Even though we have spent the p[ast seven or so posts discussing how DOGE and Trump are identifying and eliminating stupid and wasteful spending of the Federal government. However, that does ot mean that the American political class had stopped doing stupid and inane things, be it wasting taxpayer wealth, enriching themselves and family members, implementing stupid government programs, etc.
We usually called these failures “political class insanity.” Thus, let’s catch up on the insanity that American politicians have continued to indulge in:
1)DOGE recently announced that it had found more stupid and wasteful spending of taxpayer wealth, this time in the Federal National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH):
NEH gave out a grant worth $460,000 to develop “interactive gay travel guides.”
Another grant was worth $247,000 to digitize “stories of transgender adults in the Pacific Northwest.”
$60,000 was planned to research how “LGBTQ+ cartoonists innovated comics in the 1980s and 1990s.”
$75,000 was allocated to study “the relationship between Internet live streaming and LGBTQ+ communities.”
A $350,000 grant was going to create a Spanish language version of homosaurua.org, a database related to LGBTQ+ terminology.
And it seems to never end since $150,000 was going to be spent for the excavation of “Egypt's first industrial scale brewery.”
Millions of Americans are homeless, hungry, in need of drug addiction treatment, and cannot afford health insurance and some folks in Washington thought these were better uses of taxpayer wealth. Bad, bad priorities.
2)We have often lamented the fact that the Federal national debt still being rung up Washington politicians will eventually crash our economy, our financial system, and our democracy. Despite the ever growing debt, fast approaching a ridiculous $37,000,000,000,000, DC politicians do nothing of significance to halt the growth in debt.
Their hesitancy to curtail spending did not go unnoticed by the credit rating system, Moody’s:
Moody’s recently downgraded the Federal government’s credit worthiness rating from Aaa to Aa1.
This was the first time that the rating was below perfect since rating started in 1949.
This will result in higher lending costs as politicians continue to float bonds to finance their wasteful spending which will increase interest on the debt and the financial death spiral gains speed.
This downgrade of the nation’s credit worthiness follows in the footsteps of other credit rating agencies that had already downgraded our status.
The government’s budget deficit to GDP ratio is 6.7%, the highest it has ever been when there was not a recession or war in progress.
According to Moody: “Successive US administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to reverse the trend of large annual fiscal deficits and growing interest costs. We do not believe that material multi-year reductions in mandatory spending and deficits will result from current fiscal proposals under consideration.”
The problem is right in front of the Washington political class and nobody has the courage or strength to stop the insanity and get the government’s fiscal house in order.
3)One reason for the ever growing deficit and national debt was recently uncovered in DC:
Recent investigations found that government bureaucrats had been annually incurring $40,000,000,000 government issued credit card debt.
Members in the House and Senate are calling for investigations given the suspected widespread abuse in the use of government credit cards.
This abuse was uncovered after an audit of the Defense Department.
This abuse allegation comes on the heals of a DOGE finding that found there were a staggering 4.6 active Federal employee credit cards in the world, cards that had racked up the $40 million in expenses and charges in a single fiscal year.
The Department of Defense audit found that a whopping 7,805 credit card transactions had been incurred at so-called “high risk merchants” including casino ATMs, mobile phone stores, bars lounges, discos, nightclubs, taverns, cruise lines, lottery amusement parks, and bail bond services.
Specific things purchased on the government credit cards that would be considered suspicious include wigs, toupees, weight loss programs, jewelry, boats, campers, and country club memberships.
The Defense Department audit also found that the Defense Department effectively had no way of tracking and fixing errant misuse of government credit cards.
As we have said far too often: millions of Americans are homeless, hungry, in need of drug addiction help and cannot afford health insurance and yet taxpayer wealth is being spent via this credit card scandal on wigs toupees, alcohol and who knows what else.
4)Now that Biden is out of office, it is becoming clearer and clearer how his administration had total disrespect for Americans who had done nothing criminal or terroristic, they were targeted for simply having a different opinion than Biden and his loyalists:
A newly discovered Biden administration memo from June, 2021 authorized Federal agencies to monitor and track Americans citizens engaged in “non-criminal behavior.”
This was especially focused on military service members, gun owners, and those accused of spreading disinformation, i.e. daring to have opinions that were in conflict with the Biden administration.
These Americans were targeted even though they had done nothing illegal, suspicious or had court ordered surveillance permission.
The memo was made public by Director Of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
The tracking and monitoring of civilians by the Federal government certainly raises concern about civil liberties, political targeting, and the weaponization of Federal government agencies against political opponents.
Traditionally, Department of Justice guidelines required the FBI to establish a clear and reasonable case of criminal or security concerns before opening an investigation.
The Biden administration trashed this tradition and stomped on many Americans’ First Amendment rights.
Instead, the FBI and other government agencies considered the Gadsen flag, the Betsy Ross flag, and Second Amendment references to justify investigation.
FBI whistle blowers have come forward to verify how Biden only went after Americans who had a different view and opinion than him and his loyalists.
When political considerations are used to dictate government behavior and the Constitution and its protections of freedom are cast aside, we no longer live in a free country.
Enough political class insanity for today: trampling Americans’ rights and opinions, credit card abuse by Federal employees, Moody’s recognizes the debt issue facing the country, and more wasteful spending.for LGBTQ+ nonsense.
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