Thursday, November 25, 2021

November, 2021, Part 6, Political Class Insanity: Nepotism In The White House, Insane and Idiotic Mandates, and Widespread Voting Corruption

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) Turns out that the Biden administration is just as corrupt and awash in basic bribery money as every other Presidential administration:
  • According to the Washington Beacon, Steve Ricchetti is a pretty big player in the Biden administration.
  • Jeff Ricchetti, his brother, is a big time Washington lobbyist.
  • General Motors paid brother Jeff $160,000 to lobby for electric vehicle Federal tax incentives and before you know it, Joe Biden is visiting a General Motors plant.
  • But apparently this is not the only shady money deal that the Ricchetti folks have been involved in.
  • According to the Open Secrets organization, brother Jeff has already hauled in $2.4 million in lobbying fees this year, double what he got in 2020 when Biden was not in office.\Various ethics experts have come down on the Biden administration for allowing brother Steve to be involved in matters that his brother lobbies for: "Steve Ricchetti ought to completely recuse himself from any part of the legislation that his brother’s firm is lobbying on, and then have the White House not take calls from his brother," said Richard Painter, a former White House ethics chief and Democratic candidate for office.
  • But there is more since three of Steve Ricchetti’s kids actually work for the Biden administration which prompted Walter Shaub, White House ethics chief during the Obama administration, to opine that the Biden administration's decision to permit nepotism amounts to a "f— you" to ethics experts.
The lack of ethics and corruption in this administration is truly a “f___ you” to American taxpayers.

2) Biden is pushing for the entire country to get vaccinated regardless of the dangers of the vaccine, the fact that many Americans have already gotten and recovered from covid and have the natural antibodies in their system with no need for a vaccine, and the reality that the vaccine does not prevent a vaccinated person from still getting the disease or from passing the disease onto others, vaccinated or not.

Vermont makes the case that Biden, and other tyrannical politicians across the country really do not have reality on their side when it comes to the draconian lockdowns and loss of freedom of Americans:
  • Vermont has the highest vaccination rate in the country at around 71.5%.
  • Rhode Island at 71.2% and Connecticut at 70.9% are right behind Vermont in the vaccination race.
  • And yet covid cases in Vermont have recently been “surging” according to the numbers and Mike Pieciak, Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation: “We just haven’t [previously] seen an increase in terms of that raw number of cases during the pandemic.”
  • There were over 2,000 new Vermont covid cases reported in a previous week in one of the least populated, but most vaccinated, states in the union.
  • The recent seven day moving average of new Vermont covid cases is up 42%.
The “experts” really have no clue as to why the most heavily vaccinated state has such a surge and increase in covid cases. Some of the excuses include:
  • The vaccines are wearing off - then why have the vaccine at all if it is just going to wear off in a few months?
  • Not enough people have natural immunity from the covid because of the vaccine: then wouldn’t it have been better to allow herd immunity to happen naturally and get everyone who needed natural antibodies to get to that stage if people who got the vaccine are going to get sick anyway?
The bottom line is Biden and a whole host of egomaniac and selfish politicians put a lot of us through a lot of grief and it may have all been for nothing except to massage their power hungry egos.

3) There is no doubt in my mind that the 2020 Presidential election was one of the most corrupt and fraudulent national elections in the history of the country. And having not voted for Trump either time, I sincerely believe that he was the truly elected President but was denied another term by a widespread and well funded criminal campaign to get him out of office.

In fact, since before the election, I have been collecting news articles from across the country regarding election fraud and corruption and would be happy to share any of the over 500 articles that I have on file. The corruption included accounts of people that have been arrested, put on trial and convicted of election fraud. The files include video tapes of people claiming and bragging that they committed election fraud. It contains articles with embedded video of election fraud happening right inside the polling places. The articles included statistical and mathematical analyses that show that it was impossible or nearly impossible for Biden's vote totals to be accurate and winning.

