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Sunday, August 27, 2023

Joe Biden Lies Continue - Part 1: National Debt Reduction Lie, AMTRAK Million Miles Lie, And Building Collapse Lie

 We have previously discussed the reality of Joe Biden being a pathological liar. All  throughout his political career he has been  telling lies that not only are so unbelievable but are also easily checked to find out that they are completely false. Two of those posts chronicling his historical lies can be accessed at: 


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2023/01/38-times-that-joe-biden-blatantly-lied.html


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2020/10/october-2020-part-3-political-class.html


The secondary benefit of the second listed post is the detailing of his sexual predator behavior and racist comments history. 


But his lying continues to these days as President, as the following examples of his deceptions 


1)Back on January 28, 2022 a major bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh at 7;00 in the morning. Certainly a disaster on many levels, a disaster that required leadership, government support, and honesty. But:

  • Biden talked about the bridge’s collapse: “A lot of you were with me when I was in Pittsburgh. By the way, Pittsburgh is a city of bridges — more bridges in Pittsburgh than any other city in America. I watched that bridge collapse. I got there and saw it collapse with over 200 feet off the ground going over a valley. It collapsed. Thank God school was out during the pandemic.”

  • Wow, what are the odds that the President of the United States was not only in Pittsburgh but was actually in  the area of the bridge when he witnessed it collapse?

  • At around 1:00 pm that day, Biden actually landed in Pittsburgh on a pre-scheduled visit and then went to visit the bridge that collapsed more than six hours earlier that day.

  • Thus, it was impossible for Biden to actually see the bridge collapse unless he is a time traveler.

  • Also, schools were in session since the pandemic lockdowns had already ended, another lie.

He lied as a Senator, he lied as Vice President, and he lies as President. The Twitter world did not let his lies go unnoticed:

  • “Incredible how often he lies,” Hunter Mahan, a professional golfer noted.

  • “Another day another lie,” sports commentator Dan Dakich wrote. “Why is this tolerated?”

  • CNN’s Daniel Dale discussed Biden’s “false personal anecdotes.”

Everyone knows he lies and yet, as a pathological liar, he does not stop doing it.

2)A long time lie of Biden’s relates to an Amtrak conductor named Angelo”Ang” Negri.  But he recently resurrected that lie with a few more embellishments:

  • In  the current storyline, Ang walks up to Biden and  says, “Joey, baby” and grabs Biden’s cheeks.

  • Biden then says he had to call  off the Secret Service so that they did not shoot Ang.

  • In  Biden’s words: “And I said, ‘No, no, no, no. What’s the matter, Ang?’ He said, ‘We just – I read this thing about… over a million miles on Air Force planes.’ He said, ‘Hell, you know how many miles you traveled on Amtrak?’ I said, ‘No, Ang. I don’t know.’ He said, ‘We just had a retirement dinner up in Newark.’ He said, ‘You traveled a hundred – an average 117 days a year, round trip, 300 miles a day, 36 years. That’s 1,285,000 miles. I don’t want to hear any more about the Air Force!’”

  • Biden finished up the story with: “True story, I swear to God.”

  • But it could not happen unless, as we discussed above, Biden is a time traveler.

  • By the time Biden got to the million miles of travel Ang had already passed away.

  • In addition, Biden claimed this meeting with Ang happened when he was going home to visit his sick mother even though his mom had passed away five years prior to this fictitious story.

Even though this story was debunked the first time he told it, he insists on continuing the lie as if it has never been a lie.

3)As we have  discussed way too many times in this blog, the Federal government is running up a debt load on an exponential basis. In a relatively short time that debt burden is going to overwhelm the taxpayer's ability to pay off that debt. And when that happens, inflation will soar, the financial viability of the country will be compromised, and our democracy will be over.

According to official Treasury Department statistics, in a little over two years, Biden’s economic policies have taken the Federal government  national debt from $27.7 TRILLION to over $31 TRILLION. Thus, in just over two years he has added almost 10% to the national debt or about $3 TRILLION. Pretty amazing feat to add so  much to the national debt in such a short time.

