Love My Country, Loathe My Government: November 2024

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Biden's Failed Immigration Policies and the Death and Violence It Has Caused To Americans - Part 12

We have often discussed the reality that Biden’s border policies have been an unbelievable failure. Illegal drugs are flooding into the country, violent South and Central American gangs setting up shop in U.S. cities, and local city and state budgets are being adjusted so that illegal immigrants can be fed, sheltered, and given medical attention, stealing government services from American taxpayers.

But one particularly distressing and tragic result of Biden’s failed immigration policies is the danger that have befallen innocent Americans at the hands of violent illegal immigrants who never should have been admitted to the country. This is not to say there should be no immigration into this country. But there has to be a rigid screening process so that violent people do not get into the country and carry out heinous, often fatal, attacks on innocent Americans.

The first eleven sets of sad stories relative to the illegal immigrant dangers to Americans can be accessed at:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2024/07/bidens-failed-immigration-policies-and.html

1)We have briefly talked about this following illegal immigration fail of the Biden administration but it is worthwhile revisiting it and filling in the details:

Apparently the Biden administration has lost track of about 320,000 illegal immigrant kids that have disappeared into the country after crossing the border.
Maybe they are living with friends, maybe they are living with family, maybe they are being sex trafficked, maybe they are working in sweatshops, maybe their organs have been harvested, Biden has no idea where they are.
Many of these kids have been managed by international human trafficking and criminal gangs.
It is assumed that drug cartels are actively involved in taking control of some of these kids and turning them into indentured servants.
According to whistleblower Tara Rodas’ Congressional testimony: “Today, as we speak, children are preparing to work grueling overnight shifts in slaughterhouses, restaurants, and factories. Some children may die today in jobs they don’t have the knowledge or skills to do in order to repay never-ending debts to their smugglers and traffickers. Some girls — as young as 12, 11, or even 10 years old — will give birth to children of their own.”
Congressman Josh Brecheen: “We are pushing them into the hands of criminals and pedophiles. America is one of the largest consumers of child pornography. They [Biden administration] just want to sweep this aside and speed up the placement process with sponsors, because they didn’t like the embarrassment of the visual at the border.”
Sadly, Biden revoked a Trump era rule that said illegal immigrant kids could not be released to anyone until a DNA test proved they were family.
Biden administration officials including Robin Marcos have acknowledged the 320,000 number.
As one example of the Biden administration incompetence, Congressman Chip Roy recently grilled Biden’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Xavier Becerra, on one instance of incompetence: “One address in Austin, Texas — a town which I represent — had more than 100 UACs [Unaccompanied Children] released to a single family dwelling. Mr. Secretary, how can you credibly claim that HHS is working to protect these children?”
And none of this should be a surprise to Biden’s people since the Government Accountability Office recommended four changes to the handling of illegal immigrant kids back in 2020 but Biden did not implement any of them.

Thus, not only are American citizens getting terrorized, attacked, raped, and murdered as a result of Biden’s failed immigration policies, but hundreds of thousands of innocent kids from other countries are facing unbelievable trauma, abuse, and death.

2)Earlier this year an American nursing student living in Georgia went out for a jog in the neighborhood. She was accosted by an illegal immigrant, a member of the violent Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua. The illegal immigrant gang member raped, her beat her, and killed her in a senseless act of violence.

An update:

He was recently convicted on all counts of murdering nursing student Laken Riley and faces life imprisonment.
Even though he had entered the country illegally and even though the Biden administration knew he had a criminal record, the Biden administration policies on immigration decided to give him a work permit and roam the county.
He had previously been arrested for “acting in a matter that could injure a child” but the charges were eventually dropped.
He was then free to attack, rape, and kill Laken Riley.

No one is saying that we should not welcome immigrants into this country. However, a primary, basic function of any government entity is to protect the lives and property of the citizens it serves. Allowing foreign gang members with criminal records to roam free in the countryside is not executing this basic function of government and American citizens like Laken Riley are paying and have paid for this failure.

3)More illegal immigrant violence:

An illegal immigrant from Mexico has been arrested and charged with the kidnapping and murder of fitness TikToker influencer, Minelys Rodriguez-Ramirez in Georgia.
She left behind a nine year old daughter and was engaged to be married when she was murdered.
Rodriguez-Ramirez went missing following a trip to Walmart in late October and soon afterwards her body was found on a road near the Walmart she had visited.
State senator Josh Albers: "This is avoidable. This person never should have been in this country. The evidence is damning. And you know what? This is why a secure border is so important. It’s terrible enough when this happens in America and specifically in Georgia but it’s even worse when someone should not have been here to begin with."
The TikToker influencer legally came to the U.S. mainland six years ago, a GoFundMe account has been set up to help her family with funeral expenses.