And now we have some startling analyses from the government watchdog group, Judicial Watch, which number wise show how screwed up our voting processes are and how these process inadequacies make it very easy for voter fraud to occur:
  • Analysis by Judicial Watch found that 14 high population counties in five states across the country are likely in violation of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act.
  • Specifically, in letters sent to the election officials in those 14 counties, Judicial Watch pointed out that the law requires that all states, "conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove" from its voter rolls the names of ineligible voters who have either died or moved or have not voted in the next two general Federal elections.
  • Their analysis showed that the 14 counties removed an “absurdly low” to “impossible” number of inactive voter registrations.
  • Their analysis covered the four years from November, 2016 to November 2020.
  • For example, San Bernardino County in California has just under 1.3 official registered voters.
  • However, between 2016 and 2020 the county government removed a grand total of 14 registered voters from the rolls which were supposed to represent voters who have died, moved, or had not voted in the previous two national elections.
  • Thus, in a county with 1.3 million voters,on average about three of those voters died,moved, or did not vote in two consecutive national elections, high doubtful
  • But Sacramento County in California is even better.
  • With just over 1 million registered voters, according to its voter rolls not a single registered voter died, moved, or failed to vote in the previous two national elections, remarkable.
  • In five New York counties, Brooklyn, Nassau, Queens, Staten Island, and Manhattan, covering about 7 million registered voters, a grand total of 3 voters covering all five counties were removed from the voter rolls in four years.
Ridiculous failures of government entities and the politicians that operate them to create trust and integrity in the respective voting processes. In a population of 7 million people in New York, you cannot say with a straight face that only three people moved, died, or did not vote in two consecutive national elections.

But it gets worse. In 2020, Judicial Watch found that over 350 counties in 29 states actually had voter registration totals that exceeded the total eligible voting population in those counties. This led Judicial Watch President, Tom Fitton, to say: "Dirty voter rolls can mean dirty elections." The country will survive bad Presidents like Carter,Obama and Biden. It will not survive corrupt and fraudulent voting processes like we obviously saw last November.

That will do it for today: busted voting processes, stupid vaccine mandates, and nepotism in the Biden White House. It often seems that American politicians could be any more inept even if they tried.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2021

November, 2021, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: Inflation Out Of Control, Stealing From Kids, Covid Mask Mandate Fails, and Hillary Feels The Heat

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) Freedom has always been a cornerstone of life in this country. Unfortunately, the covid pandemic brought out the worst in tyranny when it came to American politicians imposing their personal and often ill informed rules and dictates on citizens. It got to a point where it appeared that some politicians in this country were infected with a god complex and ordered citizens to toe the line that they dictated, freedom be damned.

While this tyranny was horrible, it appears that the tyranny placed more citizens in danger than those politicians and government entities that took a more freedom based, personal choice approach:
  • Politicians in five states have forced significant mask mandates on their citizens in an ill fated attempt to control the covid vaccine: Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon ,and Washington.
  • Washington DC also has stringent mask mandates and requirements.
  • Florida, on the other hand, has had much less stringent mask requirements.
  • And yet, those five states and DC have far higher covid infection rates than Florida and the rates of infection are going up, not down.
  • For example, Illinois has an infection rate of 45 per 100,000, 3112 infections per day, a rate that is up 49% over the recent past.
  • In Nevada, a state with substantial mask mandates, the infection rate is 24 per 100,000 and is up 15% in the past two weeks.
  • The rate in New Mexico is 61 and is up 46% in the past two weeks.
  • Oregon, a state that has both an indoor and outdoor set of mask mandates, has a rate of 22.
  • And yet Florida, my current home state, a state with very little mask mandates, has an infection rate of only 7 per 100,000, a fraction of the rate that highly masked states are seeing.
  • The Florida rate is tied with Hawaii with the lowest rates in the country.
  • But Hawaii has self quarantined the state with very strict travel restrictions so they are an outlier case.
Bottom line is that while politicians in some states were imposing strict and quite possibly stupid covid mask rules on their population, while at the same time personally ignoring the very mandates they put in place, a major, heavily populated state went more lax on mask mandates and is performing much better and much safer. Freedom always wins regardless of what politicians say.

2) In our previous post, we discussed the case of a Pittsburgh woman that had defrauded government welfare programs of well over $100,000. But it's not just regular citizens that are tempted to steal what isn't theirs, American politicians are not below stealing what isn't theirs either:
  • A former mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey was recently sentenced to one month in prison and 11 months of home confinement.
  • He was found guilty of defrauding a youth basketball team out of $86,000.
  • He pleaded guilty to the charges which led to his sentencing.
  • He used the funds for luxury clothing, expensive meals, and trips, all of which were unrelated to the basketball team he was using to scam the dollars for his personal use.
  • He also faces three years probation and has to pay back the stolen funds.
How low a person do you have to be to steal from a youth basketball team? But being a low person is often the case of American politicians.

