January, 2022, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: People Flee Liberal Blue States To Find Freedom Elsewhere

 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) We have always asserted that a very, very basic desire of humanity is to be free: free from government overreach, free from excessive government taxation, free from government oppression, etc. And in order to keep as much of their freedom as possible, people, families, and businesses will take whatever action they need to be free.

 

One of the most oppressive states in the country is California. Their dictatorial politicians have caused the residents of California to be among the highest taxed entities in the country, have subjected residents and businesses to rampaging crime sprees, and have caused the cost of living, be it gas, utility bills, food, etc. to be among the highest in the country. As a result, the freedom thesis has taken affect big time in the state:

 

• The number of residents leaving the state are 12% higher than at the end of March, 2020.

• At the same time, the number of people moving into the state is 38% lower than at the start of the pandemic.

• Thus, the negative gap between people leaving the state vs. those moving in has continued to get wider and wider.

• The worsening gap is most prevalent in the San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties.

• The San Francisco and LA areas both lost population in the same year for the first time ever, that is how bad the out migration has become.

 

People want to be free, free from high taxes, free from crime, from high cost of living, and free from the political class that continues to suppress freedom in everyone’s life. California is now a perfect example of that thesis.

 

2) At one time, the FBI was viewed as the paragon of integrity, professionalism, and honesty. However, over the years that reputation has taken some serious hits. Spying on Americans without warrants, lying to courts to frame Trump in the fake Russian collusion lie, etc. have caused Americans to view the FBI far less favorably than historically.

 

And that reputation is about to take another hit:

• The Justice Department recently released information regarding an FBI investigation that was carried out.

• The investigation found that four FBI officials had engaged in commercial sex with prostitutes while overseas.

• A fifth FBI employee had attempted to do the same thing but I guess was not competent enough to even pick up a hooker.

• Their behavior is in direct violation of Justice Department and FBI policies.

• They also got cited for not reporting the behaviors of their fellow FBI employees as required by policy.

• One of the FBI officials were also caught lying to the Office of The Inspector General by denying he had engaged in dealing with a prostitute.

• The Inspector General investigation found that: "The OIG investigation further found that five officials failed to report contact or relationships with foreign nationals, including foreign nationals from whom they procured commercial sex, in violation of FBI policies." 

• A sixth FBI official committed misconduct by "failing to report suspected violations" through appropriate channels.

• Two of the caught officials retired, two resigned, and one was removed from his job as the investigation is still ongoing.

So much for a good use of our tax dollars, providing the opportunity for FBI officials to engage in sex with prostitutes. Of course, such behavior could have led, and may have led, to compromising those officials and subjecting them to blackmail. Your government at work. So sad that one of the few government entities that was possibly once efficient and effective has fallen so far.

 

3) But it's not just residents who are fed up with the mismanagement of the state by the California political class:

 

• Over a relatively recent period of time, Toyota, Charles Schwab, Tesla, the Daily Wire, and many other California businesses have moved major parts of their businesses out of state.

• Rich Californians including Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, and Ben Shapiro have moved out of state in search of lower tax rates and more freedom.

• Tesla decided NOT to put its electric truck factory in California, deciding instead to move this major effort to low tax, high freedom Texas.

Over regulations, out of control, control freak politicians, and high taxes have made it more and more difficult to do business in the state, so much so that companies, large and small are actively moving out of the state to more favorable business climates in other states. And the exodus continues:

• Famous celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has decided to move his restaurant headquarters out of California and relocate to Dallas, Texas.

• He plans to soon open up to 18 restaurants in cities across the country so the state of California is losing another vibrant, growing business.

• Dozens of other restaurant openings are planned over the next five years.

Thus, not only does the California political class and government lose more and more corporate/business taxes, it also loses the income, sales, and gas taxes that the current and potential future employees of these now former California workers will not be paying. Thus, California continues to be a leading candidate in our competition to see what state goes bankrupt first, with California, Illinois and New York still the leading candidate to go broke first.

