Monday, May 23, 2022

May, 2022, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: The Border is a Dangerous Mess, Biden’s Approval Rating is a Mess, Potential Sexual Predator Coverup in LA and Biden Sends His Wife To A War Zone

 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)Biden’s border and immigration policies are dangerous and a joke. There are a whole lot of bad things going on at our southern border that include record amounts of drug cartel drugs flooding into this country, a flood that will accelerate the already skyrocketing drug overdose epidemic in this country, human trafficking gangs, criminal gangs, potential terrorists, etc. This disaster will eventually cost Americans their lives and property losses,


How bad are things at the southern border:


  • According to Arizona Attorney General, Mark Brnovich: “Every time you think … we’ve hit rock bottom, something else happens.  There’s a record amount of people flooding into this country this year. Just last week, our office was involved in a record amount of fentanyl seized. Americans are dying. Our cities are more dangerous as a result of the failed Biden administration’s policies.”

  • In his opinion, the drug cartels have “have seized operational control” of the southern border.

  • He is probably not wrong since in a recent one week period, the state of Arizona intercepted 6 million fentanyl pills.

  • This is the amount they caught, imagine how many millions of other pills got into this country and into the bodies of drug addicted Americans.

  • In a recent month, over 200,000 illegal immigrants were caught coming into this country, or in other words, the equivalent of Richmond, Virginia got caught coming across the border in ONE month.


What a mess. Who is going to take care of all  these people? What will the impact be on drug overdose deaths in this country as millions and millions of fentanyl pills come over the insecure border? What will be the impact when the criminal gang members start preying on American citizens and their families? 


A basic duty of any government entity is to protect the lives and property of its citizens. Given the above realities at the southern order, the Biden administration has failed miserably in that basic responsibility.


2)Given the horrible realities at the southern border and the likely downsides to American citizens, it should not come as a surprise that the Biden approval numbers are falling quickly and at a historical pace:


  • According to a recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Research poll, Biden’s approval rating is at only 39%.

  • This is the lowest reading of his Presidency.

  • Only 2 of 10 polled think that America is heading in the right direction or that the economy is good.

  • Both of these ratings are down from 3 in 10 that were polled in the previous month, i.e. the trend for Biden is not good.

  • The very sad number for Biden is that only 33% of Democrats polled think the country is headed in the right direction, down from 49% in the previous month.

  • Less than 10% of Republicans polled think the country is headed in the right direction under Biden.

  • Two out of three disapprove of how Biden is handling the economy and only 18% say that his policies have done more to help than hurt the economy, down from 25% from a few months ago.

  • Only 38% think Biden is doing a good job on immigration, not surprising when we look at the first discussion point above.


Inflation, leaky and dangerous orders, baby formula shortage, high gas prices, an ever increasing national debt, no solutions for Social Security and Medicare, crumbling infrastructure, poor education of our kids, the list of failures goes on and on. 


And while there are a lot of people in Washington and Congress that share the blame for all of these problems, Biden is the President and his approach, or non-approach, to these issues has been wrong, non-existent, or just plain stupid, much like his entire Washington career.


3)Biden wants Los Angeles mayor, Eric Garcetti, to be his ambassador to India. Given the very sorry state of affairs that Los Angeles citizens find themselves in today, e.g. homeless problems, crime problems, poorly educating schools problem, etc., why Biden thinks Garcetti is worthy of such an important position leaves one to scratch their heads. But that is Biden’s choice.


Given the international implications of such an assignment, the Senate is doing its due diligence of Garcetti's background and they have come across a troubling situation that happened in LA under Garcetti’s watch:


  • According to the background research done by the Senate, Garcetti likely knew that one of his top advisors was involved in sexual misconduct and did nothing about it.

  • The research alleges that his advisor, Rick Jacobs, was widely known for his sexual misconduct.