And yet despite official Treasury Department tracking results of the national debt, this is how Biden sees the world or how he thinks we are so stupid that he can lie as follows: “Unlike the last president, in my first two years in office, even with all we’ve done – I’m the first one to cut the federal debt by $1 trillion…$700 billion.”

Obviously, two things are wrong with  this statement, First, and most importantly it  is a lie: he added about $3 TRILLION to the debt, he did not reduce it by a trillion. Second, Trump added to  the national debt as a result of the pandemic driving the need to provide economic  stimulus to the economy when the country basically shut down.  

Biden does not have the same circumstance to blame. Plus, I would bet that every Democratic member of Congress voted to incur that large incremental  pandemic-driven debt so blaming Trump for a budget that came out of a Democratically controlled Congress is wrong and another lie.

The Biden lies keep coming and the Biden leadership qualities continue to be absent. You cannot be a leader when everything you say has a very good chance of being a lie.

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Sunday, January 29, 2023

38 Times That Joe Biden Blatantly Lied To The American People

 Before getting into today’s post, consider the following realities:

  1. I have never voted for a Republican for President.

  2. Thus, I did not vote for Trump

  3. When I lived in New Jersey a while ago, I was a registered democrat for a time.


Thus, I am not on a witch hunt to prove that Biden is a pathological liar and is a person with very little integrity. The following history of Biden’s lies prove that he is a person of low integrity, i.e. he is not a leader, he is not a person of high moral character, he is just a regular politician who lies at the drop of a hat. 


Consider his long history of just making up lies to make himself look better than he actually is:

  1. Biden claimed that he was arrested at a Nelson Mandela event in South Africa along with civil rights activist and former mayor of Atlanta, Andrew Young, but...he wasn't arrested.  Young denies that ever happened.

  2. Biden claimed he graduated from a traditional black college...but he didn't.

  3. Biden claimed that "18,000 people got clemency" while he was Vice President but...they didn't. In reality, 18,000 were denied clemency.

  4. Biden claimed that "a black guy invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison."

  5. Biden claimed he graduated college with three degrees...but he didn't.

  6. Biden claimed he was the only person in his law school class to get a full scholarship... but he wasn't. In fact, he himself did not get a full scholarship.

  7. Biden has been caught plagiarizing the work of others multiple times.

  8. Biden has been  lying for so long that Johnny Carson once made fun of his lying.

  9. Biden claimed he voted against the NAFTA trade treaty but... he voted to approve the treaty.

  10. Biden claimed that 6,114 U.S. military service members had died from the covid virus but...only 7 had died.

  11. Biden claimed that he taught Constitutional law for 20 years but...but there is no record or university proving that he taught for that long.

  12. Biden claimed that he was a university professor after he left the Vice presidency but... while he gave several lectures to university students,  there is no proof that he was an actual professor or teacher at any university.

  13. Biden claimed that he was a member of the perennially strong University of Delaware varsity football team and that he quit the team because of a low freshman GPA but...there is no record he was on the varsity football team, only on the freshman team, a detail he left out.

  14. Biden claimed he had driven semi-tractor trucks but... while he may have been a passenger in a semi tractor trailer truck once there is no record he ever drove one on a regular basis.

  15. Biden claimed that "he was raised in the black church"  in order to find ways "to desegregate movie theaters and restaurants in Wilmington, Delaware" but... the New York Times found no evidence that he was ever involved in desegregation activity and members of the black church he referred to never recalled seeing Biden in attendance.

  16. Biden claimed multiple times that the truck driver that killed his wife and young daughter in a tragic traffic accident was drunk and was to blame for the accident but... the accident investigation by the police found that the truck driver was not drunk and was not at fault for the accident nor was he ever arrested.

  17. After the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden claimed that no one advised him that his plan was a disaster waiting to happen but... two top generals, under oath, said that they told Biden the withdrawal plans would end in disaster.

  18. Biden claimed multiple times that his son Beau had died in Iraq but... his son died six years after returning home from Iraq.

  19. Biden claimed that the average price of gas was over $5.00 a gallon when he took office but... it wasn't even half that expensive.

  20. Biden claimed that his stupid plan to forgive student debt was passed "by a vote or two" but... Congress never considered the plan, he tried to do it by executive order, a plan a Federal  judge recently nixed for being illegal.