4) Looks like this post is turning into the freedom exodus post as we see families and businesses, fed up with high government regulations, high taxes, high costs of living, etc. move somewhere else where they can live a better life while spending less money doing so. And while we have focused on California, New York is also doing a pretty good job in driving tax paying residents and businesses out of the state because of the same reasons people are leaving California:

• According to the U.S Census Bureau, New York state lost more residents than any other state from 2020 to 2021.

• The Bureau estimates that 319,020 residents left the state, a whopping 1.6% in just one year left the state for better living opportunities.

• This continues a multi year trend where New York state fails to keep up with other states from a population perspective.

• This population loss trend has resulted in the state actually losing a seat in the House of Representatives.

People want to be free and that includes not being taxed to death and being hassled to death by too many laws, regulations, and government bureaucrats. And they will take whatever actions necessary to get as much freedom as possible, including uprooting their families and businesses for the chance of living a freer, more vibrant life. The numbers do not lie.

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:

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Please visit the following sites for freedom:

http://www.reason.com

http://www.cato.org

http://www.openthebooks.com

http://www.conventionofstates.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

 

 

March, 2016, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: A Sampling of Government and Political Insults to the American Taxpyer and Citizens

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.

To kick off this month’s insanity, we reference a recent article on the website of the Washington Weekly News. They recently put together a hall of shame for the corruption and insults to the American taxpayer that many of the Federal government have incurred over the past couple of years. 

After going through the list, I think you will have a much better understanding of 1) why nothing ever gets successfully and efficiently accomplished by the Federal government bureaucracy, the employees involved with that useless bureaucracy and the politicians that are supposed to oversee that bureaucracy and 2) how we have gotten to a whopping national debt of $19TRILLION and have nothing to show for it.

The original article can be accessed at:

http://washingtonweeklynews.com/long-long-list-of-lies-how-corrupt-is-the-american-government-see-for-yourself/#

At that article you can click on other links that verify that the corruption that is being listed actually happened. 

Trust me, you will need a strong stomach and low blood pressure to survive the following insults to your wallets and intelligence:

Senior SEC employees and officials were caught surfing the Internet for pornography 8 hours a day on government computers during work hours rather than cracking down on financial illegalities.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission workers were also caught watching Internet pornography on the job rather than protecting us from nuclear plant accidents and meltdowns.

An EPA employee was caught after he had downloaded 7,000 computer files filled with pornography and who also spent upwards of 6 hours a day watching it. This behavior had been going on for years but he never got fired.

Another EPA official harassed at least 16 EPA female co-workers but rather than getting fired he was promoted to a higher paying job where he continued to harass female employees at his new location.

While illegally spying on ordinary Americans and shredding their Fourth Amendment rights, NSA employees passed around sex video and pictures that they had illegally collected from Americans’ computers.

NSA employees were also caught using their expensive, taxpayer funded surveillance equipment and power to spy on girlfriends, mistresses, former wives and others besides eavesdropping on the intimate conversations of overseas American soldiers and their wives back home.

A TSA employee admitted that airport agents regularly share and laugh at nude scans of airport passengers.

Another TSA employee claims that TSA airport screeners make excuses so that they can grope and fondle air travelers that they are attracted to.

The Treasury Department’s inspector general found that Treasury employees surfed erotic websites while on the job, hired prostitutes, and accepted gifts from bank executives, the very people they were supposed to be overseeing and regulating.

The Minerals Management Service, the agency supposedly in charge of protecting us from oil spills, was found to be infested with “a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity” which extended to “sex with industry contacts.”

Drug Enforcement Agency agents had dozens of sex parties with prostitutes who were hired by the drug cartels that DEA agents are supposed to be taking down.

Those same DEA agents were found to also having received money, gifts, and weapons from those same drug cartels.

DEA agents also operated a New Jersey strip club using illegal and undocumented girls, an operation that also included a prostitution operation.

Pentagon employees used government credit cards to pay for prostitutes and to gamble using taxpayer money.

The IRS promoted IRS employees who were also tax cheats or delinquents.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission employees conspired with big banks to manipulate commodities prices.

The SEC has been shredding Wall Street bank documents for decades to help big banks cover up criminal activities.

Former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner allegedly was involved in Lehman Brothers' accounting fraud.

