February, 2016, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: A Greedy Politician, Needy Millenialls, and Obama's Lies In One Place

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.

So let’s get started with the latest insanity:

1) The following discussion is not new insanity as much as a review of the insanity of lies from the first seven years of the Obama administration. We have reviewed just about every of the following lies listed under the Obama administration but it is nice and convenient to see most of the lies, deceptions, and failures in one list.  
For a look at the most recent writings we did on the failures of this Presidency, go to:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-obama-era-part-1-memories-from.html

Starting on that day and the subsequent days to that post, you will find a total compilation of the lies, failures, embarrassments, and law breaking of the Obama administration. Today, we provide a short summary of those Presidential disasters in the context of other Presidential lies from other Presidents, most of which come from to us courtesy of Point News with some additions by myself:

Famous Presidential Lies Contest

Written by To The Point News

LBJ: None of our boys will die on foreign soil.

Nixon: I am not a crook.

GHW Bush: Read my lips - No New Taxes.

Clinton: I did not have sex with that woman... Miss Lewinski.

GW Bush: Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

Obama:

1. I will have the most transparent administration in history.
2. The stimulus will fund shovel-ready jobs.
3. I am focused like a laser on creating jobs.
4. If my economic stimulus plan is enacted, unemployment will not exceed 8%.
5. The IRS is not targeting anyone.
6. Only those in the Cininnati office of the IRS were targeting.
7. Benghazi was a spontaneous riot about a video, not a pre-planned terrorist attack.
8. I will put an end to the type of politics that "breeds division, conflict and cynicism".
9. You didn't build that!
10. I will restore trust in Government.
11. The Cambridge cops acted stupidly.
12. The public will have 5 days to look at every bill that lands on my desk.
13. It's not my red line - it is the world's red line.
14. Whistle blowers will be protected in my administration.
15. We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks and auto companies, with interest.
16. I am not spying on American citizens.
17. Obama Care will be good for America.
18. The Obama Care negotiations will be broadcast on C-SPAN for the country to see.
19. You can keep your family doctor under Obama Care.
20. You can keep your current hospital under Obama Care.
21. Annual family health care insurance premiums will be lowered up to $2500 under Obama Care.
22. If you like it, you can keep your current healthcare plan under Obama Care.
23. Getting an Obama Care insurance policy will be as simple as shopping at Amazon.
24. I knew nothing about "Fast and Furious" gunrunning to Mexican drug cartels.
25. I knew nothing about IRS targeting conservative groups.
26. I knew nothing about what happened in Benghazi.
27. I have never known my uncle from Kenya who is in the country illegally and that was arrested and told to leave the country over 20 years ago.
28. And, I have never lived with that uncle. He finally admitted (12-05-2013) that he DID know his uncle and that he DID live with him.
29. If elected I promise not to renew the Patriot Act.
30. If elected I will end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan within the 1st 9 months of my term.
31. I will close Guantanamo within the first 6 months of my term.
32. I will bridge the gap between black and white and between America and other countries.
33. I will go through the Federal budget line by line to weed out wasteful spending.
34. If elected President, I will devote every waking moment to serving America and not take vacations or any leisure time for myself.
35. I will cut the Federal deficit in by the end of my first term.
36. I will follow the Constitution and not issue a lot of executive orders like my predecessor did.

And the biggest one of all:

"I, Barrack Hussein Obama, pledge to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America."

Was ever such insanely and useless bill of goods ever sold to the American public?

2) One of the truisms about America over the centuries was that, in general, every generation of Americans enjoyed a higher standard of living than their parents. The freedom and liberties enjoyed by Americans over time allowed them, the country and its economy to reach its full potential, increasing the economic lot and lifestyles of the majority of Americans. This was called the “American Dream” and for most people over time in this country, and the people from around the world that wanted to come here, it was the reality.

