in China with the intent to defraud the Federal government, interfering with a government proceeding, and lying to the FBI.
  • She had had a top secret clearance when employed by the State Department so who knows what secret material and information she had access to.
  • She had received thousands of dollars worth of gifts from the Chinese spies.
  • Specifically, the Justice Department claimed that, “Candace Marie Claiborne traded her integrity and non-public information of the United States government in exchange for cash and other gifts from foreign agents she knew worked for the Chinese intelligence services. She withheld information and lied repeatedly about these contacts. Violations of the public’s trust are an affront to our citizens and to all those who honor their oaths. With this guilty plea we are one step closer to imposing justice for these dishonorable criminal acts.”
  • Additionally, “Candace Claiborne was entrusted with Top Secret information when she purposefully misled federal investigators about her repeated interactions with foreign contacts which violated her oath of office as a State Department employee.”
Good news is that this corruption and lack of integrity was uncovered and punished. Too bad this type of justice does not extend to her former bosses.

2) Let’s stay with the Hillary Clinton State Department and another shady situation:
  • Kurt Smolek worked in the State Department when Hillary was its head.
  • He was assigned to Cambodia as an OSAC Diplomatic Security Agent.
  • And his body was recently pulled out of the Potomac River down D.C. way.
  • Cambodia is a country known for its human and children sex trafficking.
  • Bill Clinton via Jeffrey Epstein had alleged ties to child sex trafficking.
Just a coincidence that these realities have a common link? Or another in a long list of suspicious Clinton associate deaths? Should be interesting to see where the Smolek investigation goes.

3) Politicians say the darndest things, almost all of them stupid, inane, or a lie. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently demonstrated this trait while being interviewed on CNN. During the interview he claimed that Americans would be delighted to pay more in taxes. Specifically: “Yeah, but I suspect that a lot of people in the country would be delighted to pay more in taxes if they had comprehensive health care as a human right. I live 50 miles away from the Canadian border. You go to the doctor any time you want. You don't take ought your wallet. You have heart surgery, you have a heart transplant and you come out of the hospital and it costs you nothing. Your kids in many countries around the world can go to the public colleges and universities tuition-free, wages in many cases are higher. So there is a tradeoff, but at the end of the day, I think, that most people will believe they will be better off when their kids have educational opportunities without out-of-pocket expenses and when they have healthcare as a human right and they have affordable housing, when they have decent retirement security, I think most Americans will understand that is a good deal.”

Oh my gosh, so many things stupid about this statement:
  • He suspects that Americans would be delighted to pay more in taxes, i.e. he has no basis, research, or data that proves they would be delighted, strictly his political campaign opinion.
  • It costs you nothing to have heart surgery in Canada...no, you pay heavy taxes and often incremental taxes to get a heart transplant, nothing is free in life.
  • And as we have pointed out many, many times in this blog, you probably will have to wait for a very, very long time to get that transplant in Canada during which time you would get sicker and sicker which causes tens of thousands of Canadians to go out of country to get timely, quality health care. [Note: find out more about how bad government-run national health care programs are, just enter “canada + health care” or “england + health care” in the search box above.]
  • Wages in many other countries on average are not higher in other countries, strictly political bs, the average household income in this country is unmatched by the vast, vast majority of countries.
  • He also does not admit the reality that there is not enough wealth in the country to pay for “free” health care, free college education, affordable housing, and retirement security since the national debt, the unfunded Social Security and Medicare liabilities, and state government debt is far over $100 trillion, an amount that far exceeds the total combined wealth of every American.
I am an American and I would not be delighted to pay more in taxes to a set of Washington politicians that have wasted trillions of dollars and given us nothing to show for it. I would bet most Americans want to keep taxes down so that their additional disposable income could better take care of themselves and their families. It would allow them to send their kids to better schools, buy a bigger home, start a business, contribute more to charity, etc. Sanders is so far off with this stupid assertion that we would be delighted to give Washington more of our wealth put idiocy and fallacy. Insanity.

That will do it for today’s political class insanity. Surely more to come.


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