The former chief SEC accountant claims that at least two former Treasury secretaries, Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson, broke the law.

Different government agencies (The Fed, SEC, FBI, DOJ, and others) and high ranking government officials knew about massive banking fraud long before the Great Recession hit but did nothing about it.

Paulson and Bernanke lied when the said that the big banks receiving TARP money were financially healthy but in truth, were not.

The Washington political class bailed out the banks that caused the Great Recession, sending none of the law breaking bankers to jail, but did nothing for the homeowners that ended up losing their homes as a result of big bank policies and strategies.

A high-level Federal Reserve official claims that the Fed’s quantitative easing programs were "the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time." 

Another high ranking American government official in charge of the bank bailouts claimed: “Americans should lose faith in their government. They should deplore the captured politicians and regulators who distributed tax dollars to the banks without insisting that they be accountable. The American people should be revolted by a financial system that rewards failure and protects those who drove it to the point of collapse and will undoubtedly do so again.”

The supposedly non-partisan Government Accountability Office called the Federal Reserve “corrupt and riddled with conflicts of interest.”

Congress audaciously told the courts that Congress cannot be investigated for insider trading.

Congress exempted itself from Obama Care rules even though it was illegal to do so according to the legislation.

The Federal government allegedly covered up health risk and dangers to New Orleans residents as a result of tainted water as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

The Centers For Disease Control allegedly covered up lead poisoning of children in Washington D.C.

The Obama administration went after honest whistleblowers in many cases including an FDA/GE scandal, an FBI anthrax scandal, a Dow Chemical scandal, and a Bank Of America scandal.

$8.6 TRILLION in taxpayer money allocated to the Pentagon has never been accounted for. 

The Obama administration has gone after more whistle blowers than all previous Presidential administration COMBINED.

These are just a sample of the government screw ups and insults to the American taxpayer covered in the article. Again, go to the link above to see all of the instances of insults and corruption along with the links to find the original stories. 

This should get us started on this month’s political class insanity. It just gets worse and worse every month as the Washington political class continues to undermine our liberty, financial, and economic stability right in front of our faces. Buckle up as the insanity continues over the next week or so.

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

January, 2016, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: Dozens Of Examples Government Corruption, Lies, Wasteful Spending, and Incompetence

It is the start of another month which means it is time for our monthly review of the latest political class insanity that continually spews forth from America’s politicians. Their actions, words, quotes, incompetency, and general ineptness continue to reinforce our theory that we are currently being served by the worst set of politicians in the history of the nation.

As you read about the latest shenanigans and ineptness of the political class, keep in mind what should be their priorities in these difficult times and compare this list to what they are actually working on:

• NBC recently reported that ISIS forces are getting larger and stronger despite the Obama administration spending billions of dollars on a failed air campaign and military strategy.
• The stock market is cratering.
• Job creation is barely keeping up with population growth.
• Wage growth is anemic, growing just .2% in the second quarter, the lowest quarterly growth since 1982.
• The labor participation rate is at the lowest level in decades because the Obama economy cannot generate enough jobs.
• Thousands of veterans are still not getting the medical care they were promised by the Federal government.
• 45 million Americans are still receiving monthly Federal food assistance.
• Our borders still leak and thousands of illegal immigrant criminals continue to walk our streets.
• Major programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are hurtling towards insolvency and lose hundreds of billions of dollars every year to fraud and mismanagement.
• Our kids are still getting lousy public educations at most public schools.
• The IRS and other government functions seem to be getting their computer systems hacked on a regular basis, exposing tens of millions of Americans to identity theft potential.
• Obama Care is a failure along so many dimensions as health care costs continue to soar despite the Obama promise that they would decrease.
• Annual Federal deficits, while down, are still about half a TRILLION a year meaning that even though the Federal government is collecting more in taxes than ever before, it still cannot run a balanced budget.

Again, keep these real crises in mind as you read what our politicians are actually doing, saying and wasting.

We have often made the case, and supported it with real life, verifiable examples of how the entire Federal government operation is severely broken. Nothing works, problems that are supposed to be addressed are usually worse once the Feds get involved, often the Feds not only do not solve the issue at hand but create no problems and issues,and all of this incompetence is carried out at great expense to the taxpayer with no societal benefit in return.

