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Saturday, October 25, 2025

Some Major Government and Politician Lies Over The Past Two Decades

 A number of recent news events raised the topic in my mind of government employees and politicians and the lies they create, perpetuate, and force on the country. These lies cover economic, medical, and environmental  lies. They are put forth with straight faces by those telling them, raising that age old question: do these folks actually believe the lies they tell or do they think we are too stupid to find out and understand if their assertions are true or not?

Let’s check out the latest lies and myths that they have  floated over the years:

1)Let’s go back to the days when Obama Care was being developed and passed as legislation. Remember when those of us that expressed our doubts about how that legislation would not resolve the country’s health care issues were met with some very vicious and demeaning rebuttals to our views:

  • Democrat Speaker Of The House Nancy Pelosi called opponents to Obama Care unpatriotic for simply having a difference of opinion with many politicians in Washington including herself.

  • Democrat Charles Rangel slandered millions of ordinary Americans who opposed Obama Care by calling them racists for simply having an honest difference of opinion with many politicians in Washington.

  • Democrat Shelia Lee Jackson slandered ordinary Americans who opposed Obama Care by associating them with the Ku Klux Klan,

  • Democrat Alan Grayson called those opposed to Obama Care  knuckle dragging Neanderthals.

Let’s fast forward to today:

  • According to a recent large-scale survey from the Kaiser Foundation, health care costs in the past year were up 6% after rising 7% in each of the two previous years.

  • All of these increases were larger than the overall inflation rate and the growth in wages in those years.

  • Thus, it does not look like Obama Care’s objective to “bend the cost curve downwards" was not met if the rate of health care spending and costs are rising faster than inflation and wage growth.

  • About 25-26 million Americans do  not currently have  health insurance coverage according to an analysis by the Kaiser Foundation.

  • Thus, another Obama promise, that EVERY American would be  able to get and afford health insurance under Obama Care,  has proven to be false.

It appears that those of that were called  unpatriotic, racists, KKK members,  and knuckle dragging Neanderthals for simply having doubts about a government program actually turned out to be right: costs have  not gone down, coverage has not gone up, and things are getting worse since part of the current government shutdown is because the failure of Obama Care is requiring more and  more taxpayer subsidies to stay afloat.  

In other words, those that supported Obama Care lied to us and used derision, and  insults to cover up their lies.  The problem is very simple: Obama tried to implement an economic based solution to a public health problem, using a hammer  when he should have been using a screwdriver, it was doomed from the start. 

The underlying problem with high health care  costs in this country involves a number of factors: Americans eat too much, they eat too much of the wrong types of food, they do not exercise enough, and they smoke too much. By not fixing  those underlying causes you cannot fix the overall cost problem. 

Consider the informed  opinion of Dr. Delose Cosgrove, formerly the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic:

  • In our current health care industry there is no incentive for staying well.

  • Obesity in America accounts for 10% of all health care costs.

  • Smoking, diet, and lack of exercise, according to Dr. Cosgrove, contribute to  40% of premature deaths in this country, 70% of chronic diseases such as heart disease, and accounts for 75% of the nation's total health care.

Thus, the American public was led astray down the faux Obama Care path: it did not resolve any of the health care issues facing the country despite the ravings of Democrats. But we knew this back in 2010 when we predicted exactly what would happen if Obama Care passed:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/search?q=Cleveland+clinic

Which brings us full  circle back to the above hypothesis: were politicians of that timeframe too stupid to know they were not going to resolve anything or did they know but thought we were too stupid to question their assertions?

2)The Trump administration raised some hackles, mostly with liberals and Democrats, several months ago when they asserted that pain reliever Tylenol may have negative impacts if taken by pregnant women, specifically that there might be a link between  Tylenol consumption during pregnancy and autism. However, it appears that various government people and politicians actually  knew for a long  time that there was at least a hazy connection between using Tylenol and causing autism:

  • Apparently, the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had in its possession scientific reviews from 2016, 2019 and 2022 along with two memos from two different divisions within the FDA that warned of a possible link between Tylenol, pregnancy, and autism.

  • None of this information was shared with the public or doctors, specifically pregnant Americans regarding the potential danger of taking Tylenol.

  • In late 2016, FDA senior medical  officer, Adrew Mosholder, finished his review of eight studies, with seven showing at least an association between Tylenol like products and attention deficits, delayed motor skill development, and autistic behaviors.

