July, 2020, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: Getting Out Of Seattle, The Death Spiral That Is Minneapolis, and The Disgrace That Joe Biden Is a Presidential Candidate

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 despicable and unnecessary murder of George Floyd resulted in not only peaceful racial equality demonstrations across the country but also violent and destructive riots that were not associated with the demonstration but which used the demonstrations as a reason to go wild. Unfortunately, the local politicians in many cities were unable to control the violence, looting and attacks on businesses, civilians and police officers.

As a result of the politicians’ failures, many people, businesses, and police officers are abandoning those cities for safety and better lives or are taking their frustration and anger out on those failed local politicians, as we see in Seattle:

• Seattle was the scene of not only violent riots but the taking over of six city blocks by anarchists, an act of insurrection that Seattle politicians led go on for weeks.
• This seizing of downtown Seattle real estate created a zone of violence and unsafe conditions that politicians were afraid to act on, leaving businesses and law abiding citizens in the middle of a lawless and dangerous position.
• As a result, one of the largest businesses in Seattle, Smead Capital Management, a large city investment firm, is leaving Seattle and heading to more peaceful, lawful Phoenix, Arizona.
• They attributed the move to the unrest and unpredictability of living in Seattle from a lawlessness perspective.
• The company also pointed out that the high minimum wage in the city, double the national minimum wage and the difficulty recruiting talent to the Seattle area, a reality that will likely get worse given the failure of the city’s politicians to control the anarchy, were also factors in the move.
• Specifically, Mr. Smead said a reason for the move is “what the business community [in Seattle] is going to come back to, and what kind of businesses are going to come back for customers.”
• According to Mr. Smead, moving out of Seattle to Phoenix was attractive because “my colleagues [in Phoenix] can pick the socio-economic rung of life that they want … live their lives, build their households and have a family if they’d like.” 
• Whereas in Seattle, “where we’re coming from just wasn’t like that.”
• Mr. Smead went on to say that his business will not be the only or the last business leaving the area since he was “hearing rumors of 40-story buildings that will only be 20-percent occupied by October.”

Nice going Seattle politicians. Not only did you abdicate control of a large swath of your city to criminals, anarchists, and hangers-on, you tainted your city’s reputation so much that productive citizens and businesses are leaving the city for safer and better opportunities elsewhere, places where people do not have to worry if their neighborhood is going to be taken over and placed under siege.

2) Minneapolis was the center of the George Floyd peaceful demonstrations and also the epicenter of the violent riots that shook the city with looting, arson, and attacks on citizens and police officers. We have already discussed the reality that one company Sigma-7, a small city manufacturer, was taking its business and employment opportunities to another city after it was burned down in the riots.

But given how unsupportive and critical city politicians were of ALL Minneapolis police officers, not just the corrupt few that murdered George Floyd, not surprisingly many city police officers are saying goodbye:

• According to Minneapolis police officials, "At least seven Minneapolis police officers have resigned from the department since widespread unrest began over the death of George Floyd last month, and more than half a dozen are in the process of leaving.”
• Apparently this is a much higher attrition rate than what happens in normal times.
• But this should not be a surprise since the entire department has been under siege by the city’s politicians who have vowed to dismantle the entire police department and replace it with something else, with that something else totally undefined.
• Those that have not yet resigned are suffering low morale having been associated with those that murdered George Floyd, attacks by the city’s politicians, being attacked with bricks, other projectiles, and cursing by the rioters, and threats that their department will be dissolved.
• Given the uncertain fate and the constant attacks from all sides, it is no wonder that morale is low and attrition is high.

The fact is not that there are problems in the city that need to be fixed including many associated with the police department. The sad part is that the grandstanding by local politicians who have NO solutions for those problems is the real tragedy. 

And since they have no solutions, they revert back to their primal political instincts, blame others, in this case the police department, even though they were in charge of that same police department as they are in charge of every other city function, from road repair to garbage collection.

I believe that Minneapolis is now in a death spiral from an economic and quality of life perspective. The low morale police force will be slower and more cautious in responding to real crime which will lead to higher crime and violence rates which will scare off more productive citizens and businesses which will reduce the tax base which will shrink whatever police force that is left, etc., etc. And the death spiral continues all because city politicians could not fix a police problem in the first place and then blamed others for their failures.