In previous posts in this blog we have talked about how many Federal employees have been caught watching pornography on their government computers rather than doing their job but no one ever seems to get fired. We have discussed how Las Vegas parties have been held at great expense even though most of the party attendees live and work in the D.C. area. We have reviewed how the ATF had guns and explosives stolen right from their own secure facilities.

And there is not enough time in the day to discuss how broken and dysfunctional the Veterans Administration, TSA, Medicare, and the IRS are. Stick any of these organizations in the search box above and be prepared to spend hours finding out how badly and how often these entities screw up.

Which brings us to today’s political class insanity post which was basically written by the Washington Weekly News. They recently put forth an incredible piece on their website that documented and verified the massive ineptness and insanity that currently passes for government functions and workers in D.C. today. Their original article and the links to verify that they are not making this idiocy up can be accessed at:

http://washingtonweeklynews.com/long-long-list-of-lies-how-corrupt-is-the-american-government-see-for-yourself/#

Some of the insanity they uncovered, which sometimes verifies the same incompetence and waste we have previously discussed, include the following:

 - High level SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day on pornography websites instead of cracking down on financial crimes

- Nuclear Regulatory Commission workers watched pornography on the job instead of cracking down on unsafe conditions at nuclear plants

- An EPA employee who downloaded 7,000 porn files then spent 2-6 hours each workday watching them. He’s been doing it for years but the EPA never fired him.

- Another EPA employee harassed 16 women co-workers but was promoted to a higher-paying job with more responsibility, where he harassed more women

- NSA spies pass around homemade sex videos and pictures they’ve collected from spying on the American people

- NSA employees have also been caught using their mass surveillance powers to spy on love interests, such as girl friends and former wives.

- NSA employees also eavesdropped on American soldiers’ intimate conversations with their wives back home. 

- An employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) admitted that TSA agents share and laugh at nude scans of passengers. 

- Another TSA employee claimed that screeners make excuses so they can grope and fondle travelers that they’re attracted to.

- Investigators from the Treasury's Office of the Inspector General found that some of the regulator’s employees surfed erotic websites, hired prostitutes and accepted gifts from bank executives,people that they were supposed to be overseeing and regulating.

- The Mineral Management Service was riddled with “a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity”, which included “sex with industry contacts,” all of which may explain why this Service did not see the BP oil spill coming before it happened. 

- Agents for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) had dozens of sex parties with prostitutes hired by the drug cartels they were supposed to stop.

- DEA agents also received money, gifts and weapons from drug cartel members.

- Pentagon employees used government credit cards to pay for adult "escorts" (i.e. prostitutes) and to gamble.

- North Carolina passed a law legalizing prostitutes for state lawmakers. 

- Federal agents with the DEA and Secret Service investigating Bitcoin money laundering extorted and stole over $1 million in Bitcoin

- The IRS gave promotions to employees who were themselves tax cheats. 

- Regulators knew of and allowed the use of debt-hiding accounting tricks by the big banks

- The SEC has been shredding Wall Street documents for decades to help the big banks cover up their fraud.

- The Secretary of Treasury (Tim Geithner) was complicit in Lehman's accounting fraud.

- The former chief accountant for the SEC  says that Bernanke and Paulson broke the law and should be prosecuted.

- The government knew about mortgage fraud a long time ago. For example, the FBI warned of an “epidemic” of mortgage fraud in 2004. However, the FBI, DOJ and other government agencies then stood down and did nothing. 

- Paulson and Bernanke falsely stated that the big banks receiving Tarp money were healthy when they were not. The Treasury Secretary also falsely told Congress that the bailouts would be used to dispose of toxic assets … but then used the money for something else entirely.

- Every year D.C. the politicians have bailed out large banks to the tune of many tens of billions of dollars and created a system where all of the profits were privatized and all of the risks were socialized. 

- Obama and Congress promised help for struggling homeowners, and passed numerous bills that they claimed would rescue the little guy. But every single one of these bills actually bails out the banks and do not really help the homeowner

- A high-level Federal Reserve official says quantitative easing is "the greatest backdoor Wall Street of all time."