3) For us older folks, we remember the high inflation days of the Jimmy Carter era. Mortgage rates at almost 20%, inflation rampaging through the economy and Carter having no clue how to fix it. His economic policies and the high inflation that followed stunted economic growth and robbed citizens, especially living on a fixed income, of their ability to get through life.

Well, it turns out that Biden is looking to return us to those days of high inflation:
  • In September, wholesale prices rose an amazing and distressing 8.6% compared to September, 2020.
  • An October inflation estimate showed that inflation was approaching a 30 year high.
  • According to the Associated Press: "The Labor Department reported Tuesday that its producer price index — which measures inflation before it hits consumers — rose 0.6% last month from September, pushed higher by surging gasoline prices. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, wholesale inflation was up 0.4% in October from September and 6.8% from a year ago. More than 60% of the September-October increase in overall producer prices was caused by a 1.2% increase in the price of wholesale goods as opposed to services. A 6.7% jump in wholesale gasoline prices helped drive goods prices up."
  • And worse than the high inflation numbers, which is making everything from gas at the pumps to Thanksgiving meal ingredients to used cars more expensive, apparently the Biden administration has no clue how to fix the situation: "It will be more expensive this year than last year," Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm recently said during an interview with CNN.
Great, politicians break another aspect of our lives and readily admit they have no clue how to fix what they broke as the average American’s wages buy less and less every day.

4) One major problem with American politicians today is that they are more concerned with getting into office and staying there, the needs of their voters, the legality of their actions, and the honor or doing things right, and legal, be damned.

And no one personifies such behavior than the Clinton crime family, as we are beginning to unravel the false Trump narrative that Hillary colluded with the Russians to get elected. In reality, the entire Russian crisis may have been a coordinated effort to divert attention from Hillary Clinton’s illegal and dangerous email use of an unsecured computer server:
  • Justice Department lawyer, John Durham, has been investigating the whole Russian episode for a few years now.
  • He has finally started handing down indictments and arresting people as he uncovers the likely reality that the whole Trump/Russian matter was totally fictional.
  • He recently had two people arrested for their participation and lying to the FBI related to the Russian collusion theory, Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko.
  • Danchenko is alleged to have been the fictional storyteller for much of the lies and misinformation that went into the infamous Steele dossier which set the whole Trump/Russian collusion myth into action.
  • And while everyone was focused on the collusion theory, Hillary’s crimes faded slowly into the background, thanks to her high ranking friends at the FBI, James Comey and Peter Strzok.
  • And Sussmann and Danchenkomasy are just the tip of Durham’s spear as he starts to roll up the culprits who lied and bankrolled the mythical collusion theory.
  • The Danchenko indictment contains information that takes the investigation one step closer to Hillary Clinton via an important Hillary aide, Charles Dolan Jr.
  • Part of the Danchenko indictment alleges that he was charged with “concealing the fact that Dolan was one of his sources for the information he gave to former British spy Christopher Steele.”
  • According to Durham, Dolan fabricated the “allegation that Trump paid prostitutes to urinate on a bed in a Moscow hotel on which President Obama supposedly slept,” a story that was a total lie.
  • Former federal prosecutor, Andrew McCarthy, sums everything up nicely: “It appears that Durham theorizes that the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a political attack manufactured by the Clinton campaign. Relying on Danchenko, Steele compiled the reports for Glenn Simpson, co-founder of intelligence firm Fusion-GPS, which specializes in digging up political dirt. Fusion-GPS was retained for the Trump project by Perkins-Coie, the Clinton campaign’s law firm.”
  • By the way, Sussman worked for Perkins-Cole.
What a mess. Lies, bribes, corruption and tens of millions of dollars wasted on an investigation into the Trump/Russian collusion allegation that many knew was a total waste of taxpayer money and did nothing to stop it. Again, most American politicians think only about themselves and their self enrichment and egos, the needs and problems of the American people are secondary to getting into and staying in office, regardless of how many laws are broken and how much taxpayer wealth is wasted.

That will do it for today: false, expensive conspiracy efforts, creating record setting inflation, stealing from kids athletics, and restricting freedom with no positive upsides.

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Saturday, November 13, 2021

November, 2021, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: More Welfare Fraud, More Climate Change Idiocy and Silliness, Ignoring Needy Americans, and More

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) Far too many times over the years we have shown that man made global warming is mostly a myth. We presented overwhelming scientific evidence and reality that proved over and over that the dire forecasts of global warming advocates never came about.

