To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.
1) We have often pointed out how stupid and ignorant American politicians can be. Congressman Hank Johnson once stated in a Congressional hearing that he was worried that the island of Guam could actually flip over in the Pacific Ocean if too many Navy resources were stationed there. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Congresswoman, once stated that the Constitution was 400 years old and that her very own Congressional district was 50 feet below sea level (it isn’t). New York City mayor Bill de Blasio was shocked that when he allowed hardened, convicted criminals out of jail because of the corona virus many of them committed more crimes, shocking. And of course, New York Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, whose ignorance and verbal gaffes are far too many to review here.
In the context of such stupidity, the governor and other political figures in New Jersey have recently upheld this long tradition of being so out of touch with reality:
- As a result of the coronavirus, which hit New Jersey very hard, the governor had shut down all state parks and most other forms of recreation for New Jersey residents.
- Of course, this type of stay at home edict likely resulted in extreme cases of cabin fever for state residents.
- But the governor, Patrick Murphy recently reopened the state parks as the virus started to subside and as a result, New Jerseyans flocked to the state parks to get out of their homes and get some fresh air.
- But for some stupid reason, the governor decided that while he would agree to reopen the parks, he ordered that the restroom facilities at those parks remain locked and not usable by park visitors.
- Of course, any sane person would know what would happen, as an article on the Godfather Politics website explained with the following title: “New Jersey Opens Parks, Closes Restrooms, Complains About ‘Inordinate Amount of Urine and Feces’ in Park”
- Government officials were hopping mad that an “inordinate amount of urine and feces being left behind.” in the recently reopened parks.
- What did they think was going to happen as residents started hiking through the parks that they were going to hold their expulsions until they could drive out of the parks and find another place to go to the bathroom?
- Well, they actually did believe that, since State Police Superintendent Pat Callahan said: “We understand restrooms are closed, but people should be planning accordingly and should not be urinating in bottles and leaving them behind,”
- He went on to say there would be “zero tolerance” for anyone not holding it in until they could leave the park to find other facilities.
- Even the governor got into the act threatening that the state police would cite you for a violation and that “you’re not going to get a warning if we catch you.”
- The insanity continued in that 1) he threatened to shut down the parks if this behavior continued and 2) continued to order that the restrooms continue to be locked and off limits to park visitors.
- Nowhere have state government politicians or officials explain and defend why the restrooms were locked to begin with and will continue to be locked even though the parks are open.
2) There is no doubt that New York City was not only the hardest hit metro area in the country from the coronavirus but the politicians in that city were the worst when it came to coming up with smart policy and advice to minimize the damage. The mayor told his citizens in early March to go out to restaurants and bars since the virus was not passed on by food or drink, an inane and probably fatal suggestion to make.
The city board of health as of late January/early February insisted that maybe there was one case of the virus in the city, and that was it, a statement that was obviously and fatally wrong. The state governor decided it would be a good idea to send elderly virus patients or potential patients to nursing homes, a breeding ground for the virus. As a result over 5,000 New Yorkers died in nursing homes, well over 20% of all virus nursing home deaths in the country.
And last but no least, the mayor and governor pleaded for help from anyone that would provide it for what they falsely assumed would be a tidal wave of infected NYC city people, causing the Federal government to ship them a large number of ventilators, send in a Navy medical ship to the city, and rush in other supplies.
Other folks and charities also chipped in personnel and resources. But one charity who set up a facility in NYC to help those in need because of the virus was treated pretty harshly by local politicians:
- Samaritan's Purse is a Christian charity organization.
- They set up a FREE medical facility in conjunction with the city’ Mount Sinai hospital to care for the sick.
- The organization happens to oppose lesbian and gay causes.
- And for that, not the fact they helped and healed the sick for free, they are getting heat from city officials who only recently were crying and pleading for help in treating the ill.
- At no point and under no accusations did the charity refuse to medically treat anyone regardless of their religion or sexual orientation.
- Despite setting up free medical services, despite not denying those medical services to anyone, New York Governor Cuomo recently said that the charity would have to pay taxes in the state.
- The charity has also come under attack for their anti-gay and Christian orientation despite the need and their charitable efforts to indiscriminately help others.
- Keep in mind that Mt. Sinai asked for the charity’s help and they set up a 68 bed field hospital, again not charging anyone or any organization the expenses for doing so.