No American should fear for their life when they go out for a morning jog or for a trip down to Walmart.

4)Talking about violent illegal immigrants, let’s go to NYC:

Two illegal immigrants were recently released from police custody even though one of them had pulled a machine gun-like weapon on them.
One of the illegal immigrant suspects, Abraham Sosa, lives above a daycare center in the Bronx, was allegedly trespassing and urinating inside a forbidden tunnel area of a Bronx subway station.
Police confronted him, asked for id which Sosa refused to provide, and when the officers tried to arrest him a scuffle ensued and he refused to be handcuffed.
At that point another illegal immigrant, Christopher Mayren, got into the middle of the scuffle.
At some point a loaded Palmetto State Armory PA-15 machine gun fell out of Sosa’s backpack.
They were eventually arrested but not before the police officers were slightly injured, injuries that required a visit to the hospital.
Sosa was charged with criminal possession of a machine gun, possession of a loaded firearm, resisting arrest, obstruction of governmental administration, trespassing, assaulting a police officer, assault and 25 counts of criminal possession of a weapon with a bullet.
And yet, Sosa was set free after posting an anemic $25,000 bond despite the atrocious list of crimes.
His partner was released with no bond money needed even though he had interfered and fought with the police and was sporting a tattoo that associated him with a violent drug cartel.
A Btronx police detective pointed out the insanity of the illegal immigration criminal situation in NYC: “This is crazy. You have a member of a Mexican cartel running around. That tattoo is a billboard for, ‘I am a criminal. I don’t care about your laws. Can it get more dangerous than riding a subway with a loaded rifle? And when he’s not on a train, he’s upstairs from little children in the daycare center. These are two very dangerous scenarios.”

Insanity is certainly the right word to explain the danger that Biden’s failed immigration policies have unleashed on American citizens: losing the location of 320,000 kids, killing and raping Americans, and fighting police officers.

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

No ember, 2024, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Medicare Financing Shenanigans, Medicare Fraud Continues, Biden's Explosion in Government Regulations, and NYC Corruption Continues.

Every month we devote posts to just general political class insanity that is running rampant through the country. The members of the American political class continue to show that they are incapable of efficiently operating any level of government in this country.

Even their best efforts are almost always ineffective at resolving any problem facing Americans. They spend a great amount of time not trying to improve the lives of their citizens but continually ensuring their reelection and enriching themselves, their families, and their friends in the process, all at taxpayer expense.

1)The so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” was a piece of farce legislation that had nothing to do with reducing inflation, in a time of very high inflation, but was used as a vehicle to fund stupid, liberal, and doomed to failure ventures and programs. No notable benefits have come out of the law so far and it is likely that it is just another piece of wasteful spending.

But the damage of wasting taxpayer wealth on stupidity goes even deeper:

It looks like certain aspects of the legislation used Medicare funds to pay for the program involved in the legislation, meaning that the almost 68 million Americans on Medicare are likely to see higher premium costs going forward.
Specifically, listen to the words of Ron Fitzwater, Chief Executive Officer of the Missouri Pharmacy Association: “Nearly two years after its passage, the IRA has diverted nearly $260 billion from the projected Medicare ‘savings’ to pay for special interest handouts like large tax credits for costly electric vehicles, enormous subsidies paid to big health insurer-PBM corporations, and funding health care programs for illegal immigrants.” The Biden-Harris administration is not protecting Medicare; they’re stealing from it.”
Even Politico, a left leaning news website, agrees with his assessment, stating that a chain reaction began as a result of the legislation.
The law shifted the burden of paying for prescription medicine from seniors to insurance companies which led insurance companies to increase their premiums for 2025.
This led to numerous and politically timed accounting shenanigans which according to Fitzwater will shift $330 billion from Medicare funding to fund the many pet projects of the liberal political class, a $330 billion shortfall that will be paid off by the 68 million Medicare customers.
Thus, Medicare customers could see their annual cost go up by about $4,000 a year, just to fund the fantasy “green deal” projects of the Biden administration.

Just another added cost to Americans’ living expenses in addition to the higher food, shelter, gas, utility and other costs Biden has dropped on the country.

By the way, we have previously discussed the reality that analyses by much smarter people than those in Congress, e.g. the Congressional Budget Office and the Wharton School of Business, have shown that the “Inflation Reduction Act” will have very little, if any, impact on inflation, it was all a scam.

2)Speaking of Medicare expenses, far too many times we have discussed the massive fraud and criminal activity that goes on within the Medicare environment, fraud and crimes that increase the costs of the 68 million Medicare customers on a daily basis. Despite the fact that Medicare has been around since the Johnson administration in the 1960s, 60 years later, it is still unable to minimize the fraud that exists within the Medicare environment.