We then cut over to show how the rebranded version of global warming, climate change, was also a myth, again, by presenting scientific evidence and reality to prove the doomsday forecasters wrong. The North Pole has not melted like Al Gore predicted. A new Northwest passage lane north of Canada did not materialize. Polar bears did not go extinct, in fact they have been thriving, because of melting ice caps.

Some of the most ridiculous global warming/climate change predictions have come from the American political class, people with absolutely no scientific background or experience and many time,s lower than average intelligence when it comes to understanding science and data. The latest ridiculous forecast from a politician just hit the streets and it is a doozy:
  • Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer recently claimed that his home Congressional district will experience 180 degree temperatures this summer.
  • He was speaking at a recent UN climate conference when he made this wild prediction: “We are in a race against time. It took on new urgency for me this year with the horrific events. There was one day this summer in Portland, where temperatures in the heart of my district hit 180 degrees. People died.”
  • First of all, the Congressman’s district did not hit 180 degrees, the 180 degree measurement came from a temperature reading that Portland State University Professor Vivek Shandas took of a Portland sidewalk in a particularly hot neighborhood on a particularly hot day, details the Congressman apparently did not think necessary to validate his point.
  • It was only after the conference that he admitted it was a sidewalk temperature and not the air temperature he was referring to.
  • The hottest, official temperature reading ever recorded on earth was 134 degrees in Death Valley in 1913, almost a century before “global warming” started.
Another political global warming/climate change assertion and claim debunked. Not sure what is worse: the use of data that the politician does not understand or the deliberate lying about data to prove a point that has no basis in reality. I bet anyone that Portland does not see a 180 degree day this summer as the Congressman claimed, any takers

2) The Federal government has a national debt of about $30 trillion dollars. It has unfunded future liabilities of over $80 trillion. It basically has never operated any government program or bureaucracy efficiently, effectively and crime free, a reality that has contributed to the sky high national debt without resolving any societal problems once and for all.

Consider the following criminal activity that robs the American taxpayer and contributes to high taxes and the national debt:
  • Sabrini Strothers is from Pittsburgh and was recently put in jail on charges she collected welfare benefits for three of her children that don't exist.
  • She reportedly collected about $130,000 in welfare payments since 2008 when she claimed she had given birth to triplets, who she actually named, Thomas, Tomalyia and Tyreik.
  • She used Social Security numbers from people born in 1887, 1945, and 1960 to justify the fraud.
  • She was eventually caught when a cousin tipped off authorities.
  • According to news reports, she not only lied about having the three kids, she also lied about her income status, her address, and her employment.
The good news: she got caught defrauding the taxpayers who actually work hard to pay the taxes that she stole. The problem is how many others are getting away with the same type of massive fraud, fraud that American politicians and government agencies have failed so miserably to eliminate.

3) We have reviewed the following numbers way to too many times:
  • At any one time, there are about 500,000 to 600,000 homeless Americans in this country.
  • Every day, millions and millions of Americans are food challenged to feed themselves and their families.
  • Over 90,000 Americans died from drug addiction last year, a number that will no doubt go higher this year.
And yet the following is what Washington politicians consider more important than sheltering the homeless, feeding the hungry and treating the drug addicted citizens in this country:
  • The Federal government via the State Department has given the UN Population Fund $5 million to aid women around the world to have an abortion.
  • The money was to be spent on abortion inducing drugs, contraceptives, and abortion performing devices.
  • According to the State Department: “Deputy Secretary Wendy R. Sherman met with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem today in Washington. Deputy Secretary Sherman and Dr. Kanem discussed how empowering women and girls, including by promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights, advances human rights, gender equality, and global health. Deputy Secretary Sherman announced an inaugural U.S. contribution of $5 million to UNFPA Supplies, which will help ensure that modern contraceptives and lifesaving maternal health medicines reach women and adolescent girls who need access to family planning and safe delivery in countries affected by humanitarian emergencies.”
There was no mention by the State Department if the money could have been better spent providing about 1.7 million meals to America’s homeless population, treating thousands of drug addicted Americans, or getting a roof of a homeless American living on the streets.