  • Specifically: “By all accounts, Mr. Jacobs’ behavior was widely known and talked about. It was pervasive, widespread, and notorious — to the point that Mr. Jacobs sexually harassed someone in front of the Mayor for a picture that would be memorialized for all time,” the report, released by Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, said.

  • Furthermore: “We conclude that Mayor Garcetti likely knew or should have known that Rick Jacobs was sexually harassing multiple individuals and making racist comments towards others,” it added.


Condoning sexual misbehavior and racist comments, just the kind of upstanding politician you want representing  the country overseas.


4) In one of the strangest foreign affairs moves in the history of this country, Joe Biden did not go to war torn Ukraine to show his support for the Ukrainians and their brave, and succeeding, battle against the invading Russian army. 


For centuries, American Presidents have made such excursions as part of their foreign policy, to show their support for allies and our troops. It is ingrained into the Presidential DNA. Trump visited the DMZ zone in Korea, Obama and Bush made surprise visits to  our troops in Afghanistan, etc. 


But along comes Biden and rather than him going to war torn Ukraine, he sent his wife, Jill, to the battleground country while he stayed home. Yes, he sent his wife, who met with the Ukrainian First lady, Olena Zelenska. And while I give his wife credit for undertaking a potentially dangerous assignment, why in the world did he not go? There was no report that he was sick, there was no report or indication that he had prior, more important commitments, etc.


The likely reason, given his unstable and unpredictable behavior and ideas as a the result of his severe cognitive decline, is because his advisors did not want him to be in such a dangerous place and saying anything stupid, outside of the country. Instead, he placed his wife in danger to cover up his ineptness. A sad, sad state of affairs.


I cannot imagine what the mainstream press would have said if Trump had stayed home and instead sent his wife to such a dangerous place. But of course, the mainstream press said nothing about this Biden cowardly humiliation.


Enough insanity for today: the border is a dangerous mess, Biden’s approval rating is a deserved mess, potential sexual predator coverup in LA and Biden cowardly sends his wife to a war zone.


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Sunday, May 15, 2022

May, 2022, Political Class Insanity, Part 6: Taxpayer Wealth For Urine, Record American Deaths Due To Fentanyl Overdoses, And Baby Formula For Illegal Immigrants But Not For American Families

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) At any one time in this country there are about 500,000 - 600,000 homeless Americans around the country. In a country as wealthy as this country we should not have this many homeless and hungry Americans living on the streets.

Keep that reality in mind when we discuss the following government project and expenditure:
  • The National Science Foundation of the Federal government gave $3 million of taxpayer money to the University of Michigan to develop a urine based fertilizer.
  • Yes, $3 million to experiment with urine as fertilizer.
  • They have been experimenting with putting their urine concoction on peony flowers in the school’s Nichols Arboretum.
  • Those involved with the research crassly refer to their work as “pee on the peonies.”
What a waste of taxpayer wealth, especially since there are so many suffering Americans that certainly could make better use of that $3 million. Plus, even if this nonsense had some merit as fertilizer, how would the process be scaled up to be relevant to the world? Would we all have to urinate in cups and then send those cups to a factory to have it converted to fertilizer? Would we have to have a different toilet in our house just for urinating so that when that toilet is flushed it would go directly to the fertilizer factory? How much would that cost to put in separate pipes for urine collection across the country

Just another example of bad priorities and stupid research using taxpayer wealth.

2) Shortly after Biden became President, he opened up the southern border to just about anyone who wanted to get into this country, making it easy for anyone to walk across our southern border. Those coming across included not only the poor of the world looking for a better life but hard core criminal and drug cartel gangs intent on getting rich with the distribution of illegal drugs in this country.