- The American government’s top official in charge of the bank bailouts wrote, “Americans should lose faith in their government. They should deplore the captured politicians and regulators who distributed tax dollars to the banks without insisting that they be accountable. The American people should be revolted by a financial system that rewards failure and protects those who drove it to the point of collapse and will undoubtedly do so again.”

- The non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) calls the Fed corrupt and riddled with conflicts of interest

- Both the Bush and Obama administrations broke the law by refusing to close insolvent banks.

- Congress may have covered up illegal tax breaks for the big banks

- Congress recently told the courts that Congress can’t be investigated for insider trading

- Congress has exempted itself from the health care rules it insists everyone else follow.

- The government has gone to great lengths to cover up nuclear accidents, radiation dangers, and unsafe conditions at nuclear plants

- The government made sure that false claims were made about the amount of oil spilled by BP in the Gulf.
  - The government covered up the health risks to New Orleans residents associated with polluted water from hurricane Katrina, and FEMA covered up the cancer risk from the toxic trailers which it provided to refugees of the hurricane. 

- The Centers for Disease Control, the lead agency tasked with addressing disease in America, covered up lead poisoning in children in the Washington, D.C. area (the Centers for Disease Control has also been outed as receiving industry funding.

- Government scientists originally pushed fluoridation of water as “safe and effective” because fluoride is a major byproduct of making nuclear weapons… and the government ordered them to downplay the risks of fluoride exposure in order to prevent massive lawsuits by those suffering injury from poisoning

- When one of the most respected radiologists in America – the former head of the radiology department at Yale University – attempted to blow the whistle on the fact that the FDA had approved a medical device manufactured by General Electric because it put out massive amounts of radiation, the FDA installed spyware to record his private emails and surfing activities (including installing cameras to snap pictures of his screen), and then used the information to smear him and other whistle blowers

- The EPA colluded with Dow Chemical to toss aside Dow’s own safety studies showing that the Agent Orange ingredient 2,4-D caused kidney damage in rats, so it could approve an increase of 4100% of 2,4-D in the American diet.

- The Bush White House worked hard to smear CIA officers, bloggers and anyone else who criticized the Iraq war

- The FBI smeared top scientists who pointed out the numerous holes in its anthrax case. Indeed, the head of the FBI’s investigation agrees that corruption was rampant.

- After a top USDA scientist disclosed that commonly-used pesticides kill monarch butterflies and beneficial insects, the government punished him and tried to make his life miserable.

- The government has intentionally whipped up hysteria about terrorism for cynical political purposes. For example, former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge admitted that he was pressured to raise terror alerts to help the president win reelection. 

- Warmongers in the U.S. government knowingly and intentionally lied us intol a war of aggression in Iraq. The former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – the highest ranking military officer in the United States – said that the Iraq war was "based on a series of lies" The same is true in Libya, Syria, and other wars. Indeed, the U.S. has often launched or proposed launching wars based on false premises.

- The U.S. has supported main backers of Islamic terrorism because they have a lot of oil and do our government’s dirty work. In the name of fighting terrorism, the U.S. has been directly supporting Al Qaeda  and other terrorists and providing them arms, money and logistical support in Syria, Libya, Mali, Bosnia, Chechnya,Iran, and many other countries before and after 9-11. 

- Conservatives like the director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan (Lt. General William Odom) and liberals like Noam Chomsky all say that the American government is the world's largest purveyor of terrorism. 

- When the American government got caught assassinating innocent civilians, it changed its definition of “enemy combatants” to include all young men between the ages of say 15 and 35 who happen to be in battle zones. When it got busted killing kids with drones, it changed the definition again to include kids as “enemy combatants”

- U.S. government officials say that the government has long PROTECTED drug cartels.

- $8.5 trillion dollars in taxpayer money doled out by Congress to the Pentagon since 1996 ha never been accounted for. 

- Congress pushes expensive boondoggles that our generals say are unnecessary and unhelpful because it’s pork for their district

- The government lied when it said it doesn;t conduct mass surveillance on Americans and then lied again when it said that spying was aimed at protecting America against terrorists. 