3) Readers of this blog know that we are not a big fan of Joe Biden for a number of reasons, reasons we have pointed out many times:

• He has a long history of fondling women and young girls without their permission including an alleged sexual assault on at least one woman, Tara Reade.
• He has a long history of racist remarks and attitudes stretching back from decades ago to today.
• He has a long history of lying about his past and his accomplishments, neither of which have had redeeming social value.
• He has a history of enriching himself and his family, brothers and sons, by leveraging his government positions to the financial benefit of his family.
• It now appears that he was at the center of a coordinated coup attempt by Obama, himself, and high ranking members of the FBI and the Justice Department to prevent and then cancel the election of Donald Trump.
• Through no fault of his own, I believe he is in the stages of significant cognitive decline for whatever reasons and that by putting him under the strain and stress of running for President, his family, his friends, and his party are committing elder abuse.

Given all of these reasons why he should not be President, we add the following reason:

• Joe Biden founded a cancer research institute in 2017.
• Since then, the institute has raised millions of dollars in the name of cancer research.
• But news reports indicate that most of those millions never made their way to the actual cancer research process.
• Almost two thirds of the millions raised since 2017 was spent on staff salaries and six figure salaries for the executives of the Biden Cancer Initiative.
• IRS tax returns show that the organization raised and spent $4.8 million in 2017 and 2018.
• Over $3 million of that went to salary, compensation, and employee benefits.
• Of the remaining $1.7 million, $740,000 was spent on conferences, conventions, and meetings.
• Simple math would tell us that less than $1 million actually may have found its way to actual cancer research, just over a measly 20% of the total raised.

Much like Hillary Clinton used the Clinton Foundation to launder money for her family’s financial benefit under the guise of a “charity,” it looks like Joe Biden has figured out the scheme also. But this should not surprise us as Biden has used his government position to enrich many members of his family, especially his son Hunter, by providing his family access and air cover to shady dealings from the Ukraine to China. Corrupt, a sexual predator, a racist past, and a confirmed liar, great Presidential candidate material.

Political lack of will in Seattle, an urban death spiral in Minneapolis, and the national disgrace that Joe Biden is an actual Presidential candidate.

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September, 2019, Part 8,Political Class Insanity: Biden Lies, Sanders Lies, and More Lies

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) We are starting to get tired about always including a Joe Biden screw up in these posts but they just keep on coming. But this is a person who wants to be President of the United States and he can not help saying, doing, or thinking something wrong, stupid, or false. Consider his latest screwup:

• Biden recently had a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
• An immigrant from the South American country of Guyana asked Biden what Biden would do to make sure that America was still a good place for immigrants to come to.
• And this is where he had another of his vintage gaffes, mistaking the South American country of this gentleman, Guyana, with a country across the Atlantic Ocean in Africa: “I’ve been to Ghana. I’ve been all through Africa.” 

Sorry, Joe, two different countries, two different continents. As we have said before, everyone in life is entitled to a mistake or two. However, with this Presidential candidate, the mistakes outweigh the truths that come out of his mouth. Consider several other recent mistakes that Biden has stepped into, most of which happened during his presence in the recent Democratic debates:

• Biden referred to himself as a Congressman even though he had never served in the House of Representatives, he has only been a Senator and a Vice President: “I’ve been involved from the beginning, as a young congressman — councilman, I introduced legislation to try to keep them from putting a sewer plan in a poor neighborhood.” Although the Senate is considered to be a part of Congress, no Senator ever refers to as himself or herself as a “Congressman.” As a side note, why does putting a sewer line into a neighborhood have a relevance to a national Presidential debate?
• Biden incorrectly referred to his opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders, as President in that debate: “If you notice, nobody’s yet said how much it’s going to cost the taxpayer. I hear this, large savings, the president….My friend from Vermont thinks that the employer is going to give back if you negotiate as a union all these years, got a cut in wages because you got insurance.”
• In a truly bizarre statement, Biden discussed how important it was for poor parents to play their record players so that their poor kids could improve their vocabulary: “Play the radio, make sure the television, excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night. Make sure that kids hear words, a kid coming from a very poor school, a very poor background will hear four million words fewer spoken by the time we get there.” Talk about being out of touch, I doubt you could even buy a “record player” on Ebay these days never mind actually owning records you could play for your kids.
• In a truly scary and idiotic statement, Biden stated that no one should ever go to jail for a non-violent crime: “When we were in the White House, we released 36,000 people from the federal prison system. Nobody should be in jail for a drug problem.” So in this scenario,white collar criminals like a Bernie Madoff, a person who ruined the financial lives of untold numbers of investors, would not get jail time. Pimps of prostitutes, as long as they were not violent, would never go to jail. Politicians who robbed taxpayer wealth would never go to jail which would certainly clear out the jails in the state of Illinois, given how many former governors of that state are in prison. What a stupid idea.
• In an outright lie, Biden claimed that the Obama administration did not place illegal immigrants in “cages: “What Latinos should look at, comparing this president to the president we have is outrageous, number one. We didn’t lock people up in cages, we didn’t separate families.” All of which is false, Obama’s Department of Homeland Security did separate kids at the border from their parents and detained them in areas sectioned off by metal fences.