Thus, it is not surprise we are now faced with the following crisis that followed Biden’s dropping of our border defenses:
  • The CDC has released data that estimates that Americans dying from drug overdoses rose significantly in 2021.
  • Their estimate: 107,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2021, an all time record.
  • This surge in drug overdoses corresponds with a surge in illegal immigration: “In FY 2021, CBP recorded a total of 1.72 million enforcement encounters, including 146,054 encounters of unaccompanied children, 478,492 encounters of individuals in family units, and 1,098,500 encounters of single adults,” the border patrol agency said.
  • In just the first three months of 2022, border agents confiscated 62 TONS of illegal drugs coming over the border..
  • That is what they intercepted, imagine how many tons of illegal drugs that they did not find.
  • Much of the tonnage that has been intercepted contains fentanyl, a chemical that has been a significant contributor to the record number of drug overdose deaths.
  • “There is absolutely a connection between drug trafficking and the surge in illegal immigration at the southern border,” said Preston Huennekens, government relations manager at the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “Cartels control both drug trafficking and human smuggling at the border – and profit from it enormously. The cartels send massive groups of migrants across the border, who are then apprehended and processed by Border Patrol. While BP is dealing with all of this, the cartels will then send over their drug operations – free from any interference because [border patrol] is too busy processing the migrants who came before. There is no question that these phenomena are connected and deeply intertwined,” he added. “The cartels control both drug flows and the flow of people – it’s that simple.”
  • The leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45 is now fentanyl, most of which is coming across our southern border.
As we have discussed many times, a very, very basic function of government is to protect the lives and property of those being governed. With the collapse of security on the southern border and the resultant massive increase in drug overdose deaths, the Federal government and Biden administration are failing miserably in failing to execute this basic government function.

3) So, our first two discussion points today concerned the fact that Washington politicians do not really care about American citizens. Rather than feed the hungry or shelter the homeless in this country they would rather spend $3 million on urine fertilizer for flowers. Rather than secure the southern border, they have allowed the number of Americans dying from drug overdoses because of the non-secure southern border to sky rocket.

Which brings us to the baby formula disaster currently underway in this country:
  • For whatever reason, there is a dire shortage of baby formula on the grocery shelves in this country.
  • This shortage is endangering the lives of American babies across the country.
  • One would hope that the government and politicians would be working hard to get relief to American families with very young kids to protect their health.
  • But according to Congresswoman Kat Cammack that is not the case since she is claiming that the Biden administration is sending vast quantities of baby formula to the border to service illegal immigrant families while American families cannot find much, if any, baby formula for them to get their hands on.
  • Specifically: “Empty shelves in America but full shelves at the border. Biden is sending pallets of baby formula to the border. This is what America last looks like,” Republican Rep. Kat Cammack wrote on Facebook. “They are sending pallets — pallets — of baby formula to the border. Meanwhile, in our own district at home, we cannot find baby formula.”
  • The Congresswoman was sent a picture from a border patrol agent who told her that the amount of baby formula being accumulated for illegal immigrants was “disgusting.”
  • She went on to state: “This is what ‘America last’ looks like. This is 100 percent what it looks like. They’re sending pallets — pallets of baby formula — to the border. And if that doesn’t infuriate you, I don’t know what will.”
  • Furthermore: “I don’t know about you, but if I am a mother, anywhere, anytime in America, and I go to my local Walmart or Target or Publix or Safeway or Kroger or wherever it may be that you shop, and you are seeing their shelves and you are seeing signs that you are not able to get baby formula, and then you see the American government sending by the pallet thousands and thousands of containers of baby formula to the border — that would make my blood boil. It is not the children’s fault at all. But what is infuriating to me is that this is another example of the ‘America last’ agenda that the Biden administration continues to perpetuate.”
So, the disastrous Biden policy on the southern border is killing Americans due to the massive amount of cheap, illegal drugs coming over our porous border and endangering American kids by shipping scarce baby formula not to American supermarkets to serve American families but to the southern border to serve illegals. Horrible and fatal political class priorities.

A footnote on the baby formula crisis: when Biden Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, was questioned about the crisis, she coldly said that any American mother who cannot get baby formula for their infant should call their doctor, She then immediately moved on to the next question, showing no empathy or feeling of sadness for those in need of formula. 