- The same Congress members who backed mass surveillance against the American people have only become indignant only when they were spied on by the government

- The government also lied when it said America doesn't torture and then lied once again when it said torture was aimed at protecting America against terrorists

- The government protects criminal wrongdoing by prosecuting whistle blowers. The Obama administration has sentenced whistle blowers to dozens of times the jail time of all other Presidents COMBINED. And the government has framed whistle blowers with false evidence.

- The government treats journalists who report on government corruption as CRIMINALS OR TERRORISTS. And it goes to great lengths to smear them. For example, when USA Today reporters busted the Pentagon for illegally targeting Americans with propaganda, the Pentagon launched a smear campaign against the reporters. 

- The intelligence services blackmail people in both government and the private sector with evidence of homosexuality ,nude pictures and other information that people want to stop from going public

- Terror attacks such as 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombing and the Texas shooting all happened because of PERVASIVE CORRUPTION in our intelligence agencies.

The sad thing is that I did not include all of the corruption and ineptness that the Washington Weekly News article put forth, again, all of which can be verified by the links they embedded in the original article’s web address listed above. 

Additionally, the article did not get to all of the corruption, wasteful spending, spying, and ineptness of the political class and the government it oversees that we have previously reviewed. To review even more government incompetence, just browse through the first few posts at the beginning of each month listed above through the years. It is at the beginning of each month where we put the latest insanity from the political class.

After reviewing all of the insanity we just discussed, you will certainly reach the same conclusion that we reached and that Mark Twain reached years ago:

• Our view: We are currently served by the worst set of American politicians to ever hold office.
• Mark Twain’s view: Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Incompetent idiots, a deadly combination in Washington and around the country. More political class insanity 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

April, 2015, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: Drunk In The Secret Service, Prostitute Soliciting InThe Justice Department, Crimes In The Senate and More

Every month we do a regular series under the theme, “political class insanity.” We look at the many,many different, and often original, ways that the American political class wastes our tax dollars, undermines our freedoms, and generally act in the most idiotic ways possible, via their quotes, actions, and laws. For past examples of hundreds of instances of political class insanity, just page through the historical listings on the right side of this page at the beginning of each month or enter “political class insanity” in the search box above.

We usually do not start a new month’s insanity until the current month has ended. However, given the political class idiocy seems to be increasing, we are starting May’s insanity review a day early in order to get a little head start on what is shaping up as an epic month of insanity.

1) Eric Holder recently stepped down as Attorney General for the country. Before he did so, he found it necessary to issue a department wide edict that warned Justice Department not to solicit prostitutes: “I want to reiterate to all Department personnel, including attorneys and law enforcement officers, that they are prohibited from soliciting, procuring, or accepting commercial sex. This rule applies at all times during an individual’s employment, including while off duty or on personal leave, and applies regardless of whether the activity is legal or tolerated in a particular jurisdiction, foreign or domestic.”

The good news is that he recognized the problem and took a step to fix it. The bad is: REALLY? Soliciting prostitutes at the Justice Department is such a big problem that Holder actually had to make it clear that it is not right nor acceptable? My goodness, how long has this been a problem, why was it not curtailed long ago, and why do I feel that taxpayer money was likely and somehow involved and wasted in Justice Department employees’ pursuit of prostitutes? Pathetic morals and integrity.

2) Harry Reid is a Nevada U.S. Senator and until the last election was the Senate Majority Leader. Today I will not go into how I think,based on his actions, that he was likely one of the worst Senate Majority Leaders of all time. Today, the only Harry Reid material we will review is the possible criminal actions he took while Senate Majority Leader.

According to a recent Department Of Homeland Security inspector general report, Reid may have illegally acted on behalf of a company that is represented by his son. The alleged and potential crime is that he intervened in order to secure 230 EB-5 investor visas for the SLS Hotel and Casino project in Las Vegas. An EB-5 visa allows a foreigner to invest at least $500,000 in this country in return for a green card. Once the visas were approved, $155 million was freed up to flow into the casino project.

