Before we get to today’s insanity, please consider the following proposition: as many of you know, the withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a historic and fatal endeavor. But the failure did not start just in the past few weeks, it has been a twenty year disaster. It has cost American taxpayers about a trillion dollars, has left thousands of our brave armed forces folks dead, maimed, or wounded and has resulted in an unknown but substantial number of civilian deaths.
Afghanistan has been a collective failure of multiple Presidential administrations and multiple sessions of Congress. Thus, please consider signing the petition below that calls for the immediate resignation of every member of Congress that has at least twenty years of service and the resignation of President Biden, Vice President Harris, and critical, and failed, members of the Biden Administration. They do not deserve to serve any longer given their miserable twenty year track record of death, destruction and waste in Afghanistan.
Also, if you are passionate about this topic and effort, feel free to pass the link along to others who might also feel the same way, i.e. incompetence should not be rewarded:
Biden and others need to resign for dereliction of duty, incompetence and total lack of empathy. Nothing short of resignation is acceptable. Thank you.
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It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.
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 discussed the sad, sad condition life in California has become because of so many negative factors:
The homeless population is large and growing larger everyday.
The tax burden on business and residents is one of the highest in the country.
Gasoline prices are among the highest in the nation if not the highest.
Utility prices are, on average, 50% or so higher in the state than nationally.
Crime is surging in most California cities.
The state government is facing an unpayable and unfunded financial liability burden of close to a trillion dollars.
In many cities, not only is public defecation, urination, and illegal drug use rampant but not illegal.
The state business community faces probably the most stringent and oppressive government regulations in the country.
Housing prices are the highest in the country.
You get the idea, life kinda sucks if you live in California and are not among the rich Hollywood or Silicon Valley types. As a result, many residents and businesses have moved out of the state and for the first time ever, the state is seeing its population shrink and its Congressional representation being reduced.
And from the list above, it is obvious that most of the above crises have been created by a totally inept political class that is clueless on how to operate a lean, efficient, and effective state government that does not excessively infringe on the freedom and economic state of the people and businesses in the state.
A recent study from Stanford University reinforces the notion that people and businesses are getting out of the state as quickly as possible, looking for more freedom, less taxation and regulation, and a better quality of life:
The study found that more California businesses have left the state in 2021 so far this year than the total that left the state in all of 2020.
The rate of businesses leaving the state is about twice what the out migration rate was in 2020.
The study also concluded that the increase in 2021 might be under-stated since the very small businesses that leave do not get any media attention for their exit and just quietly fade away to another out-of-state location.
The study gave the standard reason why people and businesses are fleeing California: high taxes, impossible regulations, expensive labor, crippling energy expenses, and a declining personal quality of life.
Stephen Green, who writes for PJ Media, claims that California is now the most oppressive state when it comes to starting any kind of small business.
The top destinations for California businesses to relocate to include Arizona, Texas, and Tennessee, the latter two of which have no state income tax.
When businesses keep leaving a state, the financial death spiral can become quite steep: government’s business tax revenues are reduced, jobs are lost further reducing tax revenue, charities who benefited from local business charitable donations suffer, etc.
People want to be free, as we have always said, whether it is a household leaving because of high taxes, high utility costs, high gas prices etc. or a business leaving for similar reasons, people and the businesses they run will go where their financial happiness and quality of life happiness is optimized. And right now, California politicians have made it possible that California is not in that happiness equation.
2) We talk about the violence in Chicago way too often but it keeps getting worse so we will continue to discuss the failure of the entire state, county, and local political class in Illinois and Chicago to fix this distressing and fatal problem. As we have stated before, a very, very basic function of any government entity is to protect the lives and property of the voters it serves. No matter how well a government entity does anything else, if they cannot protect lives and property then it is a failure.
And nobody fails in that basic premise than those responsible for public safety in Chicago:
In a recent Friday to Saturday 24 hour period, 30 people were shot in Chicago.
One city resident was just sitting in her car when someone came by and fatally shot her in the head.
A 24 year old man was shot and killed on the street at 5:00 pm, broad daylight.
Another woman was shot when she was simply walking to her car.
Obviously, many of those being shot, and killed, in the city are not hard core gang members or hardened criminals, just innocent bystanders.
Year to date there have been over 3,100 shootings in the city.
There have been over 530 homicides in the city so far this year.
Less than two weeks into the month of September, 27 people have already been killed in the city.
Again, if you are a politician that has been elected to public office in government and you cannot protect the lives of those who elected you, then you are a failure relative to the very basic government tenet, protect the lives and property of your voters. And Chicago politicians, day after day, week after week, etc. continue to be the biggest failures in the country.
3) It does get tiresome pointing out the failures and outright criminal behavior of so many politicians in America today. Just recently we discussed the indictment of a Wsiconsin U.S. Senate candidate who is accused of taking campaign donations and using it for personal expenses.
And now we have a former Indiana mayor getting found guilty of criminal activity:
James Snyder is the former mayor of Portage, Indiana.
A Federal jury recently convicted him on a bribery charge for asking for and receiving money for the awarding of city contracts.
He was accused of receiving $13,000 linked to the awarding of $1.125 in city contracts.
He faces up to ten years in jail.
The good news is that he got caught and convicted. The bad news is, given the lack of morals throughout the American political class, we can only guess how other American politicians are doing similar illegal dealings but have not gotten caught.
That will do it for today: California dreaming is now a nightmare, Chicago is still a killing zone, and a crooked politician gets what he deserves.
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