She is either that cold-hearted or so ignorant to think that someone’s doctor would magically be able to produce baby formula when stores everywhere are out of it. Disgusting.

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Saturday, May 14, 2022

May, 2022, Political Class Insanity, Part 5: Political Class Failure In Chicago, New York City, and Washington

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) It was always our contention that a very, very basic function of any government entity is to protect the lives and property of its citizens. No matter how well the potlicial class executes other parts of their jobs, failure to protect citizens makes their tenure a failure.

And nowhere has this failure been so prevalent than in the city of Chicago. Every year, the violence in crime in the city continues to escalate and result in more and more deaths of innocent citizens. And the latest crime numbers from the city show that the local political class has STILL not figured out how to protect and serve its citizens:
  • During a recent weekend, 23 people in Chicago were shot.
  • Five of those shot died from their wounds.
  • One of those who died was standing in his kitchen when gunfire penetrated into his home.
  • These five deaths brought the total homicide total in the city to 195, about one and a half people murdered every day on average in Chicago.
More violence, more deaths and the current sitting politicians, including the mayor, Lori Lightfoot, continue to have no clue how to combat the death trend in the city, making them all a failure.

2) But it is not just Chicago that is experiencing a continuing and growing trend in violent crime:
  • New York City has suffered a substantial increase in violent crime in the city.
  • This has resulted in increased police and private security at luxury stores on Madison Avenue.
  • These increased security measures include high end stores locking their doors and dimming their lights during business hours.
  • NYPD reports that in the Madison Avenue precinct, burglaries are up 47% over last year and in the first four months or so there have been 470 theft reports, about four theft reports per day on average in just this single precinct.
  • According to the New York Post: “The shoplifters, who often go un-prosecuted under soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, are “just the tip of the iceberg” and “following orders” for a much larger crime syndicate, Bauer said.”
  • Additionally: “These gangs are more aggressive and violent than in years past,” the National Retail Federation reported in its 2021 security survey, noting that 69 percent of outlets witnessed an increase in organized retail crime over the past year.
  • Across the entire city, grand larceny is up 54%, shoplifting is up 81%, and petty larceny is up 42%.
Another example of the political class and the government it operates who cannot protect the lives or the property of its citizens. Insane.

3) At any time in this country there are millions of Americans who are homeless or hungry. We are setting records every year for Americans being killed by drug overdoses. Many families today cannot get vital baby formula for their young children. A lot of Americans are in need.

However, rather than use $2 million of taxpayer wealth to help those Americans in need, consider a higher priority that Washington politicians are focused on:
  • The American political class in Washington sent $2 million of our taxpayer wealth to the country of El Salvador as an anti-gang and anti drug cartel effort.
  • The money was used to fund the Police Athletic Outreach youth outreach program in that Central American country.
  • This program originated back in the 1970s with the supposed goal of reducing crime, illegal drugs, and the unstable government in Central America.
  • Since then the American taxpayer has spent a whopping $456.8 million on these drug reduction and prevention programs in other countries.
  • Since record amounts of illegal drugs are now streaming across the border, it is probably a safe bet that this half a billion dollars has not been effective.
  • But to add insult to injury, Washington decided to spend an additional $800,000 to research whether or not just this recent $2 million expense was effective.
Seriously, American kids in Chicago are getting gunned down in the city streets and inside their homes and Washington spent half a billion dollars on kids around the world? Washington spent half a billion dollars outside the country and has no idea if that half a billion dollars was spent wisely? How many homeless, hungry, and drug addicted Americans could have seen real positive improvements in their lives vs. a failed drug prevention program in Central America?

Bad and sad priorities. Of course, I would bet that some friends of Washington politicians, election campaign donors, got a huge chunk of these dollars as the use of taxpayer money to fund politicians reelection campaigns goes on, unimpeded.