Unfortunately, Sam Rolley, writing for the Personal Liberty website on January 18, 2016, told us how “Broke Millennials Are Giving Up On The American Dream:”

• According to a New York Times report in 2015, the U.S. millennial population, those born between 1981 and 1997, will soon be the largest population sub-segment in the country, bypassing the Baby Boomer generation.
• But this new super segment of population will be far worse off economically than the Baby Boomer segment since according to a report from the Generation Opportunity organization, “2016 State of the Millennial Report,” high unemployment and underemployment coupled with high student loans will make the American Dream a myth for many of them.
• In fact, 48% of those surveyed currently claim that the American Dream is already dead for them.
• The millennial unemployment rate of 8% is more than twice the unemployment rate for workers aged 30 and older which stands at 3.7%.
• Already 1.8 million millennials have actually stopped looking for work out of frustration, putting their labor participation rate at 71%, lower than it has ever been for that age group.
• From the report: “For the young adults who have been able to find work, 40 percent are underemployed, either working part-time jobs, contract jobs, or one-time gigs. While Millennials have a strong desire to start businesses, only 3.6 percent of Americans under the age of 30 own or have a stake in a private businesses compared to 10.6 percent in 1989.”
• The number of Americans aged 18 to 29 who currently are earning less than $25,000 a year is higher than in the 1990s.
• The student loan burden in the face of low wages and high unemployment averages about $35,000 per person.
• In 1979, 8% of Baby Boomers were living in poverty while in 2013, years after the recession ended, the percentage of Millennials living in poverty was double that rate, 16%.
• These horrid economic conditions are causing societal changes with marriage, home ownership, and raising kids being delayed and delayed.

According to the Generation opportunity report, the best thing that governments and politicians can do to improve the lot of Millennials would be to do is to cut down on regulations and red tape which stifle the economy and entrepreneurial opportunities: “Young people are losing faith in the American Dream,” said David Barnes, policy director of Generation Opportunity. “It’s time for real reforms that allow us to unleash our potential and create a better society for ourselves and future generations. In order for that to happen, we need to stand up and let policy makers know that this is unacceptable.”

For well over two hundred years, the American Dream was alive and well and thriving. But now incompetence, economic ignorance, over regulation (especially during the Obama regime), ever increasing taxes, crony capitalism, and general ineptness and selfishness on behalf of our current crop of politicians is somehow doing the impossible: killing the American Dream and the futures of America’s next generation. Insanity.

3) During the destruction of the American Dream for Millennials, Harry Reid was not only a senior member of the Senate but was the Senate Majority leader for a long time. Thus, if anyone can be blamed for the policies and incompetence of the Federal government and the politicians that operate it and its policies, he has to be close to the head of the class.

But you have to give Harry credit. Despite being part of the problem, according to one Federal Election Commission (FEC) commissioner, Reid has asked the FEC to allow him to use a “slush fund” to help him retire. According to Joe Schaeffer writing for NewsMax on January 4, 2016, Reid has asked the FEC to create a special exemption just for him that would allow him to spend $600,000 of unspent camping and PAC funds on personal matters after he retires from the Senate at the end of his current term.

According to the Washington Examiner, FEC Commissioner Lee E. Goodman labeled the funds an "administrative slush fund" as the extraordinary request was made. Reid wants to use the so-called slush fund "to close out his offices and aid his shift to becoming a former public official still intent on influencing the nation's agenda." He also wants money to hire a personal assistant to "schedule and organize appearances in which Senator Reid will discuss his tenure in office." I am assuming that he would be paid for those appearances.

FEC Commissioner Goodman told the Washington Examiner that "This issue of personal use vexes us." In other words, what the heck is this nonsense? I would bet that most, if not all, of the people who contributed to Reid’s political campaigns never expected the excess to be used in a slush fund to further enrich Reid once he left office. 

Thus, even in retirement, American politicians continue to suck money out of their government service. As always, their priorities are their well being and self enrichment and not the health and liberties of the American they are supposed to serve.