  21. Biden claimed he talked to the inventors of insulin but... two of those inventors died before he was born and there is no evidence he spoke to others involved in the invention insulin.

  22. Biden claimed that he “had a house burn down with my wife in it” and that they "almost  lost a couple of firefighters" but… the fire was a small kitchen fire and no one was in danger of losing their lives.

  23. Biden claimed he was “raised in the Puerto Rican community of Delaware" but… there is no evidence that this is true and since the size of the Delaware Puerto Rican community was only 2,319 people, .39% of the state’s total population, during his childhood it is highly unlikely this is a true statement.

  24. Biden claimed that he spent some time and visited the Tree Of Life synagogue in 2018 after a shooting incident but... the synagogue denies he ever visited.

  25. Biden claimed he served as a “liaison” to Israel and Prime Minister Golda Meir during the Six Day War but… he was in college at the time and Meir was not the prime minister at that time.

  26. Biden claimed that his first job offer came from a lumber company in Idaho but… the company denies it ever offered Biden a job.

  27. Biden claimed that the first time he got arrested was at a civil rights protest but… there is no record he was ever arrested or he was involved in a civil rights protest.

  28. Biden claimed he had a conversation with an AMTRAK conductor in 2012 or 2013 about traveling over a million miles on Air Force 2 but… that conductor retired in 1993 and Biden did not get to the million mile mark until 2015.

  29. Biden claimed he was nominated to the Naval Academy in 1965 but… he graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965.

  30. Biden claimed that oil refinery pollution is the reason he and so many other people he grew up with got cancer but… he only had skin cancer caused by sun exposure, not oil refinery pollution exposure.

  31. Biden claimed that his “great grandpop” was a coal miner but… he wasn’t.

  32. Biden claimed that when he became Vice President in 2009 he got his Uncle Frank a Purple Heart but…  his uncle never got a Purple Heart and he died before Biden became Vice President.

  33. Biden claimed he hit a baseball 368 feet off of the outfield wall in his second Congressional baseball game but… news reports say he went 0 for two at bats in that game.

  34. Biden claimed his grandfather was an All American football player at Santa Clara University but… Santa Clara University and NCAA records show no evidence his grandfather was an All American.

  35. Biden claimed he could have been an All American football player but… he played freshman football at the University of Delaware for a part of one semester.

  36. Biden claimed that he almost walked onto an NFL team and that he thought he “could make it in the pros" but… he hardly played any football in college, never mind the NFL.

  37. Biden twice claimed he was shot at on overseas trips but… neither incident ever happened.

  38. Biden has repeatedly claimed he was involved in the civil rights movement, but… there is no evidence he was and in 1987 he actually admitted he was not involved in the movement, he “was not an activist.”

A list of 38 lies, which raises a few questions:


  • Does he think that we are too stupid to research and check his assertions or is he that delusional that he actually believes these lies?

  • If he cannot be believed on these topics, which foreign leader would actually believe anything he says, anything he promises if he is such a pathological liar?


In both cases, this is not the type of person we should want to be the leader of the free world; a delusional liar, an intentional liar, or a liar not to  be trusted on anything he promises on the world stage or… all three types of liars wrapped up in one package.


Whatever the root cause of his lying, his lack of integrity measures up to the lack  of integrity of any American politician ever. So sad that in a country with over 300 million people, this is the best we could do when it comes to the leader of the country. So sad.


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Friday, October 1, 2021

October, 2021, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: Pelosi Goes Stupid yet Again, Defunding The Police Fails In Another City , And More AMTRAK Deaths

Before we get to today’s insanity, please consider the following proposition: as many of you know, the withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a historic and fatal endeavor. But the failure did not start just in the past few weeks, it has been a twenty year disaster. It has cost American taxpayers about a trillion dollars, has left thousands of our brave armed forces folks dead, maimed, or wounded and has resulted in an unknown but substantial number of civilian deaths.