  • He recommended that the FDA issue a warning that Tylenol should be used rarely if at all  given that there was possibly some kind of link between usage and autism, a recommendation that was not heeded.

We could go on with further examples over time when the FDA lied about what might be going on with Tylenol but took no action but you get the idea: the government  sat on information that may have negatively impacted an untold number of American families. By lying in this case, we are assuming not telling the truth or sharing available information is the same as lying. 

The complete history of this negligence can be found at the following link:

https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/21/fda-stayed-silent-potential-tylenol-risks-internal-reports/


3)Let’s stay in the medical field for this classic quote dropped on the American  public by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s lead point man  on the covid epidemic:

“When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community. In other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that’s when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community.”

Let’s be honest, it did not quite work out that way:

  • I had the first two vaccination doses and still  got covid … twice.

  • My wife got the first two vaccinations and booster shots and got covid.

  • A good friend of mine got the first two vaccinations and all of the booster shots and caught covid four times.

  • I could go on and on about my personal experiences with friends and family that got the vaccines and boosters and still got the virus.

I would bet anyone reading this also can tell stories of how the Fauci promise above was either wrong, a trait you do not want in a person in charge of the nation’s health, or he was lying, knowing full well  that the vaccine was basically useless for everyone except drug companies that got rich on taxpayer wealth.

4)On last example for today:

  • I have  lived in Florida for twenty years and have had my share of hurricanes.

  • During that time, I and millions of others were constantly told by politicians and  government  scientists and agencies that global  warming would make those hurricanes more frequent, more intense, and more  destructive unless we surrendered trillions of tax dollars and personal freedom to prevent the impending weather disasters.

  • People like Al Gore got even more famous and wealthier by predicting that dire climate changes will  increase the  severity of hurricanes and other bad weather.

  • Barack Obama agreed to a multi-national climate agreement that was created at a Paris climate summit during his term to combat the growing threat of catastrophic weather and its increasing frequency, all of which would require American taxpayers to pay more for every type of energy.

But guess what: in 2025, two decades after  Hurricane Katrina kicked off a hand-wringing epidemic  across the country by global warming advocates, my state of Florida experienced absolutely no hurricanes this year. No hurricanes, no tropical depressions, no tropical  storms ... nothing. And it was not like we had any near misses either. No weather disruptions at all.

Which brings us back to the old question: did politicians and other government officials really believe that we were headed for climate disaster when they asked to  control  our lives and wealth in the name of global warming or did they just want to control  our lives and think we were too stupid to understand they were leading us on?

Which brings us full circle to the reality that government officials and politicians are wrong or lying more often than they are right or telling the truth. In the meantime, our taxes, our lives and our futures can change  dramatically for the wrong reason: did these folks actually believe the information they were espousing or did they think we were too stupid to understand they were lying?

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Friday, November 15, 2024

November, 2024, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: FEMA Hates Trump Fans, Kamala Spends Big and Loses Big, Hochul Hates Half of Her Citizens and More

 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)One would hope that government bureaucrats would treat every American taxpayer the same, providing top notch services in their area of expertise. Unfortunately, when talking about the Federal government, fairness is not always the way he government and its employees operator:


  • As we all know, several states in the southeast portion of the country, Florida, Georgia, and  North Carolina suffered from two very strong hurricanes in the past month or so.

  • As a result, the Federal government’s FEMA organization was sent to these states to help those that had lost their homes, their possessions, and in some cases, their lives, as a result of the violence from the hurricanes.

  • Initially, it appeared that a local FEMA supervisor on the effort, ordered her staff not to visit any hurricane damaged home that had a “Trump For President” sign or flag displayed on their property.

  • Obviously, this is an obnoxious abuse of taxpayer wealth, government employees treating American citizens differently simply based on their political preferences.

  • FEMA upper management went into damage control  mode when word got out about this local supervisor’s actions and quite quickly fired her and apologized.

  • But the story gets better since the fired supervisor, Marn’i Washignton, did not go quietly into the night.

  • She went public and accused her immediate and upper management of FEMA of installing this policy not just in her region of Florida but in other areas both in Florida and other states.

  • The actual directive found within FEMA’s communications, the actual Trump fan skipping order was “Trump sign, no contact per leadership.”