- Despite all of this, Cuomo is somehow holding the charity financial liable or offering free services, ‘I am not in a position to provide any subsidies right now,” in other words, the charity will have to pay state taxes, including any taxes on income they might earn while operating in NYC, despite the fact that state politicians and state medical facilities asked them to come into the state and city to help out in the crisis.
- Cuomo hid behind the state’s large budget deficit to justify the taxation: “{We] have a $13 billion deficit. So there’s a lot of good things I’d like to do, and if we get federal funding, we can do, but it would be irresponsible for me to sit here looking at a $13 billion deficit and say I’m gonna spend more money when I can’t even pay the essential services.”
- The governor ignores the two realities that 1) any taxes paid by this charity would be a nit of a nit relative to $13 billion and 2) the city somehow found the money to pay for 500,000 free meals for Muslims, a cost that I would bet far exceeds and tax revenue the charity would pay.
- But Cuomo is not the only state politician to look a gift horse in the mouth, with state senator Brad Hoylman describing the charity’s relationship with Mt. Sinai “poisonous” and city Council Speaker Corey Johnson said he found it “extremely troubling “ that the charity was offering free medical service to over 300 people of all religions and sexual orientations.
So sad that we have gotten to the point when allowing people to go sick or die is more important in a time of crisis than making a political point with a segment of the population.
3) We have often talked about how the state of California is going down the tubes in oh so many ways:
- It has by far the largest unfunded budget deficit liability in the country.
- It has the worst public schools systems in the country.
- It has the worst homeless problem in the country.
- It has made it not illegal to publicly defecate, urinate, or shoot up illegal drugs anywhere at anytime including in public venues and streets.
- The results of power washing the public defecation and urination from city streets down the storm drains has led to increasing levels of deadly water pollution in the surrounding bodies of water.
- Medieval diseases such as typhus have reemerged at least in LA because of the massive homeless problem.
- Average wage levels are so low in LA that 40% of the population make so little that they qualify for Medicaid.
- Its dream bullet train concept died after gross mismanagement by government officials and millions and millions of wasted taxpayer dollars resulting in….nothing.
- It has one of the highest overall taxation levels, if not the highest, in the entire country.
- It has made petty theft such as shoplifting non-criminal resulting in an explosion of crime.
- Its restrictive housing rules and regulations have made the cost of housing go sky high, pricing many people out of the home ownership and rental markets.
- Many state residents have escaped to other, more reasonably priced, lower taxed, safer, and better places to live and do business, putting even more pressure on the budget fiasco.
In fact, we have previously reported that if a relatively small number of California’s wealthiest people leave the state, the state government revenue stream would take a tremendous hit. And we may be seeing the very beginning of the wealthiest actually take those steps to leave, as measured by the words of one of the country’s richest individuals and California state resident:
- Elon Musk is one of the great business thinkers and innovators of our time.
- Besides being most famous for creating a major luxury car brand from scratch, Tesla, he has been an innovator in many other areas.
- He is not a dumb man and he is a very wealthy man who pays a lot of California taxes both business wise and personally.
- But now he is a very angry man in that Alameda County in California, the county that is home to his Tesla car manufacturing facility, will not let him open up his factory because of the virus crisis even though he says he will comply with all of the rules and standards of social distancing on the job.
- The state has set forth parameters for manufacturing businesses to open that Tesla could meet but that state has allowed local counties and towns to overrule the state guidelines and refuse to let him business like Tesla to reopen.
- To which Musk said screw it and claimed that he will be moving his Tesla assets to another state, taking workers, himself, jobs and a lot of state tax revenue with him.
- In addition he has filed legal actions against the county: “Tesla is filing a lawsuit against Alameda County immediately. The unelected & ignorant ‘Interim Health Officer’ of Alameda is acting contrary to the Governor, the President, our Constitutional freedoms & just plain common sense! Frankly, this is the final straw,. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately. If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependent on how Tesla is treated in the future. Tesla is the last carmaker left in CA.”
- Texas and Nevada politicians were more than happy to welcome this news and Tesla's potential economic boost to their states.
- Politicians in California, however, do not seem to recognize what this means, with one state politician tweeting, “F#$2 Elon Musk,” hardly the type of mature, adult conversation one should probably have to save the jobs and the tax revenue for the state.
That will do it for today: government reacting childishly to a big source of tax revenue, politicians abusing a charity that was saving lives, and politicians who have no common sense when it comes to bodily functions.
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