Afghanistan has been a collective failure of multiple Presidential administrations and multiple sessions of Congress. Thus, please consider signing the petition below that calls for the immediate resignation of every member of Congress that has at least twenty years of service and the resignation of President Biden, Vice President Harris, and critical, and failed, members of the Biden Administration. They do not deserve to serve any longer given their miserable twenty year track record of death, destruction and waste in Afghanistan.

Also, if you are passionate about this topic and effort, feel free to pass the link along to others who might also feel the same way, i.e. incompetence should not be rewarded:


Biden and others need to resign for dereliction of duty, incompetence and total lack of empathy. Nothing short of resignation is acceptable. Thank you.

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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) Eight months into the Biden Presidency and most people would agree he has already made a mess of everything:
  • His withdrawal from Afghanistan was a debacle, resulting in unnecessary injuries and deaths to over two dozen US service people.
  • His horrible withdrawal plan left thousands of Americans and green card holders behind at the mercy of the horrific Taliban killers.
  • Inflation is at its highest level in over ten years and he has no plans to fix the problem of escalating prices and, in fact, his policies will make inflation even worse.
  • He has created a humanitarian, covid, drug cartel, human trafficking, criminal gang, and juvenile abuse crisis at the southern border.
  • He has emboldened our enemies, Russia, China, North Korea and Iran, while insulting and alienating our allies, England, France, South Korea, etc.
  • He cannot carry on an adult conversation without getting confused and disoriented, just one symptom of his cognitive decline.
  • He is not allowed to talk to the press unless the time in front of journalists is short, structured and fake.
  • The national debt continues to go higher and higher while current problems facing the country are no closer to being resolved than they were eight months ago.
Which gets us to the old age question when it comes to American politicians: are politicians actually that dumb when they say so much stupid stuff or do they think we are too dumb to know when they are saying stupid stuff? This brings us to the latest dumb stuff said by Nancy Pelosi, in the context of the many Biden failures listed above: “Let me just say about our president, President Biden…President Biden is…It’s so…we’re so fortunate that he did not win for president before when he ran because we needed him now. He’s perfect for now. He knows his foreign policy, he was chair of the foreign policy committee he’s been…extends the hands of friendship to friend and foe alike in order to have communication…He understands the value of that, he is…he knows and is known by most leaders.”

Seriously? Does she actually believe this idiocy or does she think we are too dumb to realize how bad Biden is? Biden’s accomplishment from over 40 years in Washington is minuscule. Robert Gates, Obama's Secretary of Defense, once said that Biden "has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." Obama once said: "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f... things up."

And it looks like both Gates and Obama were right. France is ticked off at us, one of our strongest allies. Many members of Britain's political class correctly think that Biden has no ability to reason or lead. China is making threatening moves against Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan.

Seriously? Inflation is growing worse everyday. The Federal government’s spending is out of control. Biden left hundreds, if not thousands ,of people behind in Afghanistan, at the mercy of the cut throat Taliban. In the process of doing so, he turned the Taliban into one of the best equipped armies in the world, courtesy of the American taxpayer.

Maybe, just maybe, Pelosi, the third in leadership ranking of the country, is also in the same type of cognitive decline that Biden is experiencing. Here’s one description of Pelosi, "Pelosi looks and sounds like she’s had a severe stroke. Her words are slurred, her face looks drawn, and she’s making some of the strangest hand movements ever…even by her standards.”

Again, do American opticians actually believe the dumb stuf they say or do they think we are dumb enough to believe the tripe they peddle? In any case, the leadership of this country is in dire straits.

2) Far too many times we have discussed the fiasco that the “defund the police” movement turned out to be. By stripping away police resources across the country in mostly liberal/Democrat run cities, the crime rate and criminal violence has skyrocketed. Murder rates are up, felony crimes are up, people are being killed because of the whole defund movement, while politicians have used taxpayer money to pay for personal armed guards for themselves while exposing their constituents to violent increases in crime.