4) California and Florida have a lot in common:
  • They are both coastal states with a lot of outdoor activity opportunities.
  • They are generally warm climate states.
  • They have large populations.
  • They both host millions of tourists a year.
And while they do have a lot in common, they diverge substantially on two fronts:
  • California locked down the state residents and businesses in a draconian way to combat the covid virus while Florida took a much more freedom and personal choice approach.
  • The California covid rate is now substantially higher than Florida’s rate.
Yes, the far more dictatorial and restrictive approach of California is now resulting in far worse disease results than the more freedom oriented Florida approach. According to the CDC, California covid infection rate is twice the rate of Florida’s despite still having massive mask wearing and other restrictions in place and having a higher vaccination rate. Florida actually has the lowest rate in the country while California’s rate is spiking.

Things are so bad in California that the CDC recently raised the state’s covid tracking designation from orange to red, the worst rating possible. Other states that followed California’s lead with tighter restrictions and freedom muting dictates, e.g. New York, are also seeing increases in covid infections while Florida and other states that approached covid with a less forceful response are seeing declines.

Correlation is not causation but it does appear that something is happening when we see the most restrictive states having much higher infection rates than less restrictive states. Keep this reality in mind as Biden tries to put his Orwellian vaccine mandate in place around the country, destroying the economy in the process for no good reason or results, if California and New York are any indication of what happens if freedom of choice and common sense is destroyed and replaced with dictatorship-like government actions.

Enough insanity for today: freedom wins out in the covid battle, the State Department could care less about struggling Americans, more welfare fraud and more political class climate change silliness and idiocy.

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Sunday, November 7, 2021

November, 2021, Part 3,Political Class Insanity: The Trump/Russian Collusion Conspriacy Crumbles, Whitmer Defies Covid Restrictions Again, and Covid Relief For Billionaires

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) The Democrats spent four years and tens of millions of dollars on trying to prove that Trump and his campaign had colluded with the Russians to get him elected. After all of the commotion and accusations, it turned out there was absolutely no collusion and that only time and taxpayer wealth was wasted in this futile concept.

Since then, we have found out that not only had Trump not colluded with the Russians but the FBI, the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign had likely colluded among themselves to frame Trump. And that conspiracy continues to unfold with the latest indictment related to the fake Russian/Trump collusion fantasy:
  • Justice Department lawyer John Durham has been working to find the truth related to the fake Russian collusion conspiracy for a few years.
  • He recently had Igor Danchenko arrested as the third person to face Federal charges in this whole affair, for allegedly lying to the FBI.
  • Apparently he is alleged to have provided known false information to the infamous Steele Dossier which laid out the fake Russian collusion conspiracy against Trump.
  • The Steele Dossier was the basic document that the FBI used to get falsely obtained search warrants and wiretaps even though we know now, and the FBI probably knew then, that the information in the dossier was pure fiction.
Another example of how Washington politicians are more worried about their own self-greed and preservation than working on the problems facing Americans today. At least $40 million of taxpayer money was wasted on a wild goose chase that was a total fabrication.

And with now three of the more minor characters facing charges, it makes you wonder how high up the political chain of command the conspiracy went, e.g. Hillary, Obama, etc. Wasting time and money on politics while millions of Americans are homeless, hungry, and fighting addiction, such bad priorities.

2) Many times we have discussed the hypocrisy of many, many politicians during the height of the covid pandemic. While these politicians at all levels of government issued draconian measures to theoretically restrict the spread of the virus, these same politicians flaunted and ignored their own rules and edicts.

One of the most hypocritical of all of these politicians was Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer. She prevented Michigan residents from leaving the state and then returning, assuming these returnees would be potential virus carriers. But she snuck out of the state to visit her father in Florida while preventing state residents from doing the same.

She prevented state residents from even getting their boats out but then her husband tried to get his boat out by dropping his wife’s title/status on his marina owner.

Those were only two examples of her hypocrisy and now we can add another violation of the public trust:
  • The Washington DC mayor has imposed her own highly restrictive covid mask requirement on city residents, requiring masks whenever inside and not actively eating or drinking.
  • But Whitmer was recently photographed partying in a DC bar without any mask in sight.
  • And she should know better because when she did the same thing back in Michigan a few months ago, she publicly apologized for the violation.
As always with elitist American politicians, “do as I say, not as I do,” because we are special and important and you are not.

3) For far too many years and far too many times we have documented and discussed how inept the Federal government is when being the caretaker of American taxpayer dollars. Outright fraud, inefficiencies, stupid projects, etc. has probably wasted hundreds of billions of dollars over the past two decades.