Failed politicians in Chicago, failed politicians in New York, and failed [politicians in DC, failures to protect lives, property, and our tax dollars.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

May, 2022, Political Class Insanity, Part 4: Wasting Money On Nonsense In D.C., Government Ineptness In California, and Why People Are Leaving California Explained

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) One of the main and most important tenets put forth in our book, Love My Country, Loathe My Government, is that the Federal government should not be spending Federal taxpayer money on any project that does not have a significant benefit for citizens in at least five states. We have local, county and state governments to handle more local spending needs, the Federal government should not be spending money that will benefit only a small number of citizens in a small geographic location.

The reason for this principle is that sitting Washington politicians, especially the more powerful and longer serving ones, use our tax money to benefit only their local citizens and thus, their own personal political careers. If they can get the Federal government to pay for a local road improvement or other project, that means that local taxpayers are off the hook for the expense. The politician looks good for saving the local taxpayers the cost of a project that he or she hopes will get them re-elected over and over.

The other problem is that money is often spent on non-essential projects, projects that the local taxpayers would not finance but are okay that the Federal government and taxpayers throughout the country end up financing. If the local taxpayer is not willing to fund a project, then the Federal taxpayer should not be funding it either.

The latest Biden Federal government budget does nothing to adhere to this simple principle:
  • The latest Federal budget has an amazing and disgusting 367 pages (out of 2,741 pages) dedicated to so-called “earmarks,” local spending for local projects that the Federal government has no business financing.
  • Included is $1.6 million to promote the “development of equitable growth of shellfish aquaculture” at Rhode Island’s Roger Williams University.
  • There is $800,000 to build artist lofts in California.
  • There is a half a million dollars for a ski jumping facility in New Hampshire.
  • New York Senator Chuck Schumer, one of the most powerful and longer serving members of Congress, shoved 142 projects into the budget for his New York voters.
  • Schumer’s local projects include $1.1 million for a “rail trail,” $3 million for the Brooklyn Museum, and $1.5 million to fix up a State Island theater.
You get the idea, none of these projects have significant benefit for the residents of at least five states, they only benefit the reelection chances of those politicians sticking the local spending projects into the budget. If people on Staten Island want to fix up a theater, let them pay for it, not some Federal taxpayer in Kansas. If California wants to make its artists comfy with new lofts, let the people in California pay for it.

The other problem with such spending is that often those people receiving the money to actually build the lofts, fix the theater, build the ski jump, etc. end up being election campaign donors to the politicians that used the Federal taxpayer money for these projects. It is a quid pro quo arrangement: you get me Federal money for my enrichment and I will enrich your election campaign with a little donation or two to your campaign, all at the expense of the American taxpayer.

Besides being wasteful, think about the priorities. Should the Federal government be spending $1.5 million to fix a local theater or use that money to help feed and shelter millions of hungry and homeless Americans? Should the Federal government be spending half a million dollars to build a ski lift or use that money to help Americans suffering through the rampant opioid addiction epidemic? These Americans do not matter to Washington politicians, their only focus is how to look good for local voters and local campaign donors.

2) The following statistics come from the Open The Books website and discussions they have had on their website.

We often discuss the wasteful inefficient, ineffective and mostly incompetent people running the Federal government, a Federal government that seems to waste more taxpayer money than it spends on effective programs. But apparently the state government of California is just as inept, according to research done by Open The Books:
  • Betty Yee is the state government controller in California.
  • And as with any controller, either in business or government, it is her responsibility to ensure fiscal integrity on how budget money is spent.
  • When Open The Books questioned her agency on how the state government spends $300 billion a year, they realized that Yee and the state Controller's office do not have the ability to track the 50 million payments the state government makes every year.
  • This resulted in Open The Books filing 500 open records requests to try and find out where the $300 billion is going every year and whether those payments are legit or fraudulent.
This reminds me of the old saying when someone screws up: “you had but one job and yet….” Ms. Yee, you had one basic function, be a watchdog of taxpayer wealth and yet….