As always, tough to tell if Biden actually believes these lies or thinks we are too stupid to recognize the falsehoods that they are. But he is no different than the rest of the political class, actually believing their own lies and/or assuming we are too stupid to question their lies.

3) But Biden is not alone in trying to convince us that the lies they tell are correct. Consider a few lies from the latest Democratic debate:

- Bernie Sanders stated that, “We have the highest child poverty rate of almost any country on Earth.” Uh, no we don’t. First of all, poverty is a relative term. A person working at a minimum wage job in America is considered living in poverty here but would be rich in some African countries. Plus, if we use real data vs. fake Sanders data, even then he is lying. The latest child poverty report from the Economic Cooperation Development organization shows that poor children in this country are far better off relative to poverty than kids in Russia, Chile, Spain, India, Turkey, Israel, Costa Rica, Brazil, South Africa, China, and other countries.

- As mentioned above, during this debate Biden said that, “We didn’t lock people up in cages, we didn’t separate families.” These infamous “cages.” chain-link enclosures ICE facilities where illegal immigrants are temporarily housed, were built and used by the Obama administration. 

- Sanders had another lie during the debates, stating that, “Every study done shows that ‘Medicare for All’ is the most cost-effective approach to providing health care to every man, woman and child in this country.” The Congressional Budget Office says that may or may not be true depending on the details of the plan. The Rand corporation says Medicare For All will increase medical costs as does the Mercatus Center.

- Kamala Harris got into the lying act also: “The only reason he has not been indicted is because there was a memo in the Department of Justice that says a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime.” But not according to Robert Mueller, who in his 440 page report and Congressional testimony on Russian meddling in the 2016 election said that this was not the situation. Specifically, Mueller told Congress that his team never gave consideration to charge Trump with any crimes.

Lies, falsehoods, and no integrity, these are the types of people that want to be President. Insane….but not unexpected.

4) Lying is not the only bad attribute of American politicians. Before we get into another bad trait of politicians, consider a few realities:

• Members of Congress are paid over $170,000 a year.
• This is about three times bigger than the average American household income.
• American taxpayers subsidize 75% of the health insurance premiums that members of Congress pay.

Now consider the greed, the ignorance of a member of Congress relative to how good she has it relative to health insurance costs vs. the struggles of common American families. The Washington Free Beacon recently reported that Congresswoman Cindy Axne was complaining to some of her voters that she does not get “good insurance": “You really don’t want what I have, because I don’t get good insurance. It’s okay insurance. Just so you know, congresspeople, we have to purchase from the ACA [Affordable Care Act], we purchase from the network.”

You “have to purchase” insurance from the Obama Care set of policies, “have to”? Are you kidding me, you are the people that passed the law that made you, and millions of other Americans, “have to purchase” an Obama Care policy. You don’t get “good insurance”? But it is the same insurance that millions of other Americans “have to purchase.” And millions of other Americans do not get their Obama Care insurance subsidized to the tune of 75% despite you earning three times the income of a typical American family.

Congresswoman, you are so out of touch with the rest of America. Overpaid, under performing and still complaining that you are getting the short end of the deal. Millions of American would love to have the deal you have, a deal you and your Democratic peers and President imposed on the entire country but without the 75%subsidy that you get.

Lies, greed, and out of touch with reality and the rest of America, horrible, horrible combination.

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