In the midst of the covid pandemic, the Washington political class hastily and sloppily passed legislation that was supposed to give financial relief to American companies and businesses that were stressed out by any number of covid factors. Keep in mind when reading the insanity below, that the covid financial relief intention was to help struggling businesses, mostly small businesses that were facing bankruptcy, and get them some cash to keep them afloat:
  • George Soros is an incredibly rich individual with an estimated net worth of about $8.6 billion.
  • He obviously does not need any American taxpayer to bail him out.
  • And yet, the Federal government sent him a check for $2,400 to help him as he “struggled” through the pandemic crises.
  • Mr. Soros was kind enough to return the check, uncashed.
  • His son also got a $2,400 check, which he did not need and which he returned.
  • But this was not a one time computer glitch that handed out taxpayer wealth to a fabulous rich individual.
  • ProPublica found out that 270 taxpayers with a total net worth of $5.7 billion got covid relief checks.
  • At least 18 of these covid check recipients were billionaires.
  • Again, if you are a billionaire, you don't need or deserve to have the American taxpayer funding your covid stress.
  • Dick Fuld, the former CEO of the Lehman Brothers investment giant, got a covid check despite being worth about $250 million.
  • Erik Prince, who got rich from the Blackwater private security firm, is worth about $2 billion and he got a covid check.
  • Ira Rennert, worth an estimated $3.7 billion, got a covid check.
  • Mr. Rennert’s Hampton house is thought to be the biggest house in the country: it is 62,000 square feet in size, and has 29 bedrooms, is estimated to be worth $500 million, and yes, he got a check.
Unbelievable incompetence on the part of Congress, the President and the DC bureaucracy. As millions of Americans go homeless, go hungry or need drug addiction help, these millionaires and billionaires are getting covid relief checks despite being wealthy beyond most of our comprehension.

And now the House of Representatives has just massed a TRILLION dollar plus infrastructure bill. How many billions and billions of dollars do we think the American taxpayer will see wasted on this boondoggle? If the government cannot handle a simple, business relief program to help struggling small businesses, imagine how badly they will waste a trillion dollars on a variety of different infrastructure programs.

That will do it for today as the incompetence of the American political class continues unabated: using government resources to frame a political opponent, ignoring their own covid edicts, and wasting money on billionaires. Insanity.

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Friday, November 5, 2021

November, 2021, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: Stealing From The Government, Stealing From a School, and Another Government Tax

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) No Washington program was ever done efficiently, effectively and resolved the original problem. And that heinous tradition continues to this day as more taxpayer wealth gets wasted:
  • Vinah Oudomsine of Dublin, Georgia, was lucky enough to receive an “economic disaster loan” as a result of the covid pandemic.
  • The loan was part of a program to help business owners meet expenses during the pandemic’s darker days.
  • But even though he lied on his loan application, the Federal government awarded him $57,000 for his business.
  • But he ended up spending the entire amount of taxpayer generosity on a single, ultra valuable…. wait for it…. Pokemon card.
  • His application claimed he started his business in 2018, now had annual revenues of $235,000 and had ten employees.
  • And adding insult to injury, he also got a bogus loan from the Small Business Administration for $85,000.
  • He faces up to twenty years in prison for his actions.
The good news is that they caught this alleged defrauder of the American taxpayer. The bad news: how many other people like him got away with stealing from the inept Federal bureaucracy?

2) Turns out that not only do ordinary citizens steal money but possibly government officials do also:
  • Seth Andrew was a senior advisor in the Obama administration in the Technology Office of Education.
  • He recently was arrested on three counts of Federal financial fraud.
  • His arrest has caused him to lose positions in the Democracy Builders Fund and the Degrees of Freedom program.
  • According to a news report: “Seth Andrew, 42, allegedly transferred funds from the Democracy Prep Public Schools reserve bank accounts in order to inflate his account balance and to qualify for a special mortgage deduction on his $2.4 million apartments, authorities said.”
  • The amount of the alleged fraud is $218,005.
  • After his arrest, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss issued a statement: “As alleged, Seth Andrew abused his position as a founder of a charter school network to steal from the very same schools he helped create. Andrew is not only alleged to have stolen the schools’ money but also to have used the stolen funds to obtain a savings on a mortgage for a multimillion-dollar Manhattan apartment. Thanks to the FBI’s diligent work, Andrew now faces federal charges for his alleged scheme.”
  • Andrew is married to Lana Zak, a high powered CBS News personality so it was not like he was homeless and broke, his wife is probably making a handsome sum in her position with CBS so his alleged actions are nothing more than pure greed.
Stealing from schools, a low class former Washington bureaucrat.