3) But the California government incompetence does not start and end with the state Controllers agency:
  • Apparently, there are 65,000 fake college students “enrolled” in the California junior college system.
  • We say “enrolled” since all of these 65,000 students are simply fake, electronic names that have been put into the state government’s junior college system for the sole purpose of bilking the system out of funds.
  • Hackers got into the state community college system involving 116 community colleges to get financial aid and student perks even though these “students” do not exist.
  • Apparently, the hackers had a sense of humor in that some of the fake student names they used were Barack Obama and Clifford Clifford.
Another failure of the state government and the politicians who operate it, wasting taxpayer wealth and no plans or ability to prevent the waste from occurring.

4) As we recently discussed, the state of California has recently suffered through the second consecutive year of population decline, something that may have never happened before in the history of the state. A state that at one time seemed to have everything going for it is now facing a shrinking population.

In a recent virtual interview by the Open The Books website, Victor Davis Hanson gave his opinion and some facts about the state of California. Mr. Davis has a PhD from Stanford University, is the author of several history books, and is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of classics emeritus at California State University, Fresno. He is also a native California.

During the recent interview he points out some numbers and realities that the political class is causing state residents to hit the road for better lives:
  • People are leaving the state because they have suffered enough by paying the highest electricity rates, gasoline rates, sales tax and income taxes in the country.
  • The state’s public schools are rated the 47th out of 50, meaning only three other states do a worse job of educating their kids than California.
  • The state’s infrastructure is rated 48th out of 50.
  • State crime rates are high and trending higher.
  • 21% of the state’s residents live in poverty while millionaires in Silicon Valley and Hollywood could care less about them.
  • One out of three people in the entire country receiving welfare live in California.
  • Half of the nation’s homeless live in California.
The political class in California is probably the most restrictive, intrusive, and costly set of politicians in the country. They over govern, over tax, and over regulate just about every aspect of life. Freedom takes a back seat to these politicians’ greed, hunger for power, and incompetence. And the above list of failures is testament to what happens when government gets too bureaucratic, too large, and too inept.

Is it no wonder the state is losing population on a year over year basis. People want to be free and California is not that place because of an overbearing political class and history.

Enough insanity today: wasting untold billions of taxpayer dollars in D.C. on nonsense, ineptness in California’s state government, and the dismal California quality of life numbers continue to send citizens packing for out of state destinations.

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Saturday, May 7, 2022

May, 2022, Political Class Insanity:, Part 3: Fleeing Oppressive California and Covid Relief For Hitmen, Terrorists, Sexual Predators, 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) We have often asserted that a very basic desire of most humans is to be free. Free from excessive taxation, free from excessive governmental business and personal regulations, free from the fear of crime and violence, free to live their lives the way they want, to spend their income and time based on their own priorities and income.


And when people cannot fulfill that basic freedom need, they eventually take steps to maximize their freedom. And that reality was recently demonstrated in the state of California:


  • According to the California Department of Finance, the state’s population dropped by 117,552 people in 2021.

  • These results follow up on the 2020 results where about twice that number of people left the state. 

  • This is a state that seemingly forever saw annual growth in its state population.

  • 34 out of 58 state counties saw a decrease in population.

  • The three most populated counties, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Orange county saw substantial population decreases.

  • Only two counties saw population increases greater than 1%.

  • Cities who lost population in the state outnumbered cities that saw population increases by more than a three to one ratio.


Sky high taxes, sky high government regulations, sky high violent crime rates, and a raft of other problems. People want to be free and one way to do that is to leave California for more freedom oriented regions when their own political class cannot provide that freedom they desire.


2)Washington politicians and bureaucrats never ever do anything right, efficient, or effective. And as we have discussed many times, the legislation and implementation of the covid relief programs are no exception to this incompetence:


  • For example, Valesky Barosy received $2.1 million in government covid business loans.