Washington DC is no exception to the this failed and fatal experiment in defunding the police:
  • Washington DC has traditionally had some of the most stringent gun control laws in the country.
  • It has also been one of the most violent cities in the country over the years despite the city’s strict gun control laws.
  • In 2019, the city ranked 13th nationally when it came to the homicide rate per 100,000 residents.
  • Their homicide rate did not get any help when the city joined the defund the police movement.
  • As a result, a recent local newscast from Fox 5 found that city residents are more than ever trying to acquire gun permits to protect themselves and their families against the upsurge in criminal violence in the city, an upsurge that raised the city homicide rate 12% in the past year.
  • John Ayala, a certified firearms instructor and the owner of Archangel Security and Training in DC has found that: "A lot of women … especially African American women coming to us, asking us to train them. And this is because there’s been a lot of women getting shot in D.C. We just had one yesterday down Congress. So because of that, the women feel that they have to protect themselves."
  • The numbers verify his experience since the number of people applying for gun permits in the city is up about 150% over the same time last year.
There was no way defunding the police was going to be a good idea without a proven, existing way to handle crime as an alternative. As a result, violence is up and citizens are not as stupid as their elected officials: they will protect themselves and their families even if their local politicians cannot. They will either move out of violent areas for their safety or take steps to do what the local government cannot do, provide protection.

We have always claimed that a very, very basic function of any government entity is to protect the lives and property of the people they serve. No matter how well they execute other government services, they are a failure if they cannot protect the lives and property of their citizens.

3) AMTRAK has been a disaster from a profitability perspective for decades. Why anyone thought that the Washington political class and the bureaucrats it oversees could actually run an efficient and profitable railroad system is beyond me. Washington cannot run anything efficiently and effectively so no surprise that AMTRAK has been a financial disaster for taxpayers since the beginning.

But it has also been fatal for any number of its customers over the years:
  • An AMTRAK train going from Seattle to California was once stuck for days in Oregon after it reportedly hit a tree.
  • Only a Federal government run railroad could break down because it somehow hit a tree.
  • An AMTRAK train once crashed into a freight train in South Carolina that resulted in two AMTRAK riders being killed and at least 70 other riders being injured.
  • In December, 2017, an AMTRAK train derailed in Washington state, smashing through an overpass onto Interstate 5, killing three people and injuring dozens.
  • In early 2018, an AMTRAK train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat in West Virginia hit a garbage truck in Virginia, killing one of the three occupants in the vehicle.
And the carnage recently continued anew:
  • An AMTRAK train recently derailed in Montana, leaving several train cars off the track and on their sides.
  • Unfortunately, three riders died in the accident.
  • Fifty riders were injured.
One wouldn't think that a train system could kill and maim so many of its riders. It is not like a plane crashed from 30,000 feet going several hundred miles an hour. A train is on a track that is on the ground likely going under 100 miles an hour. But leave it to the Federal government to muck up the simplest of tasks, running a train system that costs way too much to operate and even high, high expenses cannot keep it running safely.

That will do it for today: AMTRAK continues to kill, maim, and waste money, defunding the police movement fails in yet another city, and Pelosi goes stupid yet again.


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Sunday, April 25, 2021

April, 2021, Part 6, Political Class Insanity: Imaginary Counties Get Real Taxpayer Money, AMTRAK Continues Its Wasteful Spending, and Democratic States Continue To Lose Residents.

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 Biden administration and Congress recently threw together a multi-trillion covid economic relief plan. And threw together is certainty the right description, given this insanity:
  • According to the Tax Foundation hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars have been set aside in the relief package for county governments that do not exist.
  • For example, the nimrods in Washington put a provision in the legislation so that Hartford County, Connecticut’s county government is set to receive $173 million in covid relief aid.
  • Nice chunk of change except for the fact that like every other country in the state there is no county level government that could actually and legally receive the money.
  • In fact, all of the non-existent county governments in the state in total are supposed to get $691 million in relief.
  • The same insanity is going down in Rhode Island where there also are no formal county level government entities but nonetheless, these non-existent counties are scheduled to get $205 million.
  • $15 million is supposed to go to Alaska’s Unorganized Borough which is really unorganized since it is not a real county or any other kind of government, it does not exist from a legal, government perspective.
  • And it gets worse.
  • Eight of Massachusetts county governments were dissolved over 20 years ago but they are still supposed to receive $942 million in relief aid.
  • Norfolk County has an annual revenue stream of about $19.5 million but thanks to Congress, it is set to receive $137 million in covid aid, seven times its annual revenue stream, talk about a windfall.
Unfortunately, you cannot make up this type of stupidity. It makes you wonder what the Congressional members of Congress in Connecticut, Rhode Island, et al were thinking… or not thinking: are they so out of touch with their home states that they did not realize there is no legal way for these fictional or eliminated counties to legally receive and spend this taxpayer generosity?