A watchdog group Cause of Action filed a formal charge with the Senate Ethics office in late 2013, alleging that Reid had unlawfully intervened with two officials at the U.S.Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in order to get visas processed. Previously, some of those visas had not been approved due to “suspicious financial activity” committed by those applying, i.e., USCIS had worries that some of the funds were lawfully obtained. After Reid’s intervention, all the visas were approved.

But this not the only potential Reid lawbreaking,the second one related to helping a fellow Senator help out a donor friend involving Medicare billing and Health and Human Services incident.According to reporting by Breitbart:

[Reid]…hosted a meeting between Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. At the meeting, Menendez made the case for his friend and donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, who was at the time embroiled in what was supposed to be an independent adjudicatory process at HHS involving $8.9 million the department said he overbilled Medicare.

Possibly coincidentally, Reid’s intervention came right after Melgen donated $300,000 to the Senate Majority PAC, which has close to the Nevada senator. By the end of 2012, Melgen had donated a total of $700,000 to the PAC. Yeah, just a coincident that the funding was wrapped up with a power play to fix a Medicare error or crime.

One would hope that the leaders in Washington had some integrity and respect for the law. But if these alleged crimes are true, it would just be another round of self-serving Washington politicians serving themselves,not the country or its taxpayers.

3) Hogan’s Heroes was a TV sitcom from the 60s and it had a regular character in the show called Sergeant Schultz, a German guard. Schultz was basically useless and never wanted to get involved in anything in order to claim ignorance. In fact, his regular recurring line on the show was, “I see nothing!” 

Well, it seems that 50 years later, our current President is channeling the Sergeant Schultz character. Despite having hundreds, if not thousands, of people directly working for him, despite having state of the art communications abilities, despite having the NSA,FBI, and CIA spying on the world and just about every U.S.citizen, Obama seems to get most of his information from TV news, about the same time everyone else gets it.

Tough to have a lot of faith in your government and politicians when it appears if they miss the nightly news broadcast they will clueless of what is going on in the world and in the country. Check out the best of Obama's Sergeant Schultz imitations on the wide variety of scandals engulfing his administration, all of which he found out about from the news broadcasts, not his own people:

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/compilation-obama-first-hearing-stories-news

4) American is supposed to be the “land of the free” but you would not believe that if you read an article from the April 24, 2015 issue of The Week magazine:

• The U.S. is now home to 25% of the world’s prison inmates but has only 5% of the world’s population.
• The total number of prison inmates across all levels of government was 320,000 in 1980 but 35 years later the prison population is almost eight times higher or 2.4 million people.
• It costs the American taxpayer $80 billion a year to house, feed,and clothe these 2.4 million inmates.
• Once released after serving their sentences, 60% of those released are back in prison within three years.

Do we think something is wrong with this picture? Many of those in prison are there because of non-violent drug crimes. Many in prison have no chance of ever being integrated back into society, given the 60% rate stated above. For $80 billion a year, we are getting very little back in return except for being the official world’s most imprisoned population. Insane.

5) Yesterday we discussed how far the Secret Service had fallen from being a highly respected law enforcement entity to just another incompetent government bureaucracy. Frequent fence jumpers at the White House, White House windows shot out, an intruder that got deep into the White House itself, etc.

To that infamous lists of failures we add another embarrassing incident that was summarized in the March 27, 2015 issue of The Week magazine. This incident happened when Secret Service personnel was investigating a suspicious package that had been left near the White House, fearing that it may have been a weapon or bomb. 

In the middle of the investigation, two senior drunk Secret Service agents drove their car right through the middle of the investigation. Which raises two questions:

1. How did the investigating Secret Service agents even allow a car to get that close to their investigation scene, never mind the fact it let drunk agents to be at the wheel of that car?
2. According to Congressional committee hearings, the director of the Secret Service only found out about the drunk incident when someone sent him an anonymous email five days later.

Seems like another week, another Secret Service screw up. Thank goodness their drunken actions did not result in accidently detonating a bomb and that no one got hurt….this time.

That will do it for today’s insanity: potential crimes in the highest reaches of the Senate, drunk Secret Service agents, soliciting Justice Department employees, and it is the rest of America that is in jail. Down the rabbit hole to political class insanity. More tomorrow.

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