Enough insanity for today. A typical greedy politician, needy millennials, and a comprehensive list of Obama lies all in one place. Another insanity review tomorrow.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:

Term Limits Now: http://www.howmuchworsecoulditget.com
http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

Why Today's Democratic Politicians Suck - Part 1

Before my liberal and Democratic friends and readers go crazy about the title of this post, take a breath and read the following realities:

• I am over 60 years old and have never voted for a Republican for President in my life.
• Up until 2010, I had never voted for a Republican for national office in my life.
• I wrote and published my book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government," based on my disgust and frustrations with the Bush administration.
• Thus, I am not a diehard, or even lukewarm, Republican, conservative, or neocon.

I also have great respect for the accomplishments of previous Democratic Presidents:

• Democrat FDR led the country through the worse economic downturn in our history in addition to leading the country through the second World War and eventual victory over the Nazis and Japanese.
• Democrat Harry Truman  finished up the work of FDR by successfully bringing the war to a close and leading the country into a prosperous post war economy.
• Democrat John Kennedy energized the country with his youth, vision, and energy and prevented the next world war by leading the country through the Cuban missile crisis.
• Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson guided the country into a new age of racial equality by leading the country with the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts.

The commonality of these Democrats is that they all had leadership skills that applied to ALL Americans and just not their voting blocs or political supporters and financiers. There are none of that leadership traits or skills with today's Democrats, a hypothesis we intend to prove over the next two days. 

Today, we will re-present the dozens of examples of Democrats dividing the country vs. leading and uniting the country that we have discussed in previous blogs. These examples are not pretty. Democratic politicians today call their political opponents or anyone who dares to disagree with their views a whole host of childish and obscene names and then wonder why those people have hard feelings against them. 

This is not leadership, this is rank immaturity on the part of the Washington political class, especially Democrats, that has never been experienced in this country before. It divides the country, decimates freedoms, and reduces the quality of life of every American.

And the most immature, leadership deficient politician today is President Obama. As we go through the obscenities and insults that people in his party and his supporters have said to slander and demean other Americans, keep in mind that at no time did this President speak up and object to the vilification of these Americans. By remaining silent, he condoned and encouraged the verbal attacks, attacks that divide the country to no one's benefit.

So decide for yourself. Do the following Democratic quotes foster understanding, joint resolution of problems, and the celebration of diversity within our society or are they blatant attempts to slander and demean political opponents in the most crass and despicable manner:

• Democrat Speaker Of The House Nancy Pelosi called citizen opponents to Obama Care unpatriotic for simply having a difference of opinion with many politicians in Washington.
• Democrat Charles Rangel slandered millions of Americans who opposed Obama Care by calling them racists for simply having an honest difference of opinion with many politicians in Washington.
• Democrat Shelia Jordan Lee slandered millions of Americans who opposed Obama Care by associating them with the Ku Klux Klan.
• Union boss and Democratic supporter Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. stated that his union was at war with the Republicans and Tea Party citizens and that these people "need to be taken out."
• Democratic Congressmen Mike Doyle and Henry Waxman and Democratic Vice President Joe Biden slandered American citizens opposed to unfettered and destructive government spending and debt by calling them terrorists (those people that bomb and kill innocent civilians).
• When ordinary Americans objected to the building of an Islamic mosque near the World Trade Center property because of the sad memories of 9-11, Democrat Nancy Pelosi said THEY should be investigated for simply having a passionate opinion on the mosque.
• Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Walters said all Tea Party American citizens can go to hell simply for having a difference of opinion with her.
• The campaign manager of Democrat’s Gerry Brown’s gubernatorial campaign called his Republican opponent, Meg Whitman, a whore.
• Democratic White House czar Van Jones publicly called all Republicans a**h****s.
• Democrat Alan Grayson called all Republicans knuckle dragging Neanderthals.
• Liberal TV host Montel Williams publicly hoped that Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachman would commit suicide by decapitating herself.
• Ed Schultz, an on air commentator for the Democratic enforcers at the MSNBC news channel, called Laura Ingraham of Fox News a slut.
• Liberal HBO TV host Bill Maher, a major donor to Obama’s 2012 Presidential Super PAC (a $1 million donor), said on air that Republican Sarah Palin “would f*** Rick Perry if he was black.”
• Liberal Bill Maher called Republican Sarah Palin disgusting and derogatory body part names that I will not repeat here
• Playboy magazine’s online website offered a detailed analysis on why and how each of ten Republican women in politics should be hate raped.
• Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen likened Republican critics of Obama Care to the Nazis and their propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
• A liberal rap artist gave a Minnesota concert that was billed as the “F*** Michelle Bachman” concert (spelling out the entire f-word), a Republican Congresswoman from Minnesota.
• A Democratic operative insulted Ann Romney, and millions of other American women, by slandering and demeaning her as a stay at home mother.
• Martin Bashier of MSNBC News showed a video of Mitt Romney’s campaign bus that was interspersed with video clips of buses blowing up in balls of fire, explicitly wishing that the Romney bus also blow up and those inside die a fiery death.
• Liberal Professor Richard Parncutt of the University of Graz wants to execute other human beings that are global warming deniers for simply having a different opinion than his.
• Liberal newspaper columnist Donald Kaul wrote an article for the Des Moines Register where he called for the killing of gun owners and “dragging legislators who disagree with gun control behind pickup trucks until they get the message.”
• Liberal Erik Loomis, PhD, assistant professor of history at the University of Rhode Island decided that he wanted the death of National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre, branding the gun rights group he heads as a terrorist organization: "[I] want Wayne LaPierre's head on a stick."
• Liberal Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers’ Union had some violent rhetoric of her own to share: “Do not think for a minute that the wealthy are ever going to allow you to legislate their riches away from them. Please understand that. However, we are in a moment where the wealth disparity in this country is very reminiscent of the robber baron ages. The labor leaders of that time, though, were ready to kill. They were. They were just – off with their heads. They were seriously talking about that.”
• Liberal Elizabeth Ashack, an economist at the Department of Labor, thinks that all Christians are Nazis.
• Democratic Indiana state representative Vanessa Summers publicly stated that a fellow legislator’s 18 month old son is a racist.
• If you believe the reality of the sad state of the Social Security Administration’s dire financial straits, you are a liar according to liberal leaning U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.
• Republican Senators are too stupid to understand the multi-syllable words I am using, according to Democratic White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest.
• All men should die or get f**ked, according to Democratic activist Sarah Noble.

I am not saying that Obama should have responded to all of these degradations. However, it would be nice if once in a while he would publicly reprimand a liberal or fellow Democrat for calling other Americans a**h***s, Neanderthals, terrorists, racists, Nazis, etc. Also, he certainly cannot claim he is working hard for all of the women in the country when he allows half of them, those with a differing political view, to be called sluts, whores, worthy of hate rapes, and other terms too graphic too repeat here.

He should be a leader, he should be setting the tone of civil political dialog, not remaining silent. He is not a leader or a defender of women's rights when he does not represent the good name and integrity of women who are not Democrats. I cannot remember any time in my life when politicians had such a low regard for law abiding American citizens of a different political stripe, a time when citizens have been so degraded by those in government and their political supporters.

Even worse, recently the President has joined into this parade of mudslinging and degradation. We will cover his entry into this morass tomorrow along with other, more recent quotes from Democrats and liberals against anyone who dares to have a difference of opinion. 

You cannot expect to have a united nation, one that attacks the current set of problems facing Americans, when one side of the political spectrum is mudslinging and cursing out the other side of the political spectrum. And when the mudslinging is led by and committed by those elected to public office, then is there any wonder why not a single major, or minor issue, has been resolved in the past decade or so? 

Democrats are no longer the leadership, trailblazing party of FDR, Truman, Kennedy, or LBJ. They are the party of haters, childish name calling and temper tantrums when they do not get their way, with their words and actions leaving the country divided and bitter.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:

Term Limits Now: http://www.howmuchworsecoulditget.com
http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w