2) Whenever the Federal government operates anything, any program etc. it screws it up, by being inept, inefficient, criminally crooked, you name it, they will screw it up. Such has been the case of AMTRAK for decades. The Federal government took over the operation decades ago and it has bled red ink and unprofitability ever since.

And now AMTRAK claims that it needs about $40 billion of taxpayer money to fix its backlogged maintenance problems. Keep in mind that the vast, vast majority of American taxpayers have never ridden an AMTRAK train and are likely to never ride the train. But rather than have those that actually ride the train pay their fair share of the expenses to operate it, Washington politicians would rather that the rest of the country subsidize a losing operation that benefits a tinyu, tiny number of people.

Now, AMTRAK executives see themselves getting a new windfall of taxpayer money via Biden’s ridiculous expensive and idiotic multi-trillion dollar infrastructure plan. Let Connor Harris of the Manhattan institute explain why this is so not right: “Except much of anything Amtrak gets from the federal government will not be spent on new destinations but on repairs and maintenance. Very costly repairs and maintenance, it turns out – and only what’s needed to keep service from failing completely along existing lines…Amtrak’s claimed maintenance backlog of $40 billion for the 453-mile rail line from DC to Boston — an enormous sum of almost $90 million per mile, merely to keep the same service as exists today. For comparison, in countries such as France and Spain, less than half that cost per mile would cover a brand-new high-speed rail line good for speeds of more than 200 miles per hour.”

So, other countries could build a brand new, high tech rail line for half the money that AMTRAK wants to do maintenance on a SINGLE AMTRAK rail line in the northeast section of the country. More tax dollars wasted on a typical bloated, inefficient and inept government bureaucracy.

3) Let's check in on how the out migration trend is going with high tax, high crime states as we often do:
  • Forbes writer, Chris Dorsey, recently published an article entitled, “America’s Mass Migration Intensifies As ‘Leftugees’ Flee Blue States And Counties For Red”
  • According to Dorsey, the top five U.S. states seeing a mass exodus out of those states are all Democratic controlled, California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, and Illinois.
  • This is consistent with our own previous analyses where we predicted that these states, especially Illinois, New York and California, are already in financial death spirals that will see one of them very soon go into at least a de facto bankruptcy condition.
  • As more and more people flee these states because the state politicians have governed in such a way to continually see increases in taxation and crime, and a lowering of the quality of life, the tax base becomes smaller and smaller resulting in less and less tax revenue which forces politicians to increase taxes and cut public services which increases crime and further lowers the quality of life and causes more people and businesses to migrate out and the financial death spiral is in full force.
  • According to the Census Bureau, these five states lost a combined 4 million residents between 2010 and 2019.
  • Thus, while the overall country’s population grew almost 8% in that time frame, these five states saw population declines in the face of that almost overall 8% growth rate.
  • According to U-Haul numbers, the five states seeing the greatest increase in population are states with much lower tax burdens and crime rates and a better overall quality of life climate: Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Ohio and Arizona.

The formula for keeping voters and residents happy is pretty simple: lower taxes, lower business regulation, lower crime rates, and a better quality of life. However, many in the American political class cannot grasp that simple concept: rather than get their government entities more efficient and effective, they continue to raise taxes, expand government intrusion, increase business and personal regulations, put forth idiotic concepts like “defund the police'' which ALWAYS increases crime.

We have always stated that “people just want to be free.” And to do that they will vote with their feet and take themselves, their families, and their businesses to where they can be free and safe, something that is not possible in states like Illinois, California, New York, New Jersey and Michigan.

That will do it for today: financially strapped states and their inept politicians continue to bleed citizens and tax base participants, AMTRAK continues to be a black hole of waste and taxpayer money, and imaginary counties get allocated real taxpayer funds.

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