And the sentencing of a recent Medicare criminal in Florida shows how easy it is to rip off the program:

A Florida woman was recently sentenced to 20 years in jail for defrauding the Medicare program of a whopping $192 million in claims for genetic tests, medical equipment purchases, and telemedicine visits that never happened.
And it appears she was not a career criminal working for a crime organization, she was just a nurse practitioner that for years defrauded the American taxpayer.
She signed orders for braces and genetic testing for Medicare customers she never talked to.
She faked information on forms about Medicare customers illnesses, symptoms, and injuries.
During her crime wave,, she ordered more genetic tests for Medicare customers than any other medical provider in the country.
When telemedicine became popular curing the covid crisis, she billed Medicare for thousands of telemedicine visits that she never performed, sometimes billing for over 24 hours of telemedicine visits in a single day.
She then allegedly used the Medicare funds she scammed to purchase expensive cars, jewelry, perform home renovations, and traveled.

Again, this was a nurse practitioner not an organized crime ring. Her scamming went on for years, with nobody or no process in the Medicare organization smart enough to check how she was doing over 24 hours a day in telemedicine visits, why she was the largest provider of genetic testing in the country, etc. In the real world, these are simple audits that should have been baked into the Medicare reimbursement process but sadly, such simple audits apparently do not exist.

The good news is she got caught. The bad news is twofold: 1) she probably spent a lot of the money she scammed so the $192 million of stolen taxpayer money will likely not be recovered and 2) how many others, individuals and organized crime rings, have NOT been caught doing the same type of simple-to-identify and track fraudulent activities?

3)It has been a little while since we checked in with the allegedly and apparently massive fraud that is going on within Mayor Eric Adams’ New York City administration. We previously have had discussions of the many instances of fraud and criminal activity that ranged from the NYC police department to the NYC fire department to the NYC education department and more.

But just because we have not discussed the corruption lately does not mean it has stopped:

Two NYPD Deputy Chiefs, Maximo Tolentino and Victoria Perry, have been accused of directing police department funds to a Bronx restaurant owned by the brother of former Police Commissioner, Edward Caban.
The accusation claims that these two police chiefs lobbied for events to be held at the restaurant, Con Sofrito, a place that is owned by Richard Caban, a retired NYPD officer, Edward Caban’s brother.
The Department of Justice says that the chiefs told their staff to prioritize the restaurant for community events, allegedly stating that doing so would “make the big boss [Edward Caban] happy.”
Both of the accused chiefs earn over $200,000 a year in city taxpayer funded salaries.

And the alleged criminal shenanigans and corruption go on under Eric Adams.

4)The average cost of a dozen eggs in January, 2021, the month Biden was installed as President was $1.50. The current average cost of eggs in October, 2024 was $3.37, more than double what they cost when Biden took office.

The average cost of a gallon of gas when Biden was installed as President in January, 2021 was $2.33 a gallon. The current average cost of gas in October, 2024 was $3.14. Thus, the cost of a gallon of gas increased by almost 50% during Biden’s Presidency.

But the cost of families’ daily expenses are not the only costs that have increased during the past four years:

According to an analysis by the American Action Forum, the cost of Federal government regulations during the Biden Presidency is imposing an aggregate cost of $1.8 trillion on Americans.
Since there are about 131 million American households, theoretically government regulations under Biden are costing each household about $13,700.
This is up 50% from the $1.2 trillion the Federal government regulations were costing Americans during the Trump Presidency, a theoretical increase of about $4,600.
In addition, before the Biden administration ends in January, the Federal Register, the publication that contains every Federal government regulation is expected to exceed the all-time high of pages of Federal government regulations.
The current Register is a disgusting and whopping 89,476 pages long.
The current record size of the Federal Register was attained under Obama and was a mind boggling 95,894 pages and Biden may have a shot at topping that figure.

Given there are about 90,000 pages of government regulations, it is probably not beyond reason that each and every one of us is currently violating some government regulation.

Of course, some government regulations are necessary. But we have discussed the reality in previous posts that as government gets larger and larger, government bureaucrats have to find ways to justify their existence. This results in more and more unnecessary government regulations as the government bureaucracy tries to justify its existence, all of which makes our lives more expensive.

The good news is that drastically reducing the size of government by eliminating wasteful spending, unnecessary regulations, and unnecessary bureaucracy is a top priority of Trump’s second Presidency. Hopefully he can succeed in his downsizing strategy and allow us to pay less towards the currently Federal government.

Enough insanity for today: Biden piled on expensive regulations, more alleged NYC corruption, more Medicare criminal fraud, and more Medicare political class stealing.

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