3) A little while ago we discussed a research report that showed in many states, mostly democratic/liberal states, over their lifetimes residents of those states spent upwards of 50% of their wages and income in taxes. That is an amazing number: almost half of what they earn from working their jobs and careers goes to government bureaucrats and politicians who most often spend those tax dollars on ineffective and inefficient government programs.

These taxes cover a wide range of areas: property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, gasoline taxes, utility taxes, sewer taxes, water taxes, motor vehicle fees and taxes, and many, many more. And just when you thought that government entities could not possibly come up with another way to rob us of our wealth, the city of San Diego comes up with a new tax:
  • The city government of San Diego will soon be considering a tax on every mile that a resident drives.
  • The preliminary estimate is that this “mileage” tax would be $.04 a mile.
  • Thus, ordinary working people, truck drivers, sales people, taxi drivers, lawn businesses, pool businesses, etc. would now have to pay for the privilege of doing their jobs.
  • An opponent of the tax, San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, said this tax was meant to “force everyone onto trolleys and buses” by pricing people out of their cars: “This proposal should never see the light of day. San Diegans already pay some of the highest prices to drive in the country. From the current gas taxes to a vehicle registration tax, San Diegans feel the effects in their wallets every day."
  • This tax is supposed to help pay for the local government's plan to build a 200 mile, $43 billion regional railroad network.
A couple of obvious problems with this idea. First, it will punish the ordinary citizens who need their car to get to and from work and those that need it to do their jobs. Second, to think that any government entity, especially a local government entity, can successfully build and stay on budget for a $43 billion transportation project is surely a fantasy.

The state of California recently tried to build a high speed rail line along the coast and failed miserably, after wasting tens of millions of dollars on the failed project. The Big Dig transportation project in Boston years ago was supposed to cost a few billion dollars and ended up costing over $20 billion. 

Thus, what usually happens with today’s politicians and government bureaucrats, a huge transportation project gets started, falls behind budget and schedule and is eventually shut down after much wasted tax dollars. Or so much investment is already made even though the costs are going through the roof that the project is completed anyway, way above budget and usually short of expectations.

And the bigger issue here is how is this mileage tax going to be enforced? Is everyone’s car going to be fitted with a mileage tabulator and if so, who pays for that? Once you have a tracking device in a citizen’s car, you will know where and when that citizen was at all times, surely an Orwellian “1984” scenario. More taxes, less freedom, a typical American politician scheme.

Stealing from the government by citizens, stealing from schools by a former government bureaucrat, and stealing from citizens via a mileage tax, lots of stealing going on as a result of an incompetent and overreaching political class.

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Thursday, November 4, 2021

November, 2021, Politicial Class Insanity: Part 1: A Congressman Parties For Free, NYC Declines Across the Board, and Trying To Buy A Virginia Election

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) As Americans continue to struggle with rising food prices, rising gas prices, and rising prices for just about everything, at least one member of Congress seems to be immune to the economic pressures facing ordinary Americans:
  • Congressman Eric Swalwell, spent thousands and thousands of dollars recently, and in a short amount of time, on a variety of expenses that had nothing to do with his Congressional duties.
  • The money he spent was not from his private assets but from campaign funds and included expenses such as meals at expense steak house restaurants, sporting events, alcohol at bars, limo services, a liquor delivery service, a luxury plane flight, a beer garden and at a casino.
  • These expenses came to light via Federal Election Commission (FEC) reporting.
  • The FEC report covers the third quarter, 2021 expenses and covers dozens and dozens of instances where he used campaign funds for a variety of the above listed expenses.
  • These third quarter expenses follow his spending of $21,200.75 in six separate instances last April at the high end Ritz-Carlton hotel in California where his wife was the director of sales.
Must be good being a member of Congress when expenses and experiences for private jet flights, alcohol, sporting events, luxury hotels, etc, are free to you while Americans struggle just getting by day to day. Nice work if you can get it.

2) We have often debated which big city in the country has the worst mayor. The top candidates usually include the mayors of Portland, Seattle, Chicago and New York City. It is our opinion that Chicago’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, has in general been the worst, but NYC’s Bill de Blasio is not out of the running for being the worst mayor these days.

