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.
We have about a $30 TRILLION national debt that the Washington political class has rung up, especially over the past few decades. This computes out to almost $100,000 worth of debt for every man, woman, and child in the country. It is a debt that will eventually bankrupt the country and crush our financial system and freedoms.
Note: in fact, the national debt is much worse than $30 TRILLION since that does not take into account the unfunded future government liabilities or the debt governments have wrung up at the state and local government levels. To see how this mountain of debt is eventually going to destroy just about everything in this country, go to the following link:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2021/01/happy-new-year-and-welcome-to.html
And yet, despite staring at this mountain of existing debt, consider what the Biden administration wants to spend and waste more taxpayer money on in its current budget “infrastructure” proposal rather than finally finding a way to curtail government spending and get the debt under control:
It wants to spend $25 million on “Anti-discrimination and Bias Training” in the Health and Human Services department. This would mandate anti-racist and Critical Race Theory training in HHS, an agency tasked with handing out welfare benefits. Thus, logic would suggest that the people responsible for handing out welfare to minority citizens are indeed racists, let that sink in for a bit.
It wants to spend a whopping $200 million on a single park in a single city, namely Nancy Pelois’s hometown, San Francisco. Which raises the ethical and fairness point: why should taxpayers from around the country pay for a single park in a single city, shouldn't those residents who actually use that park be the taxpayers that fund any improvements to it? Even more insulting to taxpayers elsewhere, the park is the home of an elitist golf course that is used by many high powered political donors and Pelosi supporters. Thus, some of that money will not even benefit ordinary citizens of the city, only the wealthier ones that can afford to play golf at the park’s course.
One part of the budget proposal would give a tax credit towards “compensation for local news journalists.” It is not spelled out what constitutes a news journalist which opens it up to all kinds of political biases, i.e. the government could give out taxpayer money to only journalists that write favorable stories about certain politicians, government programs or government agencies. If you cannot make a living out of being a journalist on your own talent and initiative then taxpayers should not be subsidizing your failure.
There is a whopping $1.25 BILLION budgeted for funding the hounding of landlords that would dare to evict people that don't pay their rents. This is a government stepping into the middle of a private citizen to citizen transaction, I prepare a housing unit that you pay me to temporarily use, a very simple contract. To spend over $1 billion to harass landlords is a horrible waste of money. Once renting out a housing unit becomes too much of a hassle because of government hassles and regulations then landlords will decide not to rent out housing units to avoid the hassles and costs. This will, in turn, increase the homeless problem, all of which has been proven as an economic reality in California today.
But the interference in the housing market gets even worse in this budget plan since it wants to set aside a whopping $4.5 billion to force local communities to adhere to the wishes of politicians and bureaucrats in Washington regarding local zoning and housing rules. This has been and should always be a local responsibility, nowhere in the Constitution does it say that the Federal government should dictate local housing rules and regulations.
There is $26.5 billion planned for inane transportation programs, many of which fall into the idioctic New Green Deal philosphy and which will not fix existing bridges, rail lines, roads, etc., you know, real infrastructure and transportation facltes that Americans need and use but will spend on on stupid stuff that does nothing to make American lives and jobs easier or better.
The budget includes $13.3 billion for additional government bureaucrat hiring and ad campaigns to sell in the entire program.
There are hundreds of billions of dollars to be set aside to provide free community college for everyone, free meals, and more pre-k programs. Keep in mind that the longest running pre-k program in the country, Headstart, which is decades old, has been a failure almost from day one but yet Washington wants to double down on their failure to operate a successful pre-k program with billions more of taxpayer dollars. This budget item inluldes $197 million to promote the hiring of teachers that live nearby, certainly a stupid concept. Shouldn’t money be spent on hiring and training the best teachers possible, not spending money on having them live nearby regardless of their training and ability to teach?
There is a $7.5 billion slush fund that politicians could basically use for anything they wanted under the guise of such nebulous terms as “creating equitable civic infrastructure” and some idiocy called “capacity building.” Like I said, slush fund.
$2.35 billion would be spent on something called the “Federal Citizens Services Fund,” which deals with government websites and information technology of the executive branch of government. This funding would provide budgets for two decades for the fund. But think back 20 years, look at how the technology in our lives has changed so much since 2001. And 20 years from now,who knows what technology will look like. So why fund a technology government group for 20 years up front, who knows what will be needed, or not needed, from this government bureaucracy going forward, fund it as needed not for two decades.
So much waste, such idiocy. This proposed legislation was supposed to fix the country’s crumbling infrastructure, a noble notion. But providing free community college does not fix a single road. Having the government interfere in landlord/tenant relationships doesn't fix a single bridge. Giving a single park in a single city $200 million does not fix a single leaky dam. This is government overreach in a poorly designed sheep’s clothing called “infrastructure.” It is a waste of taxpayer wealth, it is an intrusion into our lives, and with almost every other government program it will fail miserably and grandly and expensively.
One of the biggest infrastructure ventures ever attempted by the American political class was dubbed the “Big Dig” up in Boston. It was supposed to cost a few billion dollars. It ended up costing well over $22 billion, it had design issues even at $22 billion and those design flaws actually killed a motorist who was simply driving down the road when concrete blocks crushed her. Do we really think that Washington is any smarter, and better now, today?
And even if you do not think the $30 TRILLION debt is a big deal, think about how much better that money could be spent to actually help struggling Americans:
Just take one of the smaller line teams above, the $1.25 billion that unnecessarily interferes with the landlord/renter relationship.
Based on the nationwide average of the cost of a typical food bank providing a typical, nutritious meal to a homeless American, just that $1.25 billion could provide every homeless American three square meals a day for over two years.
Isn't that a more worthwhile use of the money than harassing landlords?
How many homeless Americans could be given shelter for that $1.25 billion, and how drug addicted Americans could receive treatment with that $1.25 billion?
And that $1.25 billion is just a sliver of the $3.5 TRILLION that Biden wants to spend on such nonsense. Makes no sense except you know that each one of those stupid expenses will benefit someone in some politician’s life, either a business owner that donates to a political campaign or a family member or friend who manages some of that money. Disgusting disregard for the future financial viability of the country and the needs of the millions of Americans who are homeless, hungry, and struggling with addiction.
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