Pretty disgusting government action, regardless if it was a single rogue local  supervisor or the order was coming from higher ups in FEMA management. Imagine you were an average American citizen and taxpayer whose life was just turned upside down from a hurricane, a citizen who just so happened to support Trump: the Federal entity responsible for helping victims of natural disasters, skips your house and situation because they do  not like the political sign or flag on your property. Another government fail, just one of many that occur everyday.

 

2)We have never had a high opinion of the vast majority of people in the American political class. They have denigrated our political processes into a very expensive waste of political campaign spending, an obscene amount of money being spent to get into  elected office.  And apparently Kamala Harris has taken this wasteful spending facet to epic heights:


  • Her campaign spent an  amazing $1,000,000,000 in three short months from the time she became the party’s candidate until election day.

  • Not only did she spend $1 billion but she overran her budget by about $20 million and owes that amount to any number of vendors and businesses.

  • She paid Oprah Winfrey’s company, Harpo Productions, an astounding $1 million for setting up a songle town hall meeting between Oprah and Kamala.

  • Oprah has claimed that she did not receive a single penny from the Harris campaign but still, her production company got $1 million for setting up one meeting, a ridiculous amount of money for such a task.

  • The campaign also paid out millions of dollars for liberal minded musicians to hold get out the vote concerts, investments that obviously did not work since Harris got slammed on  election day.


Obviously this is not my money and she and her campaign managers can spend their campaign donations anyway they want. The bigger picture is how money infested our politics have become: one billion dollars spent in three months for a losing cause. 


Just as an aside: 


  • Those one billion dollars could have been used for about 340,000,000 meals for homeless Americans.

  • There are about 600,000 homeless Americans in the country today.

  • Those 340,000,000 meals could have provided about 560 meals for each homeless American,

  • Thus, those one billion dollars could have theoretically fed every homeless American three meals a day for six months.


That is how screwed up the political class priorities are today.


3)We have often discussed the horror that has happened as a result of Biden’s failed immigration policies, failed policies that  have resulted in criminal, gang, and drug cartel people flooding into the country  over the southern border. This flood has resulted in violent actions of murder, rape and robberies being perpetrated against innocent Americans.


But apparently, the horror of his failed immigration policies are not confined to the southern border;


  • Border Patrol Agent in Vermont, Erik Lavallee, recently told reporters that human smuggling of illegal immigrants along the northern border is still rampant and steady.

  • While 7,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended at the northern border in 2023, over 19,000 were apprehended in fiscal 2024.

  • Lavallee told CBS news: "We have multiple identified transnational criminal organizations that are transporting people away from the border." 

  • He cited a specific example where Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a terrorist Pakistani living in Canada, had reached out to a smuggling organization to smuggle him into our country, an effort that fortunately resulted in his arrest.

  • He is one of over 300 suspected terrorists on the terrorism watch list that were arrested at the northern border in 2024.

  • The obvious question is if over 300 suspected terrorists were arrested at the northern border, how many suspected terrorists actually made it into the country?

  • Other illegal  immigration problems at the northern border include the smuggling of weapons, flora and fauna, and gang members into the country.


Thus, Biden’s  failed border security failures are not confined to the southern border.

4)Every American is entitled to their opinion on every subject under the sun including their political leanings and affiliations. This has made the country home to the freest citizens in the history of humanity. But apparently this principle of freedom has not gotten through to the New York Governor Kathy Hochul:


  • Hochul, speaking on an MSNBC show, said that voting for Republicans, especially in her home state of New York, is un-American.

  • Specifically: “It gave me a chance to tie the Republicans running in these seats, the incumbents, closer to Donald Trump, remind everybody, if you’re voting for these Republicans in New York, you are voting for someone who supports Donald Trump and you’re anti-woman, you’re anti-abortion, and basically you’re anti-American.”


A pretty disgusting summation of half  of the citizens living in her state. Disagree with my views, then you are un-American. Disagree with me then you are anti-woman. She is supposed to represent ALL of the citizens in her state, regardless of their political leanings. 


She should be a model of hope and fairness, trying to unite her citizens so that solutions can be found to resolve the issues facing her constituents. Instead, she demeans, debases, and insults her citizens. Such a hateful person to be in such a powerful position, her attitude will not help resolve any problems in the state and eventually will result in citizens leaving for places where they can freely express their opinions without being called un-American or anti-woman.


That will do it for today: a  politician who hates half of her citizens, Biden’s immigration policy failures not limited to the southern border, Harris spends big but still loses big, and FEMA discriminates against American taxpayers based solely on their political views.


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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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