As he has gutted and demeaned the NYPD, crime and violence has skyrocketed throughout the city. His inept advice early in the pandemic probably caused an unknown number of city residents to unnecessarily die or get ill from the covid virus. The declining quality of city life has caused many, many residents, particularly the richer city residents, to get out of the city in search of a better quality of life.

And his ineptness continues as he is trying to force all city employees to get the covid vaccine, often against their will and principles, or be fired. This is going to have potentially dire and fatal results as many first line responders refuse to comply with his dictatorial edict:
  • Earlier this week a massive number of firefighters called in sick, likely not because of an actual sickness but to protest the mayor’s vaccine edict.
  • There are reports that the city has closed down over two dozen firehouses because of the shortage of personnel to operate those firehouses, either because of the fake sick out or because the mayor will fire those firefighters who do not get the vaccine.
  • Obviously closing down so many firehouses will eventually result in a fire crisis that causes undue damage and injury to city residents.
  • But the mayor's ineptness is not confined to the fire department since sanitation workers are also balking at the vaccine mandate and possibly have gone into a work slowdown mode to protest, causing massive amounts of garbage to build up on the city streets.
  • Another self imposed disaster from a horrible leader and politician. A city resident, Vinnie Agro summed up the current situation quite nicely: “We’re f***ked. We are going to toast like marshmallows.” All for a failed and stupid covid policy.
3) In our book, “Love My Country, Loathe My Government,” one of the basic tenets was that campaign finance laws should be structured so that only those people affected by an election can contribute to a politician's election campaign. For example, in a city's mayor race, only residents and businesses in that city should be allowed to contribute to that person’s mayoral campaign since he should be serving them and only them. In a state governor race, only residents and businesses in that state should be able to contribute to that election race. In a US. Senate race, only state residents should be able to contribute, again, the reason being that those people running for that office should be serving only those that can legally vote for them.

Otherwise, as we have seen so many times, big money organizations swoop into a local race and overwhelm the rights and needs of citizens to get what they want, voters be damned. This disgusting abuse of election campaign financing was recently found in the Virginia governor race:
  • According to government campaign financial reports, anti-Second Amendment groups aligned with billionaire Michael Bloomberg gave Democrat Terry McAuliffe almost half a million dollars in support of his campaign for governor.
  • The money mostly came from the Everytown For Gun Safety organization in late September.
  • McAuliffe is a staunch anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment advocate.
Another example where people’s votes could get overwhelmed by outside money and influence. If Virginia residents want to destroy their Second Amendment rights, then it is their choice, not a choice that could be overwhelmed by outsiders like Micheal Bloomberg.

Note: as of this writing, it appears that McAuliffe has suffered an upset defeat in his bid to become Virginia governor so the people have spoken and overcome the half a million dollars that Bloomberg and his associates spent in a vain attempt to undercut democracy.

4) Getting back to New York City and its inept mayor. Independent of the covid work slowdown and sick outs, the city was having serious troubles with rising crime and the declining quality of life that goes with it:
  • As we have discussed many times, de Blasio jumped on the stupid “defund the police movement” and not only stripped budget and resources from the NYPD but also continued to unduly criticize the police officers that protect New Yorkers every day.
  • Now it appears that NYC police detectives are currently struggling to keep up with the skyrocketing crime in the city.
  • Twenty years ago the city had 7,200 detectives working on criminal cases but today, with much higher crime rates, the city is down to about 5,000 detectives.
  • The reduction in detectives and the increase in crime have resulted in single decttives handling as many as 100 criminal cases at a time.
  • That kind of workload probably does not result in a lot of criminal cases being successfully resolved which then feeds the increase in crime in the city since criminals eventually find out that the chances of being punished for being a criminal are growing less and less.
As we've said so many times, a very, very basic function of government is to protect the lives and property of law abiding citizens. De Blasio and the NYC political class have failed miserably in providing that very basic government service with fatal and criminal results, as summed up by recent comment by a police union official: “If the next mayor, whoever it may be, doesn’t fix the crime epidemic in the city of New York, the economic machine of the city will come to a halt, and the city will fall. It’ll go back to days that you don’t want to see, and that we haven’t seen in many, many years.”

A Congressman parties for free, NYC is in a death spiral from a police, fire department and sanitation perspective and trying to buy an election in Virginia, the insanity continues.

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