  • He then used that taxpayer wealth to buy a Lamborghini, Rolex and Hublot watches, and designer clothing from high end retailers including Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Chanel.

  • He created bogus business expense reports when he applied for $4.2 million in government loans of which the government gave him half the amount he requested.

  • Fortunately, he and his accomplices have been indicted on five counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, and one count of aggravated identity theft.

  • He faces up to 132 years in Federal prison.


The good news is this guy got caught. But the bad news is that the Small Business Administration (SBA) Inspector General found that the SBA may have improperly paid out $3.6 billion in taxpayer wealth to people and businesses who did not deserve it or obtained it fraudulently. The Inspector General found that the SBA did not follow fraud prevention protocols that were designed to prevent this waste.


3) While it seems most of those that have been caught defrauding the government were doing the covid fraud to simply enrich themselves and their lifestyle, Jasmine Martinez had a different purpose in mind when she defrauded a government covid program:


  • Miami police allege that Martinez used her stolen covid relief taxpayer money to put together a plot to murder Le’Shonte Jones and her three year old daughter.

  • The effort was successful in murdering Jones while critically injuring her 3 year old daughter.

  • Specifically: "The suspect, Jasmine Martinez, is now in jail along with two others identified by police as Javon Carter and Romiel Robinson. They are each being held on charges related to the May 3 murder of TSA Agent Le’Shonte Jones and the attempted murder of Jones' 3-year-old daughter, who was injured in the shooting.”

  • Martinez used $10,000 in covid relief money to hire Carter as the hit man for the murder.

  • Apparently Jones was going to be a prosecution witness in a criminal case against Martinez and the two had a long history of antagonism between themselves.


Great, taxpayer money being funneled in to murder plots. Insane.


3) But it is no just those that hire hitmen that can get free taxpayer covid relief money:


  • According to recent findings from a Freedom Of Information filing, IRS records show that 645,000 prison inmates received covid relief money under Biden’s American Rescue Plan in 2021.

  • These 645,000 convicted criminals received $900 million in total.

  • “In one of the most inexplicable votes in Senate history, Senate Democrats sent terrorists and perverts $1,400 checks paid for by U.S. tax dollars. It is a vote that should tick off every American,” NRSC Chairman Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said.

  • We have previously discussed the disgusting reality that the Boston Marathon bomber received a $1,400 covid relief check in prison.

  • Larry Nassar, a convicted sexual predator that preyed on young college athletes also received taxpayer funds in prison.

  • The really sad part of this fraud is that Senators knew it would happen and yet defeated a move to prevent prisoners from getting taxpayer money.

  • Senator Dick Durbin, a Senator who supported giving money to prisoners, had this sick justification for sending almost a billion dollars to convict prisoners: “Children [of convicts] should not be forced to go hungry because a parent is incarcerated. Relief payments would allow families to replace lost income and pay rent and put food on the table. I would urge my colleagues to understand what we are facing with our criminal justice system today. We need to bring more justice to it and caring for the families of those who are incarcerated.”


I would ask the Senator: a few questions: 1) how many of those convicts who received taxpayer money actually have children who need support? 2) How many of those convicts actually care about their kids if they have them? I would bet that the answer is that the vast majority do not have kids to support or care about their kids. If they cared about their kids they likely would not have involved themselves in criminal activities.


And finally Senator, how much of that $900 millon actually made it out of prions to directly support their kids? If you want to support the kids of convicts, that is fine. But get the money directly to those kids, do not give it to convicts that may not even have kids, do not care about their kids, or who can use the money for their own personal needs.

That $900 million could have fed a lot of hungry and homeless Americans, it could have provided a lot of drug addiction support to drug addicted Americans, none of whom committed crime against other Americans or society. The horrid  priorities of Congressional people never seem to amaze or disgust me.

Politicians continue to fail the country whether at the state level in California or the national level in Washington.


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