Over the past couple of weeks we have discussed the failed border policies of the Biden administration. These failed policies have unleashed violence and crime on innocent American citizens as well as dangers to illegal immigrants. The first of those posts can be accessed at:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2024/07/bidens-failed-immigration-policies-and.html
However, during that time, American politicians have continued to show how inept and useless they are so let’s spend a few days catching up on our favorite topic, political class insanity.
1)Many liberals and Democrats like to strut about and talk about the dangers of climate change and that they are the only ones that know how to save the Earth and humanity. We have discussed their antics many times in this post on how they only look at studies, facts, and realities that support their opinions while other studies, facts, and realities that dispute their opinions be damned.
First they claimed that we were facing an imminent ice age. But a new ice age never happened. Then they claimed we were facing massive global warming. But that never happened. Then they rebranded global warming as climate change so that whether things got warmer or colder they would be right.
And through the global warming and climate change phases these folks constantly predicted that the atmosphere and oceans would warm over time as a result of man made climate change activities. But a recent study throws more cold water on their theories:
According to a recent article in New Scientist, the Atlantic Ocean is undergoing a rapid transformation.
However, unlike what the supporters of climate change claim, the Atlantic ocean is actually cooling, not warming.
This is the exact opposite of what climate change advocates predicted would happen.
According to the study, the cooling is at a record rate.
This so-called “Atlantic Nina” pattern is thought to precede the cooling of waters in the Pacific Ocean also.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has verified the decreasing temps of the Atlantic Ocean.
This is not to say there is not man made global warming or climate change going on. But it proves again that politicians that insist they know what is going on climate wise really know nothing as they again missed on a major prediction. Thus, the need to surrender our wealth and freedom in the name of climate change is not something we should do at this time, given the ignorance of liberal politicians and the biased scientists that support them.
2)We have proven many, many times in this blog that the American political class has members that are not good at resolving problems facing Americans but are pretty adept at making themselves wealthy. Fortunately, it appears that for once in a long while a politician may be held accountable for his greed:
Washington D.C. council member, Trayon White, Sr. was recently arrested by Federal law enforcement authorities.
The arrest was quite dramatic in that it involved almost a dozen FBI agents.
Apparently the council member has allegedly played loose and secretive about previous campaign finance issues and problems, having previously been fined $40,000 for not correctly providing documentation for financial matters.
After his arrest, details behind the investigation and arrest came to light and included him allegedly accepting over $150,000 in exchange for steering millions of dollars in potential government contractors to the bribers.
Payments were all in cash and were made over time.
The deals and payments were documented by hidden voice recordings of the transactions.
Another day, another corrupt politician, nothing new to see here.
3)One of the biggest and most expensive failures of the current set of Washington politicians is the twenty year disaster of the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. About $2 trillion in taxpayer dollars were spent over the twenty years, thousands of American service men and women were killed or maimed during the periods, and Biden’s withdrawal form the country was a disaster with the unnecessary deaths of 13 U.S. service people and the leaving behind of tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer funded weapons.
So we spent two decades removing the Taliban from power to leave the country with the Taliban again in charge of the country. And as an insult to the American taxpayer, the Taliban recently had a military parade where they paraded the billions of dollars of U.S. military weapons left behind, billions thought to be in the vicinity of $85 billion.
Let’s do a little math about the $85 billion of assets left behind:
The average cost to provide a nutritious meal to a homeless American is about $2.97.
That means that that $85 billion could have in theory provided about 29 billion meals for homeless Americans.
Since there are about 600,000 homeless Americans in the country, those 29 billion meals could have provided almost 48,000 meals for each homeless American.
At three meals a day, the $85 billion could have provided three meals a day for about 44 years for every homeless American.
Obviously, this is purely a theoretical example. However, it shows how much the American political class failed at achieving its military goals while wasting away taxpayer wealth that could have been used to alleviate the suffering of Americans. Disgraceful waste of money and failed execution.
4)While we have focused on the monumental failures of Biden’s border policies over the past few weeks, his economic failures have been equally horrible. Consider the latest housing troubles under Biden:
U.S home prices are 50% higher than they were before the covid pandemic, a period that was mostly the Biden Presidency.
It now costs average homeowners, on average, more than 40% of their monthly income to afford a median priced home.
According to Mitchell Feiersteinm the CEO of Glacier Environmental fund: “Housing shelter costs are near historical highs, making the most unaffordable in 40 years. This is a situation of grave concern.”
The International Monetary Fund believes that this is not a short term situation: “The increase in the relative price of shelter may well be a lasting feature of the post pandemic economy If that proves to be true, in the coming years we should expect to see a decline in rates of home ownership (and increase in rentals), slower rates of household formation, and a shift of demand toward smaller homes. Younger and lower-income households would be most affected by these trends.”
Thus, Washington in general and Biden in particular have been working hard to make the American dream of owning a home more and more unreachable.
Enough political class insanity for today: home ownership dream is dying, the financial and military fiasco in Afghanistan shows again how inept Washington is, a D.C. politician actually gets caught in his alleged corruption, and climate change advocates strike out again.
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If you agree that we need to deseat every member of Congress for their lack of success and accomplishment, then please consider going to the following petition link to help the cause:
https://www.change.org/p/deseat-congress-reset-freedom
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